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Back to the Beach

192 statements
36 feature instances
6 referencing feature instances

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Back to the Beach	label	Back to the Beach
Back to the Beach	page	BackToTheBeach
Back to the Beach	comment	A 1987 Affectionate Parody of the 1960s beach party movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello... starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.Frankienote who for legal reasons is never addressed by name throughout the film, and is credited as "Annette's Husband" is now a stressed out car salesman from Ohio, Annette is a housewife, and their son Bobby is a punk. They go on a vacation, but never make it past their layover in Los Angeles, where they find out their grown daughter, Sandi, is shacking up with a surfer named Michael. Frankie runs into his old flame Connie, which leads to a tiff between him and Annette. Hilarity, musical numbers, and many celebrity cameos ensue.
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Back to the Beach / int_120d0e3f	type	Adam Westing
Back to the Beach / int_120d0e3f	comment	Adam Westing: Bob Denver and Alan Hale, Jr. (foreshadowed by one of Michael's lines); Don Adams as the Harbor Master.
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Back to the Beach / int_188668f2	type	Redemption Quest
Back to the Beach / int_188668f2	comment	Redemption Quest: Frankie in the surfing contest.
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Back to the Beach / int_24c685bf	type	Good Bad Girl
Back to the Beach / int_24c685bf	comment	Good Bad Girl: Annette's rival Connie. She spends a good chunk of time trying to steal Frankie—but has no real interest in Frankie. Why? Because she's supposed to, and it's a way for Annette to re-realize how good she has it with Frankie.
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Back to the Beach / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Back to the Beach / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: A verbal one. When The Big Kahuna challenges the punks to the surfing contest he suggest they settle it like they did in the old days. You hear a random background voice say "A pajama party?"
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Back to the Beach / int_3b982a5a	type	Crowd Chant
Back to the Beach / int_3b982a5a	comment	Crowd Chant: Kahu-na! Kahu-na! Kahu-na!
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Back to the Beach / int_41a894d2	type	Voodoo Shark
Back to the Beach / int_41a894d2	comment	Voodoo Shark: The Humunga Cowabunga from Down Under.
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Back to the Beach / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Back to the Beach / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Bobbie. He's trying desperately to be hardcore and... isn't. Mostly because he's twelve.
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Back to the Beach / int_58b16d6c	type	Motorcycle Dominoes
Back to the Beach / int_58b16d6c	comment	Motorcycle Dominoes: Or surf board dominoes, in this case.
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Back to the Beach / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Back to the Beach / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Troy (though in Annette's case he's a Casanova Wannabe).
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Back to the Beach / int_5eecd64c	type	Oh, No... Not Again!
Back to the Beach / int_5eecd64c	comment	Oh, No... Not Again!: The bartender (AKA Gilligan) when his buddy (AKA The Skipper) turns up at the bar and cheerfully announces it's time for them to go on a trip...
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Back to the Beach / int_77ed6b7d	type	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
Back to the Beach / int_77ed6b7d	comment	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Bobby thrives on this (along with his switchblade). He's driven nuts because Annette thinks it's cute. He gets better.
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Back to the Beach / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Back to the Beach / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "You must represent darkness, evil, and godless Communism." "You forgot ugly, lazy, and disrespectful."
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Back to the Beach / int_83445b04	type	Pun
Back to the Beach / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: "Somebody get me a net... well I didn't mean that kind of Annette."
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Back to the Beach / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
Back to the Beach / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: Annette, which is why she's never too upset. She knows the formula by heart, even if almost everyone has forgotten it.
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Back to the Beach / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Back to the Beach / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Along with being an affectionate parody with lampshade hanging, it also deconstructs what would really happen when beach kids get older.
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Back to the Beach / int_8d411e7c	type	SpecialEffectsFailure
Back to the Beach / int_8d411e7c	comment	Special Effects Failure: Invoked with the Big Kahuna surfing in front of an obvious rear screen projection, as a reference to the old surfer movies.
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Back to the Beach / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Back to the Beach / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: "Am I crazy, or is this the plot to Gilligan's Island?" The Accident Story.
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Back to the Beach / int_9dfd7154	type	Fridge Logic
Back to the Beach / int_9dfd7154	comment	Fridge Logic: Invoked Trope by the bartender, played by Bob Denver, who gripes that he knew "a guy who could build a nuclear reactor out of coconuts but couldn't fix a two-foot hole in a boat."
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Back to the Beach / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Back to the Beach / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: O. J. Simpson (or not?), Dick Dale, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Fishbone, Pee-wee Herman, Barbara Billingsley, Jerry Mathers, and Tony Dow. It's not clear that all the celebrities are playing themselves. Except Bob Denver, who is Gilligan.
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Back to the Beach / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Back to the Beach / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Michael's skill at making surfboards. In the end, he monetizes it, to Frankie's delight.
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Back to the Beach / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Back to the Beach / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Bobby, so very much. Also Sandi.
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Back to the Beach / int_af157b58	type	First-Person Smartass
Back to the Beach / int_af157b58	comment	First-Person Smartass: Bobby provides the Opening Narration for the film and has a very snarky outlook on both of his parents and the lives they lead.
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Back to the Beach / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Back to the Beach / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: When Bobby announces he's changed his name to Surley, his father thinks he's changed his name to Shirley. And when he then decides to change his name to Knife, Sandi teasingly calls him "Nice".
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Back to the Beach / int_b6caa5b4	type	Operation: Jealousy
Back to the Beach / int_b6caa5b4	comment	Operation: Jealousy: Toyed with by Annette.
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Back to the Beach / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
Back to the Beach / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: The film's primary comedic conceit is the contrast of "modern" '80s beach culture with the '60s atmosphere of the original Beach Party movies.
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Back to the Beach / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Back to the Beach / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Frankie sings "California Sun", but it was Annette who covered it in 1963.
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Back to the Beach / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Back to the Beach / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Frankie is referred to by no name other than "The Big Kahuna" throughout the film. He is even credited as "Annette's Husband" at the end. This is because the character of "Frankie" was the property of Orion Pictures (who had bought out the original producers of the Beach Party movies, American International Pictures), who did not produce this film (Annette's character was usually called "Dee-Dee", which allowed them to use her real name in this movie). "The Big Kahuna" also is not from the original Beach Party movies, but Gidget.
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Back to the Beach / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Back to the Beach / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: The world's biggest wave which destroyed Frankie's career in Australia comes back to attack him in Los Angeles.
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Back to the Beach / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Back to the Beach / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: The Humanga Cowabunga from Downunder. Appropriate given it's kind of a memorable name.
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Back to the Beach / int_e9edfbad	type	Slumber Party
Back to the Beach / int_e9edfbad	comment	Slumber Party: A pajama party set up by Annette as part of her formuliac plan to get Frankie back.
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Back to the Beach / int_f567146c	type	Aside Comment
Back to the Beach / int_f567146c	comment	Aside Comment: The very last line of the movie. "Are we the corniest couple you've ever seen or what?"
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Back to the Beach / int_f7588306	type	Reverse Psychology
Back to the Beach / int_f7588306	comment	Reverse Psychology: Annette uses this on Bobby at one point.
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Back to the Beach / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Back to the Beach / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Everyone gets Frankie's nickname "Big Kahuna" wrong. When Sandi mentions her relationship with Michael is in trouble and asks what to do, Annette suggests a pajama party. Afterwards, there's a few more times when people are troubled and they think Annete's solution is another pajama party (though she has different solutions those times).
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Back to the Beach / int_fc299bf1	type	Hideous Hangover Cure
Back to the Beach / int_fc299bf1	comment	Hideous Hangover Cure: "Keith Richards lives on these things." Doubly funny as Frankie needs a minute to remember who Keith Richards is. Then again, he is outrageously hung over.
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Back to the Beach / int_fc40e566	type	Cameo Cluster
Back to the Beach / int_fc40e566	comment	Cameo Cluster: The whole movie is essentially a long series of cameo appearances by various performers, most of whom (like Frankie and Annette) were famous in The '60s. (Connie Stevens is an exception, appearing throughout the film in a major supporting role.) However many of the musical cameos are by then-modern acts such as Fishbone, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and (though he isn't usually regarded as a musician) Pee-wee Herman, who was probably the biggest star in the cast at the time of the film's release. Even the home video packaging emphasizes the film's cameos.
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