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.

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.

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

Dobie competes with Milton Armitage to see whose wardrobe can impress Thalia the most.

Maynard gives a chicken an overdose of growth hormones as a biology class project .

Dobie wants to prove he's grownup, so he moves into a small apartment with Maynard.

Thalia hatches a scheme for Dobie to sell sandwiches at the school picnic.

Dobie finds a girl who doesn't care about money, until her younger sister starts going on finance dates with a richer boy.

Dobie lies about joining the navy to impress a girl's sea-mined father.

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.

Thalia urges Dobie to become a doctor, but he meets Zelda Gilroy and learns about the scientific concept of propinquity, the psychological tendency for people to form relationships with those whom they encounter often.

Dobie runs against Milton for junior class president. Thalia is Dobie's campaign manager.

Thalia talks Dobie's parents into sending him to Willoughby prep school.

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.