Daryl Mitchell

Cameron James (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a new student at Padua High School in the Seattle area, becomes instantly smitten with popular sophomore Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik), the younger of the two Stratford sisters, superficial and popular. Ms. Perky (Allison Janney) Padua High School's guidance counselor and a writer of erotic literature. Cameron had changed 9 schools in 10 years and claims that his dad is in the army. Mr. Morgan (Daryl "Chill" Mitchell) is the teacher of English class. Mr. Chapin (David Leisure) is the coach of the girls' soccer team Cameron befriends Michael who introduces the various cliques at school including, the beautiful people (don't speak to them unless they speak to you), the coffee guys (very edgy at all times and no sudden movements around them), White Rastas (the delusional who are big Marlet fans and believe that they are African Americans), Cowboys (the closest they came to a cow is at McDonald's), future MBAs (all accepted to Ivy league schools) and the "Don't even think about it" group (of which Bianca is a member). Geeky Michael Eckman (David Krumholtz) warns him that Bianca is vapid and conceited, and that her overprotective father does not allow Bianca or her older sister, the shrewish Kat/Katarina (Julia Stiles), to date. Kat, a senior, is accepted to Sarah Lawrence College in New York, but her father, Walter (Larry Miller) (an obstetrician and single parent who is overprotective of his daughters, Kat, and Bianca), wants her to stay close to home and attend his Alma mater, the University of Washington. Bianca wishes to date affluent senior Joey Donner (Andrew Keegan), but Walter, an obstetrician worrisome of teenage pregnancy, will not allow his daughters to date until they graduate. Frustrated by Bianca's insistence and Kat's rebelliousness, Walter declares that Bianca may date only when Kat does, knowing that Kat's antisocial attitude makes this unlikely. Chastity (Gabrielle Union) is Bianca's best friend, while Mandella (Susan May Pratt) is Kat's only friend. When Cameron asks Bianca out, she informs him of her father's new rule and, as a pretense for allowing her to date Joey, suggests that Cameron find someone willing to date Kat. Cameron selects Australian "bad boy" Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger), but Patrick scares him off. Patrick was rumored to have set a state trooper on fire and spent a year in juvenile detention. Michael assists by convincing Joey to pay Patrick to take out Kat, under the pretense that this will allow Joey to date Bianca. Patrick demands $50 to take Kat out for a movie, to which Joey agrees. Patrick agrees to the deal, but Kat rebuffs his first few advances. Patrick ups his price to $100 per date. Michael and Cameron help him by prying Bianca for information on Kat's likes and dislikes. Bianca is more than happy to spill the beans. She reveals that Kat is a Jared Leto fan (she likes pretty guys), hates smokers, has black underwear (which means she wants to have sex), likes Thai food, feminist prose, angry girl music and so on. Armed with this knowledge, Patrick begins to win Kat's interest. She goes to a party with him, which enables Bianca to go as well, much to Walter's dismay. At the party, Kat becomes upset when she sees Bianca with Joey and responds by getting drunk and dancing on top of a table in front of everyone. Patrick attends to her as Kat is clearly not in her senses, and Kat starts to open up, expressing her interest in starting a band. However, when she tries to kiss him, Patrick pulls away and Kat leaves, infuriated. Meanwhile, Bianca ignores Cameron in favor of Joey, leaving Cameron dejected. Bianca tries to set Cameron up with Chastity. Bianca soon realizes, however, that Joey is shallow and self-absorbed, and asks Cameron for a ride home. Cameron admits his feelings for her and his frustration with how she has treated him. Bianca responds by kissing him. Joey offers to pay Patrick to take Kat to the prom so he can take Bianca. Patrick initially refuses but relents when Joey offers him more money. Kat is still angry with Patrick, but he wins her over by serenading her with the accompaniment of the marching band, and she helps him sneak out of detention. They go on a date which turns romantic, but Kat becomes suspicious and angry when Patrick insists that she go with him to the prom, an event she is adamantly against. Bianca is irritated that Cameron hasn't asked her to the prom, and so accepts Joey's invitation, but Walter won't allow it unless Kat goes too. Kat confesses to Bianca that she dated Joey when they were freshmen and, succumbing to peer pressure, had sex with him. Afterward she regretted it, and Joey dumped her, so she vowed to never again do anything just because everyone else was doing it. Bianca insists that she can make her own choices, so Kat agrees to go to the prom with Patrick, and Bianca decides to go with Cameron instead of Joey. All is going well at the prom until Bianca learns that Joey planned to have sex with her that night. Angry that Bianca has spurned him for Cameron, Joey reveals his arrangement with Patrick, which causes Kat to leave heartbroken. Joey then punches Cameron but is in turn beaten up by Bianca for having hurt her, Kat, and Cameron. Bianca and Cameron share another kiss. The next day, Bianca reconciles with Kat and begins dating Cameron. Walter admits that Kat can take care of herself and gives her permission to attend Sarah Lawrence College. For an assignment in which the students were required to write their own version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 141, Kat reads aloud a poem titled "10 Things I Hate About You", revealing that she still loves Patrick. He surprises her with a Fender Stratocaster that he bought with the money Joey paid him, and confesses that he has fallen for her. Kat forgives him, and they reconcile with a kiss.

Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko (Steve Martin) is in charge of the motor pool at Fort Baxter, a small United States Army base that develops new military technology. Exploiting this position, he directs a number of scams, ranging from gambling (Somebody said they are as strong as a horse and Bilko organized a betting game to actually test it in a tug of war against the horse. Bilko gets his man to lose the first match, only to up the stakes and then his man taking down the horse to win big) to renting out military vehicles. He plans to open up a day care center on base to get access to the kids allowances. Sgt. Henshaw (John Marshall Jones) & Sgt. Raquel Barbella (Pamela Adlon), work with Bilko on his scams. Spc. Dino Paparelli (Max Casella) runs the casino. Spc. Luis Clemente (John Ortiz) is the IT guy. Spc. Tony Morales (Dan Ferro) runs the bar. Pfc. Mickey Zimmerman (Mitchell Whitfield) is the man without any personality. Newly assigned Private First Class Wally Holbrook (Daryl Mitchell) is disgusted with this blatant violation of army protocol. Bilko wants Holbrook to roll back the odometer to the General's car, as he has been renting it out. His commanding officer, Colonel John Hall (Dan Aykroyd), overlooks Bilko's money-making schemes, as he is more concerned with problems in the "Hover Tank" that the base is designing. The army is closing a lot of facilities lately and if the Hover Tank fails, Fort Baxter might also get on the list. Maj. Ebersole (Austin Pendleton) is in charge of the Hover Tank development and he himself is not confident of its performance under battle conditions. Major Colin Thorn (Phil Hartman), an officer from the U.S. Army Inspector General's office, arrives at the camp and begins to scrutinize Bilko's record. Officially, Thorn is at Fort Baxter to conduct a general inspection of the Hover Tank program and determine if the base should remain open in light of recent defense cutbacks. He is also determined to get revenge on Bilko to settle an old score the two have from Fort Dix, where Thorn was nearly court-martialed after a fixed boxing match (Bilko had fixed the fight. He made a deal with one of the fighters to take a dive for 50% of the winnings. But later, one of his men make a mistake and pay the other fighter, who thinks it's a good amount of money and decides to take a dive. Hence both fighters in the ring take a dive (for 3 rounds none of them landed a single punch) without so much as being touched by each other) (Thorn went into the fighter's locker and found the money, but was found by military police, who think Thorn was paying off the fighter to take the dive) which resulted in Thorn being shipped off to Greenland in the belief that he tried to fix the fight. Every time the hover tank fires, it rolls back uncontrollably due to Newton's third law of motion. Thorn is determined to shut the base down. When Thorn finds out that Bilko is on the base, that's just the icing on the cake. Thorn organizes surprise 90 second inspections of Bilko's barracks, forcing him to switch barracks (since his own is a total mess) to pass the inspection. The men have to explain a lot of things like black family photographs in the room of a white man, ladies' undergarments in men's room and so on. One of Bilko's men is 50 pounds overweight, and Thorn wants him under in 6 weeks. Bitter and unprincipled, Thorn is not above breaking the law to ruin Bilko. He attempts to steal Bilko's long-time fiance Rita (Glenne Headly), whom Bilko has stood up at the altar more than a dozen times (they play cards every time they meet afterwards). Rita is tired of waiting and gives Bilko 30 days to win her back or lose her for good. Thorn starts dating Rita and even proposes to her. Thorn calls 1st Lt. Oster (Chris Rock) & 1st Lt. Monday (Cathy Silvers) from the Inspector General's office to audit the motor pool accounts. Hall asks Bilko to do whatever to make it do away. Bilko plays every trick in the book, double counting the inventory, suggesting that Monday has a thing for Oster to distract him. They find nothing. Bilko is nice at heart and helps Holbrook get a date with a pretty lady he meets at the bar (by getting rid of her date). Thorn is still on Bilko's ass and wants to inspect his company at 0500 the next day. The platoon is on the verge of riots, and Bilko organizes to get them to take part in desert maneuvers, which incidentally are just 50 miles outside of Vegas. But, unknown to Bilko, Thorn had permitted this, so he could get his auditors inside Bilko's computers to find dirt on him. After Monday breaks into Bilko's computers, Thorn sends them off, and then proceeds to make a fake file on diversion of funds and parts from the Hover Tank project. Thorn presents the report to Hall. Thorn wants Hall to transfer Bilko to Greenland. Bilko gets his orders, and his platoon sees him crying. Bilko, with the help of newly assigned Private First Class Wally Holbrook (Daryl Mitchell), devises a means of avoiding Thorn's attempt to transfer him to Greenland (he proposes to stage a successful demo of the hover tank to prove that Bilko has not been diverting money from it): He rigs a demonstration of the base's malfunctioning Hover Tank (Bilko tells Hall that the base is being closed unless the tank test is a success), staged before a four-star general and numerous dignitaries. Since Thorn had deliberately tried to sabotage the tank the previous night, he confronts Bilko, Hall, and the general, loudly insulting Bilko and Hall. While ranting, he confesses to sabotaging the Hover Tank (Bilko had sent word via his men in a bar, to Thorn that the Hover Tank is working and Thorn came to the shed at night to remove the control circuits, and Bilko was there taking photos). Thorn is sent off again to Greenland. The last day of Rita's ultimatum has come. Just as she sadly begins to write Bilko off forever, Rita hears men outside her house, serenading her with a favorite song of hers and Bilko's. Looking out, she sees Bilko and his platoon. Bilko asks Rita to marry him, and she accepts. The next day is their wedding day, but Rita shows up late, due to a mix-up over Daylight Saving Time. After they play another card game, they finally get married. Unknown to Bilko, Rita is holding four aces in her hand.