A good friend has egged me on for years to watch “Wet Hot American Summer,” a 2001
send-up of 1980s summer camp films that is splendidly offensive and dead-on,
not just of every “Porky’s” type film ever made, but camping in general, and
being a dumb ass teen. The movie sports early-career Bradley Cooper, Amy
Poehler, and Paul Rudd, along with Janeane Garafalo, David Hyde Pierce, and
Molly Shannon. Like the very best satires, “Wet” smashes the fourth wall and
plays with the audience directly. My favorite scene is a throw away: The camp
baseball team forfeits the big final game because it will only end in cliché,
the underdogs beating the snotty rich kids down a ways. I laughed my ass off. A-
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