Beach Party (1963)

Morey Amsterdam: Cappy

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Quotes 

• Cappy : Not you again.

  Eric Von Zipper : Yep, it's me.

  Cappy : I though maybe you'd skip us this year.

  Eric Von Zipper : I like you. And when Eric Von Zipper likes someone, they stay liked.

• [at the arrival of Eric Von Zipper and his Rat Pack] 

  Cappy : Just what we need, the black plague!

• Cappy : Just one thing, Professor, will you level with me? What's with the feather duster? The beard? You think it moves the chicks?

  Prof. Robert O. Sutwell : No, it usually works the other way.

  Cappy : I don't dig. You don't want to level with me?

  Prof. Robert O. Sutwell : All right, I'll level with you. When I first started out at Harvard, I was the youngest professor at the university. I was so young that it was sickening. No one took me seriously. Every time when I opened my mouth to speak, my students laughed, the other professors laughed, even the janitors laughted. Well, I knew it couldn't go on for long before I would be fired by the dean who did not want a professor that his students didn't take seriously. So one day at lunch, I sat down in the student cafeteria and presented my problem to this old professor friend of mine. And without even glancing up from his soup, he said to me: "buy yourself a pair of glasses and grow a beard." So you see, all of this is just 18 years of professor windowdressing.

  Cappy : Amazing how our lives parallel. You have that, and I have this.

  [points to the goatee on his chin] 

  Cappy : You know why I grew this? I got a dimple in my chin and I didn't want anyone mistaking me for Kirk Douglas.

  Prof. Robert O. Sutwell : But you don't look anything like Kirk Douglas.

  Cappy : See? It works.

• Cappy : Can I ask you something, Professor? Are you studying these kids sex lives, or you getting involved in it?

• Prof. Robert O. Sutwell : I'm doing research on post-adolescent surf dwellers. I'm writing a book. It's called the Sutwell Report.

  Cappy : How 'bout that.

  Prof. Robert O. Sutwell : I'm studying their rather primitive behavior patterns.

  Cappy : Boy, you came to the right cat. If anything you want to know about these kids I can tell you the whole thing in two words - they're nuts.

  Prof. Robert O. Sutwell : They're nuts?

  Cappy : Yes, see, you noticed it too.

• Cappy : [about Frankie]  Boy, that kid's really got a chip on his shoulder. I think it's his head.

• Cappy : Daddy! He's been a mother to us all.

• Cappy : Yeah, yeah! Dance, swing, live kids! Remember that tomorrow may be - the day after today.

• Cappy : Pies and beer. Pies and beer.

  Ava : I like it!