The Secrets of
"Crippled Summer"

by Wild Willie Westwood, with sources from all over the Web


Lake Tardicaca - Lake Titicaca

Jimmy lets the rubber band slip from his arm when the camp counselor finds him, but has it back on when the counselor reaches him and tells him to go dry off some campers.

Lenora has Shelley's voice.

Nathan looks like Mitch Hedburg. Maybe I should put this in the "Up The Down Steroid" secrets as well.

The black cells you see in my transcript are based on the Buckley boxes used in A&E's Intervention. So is the scene in which Towelie sniffs cumputer duster - in Intervention it's Allison who has that addiction.

One Buckley box mentions that the three-legged race is Blue Team's best event, but there's no three-legged race in the episode.

"Are you ready for the good times?" is from the movie Meatballs.

A line of dialogue was added in the reruns: The original airing had "Sylvester" saying something when the Blue Team canoe crossed the finish line, but there was no audio for it. The line is "We crossed the finish line first!"

www.restorestephenbaldwin.org is a Web site dedicated to the restoration of Stephen Baldwin, who apparently lost everything he had and filed for bankruptcy after becoming a born-again Christian. The site aims to collect money from sympathetic Christians... and anyone else who wants to donate.