Counselor Luna with her campers. Photo courtesy of Disney.
Camper Jason Wool. Photo courtesy of Disney
Counselor Rhett Bachner with camper Jon Adler. Photo courtesy of Disney
Korsen: There was no interference, it was definitely just us in our natural environment. I think though—and this gave me some good insight into reality television in general— that you just get hours and hours of film and then you narrow that down into what you’re going to use, and when you do that, you can kind of create characters.Wool: I think they mostly got it right. They got a lot of the traditions in there, you know, the Color War, the dances, the camp-wide sleepover they have of the end of the year, and the sadness of everyone going away on the last day and all of that stuff."What made the first season so special on that show was the fact that the kids didn’t know what to expect. They had no recourse but to be anybody else but themselves."—Bug Juice co-creator J. Rupert Thompson
Campers Jon Adler (left) and Hassan Omar (right). Photo courtesy of Disney
"Camp is a place where you’re allowed to take risks that you might not be able to take at home. But it’s still in a supervised environment, so the kinds of things that you do or that you think you’re getting away with, that helps you grow in a way that you might not be able to do at school."—Thompson
The relationship between Stephanie Etkin (left) and Connor Shaw (right) was a major storyline of the first season of Bug Juice. Photo courtesy of Disney
Stephanie Etkin. Photo courtesy of Disney
Caitlin Welby. Photo courtesy of Disney
Cammie Delany (left) and Malik Sollas (right) during a camp awards ceremony. Photo courtesy of Disney
Anna Korsen (left) during camp Color War. Photo courtesy of Disney
Jason Wool pranks Jon Adler. Photo courtesy of Disney
Asa Korsen (left) and a dance partner. Photo courtesy of Disney
Lauren Plumley (right) on the canoe trip
Counselor Rhett with his cabin