Is It Camp?!

This episode: But I'm a Cheerleader It's getting a bit weird at the Is It Camp Palace. Moreso than usual. Camp Counsellor Sam has decided to start a finishing school/summer camp for wayward youngsters, and he's hired Sarah as the groundskeeper/gym coach. Which makes no sense, because Sam was a personal trainer at some point, why would he delegate that position? Well now its raining, the kids are s...

This episode: Supernatural, season 13, episode 16, “Scoobynatural” Jinkies! It looks like the Is It Camp Palace is h-h-h-Haunted, by some variety of paranormal dead person! Thankfully Sam is an amateur mystery solver, having watched all of Murder She Wrote, and Sarah is a demon hunter, having been trained since birth to save the world from the damned! But how will the two styles of problem solving...

Today's episode: OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies. This week we are jet setting to the International Offices of the Is It Camp Palace, where Counsellor Sarah has been sent on a secret mission. She has to hop from Berlin, to Rome, to Paris, and finally Cairo in an effort to thwart the plans of a mysterious hooded figure! Along the way she might be waylaid by Femme Fatale Counsellor Sam, whos motives a...

This week: People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issues What a mess. After last week's power struggle, the Camp Counsellors have decided to let the people decide who should be in charge. Unfortunately they mixed up "the people" and "People Magazine", so now the Palace is teeming with photographers and columnists. Sarah has never had to wear this much beige in her life, and Sam won't stop being asked...

This episode: Benedetta There's a struggle for power within the walls of the Is It Camp Palace. Counsellor Sam thinks the MCU Blurays should be organised by phase, whereas Counsellor Sarah thinks they should be organised by name. Now lines have been drawn. But Sam has a secret weapon: he has received divine visions from Colm Feore himself! Can Sam be trusted with such power? Or is Sarah playing a...

This episode: Malignant (2021) Oh no Campers! So many juicy murders have been happening on the Palace grounds, and who are the Number 1 Suspects? Why, it's Sam and Sarah, the Camp Counsellors. But they both have the perfect alibis! They were with each other during each murder. They were practically joined at the hip! So what could be going on, and who can we trust? And what's wrong with the lights...

This episode: The Love Witch The Is It Camp Palace has been saved  and now that we have some downtime, the Counsellors can pursue other hobbies. Like the Dark Arts. Sarah has taken up the Knitting of Naughtiness, whereas Sam is now murdering men left right and center after they date for 2 days. Why is he doing this? Maybe the answer lies in this week's film: The Love Witch! The Counsellors ta...

This episode: L'il Abner Well Campers, seems that The Government has declared the Is It Camp Palace the most unnecessary place on earth. So they're evicting us to do experiments involving giving sentience to stiletto heels? That can't be right. The Camp Counsellors are now trying to prove that they are necessary! And to do so they are screening Li'l Abner, the movie based on a Broadway musical, ba...

This episode: Logan's Run Sam and Sarah have decided to implement a new rule here at the Is It Camp Palace, and in order to mark the event they've opened up the Carousel out back! It's got horses, and a calliope, and Mary Poppins references, and explosions! And now the unveiling of the new rule: You gotta die when you reach 30. Oh no. We didn't think this through. So now the Camp Counsellors are o...

This episode: Mannequin The gift store in the Is It Camp Palace has finally opened up, and the displays in the windows are the talk of the town! Here we can see a display of mannequins, eerily similar to our own Camp Counsellors, as they imitate a scene of an 80s movie montage! Trying on the various Is It Camp?! merch, as the mannequins spin and pose and oh wait no, it's just Sam and Sarah trying...

This episode: Van Halen & David Lee Roth The Counsellors have decided to start a metal band, but they need a charismatic lead singer to really boost them to stardom. So they've brought in special guest host, Elana Levin, to rocket the band to new levels of stardom. And to discuss David Lee Roth and Van Halen! Who's the hottest member of Van Halen? How ear-wormable are these songs? And what's E...

This episode: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Return to the Theatre Wing of the Is It Camp Palace, as Sam and Sarah will be putting on a 20 man and one woman production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. We're going way, way back, many centuries ago. Not long after the Bible beg- Actually, best not get those ear worms going just yet. But we are looking at the Donny Osmon...

This episode: Star Trek (2009) Space: another frontier. These are the episodes of the Podcast Is It Camp?! In its first year of its mission: to seek out queer subtext, and amazingly bad pop culture. To boldly discuss what's been discussed by straight dudes before us! Captain Sarah and her inappropriately dressed ship Counsellor Sam have picked up an important passenger in Warren, from the Starship...

This episode: The Apple The Camp Counsellors would like to apologise to anyone ahead of time who sat through The Apple and are utterly dumbfounded by what happened. Now we hop into the Is It Camp Time Machine and rocket our way into the far flung dystopian future of 1994, where music rules the world! But along the way, Sarah gets seduced by the Rock and Roll lifestyle and suffers zero consequences...

This episode: Victor Victoria Good news Campers! We've got a new host to replace Sam, who just wasn't doing the numbers. He'll be replaced by Samantha, who's a Drag King, and not at all a clever disguise Sam is wearing. (Took him 12 nights to come up with this idea.) But Sarah's business partner, a mob boss, has eyes on Samantha, and boy oh boy is it a comedy of errors! While that gets figured out...

This episode: Moonstruck When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amoré! When the Counsellors sing, screaming "Moonstruck's the thing!", you're in love… That's right Campers, today we are watching 1987's Cher and Nick Cage film Moonstruck! A romance bigger than Cher's hair, so of course we are covering it for week three of *Romance Month*. Naturally, Sarah is going to talk about Ni...

This Episode: Down With Love She's fresh off the plane and about to take the world by storm! Yes, Sarah has written a new book on how the modern woman can have everything she needs, by embracing her Camp self! But Sam is a hotshot reporter who'll do anything to get his scoop, and the scoop he wants is her! Or not, because the Camp Counsellors couldn't keep up the straight charade if they tried. So...

This episode: Roxanne We have a confession, Campers. It isn't Sam who has been your host with Sarah, but another, far uglier Camp Counsellor, who has been feeding Sam all his lines! But he did it because you are the best damn audience out there, and he didn't want you associated with just how dangly his earlobes are! They're mesmerizing! So today, as the first episode of our *Romance Month*, Sarah...

This week: Flash Gordon Oh no Campers! As Sam and Sarah were taking a flight on their private jet, they crash-landed into the home of special guest star Steven of Radio Free Skaro! So the three of them hopped into his homemade rocket in order to watch Flash Gordon, and save the Earth! How far back can Sarah trace the origins of Flash Gordon? How many Doctor Who actors can Steven name off the top o...

This episode: Venom: Let There Be Carnage Sarah and Sam have now formed a perfect symbiosis, and she now wears him as a big meat suit. They're now the Mighty Camp Queen, the Regal Protector. But a second, EVIL symbiote, is making a whole bunch of carnage, and in this carnage, they need to be stopped before more carnage is carnaged. Let's call them Naughty-Boi. Anywhere, before we get to the big CG...

This episode: The Pink Panther (1963) Grab your safe-cracking gear and monogrammed white gloves; we're doing a heist! In one of the hidden safes of the Is It Camp Palace lies the fabulous Macguffin Diamond, which we are using to push the plot of this episode forward, with a whole host of characters. Resist the effects of all this champagne we are drinking to watch The Pink Panther (1963). Can our...

This episode: Magic Mike XXL Good news Campers! We are hitting the road in our CampMobile! The trunk is filled with body glitter, knee pads, and tear away costumes, and now we're going to throw all of that out the window, as we drive into Magic Mike XXL! What experience does Sam have that could even remotely relate to the moves that Channing Tatum pulls off? How awkward did Sarah feel seeing BOTH...

This episode: Street Fighter (1994) Campers! We found a cool fighting area in the back, and down a flight of steps. The whole layout is in the shape of a skull with wings, and has a skelly chandelier, and some kind of mutagenic lab! Sam also found a copy of Street Fighter on VHS to watch, so we sat down and did that instead of explore further into the Is It Camp Palace. (Really, it's getting quite...

This episode: Christmas with Boney M As the Holiday Season is winding down, the Camp Counselors thought they'd dive into one inescapable aspect: Holiday Music. And what could be more camp than internationally famous European Disco/Funk group Boney M. singing about Christmas? Sam has a deep, dark confession to make about the holiday season. Not Gremlins dark, but dark enough. Will Sarah grade these...

This episode: The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) Oh no Campers! Sarah bonked her noggin and now she's real good at cutting vegetables! We can only eat so much salad, so we've decided to loan her out to the Canadian CIA to become an international assassin. But can she kill people while she has commitments to making this podcast episode? We will see. What is Sam's connection to this film? How many men m...