The lives of Doug and all the other students at Beebe Bluff Middle School become a frenzy when Mr. Bone returns and becomes the middle school's new vice principal. He soon starts throwing Roger into detention and making new school rules

Skeeter is dating Beebe and Doug is disgusted by Skeeter's lovesick attitude and jealous of their friendship. Doug decides to fight back which ends up in the end of their friendship. Doug and Skeeter have been friends forever, but not anymore

Patti panics and thinks she's fat after watching a commercial selling a diet kit, so she, Connie, and Beebe set out to lose weight. Patti decides to go on a drastic diet and excercise routine. But once she starts losing weight, she can't seem to stop herself, even with Doug's help

When Guy invites Patti to go to a star-studded premiere of a new movie called Slag & Felpy, Doug feels jealous that Guy took Patti out on a date. In a Quailman daydream, the Golden Salmon appears in Megalopolis, but Quailman isn't sure he's a superhero. Meanwhile, Dr

Judy helps out with Gwen Gauntlet, her favorite actress and teen role model, while she is in town to shoot an entertainment show. Judy hopes she can get a recommendation from Gwen for Vole University. However, Gwen is so self-absorbed that it tests the limits of Judy's patience

Connie Benge becomes obsessed with winning a local radio-station contest to become a rock 'n' roll star. She brings Doug into it, and is so obsessed she thinks about quitting school just like Flounder from The Beets did. Soon she realizes Flounder may have not done the right thing

Bill Bluff's public relations firm decides that Bill should have Thanksgiving Day dinner with an average Bluffington family to increase his popularity. Doug's family is choosen and turns their simple Thanksgiving plans upside down. They won't let Patti join their dinner and Judy doesn't like what Bill is doing in preparation for the big dinner

When Doug worries he is only average, he decides that to make his level of importance higher he should be a collector of unusal and (hopefully) valuable items. So he goes to a flea market with a valuable collecters item book looking for rubber tub stoppers and bowls, but someone has already gotten to them. Meanwhile, Roger gets on Mr