SPRING FLING!
Starring: James Eckhouse, Joyce DeWitt, Monica Creel, Jason "Milton Baines" Hervey, and Justin Burnette
Original Airdate: Spring, 1995
Type: Comedy/Family
Like, omg! Cassie's dad is being so unfair! Her 16th birthday is coming up, and she wants to spend it with all her friends. But that jerky old dad is uprooting Cassie and her little brother, Teddy, and moving them from California... back to New York! This means selling the motel where they all currently live. This is the most bumworthy news of the century! Why'd mom have to go and die, anyway?
The story begins as Cassie's dad is having the kids pack up all their belongings while he tries to sell the motel. The kids complain wildly about having to leave, but dad's having none of their crap. Clean! he says. Make this place shine! Dad is so hell-bent on selling the place that he has stopped allowing guests to check in. His kids think this is weird, but Dad's a nut and they're used to it.
But then... one wild & crazy evening, Cassie and Teddy are playing with the Vacancy sign... it should say "no vacancy," but whoops, they leave it on "vacancy," and the next thing they know, they've got a busful of prep school boys at their door. And oh my, several of them are super dreamy! So Cassie checks them out in. Dad's furious... until he realizes that the boys' group leader, Linda Hayden, is a woman daddy went to high school with! Ah, budding romances in action....
The boys' arrival makes things a little crazy at the motel. They're supposed to be there on a school trip and do educational stuff, but half the guys skip out to go surfing (aided by that naughty Teddy.) And Cassie falls in love with a boy who looks suspiciously like Greg Brady. The kids still don't want to move... so they begin to sabotage things... they make things in the motel go wrong while a potential buyer is there. Bad, bad children! Meanwhile, Dad is trying unsuccessfully to woo Linda Hayden... but she's also being wooed by the motel's potential buyer! Oh, true comedy.
In the end, the kids plead their case, Daddy realizes he didn't really know his own kids, and he eventually decides selling the motel would be a horrible mistake. Everyone is happy, nobody dies, and Cassie's 16th birthday doesn't totally suck after all!
But does Dad end up with Joyce DeWitt? That's my secret and I'm not telling.
Oh, come on... I said happy endings for all, didn't I? The end.
7/3/2005
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