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in that freezer?

I'll do my best.

Gee, Kahuna, I can't

thank you enough.

You just don't know

what it means to me to...

Gee, I'm sorry, Kahuna.

I know Flyboy was all you had.

Kahuna...

please don't feel too bad.

What? The bird?

Hell, when I get down to Peru,

I'll get me a bird that treats

me with a little respect.

Respect. That... That's terribly

important to you, isn't it?

What?

I mean, all the fellows

around here respect you.

Well, because, you...

you're a person who knows

what he wants to do

and goes ahead and does it.

You're so self-sufficient.

You don't need anybody.

Well, n-now, take me.

I... I couldn't live that way

because, well, gee,

I'd get too lonely.

Of course, if I were

to lose my only family,

or... or at the end

of every summer,

just when I'd get settled,

I had to move on and leave

all my new friends...

Gosh, if I had a whole

lifetime of that,

and well, I'd about die.

Oh, but of course,

you're different.

Yeah.

Oh, you are.

I mean, you'd have to be

to be able to turn your back

on the way everybody else lives.

Well, I mean,

everybody in life is...

is working for some

sort of a goal, or...

well, I mean, I mean,

you don't have a goal or...

Oh, Kahuna, I'm sorry.

What's there to be sorry about?

I told you myself,

I'm a surf bum.

There's nothing

to be sorry about.

No, of course not.

Kahuna?

Kahuna... could I ask you

just one crazy question?

Yeah.

I mean, I understand

how you said in the war

you got sick of all

the rules and regulations,

and, well, about

this dream you had

that when you got loose

there'd be no more chains,

nothing but a free life.

Is that right?

That's right.

That's what you said then?

That's right. That's

what the man said, he...

Only what if you could go back

to that time in your life,

if... if something happened,

and you could choose

all over again?

If I could what?

If you could choose

all over again.

Well, I said it was

a crazy question.

Cheer up, angel.

Don't you know that frowning is

bad for the face, beautiful?

Besides, you're going

to the luau.

Oh, yeah, the luau.

Gee, Kahuna, thanks.

Thanks a lot. Thanks loads.

Hey, man.

Oh, boy, can't you

just feel it in the air?

Feel what?

The end of summer.

Gee, with the guys off

signing up for fall semester,

the beach is half deserted

already.

Oh, I tell you,

I can hardly wait

till we hop that freighter.

How soon...

Hey, what's the matter?

Who said anything

was the matter?

Well, not me.

No, sir.

It's just like

I wrote my old man,

I'm not going back to school.

Right now is the whole

turning point of my life.

Here, you want to read it?

Well, why should you.

It's my problem.

That's right.

It's your problem.

Look, it's okay.

I... I got it handled.

You don't need to worry.

Look, all I'm thinking about is getting

on our way to places we'll see.

Yeah.

Yeah, the Island of Kauai...

see the very place

where the natives presented

this to the great Kahuna.

Presented it?

I bought it in Acapulco

for 20 cruddy pesos.

You better start

learning, Moondoggie,

there's a price tag

on everything.

Well, so what. You bought it.

Look, I can take a gag.

You weren't worried?

I mean, you don't have to worry

anything's gonna change

my mind about going now.

I'm going, all right.

Yes, sir, I'm going.

Boy, will my father be surprised

to see he's not the only one.

The only what?

Oh, I told you, a wheel.

Now, wait till he finds out

about me...

carving out a life for myself,

moving around

this whole cockeyed hemisphere

with guys around me

treating me like a king,

like you, Kahuna.

Yeah.

Boy, there's a funny bit.

You know, about the only thing

my father's afraid of is water.

Hey, where are you going?

Tell Waikiki I borrowed

his car to go into town.

What's she doing upstairs?

I don't know, dear.

Francie!

Francie, Saturday night,

concert time!

What's all this?

Francie, you didn't tell us.

Tonight must be special.

Well, uh, so long, Fran.

I'll see you later.

So long, B.L.,

and thanks for everything.

Well, I... I guess I

should have told you,

but I can't make it tonight.

You see, the fellows

down at the beach

are giving a big... a big party.

Isn't that wonderful, Russell?

Well...

Well, what time

is the lucky young man

going to pick up

his glamorous date?

Oh, uh, I'm not being picked up.

You see,

he's meeting me somewhere.

Hold it.

Daddy, I'm really very late.

Obviously, there's some mistake.

A gentleman, Francie, always

picks up the young lady...

Well, this gentleman

is different.

Well, let him get

undifferent fast.

Either you call him up and tell

him to come here and pick you up,

or forget about the whole thing.

Forget it? Yes, forget it.

Mother, are you going to let Daddy

stand there and ruin the whole thing?

Francie, a boy only thinks

more of you if you...

I worked like a dog to get

even invited to this brawl!

Am I to understand that a daughter

of mine would even think of going

to a place

that she was unwelcome?

Go ahead! Go ahead and say all

the horrible things you like,

but I'm not changing my mind!

Oh, Francie,

your father just

loves you too much

to let anyone

treat you shabbily.

Baby...

the last thing in

the world I want to do

is make my little girl unhappy.

Yes. There...

You look prettier without tears.

Oh, Pop, Mama, I'm sorry.

I don't mean to yell,

or... or be fresh, or...

All right...

It's all over now.

After all, all I ask

is to make sure

that the boys my little girl

goes out with are worthy of her.

Take a boy like

Jeffrey Matthews' son...

Oh, I am not interested

in Jeffrey Matthews' son

or his nephew or his dog!

Francie!

I just want to go,

and I'm going!

In the name of heavens,

what is this?

Well, if you must

know, it's a bribe.

That's how anxious

all the fellows are

to take out your

darling daughter.

Dorothy... Dorothy.

Francie, really.

Oh, that's only the half of it.

To get this date tonight,

I had to fork over cold cash.

What kind of insanity has

taken hold of this family?

Cold cash, legs of lamb.

Do you think this is what the

young man of today wants?

You're so right.

The man I'm after sure

does want something else,

and I'll see he gets it!

Dorothy, I tell you,

unless you take that

daughter of yours in hand,

I'm going to...

Russ, she's driving away!

She's what?

Ooh, ooh!

She can't. She can't.

I won't let her.

I'm going lock her in her room.

Hey, Gidge...

Gee, you look dressed to kill.

Thanks.

Who are you out to slaughter?

Huh?

I said, you look like you're

out to hook some guy.

Oh, no, I'm just

waiting for my date.

Okay if I wait with you?

Suit yourself.

Where's Joanne?

I had to stand her up tonight.

I'm working.

You're not coming to the luau?

Oh, sure, I'll be there.

That's where my job takes me.

You guessed it.

Old Hot Shot got tied up

till midnight,

so I've taken over the...

assignment.

You have?

Oh... Oh, but... but you can't.

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