It's A Thought (1980)

[Music] [Music] hello hi Stacy uh-huh um this is Deb yeah debie is someone there with you you yeah Ellen's here oh well see I wanted to invite you to my birthday party this Friday night oh and Ellen too well are there going to be any guys there uh no it's a slumber party and my dad's going to go out and get some pizza and um we're going to have some birthday cake and stuff just said D bring birthday cake and pizza Stacy Stacy well I don't know we might come or we might not well I kind of need to know um cuz my mother told me that I could only have 10 people and I need to know well I'll let you know later May doing something Friday night okay bye Debbie aren't you off that phone yet yeah Mom I'm off here hang up this sweater it doesn't belong on the door nov honestly you talk on that telephone every night it it's constantly ringing off the hook drives your father crazy and here these clothes go in the dirty clothes hamper okay yeah but it's always for you and Missy nobody calls me well Dorene calls you every night wow Dorene she calls just to find out the homework assignments is there anything wrong honey no nothing's wrong well okay then you better get on with your homework mom do I have to have a party this year couldn't we just do some family thing or something well you've always had a birthday party why would you want to change this year but slumber parties are baby Stu nobody has slumber parties anymore well Dorene had one last month wow Dorene her little sister and me nobody else showed up I can't understand some parents you mean they allow their kids to accept invitations to parties and then the kids don't show up I don't know most parents don't know what their kids do oh I can't believe that and yes I would like for you to have a birthday party besides you do owe a lot of invitations to who Dorene why to all of your friends mom I have not been invited to one party all year long now Deb you know that can't be true it is true why do you think I spend every weekend babysitting I don't have any place else to go all the kids I hung around with in great school run around with a different crowd now yeah but you knew they'd make new friends and you have too I haven't I can't oh don't give me that stuff mom I have been calling kids all night and not one of them has said for sure that they can come to my party well what about Stacy and Ellen gosh you've been close to them I just called Stacy her and Ellen laughed at me when I invited him they're not coming she and Ellen why not I told you because they run around with a different crowd now and all the girls think that girl parties were baby stuff you mean they only go to boy girl parties all the popular kids do every Friday and Saturday night well you know I don't approve of that yeah I know you don't well what's that supposed to mean do you want boys to come to your birthday party no not really nobody's going to show up anyway oh come on get off the self-pity kick it's not self-pity I'm just being realistic hey let's drop the whole thing all right Debbie you wore my new blouse and you wrecked it you got the cups filthy now you're going to buy me a new one oh BG off miss you give me a pain you always wearing my stuff now girls yeah but you're such a goat you always wreck my clothes I'm telling you stay out of my closet get off my case will you tell her to shut up and get out of here Missy and Debbie would you two please stop it if I ever catch you in my closet again you're going to get it you little missy that's enough of that I don't want to hear that language around your sister or any body she doesn't know any other kind of language bull you ought to hear the way her crowd talks that Ellen and Stacy are coupled to bit sleeves better than those freaks and heads up at high school anyway I don't run around with Stacy and Ellen anymore what's wrong you too good for him no if you two girls don't stop it right now I'm calling your father oh Mom please don't think Daddy on us no no not the terrible teddy bear anything but that you you too you think you can wrap him around your little finger you do it too what wrap him around your little finger well he is a little outnumbered right I get it get it hello yeah just a minute it's for you oh okay I'll take it in the kitchen and Deb go ahead with the plans for the party it'll turn out just great okay sure Mom what's she talking about oh my birthday party hey I'm sorry I got your blouse dirty that's okay you can clean it Goat so what kind of blous you go throw oh I don't know Mom wants me to have another slumber party sweet yeah just like third grade again put on your little party dress invite all the goodie goodies over open presents blow out the candles GE jeez I wish we could just forget about the whole thing oh what the heck throw the kind of party you want wish they'd let me have a party not too likely since mom's still finding empty beer cans under the furniture from the last one yeah big deal there's always some party crashers to bring some beer doesn't mean a thing boy wait till you get to high school you'll go to parties they'll just blow your mind not me why not I don't even get invited to the ones in junior high in high school you don't need an invitation you just go well I'd better get back to work so far I'm zero for eight what do you mean I've called eight people and not one of them is said for sure that they can come to my party oh is there a game or a big bash that night no game I wouldn't know about the parties I never hear about them until they're over what's the problem me I guess yeah you are sort of a mess gee thanks a bunch Missy get in here right now and unplug this curling iron you know you're going to burn this house down someday coming mother really I want to talk to you about this some more okay just stay cool and these are [Applause] mine October 14th this party thing has got me down it's the pits the popular kids aren't going to show up and if they don't come nobody else will come either then everybody will know I threw a party and nobody came it's humiliating I could just die but Mom doesn't understand she's going to make me have that stupid party no matter what sometimes I wish I could start Junior High all over again I'd create a new image for myself a new image a new image a new image a New Image new but it's not who you know and it's not where you go baby happiness is just how you feel I know that I'm no cele and I'm not talk down but I've been the one who pick you up someone knocks you down and I may not be what you were looking for but all always be where you are lighten up your Darkness baby so you won't have to catch a star catch you won't have to catch a [Music] star there she is she did show up she's beautiful man I'm going to ask her to dance you get it man she's out of your class man I trade my base for her who is that fox that my friend is Debbie [Music] oh please don't let me interrupt I do so enjoy watching you young people dance please go right ahead hi Dad Oh Stacy I didn't notice you gee that's okay Dad Ellen and me we were just wondering I mean well I'm having a party Friday night and I was wondering if you could well if you would if you just show up for a little while my brother could pick you up in his brand new sports car your brother the Gearhead oh Dad please if you just put in an appearance it really make the nice for us everybody want to come if they knew you'd be there how sweet I might come but then again I might not oh please um Debbie would you um like to dance no thank you please Deb if you just put in an appearance oh you kids will have to excuse me I see someone I have to talk to Debbie oh wow Debbie you look great Roger you poor thing I know you've been trying to call me all week but my schedule's been absolutely [Music] hectic make me know oh moving faster don't let [Music] go let go wow she is so popular don't you wish you could be a little bit just a little bit like her have you seen Debbie dine you'll never get near in that crowd she's got the whole high school football team following her around I got to talk to her Debbie Debbie Debbie debie dabie hey dabby wait up oh hi ding hi what do you me about that assignment for communications class tomorrow I don't know I'm doing mine on ESP and psychic phenogen yeah Dynamite Stacy hey Stacy I'll go to the library and help you get Stu for your speech if you want hey Stacy Stacy hi what you what you doing jez you're loud sorry hey you want to go to The Gables after school for a Coke no we got practice after school I'll go with you Deb did you hear me then will you save me a place at lunch I got something to talk to you about I'll save you a place at lunch I don't like to eat alone anyway Ellen was supposed to meet me here you can have my dessert and we can talk wait till I tell you what happened to Brad and math class today see Ellen over here hurry up we haven't had a chance to really sit down and talk lately all the guys were standing behind the door waiting for Brad when Mr Zen walked in first and he what's this your cheering section come on let's go well we'll save me a place at lunch and I'll tell you about the whole thing of course if you're too busy at lunch you could come over to my house tonight or I could stop by yours do you want me to give you a call what are you babbling about while meeting you for lunch you're doing something together tonight Dorene you are such an air well Dad what did I do well you going to answer to what yeah hello yeah dine no hey can I call you back later yeah I promise I'll call okay bye Marine I gathered that she's so out of it she is huh she's always calling me up and following me around she's pest maybe she's just lonely if she is she brought it on herself how do you figure nobody likes to be around her oh she's really insulting and obnoxious huh no not insulting just out of it oh how do you get in it Missy what are you driving at is this be kind to a misfit week or something no I like her though she reminds me of somebody I know look I just feel sorry for that's all why she's having a bad time of it I know how she feels junior high can be really rotten how would you know I was a lot like her and you what's that crack supposed to mean I'm like her Oh no you're the bell of the ball oh get off it hey I'm not putting you down I've been there too no you haven't not like this oh really what would you say if I told you that when I was in seventh grade I never once got asked to a movie or a party or did I spend the night at somebody's house all the popular boys call me pizza face pizza face yeah I was a real winner sits glasses but teeth and a horse laugh I remember you were a pretty funny case I remember once I got mad at Laura Dorne for not invited me to her first boy girl party I always had her in my parties well anyway I got got so mad I called her mom and told on her oh you didn't did I ever the next day Laura and her crowd caught me in the halls and started pushing me around and yelling at me one of them poured paint all over my new sweater it was awful nobody talked to me for a month I never knew about that no I didn't talk about it around here much but it was pretty bad so I'm telling you I've been there but how did you make it in high school then I mean you got lots of friends now well simple I just counted noses is that supposed to make sense sure way I have it figured maybe 10% of the school is the popular click that leaves 90% of the kids on the outside trying to get in I just figured there are more of us than there are of them why should a couple dozen them make hundreds of us feel like turkeys so I just made friends with a bunch of kids like me who couldn't get into the popular click but you are popular now not really not the way you mean at least oh don't give me that you're always going to parties and dances yeah but I go with my crowd the kids I hang around with aren't exactly the jet set but we have a lot of fun times together you mean to tell me that Mike and Susan and Kathy they aren't popular well we're popular with each other but we don't exactly run the high school I always thought you guys were popular hey maybe I'm not not head cheerleader or class president or a big jock but I've got a lot of good friends and I'm happy maybe happy is more important than popular did you ever think of that well I wasn't trying to cut you down okay you just remember your ideas are going to change when you get to high school so much bigger than Junior High that there's room for a lot of clicks the marching band hangs around together kids on the newspaper and the Yearbook hang around together de baate team hangs around together you mean to tell me that there's not one group that runs the whole school sure there is there's a group of I guess you'd call them beautiful people they're the homecoming queens and the star jocks the kids with the flashy clothes and the cool cars they sort of run around together but just because you don't fit in that group doesn't mean you have to be left out in the cold but you do have to make an effort to make friends but it's so different in junior high I don't have all those choices you know what your problem is you're letting Ellen and Stacy decide who who's worthy of being your friend and who's not oh I don't buy that why not it's not so weird you figure just because somebody hasn't been accepted in the popular click there's something wrong with them so you ignore them too well don't you well maybe so Stacy and Ellen are keeping you from making friends with 90% of the kids in your class I got to get on my homework hey wait a second I'm not sure what you're telling me to do am I supposed to to go crawl into a cave and forget about the next couple of years and start a ref fresh in high school hey I'm not telling you you have to do anything all right all right don't bite my head off just tell me what you think I ought to do look if I were you I'd take a fresh look at the kids in my classes right now forget about whether Ellen and Stacy would make fun of them or not make up your own mind about them but if I start making friends with kids that Ellen and Stacy don't like then I'll never have a chance to be in their group so what come on be realistic they're never going to let you or anybody else into that click why not well if they open up that click and let everybody join in then it wouldn't be such a high and mighty exclusive group anymore I mean if everybody's in that group who'd be left to admire them no they've got a special interest in keeping that click as small and as exclusive as possible you really don't like popular kids do you some of them I do you know there's some kids up at the high school who get to be super popular just because they're really nice I mean they're friendly to everybody they've got a good sense of humor and they'll help you out if you need it and that's all they've really got going for them is they're nice well I guess I could look around and see if there are any kids I'd like to be friends with you could start with Dorene Dorene why not she already wants to be your friend she's lonely and she seems pretty nice she'd never put you down or try and use you would she well no I guess not you can depend on her can't you what more could you ask in a friend but she's no fun how would you know you never gave her a chance you were too busy running after Ellen and Stacy and trying to leave Dorene behind just think about that where are those records of mine dorine huh it's just a thought it's a thought I know I'm no City and I'm not the Talk of the Town but I've been the one who picked you up when someone knocked you down and I may not be what you were looking for but I'll always be where you are lighten up your Darkness baby so you won't have to catch a star youon have to catch a star you won't have to catch star you have to catchar