Michael Ray Bower started his acting career on shows like The Wonder Years, Doogie Howser, M.D., Empty Nest, and Webster. Most of his roles typecast him as the “typical fat kid” role. However, he has proven that he is more than just that. Already an established actor, Michael then portrayed “Donkeylips.” So Where is he now?
This is Dr. Kahn, your camp leader, with the Camp Anawanna camper profile of the day. Today’s camper is the camp genius—Sponge Harris. The rumor is that if you squeeze his head, random bits of information will leak out. Smart beyond his years, he has developed a rather astute assessment of camp, noting, “The food bites, bugs bite, activities bite, everything bites!” Of course, we can’t use this slogan in our marketing and recruiting efforts! Poor Sponge often has the best of intentions, such as starting a camp newspaper and trying to gain weight for the camp’s wrestling team, but is usually taken advantage of by Budnick and/or Pinsky. And who could forget the time the entire camp made him stay awake so he could win a radio trivia contest? Ah, Sponge, we salute you!
Recently Michael Ray Bower (Donkeylips) starred in this short film, Dinner with Raphael. Its about a guy who brings his girlfriend home to meet his family, including his brother who has … a condition.
After portraying Ronnie Pinsky in the second season of Salute Your Shorts Blake joined the cast of Boy Meets World portraying Joseph “Joey the Rat” Epstein. After that he quit acting. So Where is he now?
For 10 years Joe Struss has run the only Salute Your Shorts fan site. I thought it was only appropriate to include him in our Salute Your Shorts coverage. After all, he runs a great site full of information about the show. He is planning on wrapping up the new site later this year.
In 2007, the band The XYZ Affair produced a video starring a number of the Nickelodeon stars. Marc Summers (Double Dare, Unwrapped), Jason Zimbler (Clarissa Explains It All), Michael Maronna (The Adventures of Pete & Pete) and Danny Cooksey (aka Bobby Budnick.) Man Marc Summers is a dick!
Some of you have never heard or even seen an episode of Salute Your Shorts. For those of you poor bastards who were deprived of this show, I have created a Salute Your Shorts FAQ:
What is Salute Your Shorts?
Salute Your Shorts is a early 90′s cable show that aired for two seasons on Nickelodeon. The cable channel began producing a number of good shows with kids as the stars. They were labeled “Nickcoms”
Was that the show with the two brothers named Pete?
No, that was the other good Nickcom called The Adventures of Pete and Pete. There was also Clarissa Explains it All, You Can’t Do That on Television and the most boring sitcom on the planet, Hey Dude!
Earlier this year The Nostalgia Critic remembered all of the Nickelodeon NickComs. This included You Can’t Do That On Television, The Adventure of Pete & Pete, Hey Dude, and Salute Your Shorts.
