Camp Camp

Camp Camp
Genre	Adventure Black comedy Comedy drama Musical
Created by	Jordan Cwierz Miles Luna
Developed by	Jordan Cwierz Gray G. Haddock Miles Luna Kerry Shawcross
Written by	Leigh Lahav[1]
Voices of	Michael Jones Miles Luna Elizabeth Maxwell Yuri Lowenthal Lee Eddy Travis Willingham Shannon McCormick Krishna Kumar Kaitlin Becker
Composer	Benjamin Zecker[2]
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	64
Production
Executive producers	Burnie Burns[a] Matt Hullum Jordan Cwierz[b] Hannah McCarthy[c] Jordan Levin[c] Kerry Shawcross[c]
Producers	Gray G. Haddock[d] Maggie Tominey[e] Koen Wooten[f] Austin Harper[g] Minni Clark[h] Sam Mitchell[i]
Running time	11–30 minutes
Production company	Rooster Teeth
Original release
Network	RoosterTeeth.com YouTube
Release	June 10, 2016 (2016-06-10) – March 22, 2024 (2024-03-22)

Camp Camp is an American adult animated web series created by Jordan Cwierz and Miles Luna for Rooster Teeth. It revolves around the misadventures of attendants and camp counsellors of Camp Campbell summer camp, in particular protagonist Max and counselor, David. The series premiered on June 10, 2016, as part of Rooster Teeth's Summer of Animation promotion,^[3] releasing both to Rooster Teeth's website and YouTube channel,^[4][5] running for four seasons before going on an extended hiatus in 2019. Following a special episode airing in 2023, Camp Camp returned for a fifth season that premiered on March 1, 2024.^[6]

Premise

The series follows the a young boy named Max (Michael Jones and Krishna Kumar), a jaded ten year old who is forced to go to the summer "camp camp" Camp Campbell, but makes two friends, Nikki (Elizabeth Maxwell) and Neil (Yuri Lowenthal), who help him constantly torment their camp counselors David (Miles Luna) and Gwen (Lee Eddy and Kaitlin Becker).^[7]

Voice cast and characters

Main

• Michael Jones (seasons 1–4) and Krishna Kumar (2023 special–season 5) as Max
• Elizabeth Maxwell as Nicolette "Nikki"
• Yuri Lowenthal as Neil
• Miles Luna as David
• Lee Eddy (seasons 1–4) and Kaitlin Becker (2023 special–season 5) as Gwendolyn "Gwen"
• Travis Willingham (seasons 1–4) and Ian Sinclair (2019 special) as Cameron Campbell
• Shannon McCormick as Quartermaster
  • McCormick also voices Farmer's Almanac and Quartersister

Recurring

• Blaine Gibson as Nurf Nurfington
• Yotam Perel as Magic Kid / Harrison
• Barbara Dunkelman (seasons 1–4) and BlackKrystel (2023 special – season 5) as Nerris
• Lindsay Jones as Space Kid / Neil Armstrong Jr.
• Jen Brown as Meredith "Ered" Miller
• James Willems as Dolph Houston
• Georden Whitman (seasons 1–2) and Nicholaus Weindel (seasons 3–5) as Preston Goodplay
• Jordan Cwierz, Alena Lecorchick and Miles Luna as the Platypus
• Samantha Ireland as Sasha, Tabii, and Erin, the Flower Scouts
• Kirk Johnson as Edward Pikeman
• Dante Basco as Billy "Snake" Nikssilp
• Jordan Cwierz as Jermy Fartz
• Armando Torres as Cameron Junior "CJ" Campbell

Guest

Episodes

Season 1 (2016)

Season 2 (2017)

Holiday Specials (2017)

Season 3 (2018)

Holiday Specials (2018)

Season 4 (2019)

Holiday Special (2019)

Summer Special (2023)

Season 5 (2024)

Production and release

On April 1, 2016, Rooster Teeth announced Camp Camp with a trailer that aired on their website and YouTube. The series premiered on June 10, 2016, as part of Rooster Teeth's Summer of Animation promotion,^[3] airing on Fridays for Rooster Teeth FIRST members and Saturdays for site members. The show was created by Jordan Cwierz and Miles Luna. The first season was extended by two episodes due to positive reception, for a total of 12 episodes in its first season. Camp Camp's composer is Benjamin Zecker, with Miles Luna writing the outlines for "The Camp Camp Theme Song Song" and "Better Than You".^[2] A second season premiered on June 9, 2017,^[11] with the DVD/Blu-ray combo pack of the first two seasons were released on May 22, 2018,^[12] and its third season premiering on May 25.^[13][14] Its fourth season was announced on May 20, 2019,^[15] and premiered on the Rooster Teeth website on June 1, 2019.^[16][17][18] On May 11, 2022, studio and streaming network FilmRise acquired the exclusive streaming rights for Camp Camp for its digital native content division.^[19][20] On July 7, 2023, at Rooster Teeth's annual convention RTX, at which aired a special new episode of Camp Camp,^[21] it was announced that Camp Camp would be returning for a fifth season that premiered on March 1, 2024.^[6][22][23]

At New York Comic Con 2018, Rooster Teeth indicated potential for a Camp Camp comic book series, following a similar such adaptation of their fellow web series RWBY being published by DC Comics.^[24]

Reception

Camp Camp was met with critical acclaim, garnering universal praise for its animation, characters, voice acting, songs, and humor, with Blasting News describing the series like "a lot of other adult cartoons like Archer and Rick and Morty, where the events are so insane that you can't help but love them [which] deliver[s] a surprising amount of heartfelt moments", serving as "an enjoyable experience from start to finish [and providing] plenty of laughs and some charm",^[25] and Bubbleblabber calling the series "a combination between South Park and Gravity Falls [and] of Rooster Teeth’s top shows, due to overarching plot lines [and] a history of throwing some emotionally investing episodes into its usually lighthearted series".^[26]

Notes

References

External links

• Camp Camp at Rooster Teeth
• Camp Camp at IMDb

This page was last edited on 7 April 2024, at 12:53