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Tommy Kirk and Annette Funicello star as the sweethearts of Midvale College in this wacky, laugh-filled campus romp. Kirk is Merlin Jones, the gifted but slightly oddball student who, accompanied by his girlfriend Jennifer (Funicello), sets out on a series of comic misadventures. From trying to solve what appears to be a horrendous burglary and murder plot to having a chimp-napping charge pinned on him, no one is exempt from Merlin's wacky sense of oddball adventure!|The film resulted in a musical hit for Annette Funicello -- the title song, written by the Sherman brothers.|The movie was originally made as a two-parter for the Disney television show, but it turned out so well that Walt Disney decided it deserved a theatrical release. It was so popular, in fact, it led to a sequel, THE MONKEY'S UNCLE.