Bug Juice

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Bug Juice was Disney Channel's original reality series about real kids at summer camp. It premiered in 1998 and lasted until 2002, with a total of three seasons. The show featured a different U.S. summer camp every season. Every episode features the struggles real kids go through with each other and... more »

Bug Juice was Disney Channel's original reality series about real kids at summer camp. It premiered in 1998 and lasted until 2002, with a total of three seasons. The show featured a different U.S. summer camp every season. Every episode features the struggles real kids go through with each other and themselves, and chronicled their friendships, fights, loves, breakups, makeups, and self-discoveries. After the show ended, it remained on as reruns, next to Disney's series, So Weird. Eventually, it left the airwaves and didn't return until the summer of 2004 as part of Disney Channel's new summer lineup.

THEME SONG
Bug Juice, it doesn't come in a jar.
Bug Juice comes from who you are.
It has the flavor of what you can become,
freedom, reachin' out on your own,
Yeah, freedom lightin' up the unknown.
Workin' together we all have grown.
Bug Juice, the true-life adventures.
Bug Juice, real kids, makin' friends, havin' fun,
On Bug Juice!

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Bug Juice ended a long time ago. It is NO LONGER IN PRODUCTION. less «

• why did it end

  it was the best show why did it have to go.

  it was the best show why did it have to go.less «

  THEICE
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• Eve and Jen

  From the Brush Ranch season (season 3) were kicked out of the camp for "obtaining illegal materials". Disney Channel has nev...more »

  From the Brush Ranch season (season 3) were kicked out of the camp for "obtaining illegal materials". Disney Channel has never publicly stated what those materials were, but fans have speculated that they were either condoms, cigarettes or marijuana. Disney Channel has also not replayed this season of Bug Juice. ( I thought she left because she snook out ! and when they went to look for her and she was playing a joke then she was crying, they called her mom and she left.) Episodes of all three seasons were shown for several years on Disney Channel, ending with a run of Season 3 during the year 2000. Bug Juice was subsequently pulled from the air and was not shown again until the summer of 2004, during which episodes from the first season ran nightly in chronological order. The last episode of Bug Juice aired August 20, 2004. It has not been shown since. During the summer of 2006, Disney began posting minisodes on their website, encouraging viewers of the Disney Channel to log on and view 5-minute short clips from episodes of the first season. less «

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  8 comments, last one Aug 6, 2007 + Add Comment

• Airing?

  Is this show still on anywhere? Can you see the episodes anywhere?

  Is this show still on anywhere? Can you see the episodes anywhere?less «

  cutiepie2191 Last online 11 hrs, 55 mins ago
  14 comments, last one Aug 4, 2007 + Add Comment

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  10 Perfect

  Bug Juice was a documentary series made for Disney Channel. Camera crews followed two cabins full of middle school aged boys and girls during their time at an overnight summer camp. hide « show »

  Bug Juice was, as the opening credits said, the true life adventures of kids at summer camp. It was a Disney Channel documentary series that followed two cabins of middle school aged kids, one boys and one girls, throughout a summer at camp.
  
  Bug Juice was made before reality TV was on every station at every hour of the day. The kids who were focused on were mostly unaffected by the camera crews following them. (That is, until the third season. The show had a slightly different vibe and the kids acted a bit more calculated in their moves.)
  
  I never went to a summer camp so this show was fascinating to me. It showed the kids experiencing camp fires, arts and crafts cabins, overnight camping adventures, bushwhacking, horseback riding, plays, dances, color wars, bad camp food, homesickness, first kisses, fights, sneaking junk food, and basically just the highs and lows of overnight camps.
  
  The casting was great. They picked really likable kids to follow around. The counselors were great too. My personal favorites were from season one's Camp Waziyahta: Malik, session one's Andy, Jason, Cammie, Caitlin, Keisha, and the boys' head counselor Rhett. I also loved season two's B session boys: Josh and Stefan, and the boys' counselor Cohen. Disney Channel reran season one a few summers ago. It was a big hit and gained new fans as well as making old fans like me happy to see the show again. I hope Disney will choose to re-air the other seasons again too.

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  SillySophie Added Apr 6, 2009 All my reviews
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  8.5 Great

  Back when reality shows actually consisted of filming "reality" Bug Juice showed the day-to-day lives of kids at camp. hide « show »

  After watching bug juice I begged my parents to send me to the nearest summer camp! Too bad it wasn't as cool as being on the show, but it was still a good experience. Bug juice lasted three seasons, the norm for Disney shows, which I still don't understand. It featured a different camp each season and filmed the young kids as they went to campfires, took swimming lessons, and created friendships. Once the last season wrapped, they began showing Bug Juice at 11pm the following summer, and of course I had to stay up "late" and watch! Since then, (2002?) they have not shown Bug Juice on the air. I think Disney should create the next season, maybe have Hannah Montana make a guest appearance?

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  Cali_girl_213 Added Jul 21, 2008 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  Kids at Camp. hide « show »

  This show is amazing! I loved the whole summer camp thing. I also love how they dressed in the 90's. The show is so original, no one can beat it. I loved Stephanie and Connor is season one. They are the cutest couple ever! The show is so cute and I've always wanted to go to a summer camp like the ones in the show. It should be brought back or syndicated at least. I have to watch it on You Tube! I understand why they had to cancel it, though. But, this was the original Laguna Beach! Amazing. I love it!

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  sethsummer4evx3 Added Feb 13, 2008 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  Bug Juice is the best camping show keeps me young hide « show »

  this show woah so many words,
  
  1 my aLL time favorite.
  2 after watching id alaways have juice.
  3 it was right after the aby sitters club haha just wanted to thow that in when it was cancelled didn't know what to do with my self put it out on dvd or something
  ive always wanted to go camping never got around to
  I thoght all the calcoloulors were hott now i can Exctemley use that word seing as im not a child anymore
  they had the bestest theme song ever those kids looked so happy and stuff
  bring it back its missed deeply by fans

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  AGIRLWITHP16 Added Aug 30, 2007 All my reviews
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  what? hide « show »

  i dont understand this show? what is a bug juice? dont any of you call me stupid for not knowing this! i shouldn't know this! should i? ugh back to the drawing board. looky here i just dont like the show deal with it. sorry i am being mean. i just am grumpy. this show is weird i dont need to care about campers when i am a camper. that is just strange. it does not bring back memories. not at all. at least not any i can come to think of at all. see you guys later i hope.

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  suitelife96 Added Jul 13, 2007 All my reviews