Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.

Thelonius Monk comes to town and invites Maynard to sit in on bongos. But Herbert needs a favor which will require Dobie and Maynard to switch identities.

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.

In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Drifting?

Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow him to predict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election.

Dobie and Maynard organize a tribute to Mr. Pomfritt, hoping to convince him not to leave Central High.

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.

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.

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.

Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.

A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.

Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.

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.

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.