Mr. Hand is "convinced everyone's on dope." Jeff Spicoli thinks everyone should be on dope. One is an old-fashioned history teacher who plays by the rules; the other is a rebellious surfer who knows no rules. Spicoli and Hand couldn't be more diametrically opposed people. The pot-smoking surfer and his history teacher in Cameron Crowe's 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High may not be the film's main characters but they define the generation gap. Spicoli (Sean Penn) and Mr. Hand (Ray Walston) butt heads throughout the movie. Their differences are apparent in the way they dress, the way they speak, and what they do. Jeff Spicoli and Mr. Hand are completely different people with different goals, values, and outlooks on life. Their differences can be classified into the following three categories. First, Spicoli and Hand have different goals and ambitions in life. Second, Spicoli and Hand have different core values and worldviews. Third, Spicoli and Hand have completely different identities.
             Jeff Spicoli's loftiest fantasies include winning surfing competitions and being surrounded by babes in bikinis, whereas Mr. Hand only wants his students to appreciate history and school. Spicoli's goals in life are evident in the pinups he plasters on his walls at home and in his school locker. Girls in skimpy bikinis and champion surfers are the people he most hopes to meet. Spicoli also emerges from a smoke-filled orange Volkswagen bus with two of his smoking buddies every day at school and always shows up for class late and high. His goals in life do not include getting into an Ivy League school and so he only wants to pass history so that he can get on with his surfing career. Spicoli's main goals in life also become evident during his dream sequence, in which he receives a surfing award and wins a trip to see Van Halen. After the film ends we learn Spicoli saved Brooke Shield's life and blew a...