Summer camp: It’s not just a place where we go swimming, learn to tie knots, and try to talk other kids into sharing the giant bags of candy their parents sent them. It’s also a place we learn important life lessons. Happily, pop culture has made it so we don’t even need to attend camp ourselves. We can just watch other people go to camp, in movies and television, or hear about it in songs. In honor of Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer sequel, the following is a list of some of the more valuable lessons we’ve learned at fictional summer camps through the years. Pass the s’mores.
