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Short summary

It's backwards and upside-down weekend at camp and everything that can be done backwards- will be done backwards. Anyway Counselor Ug changes places with Camper Bobby Budnick for the weekend and Budnick makes a bet with Ug that he can be a better Counselor than Ug ever was. The bet is made but with the help of Ug the campers start to play tricks on Counselor Budnick. Budnick follows the camp guidelines and punishes the campers who in turn begin to really hate him. Budnick finds it harder to be a Counselor than he ever thought and needs to turn the whole thing around or lose the bet to Ug and have to clean Ug's sweaty feet for the rest of the summer.

Ug wear several colors of zinc on his nose throughout the series. He wears blue, sky blue, turquoise, orange, red, purple, and white.

"Counselor Budnick" is the only episode in the series where Ug wears blue jeans.

Second of three appearances for Kent Flankman (Henry W. Laster)

In "Counselor Budnick" when ZZ comes to the lodge with Wartbreath to talk talk to Budnick she mentions that she'll get a night out on the town if she wins but when everyone in in the cabin after the prank on Budnick, Sponge mentions that ZZ will get a night on the town if she wins but she's totally surprised and didn't know anything about but just a few minutes earlier she already knew about it.

Ug actually wears two fishing hats in the series. He sometimes wears a blue fishing hat in some episodes instead of his signature gray one. Ug also wears a Yellow mesh truckers hat in a few episodes. In "Michael and Budnick Fake Being Sick" he wears a white sun sombrero and it's the only episode in the series in which he doesn't wear his fishing hat.

In "Cinderella Play" Budnick suggests they do a play called "Amazon Girls a Go-Go". "Amazon Girls a Go-Go" is actually the name of a low budget 1970's porn film.

In "Budnick Loves Dina Part II" the part where Budnick kisses Dina's hand at the end of the episode was ad libbed.

The unaccredited actor who plays the role of Tudgeman in "Telly's Tennis Match" was actually a graduate student from Stanford working on the production staff.

Danny Cooksey, Michael Bower, and Blake Sennett put a band together in the late 1990's called "Sheriff" but were unable to land a record deal.

"Donkeylips' Crush on Dina" is the only episode in the series where someone calls Donkeylips by his real name (Eddie).

In "Capture the Flag" when Donkeylips falls in the kiddie pool with water, an assistant off camera actually threw water on Ug giving the impression that Donkeylips falling into the water splashed Ug.

Filmed in late Winter/early Spring 1992.

Only episode in the series where Ug wears Blue Jeans.


Episode credited cast:
Kirk Baily Kirk Baily - Kevin 'Ug' Lee
Megan Berwick Megan Berwick - Z.Z. Ziff
Michael Bower Michael Bower - Eddie 'Donkeylips' Gelfen
Venus DeMilo Thomas Venus DeMilo Thomas - Telly Radford (as Venus DeMilo)
Henry W. Laster Henry W. Laster - Kent Flankman
Heidi Lucas Heidi Lucas - Dina Alexander
Blake Soper Blake Soper - Ronnie Pinsky
Danny Cooksey Danny Cooksey - Bobby Budnick
Trevor Eyster Trevor Eyster - Sponge Harris (as Tim Eyster)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
James Kimball James Kimball - Kent Flankman
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