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.

"2 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 5-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 2 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 4 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...

13 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."

Hey, Ocean City: 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?

9th.

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?