- Moondoggie: Don't you find Kahuna to be a little on the lazy side?
- Gidget: Love makes room for fault.
- Gidget: Surfing is out of this world. You can't imagine the thrill of the shooting the curl. It positively surpasses every living emotion I've ever had.
- Little girl at the beach: [Gidget's friends throw a beach ball at the surfers to get their attention. Moondoggie sends the little girl over to them with the beach ball and a message] The man said for me to take the toy back to the nursery!
- Gidget: What is it?
- Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna: It's time for you go to go home that's what it is. Before I forget it's just a game.
- Mrs. Dorothy Lawrence: A girl does have to become a woman, but you've got it a little mixed up, Francie. Come here. Grandma's old sampler, remember? Read it.
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: "To be a real woman is to bring out the best in a man." Sweet, but tell it to the boys today.
- Gidget: Well all we need to do for awhile... until Kahuna takes notice is pretend like we're mad for each other.
- Moondoggie: On the surface only of course?
- Gidget: Oh yeah on the surface only of course.
- [first lines]
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: This summer was the turning point in my life. For 16 years, I'd gone blindly along enjoying myself like a fool who never guesses what's in store for her. Then...
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: Hey, you know, I kind of like being called that now.
- Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie: What's that? Gidget?
- [singing]
- Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie: Although she's just small fry, Just about so-high, Gidget is the one for me, A regular tomboy, But dressed for a prom, Boy, how cute, Can one girl be? Although she's not king size, Her finger is ring size, Gidget is the one for me...
- Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie: Please, no tourists, Kahuna.
- Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna: Hey, Francie's no tourist. She's got a real yen to pick up on surfing.
- Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie: That gidget?
- Lord Byron: A gidget.
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: Hey, wait a minute, fellas. Let me in on the gag too, huh?
- Lover Boy: Well, you see, it's arrived at through osmosis.
- Hot Shot: Yeah. Girl and midget: a gidget.
- Mrs. Dorothy Lawrence: Betty Louise, do you think Francie didn't want to go?
- Betty Louise aka B.L.: Oh, she's just a bit skittish. After all, this is her first manhunt.
- Mrs. Dorothy Lawrence: Her first what?
- Betty Louise aka B.L.: Manhunt!
- Patti: She's more fish than dish. To put it bluntly, the kid's studied up on about everything but sex! And let's face it, like most of us, she's pushing 17.
- Betty Louise aka B.L.: Oh, not till next month.
- Patti: Oh, listen, B.L., you don't have to go. You've got social security just by wearing Buck's fraternity pin. But take it from me, Francie has got to make it this summer, or she'll be a social outcast.
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: I'm no dame!
- Lord Byron: Oh, well, what do you know? It has all the earmarks of a dame.
- Lover Boy: You better get your monocle, Lord Byron. Those are not ears. It's a dame all right, only kind of a pint-sized version.
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: What'll happen to your future? I mean, doesn't everybody have to have a goal or something?
- Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna: Who said? There's your answer, little one. "Who said?"
- Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie: This wasn't my idea. I came as a favor to my dad. How was I to guess some drip cello student would turn out to be you?
- Patti: Oh, be realistic, Francie. Now, ask yourself one vital question. To date, what has your life added up to? Okay, so you're an "A" student. That's parent stuff. Do you know anybody else it impresses?
- Patti: Now, hear this, Francie Lawrence. The day, the hour, and the moment has arrived.
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: Not for me, it hasn't. Aw, gee, Patti, last year and the year before, didn't we all have a ball? I mean, why can't we go on being like that always? Why do we have to spoil it all?
- Russell Lawrence: It's too much money.
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: Oh, Daddy, I'd work like a slave for it. Please?
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: This surfboard is a gilt-edge guarantee for a summer of sheer happiness!
- Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna: You done much surfing?
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: Uh, no, not too much. Yesterday was my first. Boy, was it ever exciting! It was like nothing I ever felt before! Whoop! We're on an elevator headed for the sky. And then, zoom! Speeding across the ocean, on top of the world! It was the ultimate!
- Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna: The big kick, huh? Sounds like you're a goner, kid.
- Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna: I'm a surf bum. You know, ride the waves, eat, sleep, not a care in the world. Here.
- [holds a shell up to Gidget's ear]
- Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna: You hear that? The sea left its whisper in there. That's the secret to the whole thing.
- Lord Byron: Hey, Hey. Maybe we could let the Gidget run delivery service from the hot dog stand.
- Hot Shot: Boolee! Boolee.
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: Oh, I'd be glad to!
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: Gosh, I owe you my life!
- Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie: Forget it, will you? The way we see it around here, the Kahuna and me, nobody owes anybody anything. Not if they play it smart. Not if they don't let themselves get involved. Why don't you run along home, kid?
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: Boy, are you a grouch.
- Mrs. Dorothy Lawrence: Glad you had such a good time at the beach.
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: Oh, yeah, it was creamy!
- Mrs. Dorothy Lawrence: Darling, you like boys, don't you?
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: Well, sure. I mean, well, boys are the most fun, but - well - I mean, I just can't stand when they start smooching and pawing and - Well, level with me, Mom, doesn't that kind of stuff make your skin crawl?
- Mrs. Dorothy Lawrence: Well, it would depend on who.
- Russell Lawrence: Francie! Shut off that infernal racket.
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: Infernal racket.
- [turns off her record player]
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: No wonder they call them the Lost Generation.
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: Honest, fellows, I'd love a luau. When is it?
- Hot Shot: Not for a couple of weeks. But don't give it another thought, baby.
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: But why?
- Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie: Because it's not a coming-out party.
- Waikiki: And it's not a weenie-roast.
- Hot Shot: As a matter of fact, honey, this luau is not a luau...
- Stinky: It's an orgy!
- Hot Shot: Yeah! Yeah, yeah.
- Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna: Cheer up, angel. Don't you know that frowning is bad for the face, beautiful?
- Mrs. Dorothy Lawrence: One of the advantages of being a young lady is it's not up to you. It's up to the young man.
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: Kahuna, I want to come to that luau!
- Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna: Baby-doll, what is it with you? Don't you ever give up?
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: Well, not when I want something! Well, it's like anything, you want it bad enough, you work for it! And right now what I want more than anything else in the whole wide *world* is to go to that luau! Well, Kahuna, you know yourself, it's the bang-up finish to the whole summer! Well, it's like graduation day. I mean, it's the ultimate!
- Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna: Oh, Gidget, Gidget, Gidget.