Based on Stephen King's Short story "The Body", "Stand By Me" tells the tale of Gordie Lachance, a writer who looks back on his preteen days when he and three close friends went on their own adventure to find the body of a kid their age who had gone missing and presumed dead. The stakes are upped when the bad kids in town are closely tailing - and it becomes a race to see who'll be able to recover the body first.

When Ace and Eyeball meet up with Gordie and Chris, the plate glass window identifies the place they have just exited as "Irby's Billiards", named after first assistant director Irby Smith.

Gordie:
Alright, alright, Mickey's a mouse, Donald's a duck, Pluto's a dog. What's Goofy?


Vern:
If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? That's easy-Pez. Cherry-flavored Pez. No question about it.


Teddy:
Goofy's a dog. He's definitely a dog.


Gordie:
I knew the $64,000 question was fixed. There's no way anybody could know that much about opera!


Chris:
He can't be a dog. He drives a car and wears a hat.


Gordie:
Wagon Train's a really cool show, but did you notice they never get anywhere? They just keep wagon training.


Vern:
Oh, God. That's weird. What the hell is Goofy?

Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the boys are teasing Chopper at the fence, Vern can be heard saying "Come on Chopper, sick balls Chopper", but his mouth doesn't move and instead he is seen smiling and laughing.

by Ben E. King (as B.E. King), Jerry Leiber (as J. Leiber) and Mike Stoller (as M. Stoller)
Performed by Ben E. King
All rights administered by Unichappell Music, Inc. and Trio Music
Courtesy of the Atlantic Recording Corp.
by arrangement with Warner Special Products