History Series / WetHotAmericanSummerFirstDayOfCamp

* TheCameo: The nerd kids from the movie briefly appear as punks in a convenience store. Their outfits contain nods to their original roles; for example, Mork Guy has his rainbow suspenders and Cure Girl has a Cure shirt.

* ShoutOut: Claude tries to copy Gene Wilder's entrance from ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', but can't stick the landing.

* WouldHitAGirl: The Falcon put in the ground a gang of punks, and he does not care at all they have a female member.

* HideYourPregnancy: Not an actual case of it as Lake Bell had already delivered her baby before the show was filmed, but she still spends the whole thing wearing overalls as if they were hiding it (which also adds another layer to her constant smoking and drinking).

* BigDamnMovie: An inverted version of the trope as this is a TV series that is prequel a movie but the TV series is MUCH more epic.

* BigDamnMovie: An inverted version of the trope as this is a TV series based on a movie but is MUCH more epic.

* BigDamnMovie: An inverted version of the trope as this is a TV series based on a movie.

** Also, [[spoiler:Gene]]. It's pretty much the biggest piece of character growth in the series.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: With many of the actors having become much bigger names since the original film, the show makes for a fun game of "Guess who had the most free time to work on this thing." Most severely, all of Bradley Cooper's scenes had to be filmed in a single day, resulting in his not getting much screen time with Amy Poehler despite their characters' romance.

** [[spoiler:When Beth and Greg [[ItMakesSenseInContext sue the government]], Jim Stansel suggests that they change their appearance, the next shot is a bathroom where shaving sounds are heard, and clumps of hair are seen in and around the sink...only to reveal Beth and Greg unchanged in appearance.]]

** [[spoiler:When Beth and Greg [[ItMakesSenseInContext sue the government]], Jim Stansel suggests that they change their appearance, the next shot is a bathroom where shaving sounds are heard...only to see Beth and Greg unchanged in appearance.]]

** Gail starts the series engaged to a man named Jonas, and by the end she is engaged to Ron.

*** Made slightly grizzly by the fact that [[spoiler:Jim Stansel gets shot.]]

* AnachronismStew: the movie is set in 1981, but the preppy kids at Tigerclaw are very excited to dance ''[[TheRoaringTwenties foxtrot]]'' at its party.

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* TheQuincyPunk: there is a whole gang of them trying to cause trouble in the store; ironically, most of the damage to the store is actually caused by The Falcon.

** [[AvertedTrope Averted]], though, for the campers. Other than Arty "the Beekeeper" Solomon and Gail's "therapist" Aaron, the kids in the original film were a mostly undifferentiated mass. That gives ''First Day of Camp'' the freedom to focus on several new campers without inconsistency, since it can be assumed they're just background kids in the film. So there's no pressure to find a reason to remove them, and DoomedByCanon doesn't apply.

* DoomedByCanon: Not necessarily fatally, but it's a ForegoneConclusion that all the new characters at camp must exit somehow by the end of the series, to justify their absence from the original film. [[spoiler:Mind you, for a few characters, the verdict ''is'' death - or, at least, the death of their human body...]]
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]], though, for the campers. Other than Arty the DJ and Gail's "therapist" Aaron, the kids in the original film were a mostly undifferentiated mass. That gives ''First Day of Camp'' the freedom to focus on several new campers without inconsistency, since it can be assumed they're just background kids in the film. So there's no pressure to find a reason to remove them, and DoomedByCanon doesn't apply.

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Jonas Jurgensen [[spoiler: instantly grows a beard and a moustache when he resumes its original identity as Gene Jenkinson]].

* FakeShemp: Ben goes to the personnel party as "DJ Ski Mask", so that character could appear on scenes filmed when Bradley Cooper was not available for his tight schedule.

* {{Hammerspace}}: the box where Jonas hides all the clues about his past contains his whole attire.

* HollywoodHacking: When Beth and Greg order Steve to hack into [[spoiler:The government's mainframe,]] the complicated code is typed in about a second after Steve presses random buttons. The information presented is just a random list of numbers, which the trio, Jim Stansel [[spoiler:and the judge]] treat as irrefutable evidence.

* FakeShemp: Ben go to the personnel party as 'DJ Ski Mask', and that character could appear on scenes filmed when Bradley Cooper was not available for his tight schedule.