Flipper (1964–1967): Season 1, Episode 4 - The Gulf Between - full transcript
There's a woman hanging around dad. Sandy's happy for his dad because the woman is rich, but Bud is jealous. He fear his father will try to replace his mother and do something silly like get married again. Now Po must convince Bud that's not the case. But when a jealous Bud disobeys his father about getting home before the storm, his life is in danger.
- Okay, Bud, my turn.
- Hey, how bout a turn for ole dad?
- Hey, keen, now
we can play water polo.
- I get Flipper.
- I want dad.
You and I can beat those two any day.
- Ah, we'll give
it the old college try,
but we're playing against a pro.
Kathryn.
- Hello there.
- Hi.
- Hey dad, how bout our game?
- I'll be right back.
- That's what he said the
last time she showed up,
and he didn't get back til real late.
- How do you know?
- I waited up for him.
- Why?
- Why?
Sandy, we gotta keep our eye on him.
He's the only father we've got.
- Hi.
- Hi.
This is a pleasant surprise.
It's very pleasant.
- Hey now, they must be going steady.
- Dad doesn't look very steady.
What a silly grin on his face.
Come on Flipper, you and I will play.
- Now wait a minute bud.
Miss Terrance came to
invite the whole family
for dinner on Sunday.
- Yeah?
You mean at your Imperial Jade Apartments?
I accept.
- Wonderful Sandy.
Not you Flipper, you're
not part of the family.
- Well, Bud, how bout it?
- Let's start our game.
- Bud, Miss Terrance has
invited the family to dinner.
- Thank you.
Now can we start our game?
- You're welcome, Bud.
So, I'll see you all Sunday, around four?
- Yes M'am.
- Ah.
That fish.
- Kathryn, we're sorry.
- He's not a fish.
- What?
- He's a mammal, the smartest in the sea.
- Yeah, and sometimes he gets too smart.
- That's final, Flipper.
You may not come to dinner.
- Come on, I'll see you to your car.
Bye bye, boys.
- Bye Miss Terrance, and thanks.
- Yeah, so long Miss Terrance, and thanks.
♫ They call him Flipper.
♫ Flipper, faster than lightning,
♫ No one you see, is smarter than he.
♫ And we know Flipper, lives
in a world full of wonder,
♫ Flying there under, under the sea.
- Flipper, none of this is my idea.
Dad, why can't we stay
home and have supper here?
I'll wash and dry the
dishes for a whole week.
- It's good to eat out
just once in a while.
It helps to develop the social amenities.
- But I don't like to eat out.
With the collar and tie,
it won't hardly go down.
Besides, how do we know
if she can even cook?
- Miss Terrance won't
be doing the cooking.
She has servants.
Now, will you please leave this tie alone.
- Yeah Bud, that's the
beauty of going out.
We don't have to set foot in the kitchen
before or after we eat.
Just let other people wait on us.
- All right, let's go.
- Dad, if you marry Miss Terrance,
will she come to live with us.
- Well hold on Bud,
I haven't said anything
about marrying anybody.
- Would she live with us?
- Well, it is customary
for husband and wife to live together,
but you're jumping the gun, boy.
- What I mean,
would she come to the park
and live with us and Flipper?
Or, would we move, like to her place?
- Yeah.
Good old boy, that's the
best idea you ever had.
Let's marry Dad off and live like kings
at the Imperial Jade Apartments.
- Just like I told Flipper,
none of this is my idea.
- Now then, I hope nobody
left his manners behind,
and everybody'll put out a little effort
to have a good time.
- No strain.
Livin' here would be livin'.
Oh yeah.
- You are now entering The Imperial Jade.
- Hey Dad.
- Oh now, here comes our
hostess, so stop daydreaming.
- Wow.
- Beautiful.
- If anybody has just cause
to object to this wedding,
speak now or forever hold your peace.
- I do.
- You do what?
- Um, I think she's beautiful, too.
- Well, thank you Bud.
Well, won't you all come up?
I've just been picking some flowers.
- Sure hope Dad read this sign.
Of course, if he wants to get
married, that's his business.
He doesn't have to consult Sandy and me.
We're just his sons, by a previous mother.
But what I don't get is, why Flipper, why?
Since most women are more
or less alike anyway,
like a school of fish,
why did Dad have to pick a
Landlubber like Miss Terrance?
When you splashed a little water on her,
I thought she was gonna shoot you.
- Keeping Flipper up a
little late, aren't you?
- Oh, hi Dad.
- Besides, I'm jealous.
There was a time when you
told your troubles to me.
- I haven't any troubles.
- Oh, I see.
- Well, now that you bring it up,
what's so wrong with
things the way they are?
Just you, Sandy, Flipper and me.
- Well, who said anything is wrong?
- I'd much rather live in an old shack,
just so it's near the water,
than a big old castle
crawlin' with people.
The air out here's better
for a little kid's lungs.
- Well, I couldn't agree with you more.
So, what's the problem?
- Well, this may sound funny, or even bad,
but I don't want it to.
But Dad, I don't think I could
call anybody else Mother,
except my own mother.
- I know, Bud.
You're a wonderful boy.
And I want you to know that right now
marriage is the furthest
thing from my mind.
- You hear that, Flipper?
- But.
- But what?
- Well, something that
all of us have to realize
is that the world never stands still.
- Heck, it's okay with me if
the world doesn't stand still,
just as long as you don't
marry that Miss Terrance.
- What I'm trying to say Bud,
is that there are occasions when all of us
would like to freeze time, keep
everything just like it is,
never to change.
There are times when I think back,
often in the middle of the night,
to when your mother was still with us.
But we couldn't freeze time
then, and we can't now.
- I didn't mean to start you thinkin' Dad.
- Well, they're always
pleasant thoughts, Bud.
And I want you to know that my two boys,
Sandy and you, will always be number one
in importance to me, okay?
. Okay-
Any time you have troubles again,
you just come right down here
to talk to Flipper and me.
- Well thank you, Bud.
And thank you, Flipper, for listening.
Hey Bud.
How about an hour or so of trolling?
We might pick up a barracuda or two.
- Hey, keen Dad, but.
- Hello there, Sailor.
- Hi.
- Well, how about it, Bud?
You can teach Kathryn how to fish.
- Sounds quite swell, but me
and Flipper been nosing around,
looking for eels, and we nearly found one.
- Oh come on, Bud, please.
I really need the advice of an expert.
Oh, that fish again.
- Flipper, you go
home, wherever that may be.
- Oh, it's all right, really.
These are pre-shrunk, I think.
Coming Bud?
- Well, if me and Flipper
weren't zeroing in on these eels.
- All right, Bud.
I want you to start zeroing in on home,
and I mean right now, okay?
. Okay-
You hear that, Flipper?
She can't even fish.
What kind of mother would that be?
And then, my own father,
you heard him last night,
saying that we would always be number one.
And now look at him,
going fishing with a
woman who can't even fish.
And how about Sandy?
My own brother, always taking their side.
He'd like to see her be my mother.
Me and you, Flipper, against the world.
The world Dad was
talking about last night.
BOY
Hey, we better start heading in
before it really starts to blow.
Although a lot they care.
- Bud.
Hey Bud.
Hey Bud.
Bud.
- Flipper.
Flipper.
Flipper.
Flipper, go get help-
Hurry, I can't swim.
Flipper, go get help-
- Flipper, where's Bud?
Just don't dive there, where is he?
Flipper, you keep
looking, try to find Bud.
I'll find Dad in the big boat.
Go, find Bud, find Bud.
Bud, Bud's out there
someplace, Flipper showed me,
and I sent him on to keep looking.
- You're sure he isn't on shore?
- Could be, but.
- Kathryn, I think you
better go in with Sandy.
- If he is out there, I feel responsible.
- I told him to go in.
Now if he didn't he did a foolish thing,
he knows the sea.
- Why did he do a foolish thing?
We both know how he feels.
He's a little boy who needs
understanding, not competition.
Let me go with you.
- From where we last saw him,
we'll follow the current.
. And Pray-
Po, look.
- Where is he Flipper?
Where is he?
Blocked in caves and it's high tide.
Maybe he'll hear this.
- Hey Dad, in here.
- Flipper, go get him.
If you know where Bud is, go get Bud.
- Dad, in here.
Let's give it a try, Flipper.
- Po, he's hurt.
Well, Bud, how's the arm?
- Well, it seems to be better.
- Well, I hope everything
is looking pretty good now.
I think there's been a misunderstanding.
You think I want to marry
your father, don't you?
- Don't you?
- I like your father, very much,
and I think he likes me.
- Yeah.
- But your father and I
are just very good friends,
and Sandy too.
I hope you'll be my friend, too.
Then I'll be pretty lucky
to have three good friends.
- Heck, there isn't any reason
why you shouldn't have three friends.
Who knows?
You might even have four friends.
You're twitch.
- Twitch?
- That means you're regular.
The most, it's the highest compliment.
- Before, Flipper just splashed you.
You seemed so mad.
But out there you dived right
in the water with your clothes on.
You are twitch.
- Well, Bud, I'm glad
you think I'm twitch.
That means a lot to me.
- Yeah, me too.
Well, I got a boat to paint.
So long twitch.
- Good bye Flipper.
- Well, let's make this a family project.
♫ Everyone loves the king of the sea.
♫ Ever so kind and gentle is he.
♫ Tricks he will do
when children are near.
♫ And how they love when he's near.
♫ They call him Flipper,
♫ Flipper, faster than lightning.
♫ No one you see, is smarter than he.
♫ And we know Flipper, lives
in a world full of wonder,
♫ Lying there under, under the sea.
- Hey, how bout a turn for ole dad?
- Hey, keen, now
we can play water polo.
- I get Flipper.
- I want dad.
You and I can beat those two any day.
- Ah, we'll give
it the old college try,
but we're playing against a pro.
Kathryn.
- Hello there.
- Hi.
- Hey dad, how bout our game?
- I'll be right back.
- That's what he said the
last time she showed up,
and he didn't get back til real late.
- How do you know?
- I waited up for him.
- Why?
- Why?
Sandy, we gotta keep our eye on him.
He's the only father we've got.
- Hi.
- Hi.
This is a pleasant surprise.
It's very pleasant.
- Hey now, they must be going steady.
- Dad doesn't look very steady.
What a silly grin on his face.
Come on Flipper, you and I will play.
- Now wait a minute bud.
Miss Terrance came to
invite the whole family
for dinner on Sunday.
- Yeah?
You mean at your Imperial Jade Apartments?
I accept.
- Wonderful Sandy.
Not you Flipper, you're
not part of the family.
- Well, Bud, how bout it?
- Let's start our game.
- Bud, Miss Terrance has
invited the family to dinner.
- Thank you.
Now can we start our game?
- You're welcome, Bud.
So, I'll see you all Sunday, around four?
- Yes M'am.
- Ah.
That fish.
- Kathryn, we're sorry.
- He's not a fish.
- What?
- He's a mammal, the smartest in the sea.
- Yeah, and sometimes he gets too smart.
- That's final, Flipper.
You may not come to dinner.
- Come on, I'll see you to your car.
Bye bye, boys.
- Bye Miss Terrance, and thanks.
- Yeah, so long Miss Terrance, and thanks.
♫ They call him Flipper.
♫ Flipper, faster than lightning,
♫ No one you see, is smarter than he.
♫ And we know Flipper, lives
in a world full of wonder,
♫ Flying there under, under the sea.
- Flipper, none of this is my idea.
Dad, why can't we stay
home and have supper here?
I'll wash and dry the
dishes for a whole week.
- It's good to eat out
just once in a while.
It helps to develop the social amenities.
- But I don't like to eat out.
With the collar and tie,
it won't hardly go down.
Besides, how do we know
if she can even cook?
- Miss Terrance won't
be doing the cooking.
She has servants.
Now, will you please leave this tie alone.
- Yeah Bud, that's the
beauty of going out.
We don't have to set foot in the kitchen
before or after we eat.
Just let other people wait on us.
- All right, let's go.
- Dad, if you marry Miss Terrance,
will she come to live with us.
- Well hold on Bud,
I haven't said anything
about marrying anybody.
- Would she live with us?
- Well, it is customary
for husband and wife to live together,
but you're jumping the gun, boy.
- What I mean,
would she come to the park
and live with us and Flipper?
Or, would we move, like to her place?
- Yeah.
Good old boy, that's the
best idea you ever had.
Let's marry Dad off and live like kings
at the Imperial Jade Apartments.
- Just like I told Flipper,
none of this is my idea.
- Now then, I hope nobody
left his manners behind,
and everybody'll put out a little effort
to have a good time.
- No strain.
Livin' here would be livin'.
Oh yeah.
- You are now entering The Imperial Jade.
- Hey Dad.
- Oh now, here comes our
hostess, so stop daydreaming.
- Wow.
- Beautiful.
- If anybody has just cause
to object to this wedding,
speak now or forever hold your peace.
- I do.
- You do what?
- Um, I think she's beautiful, too.
- Well, thank you Bud.
Well, won't you all come up?
I've just been picking some flowers.
- Sure hope Dad read this sign.
Of course, if he wants to get
married, that's his business.
He doesn't have to consult Sandy and me.
We're just his sons, by a previous mother.
But what I don't get is, why Flipper, why?
Since most women are more
or less alike anyway,
like a school of fish,
why did Dad have to pick a
Landlubber like Miss Terrance?
When you splashed a little water on her,
I thought she was gonna shoot you.
- Keeping Flipper up a
little late, aren't you?
- Oh, hi Dad.
- Besides, I'm jealous.
There was a time when you
told your troubles to me.
- I haven't any troubles.
- Oh, I see.
- Well, now that you bring it up,
what's so wrong with
things the way they are?
Just you, Sandy, Flipper and me.
- Well, who said anything is wrong?
- I'd much rather live in an old shack,
just so it's near the water,
than a big old castle
crawlin' with people.
The air out here's better
for a little kid's lungs.
- Well, I couldn't agree with you more.
So, what's the problem?
- Well, this may sound funny, or even bad,
but I don't want it to.
But Dad, I don't think I could
call anybody else Mother,
except my own mother.
- I know, Bud.
You're a wonderful boy.
And I want you to know that right now
marriage is the furthest
thing from my mind.
- You hear that, Flipper?
- But.
- But what?
- Well, something that
all of us have to realize
is that the world never stands still.
- Heck, it's okay with me if
the world doesn't stand still,
just as long as you don't
marry that Miss Terrance.
- What I'm trying to say Bud,
is that there are occasions when all of us
would like to freeze time, keep
everything just like it is,
never to change.
There are times when I think back,
often in the middle of the night,
to when your mother was still with us.
But we couldn't freeze time
then, and we can't now.
- I didn't mean to start you thinkin' Dad.
- Well, they're always
pleasant thoughts, Bud.
And I want you to know that my two boys,
Sandy and you, will always be number one
in importance to me, okay?
. Okay-
Any time you have troubles again,
you just come right down here
to talk to Flipper and me.
- Well thank you, Bud.
And thank you, Flipper, for listening.
Hey Bud.
How about an hour or so of trolling?
We might pick up a barracuda or two.
- Hey, keen Dad, but.
- Hello there, Sailor.
- Hi.
- Well, how about it, Bud?
You can teach Kathryn how to fish.
- Sounds quite swell, but me
and Flipper been nosing around,
looking for eels, and we nearly found one.
- Oh come on, Bud, please.
I really need the advice of an expert.
Oh, that fish again.
- Flipper, you go
home, wherever that may be.
- Oh, it's all right, really.
These are pre-shrunk, I think.
Coming Bud?
- Well, if me and Flipper
weren't zeroing in on these eels.
- All right, Bud.
I want you to start zeroing in on home,
and I mean right now, okay?
. Okay-
You hear that, Flipper?
She can't even fish.
What kind of mother would that be?
And then, my own father,
you heard him last night,
saying that we would always be number one.
And now look at him,
going fishing with a
woman who can't even fish.
And how about Sandy?
My own brother, always taking their side.
He'd like to see her be my mother.
Me and you, Flipper, against the world.
The world Dad was
talking about last night.
BOY
Hey, we better start heading in
before it really starts to blow.
Although a lot they care.
- Bud.
Hey Bud.
Hey Bud.
Bud.
- Flipper.
Flipper.
Flipper.
Flipper, go get help-
Hurry, I can't swim.
Flipper, go get help-
- Flipper, where's Bud?
Just don't dive there, where is he?
Flipper, you keep
looking, try to find Bud.
I'll find Dad in the big boat.
Go, find Bud, find Bud.
Bud, Bud's out there
someplace, Flipper showed me,
and I sent him on to keep looking.
- You're sure he isn't on shore?
- Could be, but.
- Kathryn, I think you
better go in with Sandy.
- If he is out there, I feel responsible.
- I told him to go in.
Now if he didn't he did a foolish thing,
he knows the sea.
- Why did he do a foolish thing?
We both know how he feels.
He's a little boy who needs
understanding, not competition.
Let me go with you.
- From where we last saw him,
we'll follow the current.
. And Pray-
Po, look.
- Where is he Flipper?
Where is he?
Blocked in caves and it's high tide.
Maybe he'll hear this.
- Hey Dad, in here.
- Flipper, go get him.
If you know where Bud is, go get Bud.
- Dad, in here.
Let's give it a try, Flipper.
- Po, he's hurt.
Well, Bud, how's the arm?
- Well, it seems to be better.
- Well, I hope everything
is looking pretty good now.
I think there's been a misunderstanding.
You think I want to marry
your father, don't you?
- Don't you?
- I like your father, very much,
and I think he likes me.
- Yeah.
- But your father and I
are just very good friends,
and Sandy too.
I hope you'll be my friend, too.
Then I'll be pretty lucky
to have three good friends.
- Heck, there isn't any reason
why you shouldn't have three friends.
Who knows?
You might even have four friends.
You're twitch.
- Twitch?
- That means you're regular.
The most, it's the highest compliment.
- Before, Flipper just splashed you.
You seemed so mad.
But out there you dived right
in the water with your clothes on.
You are twitch.
- Well, Bud, I'm glad
you think I'm twitch.
That means a lot to me.
- Yeah, me too.
Well, I got a boat to paint.
So long twitch.
- Good bye Flipper.
- Well, let's make this a family project.
♫ Everyone loves the king of the sea.
♫ Ever so kind and gentle is he.
♫ Tricks he will do
when children are near.
♫ And how they love when he's near.
♫ They call him Flipper,
♫ Flipper, faster than lightning.
♫ No one you see, is smarter than he.
♫ And we know Flipper, lives
in a world full of wonder,
♫ Lying there under, under the sea.