#Salute your shorts cast series

#Salute your shorts cast series

We were in our own little cocoon,” he told the outlet.Īfter the series ended, some Salute Your Shorts alums remained close friends. We were in L.A., and most of Nickelodeon’s stuff was in Florida. We were in this little bubble of our own existence. We were going to do jump cuts, make little movies, and do it without a laugh track,” he said.Ĭooksey spoke to PopSugar along with Slavkin, commenting on his relationship with his costars during filming. Kids’ television at the time was mostly sitcoms, so we were going to do comedy a different way. I had just come out of film school I wanted to make a mark, I wanted to do things different, I wanted to put the camera in different places, and I wanted to tell stories a different way. “I tried to jam-pack as much as I possibly could into each episode. The writer added that he knew he was taking a different approach than other sitcom creators at the time. So he and I wrote a humor book together, and then we sold it to Nickelodeon,” he explained. I’d written a book called Salute Your Shorts with my friend Tom Hill - he and I had met at summer camp together. I was 26 years old when I sold the show to Nickelodeon. “This is the first big project I ever did. In a 2017 interview with PopSugar, Slavkin said that the show was his big break. Kahn, adapted the Salute Your Shorts pilot from his 1986 book of the same name. Steve Slavkin, who appeared on the show as Dr. Ziff ( Megan Berwick), snobby princess Dina Alexander ( Heidi Lucas) and comic relief Eddie C. The ensemble cast featured characters including camp bully Bobby Budnick ( Danny Cooksey), boy genius Sponge Harris ( Tim Eyster), tomboy Telly Radford ( Venus DeMilo Thomas), nature lover Z.Z. The show follows a group of teenagers, as well as their strict counselor Kevin “Ug” Lee (Kirk Baily), who are spending their summers at Camp Anawana. Although it only had two seasons, the Nickelodeon sitcom Salute Your Shorts has remained a cult classic since it premiered 31 years ago.