Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986): Season 6, Episode 8 - Coming of Age - full transcript
With her 18th birthday approaching, Kimberly decides that she wants to delay her college education so she can live in Europe for a year. However, Drummond is dead-set against the idea.
♪ Now, the world don't move
♪ To the beat of just one drum,
♪ What might be right for you,
♪ May not be right for some.
♪ A man is born,
♪ He's a man of means.
♪ Then along come two,
♪ They got nothing
but their jeans.
♪ But they got,
Diff'rent Strokes.
♪ It takes Diff'rent Strokes.
♪ It takes Diff'rent Strokes
♪ To move the world.
♪ Everybody's got
a special kind of story;
♪ Everybody
finds a way to shine.
♪ It don't matter that you got
♪ Not a lot.
♪ So what?
♪ They'll have theirs,
♪ And you'll have yours,
♪ And I'll have mine.
♪ And together we'll be fine!
♪ 'Cuz it takes
Diff'rent Strokes
♪ To move the world,
♪ Yes it does.
♪ It takes Diff'rent Strokes
♪ To move the world.
- Pearl, nobody makes
spaghetti like yo do
and nobody likes
it better than my tie.
- I thank you from the
bottom of my meatballs.
- Hey Kimberly, how
about a movie tonight?
- Ah I can't, my girlfriend
Michele's coming over.
She's been in Europe all summer
and I'm dying to
hear all about it.
- Dad?
- Oh I'm out too guys,
I've got a heavy date.
- Well it wasn't the
company we were after,
it was the money.
- It's so nice to be
loved for yourself.
However, I could be enticed
into financing the venture.
- Yeah!
Let's hear it for
old money bags!
- Hey listen everybody,
I've got a very important
announcement to make.
There's only 14 more
shopping days 'til my birthday.
- Great now what's the
important announcement?
- Very funny Willis,
a real side splitter.
- Well some of us have been
keeping our eye on the calendar.
I was gonna save this
as a surprise for you,
but since you have
decided anyway.
Here, now look surprised.
- Oh? For me?
Ha, ha, surprise,
surprise, surprise.
No, what is it Daddy, a check?
- Better than that.
- They don't make
better then that.
- It's some kind of document.
It's all in legal pig latin.
- Translated, that's a trust
fund which will be yours
on your 18th birthday.
That can take you to college,
buy the sports car
you've been talking about
and still leave you
enough money to get going
in this big world.
All you have to do is
sign on the dotted line.
- Oh Daddy, you're incredible!
Certainly looks that way.
- Hey Dad, you got another
envelope that needs my signature?
- Don't you worry guys,
your time will come too.
- Yeah Arnold,
don't be greedy.
Can you give us an
approximate date?
- And you add the poor but
devoted housekeeper to the list?
- Gee Daddy, I don't know
quite how to thank you.
- Well the best way to
thank me is by using it well.
You're gonna manage
your own bank account
and make all your
own financial decisions
without nay
interference from me.
- Where do I sign?
- Ah, right here.
- Oh, I think I've died
and gone to heaven.
- Then I hope I'm in your will.
- I can't believe
this, I'm suddenly
an independent woman of means.
- Congratulations Kimberly,
now that you're wealthy,
I hope you don't forget
all the needy people
in the world,
especially those that live
on the other side
of your bathroom.
- Don't hit her
up too soon guys.
First, I have to
sign this document.
- Oh, I'll get it, it's
probably Michele.
Michele!
- Mon Cher Ami!
- How are you?
- Oh I'm fine, how about you?
- I'm great.
- Hi!
- Hi
- Hi Michele!
- You look wonderful!
- Oh thanks, I feel
like a new woman.
- So do I, where can I get one?
- Well, I can see
Willis hasn't changed.
- Yep, he still has that one
track mind that leads right
to the people in the
girls dressing room.
- Did you have a good
time in Europe Michele?
- For mi dab Mr. Drummond.
- Oh.
- I brought over 200 pictures,
each one with its
own amusing caption.
Would you like to see them?
- Oh well sure, but
as luck would have it,
I've got a date and I've gotta
go plug in my hot rollers.
- Yeah, I gotta get going too,
I gotta go upstairs and
tease the hair on my chest.
- Why don't you leave
the poor little thing alone.
- Well I certainly know
how to clear a room.
- Ha ha, come on,
let's see those pictures.
It's always been my
dream to go to Europe.
- Okay, how about
this castle for openers.
- Oh, that's beautiful,
I'd give anything
to see a place like that.
- See that little
window in the tower,
that was my room.
- Oh Wow!
Did a handsome
Prince come with it?
- No, but I found a
frog under my bed.
I kissed that little sucker
all night and all I got
was a wort.
- You musts have
had a fabulous time.
- Oh, I did.
I really soaked up the culture.
- Well I might be able to
do some soaking myself.
I'm falling into a
big chunk of money
for my 18th birthday
and I might be able to
go for a couple months
after I graduate.
- Oh a couple of months,
it takes that long just
to get through customs.
If I had the money, I'd
go over for a whole year.
- Ah I have to get
back for college,
it's really important to Daddy.
- Then let him go to college.
What's the rush,
you're going to be 18
and you've already been in
school quarters of your life.
- Ah, gee I never
thought of it that way.
- Add for more years of college
and you'll be doing your
graduate work in a rest home.
- Ah believe me, I would love
to take a year off but I can't.
Daddy would
never let me do that.
- Kimberly, you do not
listen when you talk.
You just said you
were going to be 18.
You don't need
permission to do anything.
You can do whatever you want.
- Oh you're right.
I'm legal.
Well I will be in
a couple weeks.
- You just tell your Dad that
that's what you want to do.
You are your own person now.
- Michele you're
absolutely right.
I am a grown woman
now with a mind of my own
and I know just how
to handle my father.
I'll throw myself at
his feet and beg a lot.
- Man these late
movies are all boring.
I'm going to bed.
- Me too.
I hate it when those
disgusting love scenes
interrupt all that
perfectly good violence.
- You coming to bed Kimberly?
- No I think I'll sit down here
and be disgusted
a little longer.
- Yell if it starts
getting gory again.
- Hi honey.
- Hi Daddy.
- What are you
doing up at this hour?
- Oh, I just got absorbed
in this silly movie.
- Oh.
- Did you have a good date?
You certainly look like
you're in a good mood.
- I am.
- A very good mood?
- Yes and I'd like
it to stay that way.
Is my mood important
for some reason?
- Oh, no, no.
I just like to see you happy.
- Ah.
- As long as we're
having this conversation,
I've been giving
a lot of thought
to what I'd really like
to do with the money
in the trust fund.
- You can do anything
you like with it,
it's all yours.
- Well, what I'd really
like to do is not go
to college right after school
and spend a year in Europe.
- Not with my money you won't.
Kimberly there is nothing
in the world more important
than a good education.
- Oh Daddy, I'll
still go to college.
I just don't want
to go right away.
I need some time to stretch
and to learn
something of the world.
- I'll get you Jane Fonda's
workout book and a map.
I don't want my
little girl wandering
around Europe all alone.
- Ah Daddy I'm
not a little girl,
and Michele says
you're never alone.
There's so many
students over there,
you can't help but
to make friends.
- Well how do you
know who they are?
That sounds very dangerous.
- What's dangerous about it?
- Well you could
get sick, you know
they have foreign
bugs over there.
- Daddy if I get sick,
I can go to a doctor.
They've got wonderful
doctors in Europe.
- What if they don't
speak English?
- I'll sneeze in French.
- What if your
money gets stolen?
I'll call Karl Malden.
- Very funny.
You know, I think you
should sleep on this.
I think in the morning
you'll realize it's
just a silly whim.
- Silly whim.
Don't treat me like a child,
I know what I want to do
and now I've got
the money to do it.
- Not if I don't
sign that document.
I can veto the trust
and you'll have to wait
until you're 21 to get it.
- You'd do that?
- Very tempting.
- Well then I'd take you
to court and sue you.
- You'd do that?
- It's very tempting.
- Well don't be tempted,
I still control the purse
strings around here young lady.
- Fine then, fine, you
can keep your old money.
I'll be of age and I'll
have that year in Europe
one way or another and
before I go to college.
Believe me Daddy I'll find a way
whether you like it
or not, good night.
- That'll teach me to come
home in a good mood.
- Oh, hi there.
Is this the Drummond residence?
- Yes.
- Well I have a
special delivery letter
for Kimberly Drummond.
Is that you?
- No you're about 20 year
and 30 pounds too late.
- You look awfully good to me.
Sweet cakes.
- Thanks chubby cheeks.
But it's a little
early in the morning
to play post office.
Have a nice day.
- You just ruined it.
- Ah Pearl, by any chance
is that a letter from Italy?
- Yes, who do you
know over there?
- Oh, Enrico Caruso.
- Caruso, he died years ago.
- He did?
No wonder he hardly ever writes.
- It's true what they say,
The rich aren't
like other people.
- Oh man Willis, Kimberly
and Dad have really
been going at
each other all week.
The plaster's all cracked
from where Dad hit the ceiling.
- You gotta give
Kimberly credit,
she stood right up to Dad.
- Yeah but she sure
set our cause back.
- What do you mean?
- Well now she has to wait
until she's 21 for her money
and we'll probably have
to do the same thing.
- Arnold 18 or 21,
what's the difference?
- A lot of things can
happen in that time.
That's three extra
years to get hit by a truck.
- Arnold, you're not
gonna get hit by a truck.
- I didn't mean me.
I meant you.
- That's my brother for ya.
Always thinking
about the other guy.
- Willis?
- Yeah come on in.
- Willis can I speak to you
for a moment in private?
Ah Arnold, do you mind?
- Oh no, of course not.
Go ahead shoot.
- I meant would you
mind leaving us alone?
- Oh, I get it.
You wanna talk about sex.
Don't worry, I'm in
junior high school now.
Everything I always
wanted to know about sex
is spray painted on the walls.
- Look Arnold, it's not about
sex and it's very important.
Would you please leave us alone.
- Oh, alright.
Eh, I don't believe this, getting
kicked out of my own room.
- Alright, now what's
going on Kimberly.
Why didn't you want
Arnold to hear it?
- Oh 'cause I don't
want Daddy to find out
and you know Arnold,
everything you tell him
goes in one ear
and out his mouth.
- So what's the big deal?
- Willis, I'm going to Europe.
- Say what?
- I mean, I might be.
I answered an ad in the
paper for an Au Pair girl.
- Au Pair girl?
If that means girls come in
pairs, put me down for a couple.
- No silly, it means
sort of a Nanny.
If I get the job, I'll be
working for a couple in Italy.
They'll pay for my plane fare,
I'll get room and board
and I'll be making 80
thousand lire a week.
- 80 thousand lire?
Now that's what
I call big bucks.
- It's what the
Italians call 50 bucks.
Ah but who cares
about the money,
I'm gonna have
the time of my life.
- When Dad fins out your life
is gonna be short and sweet.
- Well I'm not gonna tell
him 'til I got the job for sure.
This to this letter
they sent me.
Dear Miss Drummond.
Buongiorno, that
means hello in Italian.
- Really, I thought it meant
where's the washroom
in Norwegian?
- My wife and I were
happy to receive your cable.
We will be in New
York City next week
and we look forward
to meeting you.
Sincerely, Rudy
and Anna Valenti.
P.S. There will be
a baby to care for.
We trust you are
familiar with infants.
Isn't that great!
- Kimberly I think is
you're way over your head.
You don't know
anything about babies.
- Ah, what's to know Willis?
You put food in one end
and pampers on the other.
Anyway, I'm sure I can
learn anything else I need.
There must be a million
books on the subject.
- What was that?
- I think I know.
- Oh, hi there.
Just finishing my milk.
Man there's nothing like
a tall, frosty glass of milk
to quench your thirst.
- I oughta quench your face.
Arnold you were
eavesdropping again.
- Me? You think
I'd stoop that low?
- You don't have to stoop,
you're already that low.
- What'd ya hear Arnold?
- I'll tell you what I
heard if you'll tell me
what you said.
- Forget it, could you
please just give us
a couple more minutes.
- Don't worry about me,
I'll be downstairs
wandering aimlessly about.
- Out!
- Willis I better talk to you.
There's something
going on in this house.
- What are you
talking about Arnold?
- This!
- Your baby and you,
so you're gonna have a baby.
Congratulations Arnold.
I'll send you a card
on Mother's Day.
- Quit fooling around.
Now I know why you're
keeping me out of the room
the other night.
You're not dealing with
Sydney Stoopnagle here.
- Arnold where'd you get those?
- Well, I just happened to
be looking for something
and I just happened
to be looking for it
in Kimberly's bureau.
- Arnold, you were snooping.
- Call it what you want,
it gets the job done.
- Is the stork gonna
drop a load here?
- No Arnold and I can't
tell you what's going on
because I'd be breaking
my word to Kimberly.
- Oh, I understand.
I wouldn't want you to
break your sacred trust
by telling me.
- Thanks.
- Juts blink once
if she's pregnant
and twice if she's not.
- Arnold will you knock it off?
- You blinked four times.
Is it twins?
- Arnold, this
conversation's over.
- You'll live to
regret this Willis.
- Okay, wait, wait hold
on a minute Arnold.
Listen, don't go spreading
any rumors that Kimberly's
having a baby.
- What else am I
supposed to spread?
- Alright, alright.
I guess I'm gonna
have to tell you the truth
to keep your big mouth shut.
- Oh boy, lay some
low down dirt on me.
- It's simple.
Kimberly's using these
books to get ready
for a job she might
have with a family in Italy.
- Italy?
Is that the place
where the men are
always pinching the women?
- Now she doesn't
have the job yet
and she doesn't want Dad to know
about it 'til it's all set.
- Hey guys.
- So you see Arnold, the
square of the hypotenuse
is equal to the sum of the
square of the other two sides.
- That's a handy thing to know.
- I'm sorry to interrupt guys,
but if we're gonna be on time
for our dinner
reservation we better
put it in fast forward okay.
- Be right with you Dad.
- And me too.
We'll be right with you.
- Arnold, what's that
behind your back?
Well that's Willis.
- I mean,
what are you holding
behind your back?
- Just some school books.
- Oh, I'm always glad to
see you hitting the books.
Let me see what they are.
- Ah, ah that's not
necessary Dad.
- Well I just want to know
what you're interested in.
- Oh no Dad, I can't
let you see them.
- Oh come on, hey, come here.
- So you're going to have baby,
Your baby and you.
When did they start teaching
that in the seventh grade?
- Well ah, we got some
boy scouts in our class
and they want to be prepared.
- Alright, alright.
What's going on here?
- Well, we'd rather not say.
Or we'd be breaking
our sacred trust.
- Well you better tell me
right now or I'll be breaking
your sacred butts.
- Since you put it that way.
Those are Kimberly's books.
- Kimberly's?
What would Kimberly
be doing with?
Oh no.
- Dad, it's not what you think.
Kimberly doesn't
have one in the oven.
She just needs to
learn about babies
for a job she
might have in Italy.
- A job in Italy?
What job?
- Ah Dad, I think it would
be better if she told you
all about it.
- Yes, I think that
would be better.
- Kimberly?
- All set Daddy, let's go.
- What's this I hear
about a job in Italy?
- Oh no, did Willis squeal?
- He didn't have
to, I found these.
- What were you
doing in my bureau?
- I got these from Arnold.
- Well that
figures, the little rat.
Should a put a trap in my
drawer with a piece of cheese.
- Tell me about the job.
- Well Daddy, this couple
in Italy needs someone
to take care of their baby
and I applied for the job.
They'll be in New
York this weekend,
they're gonna come over
here and interview me.
- Oh no they're not.
And you are not gonna
have that interview.
- Oh Daddy we've been
through all this before.
You've led your life,
I'm entitled to live mine.
- Now look here young lady...
We're not finished with this.
- Buona Sera, good evening
and this is the home
of Kimberly Drummond?
- Yes it is.
- I am Senor Valenti,
the husband of my wife,
Senora Valenti.
- How do you do?
- How do you do?
I'm Philip Drummond, the father
of my daughter,
Kimberly Drummond.
- Nice to meet you.
- You must be the
people from Italy
that Kimberly wants to work for.
- Si - Si, yes.
- Come in, come in please.
- Gratzi.
- Hi, I'm Kimberly.
- Oh, hello, que bella ah?
What a lovely young lady.
- Si, bellisima.
- Ah please sit down.
- Ah Gratzi, I would
love to get off my feet.
I am pregnant, this
is not from pasta.
- Brava.
- Don't you ruin
this job for me.
- Who me?
- It was presumptuous
of us not to call first
but your daughter sent
us only your address
not your phone number.
- Well that's Kimberly for you,
she can be very
forgetful sometimes.
That's my little scatter brain.
- Ah Daddy, don't
you have some work
to do in the den?
- No.
- I'm sure they'd like to
get on with the interview.
Why don't you let us do that?
- Please Mr. Drummond,
the father of this
lovely young girl
should be present
during our little talk, yes?
- No.
- Yes.
- I would be happy to stay.
- Daddy, you don't
have to do that.
- But we insist.
- They insist.
Can I get you anything?
Some coffee, tea cappuccino,
espresso, spumoni?
- Do not trouble please.
- Oh it's no trouble.
Our housekeeper's
off for the day,
but I'm sure I can
rummage up something.
Of course, Kimberly
never goes near the kitchen.
- Prego no.
- Mr. Valenti, tell
me, why do you want
an American girl in your home?
- It is because we wish our
bambini to hear English spoken
with a proper accent by
someone with refinement,
like your daughter.
- See that Dad,
they want bi-lingual bambinos.
- Precisely, tell me Kimberly
do you know much
about the care of children?
- Oh, of course she does.
She saw Mommie
Dearest three times.
- How nice.
- Why I do know quite
a lot about children,
I've done a lot of
reading on the subject
and I've cared for my
two younger brothers.
- Oh boy.
- Do you have a large family?
- Oh no no.
Just Maria, Teresa,
Giuseppe and Marchello
makes it four.
- Well you've been
very busy in Italy.
Kimberly taking care of
four children should be
quite an experience for you.
- Oh, yeah.
- You can walk them
and play with them
and bathe them and
feed them and burp them
and stay up all night with them.
- That sounds great.
- And then when you're
finished with all that,
maybe you could
do a little house work.
I imagine that you
have a spacious home?
- We have a beautiful
villa, 18 rooms
on three floors.
- 18 rooms?
- On three floors.
- Oh, do not worry,
you do not have to
clean the whole house,
only the children's wing.
That will take you all day.
- And most of the night.
- My, I must say it sure
does sound like a lot of work.
- Mr. and Mrs. Valenti,
I don't think my daughter
really understood
what would be expected
of her on this job.
I'm afraid it really isn't
what she was looking for.
- Daddy, do you mind
if I speak for myself?
- Oh no honey, go right ahead.
If you don't want
to take this job
there's nothing to be
embarrassed about.
- Ah, look, Mr. And
Mrs. Valenti,
I do have to admit the
job is a little more than
I bargained for but
I'm young, strong,
willing and very able and
if you still want me
you've got yourself
an Au Pair girl.
- I'm so happy, bravissima!
- Ah ha!
- I don't hear
any yelling Willis.
- Well maybe Dad is so mad
at Kimberly he's beyond yelling.
- Yeah, maybe he's
sitting there staring at her
with veins bulging in his neck
like at income tax time.
- Arnold, guys I
did it, I got the job!
- Alright, congratulations!
- That's great!
- Kimberly, you really are
a chip off the
stubborn old block.
- I know.
- You were right.
You're a young lady now and
there comes a time when a parent
has to let go.
But if you still
want to take that job
after you graduate,
you've got my blessing.
- Ah Daddy, believe
it or not that means
a lot to me.
- I believe it.
- You know something,
I'm not as stubborn as you are,
I've decided to give you
that trust money now.
- Ah Daddy I really
appreciate that
but I don't want the trust fund.
- What ya talking
about Kimberly?
- Arnold, I'll get
it when I'm 21.
Europe is something I'd really
like to do on my own.
- Good for you, dinner time.
- I think that's a terrific
attitude Kimberly.
- Thank you.
- I think she's
got a screw loose.
♪ Now, the world don't move
♪ To the beat of just one drum,
♪ What might be right for you,
♪ May not be right for some.
♪ A man is born,
♪ He's a man of means.
♪ Then along come two,
♪ They got nothing
but their jeans.
♪ But they got,
Diff'rent Strokes.
♪ It takes Diff'rent Strokes.
♪ It takes Diff'rent Strokes
♪ To move the
world, yes it does.
♪ It takes Diff'rent
Strokes to move the world.
♪ Hmmmmmmm
♪ To the beat of just one drum,
♪ What might be right for you,
♪ May not be right for some.
♪ A man is born,
♪ He's a man of means.
♪ Then along come two,
♪ They got nothing
but their jeans.
♪ But they got,
Diff'rent Strokes.
♪ It takes Diff'rent Strokes.
♪ It takes Diff'rent Strokes
♪ To move the world.
♪ Everybody's got
a special kind of story;
♪ Everybody
finds a way to shine.
♪ It don't matter that you got
♪ Not a lot.
♪ So what?
♪ They'll have theirs,
♪ And you'll have yours,
♪ And I'll have mine.
♪ And together we'll be fine!
♪ 'Cuz it takes
Diff'rent Strokes
♪ To move the world,
♪ Yes it does.
♪ It takes Diff'rent Strokes
♪ To move the world.
- Pearl, nobody makes
spaghetti like yo do
and nobody likes
it better than my tie.
- I thank you from the
bottom of my meatballs.
- Hey Kimberly, how
about a movie tonight?
- Ah I can't, my girlfriend
Michele's coming over.
She's been in Europe all summer
and I'm dying to
hear all about it.
- Dad?
- Oh I'm out too guys,
I've got a heavy date.
- Well it wasn't the
company we were after,
it was the money.
- It's so nice to be
loved for yourself.
However, I could be enticed
into financing the venture.
- Yeah!
Let's hear it for
old money bags!
- Hey listen everybody,
I've got a very important
announcement to make.
There's only 14 more
shopping days 'til my birthday.
- Great now what's the
important announcement?
- Very funny Willis,
a real side splitter.
- Well some of us have been
keeping our eye on the calendar.
I was gonna save this
as a surprise for you,
but since you have
decided anyway.
Here, now look surprised.
- Oh? For me?
Ha, ha, surprise,
surprise, surprise.
No, what is it Daddy, a check?
- Better than that.
- They don't make
better then that.
- It's some kind of document.
It's all in legal pig latin.
- Translated, that's a trust
fund which will be yours
on your 18th birthday.
That can take you to college,
buy the sports car
you've been talking about
and still leave you
enough money to get going
in this big world.
All you have to do is
sign on the dotted line.
- Oh Daddy, you're incredible!
Certainly looks that way.
- Hey Dad, you got another
envelope that needs my signature?
- Don't you worry guys,
your time will come too.
- Yeah Arnold,
don't be greedy.
Can you give us an
approximate date?
- And you add the poor but
devoted housekeeper to the list?
- Gee Daddy, I don't know
quite how to thank you.
- Well the best way to
thank me is by using it well.
You're gonna manage
your own bank account
and make all your
own financial decisions
without nay
interference from me.
- Where do I sign?
- Ah, right here.
- Oh, I think I've died
and gone to heaven.
- Then I hope I'm in your will.
- I can't believe
this, I'm suddenly
an independent woman of means.
- Congratulations Kimberly,
now that you're wealthy,
I hope you don't forget
all the needy people
in the world,
especially those that live
on the other side
of your bathroom.
- Don't hit her
up too soon guys.
First, I have to
sign this document.
- Oh, I'll get it, it's
probably Michele.
Michele!
- Mon Cher Ami!
- How are you?
- Oh I'm fine, how about you?
- I'm great.
- Hi!
- Hi
- Hi Michele!
- You look wonderful!
- Oh thanks, I feel
like a new woman.
- So do I, where can I get one?
- Well, I can see
Willis hasn't changed.
- Yep, he still has that one
track mind that leads right
to the people in the
girls dressing room.
- Did you have a good
time in Europe Michele?
- For mi dab Mr. Drummond.
- Oh.
- I brought over 200 pictures,
each one with its
own amusing caption.
Would you like to see them?
- Oh well sure, but
as luck would have it,
I've got a date and I've gotta
go plug in my hot rollers.
- Yeah, I gotta get going too,
I gotta go upstairs and
tease the hair on my chest.
- Why don't you leave
the poor little thing alone.
- Well I certainly know
how to clear a room.
- Ha ha, come on,
let's see those pictures.
It's always been my
dream to go to Europe.
- Okay, how about
this castle for openers.
- Oh, that's beautiful,
I'd give anything
to see a place like that.
- See that little
window in the tower,
that was my room.
- Oh Wow!
Did a handsome
Prince come with it?
- No, but I found a
frog under my bed.
I kissed that little sucker
all night and all I got
was a wort.
- You musts have
had a fabulous time.
- Oh, I did.
I really soaked up the culture.
- Well I might be able to
do some soaking myself.
I'm falling into a
big chunk of money
for my 18th birthday
and I might be able to
go for a couple months
after I graduate.
- Oh a couple of months,
it takes that long just
to get through customs.
If I had the money, I'd
go over for a whole year.
- Ah I have to get
back for college,
it's really important to Daddy.
- Then let him go to college.
What's the rush,
you're going to be 18
and you've already been in
school quarters of your life.
- Ah, gee I never
thought of it that way.
- Add for more years of college
and you'll be doing your
graduate work in a rest home.
- Ah believe me, I would love
to take a year off but I can't.
Daddy would
never let me do that.
- Kimberly, you do not
listen when you talk.
You just said you
were going to be 18.
You don't need
permission to do anything.
You can do whatever you want.
- Oh you're right.
I'm legal.
Well I will be in
a couple weeks.
- You just tell your Dad that
that's what you want to do.
You are your own person now.
- Michele you're
absolutely right.
I am a grown woman
now with a mind of my own
and I know just how
to handle my father.
I'll throw myself at
his feet and beg a lot.
- Man these late
movies are all boring.
I'm going to bed.
- Me too.
I hate it when those
disgusting love scenes
interrupt all that
perfectly good violence.
- You coming to bed Kimberly?
- No I think I'll sit down here
and be disgusted
a little longer.
- Yell if it starts
getting gory again.
- Hi honey.
- Hi Daddy.
- What are you
doing up at this hour?
- Oh, I just got absorbed
in this silly movie.
- Oh.
- Did you have a good date?
You certainly look like
you're in a good mood.
- I am.
- A very good mood?
- Yes and I'd like
it to stay that way.
Is my mood important
for some reason?
- Oh, no, no.
I just like to see you happy.
- Ah.
- As long as we're
having this conversation,
I've been giving
a lot of thought
to what I'd really like
to do with the money
in the trust fund.
- You can do anything
you like with it,
it's all yours.
- Well, what I'd really
like to do is not go
to college right after school
and spend a year in Europe.
- Not with my money you won't.
Kimberly there is nothing
in the world more important
than a good education.
- Oh Daddy, I'll
still go to college.
I just don't want
to go right away.
I need some time to stretch
and to learn
something of the world.
- I'll get you Jane Fonda's
workout book and a map.
I don't want my
little girl wandering
around Europe all alone.
- Ah Daddy I'm
not a little girl,
and Michele says
you're never alone.
There's so many
students over there,
you can't help but
to make friends.
- Well how do you
know who they are?
That sounds very dangerous.
- What's dangerous about it?
- Well you could
get sick, you know
they have foreign
bugs over there.
- Daddy if I get sick,
I can go to a doctor.
They've got wonderful
doctors in Europe.
- What if they don't
speak English?
- I'll sneeze in French.
- What if your
money gets stolen?
I'll call Karl Malden.
- Very funny.
You know, I think you
should sleep on this.
I think in the morning
you'll realize it's
just a silly whim.
- Silly whim.
Don't treat me like a child,
I know what I want to do
and now I've got
the money to do it.
- Not if I don't
sign that document.
I can veto the trust
and you'll have to wait
until you're 21 to get it.
- You'd do that?
- Very tempting.
- Well then I'd take you
to court and sue you.
- You'd do that?
- It's very tempting.
- Well don't be tempted,
I still control the purse
strings around here young lady.
- Fine then, fine, you
can keep your old money.
I'll be of age and I'll
have that year in Europe
one way or another and
before I go to college.
Believe me Daddy I'll find a way
whether you like it
or not, good night.
- That'll teach me to come
home in a good mood.
- Oh, hi there.
Is this the Drummond residence?
- Yes.
- Well I have a
special delivery letter
for Kimberly Drummond.
Is that you?
- No you're about 20 year
and 30 pounds too late.
- You look awfully good to me.
Sweet cakes.
- Thanks chubby cheeks.
But it's a little
early in the morning
to play post office.
Have a nice day.
- You just ruined it.
- Ah Pearl, by any chance
is that a letter from Italy?
- Yes, who do you
know over there?
- Oh, Enrico Caruso.
- Caruso, he died years ago.
- He did?
No wonder he hardly ever writes.
- It's true what they say,
The rich aren't
like other people.
- Oh man Willis, Kimberly
and Dad have really
been going at
each other all week.
The plaster's all cracked
from where Dad hit the ceiling.
- You gotta give
Kimberly credit,
she stood right up to Dad.
- Yeah but she sure
set our cause back.
- What do you mean?
- Well now she has to wait
until she's 21 for her money
and we'll probably have
to do the same thing.
- Arnold 18 or 21,
what's the difference?
- A lot of things can
happen in that time.
That's three extra
years to get hit by a truck.
- Arnold, you're not
gonna get hit by a truck.
- I didn't mean me.
I meant you.
- That's my brother for ya.
Always thinking
about the other guy.
- Willis?
- Yeah come on in.
- Willis can I speak to you
for a moment in private?
Ah Arnold, do you mind?
- Oh no, of course not.
Go ahead shoot.
- I meant would you
mind leaving us alone?
- Oh, I get it.
You wanna talk about sex.
Don't worry, I'm in
junior high school now.
Everything I always
wanted to know about sex
is spray painted on the walls.
- Look Arnold, it's not about
sex and it's very important.
Would you please leave us alone.
- Oh, alright.
Eh, I don't believe this, getting
kicked out of my own room.
- Alright, now what's
going on Kimberly.
Why didn't you want
Arnold to hear it?
- Oh 'cause I don't
want Daddy to find out
and you know Arnold,
everything you tell him
goes in one ear
and out his mouth.
- So what's the big deal?
- Willis, I'm going to Europe.
- Say what?
- I mean, I might be.
I answered an ad in the
paper for an Au Pair girl.
- Au Pair girl?
If that means girls come in
pairs, put me down for a couple.
- No silly, it means
sort of a Nanny.
If I get the job, I'll be
working for a couple in Italy.
They'll pay for my plane fare,
I'll get room and board
and I'll be making 80
thousand lire a week.
- 80 thousand lire?
Now that's what
I call big bucks.
- It's what the
Italians call 50 bucks.
Ah but who cares
about the money,
I'm gonna have
the time of my life.
- When Dad fins out your life
is gonna be short and sweet.
- Well I'm not gonna tell
him 'til I got the job for sure.
This to this letter
they sent me.
Dear Miss Drummond.
Buongiorno, that
means hello in Italian.
- Really, I thought it meant
where's the washroom
in Norwegian?
- My wife and I were
happy to receive your cable.
We will be in New
York City next week
and we look forward
to meeting you.
Sincerely, Rudy
and Anna Valenti.
P.S. There will be
a baby to care for.
We trust you are
familiar with infants.
Isn't that great!
- Kimberly I think is
you're way over your head.
You don't know
anything about babies.
- Ah, what's to know Willis?
You put food in one end
and pampers on the other.
Anyway, I'm sure I can
learn anything else I need.
There must be a million
books on the subject.
- What was that?
- I think I know.
- Oh, hi there.
Just finishing my milk.
Man there's nothing like
a tall, frosty glass of milk
to quench your thirst.
- I oughta quench your face.
Arnold you were
eavesdropping again.
- Me? You think
I'd stoop that low?
- You don't have to stoop,
you're already that low.
- What'd ya hear Arnold?
- I'll tell you what I
heard if you'll tell me
what you said.
- Forget it, could you
please just give us
a couple more minutes.
- Don't worry about me,
I'll be downstairs
wandering aimlessly about.
- Out!
- Willis I better talk to you.
There's something
going on in this house.
- What are you
talking about Arnold?
- This!
- Your baby and you,
so you're gonna have a baby.
Congratulations Arnold.
I'll send you a card
on Mother's Day.
- Quit fooling around.
Now I know why you're
keeping me out of the room
the other night.
You're not dealing with
Sydney Stoopnagle here.
- Arnold where'd you get those?
- Well, I just happened to
be looking for something
and I just happened
to be looking for it
in Kimberly's bureau.
- Arnold, you were snooping.
- Call it what you want,
it gets the job done.
- Is the stork gonna
drop a load here?
- No Arnold and I can't
tell you what's going on
because I'd be breaking
my word to Kimberly.
- Oh, I understand.
I wouldn't want you to
break your sacred trust
by telling me.
- Thanks.
- Juts blink once
if she's pregnant
and twice if she's not.
- Arnold will you knock it off?
- You blinked four times.
Is it twins?
- Arnold, this
conversation's over.
- You'll live to
regret this Willis.
- Okay, wait, wait hold
on a minute Arnold.
Listen, don't go spreading
any rumors that Kimberly's
having a baby.
- What else am I
supposed to spread?
- Alright, alright.
I guess I'm gonna
have to tell you the truth
to keep your big mouth shut.
- Oh boy, lay some
low down dirt on me.
- It's simple.
Kimberly's using these
books to get ready
for a job she might
have with a family in Italy.
- Italy?
Is that the place
where the men are
always pinching the women?
- Now she doesn't
have the job yet
and she doesn't want Dad to know
about it 'til it's all set.
- Hey guys.
- So you see Arnold, the
square of the hypotenuse
is equal to the sum of the
square of the other two sides.
- That's a handy thing to know.
- I'm sorry to interrupt guys,
but if we're gonna be on time
for our dinner
reservation we better
put it in fast forward okay.
- Be right with you Dad.
- And me too.
We'll be right with you.
- Arnold, what's that
behind your back?
Well that's Willis.
- I mean,
what are you holding
behind your back?
- Just some school books.
- Oh, I'm always glad to
see you hitting the books.
Let me see what they are.
- Ah, ah that's not
necessary Dad.
- Well I just want to know
what you're interested in.
- Oh no Dad, I can't
let you see them.
- Oh come on, hey, come here.
- So you're going to have baby,
Your baby and you.
When did they start teaching
that in the seventh grade?
- Well ah, we got some
boy scouts in our class
and they want to be prepared.
- Alright, alright.
What's going on here?
- Well, we'd rather not say.
Or we'd be breaking
our sacred trust.
- Well you better tell me
right now or I'll be breaking
your sacred butts.
- Since you put it that way.
Those are Kimberly's books.
- Kimberly's?
What would Kimberly
be doing with?
Oh no.
- Dad, it's not what you think.
Kimberly doesn't
have one in the oven.
She just needs to
learn about babies
for a job she
might have in Italy.
- A job in Italy?
What job?
- Ah Dad, I think it would
be better if she told you
all about it.
- Yes, I think that
would be better.
- Kimberly?
- All set Daddy, let's go.
- What's this I hear
about a job in Italy?
- Oh no, did Willis squeal?
- He didn't have
to, I found these.
- What were you
doing in my bureau?
- I got these from Arnold.
- Well that
figures, the little rat.
Should a put a trap in my
drawer with a piece of cheese.
- Tell me about the job.
- Well Daddy, this couple
in Italy needs someone
to take care of their baby
and I applied for the job.
They'll be in New
York this weekend,
they're gonna come over
here and interview me.
- Oh no they're not.
And you are not gonna
have that interview.
- Oh Daddy we've been
through all this before.
You've led your life,
I'm entitled to live mine.
- Now look here young lady...
We're not finished with this.
- Buona Sera, good evening
and this is the home
of Kimberly Drummond?
- Yes it is.
- I am Senor Valenti,
the husband of my wife,
Senora Valenti.
- How do you do?
- How do you do?
I'm Philip Drummond, the father
of my daughter,
Kimberly Drummond.
- Nice to meet you.
- You must be the
people from Italy
that Kimberly wants to work for.
- Si - Si, yes.
- Come in, come in please.
- Gratzi.
- Hi, I'm Kimberly.
- Oh, hello, que bella ah?
What a lovely young lady.
- Si, bellisima.
- Ah please sit down.
- Ah Gratzi, I would
love to get off my feet.
I am pregnant, this
is not from pasta.
- Brava.
- Don't you ruin
this job for me.
- Who me?
- It was presumptuous
of us not to call first
but your daughter sent
us only your address
not your phone number.
- Well that's Kimberly for you,
she can be very
forgetful sometimes.
That's my little scatter brain.
- Ah Daddy, don't
you have some work
to do in the den?
- No.
- I'm sure they'd like to
get on with the interview.
Why don't you let us do that?
- Please Mr. Drummond,
the father of this
lovely young girl
should be present
during our little talk, yes?
- No.
- Yes.
- I would be happy to stay.
- Daddy, you don't
have to do that.
- But we insist.
- They insist.
Can I get you anything?
Some coffee, tea cappuccino,
espresso, spumoni?
- Do not trouble please.
- Oh it's no trouble.
Our housekeeper's
off for the day,
but I'm sure I can
rummage up something.
Of course, Kimberly
never goes near the kitchen.
- Prego no.
- Mr. Valenti, tell
me, why do you want
an American girl in your home?
- It is because we wish our
bambini to hear English spoken
with a proper accent by
someone with refinement,
like your daughter.
- See that Dad,
they want bi-lingual bambinos.
- Precisely, tell me Kimberly
do you know much
about the care of children?
- Oh, of course she does.
She saw Mommie
Dearest three times.
- How nice.
- Why I do know quite
a lot about children,
I've done a lot of
reading on the subject
and I've cared for my
two younger brothers.
- Oh boy.
- Do you have a large family?
- Oh no no.
Just Maria, Teresa,
Giuseppe and Marchello
makes it four.
- Well you've been
very busy in Italy.
Kimberly taking care of
four children should be
quite an experience for you.
- Oh, yeah.
- You can walk them
and play with them
and bathe them and
feed them and burp them
and stay up all night with them.
- That sounds great.
- And then when you're
finished with all that,
maybe you could
do a little house work.
I imagine that you
have a spacious home?
- We have a beautiful
villa, 18 rooms
on three floors.
- 18 rooms?
- On three floors.
- Oh, do not worry,
you do not have to
clean the whole house,
only the children's wing.
That will take you all day.
- And most of the night.
- My, I must say it sure
does sound like a lot of work.
- Mr. and Mrs. Valenti,
I don't think my daughter
really understood
what would be expected
of her on this job.
I'm afraid it really isn't
what she was looking for.
- Daddy, do you mind
if I speak for myself?
- Oh no honey, go right ahead.
If you don't want
to take this job
there's nothing to be
embarrassed about.
- Ah, look, Mr. And
Mrs. Valenti,
I do have to admit the
job is a little more than
I bargained for but
I'm young, strong,
willing and very able and
if you still want me
you've got yourself
an Au Pair girl.
- I'm so happy, bravissima!
- Ah ha!
- I don't hear
any yelling Willis.
- Well maybe Dad is so mad
at Kimberly he's beyond yelling.
- Yeah, maybe he's
sitting there staring at her
with veins bulging in his neck
like at income tax time.
- Arnold, guys I
did it, I got the job!
- Alright, congratulations!
- That's great!
- Kimberly, you really are
a chip off the
stubborn old block.
- I know.
- You were right.
You're a young lady now and
there comes a time when a parent
has to let go.
But if you still
want to take that job
after you graduate,
you've got my blessing.
- Ah Daddy, believe
it or not that means
a lot to me.
- I believe it.
- You know something,
I'm not as stubborn as you are,
I've decided to give you
that trust money now.
- Ah Daddy I really
appreciate that
but I don't want the trust fund.
- What ya talking
about Kimberly?
- Arnold, I'll get
it when I'm 21.
Europe is something I'd really
like to do on my own.
- Good for you, dinner time.
- I think that's a terrific
attitude Kimberly.
- Thank you.
- I think she's
got a screw loose.
♪ Now, the world don't move
♪ To the beat of just one drum,
♪ What might be right for you,
♪ May not be right for some.
♪ A man is born,
♪ He's a man of means.
♪ Then along come two,
♪ They got nothing
but their jeans.
♪ But they got,
Diff'rent Strokes.
♪ It takes Diff'rent Strokes.
♪ It takes Diff'rent Strokes
♪ To move the
world, yes it does.
♪ It takes Diff'rent
Strokes to move the world.
♪ Hmmmmmmm