And when we think about you...it makes me wanna fart

"Salute Your Shorts" aired every Saturday afternoon on American Cablevision (now Spectrum) cable channel 34 in my hometown of Kansas City. It was a good show. When I had started watching it, I had just started attending a summer camp some 22 miles away (it was daytime only).👦🏾👋🏽😊☺️🙂😉⛺️

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Unfair_Respond_175@reddit

Hey dude wasn’t at a camp, it was a ranch and resort

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synister29@reddit

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walkinghrviolation86@reddit

I loved this show so much when I was a kid. I always thought it was better than shows like Pete and Pete or hey dude.

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that1tech@reddit

Awful… waffle…. Awful. Waffle. Awful Waffle!

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captcraigaroo@reddit

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Unfair_Respond_175@reddit

They never really explained what an awful waffle was. From what I could tell it was just holding someone down and pouring syrup on their stomach through a tennis racket

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deowolf@reddit

Shout out to Bobby Budnick for keeping his mouth shut and saving humanity.

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BK_0000@reddit

But his mom and dad were the ones who saved the world from Jon Lovitz.

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creddittor216@reddit

Bobby B wasn’t a snitch ✊

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winobambino@reddit

Awful Waffle! Awful Waffle!

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karaloveskate@reddit

I know I watched that show. But for the life of me I don’t remember a single episode.

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Ill-Percentage-3276@reddit

I'll just be over here, in the corner for kids whose parents didn't get cable until we were in high school.

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aprillikesthings@reddit

My dad stole it, back when that was a thing you could do if you know how to solder and could get your hands on a cable box.

(I think by the time this was airing, we were paying for it. But before that, nah.)

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RelevantNothing4653@reddit

Budnick had a great mullet then great long hair.

Was it ever said what ZZ stands for?

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marcos_MN@reddit

Wasn’t one of the kids named “Donkey Lips?”

It sounds so much dirtier thinking of it for the first time in over 30 years.

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mattinjp@reddit

Michael Bower. Yea, he was a nice guy… I think right around 2010 or so, I spotted him working at a gift shop in the Universal Studios city walk in LA. “Out of this world”, I think the store was called?

Anyway, cool dude… happy to chat about his work, growing up doing movies and TV.

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Aggressive_Walk378@reddit

Who then went on to become Farva

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marcos_MN@reddit

Holy shit

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GoldFisherman@reddit

Not true

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marcos_MN@reddit

Aw bummer

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Turbulent_Tale6497@reddit

Dan Schneider agrees

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Numerous-Release-773@reddit

What was with summer camp in children's entertainment during the '90s? I swear every third children's book, movie, TV show involved summer camp.

That said, this show is an all-time classic.

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ARazorbacks@reddit

Our parents were always trying to get rid of us.

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ARazorbacks@reddit

As a kid I thought this show had endless episodes. It’s two seasons, maybe twenty total episodes.

It was always a highlight of the tv lineup.

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DireKnife@reddit

Bad 4 Good

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Cactilily@reddit

Sam from Diff’rent Strokes and T2 😂

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squarebodynewb@reddit

I get so confused by this sub sometimes. Never heard of a lot of the shows mentioned here.

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GoldTreasureFinder@reddit

Anyone remember the ice cream episode 😆

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JonnyQuest1981@reddit

Came here to say this. Budnick and Brain were left behind on a field trip(?), they do a puzzle upside-down and break into the mess hall freezer to eat all the ice cream. Probably my favorite episode because it’s when the bully and the smart kid find common ground while left alone.

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blacktrufflesheep@reddit

His name was Michael. The blond haired kid.

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JonnyQuest1981@reddit

I'm thinking of Sponge, but that's the episode when Sponge and Donkeylips went to wrestle, right? Michael was the one left behind with Budnick and he was considered the main character IIRC.

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blacktrufflesheep@reddit

Michael & Budnick got left behind when they both faked being sick to get out of swim class. It turned out that was the day Ugg was surprising them with a trip to the beach. That's when Donkey Lips gave a cop half of a peace sign.

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Firebolt164@reddit

It was always this show and Hey Dude back-to-back on Nickelodeon. So many happy hours

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edasto42@reddit

I love that John Connor’s best friend found a summer job after all that robot warfare. Since Arnold, Willis and Kimberly got most of their dad’s inheritance, he was struggling with petty crime before landing that summer camp job.

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TheBobSacamano7@reddit

Stoop kid!

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blacktrufflesheep@reddit

Montana Max

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Jermcutsiron@reddit

AWFUL WAFFLE! AWFUL WAFFLE!

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therealpopkiller@reddit

Xennial bonus: Pinsky is in Rilo Kiley, one of my all time favorite bands, along with Haley from The Wizard (who is, of course, Jenny Lewis)

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GoldFisherman@reddit

Which also starred Christian Slater who was in Murdsr in the First with Kevin Bacon.

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lakatos_intolerant@reddit

As a young kid I found Dina to be quite beautiful.

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EastCoastDizzle@reddit

Same! I’m straight but I remember wishing I looked like her!

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lakatos_intolerant@reddit

Nothing wrong with that! She looks quite stunning today in her late 40s.

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EastCoastDizzle@reddit

I bet! I also read somewhere she an attorney now too? What a queen.

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lakatos_intolerant@reddit

That's right and she is. Total queen.

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Particular-Crew5978@reddit

RIP Ug

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trustme1maDR@reddit

And Ug's girlfriend 😢

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Particular-Crew5978@reddit

No... What??!!

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trustme1maDR@reddit

I know. She was also the voice of Chucky on Rugrats and Babe the pig

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hmcfuego@reddit

This is my morning alarm.

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Seven22am@reddit

How many of us remember what color a giraffe’s tongue is?

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FriedBreakfast@reddit

But Ug took the prize money because they made him blue

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Lou_Skunnt69@reddit

Sad blue?

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FriedBreakfast@reddit

BLUE blue. Toilet bowl blue.

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XIENVYIX@reddit

lives rent-free. thats the first thing that pops in to my head when Salute Your Shorts is mentioned.

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dumbunnyy@reddit

Omg TOTALLY!

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genesimmonstongue415@reddit

Black

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BulimicMosquitos@reddit

The guitarist from Rilo Kiley, and the dude that saved the world from Judgement Day, what a show!

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ZGriswold@reddit

I didn't know he was in a band with the girl from The Wizard!

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earfeater13@reddit

Donkeylips just gave that cop half a peace sign

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LooseAlbatross@reddit

Which half?

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CantaloupeAsleep502@reddit

I was a little younger than these kids, so I always remember them as "big kids". It always blows my mind to see these pics of them as literal children lol

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Kahnza@reddit

Wow this image has gotten so blurry from reposting

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bout-tree-fitty@reddit

I met Michael Bower (Donkey Lips) one night in Hollywood.
He was super cool and nice about me geeking out and answered all my questions about SYS.

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kaizencraft@reddit

Same but North Hollywood (Pit Fire). He's got a YT channel where he goes live and talks about conspiracies and being on a show as a kid, etc.

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mrinkyface@reddit

John Connor’s friend in yellow from terminator 2

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Neon_Synchronicity@reddit

Zeke the Plumber trauma🤣

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Patty_Curlz274@reddit

I loved this show much. Camp Ana Wana, we love you with our hearts!

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Canyon_Cruiser@reddit

I had a crush on the black girl lol

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mrdon83@reddit

Camp Anawanna

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dirtyoldgoat@reddit

This show is the only reason I knew that a giraffe's tongue is black.

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brokenman82@reddit

Budnick accepted my friend request on Facebook

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Stsberi97@reddit

Zeke the plumber

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menunu@reddit

That is honestly one of the best episodes of any TV show of all time.

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standuphilospher@reddit

So good

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MungoJennie@reddit

We didn’t have cable when I was a kid, so I missed this completely. I tried watching it as an adult, and it must not hit the same. I think this is one of those things you had to be there for.

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P1xelEnthusiast@reddit

It's "I hope we never part", now get it right or pay the price!

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General_Departure583@reddit

I say this to my 4 year old daughter, “ Now get it right or pay the price.” In my best Ugg voice.

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kbrick1@reddit

...this thing came apart

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Big-Employ3488@reddit

The names will always stick with me...

Ug (lee) Donkey Lips Budnick Sponge Telly

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ThoughtsOfYesterday@reddit

It blew my mind learning this show only aired for 2 seasons from 1991 to 92. They aired the reruns for so many years afterwards.

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Fuckin_Hipster@reddit

I remember sitting at home and watching the premiere on Thursday, July 4th, 1991 at age 8.

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jynxthechicken@reddit

Me too. Same age even

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sick_of-it-all@reddit

You know Budnick was in a band that Steve Vai put together? They're called Bad 4 Good, and all the members are teenagers. They did a cover of a Thin Lizzy song called "Nineteen", and I kinda love it. Here's the music video, this is the best quality that exists on youtube. Their guitar player is like a child prodigy, I think he was like 13 when they recorded the album.

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menunu@reddit

We had so many iconic tv shows that only lasted a few seasons!!

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drainbamage1011@reddit

It's crazy thinking back how it felt like so many of these shows were on the air for 5+ years, when really it was just a couple seasons, repeated endlessly.

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