Wet Hot American Summer Page #10

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): David Wain
Production: USA Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
42
Rotten Tomatoes:
33%
R
Year:
2001
97 min
Website
3,874 Views


All right, I'll put him last.

Good.

Oh, she always wins!

Don't pick it up, stupid!

Stop picking it up!

You see? this is us,

and we're traveling

around the sun.

That's a 1.3 million mile trip

every year!

Radical.

You might say that

each and every one of us...

is a crew member here

on spaceship earth.

- When would we say that?

- Any time.

Dinner. Literally any time.

You're amazing. I hope I can come to your

college and you can be my professor.

Actually, I, uh...

I'm just an associate professor.

- What does that mean?

- Melvyn!

No, no, it's all right.

it means, Melvyn...

It means that I'm...

less than.

Oh, God!

Hey! What's goin' on?

Hey, Beth. We're just

having ourselves a little cry.

I know what

this group needs.

How 'bout we grab some lunch and

watch the "capture the flag" game?

- What do you say?

- I think we'll take a rain check, Beth.

- We're in the middle of some pretty

interesting stuff. - I'll make you a deal.

You come watch the "capture the

flag game" with the normal kids,

and then you can have the whole rest

of the day to learn about planets, stars,

pulsars, heliocentricity,

gravitational collapse...

and the science

of celestial mechanics...

as shown through the work of

the 19th century scientists...

Alexis Clairaut, Jean d'Alembert

and Pierre Laplace.

- Okay? Ready?

- Okay!

Break!

Gee, I was really impressed by some

of the stuff you said back there.

- Oh, it was... - No, Beth, you

know what you're talking about.

I don't know where you find the

time to learn about astrophysics.

I mean, with camp payroll

and insurance to deal with.

Keeping parents happy,

supervising a young staff.

- Keeping everyone fed.

- Wow.

It was in 1908 that the first

American summer camps

were founded in the Catskills.

- Is there any more corn?

- What?

- More corn.

- Oh, dude.

- You got...

- What, dude?

What? What are you doing

with your hand?

On your face. You, uh...

Cat got your tongue, Andy?

What is it?

You have barbecue sauce

all over your face.

- I know that. So?

- It's pretty foul.

It's just barbecue sauce.

Come on. I wanna make out.

Okay, but not here.

What's it like being a professor?

- What do they say, "publish or perish"?

- Well, perish mostly.

I'm up for tenure

this fall.

If I don't make my mark soon,

I could end up out of work.

But you're so talented!

Tell that to my dean.

Okay. Okay, what's his address?

You serious?

56 Linden Lane.

- Okay. City?

- God, you're really... Augusta.

- State? - I can't believe...

well, Maine, of course.

- ZIP?

- This is... 04139.

- Does he have an apartment number?

- No!

Beth, this is incredible. I don't

know how to thank you.

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Michael Showalter

Michael Showalter (born June 17, 1970) is an American comedian, actor, director, writer and producer. He is a member of the sketch comedy trio Stella. Showalter first came to recognition as a cast member on MTV's The State, which aired from 1993 to 1995. He and David Wain created the Wet Hot American Summer franchise, with Showalter co-writing and starring in Wet Hot American Summer (2001), and the Netflix series. Showalter wrote and directed The Baxter (2005), in which he starred with Michelle Williams, Justin Theroux and Elizabeth Banks. Both of the films featured many of his co-stars from The State, and so do several of his other projects. Showalter is also a co-creator, co-producer, actor, and writer for the TV series Search Party. more…

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