After Francine makes fun of Fern for liking Mr. Ratburn's puppet shows, Fern gets revenge by drawing an unflattering comic strip making fun of Francine, and pretty soon, everyone else tries it too.

Binky gets teamed up with Arthur and Buster for an art class assignment. They go to an art museum and Binky discovers a mistake with a certain drawing-

Arthur uses a pencil that seems to be lucky and then lends it to his friends. But it gets shorter and shorter, so Arthur decides to use it for emergencies only.

D.W. is not invited to Grandma Thora's upcoming birthday dinner because she is a very picky eater.

Arthur and Buster want Toby and Slink to teach them some skating tricks, but Toby and Slink say that they have to do some dares first. Arthur quits before the first dare, but Buster keeps on fulfilling dare after dare.

Arthur wants to see a movie, but he is too young, so he and his friends make a parody of the movie.

D.W. does not get along well with Kate, whom she claims keeps trying to take her toys, when they are supposed to be sharing them. When Kate will not give D.W. one of her toys back, D.W. tries to take the toy away from Kate by force and threatens to pinch her. For doing this, Jane sends D.W. upstairs to her room as punishment.

Arthur has an embarrassing dream about being seen in his underwear and it gets even worse when it happens for real.

Buster saves a cat from up a tree and now he is known as a local hero because of an article in the newspaper.

Everyone has all pledged not to watch TV for one whole week.

Arthur gets on the wrong bus to his swimming lessons and gets lost.

Arthur has a to-do list for the summer, but he can't find it and summer's nearly over. He finds out everyone else had a great summer. He finds his list and D.W. accidentally helps him realize that he did all the things on it and had a great time too.

It's the first family trip and Arthur gets to choose. He chooses going to Washington, D.C. and D.W. thinks that she's going to be bored until she accidentally runs into the American president.

Mr. Haney gives Arthur an envelope to give to his mom. He is worried about its contents, thinking that it's about him, so he comes up with a way of giving it to her without her opening it. It turns out to contain Mr. Haney's tax documents.

It's the second family trip and D.W. gets to choose. She chooses camping and D.W. gets attached to a deer she met and wants to bring home.

Buster needs to write a book report, but he has never finished a book. His friends try to find one he can finish.

Arthur and Buster are on the urge of finishing their story for the sequel of Robin Hood. Everything is well until Arthur discovers that Buster has decided to go on a long trip to bond with his dad. Arthur fears that it's the end of their story and their friendship!

Arthur and his friends are all invited by Muffy to go to Waterworld, but the Brain doesn't want to go. When he and Binky find out that the Brain is afraid of water, they try to cure this fear so they can all go together.

When Sue Ellen drops her diary at the library, she is worried that someone has found it and is going to read it.

Arthur does not want to tell his mother he hurt his knee, because then she will know he was playing down at the dump—where he is not supposed to go.

Arthur and D.W. sleepover at Grandma Thora's house and find out that she gets lonely when they're not there. So Arthur and D.W. throw her a party to help her.

When Muffy annoys Francine and Brain, they decide to get even with her by sending her fake love notes for an anonymous person to make her look goofy.

Deputized as a Junior Safety Officer, D.W. sees it as a license to tattle.

When Francine and Katherine get sick of each other Katherine moves out to have her own room in the living room.

On the way home from school, Arthur and the Brain meet a crossing guard who wants $10.00 from them to cross the street.

D.W. gets praise from the Tibbles at being the best at name-calling, so she tries it on Arthur but it fails because he's older and knows more words so with the help of Katherine she looks up words in the Thesaurus that Arthur doesen't know and uses them against him.

Muffy won last year's Strawberry baking contest in The Strawberry Festival because her father was the judge but this year when her friends help her bake strawberry cookies she takes the credit and wins the contest. Soon the cookies become so good that Muffy decides to run a business and sell them but not before she lets Arthur and friends get their share.