Kuzco decides to ditch school for the day. However, it turns out that this will be Kuzco's tenth absence from school, meaning he will be expelled, and his chance of becoming emperor will be forever gone. Malina and Guaca then ditch school to get Kuzco back to school before the final bell. Meanwhile, Yzma learns of this and together her and Kronk try to keep Kuzco away from the school.

Malina is stressed out by the preparation for an interview for an internship at the teen magazine Incan Teen. She asks Kronk and Kuzco for help and they decide to teach her how to relax properly.

Kuzco fakes a termite infection in Pacha's hut to get the permission to live in the palace. Unfortunately Pacha's family and later the whole village move into the now overcrowded palace and Kuzco has to handle all his guests. In the meantime, Yzma uses Kuzco's presence in the palace to try and destroy him and sets up several traps.

Yzma has to take her annual royal adviser review and fails because she never advised Kuzco in the last year. She is replaced by Obsessia, a change Kuzco is at first pleased with but shortly her overbearing turns up to be worse then Yzma's plots. Unfortunately, Amzy got fired too and so Yzma left after her unsuccessful efforts to find another job. Kuzco and Kronk follow her to convince the former adviser and hire her back.

Yzma's plan to wipe Kuzco out of the Royal Records backfires when Kronk replaces Kuzco on the records after rescuing the Royal Record Keeper. To repeal this change Kuzco and Yzma team up until the former Emperor-to-be recognizes his chance and turns against her.

Malina and Kuzco attend Kamp Kuzco as tutors for a group of Junior Chipmunks. Soon Kuzco's statements about 'male advantage' lead the tutors to set up a race between the girls and the boys of the group. Through an attempt to ensure the victory of his boys, Kuzco gets himself and the girls lost in the jungle. So now Malina and Kronk have to rescue them and even Yzma uses this opportunity for a further attack on Kuzco.

Yzma is cleaning up her old potions and wants to throw them into the river. Kronk tries to prevent this and make her recycle. However, she tricks him and they end up in the river. This begins turning all of the townspeople into various animals. Meanwhile, Malina is trying to make the school paper more interesting so she can get into KuzCollege, and she may have just found her biggest story yet.

A man arrives in town that claims to be Kuzco's father. Kuzco, who does not remember his father, immediately thinks he is telling the truth and the two becomes inseparable. However, everyone else is suspicious of the man, and it turns out that he might not be who he says he is.

It is Malina's birthday, and she is having a extravagant ceremony called a Bloom Ball to celebrate. Kronk is going to give her a time travel watch, while Kuzco is going to give her pictures of him. Kronk warns Kuzco to not take over and make the party all about him, but that proves useless as he ends up ruining the party. In order to make things right, Kuzco decides to use Kronk's time-travel watch to go back in time and make things right. Meanwhile, Yzma has put a fly potion in the punch so Kuzco will transform into a fly and she can squash him.

While lost in a storm, Kuzco, Kronk, Malina, and Guaca end up lost in the woods and wind up at Mudka's #13, a supposed cursed restaurant. They decide to stay there until the rain stops, against Kuzco's will. However, soon the secret of the restaurant is revealed when Kuzco wanders into unknown parts of the building.

A charity bachelor auction is being held to raise money for charity, and Kuzco, Kronk, and Guaca will all be in it. When Kuzco insults Malina, she bids for Kronk instead to make him jealous. Kuzco then convinces Yata to bid for him to make Malina jealous. Then the four just happen to end up at the same restaurant for their dates, which turns the jealousy fest into an all out battle.

Yzma's latest destroy Kuzco scheme may be the best one yet. After realizing that Kuzco pays more attention to girls then school, she has Kronk trick him into taking a potion which makes girls, including Malina, attracted to him. The girls then begin chasing him everywhere, which is more then Kuzco can deal with.

Kronk and Kuzco team up together for their school assignment and open a spinach puff stand. Although Kronk's puffs are a great success Kuzco takes over the team and turns the puff stand into a industrialized restaurant. Finally Kronk quits due to Kuzco's treatment opening his stand again while Kuzco ruins his restaurant.

Yzma leaves for a week to pursue her dream of stardom. Since she can not trust Kronk to keep track of things, she leaves a robot version of herself to take care of things. When Kuzco turns his homework in late, he finds out that he can get Mr. Moleguaco to look at it if the principal tells him to, so he tries to get Yzbot from Kronk.

When Kuzco begins making fun of many of his classmates, Yzma creates a special soap that will cause Kuzco to look like the things he is making fun of. All of this happening just as the school has to vote on Hutcoming King and Queen. This makes Kuzco upset as he believes he will lose to Ramon.

When Malina won't pay attention to him, Kuzco uses Yzma's new machine to separate all of her personalities. He then begins to date "Smoochy Malina". However, when she becomes to clingy he dumps her. This causes all of the Malinas to turn on him and now he and Kronk must find a way to turn them all back into one Malina.

By some kind of miracle, Kuzco gets all A's on his report card, while Chaca gets all D's. This leads to Kuzco being put in the SD class where he immediately begins to fail miserably in all of the little games the class plays. Meanwhile, Yzma has received some new potions that flip things around giving the opposite of what is already there. However, before she can use it, the potion switches the floor and ceiling causing her and Kronk to become stuck on the ceiling.

When Malina refuses to go out with him yet again, Kuzco decides that since she likes Dirk Brock so much, he will become a rock star so she will date him. However, he becomes a huge jerk and forgets all about Malina. He plans to have a huge concert called "Kuzcokazooza". However, since he is not very good no one plans to show up.

While golfing, a cute little chinchilla becomes attached to Kuzco, so he decides to keep it. However, Chicha bans all animals from the house, so Kuzco must hide "Fuzzyco" from her. Meanwhile, Malina admits she likes Kuzco, but after talking to Yata, she thinks he has a girlfriend. And while all this is going on Kronk attempts to turn Kuzco into a parrot for Yzma.

Kronk enters a contest to win a picnic with his hero Pajama Llama. Kuzco finds the ticket and agrees to give it to Kronk if he becomes his butler. However, Kuzco does not realize that the ticket has an expiration date until it is too late. Now he must find someway to tell Kronk.

Kuzco struggles with a school fundraiser of having to wash carts for 100 KuzCoins. Then, Yzma turns him into an Elephant making matters worse!

After being introduced to fortune cookies, Kuzco starts to believe them and begins to follow everything they say. Yzma tries to trick Kuzco into turning over the kingdom to her by placing fake fortunes into fortune cookies; one of which that states that if he doesn't turn over the kingdom by 5:00 PM he will turn into a hairless sloth.

Everybody at school gets their grades. At lunch, Kuzco, Kronk, and Malina share there grades. Malina finds out that she got an A – and freaks out. Then, because of that she gets kicked off of the cheerleading squad. Malina starts to have an identity crisis and decides to act like school baddie Roxy. Then, Kuzco and Kronk drink a magic potion that turns them into girls in order to get their friend back.

Yzma hires a new foreign exchange student to replace Kronk in her efforts to get rid of Kuzco. Then, he begins to steal of all Kuzco's "popularity". Kuzco and Kronk decide to get rid of Ramon by throwing him into a pit with a wild animal.

When a new card game becomes the latest craze, Kuzco rushes to get his own set of cards. He then tries to rip off Kronk to get a powerful card, but it turns out that it was he who was ripped off. Now Kuzco will do anything to get the card back. Yzma decides to try and use the card to trade the rights to the throne. Meanwhile, Malina and Yata, who believe they are being mature by not being caught up in the latest fads, start buying all the coolest accessories.