8.5/1058 votes#1 - Michael Comes to Camp
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/4/1991
Michael arrives at Camp Anawanna and becomes very popular with some of the other campers. Budnick then forces Michael and Sponge to join a ""secret club"" along with him and Donkeylips. As part of the club initiation, Sponge and Michael go to steal something from the girls' cabin. In a rush to avoid getting caught Michael takes, and then accidentally breaks, Telly's glasses.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.9/1081 votes#2 - Zeke The Plumber
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/4/1991
Budnick tells the gang a ghost story about the camp's old custodian, Zeke. It is said that Zeke, who had lost his nose in an accident, was unable to smell a gas leak, which killed him. Budnick tells the group that whoever touches Zeke's plunger, will have horrible nightmares haunted by Zeke. Of course, everyone had bad nightmares that night. And so the entire group, with help from Ug, set up an elaborate plan to get revenge on Budnick.
Director: Jefferson Kibbee
Writer: N/A
8.2/1029 votes#3 - The Treasure of Sara Madre
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/4/1991
Budnick finds a treasure map that supposedly leads to the buried cash of the camp's late dance instructor Sara Madre. He sells two copies of the map: one to Michael and Sponge, and another to Z.Z., Dina, and Telly. In order to find the treasure, the groups must go across the camp doing odd dance steps. As the groups try to be the first to the treasure, Donkeylips and Budnick find that watching the hunt is hillarious.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/1031 votes#4 - Brownies for Thud Mackie
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/6/1991
After Michael accidentally ruins some brownies that belonged to the camp's meanest kid, Thud Mackie, he needs to do something or face a beating. After all of his attempts to smuggle brownies into camp are foiled by Ug, he decides the best thing to do is leave camp. With everyone's help, he creates a video that exaggerates the horrors of camp to send to his grandparents. The video plan works, but Michael doesn't really want to leave, leaving him with a choise: stay with his friends at camp and be pounded by Thud, or leave.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1030 votes#5 - Bunk Chief Elections
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/13/1991
At the girls' bunk Telly and Dina each try to bribe Z.Z. to vote one of them as Bunk Chief. At the guys' bunk, as punishment for putting a goat into Ug's cabin, all the boys must do the prep work for the Indian Counsel Dinner. They decide to get back at Ug by doing something that he would never expect: behaving.
Director: Jefferson Kibbee
Writer: N/A
7.5/1024 votes#6 - Toilet Seat Basketball
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/20/1991
The gang forms a basketball team that must play in a small camp tournament to earn the privilege of representing Camp Anawanna in a big basketball tournament. If they lose, their pictures are taped to the bottom of a toilet seat in the main lodge. Telly is the team's coach, but no matter how hard she pushes them, they keep losing. Once Budnick takes over as coach, though, everything starts to turn around and they start to do well.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1026 votes
#7 - The Radio Call-In Contest
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/27/1991
Sponge uses the camp phone without Ug's permission to call into a radio contest. He wins the first round of the contest and a $100 prize. In order to win the grand prize, $1000, he must stay awake for 24 hours and wait for a phone call from the DJ and answer more questions. In exchange for a cut of the prize money, the others help to keep Sponge awake, sneak him past Ug to the phone, and force him to study for the questions.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1029 votes
#8 - Donkeylips and Sponge Weigh In
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/3/1991
In order to win a lobster dinner, Sponge and Donkeylips enter the wrestling tournament. Unfortunately Sponge is too light to wrestle and Donkeylips is too heavy. Ug gives them a few days to change their weight, and Telly agrees to train them. Meanwhile, the other campers are trying to avoid the horrible camp food by getting Sponge and Donkeylips to sneak burgers into camp while they are out training.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1032 votes
#9 - Budnick and Michael Fake Being Sick
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/10/1991
In order to get out of the daily activties, Michael and Budnick fake being sick. They end up spemding the day in the nurse's station with no good food (the fridge has ice cream in it, but is locked), and watching spanish TV. Meanwhile, the day's activity, unknown to Michael and Budnick when they faked ill, is a trip to the beach. The others look forward to a day of fun in the sun, but Ug decides to put Z.Z. incharge of the map and they all get lost.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1024 votes
#10 - Cinderella Play
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/17/1991
The group must put on the camp's presentation of Cinderella. Dina is cast as Cinderella with Michael as the prince. Telly must play an ugly step-sister and Donkeylips is the coachman. Dina comes down with stage fright, however, and skips most rehearsals. She spends most of the time signing autographs and acting like a star around camp.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1028 votes
#11 - Donkeylips' Crush on Dina
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 8/24/1991
Dina leaves a love note for Michael on a painting that she thinks is his. It turns out to be Donkeylips' painting and he is thrilled that there is a girl that likes him. He starts leaving little gifts for Dina, who thinks that the gifts are being left by Michael. Eventually, Donkeylips asks Dina to the dance, leaving her with a choise of whether she will go with him or break his heart.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1023 votes
#12 - Mail Carrier Mona
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 8/31/1991
After Ug breaks up with his girlfriend, he starts to crack down on the kids for every little rule violation. When a new mail carrier named Mona shows up and seems to take an interest in Ug, the kids try to get them together, thinking that he will ease up on them if he starts to go out with her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1025 votes
#13 - The Environmental Party
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/7/1991
Z.Z. tires to get the others to clean up the camp. Unfortunately they really don't care. So Dina helps her throw a party to try and raise awareness, but that just makes a bigger mess. After the garbage man offers Z.Z. money for the camp's recycleables, she decides to bribe the campers into cleaning things up.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Salute Your Shorts Season 1
Every episode of Salute Your Shorts Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Salute Your Shorts Season 1!
Salute Your Shorts is an American comedy television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 1991 to 1992 and in reruns until early 1999. It was...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Michael Comes to Camp" is the best rated episode of "Salute Your Shorts" season 1. It scored 8.5/10 based on 58 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/4/1991. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Zeke The Plumber".