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Willie has been chosen to make a short film for a festival that can bring him national attention. For some odd reason Willie decides to film his own family! I mean he can do ANYTHING and all he can think of is interviewing his mom doing some gardening? and quite frankly Sada Thompson was not exactly thrilling to watch. He films his little sister Buddy up in her tree house as she tells the camera how much she loves her tree house. Why on Earth would this be his choice to win the contest? Finally he starts filming his family when they don't know he's there and he gets some juicy stuff, like his mom sitting at a table with his little sister and sharing a sandwich, like I said real juicy stuff. Let's face it, this kid is not going to be the next Scorsese. Towards the end of this episode Buddy has an important speech to make at school and completely flops, she runs to a diner and sits at the counter and has a heart to heart conversation with a waitress with a heart of gold played nicely by Dorris Roberts. As the hours go by Buddy continues to hang out at the diner, finally the talkative waitress goes to a back room and calls Buddy's family to come get her. How the waitress knew the phone number is not revealed. At the end of the episode Willie thankfully decides NOT to send in his masterpiece film for reasons that are not particularly fleshed out. The end scene is the family sitting around watching the finished film. Let's face it, Greg Brady made a more impressive film about the Pilgrims.