Is It Camp?!

This week: Labyrinth It's Camp Counsellor Sam's birthday! And because of that he's chosen to bring a very special guest, Joe Lipsett of Horror Queers fame, and trapped him and Sarah in the Is It Camp labyrinth beneath the Palace for some fun and games. It's so huge and twisty-turny, that Sarah doesn't even show up for the first half of the show! In order to help them both out, and solve Sam's Birt...

This week: The King's Daughter The Counsellors have had an exciting week, but Sam has been doing some introspection, and decided he needs to be immortal now. So he's tasked Sarah with making up some science in order to do so, and naturally she's hunting down the elusive mermaid. Fish top half. Person bottom half. Why? Because science. And she learned it from this week's film, The King's Daughter....

This week: Elvira, Mistress of the Dark The Counsellors did it! They actually pulled off the race, and what was the prize? Why, this beautiful old house, a recipe book, and a dog. Not a single dollar though. What are they supposed to do with this garbage? They already have a grand Palace of undetermined size, Sam doesn't cook, and quite frankly they don't have time for a dog. Thankfully, a kindly...

This week: Rat Race It's Year 2 of the Podcast, and we are off with a bang! Part of the goodie bags from the Airing of Delights was a map to a treasure, and now Sam and Sarah are in a race to see who can get it first! It could be jewels, or fine art, or an autograph from Susan Sarandon! Who can say? In order to help them on their journey, the Counsellors have decided to watch the film Rat Race, an...

This week: The Airing of Delights It's our anniversary! Instead of covering a piece of media this week, we celebrated by holding an awards show. Who will win? Will there be any surprises? And will Sam make Sarah cry? (Yes, but in a nice way.) Thanks for being here over the last year, campers. If you listen all the way to the end, you might win something yourself! We'd love for you to get in touch...

This week: The Goes Wrong Show Is this recording? Oh OK, hello. The usual blurb writer is out sick, so I'm filling it, but my keyboard is broken so I'm doing this via voice to flex.  The Camp Counsellors are putting on a to person show, where they are directing, producing, designing, and building the whole shebang. What could possibly go wrong question mark. It turns out everything. The sets...

This week: The Great Lakes Avengers CW: we discuss eating disorders in this episode. So love didn't necessarily work out for the Campers, due to misunderstandings. So they've turned their attentions to saving the world. Our Camp Counsellors have now become Super Queeroes, fighting the good fight, and helping out the little guys. But organising the whole thing has turned out to be a lot harder than...

This week: Frasier season 2, episode 3, "The Matchmaker” After their piratical adventures, the Counsellors have decided that it was lonely out there in the big wide world. So they want to settle down for a bit and try dating. Not each other. But they're going to try setting each other up. What could possibly go wrong? In order to figure out the best way to do so, the Counsellors have turned to a t...

This week: Our Flag Means Death Ahoy hoy Campers! Turns out the Is It Camp Palace had a dock out back. And in that dock, was a full-on pirate ship! So the Counsellors have decided to set sail for adventure on the newly named "HMS Jennifer Coolidge". Turns out they aren't that good at sailing, so they've brought in a special guest/pirate captain to show them the literal ropes: KatyBeth! While they'...

This week: Heritage Minutes It's Canada Day (or close to it) and because the main foyer of the Is It Camp Palace is located on Canadian soil, it's only fair that the Camp Counsellors reminisce about Canadian things. Like peach baskets in basketball. Or houses made of dirt. And of course, who could forget Colm Feore, writing poetry, covered in blood? That's right, Sam and Sarah are looking back at...

This week: Rope CW for violence. Skip 23:00-25:00 to avoid any descriptions. Pop music super stardom didn't work out for Camp Counsellor Sarah, so she's decided to hide her dead dreams where no one can find them: under a tablecloth. And just in time too, because Camp Counsellor Sam is throwing a dinner party. A little bubbly, the tiniest chicken imaginable, and to end the night we will be watching...

This week: Lil Nas X The Pageant is over, the contestants have all gone home, and while Sam is cleaning up the Palace, Sarah has decided to become an international pop star. And she's decided to break into the medium through the use of memes. Unconventional choice, but sure, let's go along and see how it turns out. She says she learned it from watching Lil Nas X's rise to fame, so we're going to t...

This week: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar So the finishing school didn't quite go as planned, instead we are pivoting into a Pageant! The back halls of the Palace are littered with discarded Spanx and empty lipstick tubes, as the scent of Aquanet and Got2b Glued permeates the air. In lieu of a talent competition, we will be doing trivia based on To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything...

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...