Brendon documents his first fight on video.
It's hard enough for Brendon to accept that his mother is going on a date, but couldn't she have picked a guy other than Coach McGuirk?
Brendon is in danger of being held back when he won't complete the research for his presentation, and Paula isn't helping his cause.
Brendon gets in trouble for making a movie about a foul-mouthed robot. The neighborhood kids love it; the parents hate it, and Paula orders Brendon to re-shoot and make a G-rated version. Meanwhile, Melissa gets jealous when her dad, Erik, wants to date a woman from his journal writing class.
Life turns upside-down for Brendon, Jason and Melissa when they find a lost puppy, which Brendon names Honkey Magoo. The hyper puppy quickly runs out of friends after wrecking Paula's house, ruining the kids' movie, chasing off Mr. Lynch's cats and turning Jason's new parakeet against him.
Jason falls for a fifth grader, but he can't get beyond that awkward, initial "stalking" phase. He asks Brendon for help, but Brendon has bigger problems: after cheating on a test, he's being blackmailed by Jr. Adelberg, Walter and Perry. Melissa, feeling left out, helps Coach McGuirk cheat in traffic school.
When Brendon scores a lucky goal in a soccer game, he runs afoul of Cho, the best goalie in the league. Jason thinks Cho's a bully; Melissa thinks he's hot, but Brendon is caught up in the idea of doing nice things for people and changing their lives. Meanwhile, Coach McGuirk re-lives a competitive catastrophe.
Laid up with a leg injury, Brendon spies on his new neighbor, Raymond Burley, a man who might possibly be involved in some questionably suspicious behavior. Meanwhile, Coach McGuirk reads an important pamphlet and decides to attend bartending school.
Brendon, Jason and Melissa are assigned a family tree project in school. The assignment brings up issues that none of the kids feel like dealing with, namely--their families. Meanwhile Coach McGuirk gets laser eye surgery to correct his vision, and becomes an occasionally blind possible prophet.
The kids test their latest film in front of a rather hostile focus group. Meanwhile Coach McGuirk helps Paula pick out and assemble an extremely large grill for the Small family.
