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- Phil, a student who recently transferred into his high school, keeps to himself a lot, spending time in his basement building radios and record players. His dad notices that he has no friends, and tells him that, like the electronic parts he assembles, "you have to fit in with all hte other parts." Realizing that the reason he has no friends is because he's not one of the "crowd," Phil studies the most popular kids at school, in order to see what traits they admire most, so he can be like them and fit in.
- A shy boy wants to ask out a girl on a date - but how can he know what she'd like to do, or what kind of activity would be best suited for getting to know her?
- A boy realizes that he could help his parents by doing things around the house.
- A weird wordsmith with a background monkey teaches a young boy about grammar in strange and frightening ways.
- A high school senior really has the hots for her boyfriend and wants to get married right after she graduates, despite the objections of her parents.
- Larry, a popular young boy, is looked up to and admired by his friends. It turns out that the reason he is so popular is because of his personal hygiene habits. He constantly washes his hair, cleans between his toes, lines public toilet seats with paper and has even more disturbing obsessions. As the narrator says, Larry's extra-squeaky-clean hygiene habits--something psychiatrists nowadays call obsessive-compulsive disorder--"are what give him such self-confidence!"
- A look into the lives of a seventh-grade boy and girl as they go through their morning and evening routines...and why not keeping clean and neat brands them as losers!
- A dancing woman of the future wants her hubbie to buy every car she sees.
- This short featuring "Mr. Bungle", a puppet, instructs children on how to best behave in a lunchroom situation.
- Kay, a boy-crazy high school student, devotes her entire life to finding dates. She tries every trick she can to get boys to take her out, from pretendng that she cars about sports and cars to getting herself put on cleanup committees to meet boys.
- Howard, a high school student, won't show his parents his report card, because he believes he should have gotten an "A", but didn't, and now he's ashamed to let his parents know. Mr. Edmund, the school principal/psychologist, counsels Howard that high expectations are not always realistic, and when they are not met one gets "emotionally upset," which is a bad thing for a teenager in the 1950s to be. So Howard promises that he will set his sights at a much lower goal from now on.
- Jeff Moore, a high school student, has trouble controlling his emotions. An expert in the subject (though it's never explained who he is or what he's an expert in) assures the audience that Jeff's problems stem from the fact that he lets his emotions escape, instead of reining them in like everyone is supposed to. At the end, Jeff realizes that he must not let his emotions get in the way of logic and reason, and goes to a marshmallow roast with the gang.
- A rebellious teen wants to be left alone. His family oblige him by leaving for a two-week camping trip. Left to his own devices, his internal monologue turns to missing his little sister and brother--not to mention some home cooking.
- The issue of popularity, specifically amongst the high school set, is dramatized. Jerry occasionally goes on dates with Ginny, who goes on "sitting in parked cars" dates with many boys, which makes Jerry feel less special. When Ginny comes by and wants to sit with the gang, they brush her off. Is she popular because she goes on these dates, or is the exact opposite the truth? Jerry is also attracted to the new girl in school, Caroline. He can't verbalize why he likes her, but all in the gang, including the girls, invite her to sit with them. But if Caroline is popular, it means that others, like Wally, are interested also in dating her. Jerry and Wally take two different approaches in asking Caroline on a date, with two different results based on their consideration of her feelings.
- A magic puppet makes a boy invisible so he can appreciate his parents.
- Four teenagers and a narrator discuss ways in which to recognize and correct pronunciation problems.
- A young man is given advice by a businessman on how good moral character is necessary in order to be successful in today's world.
- This short film dramatizes the problems, adjustments, and transformations that occur in the first year of a young couples marriage.
- A school principal counsels a young student caught vandalizing a desk on the proper behavior to exhibit while in school.
- Ray thinks that being friendly to people shows that you're a "sissy." His older brother Phil decides to teach Roy how to be more friendly, and to show him that it's not in the least "sissy"-like.
- A teacher uses a puppet clown, the black-board and mounted pictures in teaching primary school children to arrange events chronologically when telling a story.
- Jack and his buddies at the Teen Canteen are divided over the important issue of whether they should close at 10:30 or 11:00, and it's tearing them apart. Jack is adamant about closing at the later hour, so they all ask the advice of a lawyer. The lawyer tells them that the city can force them to close at 10:00, or 9:00, or whatever time they want to. Jack begins to protest that they are citizens and have rights, too, but his lawyer reminds him that the good of the community "as a whole" comes first. The teens learn a very valuable lesson, which is that whatever rights a relatively powerless social class has are always trumped by the wants, needs and will of the more conservative and more powerful ruling class (as if we didn't know that . . . ).
- Jeff and Marie have been dating for a while, and come to the realization that they might be considered to be "going steady." They ponder the significance of that situation, while Marie's mother worries that Jeff might feel that going steady may entitle him to "take liberties" with her virginal (but seemingly not happy about it) daughter.
- A teen boy is given advice on what to do, and what not to do, on a date.
- A boy named Reggie leans to take care of his wreck of a room by frightening items that come to life