

Finally, a pinball playing girl (Janie Murdrick) agrees sharing a joint in his van. In a bar, Bobby unsuccessfully approaches several women, including Sally. Bobby then gets revenge on his co-workers while showing off his new van by giving them beers spiked with laxatives. However, Bobby plans buying a van anyway - not just any van, but a custom Chevy van with items like a waterbed, a ceiling mirror, a refrigerator, a toaster, an 8-track and multiple television sets. Bobby's co-workers send his convertible into the car wash with the roof down, and Bobby literally gets "all wet" while struggling to put the top back up. Bobby's boss Andy (Danny DeVito) is also a bookmaker, who refuses taking a high-risk bet from an old lady called Bertha. Sue is interested in Jack, but Tina states she is neither interested in Bobby nor other boys because they only care about sex. Bobby and Jack run across Sue (Marcie Barkin) and Tina (Deborah White), and they attempt to arrange dates with them that evening.

Dugan returns to the van and disapproves of Bobby's attention. Bobby cannot look away from her and expresses his fantasy to "be with" her just once. After leaving the graduation ceremony, Bobby and Jack drive up to another van and notice Sally (Connie Lisa Marie), his secret high-school crush, sitting alone inside, eating ice cream. Bobby (Stuart Getz) and his best friend, Jack (Harry Moses), sabotage their high-school graduation ceremony by rigging the stage to collapse.Sadly, Bobby somehow takes a shine to Tina and starts to lose the ‘free’ part of his free spirit, as she peppers him harder than hailstones at your local car yard.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.

He dreams of riding the waves of his waterbed with local hornbag Sally Johnson (played by the dreamy Connie Lisa Marie), but Sally is forbidden fruit and – as per bloody usual – dating the local beefcake-slash-dipshit, Dugan (Oliver).ĭugan may refer to himself in the third person, but he sure as hell drives the toughest van – a black-with-flames Chevy that he races for cash against any local takers.Īmongst the heady shenanigans that become a staple of Bobby’s new life, he is lumbered with caretaking the sour, whiny, van-hating Tina (White), an otherwise third wheel to his best mate Jack (Moses) and her gal-pal Sue (Barkin). Hot blonde: “Yeah, but I’m not into assholes.”Ī number of crazy liaisons follow, but Bobby has his sights set on one girl in particular. He hits the streets hoping this van will become a super-magnet for the chicks, but his moves need some polishing if he hopes to score:
