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00:00It's a letter from my father, Paddy.
00:19How is Uncle Kenneth?
00:20He's fine.
00:21He's in Geneva covering a UNESCO conference.
00:23Twisty!
00:24Anything from me?
00:25I believe there is, Paddy.
00:27Probably from the White House asking my advice on the economic situation.
00:32Boston?
00:34I don't know anybody in Boston.
00:37It's from Kip.
00:39Who's Kip?
00:40Don't you remember Sue Ellen's cousin?
00:42That tall, dreamy, brilliant rich boy who's going to Harvard?
00:46Sue Ellen introduced us to him at the Shake Show.
00:51Kathy?
00:52What's the matter?
00:53He's invited me up to Harvard for a weekend prom.
00:57Do you know what this means?
01:00I'll be the talk of Brooklyn High's High.
01:02This is the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me in my life.
01:06What'll I wear?
01:08What'll I wear?
01:09Paddy, your mother and father haven't said you could go yet.
01:13Why wouldn't they let me go?
01:15Well, they might feel you're a bit young.
01:18Don't be silly.
01:20They wouldn't keep me from the biggest opportunity of my life.
01:24I'm going home.
01:26Do you remember that tall, dreamy, brilliant Harvard man I told you about?
01:29Yes, I do.
01:30Well, he's invited me up to a prom in Boston next weekend.
01:33Isn't that my ball, Popper?
01:34I've got to get the train schedules to Boston.
01:37Boy, he must be desperate.
01:42Paddy?
01:43Yes, Poppa?
01:45You better find out if they know the train schedules two years from now.
01:54THEME SONG
01:58Meet Kathy, who's lived most everywhere
02:01From Zanzibar to Berkeley Square
02:04But Patty's only seen the sights a girl can see from Brooklyn Heights
02:08What a crazy pair
02:10But they're cousins
02:13Identical cousins all the way
02:18One pair of matching bookends
02:21Different as night and day
02:24Where Kathy adores a minuet
02:27The ballet Russe and Crepe Suzette
02:30Our Patty loves to rock and roll
02:32A hot dog makes her lose control
02:34What a wild duet
02:36Still they're cousins
02:39Identical cousins and you'll find
02:43They laugh alike
02:44They walk alike
02:45At times they even talk alike
02:47You can lose your mind
02:49When cousins are two of a kind
03:02Imagine my own mother and father
03:04Keeping me from going to a prom at Harvard.
03:06It's prehistoric.
03:08If they hadn't stopped you, I would have.
03:10I don't want you going to any other dances with any other guys.
03:14I'll tell you something else.
03:15The next time I see that guy
03:17I'm going to punch him right in the nose for asking.
03:20And you can pay for your own ice cream.
03:31If there's anything I can't stand, it's adolescent boy.
03:35What am I going to do, Kath?
03:37I can't write and tell Kit my parents won't let me go.
03:39He'll think I'm a kid.
03:41You might try using psychology.
03:43Psychology?
03:45What good would that do?
03:47Don't you know that worlds have been conquered
03:49By the right words said to the right person
03:51At the right time?
03:55The right words
03:58Said to the right person
04:01At the right time.
04:04Kathy, you're a genius.
04:16You're a genius.
04:30Natalie, when is dinner going to be ready?
04:33Dinner's been ready for 40 minutes.
04:35Patty's late.
04:37Oh, she stopped off at the school library, Uncle Martin.
04:41Patty did what?
04:43Wish I'd said that.
04:47She has absolutely no sense of responsibility.
04:50I think it's time you had a little talk with her, Nat.
04:52I intend to.
04:54My dinner's probably ruined.
05:01Like hi, everybody.
05:03Like hi, yourself.
05:05Do you have any idea how late you are, young lady?
05:09Yes, and it's absolutely inexcusable.
05:12I'm sorry to have been so thoughtless.
05:14I mean, you have enough on your mind running the household
05:16As brilliantly as you do without having to worry about me.
05:19I'll try to be more thoughtful in the future, Mom.
05:25Well, that's all right, darling.
05:28You're not very late.
05:30But in the future, Patty, I...
05:32And I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for your dinner, Popo.
05:35After the kind of day you put it at the office,
05:37You have a right to expect your dinner on time.
05:40Well, I guess it won't hurt me
05:42If it's a little late once in a while.
05:46Why don't we eat before she talks us out of it?
05:56Congratulations on that performance downstairs, Miss Freud.
05:59I was great, wasn't I?
06:01Did you hear Mamo practically begging me to let her do the dishes?
06:04You almost had me hypnotized into doing them.
06:07Really, though, Patty, this is nothing to fool around with.
06:11I'm not fooling. I mean it.
06:14It's incredible.
06:16By using psychology, you can get anything you want.
06:20Where's it been all my life?
06:22What are you writing?
06:24A letter to Kip accepting his invitation to the Harvard dance.
06:28Accepting?
06:30Patty, your mother and father said you couldn't go to the dance.
06:34That was BP.
06:36BP?
06:38Before psychology.
06:45Kathy said you wanted to see me.
06:47Oh, uh, yes, Richard.
06:53I want to apologize.
06:55I should hope so.
06:57Going to a dance at Harvard with another guy.
07:00I guess I'll just have to find some other way to do something for you.
07:04Do something for me?
07:06Yeah.
07:07I should have known you're not the bragging type.
07:10Of course not.
07:12What are you talking about?
07:14Oh, I just wanted to see everybody's face
07:16when you told them that your girl went to a dance with a Harvard man
07:18who was crazy about her, but she preferred you.
07:21Yeah?
07:22And how you took pity on the college man
07:24and let me go so that his heart wouldn't be broken.
07:27Poor devil.
07:29And everybody would envy you.
07:31You're going with the only girl at Brooklyn Heights High
07:33who was ever invited to a Harvard dance.
07:36Can't you just see their faces?
07:39Patty.
07:41Yes, Richard?
07:43If it means that much to this guy,
07:46I don't suppose there's any harm in you going to one little dance with him.
07:50Oh, no, no, I couldn't do that.
07:52I'm telling you, it's all right.
07:54I just wouldn't feel right about it, Richard.
07:56Now, don't be selfish.
07:58The least you can do is go for my sake.
08:02Do you really mean that?
08:03I certainly do.
08:05I'm telling you to go to that dance.
08:07Well, if you, uh...
08:09If you really feel that way about it, I'll do it.
08:12For you.
08:14Thanks a million, Patty.
08:17You should have heard him.
08:19He begged me to go to that dance.
08:21It's incredible.
08:22It's like a secret weapon.
08:24I could rule the world with this.
08:26Do you know what I love about you, Patty?
08:28You never get carried away.
08:30You know, I was wondering,
08:32should I wear a sheet or a full skirt?
08:36Haven't you forgotten one small detail?
08:39What's that?
08:40Your mother and father.
08:42They said you couldn't go to the dance.
08:44I told you, before I'm through with them, they'll plead with me to go.
08:48I don't believe it.
08:50Oh, no?
08:51Just keep an eye on the old master.
08:54Martin.
08:55Hmm?
08:56This apple looks more like an orange.
08:59Maybe you've invented a new fruit.
09:04Are you ready, Patty?
09:06Oh, uh, I'm not going, Kathy.
09:09You run along without me.
09:11But everyone's expecting you.
09:14Will there be a big crowd there?
09:18I don't know.
09:20Will there be a big crowd there?
09:23Of course.
09:25There always is a debris game rally.
09:27Oh.
09:28Then I think I'll just stay home and read a book.
09:30You have a good time.
09:34All right.
09:36If you're sure.
09:37Oh, I'm sure.
09:41Good night, Aunt Natalie, Uncle Martin.
09:43Good night, Kat.
09:44Have a good time, dear.
09:47Patty.
09:48I thought you liked these rallies.
09:51Oh, I used to.
09:53Mom, when you were my age,
09:56did you ever suddenly find yourself shy about being in crowds?
10:00I don't think so.
10:02Oh.
10:03Well, I guess it's just a teenage phase I'm going through.
10:07I'll probably get over it someday.
10:10Maybe.
10:12Martin, I think I'll put some coffee on.
10:15Would you like some?
10:16Good idea.
10:19I'll come with you.
10:31I knew something was wrong.
10:34Patty hasn't been out one night this week.
10:36I'm worried.
10:38Well, you heard what she said.
10:39It's just a phase she's going through.
10:41I don't like it.
10:42She didn't go to the shake shop with the kids after school.
10:45Yesterday, when they went bowling, Patty stayed home.
10:48Now that I think of it, she has been avoiding crowds.
10:52Why, that's not like Patty.
10:54No, it certainly isn't.
10:56Well, what are we going to do about it?
10:58Why don't you just leave her alone?
11:00Oh, we have to help her get over this.
11:02Well, how?
11:03By making her go out.
11:05You can't force her to go out.
11:07Oh, we won't force her.
11:08It should be something that she wants to do.
11:12Do you remember the Harvard dance that she wanted to go to?
11:16Well, maybe we could let her go to that to sort of break the ice.
11:20I thought we decided we didn't want her to go to that.
11:22It would mean a whole weekend away from us.
11:24One weekend won't matter.
11:26Besides, she'll be very well chaperoned.
11:29Wait a minute.
11:31I mean, what if she doesn't want to go?
11:33Well, she just simply has to.
11:35Martin, there are times when a parent must do the thinking for a child.
11:40We just won't take no for an answer.
11:42Come on.
11:55Uh, Patty?
11:57Yes, Papa?
11:59You haven't been out one night this week, you know.
12:03Yeah, I know.
12:05Well, we, that is, your mother and I, both of us,
12:10we were thinking that maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea if you did go out more.
12:16I don't want to go out.
12:20Well, we just mean to do something you like.
12:23For instance, you asked whether you could go to that dance at Harvard.
12:27Oh, that?
12:31You were very excited about the idea of going.
12:35There'd be millions of people there.
12:38I don't like people.
12:40You know, crowds are just a lot of individuals.
12:42If you take them one at a time, they're not so bad.
12:44We'd like you to go to that dance, Patty.
12:48I thought you didn't want me to go.
12:50Well, we changed our minds.
12:54Well, that's really very nice of you, but don't worry about me.
13:00Well, honey, I think you'd have a wonderful time.
13:03I don't think so.
13:05Of course you would, and Kip sounds like a fine boy.
13:09Oh, he's nice enough.
13:12Then will you do it?
13:16Do you really want me to?
13:18Very much.
13:20All right, then I'll do it.
13:23Oh, that's wonderful, darling.
13:25Patty, thank you.
13:27Well, that's all right, Papa.
13:29Well, I'd better get to that rally.
13:32I mean, if I'm going to go up to Harvard,
13:34I may as well start warming up with smaller crowds.
13:43We did it.
13:45Natalie.
13:46Yes, dear?
13:48Oh, nothing.
13:49It was just a crazy idea that occurred to me.
13:51What idea?
13:53Forget it.
13:54That's just my suspicious nature.
13:56That's what happens when you've been a newspaper man all your life.
13:59Why don't we finish making that coffee?
14:09Telegram for Patty Lane.
14:11Yeah, I'll take that.
14:12Will you sign here?
14:23It's for Patty.
14:24Well, I hope nothing's wrong.
14:26Well, there's one way to find out.
14:33Received your letter.
14:35Great, you can come to the prom.
14:37See you Friday.
14:38Gung Ho.
14:39Signed, Kip.
14:46Well, I don't know about you, but I feel like a puppet on a string.
14:50We should have caught on when she talked about being shy around crowds.
14:54She's about as shy as a Sherman tank.
14:56She must have written Kip days ago accepting this invitation.
14:59She was pretty sure of us.
15:02Martin, what are we going to do about this?
15:06How do you make the punishment fit the crime?
15:10As far as I can see, the only thing she's guilty of is outsmarting us.
15:14She wanted to go to that dance, so she used psychology to get us to ask her.
15:19I have to admit, that's pretty bright.
15:21Well, I would have felt better if she had just come out in the open and asked us.
15:25Well, she did. Remember? We said no.
15:28So we did.
15:31Well, now what? Do we just forbid her to go?
15:34How can we? We talked her into it.
15:38Anyway, I have a better idea.
15:41I took a little psychology in school myself.
15:47Good morning, group.
15:48Morning, dear.
15:49Morning, Patty.
15:51Kathy tells us you enjoyed that rally last night.
15:54Yeah, it was a...
15:56I mean...
15:58It was all right. There were an awful lot of people there.
16:03There'll be a lot of people in Boston, too.
16:05But you'll be fine.
16:08I'm going to try.
16:09Oh, good for you. It's a lovely city.
16:12You'll meet a lot of boys up there.
16:14A lot of them will be looking for wives.
16:16Just don't come back engaged.
16:18Me?
16:19Me?
16:20Don't worry about that.
16:22That's just what my cousin Fran said when she went to a prom at Harvard.
16:25She was just about your age.
16:27What happened, Dad?
16:28Well...
16:30Her date sent his roommate to pick her up at the railway station.
16:34And it was love at first sight.
16:36She never even got to the prom.
16:38He swept her right off her feet.
16:40They were married that night.
16:45Those Harvard men are pretty impulsive, aren't they?
16:48Oh, they are.
16:49When I was in high school, my best girlfriend got invited to a Harvard prom.
16:53I never saw her again.
16:55What happened to her?
16:56Oh, the Harvard men just swept her off her feet.
16:58She had three proposals of marriage.
17:01Oh, poor Tilly didn't want to get married, but they just wouldn't take no for an answer.
17:05Oh, they're very persuasive up at Harvard.
17:09You know, I can remember the first weekend I spent away from home.
17:13I was just about your age, Patty.
17:15Were you excited?
17:17Very.
17:18Oh, you'll be a little bit nervous at first, of course.
17:21You'll be all alone among a lot of strangers.
17:24Well, actually, you won't really know anyone.
17:26Except Kip, of course.
17:29I only met him once.
17:31And you'll be sleeping in a strange place in another city away from your home and family.
17:38Do you know what really surprised me when I got home from that first weekend?
17:42Everything seemed changed.
17:44It was as though I'd been gone for a couple of years.
17:47Even the house looked smaller.
17:51I'm only going to be gone for a weekend.
17:53And it'll be a marvelous weekend.
17:57We have to think about what you're going to wear.
18:00Perhaps we should buy her a new dress.
18:02Something that'll sweep the men off their feet.
18:06Mom?
18:07Yes?
18:08Let's not make me too irresistible.
18:15By Patty, you're the envy of Brooklyn Heights High.
18:19That's great.
18:21All the girls are green.
18:23Hey, do you think you could get a date for me up there?
18:26I'll talk to Kip and see what he can do.
18:30Just don't let Kip get you in the moonlight.
18:32He has a great line.
18:35He has?
18:36Sure.
18:38But he's a living doll.
18:40He's your cousin, isn't he?
18:42Uh-huh.
18:43If he weren't, I'd marry him myself.
18:45Who said anything about marriage?
18:47Yeah, a college prom is a great place to meet men, isn't it?
18:51Let's face it.
18:52You're not traveling up there to see Boston.
18:55Sue, maybe I'm a little young for Kip.
18:59Don't worry.
19:01He'll make you feel older.
19:04Oh.
19:06They just can't send me to Boston.
19:08I'm a kid.
19:10Patty, you begged your mother and father to let you go.
19:13Well, they should have said no.
19:15If there's anything I can't stand, it's over-permissive parents.
19:18I'm not going to be pushed out of the nest.
19:21They're not getting rid of me that easily.
19:23No one is trying to get rid of you.
19:26I'm not going to be pushed out of the nest.
19:29I'm not going to be pushed out of the nest.
19:32I'm not going to be pushed out of the nest.
19:34No one is trying to get rid of you.
19:36Oh, no?
19:38Everyone who goes up to Boston comes back either engaged or married.
19:42Well, no one is going to force me to go to that dance.
19:45Patty, you've already made the arrangements.
19:47You can't let Kip down now.
19:51Oh, boy.
19:53How?
19:55How do I get myself into these messes?
19:59It's a talent, Patty, and you've got it.
20:04I can't even handle Brooklyn Heights.
20:08What am I going to do, Kathy?
20:11Why don't you consult an expert?
20:14There's one in the next room.
20:29Come in.
20:34Can I talk to you a minute, Papa?
20:36Yeah, sure.
20:42Is anything wrong?
20:47Everything's wrong.
20:50You know the trouble with the psychology bit?
20:53What?
20:54It works.
20:56Does it?
20:58I don't want to go to Boston.
21:01Because you hate crowds?
21:05No, sir.
21:09I just said that so you and Mom would make me go to the dance.
21:14I'm afraid I wasn't being very honest.
21:17I'm sorry.
21:19I got carried away again.
21:21You know, Patty, there's nothing wrong with psychology.
21:25You can use it to make people feel better or to make things go smoother.
21:30But it's only when you start using it deliberately to manipulate people that it becomes dangerous.
21:37It's a very strange thing.
21:40When you start using people to get what you want,
21:43you usually find out that what you've got isn't what you really wanted after all.
21:48I understand.
21:52It won't happen again.
21:54Well, glad to hear that.
21:57I came in to see if you knew any way that I could get out of going to the dance.
22:03Oh, yeah, I think there is.
22:06How?
22:08Well, you might sit down and write a note to Kip.
22:12Yeah, that's a great idea.
22:14And tell him I have the measles or something.
22:17Just tell him the truth.
22:20You mean my age and everything?
22:22Yeah.
22:25Couldn't I lie about that just a little bit?
22:29No, I guess not.
22:32Okay.
22:34You're right, Popo. Thank you.
22:37I'll write him a letter of special delivery right away.
22:40That way he'll have time to get another date.
22:45Poor devil.
22:47Here you go, three years out of my life.
22:55Martin.
22:57Does this look like a banana to you?
23:01Sure it does.
23:03Which one?
23:05Thanks a lot.
23:08F-R-U-G.
23:14Patty, that's not the way you spell frog.
23:17Froog.
23:18Froog.
23:19It's a dance, not an act.
23:22Psycho. And I'm out.
23:25Congratulations.
23:27That's 17 in a row you've won.
23:30I'll get it.
23:32That's all right. I'll beat you next time.
23:36Popo.
23:38Can I have an advance on my allowance?
23:40No.
23:42Can I go to the movies tonight?
23:45No.
23:47No.
23:49Can I go to the movies tonight?
23:51No.
23:53Can I have that new dress I wanted?
23:55No.
23:57Isn't it great? The word no doesn't bother me at all anymore.
24:00I feel like a new woman since I've sworn off psychology.
24:04So do I.
24:08Hi, Rich.
24:10Never mind the hi, Rich. I've been thinking it over, Patty.
24:13You're not going to that dance at Harvard.
24:15And don't think you're going to talk me into it.
24:17I know all about these college men, and I'm going to be one myself in two years.
24:22And if you want a college man, you can wait for me.
24:24Is that clear?
24:28Yes, Richard, if that's the way you want it.
24:31That's the way I want it.
24:34Don't you love a masterful man?
24:38Come on. Let's go down to the shake shop.
24:42Patty.
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