Ping Pong Summer

Hey, Michelle, do you know how

to make a hard-boiled egg?

Boil it until it's hard?

Yeah, honey.

What are you doing?

Eating dinner?

That's breakfast is what that is.

Oh, my God, you look disgusting.

Be quiet!

Don't pick on your

brother, Michelle Ann.

He almost really hurt himself.

Yeah, microwaving an egg.

Now we can't go to Ocean City!

You bet your bippy we can.

But I'll look gross!

Dr Miller says if you

keep that cream spread

on your face overnight you'll be

in great shape tomorrow morning.

- No, I won't.

- Sure you will.

You're already looking better!

We're counting down the hits,

the 40 biggest from the

official Billboard charts.

I'm Casey Kasem, this

is America's Top 40.

This family is so embarrassing.

This'll save us having to

buy a whole tank of gas!

I just have to go on duty

if we come across an accident

or a broken down car along the way.

- You guys are so cheap!

- No, we're not!

I don't see you writing any checks

when it's time to pay the bills.

You get into the stupidest things.

Shove it.

Must be not nice to

not have any friends.

Must be not nice to be so not nice.

American Top Forty

Now, we're up to our Long

Distance Dedication.

And this is from a

young man in Louisiana

who had been troubled

by a feeling of guilt-

Mom, turn it up!

He writes, "Dear Casey,

my name is Patrick.

"I'm 19 years old and live

in Cheena, Louisiana.

"My Long Distance Dedication goes

out to my younger brother Jeffrey,

"who is 17 years old.

"Two years ago,

"Jeff was injured

in a swimming accident.

"He and I had gone

to a creek near our home.

"I dove in, and Jeff

dove in after me.

"He was very overweight,

about five-foot-six,

"weighing 235 pounds.

"His dive was short

"and he hit a clay bank under

the water and broke his neck,

"paralyzing him from the neck down.

"For nearly two weeks,

I blamed myself for this,

"but my family and Jeff

helped me understand

"it wasn't my fault.

"In '84, both Jeff and myself

"were away from home at Christmas.

"Jeff was in San Francisco,

"at the Shriner's Crippled

Children's Hospital.

"I was doing 90 days in jail

for drinking and driving.

I don't know think we should

be listening to this anymore.

No, leave it on!

"I turned to drinking to

solve my pain and problems.

As you do.

"In jail at Christmas, I was

allowed to telephone Jeff.

"After I talked to him,

I spoke to Mom.

"I asked her what Jeff needed,

"and she said he wanted to see me.

"This raised my spirits and hopes,

"to know that Jeff was as close

as my heart would let him be.

"Now, that's all the distance is:

"from my mind to my heart.

"So Casey, would you please play

'Hang On' by the Little River Band,

"to let Jeff know that when

I'm released in four weeks,

"I'll be there as fest as I can.

This stuff is a bunch of malarkey.

No, they're not!

Says you.

Says Casey.

Casey's Coast to Coast

Here's the band

that's been performing

in the area of Naragansett,

Rhode Island, since 1972...

Thirteen years,

and lest year they finally hit the pop

charts with the song "On The Dark Side."

Here's John Cafferty and the Beaver

Brown Band with "Tough All Over."

we're back!

Here we are.

What's that doing there?

You sure this is the right house?

Let's hope not.

Yeah, it's the right place.

Why can't we stay at Sea

Watch like last year?

That was way too expensive.

Mrs. Unland's brother gave us

a good bargain on this place.

But it's bayside.

Then what you do is

you use your legs

and you walk over to Oceanside.

We might as well have

just gone to Deep Creek.

I don't care where we stay!

That's the spirit!

Now, the key's supposed to

be under a crab statue.

I don't know which one.

Brendan, you look like a prowler!

Well, I'm not. I'm a state trooper.

Okay, which one?

Right, that's it, everybody,

off the front porch, now! Now!

Oh no, is it the wrong house?

Eww, gross.

We're sorry.

I guess we got here

a few hours early.

Wash that sink down with

bleach before you use it.

Cool, a record player!

It smells like Grandma's house.

Can I go get an Icee?

You're not going anywhere until

we've finished unpacking the car.

But not alone you're not.

Come on, I'm way old enough!

Well, I guess that might be fine.

Mmm.

We weren't going to give this to

you until we'd settled in a bit,

but here's some money

for you to spend

however you want on this vacation.

Cool.

Hey, Windburn, when's Space Camp?

Are you actually wearing

those as, like, not a joke?

Pshh. You wish.

Wicka-wicka-wicka-wicka!

Who told you it was okay

to mix the flavors like that? Huh?

I'm sorry.

I didn't know it was illegal.

"Illegal"? They're Icees!

I'm just messing with you, dude.

I am bored out of my skulleton.

Now take a sip, fill it to the

top, and take another sip, man.

Don't you know how it's done?

Fill it to the top, sip,

fill it to the top again.

It's not an Icee unless

you sneak a sip first!

Put more cherry in.

You got to get the

proportions right.

You dropped this.

No, I didn't.

Uh, I really think you dropped it.

I already have one.

Man, you can never have

too many spoon-straws!

I guess.

What's your name?

Radford. But everybody

calls me Rad.

I'm Teduardo.

But everyone calls me Teddy.

Cool.

What grade you going into?

Ninth.

I'm going into ninth too. No way!

Way.

Whoa, is that your

ping pong thingy?

I have one that looks

just like this back home.

I mean, just like this!

You must've been to Fun Hub.

What's Fun Hub?

It's only the coolest place

in the whole wide world!

We got to go right now!

I can't.

I have to go to dinner

with my family.

Well, then let's go tomorrow!

Maybe.

So, you come here every summer?

Usually.

My dad's been bringing me

here since before I was one.

Oh, dag, you live here?

Man, don't go near that

place if you can help it.

What's wrong with it?

The lady that lives there

is a crazy menace.

She ruined five

marriages last summer.

And she eats bushels of crabs

with the shells still on them!

And she taxidermies

surfers in the barn!

Her name's Randi Jammer.

I gotta go.

Meet me at Fun Hub

tomorrow at noon.

It's in the alley behind Anthony's!

Are you sure you don't need this?

Okay, bye Rad!

Are we out here too early?

You think?

Does the sun even work

at this hour?

The sun always works, bud.

That's what's so great about it!

This way we beat the crowds

and get a headstart on the day.

Right, that's it, I'm going in!

Who's with me?

I'm not hot enough yet.

Ahhh!

Fine!

This is how it's done.

Your father is such a stud.

That looks cold.

Hey, Rad.

No way, you listen to rap?

Way.

Do you?

Do I like rap?

Did you just ask me that?

Of course I do

I catch the groove

I'm Teddy Fryy

Spelled with two Y's

I'll rap and spray

All over your face!

Fresh.

My dad's a real b-boy.

His boombox is four times the size

of that, I'm not fronting around!

Want to go see it later?

Maybe.

Yeah, my dad breakdances

and everything.

We even got into a break-off

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