Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.

When Dobie wants to join an exclusive fraternity, Mr. Gillis bribes members to accept him.

Winnie goes to visit her sister in Cleveland, leaving Herbert and Dobie to enjoy the bliss of bachelorhood for a week on their own.

Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in their biology class experiments.

Maynard predicts the end of the world.

Dobie gets a job at a lumber company and dates the boss's daughter, although he already has a girlfriend.

Inspired by Robert Browning's assertion that a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Dobie goes after an unattainable girl, putting his relationship with Zelda at risk.

Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.

Maynard goes out with a female version of himself. Dobie thinks she should act more feminine. When she realizes it's fun to be feminine, Maynard gets scared away.

When his latest girlfriend tells him to change his silly name, Dobie learns that he is named after a Noble Prize winner.

Dobie's old nemesis Butch Baumgartner, now the army's heavyweight boxing champ, is coming home and the word is that he is coming to knock Dobie's brains out.

Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college.

Maynard sues after getting his hand struck in the store's gumball machine.

Dobie wants to study Egyptology, but Mr. Gillis thinks Dobie only has a crush on the teacher.

Dobie tries to convince Maynard that he is not going to fall for any more money-mad girls, but then a successful college dropout shows up on campus and asks Dobie and Mr. Pomfritt to come work for her as salesmen.

When their biology professor discovers that Maynard can track missing objects by their smell, Maynard becomes a Private Nose.

Dobie's teenage cousin Duncan moves in with the Gillises and tells Dobie's girlfriend that Dobie needs help for a drinking problem.

A chemical concoction makes Maynard irresistible to women.

Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him.

Dobie finds he has to share his new date, a tender-hearted girl, with another boy on each date he takes her on.

Dobie and his girlfriend have to babysit for a college football player's kids and he ends up having to fill in for him during the game.

Dobie and Maynard help Dr. Burkhart establish a center for disadvantaged kids. Maynard wins over the little delinquents by talking to them at their own level.

Maynard writes an article for the school newspaper about a primitive dance demonstration in his anthropology class, but takes his cue from tabloid writing and makes it sound like an orgy.

Dobie falls in love with a girl at school, but family tradition prevents her from marrying until a match can be found for her older sister.

Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council.