Line #19 WesternAnimation/CampCandy


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Welcome to Camp Candy!]]
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4	''Camp Candy'' is a 1989-1992 cartoon starring Creator/JohnCandy as himself. He runs a summer camp and has to constantly protect it from the evil developer Rex [=DeForest=].
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7	!!Tropes present in this series include:
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9	* AdoptionDiss: Vanessa thinks she was adopted and runs away.
10	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Molly is attracted to John, but John is attracted to Miss Sweetingham.
11	* AnimationBump: True to any DIC cartoon, the intro sequence sports way more fluid animation than most of the series itself.
12	* AntAssault: One episode involves an invasion of ants that are very destructive and immune to all known pesticides.
13	* TheBigRottenApple: When John attends a convention in New York City, a thief immediately takes all his money. Things go downhill from there.
14	* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: A baby bigfoot gets separated from his mother and kidnapped by [=DeForest=] to be used as a tourist attraction.
15	* CampCook: Decades of living alone has made Hiram an expert at outdoor cooking.
16	* CaptivityHarmonica: When John spends a night in jail, his cellmate plays the harmonica.
17	* TheCatfish: One episode has Molly’s nephew Toby visit to catch a local fish called Old Mossback. He eventually succeeds, but throws him back into the water after Robin takes a photo.
18	* CausticCritic: A summer camp critic who hates everything visits Camp Candy. When he gives camps bad reviews, they go out of business.
19	%%* ChristmasInJuly
20	* ConspicuousConsumption: When Chester wins the lottery, he buys an amphibious yacht.
21	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: In an episode that makes fun of old detective movies, John is black and white.
22	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Molly tries to fix the camp's money problems by turning it into a health spa, despite not knowing anything about health spas. All the guests quickly demand their money back.
23	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Creator/JohnCandy sung the ''Camp Candy'' theme song (in a duet with Music/HarryNilsson no less).
24	* EatingContest: When the parents visit the camp, one of the competitions is a pie-eating contest.
25	%%* TheFashionista: Vanessa
26	* FountainOfYouth: Chester accidentally finds it and becomes a kid again, but the effects are only temporary. Rex [=DeForest=] sees it as a chance for Chester to destroy the camp from the inside.
27	* FriendToAllLivingThings: Robin
28	* GenderEqualEnsemble: The main cast of campers includes three boys and three girls.
29	%%* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Molly
30	* {{Hypochondria}}: Iggy is so convinced there's something wrong that he visits the infirmary more than anyone else. His parents are much worse.
31	* IronButtMonkey: John
32	* ItsAllMyFault: In "Dear Mom and Dad", everyone does something foolish when it comes to fire safety. When the mess hall burns down, everybody takes all the blame and plans on leaving. As it turns out, the mess hall was destroyed by a meteor.
33	* LaughTrack: In this case, the justification is that John is telling stories to campers and that the laughter is coming from them.
34	* LikeFatherLikeSon: Most of the kids have the same personalities as their parents.
35	* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Camp Candy has several employees, but John the camp owner and Molly the nurse do everything in most episodes.
36	* MeanBoss: Rex constantly treats his sidekick Chester like garbage.
37	* MoreHypnotizableThanHeThinks: When Molly tries to cure Robin of her fear of animals using hypnosis, she demonstrates on John first. He says he can't be hypnotized, but she succeeds in a matter of seconds.
38	%%* MostCommonCardGame
39	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The villain is a property developer named Rex [=DeForest=], [[PunnyName as in]] "[[GaiasLament wrecks the forest]]".
40	* NeverBareheaded: Nurse Molly always wears her nurse's cap, even when she's not wearing her uniform.
41	* NoahsStoryArc: One episode has Robin and Alex building an ark to save local animals from a flood.
42	* NotAllowedToGrowUp: In the season three episode "When It Rains...It Snows", John mentions the season one episode "Christmas in July" and refers to it as last year. Even though this show takes place over two summers, the kids don't appear any older in the third season than in the first season.
43	* NotSoExtinct: Binky finds a bird that was believed to be extinct.
44	* ParentalSubstitute: When Vanessa's parents can't show up for parents' day, John takes the place of her father.
45	%%* PassionateSportsGirl: Alex
46	* PatchworkMap: The camp is located in a temperate forest, but one episode has the main characters getting lost on a hiking trip and ending up in a tropical rainforest on the other side of the mountain.
47	* {{Prospector}}: Hiram's a gold prospector who's been looking for gold for 57 years.
48	* SavingTheOrphanage: John and the kids have to constantly save the camp from Rex [=DeForest=].
49	* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Robin can talk to squirrels.
50	* StockNessMonster: The kids make a lake monster called The Katchatoree Creature so Robin can win a journalist award.
51	* TheStoryteller: Every episode starts with John doing something with current campers and then telling them a story about a previous year.
52	* SummerCampy: Pretty much the entire point of this show.
53	* {{Telethon}}: John and the kids have a telethon to prevent Rex from buying some nearby land.
54	* TokenMinority: Robin is the only Afro-American camper
55	* {{Tomboy}}: Alex has a huge enjoyment of camping and sports.
56	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When Molly turns the camp into a health spa, none of the guests notice that all the employees are children.
57	* VerySpecialEpisode: One episode involves Molly’s nephew Toby, who has leukemia. Another episode involves a deaf girl who communicates in sign language.
58	* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: In the ChristmasInJuly episode, Vanessa is the Scrooge.

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