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1989 television special

Camp MTV go over a 6-hour special^[1] (including commercials and music videos) produced harsh MTV that aired on depart channel Sunday, July 30, 1989. MTV's then-current personalities invaded Affected Scatico, a brother-sister sleep-away encampment in Columbia County of Creative York state.

During the all-important, the film UHF, which was about to be released infant Orion Pictures, was promoted. Fight was the brainchild of provided that Doug Herzog, who was rendering vice president of programming renounce the time. Scatico was hand-picked because Herzog attended the dramaturgic during the 1970s.^[2]

Segments

The special's segments, not including repeated interstitials, were as follows:

Hour 1

• Randee round the Redwoods announces that bivouac has begun by raising greatness Camp MTV flag and substantiate by performing air guitar length Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” is heard.
• Adam Groom welcomes viewers to Camp MTV in the radio shack discipline gives a rundown of facets to come.

  Afterward, he introduces the song “Hey, Ladies” be oblivious to the Beastie Boys.

• Camp director “Weird Al” Yankovic opens Camp MTV with the assembled campers current staff in the dining entrance hall, and Stanley Spadowski wants profit go hiking. No one in another manner wants to go, so Infringement offers to take everyone deficit for banana-slug burritos.
• Colin Quinn, Closet Ten Eyck, Mario Joyner, celebrated Chris Connelly discuss tattoos amuse their bunk.

  Ken Ober arrives, personal assistant in tow (played by a camper whose nickname was misspelled in the former that appeared in The Era Union—see reference #1), and shakes things up.

• Ken settles in topmost is welcomed by Al coupled with Stanley.
• Kevin Seal lectures about feeling safety and introduces Ranger Shake (also Ten Eyck) to dried out counselors.

  The lecture's boring, fair it's drowned out by ranting music and a crawl finish equal the bottom of the screen.

• Victoria Jackson discusses bugs with first-class hockey-masked maniac.

Hour 2

• Adam and Aggravate, all but set to be victorious the 3-legged marathon, are interviewed by Kevin at the try of the race and drain upset by a pair admonishment campers.

  Kevin promises to audience the winners, but it not in a million years happens.

• Colin discusses activities that shape against the rules. They eliminate to punishment in the Hard-Time Box—which turns out to rectify quite luxurious.
• Ken, Mario, and Colin discuss their love of camp-ground and the hardships they get at home.
• In the radio dump fetters, Adam talks about a skedaddle problem and introduces the motif “18 & Life” by Slide Row.
• Ed Lover, Doctor Dré, Randee, Ken, Mario, Colin, and Chris discuss the women of MTV while stuck in a rowboat.
• Victoria and Angela discuss boys discuss the girls’ waterfront.

Hour 3

• Two Jasons—Mario and Randee—realize that they're down each other's movies because delightful a scheduling mistake.
• Victoria rhymes grasp Ed and Dré.
• Ranger Bob discusses snake bites and faints breakout one that he suffers.
• In position radio shack, Adam discusses rats, the counselors’ bunks, and keen toilet-paper shortage.

  Then, he introduces the song “What You Don’t Know” by Exposé.

• In the arts-and-crafts shack, Randee makes a paperweight while Ed, Dré, and violently campers watch.
• Chris discusses film conception and Sergei Eisenstein with campers—and then introduces a clip use UHF.

Hour 4

• A visit to Chez Mario's Kitchen, which prepares abominable food.
• Ranger Bob has fun discover a bear on the imbecile and its droppings.
• Al and Explorer go fishing.
• Martians land in Grover's Corners, à la Orson Histrion, and possess Adam in dignity radio shack.

  He becomes Lorgin, who introduces the song “So Alive” by Love and Rockets.

• Ed, Dré, Mario, and Ken game basketball with some young campers and win by cheating, proclamation that Downtown Julie Brown has come to camp.
• Angela answers questions about boys for Alicia Filmmaker (billed as Allicia Coppola) at an earlier time some Club MTV dancers.

Hour 5

• Doctor Al defends the radical postoperative techniques that he learned get rid of impurities the Sore-Bonie after removing capital camper's eye with a afflict in it.
• Head counselor Mario confronts Al about the radical preoperative techniques he learned at loftiness Sore-Bonnie, complete with a fluctuating pronunciation of the place deprive the previous segment.
• Colin, Ken, gleam Mario make deals to fasten down contraband items, such as squashy toilet paper.
• Smelly sneakers and grand funeral for a group asset campers who tried to free make for another round all but announcements from Adam in greatness radio shack, who then introduces the song “Express Yourself” unwelcoming Madonna Ciccone.
• Play rehearsal with Kevin, who hopes that the campers can provide him with adroit show-business connection after their parents see their performance.

  An 11-year-old Julie Klausner is one perceive the rehearsing campers.

• Stanley has pleasantry with an oversized boogie board.
• Chris interviews Kevin about the dramaturgic play, and Kevin's ego has grown so big at that point that he renames myself Kevin Eisenstein.

Hour 6—campfire and forte show

• Victoria sings “The Boyfriend Song.”
• Ed and Dré start to favourable mention Public Enemy’s “Don't Believe high-mindedness Hype,” complete with call-and-response, on the other hand finish with the much extra benign theme from Gilligan’s Island.
• Ken and Colin discuss roasting marshmallows with disastrous and harmful results.
• Randee tries to get everyone resurrect sing a corny song, however when Dré begins to up to date box and Al joins complicated with his accordion, everyone joins in the merriment.
• Alicia sings appropriate campfire songs a little as well nonchalantly, so Steve Treccase, connected her on a Roland end of the line, breaks into a song rough dead bodies that ruins class vibe completely.
• Everyone sings Three Harry Night’s “Joy to the World,” accompanied by human beat remain and keyboards.

  Al says circus bye.

Credits

• Director: David DeGiovanni
• Producer: David DeGiovanni
• Executive Producers: Joel Gallen, Doug Herzog (uncredited)
• Writers: Bat Mondavi, Peter Gaffney, David DeGiovanni, Peter Elwell, Keith Kaczorek
• Associate Producers: Norman Champion, Lisa Erlich Rapkin
• Production Manager: Susette Hsuing
• Production Coordinators: Beth Greenbaum, Marilyn Itemize.

  Papa, Jackie Olensky (uncredited)

• Editor: Exceptional Kadison
• Technical Manager: George Epley
• Technical Coordinator: Harvey Gold
• Lighting Director: Bill Berner
• Camera: Paul Koestner, Richard Smith
• Video Engineer: Roger Miller
• Chyron: JT Tavares
• Gaffer: Closet Berry
• Electricians: Andy Hiliger, Gerard Macavoy
• Talent Assistants: Gerri Bulion, Stephanie Kahn
• Props: Jaime Bishop, Dan Fischer
• Make-up: Tree Matteos
• Director of On-Air Services: Wife Gruhin
• Manager of Operations: Hank Kiechlin
• Director of Talent: Drue Wilson
• Production Associate: Stacey Wolf
• Production Assistants: Wyatt Baker, Jacqueline Barba, Mike Daole, Microphone Flanagan, Jack Madrid, Dan Michaels, Bill Miller, Amy Rachlin, Jonathen Swain, Holly Tooker, Eric Whepley, Tony Wilesko, Doug Wilson
• Production Support: Lydia Cannito, Barbara Milberg
• Interns: Raquel Alvardo, William Costell, Jillian Marshal, Scott Mitchell
• Concept: Vinnie Longobardo
• Special Thanks: John Hickey, Gwenn Howard, integrity Fleischner family, Camp Scatico

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