History Series / WetHotAmericanSummerFirstDayOfCamp

* {{Asexuality}}: Beth asks Mitch if he's asexual after he claims he can't fulfill her sexual needs. [[spoiler:He's not, he's just a can of vegetables.]]

** In the original film, Beth mentions that the only phones at camp are in her office and in the infirmary. [[spoiler:The series places a third one in the kitchen, which is destroyed with little fanfare during the Gene vs Falcon fight.]]

* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:Andy and Katie during the staff party.]]

The series premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on July 31st, 2015. A SequelSeries called ''Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later'' premiered on August 4th, 2017.

* BaitAndSwitch: Victor has to get protection before having sex, and the clerk calls for a price check. [[spoiler:Turns out it was for the mundane items he tried to buy alongside...which is portrayed as somehow being even more embarrassing until he's yelling at the guy to just let him buy the condoms and lube.]]

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Invoked with [[spoiler:Beth and Greg's lawsuit against the government. Sayings are thrown around without meaning, lawyers can leave the courtroom in the middle of a trial, and the judge rules in favor of the plaintiffs based off a floppy disk that isn't even put in a computer.]]

* BeardOfSorrow: [[spoiler:Eric.]]

* BreakingTheFourthWall: When Lindsay is listing the people she met in her article, she straight-up calls Jackie Brazen Music/WeirdAlYankovic.

* 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...]]

!! '''Caution: Massive spoilers below. Even for a show that relies heavily on the RuleOfFunny as this one does, it's {{Troperiffic}} to the point where the names of the tropes themselves can be spoilers. YouHaveBeenWarned. '''

** Lindsay's plotline is a spoof [[spoiler:of ''NeverBeenKissed'']].

''Wet Hot American Summer: First Day at Camp'', is, as the title implies, a {{Prequel}} to ''Film/WetHotAmericanSummer'', a 2001 cult comedy documenting the last day in session of Camp Firewood. The vast majority of the film's cast--[[RetroactiveRecognition many of whom have had their careers take off since the original]]--return to play themselves fourteen years later and two months younger.

* OnlyMostlyDead: [[spoiler:Eric, despite being shot, falling from a rooftop and run over by a truck.]]

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Greg and Jim Stansel courtesy of the Falcon. Greg somehow manages to get out some dying words with a hole in his forehead.]]

The series premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on July 31st, 2015.

!! '''Caution: Massive spoilers below. Even for a show that relies heavily on the RuleOfFunny as this one does, it's {{Troperiffic}} to the point where the names of the tropes themselves can be spoilers. Main/YouHaveBeenWarned. '''

** At one point during the staff party, you can hear Victor yelling "I WANNA DIP MY BALLS IN IT!", calling back to Ken Marino's previous role on TheState.

** Claude wears a pair of masks in his first scene, making it clear 52 year old John Slattery isn't doing that pratfall.

'''''Wet Hot American Summer: First Day at Camp''''', is, as the title implies, a {{Prequel}} to ''Film/WetHotAmericanSummer'', a 2001 cult comedy documenting the last day in session of Camp Firewood. The vast majority of the film's cast--[[RetroactiveRecognition many of whom have had their careers take off since the original]]--return to play themselves fourteen years later and two months younger.

* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Falcon claims that he was supporting Gene and Camp Firewood all along. But as Beth [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]], he killed two people in fromt of her and tried to kill her and Gene. The Falcon eventually just runs away.]]

* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Falcon. But as Beth [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]], that doesn't excuse him killing Greg and Jim Stansel and almost killing her.]]

* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Done ''repeatedly'' with [[spoiler: TOXIC WASTE.]] The guy even gets out a spoon.