I would always catch bits and pieces of Wet Hot American Summer when it used to be on cable all the time. I didn't watch it fully until last summer, and it is very upsetting that I missed out on two decades of rewatching this.
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Wet Hot American Summer
High times. Hard bodies. Soft rock.
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7/27/2001Runtime
97 minsGenres
Overview
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.

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A gleefully ridiculous comedy that treats a last day of summer camp like an epic adventure, balancing genuine affection for its misfit characters with absurdist humor and deadpan non-sequiturs.
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So dumb. So smart. I love it. What a cast.
I was in tears over "Now finish up them taters; I'm gonna go fondle my sweaters." Literal tears streaming down my cheeks.
Also it takes place on my BIRTHDAY. Okay wrong year but still.
Favorite (Not Necessarily Best) Four From Every Year Since Birth
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