05x21 - Bud, the Campus Romeo
Posted: 11/08/22 18:14
(dramatic music)
- [Announcer] Robert Young
and Jane Wyatt,
with Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, and Lauren Chapin
in Father Knows Best.
- Three chocolate sodas.
- Coming right up.
- Oh, I can't wait for Sue Hammond's party Friday night.
- I know, it's gonna be a blast.
The girls inviting boys.
- I know just who I'm going to ask.
- Who?
- I'll let you in on something.
I think I'll ask Bud Anderson.
Isn't he a doll?
- Well now hold everything.
I've got my brand on Bud.
- Carol Fleming, you've never even been out with him.
- Well that's only because he's never asked me.
But don't think I won't ask him.
- Just you try and get him.
I'll ask anybody I want out.
- It's ridiculous for us to fight over Bud.
For all we know he may already be taken.
- Oh, Doris, you're so right.
All the girls flip their lids over Bud.
- And why not?
He's just the best looking boy in the whole school,
that's all.
- [Girl] Did you see him at the game?
- [Girl] Oh yes!
Oh, he just looked so wonderful.
(slurping)
- What was that?
(laughing)
- Hi.
- Well, here's our wandering boy.
- Oh hi.
Mommy, we can eat now.
The missing link is here.
- Do you know you're holding up dinner?
I'm starved.
- I was boning up for achemistry exam at the malt shop.
(phone ringing)
- How, by mixingchocolate with vanilla?
- I'll get it, it's probably for me.
Hello?
Hi Carol.
- Bud?
Do you know about the party Sue Hammond's giving
Friday night?
- Well I believe I heardit mentioned somewhere.
- Well, the girls are asking the boys.
So I'm inviting you to go with me.
- Well...
Carol, my plans for the party are,
well they're a little indefinite right now.
It's kind of an involved situation.
It's swell of you to call and ask me.
Well, maybe in a dayor two when I know more
than I know now.
Okay.
Goodbye, Carol.
- In a day or two?
Who does he think he is?
- Gosh, Mom.
Do I have to go out with the first girl who asks me?
- It might be wise to cinch your bid, as they say.
It's going to be a lovely party.
- Incidentally, the Hammonds have asked your mother and me
to help chaperone.
- Well I'll see you there.
- Now Dad, there'll be a mad scramble
to see who rates Bud Anderson.
- Naturally.
But I'll wait and acceptthe most tempting offer.
- You have the pick of the crop, naturally.
- Naturally.
You see I have reason to believe
that this won't be the last call.
- Oh Bud, stop being so silly and make yourself useful.
Bring in the bread.
- [Girl] Isn't he a doll?
Practically all the girls flip their lids over Bud.
- [Girl] Oh, he's just the best looking boy
in the whole school, that's all.
- Pardon me, am I interrupting some sort of ritual?
- Oh, hi Dad.
No, I was wondering if I needed a shave.
- You've been standingin front of that mirror
long enough to grow a beard.
But I doubt if that'll help you with your chemistry exam.
- Say Dad.
What is there about some guys
that throws all the girls for a loop?
That certain magnetism that they just can't resist.
(growls)
- Stop it, Bud.
Let's not go off the deep end just because one pretty girl
asked you to take her to a party.
- Oh, don't get me wrong, Dad.
I'm not conceited.
I'm just trying to figure out why all the campus dolls
want to go out with me.
- When you find out, let me know too.
(phone ringing)
Now is this the--
- Hold it, Dad.
That's probably for me.
- It's probably Ralph for Betty,
so let's get on with the chemistry.
- [Margaret] It's for you, Bud.
- Who is it, Mom?
- [Margaret] She didn't say.
- Thanks Mom.
Hello?
Oh, hi Nancy.
- Bud, if you're free on Friday night,
I'd like you to go with me to Sue Hammond's party.
- Oh.
Well, Nancy.
My plans are a little indefinite right now.
Yeah, maybe you better not count on me.
Thanks a lot for asking.
Sure, I'll see you around.
Goodbye Nancy.
Nancy Collins.
- Bud Anderson, what's the matter with you?
- Obviously he's running a popularity poll on himself.
- I feel slightly ill.
- Well so maybe I'm a little choosy.
- Well I'll never ask a boy for a date.
I'll be a lonely sinister first.
- Spinster, Kathy.
- Take it from me, shrimp.
When you're a little older
and a guy with that certain something comes along,
you'll ask him.
It's the way the cells gel.
Look, when I buy a suit, first I like to make sure
I've seen all the merchandise.
I just may hold out for Sue Hammond.
Might as well escort the homecoming queen.
- You're crazy.
She only goes for halfbacks.
- Hi Claude.
- Oh hi Sue.
- Hey, Tiger.
(roars)
- How are you, Sue?
- Tiger?
- That's another word for animal magnetism.
- Hello Claude.
- Oh, hello Janet.
Janet Mason.
That's the type that notices me.
Leads her class, in domestic science.
- Sorry Claude, either you've got it or haven't.
- Ain't it swell.
I invited Bud Anderson to the party,
and I've never been so embarrassed in all my life.
He said his plans were indefinite.
He said he might callme back in a day or two.
- Can you tie that?
- Sure.
He didn't even say he might call me back.
- I'm glad his linewas busy when I phoned.
- Look, I wouldn't go out with him now
if he were the last boy on Earth.
- Well I hope nobody asks him.
- I've got it!
Let's start an anti-BudAnderson campaign.
- It's a deal.
- Okay.
(bangs)
- And don't you ask him either, Janet.
- I hardly know Bud Anderson.
Besides, he wouldn't want to go with a girl
taller than he is.
- Anybody's taller than he is.
He's a worm.
- Seems like a pretty popular worm.
- Hi Doris.
Got your date for tomorrow night?
- Do you know anybody who is anybody who hasn't?
- Greetings.
Your dinner jacket just arrived from the cleaners.
- Okay.
- Well, who's thelucky girl going to be?
- Well I'm still thinking about it.
- Well you better think fast, the party's tomorrow night.
- Well heartbreaker, have you decided
who the lucky girl will be?
- What if I haven't?
And why's everybody have to make somebody else's business
all theirs, huh?
- I hope you're in a better mood
when you talk to Sue Hammond.
- Why should I talk to Sue Hammond?
- She wants you to call her.
- She does, huh?
She does?
Boy, did I call my shot!
How about that, Dad?
I've been asked by the hostess.
- Well, I'd say that's a feather in your cap.
- You know, I told Claude this morning
that I was holding out for Sue Hammond.
(laughs)
Might as well date the homecoming queen.
(phone ringing)
- Don't forget, it has to be ready by tomorrow night.
Hello?
- [Bud] Sue?
This is Bud Anderson.
- Oh, yes, Tiger.
I've been waiting for your call.
- Well your wait is over.
(growls)
- I wonder if you'd do me a great big favor.
- Sure, anything at all.
- Well, could you give me Claude's new phone number?
I...
Claude?
Is he taking you to your party?
- Oh no, I have a houseguest who doesn't have a date
and I wanted to get Claude for her.
- Oh.
Well yeah, sure, I can give you his number.
It's Fairfield .
- Thanks loads, Tiger.
(growls)
See you at the party, of course.
Bye now.
- Oh, cheer up, Bud.
Eat a good breakfast.
- Yes, if you don't eat, son, you'll be too weak to dance
even if you get aninvitation to the party.
And I'm sure you will.
- Don't feel bad, Bud.
Some girl who can't get anybody else
may call you at the last minute.
- Well do you think I'd go now?
Do you think I'd be third, fourth, or maybe fifth choice
to some wallflower?
You're darn right I would.
- Swallow your prideand phone Carol Fleming.
After all, when she invited you the other day,
you said you might call her back.
- What good would that do?
You think one of the most popular girls in school
would wait around for a stupid dope like me?
Excuse me.
I'm gonna go to school.
(phone rings)
- Hello?
- Hello, Carol?
This is Bud Anderson.
- Who?
- [Bud] Bud Anderson.
I was wondering if you were all set for the party tonight.
- Bud Anderson.
If you think I've been sitting here
waiting for you to call me back,
well you're very much mistaken.
I have another date.
- Well, I promised I'd call you.
- Goodbye.
Guess what.
Bud Anderson called me this morning.
- No.
- Surely he didn't think you'd dangle for two days
waiting for him to make up his mind.
- He is simply petrified
because nobody's asked him to the party.
(chuckling)
- Janet, do you have a date yet?
- The only boys I feel I can ask have already been taken.
- Oh, come on.
Let's think of somebody new.
- I can't ask some boy who'snever paid any attention to me.
- Well you've got to get acquainted, Janet.
- I'd like to.
Every girl wants to be liked.
But I can't throw myself at them.
I'd be too embarrassed.
Are you girls still thumbs down on Bud Anderson.
- He's out, but definitely.
- Don't get any ideasabout asking him, Janet.
That would be very unwise.
- You know you're being considered for the pom poms.
- Really?
- And everybody knows we're the best club in school.
- I told you I never considered asking Bud.
- Well don't ask him now.
Or you'll never be a pom pom.
- It's about time for class.
Come on, come on.
(register rings)
- Two candy bars, a nickel change.
Thank you, Janet.
- I'm trying to gain some weight, Mr. Perkins.
(chuckles)
- Well, there's never a young girl
that can pamper a sweet tooth.
I'd say you're pretty lucky.
- Oh, not so lucky, I'm afraid.
- I guess you're lookingforward to the big party tonight
like everybody else, huh?
- Oh, I guess I won't go.
- Well now, I thought sure you and your favorite young man
would be there with bells on.
- It just so happens my favorite young man
doesn't know he's my favorite.
I'm in no position to tell him.
It's a dark tale, Mr. Perkins, full of campus intrigue.
So I'll just go home and curl up with a good candy bar.
Isn't that exciting?
- Well.
- So you see, I'm not so lucky.
I've got to go home now, Mr. Perkins.
Bye.
- Call again.
- Hello Bud.
- Hi Janet.
- Thank you.
- Well Bud, what can I do for you?
- Oh, nothing.
I just thought I might run into some of the g*ng here.
- I guess they're all home getting ready for the party.
You know, I got a kick out of you the other day,
hiding under the table while all those pretty girls
argued over you.
- Big deal.
- How you gonna work that
and still keep all those girls happy?
- I'm not going to the party.
- You don't tell me.
- No, I was a dope, Ifooled around too long.
Now everybody's got a date.
- Not everybody.
I happen to know a very nice girl that doesn't have a date.
- Yeah, who?
She just walked out of here.
- Oh, her.
- I take it you don't know Janet very well.
- Well, she's not my type.
- Sure she's new around here, and she's kind of shy.
- I don't know anything about her.
- You know, I've noticedsome very lovely flowers
growing high up on the mountainside.
Few people ever get a chance to appreciate them.
They're kinda remote.
I figure that's how it is with Janet.
She's got some splendid qualities.
All they need's a chanceto show themselves.
- Well, that could be.
- Well, I just thought I'd mention Janet.
Seems a shame, though.
Both of you gonna miss out on the party.
But you'd rather not go
than to offend those other girls.
- Where does Janet live?
- Across town, I think.
We could look it up in the phone book.
- No, I think I'll skip it.
- Janet.
- Oh, hello Bud.
What are you doing way over in this neighborhood?
- Oh, I was just taking a walk.
I like to walk.
Have you got a minute?
- Of course.
- Care to sit down?
- Well all right.
- I guess you're all setfor the party tonight.
- Well, not exactly.
My plan's a little vague.
- So are mine.
- Well I had this date, you see,
with a friend from out of town
that I've known for a long time.
But I'm not sure that he can make it.
- That's funny.
You know I'm in the same boat?
My date had to cancel out on me at the last minute.
- That's too bad.
- Of course, if I'd have had more time,
I could've made other plans, but...
- Of course.
- Sure is gonna be a swell party.
My folks are gonna help chaperone.
- Oh, that's wonderful.
I know you'll bedisappointed not to go.
- Janet.
I was thinking.
If your boyfriend doesn't get back,
well, under the circumstances,
well, I was thinking that maybe you and I
could get together.
That is, if you'd consider it.
- I'd like to very much, Bud.
But I'm afraid I better not make any new plans now.
- Well, I just thought...
There's no sense in bothof us missing the party.
- No, there really isn't.
But maybe my date willcall at the last minute.
- Sure.
But if he doesn't,
do you think you might?
- Don't count on it too much.
He never disappoints me.
I better go in now.
- So long, Janet.
(door closes)
Thanks anyway.
- Here, you better take this.
Just in case.
- What for?
- Well if a girl should call,
you'll want to buy a corsage.
- Yeah, sure.
Thanks Dad.
- Well, I hope we see you there, dear.
Good night, children.
- Night. - Have fun.
- See you later.
- You know what this has taught me, Bud?
To always say yes to the first boy who asks me out.
- [Girl] You know you're being considered for the pom poms,
but inviting Bud might just clear your chances for a bid.
Don't ask him now, or you'll never be a pom pom.
Don't ask him now or you'll never be a pom pom.
You'll never be a pom pom.
You'll never be a pom pom.
You'll never be a pom pom.
Never be a pom pom.
Never be a pom pom.
(upbeat jazz music)
(chattering)
- Hey Sue.
- Sue, let's get the food.
- Certainly.
That's about the umpteenth time somebody's asked me
why Bud isn't here.
I feel a little guilty coming to the party.
- Oh, we had to, we promised the Hammonds.
Jim, doesn't Carol Fleming look lovely?
- Yes.
She must think we look lovely too, she keeps watching us.
- This must be embarrassing for Mr. and Mrs. Anderson.
But Bud had it coming.
- Don't look now, but look.
- Hey, Bud.
What do you say?
- Hi Janet.
- Hello son.
- Janet Mason, I'd like you to meet my mother and father.
Janet Mason.
- [Margaret] Glad to know you, Janet.
- Hello, Janet.
What a beautiful dress.
- Thank you.
The corsage makes it.
Very happy to meet you both.
- Where are Mr. and Mrs. Hammond?
- Oh, they're seeing tothings in the kitchen.
This crowd's getting hungry.
- Shall we work up an appetite?
- All right.
- Nice of you to phone me and ask me to be your date.
- I'm very glad I did, Bud.
(clapping)
Bud, will you excuse me a minute, please?
- Sure.
- Well, can this be ourbig shot ladies' man
with the wallflower?
Why, do you know Bud could've brought any girl in school.
Including Sue Hammond.
- Oh sure, Bud's got so many girlfriends,
he can afford to be charitable.
- I thought you had no idea of asking Bud.
- But I didn't have at the time, Carol.
- We warned you, Janet.
- The pom poms will dropyou, that's for sure.
- But you have no right to tell me who I can invite.
Pom poms or no.
- Excuse me.
I didn't realize that coming with me
would make trouble for Janet.
But you girls have got it all wrong.
She didn't invite me.
It wasn't her idea at all.
I begged her to ask me.
So don't blame her, blame me.
- Do you mean to admit that Bud Anderson,
the classroom Casanova, actuallywent crawling for a date?
- Hey, what's going on?
- That's right.
I practically got down on my hands and knees to her.
When it's a girl like Janet, you swallow your pride.
- Say, if a guy like Bud flips for Janet, she must be okay.
- She's okay in my book.
- It's the only club for you, Janet.
The pom poms...
(all talking at once)
- Excuse me.
Hey look you guys, you want to dance with my date,
you'll have to stand in line.
Shall we?
(audience applauding)
(dramatic music)
- [Announcer] Robert Young
and Jane Wyatt,
with Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, and Lauren Chapin
in Father Knows Best.
- Three chocolate sodas.
- Coming right up.
- Oh, I can't wait for Sue Hammond's party Friday night.
- I know, it's gonna be a blast.
The girls inviting boys.
- I know just who I'm going to ask.
- Who?
- I'll let you in on something.
I think I'll ask Bud Anderson.
Isn't he a doll?
- Well now hold everything.
I've got my brand on Bud.
- Carol Fleming, you've never even been out with him.
- Well that's only because he's never asked me.
But don't think I won't ask him.
- Just you try and get him.
I'll ask anybody I want out.
- It's ridiculous for us to fight over Bud.
For all we know he may already be taken.
- Oh, Doris, you're so right.
All the girls flip their lids over Bud.
- And why not?
He's just the best looking boy in the whole school,
that's all.
- [Girl] Did you see him at the game?
- [Girl] Oh yes!
Oh, he just looked so wonderful.
(slurping)
- What was that?
(laughing)
- Hi.
- Well, here's our wandering boy.
- Oh hi.
Mommy, we can eat now.
The missing link is here.
- Do you know you're holding up dinner?
I'm starved.
- I was boning up for achemistry exam at the malt shop.
(phone ringing)
- How, by mixingchocolate with vanilla?
- I'll get it, it's probably for me.
Hello?
Hi Carol.
- Bud?
Do you know about the party Sue Hammond's giving
Friday night?
- Well I believe I heardit mentioned somewhere.
- Well, the girls are asking the boys.
So I'm inviting you to go with me.
- Well...
Carol, my plans for the party are,
well they're a little indefinite right now.
It's kind of an involved situation.
It's swell of you to call and ask me.
Well, maybe in a dayor two when I know more
than I know now.
Okay.
Goodbye, Carol.
- In a day or two?
Who does he think he is?
- Gosh, Mom.
Do I have to go out with the first girl who asks me?
- It might be wise to cinch your bid, as they say.
It's going to be a lovely party.
- Incidentally, the Hammonds have asked your mother and me
to help chaperone.
- Well I'll see you there.
- Now Dad, there'll be a mad scramble
to see who rates Bud Anderson.
- Naturally.
But I'll wait and acceptthe most tempting offer.
- You have the pick of the crop, naturally.
- Naturally.
You see I have reason to believe
that this won't be the last call.
- Oh Bud, stop being so silly and make yourself useful.
Bring in the bread.
- [Girl] Isn't he a doll?
Practically all the girls flip their lids over Bud.
- [Girl] Oh, he's just the best looking boy
in the whole school, that's all.
- Pardon me, am I interrupting some sort of ritual?
- Oh, hi Dad.
No, I was wondering if I needed a shave.
- You've been standingin front of that mirror
long enough to grow a beard.
But I doubt if that'll help you with your chemistry exam.
- Say Dad.
What is there about some guys
that throws all the girls for a loop?
That certain magnetism that they just can't resist.
(growls)
- Stop it, Bud.
Let's not go off the deep end just because one pretty girl
asked you to take her to a party.
- Oh, don't get me wrong, Dad.
I'm not conceited.
I'm just trying to figure out why all the campus dolls
want to go out with me.
- When you find out, let me know too.
(phone ringing)
Now is this the--
- Hold it, Dad.
That's probably for me.
- It's probably Ralph for Betty,
so let's get on with the chemistry.
- [Margaret] It's for you, Bud.
- Who is it, Mom?
- [Margaret] She didn't say.
- Thanks Mom.
Hello?
Oh, hi Nancy.
- Bud, if you're free on Friday night,
I'd like you to go with me to Sue Hammond's party.
- Oh.
Well, Nancy.
My plans are a little indefinite right now.
Yeah, maybe you better not count on me.
Thanks a lot for asking.
Sure, I'll see you around.
Goodbye Nancy.
Nancy Collins.
- Bud Anderson, what's the matter with you?
- Obviously he's running a popularity poll on himself.
- I feel slightly ill.
- Well so maybe I'm a little choosy.
- Well I'll never ask a boy for a date.
I'll be a lonely sinister first.
- Spinster, Kathy.
- Take it from me, shrimp.
When you're a little older
and a guy with that certain something comes along,
you'll ask him.
It's the way the cells gel.
Look, when I buy a suit, first I like to make sure
I've seen all the merchandise.
I just may hold out for Sue Hammond.
Might as well escort the homecoming queen.
- You're crazy.
She only goes for halfbacks.
- Hi Claude.
- Oh hi Sue.
- Hey, Tiger.
(roars)
- How are you, Sue?
- Tiger?
- That's another word for animal magnetism.
- Hello Claude.
- Oh, hello Janet.
Janet Mason.
That's the type that notices me.
Leads her class, in domestic science.
- Sorry Claude, either you've got it or haven't.
- Ain't it swell.
I invited Bud Anderson to the party,
and I've never been so embarrassed in all my life.
He said his plans were indefinite.
He said he might callme back in a day or two.
- Can you tie that?
- Sure.
He didn't even say he might call me back.
- I'm glad his linewas busy when I phoned.
- Look, I wouldn't go out with him now
if he were the last boy on Earth.
- Well I hope nobody asks him.
- I've got it!
Let's start an anti-BudAnderson campaign.
- It's a deal.
- Okay.
(bangs)
- And don't you ask him either, Janet.
- I hardly know Bud Anderson.
Besides, he wouldn't want to go with a girl
taller than he is.
- Anybody's taller than he is.
He's a worm.
- Seems like a pretty popular worm.
- Hi Doris.
Got your date for tomorrow night?
- Do you know anybody who is anybody who hasn't?
- Greetings.
Your dinner jacket just arrived from the cleaners.
- Okay.
- Well, who's thelucky girl going to be?
- Well I'm still thinking about it.
- Well you better think fast, the party's tomorrow night.
- Well heartbreaker, have you decided
who the lucky girl will be?
- What if I haven't?
And why's everybody have to make somebody else's business
all theirs, huh?
- I hope you're in a better mood
when you talk to Sue Hammond.
- Why should I talk to Sue Hammond?
- She wants you to call her.
- She does, huh?
She does?
Boy, did I call my shot!
How about that, Dad?
I've been asked by the hostess.
- Well, I'd say that's a feather in your cap.
- You know, I told Claude this morning
that I was holding out for Sue Hammond.
(laughs)
Might as well date the homecoming queen.
(phone ringing)
- Don't forget, it has to be ready by tomorrow night.
Hello?
- [Bud] Sue?
This is Bud Anderson.
- Oh, yes, Tiger.
I've been waiting for your call.
- Well your wait is over.
(growls)
- I wonder if you'd do me a great big favor.
- Sure, anything at all.
- Well, could you give me Claude's new phone number?
I...
Claude?
Is he taking you to your party?
- Oh no, I have a houseguest who doesn't have a date
and I wanted to get Claude for her.
- Oh.
Well yeah, sure, I can give you his number.
It's Fairfield .
- Thanks loads, Tiger.
(growls)
See you at the party, of course.
Bye now.
- Oh, cheer up, Bud.
Eat a good breakfast.
- Yes, if you don't eat, son, you'll be too weak to dance
even if you get aninvitation to the party.
And I'm sure you will.
- Don't feel bad, Bud.
Some girl who can't get anybody else
may call you at the last minute.
- Well do you think I'd go now?
Do you think I'd be third, fourth, or maybe fifth choice
to some wallflower?
You're darn right I would.
- Swallow your prideand phone Carol Fleming.
After all, when she invited you the other day,
you said you might call her back.
- What good would that do?
You think one of the most popular girls in school
would wait around for a stupid dope like me?
Excuse me.
I'm gonna go to school.
(phone rings)
- Hello?
- Hello, Carol?
This is Bud Anderson.
- Who?
- [Bud] Bud Anderson.
I was wondering if you were all set for the party tonight.
- Bud Anderson.
If you think I've been sitting here
waiting for you to call me back,
well you're very much mistaken.
I have another date.
- Well, I promised I'd call you.
- Goodbye.
Guess what.
Bud Anderson called me this morning.
- No.
- Surely he didn't think you'd dangle for two days
waiting for him to make up his mind.
- He is simply petrified
because nobody's asked him to the party.
(chuckling)
- Janet, do you have a date yet?
- The only boys I feel I can ask have already been taken.
- Oh, come on.
Let's think of somebody new.
- I can't ask some boy who'snever paid any attention to me.
- Well you've got to get acquainted, Janet.
- I'd like to.
Every girl wants to be liked.
But I can't throw myself at them.
I'd be too embarrassed.
Are you girls still thumbs down on Bud Anderson.
- He's out, but definitely.
- Don't get any ideasabout asking him, Janet.
That would be very unwise.
- You know you're being considered for the pom poms.
- Really?
- And everybody knows we're the best club in school.
- I told you I never considered asking Bud.
- Well don't ask him now.
Or you'll never be a pom pom.
- It's about time for class.
Come on, come on.
(register rings)
- Two candy bars, a nickel change.
Thank you, Janet.
- I'm trying to gain some weight, Mr. Perkins.
(chuckles)
- Well, there's never a young girl
that can pamper a sweet tooth.
I'd say you're pretty lucky.
- Oh, not so lucky, I'm afraid.
- I guess you're lookingforward to the big party tonight
like everybody else, huh?
- Oh, I guess I won't go.
- Well now, I thought sure you and your favorite young man
would be there with bells on.
- It just so happens my favorite young man
doesn't know he's my favorite.
I'm in no position to tell him.
It's a dark tale, Mr. Perkins, full of campus intrigue.
So I'll just go home and curl up with a good candy bar.
Isn't that exciting?
- Well.
- So you see, I'm not so lucky.
I've got to go home now, Mr. Perkins.
Bye.
- Call again.
- Hello Bud.
- Hi Janet.
- Thank you.
- Well Bud, what can I do for you?
- Oh, nothing.
I just thought I might run into some of the g*ng here.
- I guess they're all home getting ready for the party.
You know, I got a kick out of you the other day,
hiding under the table while all those pretty girls
argued over you.
- Big deal.
- How you gonna work that
and still keep all those girls happy?
- I'm not going to the party.
- You don't tell me.
- No, I was a dope, Ifooled around too long.
Now everybody's got a date.
- Not everybody.
I happen to know a very nice girl that doesn't have a date.
- Yeah, who?
She just walked out of here.
- Oh, her.
- I take it you don't know Janet very well.
- Well, she's not my type.
- Sure she's new around here, and she's kind of shy.
- I don't know anything about her.
- You know, I've noticedsome very lovely flowers
growing high up on the mountainside.
Few people ever get a chance to appreciate them.
They're kinda remote.
I figure that's how it is with Janet.
She's got some splendid qualities.
All they need's a chanceto show themselves.
- Well, that could be.
- Well, I just thought I'd mention Janet.
Seems a shame, though.
Both of you gonna miss out on the party.
But you'd rather not go
than to offend those other girls.
- Where does Janet live?
- Across town, I think.
We could look it up in the phone book.
- No, I think I'll skip it.
- Janet.
- Oh, hello Bud.
What are you doing way over in this neighborhood?
- Oh, I was just taking a walk.
I like to walk.
Have you got a minute?
- Of course.
- Care to sit down?
- Well all right.
- I guess you're all setfor the party tonight.
- Well, not exactly.
My plan's a little vague.
- So are mine.
- Well I had this date, you see,
with a friend from out of town
that I've known for a long time.
But I'm not sure that he can make it.
- That's funny.
You know I'm in the same boat?
My date had to cancel out on me at the last minute.
- That's too bad.
- Of course, if I'd have had more time,
I could've made other plans, but...
- Of course.
- Sure is gonna be a swell party.
My folks are gonna help chaperone.
- Oh, that's wonderful.
I know you'll bedisappointed not to go.
- Janet.
I was thinking.
If your boyfriend doesn't get back,
well, under the circumstances,
well, I was thinking that maybe you and I
could get together.
That is, if you'd consider it.
- I'd like to very much, Bud.
But I'm afraid I better not make any new plans now.
- Well, I just thought...
There's no sense in bothof us missing the party.
- No, there really isn't.
But maybe my date willcall at the last minute.
- Sure.
But if he doesn't,
do you think you might?
- Don't count on it too much.
He never disappoints me.
I better go in now.
- So long, Janet.
(door closes)
Thanks anyway.
- Here, you better take this.
Just in case.
- What for?
- Well if a girl should call,
you'll want to buy a corsage.
- Yeah, sure.
Thanks Dad.
- Well, I hope we see you there, dear.
Good night, children.
- Night. - Have fun.
- See you later.
- You know what this has taught me, Bud?
To always say yes to the first boy who asks me out.
- [Girl] You know you're being considered for the pom poms,
but inviting Bud might just clear your chances for a bid.
Don't ask him now, or you'll never be a pom pom.
Don't ask him now or you'll never be a pom pom.
You'll never be a pom pom.
You'll never be a pom pom.
You'll never be a pom pom.
Never be a pom pom.
Never be a pom pom.
(upbeat jazz music)
(chattering)
- Hey Sue.
- Sue, let's get the food.
- Certainly.
That's about the umpteenth time somebody's asked me
why Bud isn't here.
I feel a little guilty coming to the party.
- Oh, we had to, we promised the Hammonds.
Jim, doesn't Carol Fleming look lovely?
- Yes.
She must think we look lovely too, she keeps watching us.
- This must be embarrassing for Mr. and Mrs. Anderson.
But Bud had it coming.
- Don't look now, but look.
- Hey, Bud.
What do you say?
- Hi Janet.
- Hello son.
- Janet Mason, I'd like you to meet my mother and father.
Janet Mason.
- [Margaret] Glad to know you, Janet.
- Hello, Janet.
What a beautiful dress.
- Thank you.
The corsage makes it.
Very happy to meet you both.
- Where are Mr. and Mrs. Hammond?
- Oh, they're seeing tothings in the kitchen.
This crowd's getting hungry.
- Shall we work up an appetite?
- All right.
- Nice of you to phone me and ask me to be your date.
- I'm very glad I did, Bud.
(clapping)
Bud, will you excuse me a minute, please?
- Sure.
- Well, can this be ourbig shot ladies' man
with the wallflower?
Why, do you know Bud could've brought any girl in school.
Including Sue Hammond.
- Oh sure, Bud's got so many girlfriends,
he can afford to be charitable.
- I thought you had no idea of asking Bud.
- But I didn't have at the time, Carol.
- We warned you, Janet.
- The pom poms will dropyou, that's for sure.
- But you have no right to tell me who I can invite.
Pom poms or no.
- Excuse me.
I didn't realize that coming with me
would make trouble for Janet.
But you girls have got it all wrong.
She didn't invite me.
It wasn't her idea at all.
I begged her to ask me.
So don't blame her, blame me.
- Do you mean to admit that Bud Anderson,
the classroom Casanova, actuallywent crawling for a date?
- Hey, what's going on?
- That's right.
I practically got down on my hands and knees to her.
When it's a girl like Janet, you swallow your pride.
- Say, if a guy like Bud flips for Janet, she must be okay.
- She's okay in my book.
- It's the only club for you, Janet.
The pom poms...
(all talking at once)
- Excuse me.
Hey look you guys, you want to dance with my date,
you'll have to stand in line.
Shall we?
(audience applauding)
(dramatic music)