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Netflix Orders Another Season of Wet Hot American Summer—but There’s a Catch

Will the entire gang be back?
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Netflix is going back to camp—sort of. The next installment of Wet Hot American Summer will be set 10 years after the original movie. Brace yourselves, jokes about 1991 are coming.

The promo above implies that the new season—coming to Netflix in 2017—will feature a lot of the original cast, including Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Ian Black, and Michael Showalter, But Variety reports that no casting information has been confirmed.

The major players behind the camera will be back with Showalter and David Wain writing and Wain directing eight all-new 30-minute episodes. In addition to the original cast—which also included Paul Rudd, Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Christopher Meloni, Zak Orth, and Judah Friedlander—the 10-year reunion could also feature some of the A-listers of Netflix’s 2015 revival First Day of Camp. More Jon Hamm fights and Chris Pine musical breaks? Yes, please.

Both the original Wet Hot American Summer and Netflix’s First Day of Camp made hay of the fact that most of the cast members were clearly a lot older than the teenage counselors they were playing. That premise is still on the table in Ten Years Later where actors several decades into their Hollywood careers will presumably be playing people in their early 20s. We’ll miss the deeply unflattering 80s bowl cut on Michael Showalter and the crunchy, bleached waves on Elizabeth Banks, but there are plenty of disastrous early-90s hair decisions to be mined in Ten Years Later. For a glimpse of what the series could look like, here’s the reunion ending that aired after the credits of the original movie. What do you know? Those crunchy, bleached waves are still intact.