I Was a Teenage Werewolf

What's going on here?

Do I have to draw your diagram.

Tony, I know you can get fresh.

Come on over here.

Wait for me in the car, Joe.

All right, Jimmy.

Go ahead. You tell me.

Well, Sergeant Donovan.

I don't like to blow whistle on a pal.

A pal yet.

Well, you started it.

Look, you started it.

You slapped me on the shoulder.

It's a friendly tap.

I don't know what you got so excited about.

I don't like that kind of friendship.

I don't like to be hit from behind by anybody any time.

I don't like to be touched.

Okay, okay.

The way you jump me, you think I tossed a brick at you?

Right off, he challenges me.

I tried to kivots him out of it.

I'm beginning to get the picture.

Yeah, and I even told him I was sorry.

That's right. I apologized.

You can ask any of the guys.

Didn't that satisfy him?

No, he wanted to fight.

I know I'm bigger than he is.

But he wanted to fight.

Look, what are you? The referee or in his corner?

No, Tony. I'm really in your corner.

If I can just get you to see it.

Well, I guess you can pick up your marbles.

I'll try to low-key this in the report.

But what your principal wants to do, well, that's her business.

Now, wait a minute.

Before you go, I want to see you two fellas shake hands.

Come on, come on, come on. It'll look better in the report.

Sure, a happy ending, huh?

I'm sorry, Tony.

I guess I lost my head.

I burn easy.

You know Tony, you really ought to smile more often.

Sure.

Win friends and charm snakes, eh?

That's just what I wanted to talk to you about.

You're suspicious of everybody.

You act like the whole world's your enemy the way you flare up.

Oh, people bug me.

That's right. Hide behind jive talk. People bug you.

Well, people bug me too.

But I don't go around and clouding everybody.

Come on, finish your beef, will you?

All I know is you've been in trouble a half a dozen times, You don't have any official

record yet, but you're sure working up to one.

But you got a crystal ball, huh?

I pulled you out of fights three times myself in the last month.

You're just lucky there weren't any formal complaints.

The time before this in the supermarket.

It was the checker's mistake.

Yeah, but you didn't even give him a chance to rectify it.

Boom, you throw a carton of milk right at him.

Look, Tony...

I'm just trying to tell you that you need help.

What kind of help?

Well, there's a prominent doctor.

Doctor Brandon, he's a consulting psychologist out at the aircraft plant.

He's been working with the police department

without charge trying to help difficult kids adjust.

What's this adjust kick?

Polish off the rough edges.

Adjust.

Adjust to what?

But everything.

Teachers, parents, other students.

You know, some kids have a tougher time than others.

And it's not necessarily their fault.

Now, this Doctor Brandon, well, he's modern.

He uses hypnosis.

Oh, no.

No, no head shrinker for me, thank you.

You know, that's all I need.

That's all I need.

Tony the flip.

No, sir, thank you.

You keep the man in the white coat for the goofs.

I can take care of myself.

The way you have up to now?

The way I have.

Then you won't let anybody help you.

Not into a straight jacket I won't.

Look, you hold me on any charge?

No.

Then I can go.

Yeah, yeah, you can go.

But this is the last warning, Tony.

If you get into trouble again, don't expect it to be a breeze like this.

I can't let you off.

Okay.

I heard you.

Everything all right, Tony?

Sure it is.

- What did Officer Donovan say? - I don't want to talk about it.

I've been enough yakety-y-act to last me till the end of the term.

Look, I'm sorry, Arlene.

I say things, I do things. I don't know why.

I try to control them. It's too late if I've gone too far.

I don't know.

I get a certain feeling, and I have to... I don't know.

I just don't know.

Tony, you must try.

Yeah, I'll try.

But not Donovan's way.

What's his way?

He wants me to go to this head shrinker, Doctor Brandon.

Like I was a flip or something.

Is that the way he said it?

No, he sprinkled a little sugar on it.

But I'm not having any, thank you.

Oh, Tony.

Okay, okay, I'll try.

But my way.

Come on, I'll take you home.

- Hi Dad. - Hi.

Who was it today?

What's the difference?

Your principal called. She said it was your fault.

- Why does she bother you? - Because I'm your father.

She said I'm supposed to discipline you.

I told her in home you never need a discipline.

Not even when your mother was alive.

I don't know why she has to drag you into it.

Look, boy, you missed the point.

Well, if you know, tell me.

Sometimes you just have to do things the way people want them done.

That makes them happy and they'll leave you alone.

I used to have a foreman like that.

Every time I assembled a motor in my way, he beefed.

- But when I assembled it... - Dad, I don't like to be pushed around!

Tony.

Sometimes you just have to do it the other fellow's way.

Well, I gotta be going.

Sorry, I can't eat with you.

Night shift again.

Oh, there are a couple of lamb chops in the icebox.

I seasoned them the way you like. Just set them in the pan.

Dad, I can cook a chop.

And be sure you cook them.

Don't eat them raw like you did the hamburger yesterday.

Tony, think over what I said, would you?

I mean about not being so stubborn.

Just might make things a lot easier all around.

Okay, Dad.

I got to go. Bye.

It's Tony, and he's not even late.

Maybe you're beginning to train him.

That's no way to call for a date.

- When I courted your mother, we... - Things were different then.

I still want my daughter treated with respect.

Your father's right, Arlene.

Listen to him.

Oh, Dad, it's got nothing to do with respect.

That's the way all the kids do it.

But I still can't understand why you only date him.

Oh, not. That I have anything specific against Tony, but there's Steve Harmon,

the drugist's son, and this Willie Blake.

Oh, love, mother.

I date Tony because I like him.

In fact, I like him a lot.

And you just ask him to come in, Arlene.

Go ahead.

We won't bite him.

Oh, all right.

Tony, would you come in for a minute?

Hi.

Good evening.

Hello.

Hi.

Tony...

I like things formal once in a while.

We just wanted to look at you before you take our daughter out to a party.

You don't have any objections.

No, I don't.

Well, then why don't you call for her properly in her home?

Now, Dad.

No, no, no.

A little man-to-man talk won't hurt anybody.

Well, I would, only you don't look too pleased.

No, really, you know, sometimes when I walk in that door, I

think you're going to swat me with a baseball bat or something.

Oh, I'm sure that's just your imagination.

It must be.

Unless you feel guilty about something.

Now, Dad, you promised.

Much the same.

Parents of a young girl, and especially a pretty one like Arlene,

like to feel proud of the young man that takes her out.

Young man who keeps busy with the right kind of things.

Like sprinkle a lawn, take out out