[The film parodies typical 50s teen romances, portraying Jeffrey""s and Sandy""s good-natured friendship along suburban sidewalks, in his convertible, and in a local malt shop/diner." They are greeted with "Morning, neighbors, morning." The stationmaster goes about unloading freight and soon confounds them by abruptly answering each of their questions quite literally:Cedar: Do you know a fellow by the name of Longfellow Deeds?Stationmaster: Deeds?.When he makes a physical advance, she hurries to leave.Then he proposes:You don""t understand...I mean - I want you to - to marry me.Immediately overwhelmed and overcome, great big tears well up in Anna""s eyes - "Anna""s inexperienced heart caught in a tide of infatuation.I have a pretty good idea you had Mikey killed." Offended, Maitland threatened: "Crawl back to your little stone in Detroit before you get squashed.Charming persuasively convinced them to join his cause, since they were all losers: "There are two sides to every story, and our side has not been told.