History YMMV / BeachParty

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film is a perfect time capsule of the early 60s, where surf culture was the popular new thing among California youngsters. The Rat Pack parodies ''Film/TheWildOne'' (released in 1953), with Harvey Lembeck doing a MumblingBrando impression. Dolores's hairstyle the quintessential bouffant, while Marianne's short and wavy 'do is an obvious holdover from the 50s. The crew cuts on the teens and the short-back-and-sides on Robert are likewise 50s holdovers. Big Daddy's club is a copy of Cafe Frankenstein - a coffee house with a reputation as a "den of inequity" in the conservative Orange County - and it had closed down and been demolished only a year before the film's release. Dick Dale performs two songs at the height of his early 60s popularity (before the British Invasion would eclipse surf music in the middle of the decade). Likewise is Hungarian sex symbol Eva Six starring - when she'd retire from Hollywood by the end of the 60s.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film is a perfect time capsule of the early 60s, where surf culture was the popular new thing among California youngsters. The Rat Pack parodies ''Film/TheWildOne'' (released in 1953), with Harvey Lembeck doing a MumblingBrando impression. Dolores's hairstyle the quintessential bouffant, while Marianne's short and wavy 'do is an obvious holdover from the 50s. The crew cuts on the teens and the short-back-and-sides on Robert are likewise 50s holdovers. Big Daddy's club is an {{Expy}} of Cafe Frankenstein - a coffee house with a reputation as a "den of inequity" in the conservative Orange County - and it had closed down and been demolished only a year before the film's release. Dick Dale performs two songs at the height of his early 60s popularity (before the British Invasion would eclipse surf music in the middle of the decade). Likewise is Hungarian sex symbol Eva Six starring - when she'd retire from Hollywood by the end of the 60s.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film is a perfect time capsule of the early 60s, where surf culture was the popular new thing among California youngsters. The Rat Pack parodies ''Film/TheWildOne'' (released in 1953), with Harvey Lembeck doing a MumblingBrando impression. Dolores's hairstyle the quintessential bouffant, while Marianne's short and wavy 'do is an obvious holdover from the 50s. The crew cuts on the teens and the short-back-and-sides on Robert are likewise 50s holdovers. Big Daddy's club is an {{Expy}} of Cafe Frankenstein - a coffee house with a reputation as a "den of inequity" in the conservative Orange County - and it had closed down and been demolished only a year before the film's release. Dick Dale performs two songs at the height of his early 60s popularity (before the British Invasion would eclipse surf music in the middle of the decade). Likewise is Hungarian sex symbol Eva Six starring - when she'd retire from Hollywood by the end of the 60s.* UnintentionallySympathetic: The conflict between Frankie and Dolores is meant to be BothSidesHaveAPoint. But Dolores's actions - inviting their friends to what was supposed to be a couple's vacation, and getting a crush on Robert for saving her - pale in comparison to Frankie's. He openly flirts with other girls and messes Ava around just to make her jealous (without a thought to Ava's feelings either). Dolores also ends up being used by Robert for his study.

** The boys' prank on Robert - setting his hat on fire - is also seen as harmless fun that only gets a stern look from Dolores.
* WeirdAlEffect: The Disney Channel movie ''Film/TeenBeachMovie'' (and its sequel) spoofs this and the entire beach party genre, and is probably better known than ''Beach Party'' these days.

* UnbuiltTrope: As the first film in the series, this one is noted to have a lightly more satirical tone, and there's an overall EndOfAnEra feeling hanging over the vacation.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: The conflict between Frankie and Dolores is meant to be BothSidesHaveAPoint. But Dolores's actions - inviting their friends to what was supposed to be a couple's vacation, and getting a crush on Robert for saving her - pale in comparison to Frankie's. He openly flirts with other girls and messes Ava around just to make her jealous (without a thought to Ava's feelings either). Dolores also ends up being used by Robert for his study.

* ValuesDissonance: The central conflict is set up by Dolores inviting her friends to the beach, supposedly to prevent Frankie from thinking he's about to get some. Frankie is so pissed at this he resorts to OperationJealousy, and hypocritically gets annoyed at Dolores for doing the same thing. Yet it's Dolores who gets a song literally titled "Treat Him Nicely", and their romance is resolved with minimal of Frankie admitting he was in the wrong.

* FirstInstallmentWins: The most memorable and most successful of the beach party movies. Annette Funicello called hit her favourite in the series. Only ''Film/BeachBlanketBingo'' might rival it.