Flipper (1964–1967): Season 2, Episode 19 - Slingshot - full transcript

- Your son is giving us quite a show.

- Yes, I can see that.

- You should be very proud of Bud.

- I am.

- He won the fire-building event

and he almost won the
obstacle course race.

- Almost won?

- Well his friend Stevie fell

and Bud stopped to not help him up.

- Oh, I see.

I didn't know the Cubs and
the Scouts competed together.



- Well there were some
events where they teamed up.

That poor Stevie, he
seems to be a born loser

when it comes to athletics.

We even had to stop the canoe race

because he fell in the water.

- Well, he's got other qualities.

He's got a very good mind, you know.

I'm glad that Bud's teamed up with him.

I think it might help Bud a little bit.

- Hey, that was great, Bud.

- Thanks, Flipper.

- Nice going, Bud, nice going.

- Thanks, Dad.

- Bud, you about ready to go?



- Oh Dad, I was wondering,

could I please stay a little longer?

- Well, I just stopped
by to see what I could do

about the transportation problem.

- Well thank you, but
it's all taken care of.

I promised to drop Stevie
and some of the others.

Bud can come along too if he likes.

- Oh, could I, Dad?

- All right, Bud, if you want.
- Thanks.

Oh I won a prize, I'll show Flipper.

- What'd he win?
- A Scout canteen.

- Well that oughta come in handy.

- He would have won
grand prize, Mr. Ricks,

if it hadn't been for me.

- Ah, don't take it so hard, Stevie.

You did your best.

Look, maybe someday you'll
be able to help Bud, hmm?

Well I'd better be going.

They're opening the
floodgates to the canal

to take some of the runoff
from the Everglades.

And I want to check on it.

I'll see you later.

Take care of yourself, Stevie, bye bye.

- See what you
helped me win, Flipper?

♫ They call him Flipper, Flipper

♫ Faster than lightning

♫ No one, you see

♫ ls smarter than he

♫ And we know Flipper

♫ Lives in a world full of wonder

♫ Lying there under

♫ Under the sea

- Bye, kids.

- So long, I'll see you.
- So long, kid.

- Close your window, Stevie.

I'll put on the air conditioning.

- That's nice!

- What does it mean?

- Oh, it's a song about
freedom and open spaces,

and mountains and happy people.

- Say, if we take the
Slingshot Road up ahead,

we'll save some time.
- Slingshot?

Why do they call it that?

- Because it meets the highway
at about a 20-degree angle.

On the map, it looks like a slingshot.

There it is.

- It doesn't look like a
very good road, Stevie.

- No problem, as long
as you drive carefully.

- All right, as long as you say so.

- Stevie, look.

- Look out!

- Flipper!

Go on home, I'll go meet you there.

Hello, Joe, everything all right?

- Yeah, they've already
opened the floodgates

on the east canal.

We're all set to go on this one.

- All right, have you checked the road

to make sure no one's on it?

- Not yet, but I'll go
over it before I tell 'em

to open the floodgates at the other end.

- All right, fine, see you later.

- Miss Norstrand, Miss Norstrand.

- What?

Oh!

Stevie, are you all right?

Bud.

- He must've hit his head
against the windshield.

- We'll have to get help.

Try the door, Stevie, come on.
- I already did.

It won't budge.

The window won't go down either.

- Oh, my head, it hurts.

- Bud, it's going to be all right.

Everything's going to be all right.

Stevie,

try the glove compartment,

maybe there's something
in there we can use.

- I already looked, there's nothing there.

- All right, try this.

- Dad,

Dad, my head hurts.

- It's going to be all right, Bud.

It's going to be quite all right.

Oh, it's a car!

Oh, it won't work.

- Help, help!

Help!

Help!

Help!

- Charlie?

All clear on Slingshot.

You can open Floodgate One.

I'm gonna check the other roads.

- We're going to get you home soon, Bud.

We're going to get you home soon.

- Sure, there'll be another
car along any minute.

- It's all my fault.
- That's not true.

- I made you take the Slingshot turn-off.

- You did not make me.

It certainly wasn't your fault

that a deer ran out of
the bushes when it did.

- I wish just once I
could do something right.

- Don't talk like that Stevie.

The most important thing right now

is to take care of Bud.

- Miss Norstrand, look!

- Flipper, how can I practice
with you making so much noise?

Flipper, I asked you to be quiet.

- Sandy, I just talked to Allan Hart.

He said they left Rusty
off over an hour ago

and that Stevie and Bud had already left.

Now that means they should
have been here by now.

- You know that truck of Ulla's.

They may have had a flat
tire or engine trouble.

- No no no, they would have called me.

I guess I better go look for them.

You stay here by the phone.

If they get here, you
can reach me by radio.

. Okay-

- Where is it all coming from?

There wasn't that much water in the canal.

- Oh, they must have
opened the floodgates.

- The floodgate?

- What are you doing Stevie?

- It's just a chance.

The canteen'll float and
the canal flows into the sea

near Coral Key.

Maybe somebody'll find it.

Don't be too scared, Miss Norstrand.

We'll be saved, you'll see.

- Did you find him?
- No.

I don't suppose you've heard anything.

Well, I checked Stevie's
house, he's not home either.

Guess we better call the sheriff.

- Wait.

Flipper's got something.

It's a canteen.

- It looks like the one Bud
just won at the Camporee.

Flipper, give me that canteen.

Come on, come on, Flipper.

- What is it again?
- This is it.

I know this is it.

Flipper, where'd you get this canteen?

Tell me, Flipper, where'd
you get this canteen?

Come on, Sandy, get the bowline.

- Miss Norstrand.

- Yes, Stevie.

- Would you sing that song you
sang before, the Swedish one?

- Yes, of course.

- Flipper, is this it?

Is this where you found this?

Sandy, look.

- I don't see anything.

- This canal parallels Slingshot Road.

- So?

- Well, Flipper found the canteen here.

It's just a possibility that,

well maybe their truck was washed off

when the floodgates were opened.

- Didn't you say that they closed the road

before they opened the floodgates?

- Yeah, I know, I know.

I know it's a long shot,

but it's one we can't overlook.

We're going up the canal.

Flipper, you stay here,
that's fresh water up there.

- Flipper, don't follow us, understand?

- Miss Norstrand, listen.

It's a boat, we're saved, we're saved!

- That tree is too heavy,
Porter, try Stevie's side.

- Dad says you should have this.

- Ah, Dad, you've been
stuffin' me for a week.

I'm all right.

Can't I go swimmin' with Flipper, please?

- Now listen, Bud.

A concussion is nothing
to fool around with.

The doctor said three
more days and that's it.

- But how does doctor know how I feel?

- He knows.

Hello Stevie.
- Hello, Mr. Ricks.

Sandy.

How are you Bud?
- Oh I'm fine.

But the doctor says I don't feel good.

- He seems impatient.

- Well, he'll be all right.

Luckily he's got a hard head.

- I wonder where he got that.

- Bud, you've just been
made leader of your patrol.

- Wow, whaddya know about that?

- Congratulations, Bud.

- Oh that's not all,
Stevie, tell him the rest.

- Well, the council
said about the accident,

that I was to be,

I can't remember the rest.

- Well the council said that

because Stevie was so courageous
at a time of the accident

he has been recognized as
exemplifying the 10th Scout law,

a Scout is brave.

- Wow!

Looks like you've been
recognized by Flipper, too.

♫ 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 laugh when he's near

♫ They call him Flipper, Flipper

♫ Faster than lightning

♫ No one, you see

♫ ls smarter than he

♫ And we know Flipper

♫ Lives in a world full of wonder

♫ Lying there under

♫ Under the sea