Camp Candy

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anybody remember this????


http://youtube.com/watch?v=UrQ8NHz6T4Q


Camp Candy is an animated television series produced by DiC Entertainment, with comedian John Candy providing the voice for an animated version of himself.
The show was set in a fictional summer camp run by Candy. It also featured his children, Jennifer and Christopher Candy, in supporting roles. The animated series spawned a brief comic book series based on the show; also entitled Camp Candy, it was published by Marvel Comics' Star Comics imprint.
Nineteen episodes of the series aired during the 1989-1990 season on the NBC television network. Repeats ran in syndication, and on the Fox Family cable channel (now ABC Family) in 1999.
Harry Nilsson wrote the series' theme song, which Candy sang.
The later syndicated rebroadcast featured live action segments featuring Candy.
In both versions, the closing credits featured songs about Camp Candy that were sung to the tune of various traditional "campfire" songs.
 
Yes, I remember Camp Candy. I used to watch it Saturday mornings on ABC. I thought the late John Candy was funny on SCTV. Camp Candy wasn't great, but there was a laugh here and there.
 
You do?Goodness gracious,I can't remember many late 80 to early 90's animated shows to save my life. lol.

Rugrats and Tom & Jerry were more my early 90's TV format viewer preference.
 
Hm. I actually remember it. The show used to be on in syndication, and years later, it got put on what USED TO BE Fox Family! That era was when I liked Donkey Kong Country from the get-go!
 
Camp Candy premiered in 1989 (two years after I graduated from high school, incidentally). I remember everything because I'm 200 years old and I'm from Mars.
 
Yes! I actually remember seeing that show! I was actually 5 around the time I first saw it, which is funny cause I don't remember seeing much shows around that age other than seeing public domain cartoons, Disney cartoons, Inspector Gadget and Gumby on tape.
 
He's not linking to episodes, just the intro, so it's fine.

I do remember the show. Hell, I remember the Saturday morning preview show where they mentioned it was coming (back then all the networks had preview shows for Saturday mornings. Another thing gone by the wayside that I fondly remember from my childhood) to NBC. It was an OK show for it's time, but re-watching on Fox Family didn't really bring back the warm fuzzies to me.
 
Yeah, I remember this cartoon. I used to watch it on Fox Family, before it became ABC Family, and they had some other good cartoons too like Monster Rancher and Flint the Time Dective. Anyway, this was a pretty cute cartoon and I would enjoy, on days when I got out early from school, and would watch it before I would another after school block. Man, its been years since I saw it. I did think that the late John Candy was pretty funny in his animated role. When was the last time this show was aired anyway? I think that I saw it in the mid to late 90s.
 
I remember the cartoon when it was first-run on NBC in the late 80's/early 90's... mainly thinking that it didn't sound appealing, so never really watched it. Did watch the Ed Grimley cartoon though (having enjoyed SCTV :-) ).
 
Yes, I remember this, but I didn't realize the intro sounded like it was sung by a stoner.

I sat through this and Gravedale High just to watch the Super Mario Super Show (whichever incarnation used Super Mario Bros. 3 for source material) and Captain N.

Around this time I also enjoyed watching Little Shop of Horrors, Bill and Ted, and the Back to the Future series.
 
Boomerang is doubtful. Seeing as how Camp Candy has never even aired on Cartoon Network, coupled with the fact the half the shows' appeal was the celebrity pull of John Candy, who passed away in 1994, I wouldn't count on this series ever seeing the light of day again, but anything is possible.
 
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