Original subtitles

How will you make it on your own?

This world is awfully big. Girl, this time you're all alone.

But it's time you started living.

It's time you let someone else do some giving.

Love is all around, no need to waste it. You can have a town, why don't you take

it?

You might just make it after long.

You might just make it.

Say, did you meet the new receptionist? She's such a warm girl.

I'll say she's warm. I introduced myself and she hugged me.

The entire time we talked, she kept touching me as though she couldn't

was real.

We all have that problem with you, Ted.

I just got hugged out there.

It's happening to a lot of people.

Hi. Hi, Mary.

Did she get you too, Mary?

Did who get me?

They got a new receptionist downstairs. Didn't you see her on the way up?

No, there was a crowd in the lobby area, though, around the reception desk.

What's she like?

Mary Richards!

She's very friendly.

Hi, there.

Hi!

Don't you know me?

Oh, well, yes, of course I know you. You're the new receptionist.

Think back, Mayor.

Didn't you go to camp when you were a little kid?

Yes. Yes, I did. I went to Camp Sunshine for five years and...

I did. I went to camp on one year, and that's where I know you.

No, no.

move the camp to the other side of the lake after it burned down.

And my father retired, and I got a new car, and I'm getting married.

Hey, that's terrific. No kidding.

Well, yeah, the old car needed four new tires.

Getting married?

Oh, yeah.

Well, that's why I moved to Minneapolis, to be closer to my fiance.

Oh, Mayor, isn't this something?

I'm working at the same place.

Oh, Mary, tell me what's new with you.

Well, I moved here, what? Mary, don't you have some work to do? Yes, yes, sir.

Sorry, I really have to get to work. Yeah, me too. How about dinner tonight?

Fine. Oh, I have so much to tell you about the kids at camp.

You still keep up with some of them, do you?

All of them.

I still put out the camp alumni bulletin.

Mary, haven't you been getting yours?

Oh, well, no, not for some time now.

Oh. Well, I'll get you all the back coffees. Okay. I'll see you later,

Right. Murray.

Ted.

She was always such a warm, friendly person.

She always used to make up people's bunks for them at camp.

I don't trust warm and friendly people.

Now, if you're through with old home weeks, shall we get on with the mail?

Yes.

Sorry about all the hysteria out there, Mr. Grant, but it is fun catching up

with old friends.

Yeah, I did that a couple of weeks ago.

Oh, what'd you see?

The 2nd Marine Division.

My old outfit.

We had a reunion.

Oh, it must have been fun.

Fun?

They booked this big room in a hotel.

The first thing they did was pin this tag on my coat that said, Sergeant

remember me?

So, what's wrong with that?

What's wrong with that?

There I was, surrounded by 300 drunken ex -privates, and suddenly I didn't have

rank on them anymore.

It's amazing how they remembered all the little slides that I committed in boot

camp 20 years ago.

Hey, about 20 years ago, you and I were both in camp.

Of course, some of the reunions I've been to haven't been so bad.

Right there in that same hotel, I went to a Notre Dame reunion.

It was terrific.

I didn't know you went to Notre Dame. I didn't, but those guys really know how

to throw a bash.

Word to the wise, Mary.

The best kind of reunion is one where you don't know anybody.

I'll keep that in mind.

Yeah.

Remember cute little Archie, Mary?

I'm glad I brought the camp scrapbook. It's nice to point out the people as I

tell you about them. Well, gee, Twigs, you know, all we've talked about all

night long is camp.

I'd love to hear about your life now, you know, or even college.

Anything as recent as high school, even.

Okay, sure, I understand, Mayor.

Hey, look what you wrote here.

Too good to be bored.

with the numbers.

Wasn't that clever of me?

Oh, you always were such a kick.

Excuse me.

You know, Mary, you haven't changed a bit.

Your apartment is still as neat as your tent used to be.

Thank you.

Hi, kids. Hi.

I got the brochures from the travel agency. Now, they have this trip to

that looks like... Hi.

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know you had company. No, no, no. Oh, I'm not

I'm Twinks.

Twinks, we know each other from Amwak.

Amwak.

You know, Camp Amwak.

Twinks just got a job at the station. She's the new receptionist.

Receptionist. Ah, alas, the word I know.

You two must have a great deal to talk over, so I'll come back with this

tomorrow. No, don't go.

I mean, stay.

I'd love to look at your brochures.

Rhoda and I are just trying to figure out where we might spend our vacation.

Hawaii. Oh, how fun.

When?

Maybe I can get some time off and go, too.

Well, actually, Twinks, we're not sure that I can even get the time off. I

you know how busy things are at the station.

Yeah. Well, then, maybe Rhoda and I can go alone.

Rhoda!

You're not from here, are you, Rhoda? What do you mean?

Well, I can just tell by the way you talk.

You're right. I'm from England.

Don't you just love Minneapolis?

I just love everyone I've met here.

Listen.

usual. My fiancé will kill me. He says since I've been here, I've spent so much

time with all my new friends that I hardly see him at all. I'll get your

I'll help you.

Oh, Mary, it was so much fun tonight.

How about lunch tomorrow?

Uh, well, tomorrow, I, uh, I know that I'm doing something. I just, uh, can't

think what it is. Has that ever happened to you, Rhoda? No, never.

Tuesday, then.

Then we can make plans for the weekend later.

Oh, Rhoda.

I'm on a big diet. I don't eat all week.

And I fast on weekends.

Oh, that's all right. I'm sure we can find something non -fattening to do,

window shopping.

I know we'll have lots in common.

Bye, Mayor.

Bye, Twinks.

Bye, Rhoda. Bye.

Twinks, huh?

I just figured out what twinks must be short for.

Tiddlywinks.

What a night. You just can't imagine. I had to be there, huh? And unfortunately,

I was.

Well, you met her, and you know what old camp stories are like.

How would I know about camp?

Oh, come on. You must have gone to camp. No.

Actually, I did go one summer to a day camp in the Bronx.

Camp Edelman.

I was

12

years old.

Well, I guess we've talked about camp enough for one night. Oh, it's all

Listen, we didn't just talk about camp. You think that's all we talked about?

We talked about other things. Yeah?

Talked about her fiancé. Oh, what's he do? He's a counselor.

Marriage? Camp?

I'd like you to stop reading over my shoulder, but you need all the practice

can get.

reception area, if you know what I mean.

Twinks is getting to you, too, huh?

You know, there are some people who don't see each other for years, and it

doesn't matter. They can just pick right up where they left off and be great

friends. Yeah.

Twinks isn't one of them.

Last week, we finally ran out of camp talk. Yes, finally. And we had nothing

left to say to each other.

Well, maybe she'll get tired of this place and look for a new job.

Yeah, and I know the perfect one for her.

Greeting planes in Hawaii.

Hey, that friend of yours, I'm going to give her about one more chance.

About what?

To stop hugging me.

Rudeness doesn't work.

Nastiness doesn't work. She just keeps right on coming. She refuses to take a

hint. Why don't you tell her to leave you alone?

That was my hint.

Why do you keep doing this to me?

Oh,

this thing is just getting bigger and bigger.

I'm just going to have to... to ease out of the whole friendship thing with her.

Well, how are you going to do that, Mary?

I'll just go out there and tell her that I'm going to be very busy for the next

few weeks, that I will call her when I'm free. It's as simple as that.

Maybe I'll do it by phone.

Can't face her, huh, ma 'am?

Say, Mary, I'd like to test this item on our show tonight. See what you think of

it. Uh, Twinks?

Hi, Mary.

Listen, uh, Twinks, I... Oh, really?

How wonderful.

Sure, I'd love to.

The 12th. Yes, I make a note of it. The 12th.

Right.

Bye, Twigs.

Come on.

You said the 12th. What's the 12th? The 12th is a date in the calendar.

Well, even Ted knows that.

is getting married on the 12th.

I don't understand what's wrong.

That's good news.

My wife says married girls don't like to go around with single girls. You should

be thrilled.

There's still the matter of the wedding.

But it's only a wedding, Mary. It's not such a big deal.

Yes, it is. It is a big deal when you're going to be the maid of honor.

from California can't come out to be in the wedding, so what could I say? I

just, I didn't have the heart to say no.

You mean the nerve.

Mary, don't you know what standing up for a wedding means?

It's not just walking down the aisle, you know. I know. I stood up for 11

weddings in college.

With May Devani, you have to go running here and there, choosing things,

arranging this.

Well, you know. Right.

But when you're younger, it doesn't matter. You get all caught up in the

hysteria of the wedding, but now it's different.

I just don't want to do it.

It doesn't matter. You don't care if another girl gets married.

Now I can't stand to see another girl walk down the aisle in a movie theater.

You know the worst part?

I feel like a hypocrite. I just don't feel close enough to Twinks to be her

of honor.

Hey, Mary, call her and tell her something came up.

You're right. Enough is enough. I will call her and tell her that I'm going out

of town, and that's honest.

How is that honest?

I'll go.

You're the only person I know who'd take a trip rather than lie.

Hello, Twinks?

Mary.

Listen, Twinks, Rhoda and I are... Purple?

Well, no, Twinks, purple has never really been one of my favorite colors.

Pink.

Okay. Yes, pink is fine.

Oh, never mind. It was nothing important.

Rhoda? Yeah, she's here. Just a second. Twinks, for you.

Uh -uh.

Talk to her.

Rhoda, she knows you're here. You can't do this to me.

Okay.

Okay, I'll talk to her.

For you.

Yeah?

Isn't that too bad?

Yeah, sure.

Okay. See you around.

That was short.

You bet it was short.

people as well as you do. Maybe I'm a hypocrite. I don't know. Before you say

another word, shake hands with the bridesmaid who's wearing purple.

Hi, Tommy.

How's the social event of the season coming along?

Well, the rehearsal dinner is tonight and then it'll be all over tomorrow. And

I'm just going to make it. You know I'm overdrawn at the bank for the first time

in my life.

I don't believe it.

What?

A mimeographed wedding invitation.

Aren't they usually engraved?

Will someone tell me what this is all about?

What is this?

Mr. and Mrs. Simon McFarlane request the honor of your presence at the marriage

of their daughter Rochelle Margaret to Mr. Arnold Tvet.

There he goes again. Can't you read anything without mispronouncing it?

How would you pronounce that then?

Tvet.

Must be a typo. What is a tvet?

It's a name.

Arnold Tvet.

And who is Rochelle Margaret McFarland? Twinks.

I should have known.

Of course, twinks. I just realized.

What?

Well, it's just something girls do when they're going with a guy. You know, they

doodle her name and his together. You know, to just see how it's going to look

together.

What a shock it must have been the first time she wrote it down and saw it.

Twink's tvet.

Hey, see, Murray, is it all right if I ride with you to the wedding?

I won't get as wrinkled that way.

Oh, Ted, you're going?

Sure.

Ted'll go anywhere he can wear his tuck.

How about you? Are you going, Murray?

Well, I don't know. I guess we all have to go. I mean, we see her every day, and

she does lots of favors.

Well, Mr. Grant, are you going... No, I... Hi, all.

Mary, here are the dresses for you and Rhoda. Hi. I was so worried they

get here on time. I said all the way to Detroit for them. Oh, I see you all got

your wedding invitations.

I think I'll put the RSVP list on the bulletin board and pick it up later.

Oh, Mr.

Grant, are you coming?

My father can't be here. He's overseas, and you remind me so much of him.

I'm not going to have to give you away or anything, am I? Oh, no.

I just want you to be there.

Yeah, all right.

Oh, I'm going to miss you all so much.

Yeah, same here.

I guess it's the way I put things.

Oh, Mary, I still can't get over that rehearsal.

I can't hear you, Rhoda. The stuff packed around the dress is making too

noise. I said that rehearsal.

If that's any indication of what the wedding's gonna be, we're in for a lot

laughs. What'd you think of Arnold?

You know, it's funny how some people look like their names. Like, I once knew

this guy named Fox.

This guy named Fox had red, bushy hair and little...

like a twit.

The only thing worse than this dress would be this dress in purple.

Who would have thought that the

stuff I said was packed around the dress was the dress?

But wait, it gets better. As maid of honor, I get the special added

of this.

Get rid of the hoops? Right. For a cute touch, we could get sticks and roll them

alongside of us.

If we got rid of the hoops and the bows... Right.

We'd take off the bows, those puppy sleeves, skirt.

We'd be walking down the aisle in our underwear, Mary.

This is going to be a challenge. It really is. To see if we can turn these

dresses into something halfway decent.

You know, I'm beginning to look forward to the wedding. You've got to be

kidding. No, I...

it at first but i don't know now that i'm involved in it all caught up in the

fun of the wedding hi

twinks

hi oh you've got it on i was hoping to get here before you opened the box i

you had

Did you and Arnold have a fight?

Oh, no.

Oh, that Arnold, he's so impatient. He can't stand it when I'm away from him

one second.

Isn't that cute?

Will you tell me what's wrong?

Mary, my best, best, best, very best

friend is flying out after all, and I... You want her to be the maid of honor?

wait while you take off the dress. Take off the dress? Yes, so Patsy can wear

it. Well, I just, I just paid for it. Oh, Mayor, I couldn't get another dress

from Detroit by tomorrow.

Sure, you and she can work something out money -wise. Oh, isn't it lucky that

you're both the same size?

That must be the prerequisite for being her best friend. You gotta be a size

eight.

They get you every time.

Yeah, she did get me a little, didn't she? A little?

Mary, you've been running yourself ragged for her, planning a wedding,

her a shower, buying gifts, just because you shared a bunk 18 years ago.

And then she comes in here and does this? Oh, it's ridiculous.

Frankly, it's not my idea of a friendship.

And you, you're just going to take it, aren't you?

Maybe I won't. Oh, yes, you will. You always do.

Well, just maybe this time I won't. Oh, that's all.

Oh, thanks, Mayor.

Oh, Arnold.

We were thinking it would look better without the hoops.

Listen, twinks. You know, I've been sort of running myself

ragged for you the last couple of weeks, giving showers and gifts and everything

because I thought you were my friend. And now you come in here and tell me

other girl is just going to walk down the aisle in my breath and I... You know

that... Somehow bothers me. I mean, frankly, that's just not my idea of

friendship.

You're right, Mary.

You might look better without the hoops.

I'll see you at the wedding.

Bye.

You're right. I'm glad I got that out of my system. Well,

I was pretty proud of you.

However, it might have been more effective had she heard you. Why?

through to that girl. She doesn't listen. She doesn't hear. It's like

a wall. What are you so excited about? It's all over. And frankly, I don't

really mind.

But I do.

I'm still a bridesmaid.

Well,

I gotta admit, I found one great moment of... satisfaction during that ceremony

really what was that when i saw that beautiful girl that friend from

walking down the aisle in that dress looking absolutely itty

actually she didn't you know look that bad

good try ma 'am

the viciousness when twinks through the bouquet. Boy, you had to be a real

fighter to get that one. Look at those girls. They were more desperate than I

was. But it's not as tricky.