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(Multicom jingle)

♪ If everybody had an ocean across the USA ♪

♪ Then everybody'd be surfin' ♪

♪ Like Californi-a ♪

♪ You'd see them wearing their baggies ♪

♪ Huarache sandals too ♪

♪ A bushy bushy blonde hairdo ♪

♪ Surfin' USA ♪

♪ You'd catch them surfin' at Del Mar ♪

♪ Inside outside USA ♪

♪ Ventura County line ♪

♪ Inside outside USA ♪

♪ Santa Cruz and Trestles ♪

♪ Inside outside USA ♪

♪ Australian's Narrabeen ♪

♪ Inside outside USA ♪

♪ All over Manhattan ♪

♪ Inside outside USA ♪

♪ And down Doheny Way ♪

♪ Inside outside USA ♪

♪ Everybody's gone USA ♪

♪ Surfin' USA ♪

♪ We'll all be planning that route ♪

♪ We're gonna take real soon ♪

♪ We're waxing down our surfboards ♪

♪ We can't wait for June ♪

♪ We'll all be gone for the summer ♪

♪ We're on surfari to stay ♪

♪ Tell the teacher we're surfin' ♪

♪ Surfin' USA ♪

♪ Haggerties and Swamis ♪

♪ Inside outside USA ♪

♪ Pacific Palisades ♪

♪ Inside outside USA ♪

♪ San Onofre and Sunset ♪

♪ Inside outside USA ♪

♪ Redondo Beach LA ♪

♪ Inside outside USA ♪

♪ All over La Jolla ♪

♪ Inside outside USA ♪

♪ At Wa'imea Bay LA ♪

♪ Inside outside USA ♪

♪ Everybody's gone surfin' surfin' USA ♪

♪ Yeah everybody's gone surfin' surfin' USA ♪

♪ Yeah everybody's gone surfin' ♪

- Great news. - Where have you been?

- Greatest news ever.

Okay man, this is the deal, I do 30 days detox

and they loan me the money

to buy back my boat free and clear.

- Oh be careful. - Hey, man, tell them

about The Harmony.

It was the primo boat in the marina.

It used to be right there, right next door.

They're probably keeping the slip open for me

'cause they know I'm coming back.

(Dennis coughs)

- Hey, fix you a turkey sandwich.

- Oh, no, thank you.

I gotta find that buried treasure

before they tow the thing back here.

- What is he talking about?

- Is he all right?

(dark music) (water splashes)

The water must be freezing.

- He's gotta be stoned out of his mind.

Yo! He's such a pain.

Yo, yo, Dennis!

- Well, where is he?

- [Charlie] Oh there he is.

(Dennis breathes heavy)

- (chuckles) I can't believe you found this.

- My whole life's down there man.

(Dennis breathes heavy)

- What you say we give it a rest, Dennis, come on.

- Don't worry about me, I'm a big boy, you know.

(breathes heavy) (water splashes)

- [Charlie] What a fox, who is she?

- You don't wanna know.

(dark music)

- Where'd he go?

- Charlie, go get my masks in the lazarette.

Crystal, go call the harbor patrol quick.

- Where's the phone? - It's downstairs, go!

Dennis, yo Dennis!

Dennis, where's my mask, damn it!

- [Charlie] Right here.

- Dennis, come on buddy!

Yo Dennis!

Dennis, Dennis!

Dennis! Dennis!

Dennis!

(dramatic music)

Dennis!

(upbeat music)

Dennis, Dennis!

- That set was bossin'.

- Better than this?

- Hey, sorry to break this up but Dad's waiting for us.

(woman laughs)

- My brother, Brian, the only guy in the South Bay

who wears penny loafers and cuffs to the beach.

(woman laughs)

- Can we go?

- Yep, we can go grab some burgers.

♪ Bom ba bom bom ba dip da dip dip ♪

♪ Da da da da dun dun da ding da ding da ding da ding ♪

♪ Bom ba bom bom ba dip da dip dip ♪

♪ Da da da da dun dun da ding da ding da ding da ding ♪

♪ But now I see ♪

♪ What one embrace can do look at me ♪

♪ It's got me loving you madly ♪

- We should have been home an hour ago.

- Oh, you'd rather be eating Mom's chipped beef.

♪ Held all my heart and soul ♪

- [Radio Announcer] That was Jan and Dean's "Heart

and Soul," two local boys make good.

- All they did was take an old song,

add a few doo-wangs and they get a hit out of it.

- You sound like Pop.

- I'm just amazed at what gets on the radio, that's all.

♪ Get with it join the band ♪

- There's Tinder Gerson.

♪ You'll be sitting pretty (indistinct) ♪

- Why do you like her?

- I don't know her.

- Do you wanna meet her? - You know her?

- You wanna meet her or not, what's the difference?

It's a simple yes or no.

- Yeah, but if you don't know her.

- Hey, Tinder, come here!

- Hey, what are you doing?

(Dennis laughs)

Oh my god, she's coming over here.

- Don't be a weenie, man, she's just a chick.

Hi, I'm Dennis Wilson, this is my brother, Brian.

He's a real big admirer.

- You go to Hawthorne High right?

- Till they kicked me out.

(Tinder chuckles)

(indistinct)

Don't wait up for me.

- All right, come on, Dennis, Dad's gonna flip

if I come home without you.

- Bye.

- I swear if you leave I'm gonna dump your surf board

on the highway!

- [Dennis] Yeah, great, that way I can get a new one!

Where's the party?

(dramatic music)

(car engine starts)

♪ I do the hop skip shuffle ♪

♪ I do the hop skip shuffle ♪

♪ I do the hop skip shuffle and dance my cares away ♪

- Changed the chords on me.

- Sounded awfully right to me.

- Just on that last part, I thought it would sound better.

We can do it the old way if you want.

- Thank you, let's take it from the top,

do it the right way, please.

♪ Whenever I feel down and out and I don't know what to do ♪

♪ I don't frown and I don't pout ♪

♪ Oh there's a way to chase away these blues ♪

♪ I do the hop skip shuffle ♪

(Dennis howls)

♪ I do the hop skip shuffle ♪

♪ I do the hop skip shuffle ♪

(Dennis howls)

♪ Oh I ♪

- I don't know why I waste my time with these kids.

(boys laugh)

They don't listen to me. - Murray.

They don't appreciate that I take every Friday

and try to teach them what I know about music.

Other fathers wouldn't do it, they just wouldn't.

- Oh, Pop, we appreciate what you do, we do,

it's just that when Dennis starts doing-

- Forget about Dennis.

Now Dennis is a goofball, you and Carl are the ones

with talent.

(Dennis howls)

(boys laugh)

(Dennis breathes heavy)

- Am I interrupting something?

- You are the most messed up person I ever met.

- Oh, man, look who's talking,

you can't even look him in the eye without flinching.

I mean, I bet you'd jump off the roof if he told you to.

- Dad knows a lot about music.

- Hey if he could write a halfway decent song,

you think he'd be selling heavy machinery for a living.

- Oh, music's a tough business,

he's had couple of things published.

- And performed.

- Yeah, by Lawrence Welk.

Let him write the cornball stuff,

you should be writing rock and roll,

that's what's happening.

- That's what Mike keeps telling him.

- Well, see 'cause Mikey's right for a change.

You know what, you should write a song about surfing,

it'd be totally stoked.

- Hey, you got a hicky. - Where?

- You dog.

(Dennis howls)

Hey, you're gonna wake him up.

- You can do it, Brian but you gotta write

what's in your head, not his.

- Now don't forget we'll be at the Encinitas Hotel room 126

with the Whitman's.

- Have a good time, Mom. - Thank you.

- I expect you boys to behave like Wilson's this weekend.

- We will, Pop.

- Here's $100 for food. - Thanks, Pop.

- Don't be worry about a thing we'll be fine.

(drum music)

- Oh, maybe we shouldn't be doing this, Pop gave us money-

- Who? - Pop,

said that we should spend this money on food and-

- Who?

- You know who and you know what he's gonna do

when he finds out about it.

- Yeah, he's gonna blame it on me.

- You can't have a band without instruments, Brian.

- Duh, Al.

- Yeah, we could, we could do it A cappella.

- It's a band, Brian, not a rock and roll choir.

- We could change the tempo

and do it in four part harmonies.

♪ Do re mi fa so la ti do ♪

(drums bang)

- You wanna save some of that money, don't rent the drums.

Listen to me, Brian, you know I'm right.

Dennis can't play a lick

and he can't take anything seriously.

- Hey, Dennis is in the family and he's in the band

or there's no band.

(guitar music)

- Brian, they're back!

- Hi Aunt Audrey, how was Mexico?

- What's the meaning of this?

- Oh, it's not what you think, we got our band, Pop,

we got a surfing band.

- Brian and I wrote a great song, Uncle Murray,

you wanna hear it?

- Where'd you get this equipment?

- We rented it. - With what money?

Oh, no, don't tell me that.

No son of mine could possibly be that irresponsible

except for Dennis.

- Hey, Dad. - What?

- Why don't you listen to the song.

You might even like it.

- Oh.

♪ Surfin' is the only life the only way for me ♪

♪ Now surf surf with me ♪

♪ Bom dip dip dip bom bom dip dip dip ♪

♪ I woke up this morning turned down the radio ♪

♪ I was checking out the surfin' scene to see if I would go ♪

♪ When the DJ tells me that the surf is fine ♪

♪ That's when I knew my babe and I would have a good time ♪

♪ We're going surfin' surfin' surfin' surfin' ♪

♪ Surfin' surfin' surfin' ♪

♪ Surfin' is the only life the only way for me ♪

♪ Now surf surf with me ♪

♪ Bom bom dip dip dip dip dip bom bom dip dip dip ♪

♪ From the early morning till the middle of the night ♪

♪ Anytime the surf is up the sign is right ♪

♪ And when the surf down the sickest place ♪

♪ But then the surfers stomp it's the latest dance craze ♪

♪ We're going surfin' surfin' surfin' surfin' surfin' ♪

♪ Surfin' surfin' surfin' surfin' ♪

♪ Surfin' is the only life the only way for me ♪

♪ Now surf surf with me ♪

- Well what do you think?

- Truthfully.

- You know we could change the tempo.

- I think it's loud and crass

and not the kind of song I would ever listen to.

But it's definitely got possibilities.

(boys laugh and holler)

(drum music)

- Hey Russ, you Hollywood people are the experts

but I know with the proper promotion and distribution,

"Surfin'" has got hit written all over it.

Sorry that I'm getting a little carried away

but I really believe in this record.

- So, I gather but I think that's the way it should be,

after all, they're your kids.

- Stop, yeah, I'm their father

and these boys have got the talent.

They got the song, they've already listened a master,

we're ready to go.

- Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, Murray, let's slow down, please.

I mean, the big record companies are saying

that this teen music thing is already over with.

They're saying it's already peaked.

But for a little guy like me to survive,

who knows, maybe this surfin' craze

will be the next big thing, huh?

- Then you'll release the record?

- Not if they're gonna call themselves the Pendletones.

- Hey, Russ, you make my boys a deal,

you can call them whatever you like.

- It's better than being called the Lifeguards.

- Beach Bums would have been cooler.

- Well, what's wrong with the Pendletones?

- Yeah, at least we could have got some free shirts,

from the company.

- Yeah.

- Denny. - What's with you?

- Who are we kidding,

they're not gonna play it this weekend.

Pop just gave it to the guys yesterday.

- Hey Dennis, don't tell anyone but guess whose folks

are going out of town?

- I'll call you later.

- Is there any girl in Redondo Beach you haven't been with?

- Two or three.

- Two or three. - Two or three.

(boys laugh)

- What can I say I get around.

- Why is everybody looking at us?

- [Announcer] Dennis and Carl Wilson

go to Hawthorne High School.

- I don't believe it.

- [Announcer] Older brother Brian, who wrote "Surfin'"

went there too.

"Surfin'" is their first release, meet The Beach Boys!

(Dennis hollers)

(Brian hollers)

- Hey, we're on the radio!

(boys holler and laugh)

(guitar music)

- Your boys go on during the break, Mr. Wilson

and lots of luck, you'll need it.

- What's that suppose to mean?

- Well, let's just say, sir, lots of bands try out

through this place and some have more polish than others.

Just kids.

- Look, bud, my boy, Brian, God bless him

has more talent in his pinky than all those other bands

put together.

With me in their corner, these kids will go to the top

of the charts, top of the world.

- Yeah, sure, bud.

(audience cheers)

- Hey, you guys come on, let's go.

- [Announcer] Thank you very much guys and gals.

- This is a big mistake, we're not ready to play live.

- When then so we'll play dead.

(Dennis laughs)

- [Announcer] Everyone say hello to The Beach Boys.

(audience cheers)

- Don't sweat it, we'll be terrific.

Yes, (indistinct).

- They like us. - Because we stunk.

- Where's my dad?

- Probably ran for cover.

- Which is what you oughta do until you learn

to play those drums.

- That was the worst 15 minutes of my life.

- Come here.

It was a big thing.

I mean, it was cool hearing our song on the radio,

it's all over now, it's okay.

- No it's not.

Dad, I know we were pretty awful out there tonight,

but we'll practice, or I'll write better songs,

we'll show them.

- Brian.

- No, we'll be top of the charts, top of the world,

just like you said.

- Let me tell you something you did a bang up job out there,

all of you.

You played your hearts out.

- You're not mad.

- Yeah, I'm mad, mad at anyone

who tried to book a brand new act

during intermission for no money.

Don't worry, I'm gonna find a major record company

to back us.

I think we can set up our publishing company,

that's where the money is.

That way we can handle everything ourselves.

But, it's not gonna work if you won't listen to me.

- Whatever it takes, Pop.

- It's gonna take writing the kind of songs that'll sell,

I know what'll sell.

And you have to want it as much as I do.

(slow music)

- Whatever it takes, Pop.

- That's my boy.

(band music)

♪ Early in the morning we'll be starting now ♪

♪ Some honeys will be coming along ♪

♪ Loading up our woodies and the boards inside ♪

♪ And heading out singing a song ♪

♪ Come on surfin' baby wait and see surfing safari ♪

- Your kid has a phenomenal ear.

- Oh, it's too much treble.

- We'll fix it in the mix.

♪ Let's go surfin' now everybody's learning how ♪

♪ Come on a safari with me ♪

♪ Come on a safari with me ♪

- You know I cut tracks for Coltrane, Duke Ellington,

Nat King Cole and I'm telling Mr. Wilson,

you got a genius on your hands out there.

♪ Come on baby surfin' safari ♪

- You must be very proud.

- Yeah.

♪ Come along surfing baby surfing safari ♪

♪ And I'm gonna take you surfing with me ♪

♪ Let's go surfin' now everybody's learning how ♪

♪ Come on on safari with me ♪

♪ Come on on safari with me ♪

♪ Surfin' safari yeah surfin' safari ♪

♪ With me ♪

♪ Surfin' safari yeah surfin' safari ♪

♪ With me ♪

♪ Surfin' safari yeah surfin' safari ♪

♪ With me ♪

♪ Surfin' safari yeah surfin' safari ♪

- We nailed that sucker.

(boys laugh)

- That was only the B side.

- [Murray] Take it from the top.

- What?

- Take it from the top please.

- Why?

- Brian.

- What was wrong with that, Uncle Murray?

- Everything, was gargled and nasal.

And you have to slow it down.

- That's the beat, Pop, that's rock-n-roll.

- Well, it's not music.

You can do better.

- You heard the man.

We can do better.

(upbeat music)

- Hey, Brian, what's it like having your father

be your manager?

- It's great.

(Dennis laughs)

- Cool it will you?

- Sorry, something stuck in my throat, hard to swallow.

- Brian and I are co-writing some new material

which will be released in time for our big summer tour.

And before I forget it,

I have some official Beach Boy buttons for you all.

- He promised he wouldn't do this.

- What's it say?z

- I know Brian's dad.

- Plus, he's wanting to sing on our next single.

- Better him than you, at least Murray can carry a tune.

What would our fans think if they found out

you hardly play on our records?

- Or if they found out only one of the Beach Boys

know how to surf.

- Is that true? - No.

- Come on, Mike, show them your stuff.

You're mister Beach Boy.

♪ A Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Barbara Ann ♪

- Come on, man, surf's up.

♪ Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Barbara Ann ♪

- It's too cold.

♪ Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Barbara Ann ♪

- Not for a real Beach Boy.

(boys holler)

♪ Come take my hand ♪

♪ Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Barbara Ann ♪

♪ You got me rocking and rolling ♪

- Dennis!

♪ Rocking and reeling ♪

♪ Barbara Ann ♪

♪ Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Barbara Ann ♪

♪ Went to a dance looking for romance ♪

♪ Saw Barbara Ann so I thought I'd take chance ♪

♪ On Barbara Ann ♪

♪ Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Barbara Ann ♪

♪ Barbara Ann ♪

♪ Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Barbara Ann ♪

♪ You got me rocking and rolling ♪

♪ Rocking and a reeling ♪

♪ Barbara Ann ♪

♪ Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Barbara Ann ♪

♪ Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Barbara Ann ♪

♪ Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Barbara Ann ♪

- Stop!

Damn it, Brian, you want me to cancel a session?

Well do you?

- No sir.

- Murray, if you're not satisfied,

why don't you take the direct feed

and write it again yourself.

- Okay then.

Let's go back and try it.

- "Barbara Ann" take 11.

♪ Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Barbara Ann ♪

♪ Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Barbara Ann ♪

♪ Barbara Ann ♪

♪ Take my hand ♪

♪ Barbara Ann ♪

- No, no, no! (sighs)

Damn it, Brian, you just hit an all time low.

- Back off, old man.

- I'm not talking to you, Dennis.

- Well, I'm talking to you, Murray.

You wanna know what they think of you down

at the record company, huh, Pop?

- I'm warning you.

- They think you're a sick joke.

They think you ride us so hard to hide the fact

you were a total loser.

- Get out of here!

- Yeah, see what happens if you give him a little bit of-

- Get out!

(Dennis crashes)

You're out of the band, mister!

Our little family, you're gone!

You hear me?

Out!

(dramatic music)

(slow music)

- Hey, I've been looking all over for you.

- Well, now you found me.

- Where'd you get the beer?

- You want one?

You know what I like about sea gulls,

they just go wherever the wind takes them,

they really don't give a damn.

- What came down at the studio was real ugly.

You gotta make peace with him, Dennis.

- You gotta be the older brother.

I can't keep fighting your battles for you, Brian.

How come you still let him push you around now?

- I don't know.

All I ever wanted was to be the best, you know?

- Yeah, well if it ain't fun, it ain't worth it.

- There's just so much pressure, man, I can't deal with it.

Pop is talking about us going on tour again

and he doesn't like any of my new stuff.

- Well, you gotta talk to him and tell him to back off.

- He doesn't listen.

- Well, make him listen.

You got the gift, not him.

(slow music)

- Hi, hon, I saved you some pot roast, it's in the oven.

I'll go get it.

- Thanks, Mom.

Dad, I found Dennis down at the beach.

I think he's really hurting.

Without Dennis, it doesn't feel like the same band.

- I won't tolerate disrespect.

- I need him back in the band, Pop.

- All right.

All right, but there won't be a band

unless we get on this tick and cut a record

in time for the tour.

- That's what I wanted to talk to you about.

I can't go on the tour.

- Brian, do us both a favor, let me be the manager.

- Dad, you have to listen to me.

- I'm trying to be patient with you

but you're not making any sense.

- All I'm saying is if you-

- Brian!

- Forget it.

- I already have.

Did you see this?

"Big Girls Don't Cry" number one third week in a row.

If Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons can do that,

I wanna know what's wrong with Brian Wilson?

Brian, Brian, where are you going?

Brian, don't let us down.

Brian, Brian!

(door slams)

♪ There's a world where I can go and ♪

♪ Tell my secrets to ♪

♪ In my room ♪

♪ In my room ♪

♪ In my room ♪

♪ Do my dreaming and my scheming ♪

♪ Lie awake and pray ♪

♪ Do my crying ♪

- Strange song, man,.

- It's a make out song.

- The kind of song we should have been doing all along,

but Brian won't listen to me.

- You just don't get it do you, Pop?

♪ In this world I ♪

♪ Lock out all my worries and my fears ♪

♪ In my room in my room ♪

♪ In my room ♪

♪ Now it's dark and I'm alone ♪

♪ But I won't be afraid ♪

♪ In my room in my room ♪

♪ In my room in my room in my room ♪

♪ In my room in my room ♪

- I can't even see straight

- He's a perfectionist.

- He's a maniac, he's worse than your pop.

- Hey, nobody's worse than my pop.

When are Mom and Dad getting back into town?

- Tomorrow.

- Give them my best.

(horn blows)

- [Man] Dennis!

- Who's she?

- She's the rich one from Palos Verdes.

- Big deal, so she'll have a little fun

till her dad takes that T-bird.

- She'll have fun till her dad takes the T-bird away.

You got 20 more minutes? - Yeah, why not.

(boys laugh)

- Come on now.

- As your manager I'm telling you this idiot little song

of yours is pure trash.

Just like everything you've done since you've moved

out of the house.

- How can you say that?

- Sorry, it's beneath you, it won't sell.

- Why not?

- It's weak and it's immoral.

- What?

- Oh, stay out of this, Dennis.

- No.

- Any girl who lies to her father about going to the library

is someone I care to know.

- Well, that's 'cause you never made it with her, Pop.

- Oh.

- Damn you, Dennis.

- He's not helping what we're trying to do here.

- What's the difference?

(boys talk over each other)

- Hey, hey, hold it, hold it, hold it.

The only way to know if a song is ready is

to do it live.

- Do what you want.

- All right, we will.

(crowd cheers)

(guitars play)

What are you doing out here, man?

- My ear's killing me.

- Well, so you stuff your face with pound cake?

- You think they'll dig the song?

- Man, of course, they'll dig the song.

You wrote it about me, right?

Come on.

- [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, The Beach Boys.

(girl hollers)

- Oh, oh, excuse me.

I'm sorry.

- It's okay.

- I- (Brian gasps)

(girl chuckles)

(crowd cheers)

♪ Well she's got her daddy's car ♪

♪ And she's cruising the hamburger stand now ♪

♪ Seems she forgot about the library ♪

♪ Like she told her old man now ♪

♪ And with the radio blasting goes cruising ♪

♪ Just as fast as she can now ♪

♪ And she'll have fun fun fun till her daddy ♪

♪ Takes the T-bird away ♪

♪ Fun fun fun till her daddy takes the T-bird away ♪

♪ Well you knew all along ♪

♪ That your daddy was getting wise to you know ♪

♪ You shouldn't have lied now you shouldn't have lied ♪

♪ And since he took your set of keys ♪

♪ You've been thinking that your fun is all through now ♪

♪ You shouldn't have lied now you shouldn't have lied ♪

♪ But you can come along with me ♪

♪ 'Cause we got a lot of things to do now ♪

♪ You shouldn't have lied now you shouldn't have lied ♪

♪ And we'll have fun fun fun ♪

♪ Now that Daddy took the T-bird away ♪

♪ Fun fun fun Daddy took the T-bird away ♪

♪ Fun fun fun Daddy took the T-bird away ♪

♪ Fun fun fun ♪

(crowd cheers and applauds)

(boys laugh)

- Cutest girls in the world. - You got it.

Hey, you can't get it.

Go get her, go get her

♪ Little surfer little surfer girl ♪

♪ Little surfer my little surfer girl ♪

- He's coming over here.

♪ I have watched you on the shore ♪

- Hey, I'm sorry about your sweater.

- It's okay.

- You could take it to the cleaners

or buy a new one, I can pay for it.

- It's fine, really.

♪ Do you love me ♪

- Well, at least you know, let me buy you a refill sometime.

♪ Surfer girl surfer girl ♪

- Okay.

- What's your name?

- Marilyn, Marilyn Lavelle.

- Hi, I'm- - I know!

(Brian laughs)

- Brian!

- One second.

♪ I will take you ♪

- What?

♪ Everywhere I go ♪

- So, are you gonna ask her out or what?

- I don't know, why don't you just take off without me.

- Congratulations.

- For what? - For what,

for finally getting lucky, it's about time.

- Dennis, I just met her and she's not that kind of girl.

- Well, how do you know, you just met her?

- Hey, well maybe, you know, for you every girl's

just another good time, it doesn't mean anything.

For me, all I know is what I'm feeling.

♪ Little surfer girl my little surfer girl ♪

- Dennis, I can't go out with you.

You seeing Beverly remember?

- I've seen Beverly but I'm looking at you

and you're beautiful, you are.

I wanna take you out tonight.

- Sorry, I've already got a date.

- Oh, you got a boyfriend.

- Yeah.

- A steady boyfriend, huh?

- Yeah, he's my son.

I'm 16-years-old and I'm still living at home

with my parents.

Life is just great isn't it.

- Hey, sit down, come on, sit down.

Look when I was 16, I got kicked out of school.

But I was lucky, without Brian's music,

I'd probably be in the back slinging hash for a living.

You got a picture of this kid?

- His name's Scott.

- [Reporter] The Beatles are riding-

- (indistinct) "Fun Fun Fun" is the biggest record

we've ever had.

- Yeah, and it'll become number five thanks to the Beatles.

- Look, come on, we've made a bundle on it.

- Is that why we're doing this,

so you can ride around Hollywood in a new 'Vette?

- I don't ride around in a 'Vette, I drive a Porsche.

(girls laugh)

- We're getting whomped by the British invasion

and they're making jokes.

I'm never written one note to make money,

all I've ever wanted to be was the best.

- You are, honey.

- Have you heard "Meet the Beatles?"

How am I ever supposed to top that?

- Well, obviously you never will,

so why don't you just eat another quart of ice cream

and forget about it?

- You think I have it in me to write a number one song?

- No.

(Brian chuckles)

♪ Get around get around I get around ♪

♪ Get around round round I get around ♪

♪ I get around ♪

♪ Get around get around I get around ♪

♪ From town town ♪

♪ Get around get around I get around ♪

♪ I'm a real cool head ♪

♪ Get around round round round I get around ♪

♪ I'm making real good bread ♪

♪ Get around round round round I get around ♪

♪ I'm getting bugged driving up and down the same old strip ♪

♪ I gotta find a new place where the kids are hip ♪

♪ My buddies and me are getting real well known yeah ♪

♪ The bad guys know us and they leave us alone ♪

♪ I get around ♪

♪ Get around get around round round I get around ♪

♪ On the town ♪

♪ Get around round round round ♪

♪ Town to town get around round round I get around ♪

♪ I'm a real cool head ♪

♪ Get around round round I get around ♪

♪ I'm making real good bread ♪

♪ Get around round round ♪

- What is wrong with you?

- Man it is really distracting to have him

keep shaking his head like that.

- Uncle Murray knock it off!

- No, not until he changes the way he sings that line.

It's too loud.

- It's supposed to be that way.

- Every time you crank up the volume

I fade out on the baseline.

- You don't know what you're doing.

- Here he comes.

- Oh god.

- Don't you ever talk to me that way again young man.

I made you into Beach Boys,

you'd be nothing without me, nothing!

- You're fired, you understand, you're fired.

The Beach Boys fire you right now, now, you're fired.

- If you think you'll ever be able to produce a hit song

without me!

- I will produce all of them without you, you fool!

They've rigged up a fake panel,

so that you would have something to fiddle with

during the sessions.

Now get out of here!

(Brian cries)

- Hey Pop.

- You, you brought this on.

You turned him against me.

When the Beach Boys fall apart without me

and you will fall apart without me,

don't come crawling back to me.

'Cause starting now, you're on your own!

(slow music)

(Brian cries)

- [Brian] I can't, I just can't, I'm not going.

- Come on, Brian.

- I have got an album to produce, I've got new songs

to write, I don't time for this stinking tour!

- It's two weeks, in and out, it's easy money.

- It is not easy, it's work.

If I can't have music in my head if I'm always on the road!

- At least the pay ain't bad.

- Is that all you people care about?

Don't you understand that all this pressure you put me under

is killing me!

- Bri, what about this blue shirt?

Bri, Brian!

(plane drones)

- I can't go, man, it's, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's,

too much, because we go out,

- What's with your brother? gone out all year

and we come back and then we just go out again.

It's just ridiculous, this is ridiculous, I can't go,

I've gotta come back.

- Brian, cool it. - No, man, we've gotta

turn it around, man, we've gotta turn it around now.

- It's gonna be all right. - Hey, where's the stewardess.

We gotta go back, we gotta go back, okay!

Please, would anybody mind if we just, we gotta go back,

okay, guys, we gotta go back,

Dennis. - It's all right.

- I don't belong in Houston, I don't, I don't, please,

please, get them, get them, just get them to land the plane,

please, please. - All right.

- Man, I've gotta go back, she doesn't love me.

- Five minutes on the flight, Mom,

he starts crying and screaming like I've never seen him.

I mean, he wouldn't even eat anything.

Well, the doctors say he can go on tonight

but I don't know.

- He's gotta go, we don't have a show unless he goes on.

- Dennis, look at him.

This isn't stagefright, or one of his earaches,

this is serious.

(slow music)

Mom, I'll send him home on the next flight, okay?

Yeah, I'll call you back with flight information.

(slow music)

(Brian cries)

(Mom hushes Brian)

- I was really out there in Fruit Loops land for awhile

but I'm feeling like a totally new man now.

- That's the important thing.

- The important thing is you guys pulled off the tour

without me.

- Thanks to Glen Campbell.

- What was it like working with him?

- He's all right for a session guy.

- Campbell thinks he's gonna make it as a solo act someday.

(boys laugh)

- You know what might be good, you remember a Bruce Johnston

from The Rip Chords, "Hey Little Cobra?"

He's a nice guy and he's better looking than me.

- What are you saying, Brian?

- I can't go out on the road anymore.

- What?

- Well, hey don't worry. - Don't worry,

without you we might as well throw in the towel.

- No, what are you thinking

that I'm quitting the Beach Boys?

Man, it's what I live for.

And staying home will give me time, to you know,

write songs that'll give The Beatles a run for their money.

Nothing's gonna change, I promise.

- Yeah, well one thing better change,

you can blame your little episode on the tour

if you want to, I think it's because all the dope

you've been smoking.

- You been using marijuana?

- You guys sound like Pop.

- Tell the truth, Bri.

- Okay, yeah, I experimented with it a little,

I mean, everyone's doing it, it's a groove,

it's what's happening.

- Not for me.

- Listen, if it begins to affect my music,

I'll put it down in a minute.

Man, let me play you some chords.

I promise you, no matter what anybody says,

the story of The Beach Boys is just beginning.

(keyboard music)

♪ Well East Coast girls are hip ♪

♪ I really dig those styles they wear ♪

♪ And the Southern girls with the way they talk ♪

♪ They knock me out when I'm down there ♪

♪ The Midwest farmers' daughters ♪

♪ Really make you feel all right ♪

♪ And the northern girls with the way they kiss ♪

♪ They keep their boyfriends warm at night ♪

♪ I wish they all could be California girls ♪

♪ I wish they all could be California ♪

♪ I wish they all could be California girls ♪

♪ I wish they all could be California girls ♪

♪ I wish they all could be California ♪

♪ I wish they all could be California girls ♪

♪ I wish they all could be California ♪

♪ I wish they all could be California girls ♪

♪ I wish they all could be California ♪

♪ I dig the girls girls girls yeah ♪

♪ I dig the girls girls girls yeah ♪

♪ I dig the girls girls girls yeah ♪

♪ I dig the girls girls girls yeah ♪

♪ I dig the girls girls girls ♪

- There he is, there he is.

Can we ask you just a couple questions please?

Shannon Harris filed a paternity action against you

in superior court this morning.

- What?

- Are you father of baby Shawn?

- Excuse me.

(Dennis laughs)

- What are you laughing at,

you'll sleep with anything that walks.

- Oh is that right, he's so full of it.

- Hey, what's happening?

(dogs barking)

- So?

- So, it sounds like a pack of barking dogs.

(man laughs)

- Right on.

- You're not really gonna put those mutts on the album.

- You know, all I ever get from you guys

is negative vibes.

Negative vibes.

- You know that could be Brian.

- Man, you can put me down all you want

but I just can't write about little miss cheerleader

on the beach anymore.

I have got to move on.

- All right, fine, times are changing,

we'll change with them but that doesn't give you the right

to freeze us out.

- Yeah, well I'm trying

to make the greatest rock-n-roll album ever made.

- With barking dogs and pounding spoons

and love songs to God.

- Whatever, hey, why don't you go collaborate with Pop

on the many moods of Murray Wilson.

(rock music)

- He sucks on that damn pipe all day, don't he?

- Phil Spector says what he's laying down is pure genius.

- Is that why your brother turned his living room

into a giant sandbox?

I say this is our band.

- Well, I say we let Brian

finish the greatest album ever made.

- Hey, Denny, want a toke?

- No, I'm a vodka and lime kind of guy from way back.

- Let's go, come on.

You can have pudding if you wash your hands, sweetie, go on.

- Oh, you're home early.

- Who's here?

- A friend of Brian and Marilyn's.

- Shelly, come here.

I want you to meet my wife, Carol,

I loaned her one of your bathing suits.

- Could you excuse us a second please.

- What is the matter with you, nothing happened.

I wanna have a swim before the session.

- Dennis.

- Can we just do this later?

- I want out of this marriage.

(dramatic music)

♪ I may not always love you ♪

♪ As long as there are stars above you ♪

♪ You never need to doubt it ♪

♪ I'll make you so sure about it ♪

♪ God only knows what I'd be without you ♪

- [Man] I don't know about that song.

- I do, it's the most beautiful song I ever heard.

♪ God only knows what I'd be without you ♪

♪ If you should ever leave me ♪

- Give me a hit of that.

- What you don't like that.

- Yeah, that was groovy, just pass that here.

♪ The world could show nothing to me ♪

♪ So what good would living do me ♪

♪ God only knows what I'd be without you ♪

♪ And God knows what I'd be without you ♪

♪ God only knows what I'd be without you ♪

♪ God only knows what I'd be without you ♪

♪ God only knows ♪

♪ God only knows what I'd be without you ♪

♪ God only knows what I'd be without you ♪

♪ God only knows what I'd be without you ♪

♪ God only knows ♪

(rock music)

- [Man] This was taking at the Montery Pop festival?

- Sunday night we were supposed to headline.

- [Jimmy Hendrix] Music is dead.

- We shouldn't have backed out of Montery.

- What are you gonna do, man, you freaked.

You didn't wanna do the oldies, thought the hippies

from the Bay area would hate our new stuff.

- What new stuff?

- Alan says all he does is sit in the corner

and listen to Sergeant Pepper on the headphones.

- Well, maybe Pop was right, maybe we were

just a flash in the pan.

(eerie guitar music)

- You gonna hurt me?

- Do I look like I'm gonna hurt you brother?

- Who are you?

- Prophet, poet and a friend.

Come on I have a surprise for you.

Come on.

(psychedelic guitar music)

- Hi, Dennis, remember me?

- I believe you picked up some of my girls

who checked into Malibu yesterday.

We got a lot in common, you and me.

You're a musician, I'm a musician

but you don't care much for soul music.

I predict the race wars coming that will be the end

of the world as we know it.

Have you ever been to an orgy.

- Who is he?

- It's the guy I told you about.

That's Charlie Manson.

- I'm so over my head, I don't know which end is up anymore.

- Well, let me put it in perspective for you, Dennis,

Manson has fleeced you for over $100,000.

- I don't care about the money.

- Without Brian, your records aren't selling,

your concerts aren't drawing-

- Just shut up and tell me what you're gonna do

to help me.

- Okay, calm down and start worrying about what's important.

Dennis, just put this Manson stuff behind you, all right,

I'm telling you, it's all gonna blow over.

(dramatic music)

- [Reporter] The self-styled guru of a bizarre hippie cult,

Charles Manson has been formally charged along

with three young women in the gruesome murders

of famed actress Sharon Tate and five others last August.

The Tate-LaBianca murders were among the most violent crimes

this nation has ever seen.

It is not known how Charles Manson and his followers

will plea.

(motorcycle revs)

(dramatic music)

(Dennis knocks)

- Dennis.

- I'm in trouble pop.

Can I come in?

- Sure.

- At first it was truly like being on a commune.

The girls would bake bread and they'd sew

and it was wild and free but there was no violence.

But even with Manson in jail,

I mean, he's got girls on the outside that would cut me

in a second.

- Should have thought about that

before you let them spend all your money.

But that's not your trouble.

You know what your trouble is, Dennis.

You never listened to me and neither did Brian.

That's why the band's all washed up.

- Well, I should have known better than to come to you.

- Don't talk to me in that tone.

I spent a lot of sleepless nights

thinking about the state of your life and Brian's.

And I think I've come up with a solution.

- What, what, what are you saying?

- I said the deal is $700,000 cash.

- For what, for what?

- For 100% of the songs.

- No, please, no, please, please.

- How can you be so cruel?

- It's a good deal Marilyn, it's cash.

It's the best I could do.

- You can't, you can't sell my music, please, oh no.

- Pop, these songs are like Brian's children.

- Look at it, got bands today Deep Purple, Vanilla Fudge,

Iron Butterfly don't record "Little Deuce Coupe."

But we gotta face it, the songs have no value.

They were a fad, they're worthless, completely worthless.

(Brian cries)

- Why don't you see if you can lay it on a little harder.

- It's not my fault if he can't cut it.

- Well, who's fault is it, Dad?

Who's fault is it?

♪ I'm wasting my life and time in tequila town ♪

♪ And it brings me back ♪

♪ And I'd do anything to bring one more smile to your face ♪

♪ The prettiest girl that I ever did see ♪

♪ Makes me stare over there 'cause I think ♪

♪ That's she's smiling at me ♪

♪ Trying make her mine but I don't think the words are right ♪

♪ I guess the tequila is talking tonight ♪

♪ Oh how do you ♪

- I think you just about got it right.

♪ Don't think I'll ever get out of this place ♪

(Dennis laughs)

♪ I wasted my life and my time in tequila town ♪

♪ And it brings me down ♪

(Dennis knocks)

- Coming. - Good morning.

- How did you find out where I live?

- Well, I can be resourceful if I absolutely have to be.

Look I'm sorry about last night, I was a little drunk.

- Really?

- So, do I get a second chance or?

- I'm rehearsing.

- Well, I'd guess you're in the part, I would.

And you're so beautiful.

Sorry, I'm kidding.

Oh, wow, this is great.

- Thanks.

Do you play?

Oh, no, that's a stupid question.

- Look, do you mind if fool around or?

- No, no, not at all.

(beautiful piano music)

♪ You're never far away when I'm alone ♪

♪ I just close my eyes ♪

♪ And you can bring me joy with just these simple words ♪

♪ I love you ♪

♪ Ooh dum bum ooh dum bum ♪

♪ Ooh dum bum ooh dum bum ♪

♪ Ooh dum bum ooh dum bum ♪

♪ Ooh dum bum ooh dum bum ♪

♪ Dum-Ba-Ditty-Doo ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Ooh dum bum ooh dum bum ♪

♪ Ooh dum bum ooh dum bum ♪

♪ Ooh dum bum ooh dum bum ♪

♪ Ooh dum bum ooh dum bum ♪

♪ Ooh dum bum ♪

♪ Dum-Ba-Ditty-Doo ♪

♪ Ooh dum bum ooh dum bum ♪

♪ Ooh dum bum ooh dum bum ♪

♪ Ooh dum bum ooh dum bum ♪

♪ Ooh dum bum ooh dum bum ♪

♪ Dum-Ba-Ditty-Do ♪

♪ Ooh dum bum ooh dum bum ♪

♪ Ooh dum bum ooh dum bum ♪

(phone rings)

- Hello, hi Carl.

Brian, I have something to tell you.

Something you're not ready to hear.

Your father is gone.

(slow music)

Murray's dead, honey.

(slow dramatic music)

- You okay?

Dad, it's hard separating family thing

from the music thing.

But he's the only dad we had

and for Mom I think we should all be at the funeral.

- I don't know, Carl, I'm going through some changes,

I don't feel so good.

- If you don't go to the funeral, you'll never come to terms

with him.

Don't turn away, Dennis, you know what I'm talking about.

If you and Brian don't put him in the ground,

you'll never be rid of him.

Don't make me go there by myself.

- I'll be there.

(slow dramatic music)

- [Pastor] Dear Lord in time of sadness we turn to you,

in times of loss we turn to you for meaning.

We (indistinct).

We pray for a peaceful rest for our loved one.

(dramatic piano music)

- [Marilyn] Brian refuses to get any kind

of psychiatric treatment.

I threatened if he don't, I'm gonna walk out,

it doesn't make a difference.

He thinks (indistinct).

He won't get out of bed, I can't even get him

to take a shower, he thinks there's poison gas

in the shower.

Last month, (indistinct) dropped by the house

and Brian was petrified, he started sobbing

and then he locked himself in the pool house

until I went out there-

(Brian knocks)

- Let me in.

(Brian knocks)

Let me in.

Why are you telling him everything?

- He's a therapist.

- But it's like a regular thing,

it's like he's here everyday or something.

Well, if you're gonna talk to him, I wanna talk to him too.

- Brian, meet Dr. Landy.

- Come in, Brian.

(dramatic piano music)

- [Dennis] Did you sleep with him?

You can tell me, Karen, did you sleep with him!

It's a simple yes or no.

- Well, I'm not gonna answer that,

not until you tell me about you and little Gracie.

Ow, Dennis, you're hurting me!

- Did you sleep with Elliot?

- No, all right, no, we're just friends.

Are you satisfied now?

- Go to hell.

- You hypocrite, you go out on that road

and you jump any hippie with a stone around her neck

but you expect me just to-

(glass breaks)

Oh, look at mister macho, mister tough guy, huh.

- I want you out of my life, right now!

Get out!

(dark music)

- Fine, I'm out of here.

(dark music)

- You wanna know about little Gracie, huh?

The truth is we do it every which way we can.

You're out of my life, gone.

(water splashes)

Finished, it's over!

(water splashes)

(Brian breathes heavy)

- Oh, I gotta take a break, let's just break, come on,

let me catch my breathe.

- Okay, okay.

- Oh, man.

- Oh, gross, Jack LaLane.

- Hey, how did you know I was gonna be here?

- Oh, come on, man, they've been putting you through

the same paces for months, six mile runs,

cardiovascular funk.

I mean, what's next bowling for dollars?

You must be bored out of your mind.

- I'm bushed.

- Let's cut out.

Come on, man.

I got the burgers, I got the fries, I got the coke.

That's a workout.

Come on. (Dennis laughs)

(upbeat music)

- Go, just go, go, go away, man, go, go.

(piano music)

- Yo bummer man, machine's not on.

- Dennis.

- All right, we're rolling now.

(Dennis laughs)

You're the only guy in the world

that can blow two grams and still be hungry.

- I'm a growing boy.

- You know you're not gonna grow creatively

until you dump Landy.

- I cut him loose man, he cost too much.

- Man, now you're talking, Brian Wilson

doesn't need anybody.

You're the genius man, without you the band is nowhere.

- Man, Carl wants me to go on tour with you guys

and do Brian is back kind of thing.

- It'd be easy, you just play them a couple of oldies,

that's all they wanna hear from us.

- That's so freaky.

- It's nostalgia, man, everybody's into it these days.

- Man, Pop must be turning over in his grave.

- Jerk.

(slow music)

- And he sold me out for the short money,

he never believed in anything I did.

- He worshiped you.

- Oh yeah, is that why he hit me.

You know, that's why I've never been able to hear my music,

any music on the stereo, that's why he hit me in the ear.

You remember.

- I remember he used to beat the crap out of me

till I learned how to fight back.

- You think about him a lot, huh?

He hated us.

- He loved us.

What he hated was rock and roll.

♪ Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music ♪

♪ Any old way you choose it ♪

♪ It's got a back beat you can't lose it ♪

♪ Any old time you use it ♪

♪ It's gotta be rock and roll music ♪

♪ If you want to dance with me ♪

♪ If you want to dance with me ♪

♪ I have no kicks against modern jazz ♪

♪ Unless they try to play it too darned fast ♪

♪ And change the beauty of the melody ♪

♪ Until it sounds just like a symphony ♪

♪ That's why I go for that rock and roll music ♪

♪ Every old way you choose it ♪

♪ It's got a back beat you can't lose it ♪

♪ Every old way you choose it ♪

♪ Rock and roll ♪

♪ It's gotta be rock and roll music ♪

♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪

♪ If you wanna dance with me rock ♪

♪ If you wanna dance with me rock ♪

♪ If you wanna dance with me rock ♪

♪ If you wanna dance with me rock ♪

(audience applauds)

- Thank you, thank you very much,

enjoy the intermission, we'll be right back.

(audience cheers)

- If you can't buy any ludes at the refreshment stand,

come see me backstage.

(audience cheers)

- You idiot, haven't you done enough already.

First you get him hooked again

and then you try to set up a drug deal on a microphone.

- It was a joke.

- Joke's on you, you're out of the band, buckwheat!

- He started it, he started it!

Oh, he's trying to kick me out of the band, huh?

- I know.

- What, you're on his side?

- You've gotta clean up your act, Dennis.

I can't responsible for you anymore.

(dramatic music)

- You love this boat, Dennis,

didn't you realize you were falling behind on you payments?

- I don't know what's happening anymore.

- Well, you better find out buddy.

(rock music)

- Yo, Denny, how's it going dude?

- It's not.

- I haven't seen you before, have I?

- I'm Shaun, friends with Jennifer.

You know my father although he denies being my father.

Mike Love.

- Oh, you're Shaun, baby Shaun. (laughs)

Oh.

Would you like to take a walk on the beach?

(Dennis laughs)

- You wanna know the biggest single mistake of my life,

getting married again, the biggest.

- Yeah, well if you hate me so much,

why don't you just divorce me?

- Because of Gage.

A little boy needs his pop around.

- You're too weird for words.

- And what would you know about it?

You never had a real father anyway.

- What good is a father if he's drunk all the time?

- That's what's so sick about you.

You're so hung up trying to be Mike Love's daughter,

you don't even know how to be a decent mother.

(baby cries)

(door slams)

- Let her go, Denny, life's too short, man.

- Salute, salute.

- [Reporter] In the capital today, Secretary James Watts

announced that The Beach Boys will be barred from performing

at the 4th of July party on Washington's Mall.

In a memo, Watt charged that The Beach Boys attract

the wrong element and said that their performances

created drug and alcohol problems.

Watts said that this year's 4th of July celebration

should point to the glories of America

in a patriotic inspirational way.

- Who the hell is this guy?

- James Watts, Secretary of the Interior.

- [Man] James Watts has substituted Wayne Newton

for The Beach Boys.

- This is great, oh god, what a set up.

- I didn't even know you were touring with the band again.

- Oh, man as long as I show up sober,

they don't give thought, wrong element.

Yeah, Brian is gonna blow his mind when he hears about this.

- [Brian] Hi, leave your name and number after the beep.

- Ever since he hooked up with Landy again.

I gotta go up to Malibu.

Chucky, put this on my tab, will you,

I gotta see my brother.

- Dennis.

- It's covered.

(Brian laughs)

- I don't believe it.

- Long time no see.

I've been trying to get in touch with you for 10 months.

Your shrink's got it in for me.

Hey did you hear the Secretary of Interior

said we can't play DC on the 4th of July?

We're (indistinct).

- Mike's been on the phone with the White House.

- Oh yeah.

- Yeah, we'll probably get invited there

instead of the Mall.

- That's cool.

Check this out.

- No.

- Oh yeah, come on, man, we'll jam,

we'll get high, it'll be like old times.

What's the matter with you,

we're talking pure Bolivian honey here.

- I'm gonna pull an Elvis man.

I'm exercising and I'm eating right,

I can hear music in my head again just like before.

I don't do drugs anymore.

- We'll just hang out.

- You know, you can do it too, Dennis.

You could turn your life around.

- Don't worry about me, I'm better than I've ever been.

You remember that time Dad took us down to the pike,

we went on that roller coaster ride?

We didn't get off till the park closed.

- Yeah.

- That's a good day.

- Brian.

- Take care of yourself, Dennis.

♪ You're never far away when I'm alone ♪

♪ I just close my eyes ♪

♪ You could bring me joy with just these simple words ♪

♪ I love you ♪

♪ You give something beautiful to me ♪

♪ How did it slip away ♪

♪ And I think of your sweet smile ♪

- What are you doing here?

- Did I scare you, I let myself in through the side door.

- So how are you doing?

- I'm still the same person, I filled out a little, I guess

but I'm running everyday.

- Oh yeah, to the local bar and back.

- Oh, no, that's behind me, I've sworn off that for good.

I got another kid now, a little boy, his name's Gage.

- I heard, congratulations.

- Yeah, the funny thing is he looks like Murray.

That poor kid.

Ah you look terrific.

- Dennis.

- Look, I've trashed and burned every relationship

I've ever had and I'm not proud of that

but Saturday's my birthday.

- That's right, happy birthday.

- 39, I'm not a Beach Boy anymore.

So, do I get a birthday present?

- What do you want?

As if I didn't know.

- Look, look, just a hug.

Sleep with me tonight.

- Dennis.

- Look, I'll stay on the couch, just let me stay.

- You tell me you have a son, right.

- Yeah, Gage, he's everything to me.

- You have a family now, Dennis.

Go home, be with them.

They need you.

(dramatic piano music)

(slow piano music)

(dramatic music)

- [Dennis] Great news, greatest news ever,

I do 30 days detox and they loan me the money

to buy back my boat free and clear.

Tell them about the Harmony, it was the primo boat

in the marina.

I've gotta find a buried treasure

before they throw the thing back there.

(dramatic music)

(water splashes)

- [Man] Dennis!

Yo Dennis, Dennis, come on buddy!

Dennis!

No! (sirens blare)

(dark music)

- Hi.

- Did you talk to Mom?

- Yeah, she's all right.

- It's just so hard.

- I know, Dennis would have wanted us to-

- I don't wanna talk about it, I don't wanna.

- When Dad died-

- I don't wanna talk about Dad either, okay.

- No, it's not okay.

- Fine, what good does it do,

you can't go back and change things, make them better.

- Brian, listen, when Dad died,

you and Dennis ran away from it.

Dennis never got over that

and I'm really worried about you.

- We really had it there for awhile.

It's over now.

- I don't think it's over.

At least it doesn't have to be you know.

(dramatic music)

(audience applauds and cheers)

- [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,

please welcome back after one year's absence,

America's band, "The Beach Boys!"

- Happy birthday, America!

It's great to be back.

Thank you for wanting us back!

- I wanna say a few words.

Hi, I'm Brian Wilson, I'm with the band.

(audience cheers)

I wanted to say, I'd just like to say,

I wanted to say, I'd just like to say,

I wanted to say, this one's for my brother,

this one's for Dennis!

(audience cheers)

(Dennis hollers)

- [Man] All right, one, two, three.

♪ Yeah, she's got her daddy's car ♪

♪ And she's cruising the hamburger stand now ♪

♪ Seems she forget all about the library ♪

♪ Like she told her old man now ♪

♪ And with her radio blasting goes cruising ♪

♪ Just as fast as she can now ♪

♪ And she'll have fun fun fun ♪

♪ Now that Daddy took the T-bird away ♪

♪ Fun fun fun now that Daddy took the T-bird away ♪

♪ Fun fun fun Daddy took the T-bird away ♪

♪ Fun fun fun now that Daddy took the T-bird away ♪

♪ Fun fun fun ♪

(pleasant music)

(dramatic music)

(Multicom jingle)