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{{quote|''Twenty-five years ago, my parents were the most popular teenagers in America. It's true. My dad was a teen idol. Girls threw themselves at him. Unfortunately, this was 1962 and he had to throw them back. When Dad wasn't singing he spent his life on a surfboard. They called him [[In-Series Nickname|"The Big Kahuna"]]. When I was born, Dad wanted to call me "Little Kahuna". Luckily, he settled for Bobby. As for Mom, she joined that strange cult called [[The Mickey Mouse Club|the Mouseketeers]]. She became the first pin-up queen for boys under 12. Anyhow, they got married and moved to Ohio right after the accident. Don't get him started on the surf accident. Around our house we have this nightly ritual, it's called "dinner, and then the accident story". Let me spare you this. Twenty years ago while surfing this humongous wave knocked the Kahuna right out of Dad, and he's never been the same since.''|'''Bobby''', opening lines of the film.}}

 

 

Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello are husband and wife living in Ohio, far from the surf and sand of their earlier lives together. Frankie is a stressed-out car salesman and former "Big Kahuna" of the surf scene in California while Annette bottles her own sense of angst up in a bevy of shopping. They have two children: a college-aged daughter named Sandi who is living in California, and Bobby, their early teen son, who is in the throes of rebellion against his seemingly square folks.

* [[Good Bad Girl]]: Basically, Connie as a teenager. Annette expresses a certain envy that [[Contractual Purity|she couldn't be a bad girl herself]].

* [[Honest John's Dealership]]: Bobby implies that his dad runs a slightly more on-the-level version of this trope. The footage we see doesn't contradict him.

* [[In-Series Nickname]]: "The Big Kahuna"

* [[Jukebox Musical]]

 

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