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01:17When you're growing up, September's have a special feeling.
01:22Another carefree summer is all too quickly ended,
01:25and a new school year is about to begin.
01:28There was an extra excitement for me in the September of 1934.
01:33My years at Miss Hunter's school on Walton's Mountain were over,
01:37and I was ready to take those first faltering steps
01:40into the strange world outside.
01:43How vividly I recall the edgy excitement,
01:46the awful exhilaration,
01:48of preparing for my first day at Boatwright University.
01:52It was a day which showed me how little I knew about some things,
01:56and how well my parents had prepared me for others.
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02:38John boy, what in the world are you doing up in dress at this hour?
02:41Too excited to sleep.
02:43Didn't mean to wake you.
02:48I just want to be sure I'm 100% ready for him.
02:51Was there ever such a warrior?
02:53I reckon I come by it naturally.
02:56Those creases could be a bit sharper.
02:59They're sharp enough for me.
03:02You do look nice.
03:05How I look isn't going to count for as much as how I do.
03:08You'll do just fine.
03:11It's a long way from this room to Boatwright University.
03:15Are you scared?
03:18Me too.
03:20Got butterflies in your tummy?
03:22No, more like crocodiles.
03:28I'll be down in a minute.
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04:26Aaron, if you don't stop brushing your hair, it's all going to fall out.
04:29Oh, Mama brushes her hair 100 times a day and it doesn't fall out.
04:33You brush your teeth too much, will they fall out?
04:36They only fall out if you don't brush them.
04:38Mary Ellen, when Mama sees that old rouge on your face, she's going to have a fit.
04:42It makes me glamorous.
04:43It makes you look like you have a fever.
04:45What do you know?
04:46I know we're all going to be late for school if we don't get a move on.
04:48Aaron's the one that's holding up everything.
04:50I am not, Ben.
04:51I have to look nice.
04:52There's a new boy coming to school.
04:53Well, you better hope he likes bald girls.
04:55You're funny, Mary Ellen.
04:57Brushing's good for your hair.
04:59Jim Bob, who ever told you that you could sew?
05:02Looks pretty good to me.
05:03Sissy.
05:05Hey, Jim Bob, stop that.
05:07You call me a sissy?
05:08Oh, will you look what you made me do?
05:10Serves you right.
05:11Boys, if you don't stop fighting, I'm going to call Daddy.
05:13He won't hear you.
05:14He's milking the cow for John Boy.
05:15Let me out.
05:16Say, Uncle.
05:17Daddy!
05:18Say, Uncle.
05:19Uncle!
05:20No!
05:21Let me out.
05:22John Boy, do you know how to tie a bow tie?
05:24Jason, you know, I'm not going to be here for the next four years.
05:28Are you going to let these savages behave like this or are you going to keep them in line?
05:33Come on, Ben.
05:34Get up.
05:35That's enough.
05:36Cut it out.
05:38Think it's funny, don't you?
05:40Mary Ellen, wipe that rouge off your face.
05:42Aaron, that's enough hair brushing.
05:44Come on, everybody.
05:45Everybody out.
05:46Jim Bob, get dressed.
05:47Elizabeth, come on.
05:48Everybody move.
05:49Come on, go.
05:53You okay, brother?
05:56Okay.
06:04Not the breakfast.
06:10Elizabeth, you haven't eaten a thing.
06:12I'm not hungry.
06:13Elizabeth, you are not going to school unless you have a good breakfast.
06:16Then can I stay home?
06:17Honey, you wouldn't want to stay home from school when everybody else was there, would you?
06:21I'd try it.
06:22It's the first day back to school that I don't like.
06:24Yeah, after that you get back into the same old boring rut.
06:27Boring?
06:28Mary Ellen thinks everything is boring.
06:30It's her new word.
06:31You children are going to look back on these school days as the best time of your life.
06:34School days, school days, dear old golden rule days.
06:38Reading and writing and arithmetic, taught to the tune of Hickory.
06:41You were my queen in Calico.
06:44I was your bashful barefoot bull.
06:47You were barefoot all right, but you were about as bashful as a buzz saw.
06:51Is that the way you remembered it, old woman?
06:53That's the way it was.
06:54Was, till I met you.
06:57Still being bashful?
06:58Maybe someday going to school will be romantic, but right now it's just boring.
07:03I never thought learning new things was boring.
07:05What new things?
07:06Same old subtraction and multiplication.
07:08Same old conjunctions, adjectives and adverbs.
07:10Same old history dates.
07:121492, 1776, 1861.
07:15Same old faces, same old squeaky pencil sharpener.
07:19Why don't you just try oiling it this year?
07:21Oh, you can laugh, John, while you're going off to college.
07:23You'll be seeing all kinds of new things.
07:25New subjects, new faces.
07:27Yeah, new faces, that's the truth.
07:29I'm going from some place where I know everybody to some place where I don't know anybody.
07:33That's scary.
07:34But not boring.
07:36Ben, Jim Bob, Aaron, it's time you got your things together.
07:39Says you.
07:41Yeah, says me.
07:43I'm not going to have you all straggling in late the first day.
07:45I'm not going until John Boy leaves.
07:48Well, it's time for John Boy to leave right now.
07:51You didn't eat your breakfast either.
07:53Well, I'll make up for it at supper time.
07:58Say, what did happen in 1861?
08:03Can I learn to drive soon?
08:06Here he comes.
08:11Looks pretty good.
08:14John Boy.
08:16John Boy.
08:18I want you to take this.
08:21Two dollars?
08:22And 50 cents.
08:23Two dollars and 50 cents?
08:25For emergencies.
08:26Grandma, I've got this planned right down to the last penny.
08:29You don't plan emergencies, they just happen.
08:31Now, you take that.
08:38I can't believe I'm really going.
08:40Come on, honey.
08:42You ever thought my burying suit would be going to college...
08:44...instead of going up to heaven with some harp-twanging angels?
08:47Or pitchfork and devils.
08:49Okay, here I am.
08:50Oh, hush.
08:51Well, I'll see everybody tonight.
08:53Okay.
08:54We bought this for you.
08:55And Aaron and Ishel took it for you.
09:02Have a nice day.
09:03Okay.
09:04Remember everything so you can tell us it later.
09:06I will.
09:07Kiss the girls for me, all right?
09:08I will.
09:11Bye.
09:12Good luck, son.
09:13Bye.
09:14Bye-bye.
09:15Good luck.
09:16Bye.
09:27Okay, let's go.
09:28Why are you so anxious to go to school?
09:30And, Bob, where's your lunch?
09:32I've got to get my books.
09:33Hurry up, Elizabeth.
09:34And I want you to get organized this year.
09:36We're not going to wait for you every morning.
09:40Well, you can start to catch up.
09:43Bye-bye.
09:46Sounds like our number two boy is beginning to take over.
09:49Turned into a regular drill sergeant, Pa.
09:53Well, our John boy is surely riding high.
09:58Most important day of his life.
10:10Bye-bye.
10:40What we always wanted, didn't it, Liv?
11:11Oh, please, please say you're going to the Boatwright Campus.
11:14I am going to the Boatwright Campus.
11:16Oh, you're an angel, an absolute life-saving angel.
11:22Oh, hi.
11:23I'm Polly Thompson.
11:24Oh, I'm...
11:25A friend was supposed to pick me up and drive me to the campus.
11:27I was only a few minutes late.
11:29Heavens, I thought I was stranded,
11:31absolutely quaking at the thought of being late,
11:33dreadfully late on my very first day.
11:36And then just when I was about to succumb to despair,
11:39rescue.
11:40Are you a student at Boatwright?
11:42I'm a freshman. My name is John...
11:43Isn't it such a relief to be my own person finally?
11:46All those terrible high school games you boys expect a girl to play.
11:50Pretending to be helpless, inadequate, totally dependent.
11:54Well, this morning is the beginning of a new life for Polly Thompson.
11:57Old acquaintances won't recognize me.
11:59Self-sufficient, resourceful, equal to anything.
12:03Oh, you know, you haven't even told me your name yet.
12:06John, uh, Walton. John Walton Jr.
12:08Well, John Walton, don't you think we'd better push on?
12:12You know, we could still be late.
12:14Oh, of course. Absolutely, of course.
12:16The first day of college, there's nothing in the market for excitement and adventure.
12:20I mean...
13:08Hey!
13:34Young man!
13:36Hello there!
13:37Me?
13:38Yes, you're the young man.
13:42Isn't it marvelous how friendly everyone is?
13:45Uh, I'm not so sure he's being friendly.
13:47Of course he is!
13:49Look on the positive side and life will be positive.
13:57Where are we hurrying?
13:58To meet my dearest friend.
13:59Oh, thanks for saving my life.
14:02Okay.
14:03Excuse me, do the freshmen register in the administration building?
14:07You really are a freshman, aren't you?
14:09Huh?
14:10No upperclassman would ever come on campus looking like that.
14:14Well, it's such a special day, I thought everybody would be dressed up.
14:18Friend, never dress up.
14:21Dress down.
14:23Casual, offhand.
14:27I'm Mike West.
14:28I'm John Walton Jr.
14:29What year are you in?
14:30Well, I'm a freshman, but you won't catch me advertising.
14:33Listen, let me give you some advice.
14:35You want to make it in college, first, you never call attention to yourself.
14:39And second, don't volunteer for anything.
14:43And above everything, don't look eager.
14:46Eager?
14:47The way you look right now.
14:49Open, vulnerable.
14:51You never let them see you're interested.
14:53Look, here's the look you want.
14:56Always aloof.
14:58Superior.
15:00You make them feel uneasy.
15:02All right.
15:04Hey, hey, fellas.
15:06Hi, how are you?
15:07Ignore them.
15:08Why, they're just being friendly.
15:09Come on over, guys.
15:10Don't pay any attention to them.
15:11Come on, they're just being friendly.
15:12Hi, how are you?
15:13Hi.
15:14Hi.
15:15It's your first day of dear old boat ride?
15:17Very first.
15:18What's your name?
15:19John Walton Jr.
15:20It's time you started learning your place, frosh.
15:23It's time you started learning your place, frosh.
15:26Which is lower than low.
15:28What do you mean, walking on sophomore circle?
15:31Well, you fellas called me over, didn't you?
15:33Well, no freshmen's allowed on this walk.
15:35Maybe you think you're special?
15:38No.
15:40Where's your beanie?
15:41My what?
15:43Your freshman cap.
15:45Well, I don't suppose I have one.
15:47Well, get one.
15:48Fast, okay?
15:50Well, I suppose I might.
15:52Yes, sir.
15:54Well?
15:55Anytime an upperclassman is kind enough to even notice you're alive,
15:58you must address him as sir.
16:00Now, let's hear a heartfelt apology for your inexcusable behavior, Walton.
16:07Um, I really wasn't aware I was breaking any rules.
16:09And anyway, I don't think it's very fair of you.
16:12All freshmen are ignorant.
16:13We are aware of that.
16:14But your ignorance is no excuse.
16:15Now, you must apologize.
16:19I apologize.
16:20Sir.
16:21What's this?
16:22My handkerchief.
16:23Looks like a shoe rag.
16:30You're right.
16:31It's a shoe rag.
16:37And next time, I'll let you shine.
16:42Yeah, okay.
16:43Hold it.
16:45Did you give the frosh permission to leave?
16:48He didn't ask.
16:50Well?
16:51May I have permission to leave, sir?
16:54For now.
16:56But get that beanie on before you go swimming in the lake.
17:01Might not be such a bad idea.
17:03Oh, Walton.
17:06Welcome to Boat Ride.
17:21Phew.
17:22All right, Pa.
17:23Take a breather.
17:24It's hotter than a Turkish bath.
17:26You think maybe if we bit off more than we could chew,
17:29contracting with Talbot for six loads?
17:31We'll manage.
17:33I sure miss John, boy.
17:35He'll still help us.
17:37Now, less and less, he's flown the coop.
17:40What with his job, school, and his homework.
17:43Less and less.
17:45Well, what do you want me to do, Pa?
17:46Tell him to forget what he wants?
17:48Settle for piecemeal and lumber in a jitney sawmill?
17:51No.
17:52You'll do what you have to do, John,
17:54and John, boy, will do what he has to do.
17:57But we are sure going to miss him.
18:00Well, you're right there, Pa.
18:03But we'll manage.
18:07All right, now.
18:08Take it easy.
18:19Come on.
18:40Did you lose something, Walton?
18:41Hmm?
18:42Besides your dignity?
18:43No, I'm just trying to find my big brother.
18:45Oh, mine found me.
18:46Davis, this is Walton.
18:47How do you do?
18:48Mike's been telling me how I could get more out of college.
18:51Your irony isn't lost on me.
18:53I'm relieved.
18:54I came here expecting a lot of questions,
18:56and so far I've had nothing but answers.
18:59What's your big brother's name?
19:00Um...
19:02Hewlett. Shanks Hewlett.
19:04Oh, he's over there.
19:05The tall guy talking to the pretty girl.
19:07Oh, thank you very much.
19:08It's nice to be needed.
19:10Oh, listen.
19:12Don't be subservient.
19:13Remember, the first 30 seconds of any relationship are critical.
19:17Still no.
19:18You can't turn me down.
19:19I most certainly can.
19:21Excuse me, but I believe...
19:22Freshmen pick up their orientation packets at the appropriate table.
19:26I won't take no for an answer.
19:27Well, you just might have to.
19:29I have my packet.
19:30If you have any questions, try the information booth.
19:33I've been looking forward to this all summer.
19:36Oh, well, under those circumstances,
19:38then the answer is still no.
19:41You are my big brother.
19:44Oh, yeah, Walston.
19:46Walton.
19:47I wondered where you were.
19:48Nice to have you with us, Walston.
19:49Thank you, Walton.
19:50Yeah, you seem to be doing okay on your own.
19:51That's the best way.
19:52You know, self-reliance and all that.
19:54Listen, if you come up with anything you can't handle,
19:56give me a whistle, okay?
19:58Okay, thank you.
19:59See you around.
20:00Bye.
20:01Now, we are going to reconsider that answer, aren't we?
20:04Because you're too nice a girl to turn down a sensitive guy like old Shanks.
20:12John?
20:14John, Walton, I am so glad to see you.
20:17I was beginning to think I'd never see a friendly face again.
20:20Been having some problems?
20:21Problems?
20:22Nothing's gone right for me today, not one blessed thing.
20:25Some sophomores were exceedingly rude and obnoxious,
20:28and now I can't find my big sister.
20:30That sounds familiar.
20:32The one nice thing that's happened to me today has been meeting you.
20:35Well, hearing that's the first nice thing that's happened to me.
20:38Oh, my goodness.
20:39What?
20:40I'm utterly ruined, destroyed, annihilated.
20:42Shh, quiet.
20:43My book bag.
20:45I must have left it on that bench by the fountain.
20:47It has my admission papers, my money.
20:48I'll get it.
20:49I'll get it.
20:50On the bench by the fountain, okay?
20:54Excuse me.
20:55Excuse me.
20:57I'll have him picked up in just a second, sir.
21:00In alphabetical order.
21:06I've seen you someplace before, haven't I?
21:09No.
21:10No, I don't think so.
21:11I'm new here.
21:13Children, I want you to...
21:15Elizabeth, pay attention.
21:16I want you to read the first page of your book,
21:19and if you come across any word that you don't know,
21:22just write it down on your papers,
21:25and we'll talk about them later.
21:31Mary Ellen, are you changing your desk?
21:33Yeah, I've been sitting in the same desk for years and years.
21:35I've decided I need a change.
21:37Good idea.
21:38Now, as you all know, this year we're going to be studying civics,
21:41the mechanics of our governments.
21:43Federal, state, and local.
21:46Now, in our federal government, there are three branches.
21:49Who can name them?
21:53Surely somebody must know that.
21:58Jason.
22:05Yes?
22:06I guess I don't know.
22:09Then why did you raise your hand?
22:14I don't know why, Ms. Hunter.
22:16You know I always appreciate it when students volunteer,
22:19but to volunteer when you have no answers just wastes everybody's time.
22:25I'm sorry.
22:28The three branches are the executive, the legislative, and the judicial.
22:35What's wrong with Jason?
22:36I don't know. He's acting really weird.
22:46Here you go.
22:47Oh, John, thank you. If you hadn't found this, I'd have died.
22:50Well, you would have been inconvenienced and mortified, but you would have survived.
22:54Oh, you know what I mean.
22:56Yeah?
23:05Finally, a new student who looks as if he might have an IQ over 70
23:08and some minimal sense of responsibility.
23:11Walton, is it?
23:12Yes, sir.
23:13Randolph, student chairman of orientation.
23:16How do you do?
23:17My co-chairman.
23:23No, actually, this is your freshman class mascot.
23:25Our mascot?
23:26Walton, can I trust you to carry out a simple assignment?
23:29Of course he can. He's most dependable.
23:31Well, this mascot, with a suitable escort,
23:33is to accompany the freshman class sponsor to the platform
23:36for the orientation ceremonies in about ten minutes.
23:39Can I trust you to take your mascot to room number 11 in the administration building
23:44and escort the faculty sponsor to the amphitheater?
23:47All I do is just lead the goat?
23:49And try to keep him from eating the sponsor's academic robe.
23:53All right, sure.
23:54Room number 11.
23:5511.
23:56Administration building.
23:57Administration building.
23:58Better get moving.
23:59Okay, thank you. Come on.
24:00Hey, don't go.
24:01Why not?
24:02Listen, tie this beast to the nearest tree and let's get out of here.
24:05You're just jealous because he picked John instead of you.
24:08Jealous?
24:09It's an honor to be placed in charge of our class mascot.
24:14Oh, you are both so gullible.
24:17You just don't trust anybody, do you, son?
24:20No, that's the first rule of survival.
24:22Well, I said I was going to take this goat and I'm going to take this goat.
24:25Fine.
24:28I warned you!
24:50Come on.
24:59What's the matter? Have any of you slickers ever seen a goat before?
25:02Come on. Come on.
25:03Here we are.
25:08Oh, no.
25:17Son.
25:21Young man, apparently you have dedicated yourself to making an impression on me.
25:27I was asked to come here, Professor.
25:29Goat.
25:33Sophomoric humor.
25:36Somebody should do a study.
25:41On the other hand, it's hardly worth it.
25:43Young man, as you can see, my name is W for William.
25:47K, goat.
25:49Naturally, the campus wits promptly dubbed me Billy Goat.
25:54An insult to us both, dear friend.
25:59However, under these circumstances, Walton, it would appear that you are the goat.
26:13Come on, Uncle.
26:20Come on.
26:29Thank heaven that's done.
26:38Oh, Libby, you still on that ironing?
26:41I think it would be easier to get things done without seven children interrupting all the time.
26:45It doesn't work that way.
26:46It's too quiet. I can't get anything done.
26:50You know how I used to get things done when I missed my kids?
26:53You join in. You see it works.
26:55Work for the night is coming.
26:57Work through the morning hours.
26:59Work while the dew is sparkling.
27:01Work with drinking flowers.
27:03Work by...
27:04I can't. I feel foolish.
27:07Well, I don't hear. Let me finish that.
27:09We haven't got all day. You do something else.
27:12Go on.
27:17Work while the day comes.
27:21I think I'll fix something special for supper tonight.
27:24Applesauce cake?
27:25Well, now, how did you know?
27:27It's John Boy's favorite.
27:32Welcome to Boatwright University.
27:39John Walton, how are you?
27:41Monselle, it's good to see you again.
27:43It's good to see you here finally.
27:45Thank you. I never did get a chance to thank you in person for fixing it so I could take that exam.
27:50I'm happy that it worked out the way that it did.
27:53Now, let's see.
27:56Uh, I need your certificate of admissions.
28:01Oh, it's in here, isn't it?
28:03Don't find it.
28:07Oh, boy.
28:16I can't register you without that certificate.
28:28Sorry, it's not here. How long do the freshmen have to register?
28:31Till 4 this afternoon.
28:33After that, you'll have to pay a late penalty.
28:36Five dollars.
28:37Five dollars?
28:39Oh, Lord.
28:42I'm sorry.
28:43I'll be back. Thank you.
28:50Mmm. Something smells almighty good over there in the oven.
28:54You can't have any of it.
28:56Why not?
28:57Not till tonight. It's applesauce cake.
28:59Oh, John Boy, I appreciate that.
29:00Bye.
29:01Oh, Lord, look down upon us and those who are absent from us. Amen.
29:06Amen.
29:07I hope he's making out all right.
29:09Why not? He's a Walton, isn't he?
29:12He is a Walton. You'd think that's the answer to everything.
29:16Well, it was for you, wasn't it, sweetie?
29:19He's going to be coming up against a lot of people with some mighty strange notions.
29:23Well, isn't that what education is all about?
29:26Just don't want to see him getting hurt, that's all.
29:28John Boy can take care of himself all right, just like Big John.
29:32Well, if he doesn't know how to take care of himself fine, he's going to have to learn.
29:43Oh, no.
29:47Professor Goat!
29:48No, no, no, Walton.
29:49I'd like you to stay well away from me until I've gotten safety in my car.
29:53Yes, sir. I can understand how you must feel about me today.
29:55Weary.
29:56Sir, my car happens to have disappeared.
30:00And you parked it here?
30:02Yes, sir.
30:05Well, Walton, I must say, you have a good sense of humor.
30:08Yes, sir.
30:11Walton, I must say, you have been consistent.
30:16You're not aware that this is faculty parking?
30:19Oh, no, I'm not aware of that, sir.
30:21And you didn't bother to read any of the...
30:25They're covered up.
30:26Yes. Banners.
30:30Well, that certainly is an extenuating circumstance.
30:33Well, where do you think my car is, sir?
30:35Uh, I would guess that the campus policeman,
30:38who is a model of vigilance and integrity,
30:40has had it towed to the garage.
30:42Where is that?
30:43Directly behind administration.
30:46Walton.
30:48Explain to them about the signs being covered.
30:51Yes, sir, I will. I'll also tell them I'm new.
30:53Walton.
30:55That, I imagine, will be apparent.
31:06Hi.
31:07Hi. This is my car, okay?
31:09That's too bad.
31:10I was going to set you back some dough to bail it out.
31:12No, I didn't realize it was faculty parking only.
31:14You see, all the signs were covered up with banners.
31:16Oh, is that a fact?
31:17So it wasn't really my fault, you understand?
31:19Yeah.
31:20Look, I told the boss when he hauled it in here,
31:22the first day you ought to be more lenient.
31:24Gibby goes after parking violators like they were public enemies.
31:28He's going to be mighty red-faced when you tell him.
31:30Yeah, well, where is he?
31:31He's gone to lunch. He'll be back in a minute.
31:33Where is he?
31:34He's gone to lunch. He'll be back in about an hour or two.
31:36An hour or two? I don't have time. I've got to take this car now.
31:39Look, I'd really like to help you, but I...
31:41I mean, I just don't have the right to let you take the car.
31:48You know, Gibby's real touchy that way,
31:50and if I lose this job, I'm out of school.
31:53You understand?
31:58Yeah.
32:01It's okay.
32:03Yeah, I'll see you later.
32:04Bye.
32:09Oh, John, where in the world have you been?
32:11I've just looked everywhere for you.
32:12Uh, Pa, I can't stop to talk right because I've got to go do something.
32:14Oh, please, you have to help me.
32:15Just look what they've done to my schedule.
32:17They put me in two classes at the same time.
32:19Now, how can I be in English Lit 101A in Ryland Hall
32:22and also in Sociology 101A in Richmond Hall?
32:25Why don't you ask someone in the registrar's office, okay?
32:27There's a huge line.
32:28Well, how about the faculty advisor?
32:30I can't find her.
32:31I can't find anyone who cares what happens to me.
32:33Listen, I'd really like to help you right now, but I just can't.
32:35I've got to make a phone call, all right?
32:36Oh, John, you wouldn't turn your back on a drowning person.
32:38Listen, I'm drowning, too.
32:39Don't grab onto me or we're both goners, all right?
32:41Ask somebody else to help you.
32:42I can't. I'm sorry.
32:43Excuse me. I'm sorry.
32:50Creep!
32:52The operator says 15 cents for three minutes.
32:56It's not going to take anything like three minutes.
32:59Here you go.
33:03It's ringing now.
33:11Scotsies.
33:12Ike, this is John.
33:14John who?
33:15Me, John.
33:20John boy.
33:21Oh, John boy. Hey, it sure is a surprise to hear from you.
33:24Listen, Ike, I have to ask you a favor.
33:26I don't know how I did it,
33:27but I managed to leave the house today without my admission certificate.
33:30Admission certificate.
33:32Yeah, I can't get registered without it.
33:34Uh-huh.
33:36Yeah.
33:38I see.
33:41But you're going to get your car back.
33:43Okay.
33:44Okay, look, could you have my daddy drive it over here in a truck this afternoon?
33:48Okay.
33:49I'll take care of it.
33:58Okay.
33:59Okay.
34:24Students, before we begin this afternoon's session,
34:26I'd like you to meet Andrew Clark.
34:29His family just moved here from Tennessee,
34:32and I'm sure that you're all going to make him feel at home.
34:36Is there anything you'd like to say, Andrew?
34:38Hi.
34:39Hi.
34:40Thanks.
34:43Jason.
34:45Well, I'd just like to say that,
34:47tell Andrew that he's more than welcome here,
34:50and I'm speaking for all of us.
34:52Thanks.
34:54What does he think he's doing, speaking for all of us?
34:59Excuse me.
35:07I want to see it again.
35:11Excuse me.
35:16Walton, how's it going?
35:18I reckon I've seen better days on the mountain.
35:20You seen Polly Thompson?
35:22No, not since lunch.
35:23Well, that girl hysteria is a way of life.
35:26You seem to be doing all right.
35:29It's one of my specialties, analyzing people.
35:32I decide what it is they want from me,
35:34and then fool them into thinking that they're getting it.
35:36Sounds mighty complicated.
35:38Not really.
35:39Take those frosh-baiting sophomores, for instance.
35:42Now, they're just looking for proof that they're superior.
35:45The only way they're going to find that
35:46is with greenies who volunteer to be humiliated.
35:49Like me.
35:51Well, you give them too much of a target.
35:54Where you're from, the way you dress, the way you talk.
35:57The way I talk?
35:59You reckon I've seen better days on the mountain?
36:02Well, that's me. That's the way I am.
36:04I can't help it.
36:05No, anybody can change.
36:06Well, maybe.
36:07Look, for a start,
36:09take off the coat and the vest and that tie.
36:12And if anybody asks you where you're from,
36:14you say Richmond.
36:16Richmond?
36:17I don't look like I'm from Richmond.
36:18Obviously, I don't talk like I'm from Richmond.
36:20Okay, okay, say Charleston.
36:22No, no, no, no.
36:23All right, not very far from here.
36:25But don't say Walton's Mountain.
36:28Look, Mike, I appreciate your...
36:29No, listen, it's last names.
36:31I'm West and you're Walton.
36:35There's got to be some other way of doing this.
36:37No, listen.
36:38They're looking for guys who are different.
36:40For a while.
36:42Don't let them see that you are.
36:45I got to register.
36:49Did John Boyd say why he didn't come back
36:51and get the paper himself?
36:52Well, he parked his car in the wrong place
36:54and they towed it away.
36:55Towed it away?
36:56Yeah, but there's no problem.
36:57He's going to get it back later on.
36:59Seems to me,
37:00Libby's having a devil of a time locating it.
37:02Where are you going?
37:03Well, I thought I'd just have a look-see for myself.
37:06Now, just sit down.
37:07You're just getting Libby's way.
37:09I have still got eyes like a hawk.
37:11Well, then settle back on your perch.
37:13Libby's quite capable of finding what she's looking for.
37:18He's almost ready to give up.
37:19Where was it?
37:20In his writing tablet.
37:21Four o'clock's the deadline, John.
37:22I'm on my way.
37:28Check it out.
37:29Check it out.
37:33Oh, Walton.
37:36Haven't we met somewhere before?
37:39It's possible.
37:41Did you say you were from Roanoke?
37:44No, no.
37:45Oh, no, no.
37:46Oh, no, no.
37:47Oh, no, no.
37:48Oh, no, no.
37:49Oh, no, no.
37:50Oh, no, no.
37:51Oh, no, no.
37:52Oh, no, no.
37:53Oh, no, no.
37:54Oh, no, no.
37:55Oh, no, no.
37:56No, no.
37:57I don't live very far from here.
37:58I know that Walton's from Newport News.
38:01No, it's not us.
38:02No.
38:04Hiya, Ick.
38:07Hey, what's your hurry, Ick?
38:08Hey, Ick, don't trip over those clawed hoppers.
38:13Hey, Ick-a-bot, get a mule.
38:16You believe he's the run of the family?
38:18I saw an old hillbilly one time up near Hampton.
38:21Nearly eight feet tall.
38:22Nah.
38:23Bye, boys.
38:24Anyway.
38:26You see what I see?
38:28I don't believe it.
38:32Looks like it's right out of a museum.
38:33Or a junkyard.
38:35Hey, Walton.
38:38Look what's driving it.
38:39Hey, maybe it's Ick-a-bot's old man.
38:41Gentlemen, excuse me.
38:43My father.
38:47You got time to register?
38:49Oh, thanks to you.
38:50I'm sorry for being such an absent-minded wanderer.
38:52I don't know, last sighting this morning.
38:54Forget anything.
38:55Well, this morning I thought I had the world by the tail.
38:57It's been wagging me ever since.
38:58Heard somewhere that education is mostly finding out how little we know.
39:02Well, I seem to be off to a right good start.
39:06You got yourself some new friends.
39:09No friends of mine.
39:14You better get yourself signed up.
39:16Okay.
39:17Daddy.
39:19You know, when I left the house this morning, I thought I was going to be a different man.
39:23Just like that, huh?
39:25Same old country boy.
39:27Can't seem to get rid of him.
39:28Can't seem to.
39:31Son.
39:33You're going to be all right.
39:40I'll see you tonight.
39:46Tennessee, huh?
39:47Yeah.
39:48Must be a right beautiful place.
39:49Yeah, it's really nice down there.
39:51Well, listen, Andrew.
39:52Don't worry.
39:53After a while, you'll make friends, get used to being here, and you'll feel fine then.
39:57I hope so.
39:58Thanks a lot.
39:59Bye-bye.
40:00Bye-bye.
40:05Ben?
40:06Hmm?
40:08Why don't you go talk to the new boy?
40:10Try to make him feel welcome.
40:11Why don't you?
40:13I've already spoken to him.
40:14Go speak to him again.
40:16Oh, shoot.
40:18Aaron.
40:19As soon as class is out, you collect Jim Bob and Elizabeth so we can start home right away, okay?
40:23Yes, sir.
40:24Mary Ellen.
40:25Don't give me any orders, Jason Walton.
40:27Now, listen here, Mary.
40:28I have been listening and watching you all day, Jason.
40:30And if you ask me, it isn't Andrew Clark over there who's a stranger.
40:33It's you.
40:34Come on, Aaron.
40:50I guess John Boy went off to boat ride this morning.
40:53Yes, ma'am.
40:55Oh, I'm sure he's going to make the most of it.
40:58John Boy does that.
41:03Hmm.
41:05Like my older sister.
41:08I'm sure he's going to make the most of it.
41:10John Boy does that.
41:13Hmm.
41:15Like my older sister.
41:16Like my older sister.
41:19My, but she cast a long shadow.
41:23And how I tried to be exactly like her.
41:27You did?
41:28Oh, yes.
41:30I made myself and everybody else miserable.
41:33Until I faced up to the simple fact that I wasn't like her.
41:37I never could have been.
41:39And I never should have wasted a minute trying to be.
41:42Why, it was as foolish as if you took it into your head to try to be exactly like John Boy.
41:48Well, I never could.
41:50Well, thank goodness.
41:52If you could make yourself into a carbon copy of John Boy,
41:56it would only mean that we'd lost Jason.
42:01That's a very special person.
42:03And in his own way.
42:12Will you give John Boy my best?
42:15I surely will, Miss Edmund.
42:24There we are.
42:27Now, everything's in order.
42:28Thank you very much.
42:29And ten minutes to spare.
42:31Miss Monselle.
42:33I hope I'm not going to be this much trouble to you for the next four years.
42:42Holly!
42:44Listen, I'm really sorry about the way I talked to you this afternoon.
42:47I just had things on my mind.
42:48I don't blame you.
42:50This morning I was so full of talk about being self-sufficient, independent.
42:55I found out I'm just a scared little kid.
42:58Not even ready for kindergarten, much less college.
43:01One thing I found out today is that every freshman is as scared as we are.
43:05They don't look it.
43:06Well, some of them do a better job of hiding it.
43:08Did you get your schedule fixed up?
43:11Do you really want to help me?
43:12Oh, sure.
43:14You know, you might just be stuck with me for the next four years.
43:18Well, I'll risk it.
43:19Come on.
43:33Hi, Walton.
43:34Thompson.
43:35Hello.
43:36Oh, I see you're all dressed up again.
43:37Well, I can't seem to follow your advice.
43:39I hope we can still be friends.
43:41Well, if you want to play the bleeding martyr, just count on me for iodine and bandages.
43:46Freshmen.
43:49Off the bridge.
43:52Yes, sir.
44:07May we cross now?
44:09Sir?
44:10Sir?
44:11No, you can't.
44:12Why not, sir?
44:13Well, because you're a freshman.
44:16Oh, yes. Well, we apologize for that, but it is only temporary, and I'm sure you understand.
44:21After all, only last year you were just as big a fool as any of us.
44:26Excuse us, please.
44:29Looks like we've got ourselves a hot shot here, men.
44:30Better take them off in the lake.
44:31Boys, if you try to put me in that dirty water in the only good suit I've ever owned, I'm going to take you in with me.
44:37Let's get him!
44:40Freshmen!
44:42Help!
44:43Freshmen!
44:45Help!
44:46Come on, freshmen!
44:47Help!
44:51Help!
44:52Help!
44:56Gentlemen!
44:57Braxton!
44:58Hold it.
45:02Walton?
45:03Yes, sir.
45:04Yes, sir.
45:09Walton, it occurs to me that I'd like a word with you.
45:14Gentlemen, would you kindly clear the bridge?
45:26Your first name, by any chance, wouldn't be Horatio, would it?
45:29No, sir. John.
45:35What did you want to say to me, sir?
45:36Walton, don't you think you caused enough damage for your first day?
45:42Why don't you go home now?
45:48Angelique.
46:20So, what ever happened to that goat?
46:21I never saw the goat again, but I had to wait a half hour to get my car back.
46:24Oh, wearing funny hats, throwing people into lakes. Calls sounds more like kid stuff to me.
46:29Hooligans, I recollect one of your grandma's rowdy friends wanted to dunk me in the river with all my clothes on.
46:36What they had in mind was baptizing you.
46:38Well, when I go for a swim, I prefer skinny dipping.
46:41Oh, Zed.
46:42We missed you at school, John boy.
46:43Miss Hunter said to give you her best.
46:45She must have crossed through my mind a thousand times today.
46:49She sure taught me something.
46:51I suppose you were bored, Mary Ellen.
46:53Well, not as much as I expected to be.
46:55Interested in a new subject?
46:57More like interested in a new boy.
46:59Andrew Clark. Mary Ellen is crazy about him.
47:01I am not. Then how come you kept practicing your name, Mary Ellen Clark?
47:05Oh, this family.
47:07Nothing quite like it, is there?
47:09Now leave it!
47:11Get your hands off my cake!
47:14If anybody touches that cake, I want you to hog it up.
47:17Let him eat, let him eat now.
47:19Don't push me out of the way, too.
47:20Yeah, no, not you.
47:24There have been many other first days in my life since that long ago September.
47:30But I've been sustained through them all by two certainties.
47:34I am who I am with whatever shortcomings and family ties may lengthen to accommodate distance
47:41But they are never broken
47:49John boy. Yes, Elizabeth. Did they really give you a big brother? They did was he nice
47:55Well, he was very busy. He didn't pay too much attention to me. That's the way most big brothers are
48:00Well, I'll try to remember that but there's still nice to have good night Elizabeth good night young boy
48:30I
49:00You