Where the Boys Are (1960)
Dolores Hart: Merritt Andrews
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Quotes
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Ryder Smith : [talking about them getting intimate] Don't be frightened.
Merritt Andrews : I'm not frightened and I'm not being coy. It's just that I've... I've never done anything like this before.
Ryder Smith : You certainly had me fooled. All that talk.
Merritt Andrews : That's all it was is talk, and unless you love me the way I love you...
Ryder Smith : I love you, Merritt, I love you.
[they kiss]
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Dr. Raunch : We are not discussing Dr. Kinsey, we are discussing interpersonal relationships.
Merritt Andrews : What can be more interpersonal than Backseat Bingo?
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Merritt Andrews : Do you love me Ryder?
Ryder Smith : I think so.
Merritt Andrews : Do I love you Ryder?
Ryder Smith : I hope so.
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Dean Caldwell : Dr. Raunch tells me, when I spoke to her on the phone, she suggested that you might be overly concerned with the problem of sex. Do you think you are, Merritt?
Merritt Andrews : Dean Caldwell, I-I'd say there were probably a half a million co-eds in this country. I imagine 98% of them are overly concerned with that problem. So in that respect I guess I'm fairly normal.
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Merritt Andrews : In this day and age, if a girl doesn't become a little emotionally involved on the first date, it's gonna be her last - for that man, anyhow.
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Merritt Andrews : Honestly, Doctor, if a girl doesn't make-out with a man once in awhile, she might as well leave campus. She's considered practically anti-social.
Dr. Raunch : You have used the term: make-out. Define that, please.
Merritt Andrews : I beg your pardon?
Dr. Raunch : I should like to know what making out means; as, so would the class.
Merritt Andrews : Well, Dr. Raunch, I think they know already. Making out is what it used to be called necking! Before then, it was petting. And going back to early American days, it was also known as bundling. It's all the same game!
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Dr. Raunch : Miss Andrews, just what do you consider suitable subject matters for discussion in this course?
Merritt Andrews : We're supposed to be intelligent! So, why don't we get down to the giant, jackpot issue? Like, should a girl or should she not under any circumstance play house before marriage?
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Merritt Andrews : I divided boys into three types: sweepers, the strokers...
Ryder Smith : Educate me. What's a sweeper?
Merritt Andrews : The ones that sweep you off your feet - or try to. Often leaving large bruises.
Ryder Smith : The, eh, judo experts?
Merritt Andrews : Right! Then, there are the strokers. They use the soft caress, usually accompanied by the soft words, the soft lighting and soft music.
Ryder Smith : They, eh, set the stage, huh?
Merritt Andrews : Um-hum. And if a girl gets too interested in the drama, act three is over before she even knows the curtain is up.
Ryder Smith : What's that, eh, third classification?
Merritt Andrews : Aw, the subtles. The ones with the subtle approaches. They have a lot of different techniques: discussions of erotic literature, Freud, the coming of age in Samoa.
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Merritt Andrews : How are things going with you two?
Tuggle Carpenter : Oh, about the same. He hints what he wants. I hint about matrimony. And while each of us are hinting, the other isn't listening. He certainly is persistent, though. He keeps knocking on the door. It's just a question about how long I can keep it locked.
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Merritt Andrews : No girl enjoys being considered promiscuous, even those who might be.
Ryder Smith : Now, that's a pretty old fangled notion, Merritt.
Merritt Andrews : Oh?
Ryder Smith : Sex is no longer a matter of morals. That idea went out with the raccoon coat. Sex is a part of personal relations.
Merritt Andrews : Oh, really?
Ryder Smith : It's a pleasant, thrilling thing. Like, like, like shaking hands! Or, making sure you'll catch a person's name when you're introduced.
Merritt Andrews : I hadn't realized.
Ryder Smith : It's like contributing to a charity or working on a civic committee. As a matter of fact, it's actually serving your fellow man.
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Ryder Smith : Are you going to blame me for what somebody else did to her?
Merritt Andrews : I blame all of you who think of a girl as something cheap and common, just put here for your personal kicks.
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Merritt Andrews : I was angry. More than that, I was just plain scared. I kept thinking, it could have been me. It could have been, Ryder.
Ryder Smith : You'd never lose your grip. You're a pretty strong girl Merritt.
Merritt Andrews : Not really. No girl is when it comes to love - what she thinks is love. How do you know the difference?
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Angie : Doesn't if ever bother you?
Merritt Andrews : What?
Angie : Our state of single blessedness. The lack of male companionship. Don't you ever think of it?
Merritt Andrews : Occasionally. But, I decided not to major in it. The mind, Angie, is meant for many things.
Angie : Not mine. It just keeps saying, "Where is he? Where is he?"
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Basil : Date me, tonight, Baby Ruth.
Merritt Andrews : Booked.
Basil : Date me, tonight, Big Girl.
Tuggle Carpenter : I gotta date.
[Basil looks at Angie, says nothing]
Angie : Well, let's not be insulting.
Basil : Date me, tonight, Short One.
Angie : [smiles] What time?
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Merritt Andrews : You don't remember?
Melanie Tolman : Oh, I must have been really smashed.
Merritt Andrews : Stoned!
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Merritt Andrews : Ooo! What's in that, anyhow?
Ryder Smith : Oh, a love potion. I tried everything else and now I'm trying to get you blotti - eh - blottoed.
Merritt Andrews : You know something Ryder, you just may succeed.
Ryder Smith : In what?
Merritt Andrews : In getting me blottoed!
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Ryder Smith : Look, she got mixed up with the wrong people.
Merritt Andrews : Have you met any right ones, lately?
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Merritt Andrews : I'm not much for the drinking bit.
Ryder Smith : Good girl.
Merritt Andrews : I'm not being prudish. I just don't believe in getting smashed. It's sort of juvenile. Not really worth the effort.
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Merritt Andrews : Where did you learn that, in reform school?
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Merritt Andrews : How goes the battle?
Melanie Tolman : It goes awful!
Merritt Andrews : They say the only cure for a hangover is 24 hours.
Melanie Tolman : Maybe I'll live that long.
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[trying to get the drunk Melanie to go to bed]
Merritt Andrews : Come on. We can talk about it tomorrow.
Melanie Tolman : [drunk] I wanna talk now!
Tuggle Carpenter : Beddy bye for you.
Melanie Tolman : [stands up] I wanna talk all about me and Franklyn... and life and love...
Tuggle Carpenter : [to Melanie] What do you think?
Merritt Andrews : Oh, definitely!
[both Merritt and Tuggle drag Melanie from the bed into the bathroom and they forcibly place her head under the shower spray to sober her out]
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Basil : No, no, no.. please, please... We do not want applause. Let's keep things as un-frantic and cerebral as possible. If you have any questions, ask them during the break. The selection you just heard was The Nuclear Love Song, composed by our percussionist. Next is an original of my own, written for guitar and flute, entitled, A meeting between Shakespeare and Sachil Page on Hamstead Heath. Well, now, aren't we wonderful. Are we the greatest you ever heard? Compliment me.
Merritt Andrews : Well, you're different.
Basil : Dialectic jazz is not only different, it's profound. Beer for everybody. Let me know when that's gone.
Angie : Angie : What's dialectic jazz? I don't dig dialectic? What's the scene?
Basil : Short girl, don't ever use jive talk in my presence. If you want to speak to me, keep it civilian. No! No minor 7th there.
Guitar Player : It's more emergent, less eruptive.
Basil : Its offensive in that Sound Plane. My boys are tired... Five days coming down here. Six Concerts every day since we left school.
Tuggle Carpenter : Six a day? No wonder you're loaded.
Basil : Well, we did not earn this money. We never accept money. As a matter of fact, we pay the audience.
Tuggle Carpenter : Tuggles: Huh?
Basil : Well, usually in Beers. That way we're never indebted to anyone. We can play what we want. Not what everybody else wants us to. We're incorrupt. Like athletes, however, we sometimes become a little too finely trained... and we need to reestablish social contact with our public...
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Tuggle Carpenter : Say, listen, we got a little problem.
Merritt Andrews : What?
Tuggle Carpenter : Two kids from Ohio State came all the way down here and now they can't afford the rates. So, I was thinking, maybe we could have 'em stay with us.
Angie : Girls, I assume?
Tuggle Carpenter : Don't be funny.
