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“It just doesn’t matter!”: 20 things we learned at fictional summer camp

Summer camp: It’s not just a place where we go swimming, learn to tie knots, and try to talk other kids into sharing the giant bags of candy their parents sent them. It’s also a place we learn important life lessons. Happily, pop culture has made it so we don’t even need to attend camp ourselves. We can just watch other people go to camp, in movies and television, or hear about it in songs. In honor of Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer sequel, the following is a list of some of the more valuable lessons we’ve learned at fictional summer camps through the years. Pass the s’mores.

1. Counselors, don’t have sex when you should be watching the kids. (Friday The 13th)

4. You’ll inevitably bunk with a bitch that later becomes your best friend. (Are You Afraid Of The Dark?, “The Tale Of The Watcher’s Woods”)

8. Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. (Moonrise Kingdom)

11. Giraffe’s tongues are black, adults are jerks. (Salute Your Shorts)

13. Don’t waste precious camp time on letters home. (Alan Sherman, “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah”)

14. It just. Doesn’t. Matter. (Meatballs)

Charming Illustrated Cinemagraphs Reflect The Idyllic Mood Of Lazy Summer Days

“We’re young. We’re supposed to drink too much, we’re supposed to have bad attitudes and shag each other’s brains out. We are designed to party. This is it. Yeah so a few of us will overdose or go mental but Charles Darwin said ‘you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs’ and that’s what it’s all about. Breaking eggs. And by eggs I do mean get wankered on a cocktail of class A’s. If you could just see yourselves, it breaks my heart… We had it all. We fucked up bigger and better than any generation that came before us. We were so beautiful.”

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