It’s finally that time of year: The sun is hot, the water’s cool, and if you’ve ever gone to summer camp, the nostalgia is back in action. That’s right, it’s Wet Hot American Summer season!
Wet Hot American Summer is a zany, surreal 2001 comedy starring legends like Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, and Bradley Cooper. It’s set in 1981 on the last day of summer camp—a day that seems to stretch on forever, given all the events that are jam-packed into the film.
Here are some of the best, funniest, and most bizarre quotes from Wet Hot American Summer:
1.
Andy (Paul Rudd): You taste like a burger. I don’t like you anymore.
2.
Beth (Janeane Garofalo): Listen, Henry…
Henry (David Hyde Pierce): Please, call me Henry.
Beth: Okay, Henry it is.
3.
Gail (Molly Shannon): I hope you like shrimp cocktail, because I want you to be guests of honor at our wedding next week!
Beth (Janeane Garofalo): Well, I hope it’s not jumbo shrimp, because I’m allergic to oxymorons!
4.
Henry (David Hyde Pierce): So, do you work here?
Beth (Janeane Garofalo): Yeah, I’m the Camp Director. You?
Henry: Me? No, I don’t work here.
Beth: No, yeah, I’m the Camp Director. I would know if you worked here.
Henry: Oh, right.
5.
Beth (Janeane Garofalo): McKinley, there are some lower campers stuck in the ropes course. I meant to tell you about that yesterday, but could you get to it now?
6.
Lindsay (Elizabeth Banks): What’cha doing?
Andy (Paul Rudd): Writing in my gournal. I write my thoughts in it every day.
Lindsay: Oh, you mean a journal?
Andy: Yeah, whatever. I guess I’m not all smart like you.
7.
Coop (Michael Showalter): When we first started hanging out together, this morning, we were just friends; but things change, and I’ve fallen in love with you. I just know that if you gave me a chance, I could make you feel so good. So I am coming, not as your buddy, and not as a co-counselor, but for the first time as a man—a man who loves a woman, and who wants to hold her and provide for her and, yes, have sex with her. But no, seriously, Katie, I love the way you laugh and I love the way your hair smells and I love it that sometimes for no reason you’re late for shul, and I don’t care that you’re bowlegged and I don’t care that you’re bilingual—all I know is that I would have said no to every single person on your list because I’ve always wanted you.
8.
Katie (Marguerite Moreau): Listen, Coop, last night was really great. You were incredibly romantic and heroic, no doubt about it. And that’s great. But I’ve thought about it, and my thing is this: Andy is really hot. And don’t get me wrong, you’re cute too, but Andy is, like, cut. From marble. He’s gorgeous. He has this beautiful face and this incredible body, and I genuinely don’t care that he’s kinda lame. I don’t even care that he cheats on me. And I like you more than I like Andy, Coop, but I’m 16. And maybe it’ll be a different story when I’m ready to get married, but right now, I am entirely about sex. I just wanna get laid. I just wanna take him and grab him and f*ck his brains out, ya know? So that’s where my priorities are right now. Sex. Specifically with Andy and not with you.
9.
Beth (Janeane Garofalo): Well, guys, we’ve made it to the end of summer in one piece, except for a few campers who are lepers.
10.
Susie (Amy Poehler): You guys, I’m really going to miss this place.
Coop (Michael Showalter): Me too.
Ben (Bradley Cooper): Hey, let’s all promise that in ten years from today, we’ll meet again, and we’ll see what kind of people we’ve blossomed into.
Susie: Yeah!
Ben: What time do you wanna meet?
J.J. (Zak Orth): You mean ten years from now?
Coop: Let’s meet in the morning so we can make a day of it.
Susie: Okay, so what is it? Is it like 9:00? 9:30?
Coop: Well, let’s say 9:00, that way we can be here by 9:30.
McKinley (Michael Ian Black): Well, no, why don’t we say 9:30, and then make it your beeswax to be here by 9:30? I mean, we’ll all be in our late 20s by then. I just don’t see any reason why we can’t be places on time.
Gary (A.D. Miles): Okay, then, it’s settled. 9:30 it is. All agreed?
McKinley: Good, because I have something at 11:00.
Gary: You just have like a trapper-keeper full of appointments, right?
McKinley: No, I just have something at 11:00, and I can’t change it, because I already moved it twice.