History Film / CampNowhere

* HeroesWantRedheads: Dennis for Celeste. Though calling Dennis a "hero", considering his actions, is a bit of a stretch.

* MadnessMantra / CreepyChild / ScaryFlashlightFace: "Money, Mud. Money, Mud. Money, Mud."

* CoolLoser: Mud, though a lot of it has to do with his self-confidence.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* ThirdActStupidity: [[spoiler:After having spent the entire movie managing to keep from getting busted, and after spending most of Parents' Day fooling the parents, the kids start celebrating their victory ''before'' the last group of parents has left. Had the kids paid ANY attention to their security monitors, they would have noticed Polk at the front gate. Things obviously [[FromBadToWorse get worse]] when Polk runs into Mud's dad.]]

* ThirdActStupidity: [[spoiler:After having spent the entire movie managing to keep from getting busted, and after spending most of Parents' Day fooling the parents, the kids start celebrating their victory ''before'' the last group of parents has left. Had the kids paid ANY attention to their security monitors, they would have noticed Polk at the front gate. Things obviously go [[FromBadToWorse get worse]] when Polk runs into Mud's dad.]]

-->'''Trish''': Yeah, and I'm stupid too!"

** First, there's the page image above, which seems to make the movie out to be the second coming of ''Film/AnimalHouse''. In fact, the movie was a kids' movie and NOTHING like ''Animal House'', but [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids you wouldn't know it]] by looking at that poster.[[note]]Which can be seen larger [[http://images.moviepostershop.com/camp-nowhere-movie-poster-1020368216.jpg here.]][[/note]]\\
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To wit: there were no supermodels in string bikinis and daisy dukes (there was only one girl in a bikini in the entire movie, and it was far more modest), the kids didn't tie up a guy in a suit and spray him with water, and most of the cast was in middle school. But there ''were'' Super Soakers, so that poster wasn't ''completely'' wrong.

* SkinnyDipping: Walter wants to do it with Betty throughout the movie. [[spoiler:Unfortunately subverted in TheStinger where Betty, seemingly naked, swims up to Walter and goads him into stripping as well, only to reveal she was wearing a strapless suit as she leaves with his.]]

* GratuitousFrench / VerbalTic: Trish's use of the word "très" (meaning "very") in nearly every other sentence. For instance, she says things like "''Très'' dull," or "''Très'' bizarre." Might be {{justified|Trope}} because of her upbringing.

* BourgeoisBohemian / HippieTeacher: Dennis. When Feln tells them that the camp used to be a hippie commune, Dennis suddenly remembers having been there before.

To wit: there were no supermodels in string bikinis and daisy dukes (there was probably only one bikini in the entire movie, and it was far more modest), the kids didn't tie up a guy in a suit and spray him with water, and most of the cast was in junior high school. But there ''were'' Super Soakers, so that poster wasn't ''completely'' wrong.

* BittersweetEnding: All things considered, it's a relatively light one. [[spoiler:Everyone thanks Mud and Dennis for a great summer, neither one gets arrested, and Polk gets paid off. But it's right after the scheme falls apart completely, all the kids get sent home, and Mud gets grounded for a LONG time.]]

* GoneSwimmingClothesStolen: Walter in the TheStinger, although Betty ''was'' trying to get him off her back about the whole skinny dipping thing.

* GrowingUpSucks: The movie meanders about with this. Mud learns about responsibility and whatnot, and he begins to look forward to growing up and dating Gaby, but at the same time he refuses to eat lima beans and still acts like growing up is the worst thing in the world. He finally asserts himself and tells his father that it's okay to be a kid.

** Trish is also the only girl in a bikini in the movie.
** And Mud pretty blatantly checks out her ass when they are leaving camp. And then does it ''again'' even after Gaby hits him for it.

* MiseryBuildsCharacter: One reason why everyone's parents want to send them to camp.

** However, earlier in the film, Dennis pays Mud's medical expenses out of his own pocket and refuses reimbursement.

* ParentalSubstitute: Dennis, for Mud. Becomes useful with the amount of time they spend pretending to be father and son in their various ruses.

'''Trish:''' Wrong! If he was born in 1963, and he's 21, [[InsaneTrollLogic then it's 1984]]! Uh!

* TeenageWasteland: The titular camp is the LighterAndSofter, pre-teen version. Dennis is the only adult around, and [[OneOfTheKids even then]]...
* ThirdActStupidity: [[spoiler:After having spent the entire movie managing to keep from getting busted, and after spending most of Parents' Day fooling the parents, the kids start celebrating their victory ''before'' the last group of parents has left. Had the kids paid ANY attention to their security monitors, they would have noticed Polk at the front gate. Things obviously [[FromBadToWorse get worse]] when Polk runs into Mud's dad.]]
* TokenRomance: Dennis/Celeste, Zack/Trish, Mud/Gaby.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Quite a bit; see UnusualEuphemism below for one example.
** Additionally, see DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything for another.

* UnusualEuphemism: "Hey midget! [[Literature/WheresWaldo Find my Waldo]]!" [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "WHAT Waldo?"]]

*** Mud learns about responsibility and learns how to speak up for himself. Plus, Gaby convinces him that it's okay to be {{Adorkable}}, since it makes Mud [[BeYourself his own person]]. Because of all this, by the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Mud's father is a bit more willing to let his son be a kid for a while.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: Mud, especially around Gaby.

* BlackBestFriend: Walter, for Mud.