Jonesy #3

When Jonesy sends birthday cards to his friends, a mix-up in the mail leaves the wrong card in each envelope—and now Carol has received an insulting message meant for someone else. Desperate to avoid suspicion when Carol plans to identify the sender by comparing handwriting at her party, Jonesy and Weepy cook up increasingly wild schemes to keep him from signing her guest book, but each plan backfires in hilarious fashion.

Scootch Willis swears he's moved past his crush on Chloe and is content dating anyone—until she breezes back into town and he agrees to a date he can't afford, forcing him to borrow money from the Bobby Bunch's club fund. When his plan to repay it from his allowance falls through, Scootch finds himself roped into a week of baby-sitting jobs by the girls to work off his debt, learning a hard lesson about playing the field.

Jonesy decides to settle a hot rod rivalry with a high-speed race against Jeepers on Barton Boulevard, but his scheme to sabotage his own jalopy backfires spectacularly when the loose parts actually make the car go faster. As Jonesy's junk heap tears down the street leaving destruction in its wake, he attracts the attention of a police officer who has other ideas about how this race should end.

Jonesy is forced to take his cousin Buster on a hiking trip, but the boy's appetite proves even more disruptive than usual—he devours all their provisions and then some. When Buster disappears into the woods seeking water, the search spirals into chaos, leaving Jonesy scrambling to explain the soggy disaster to the adults.

When Gabby scores three bucks to deliver a suit to Bayville, he thinks it's easy money—but a rainstorm, a closed tunnel, and a size mix-up turn the errand into a comedy of errors. As the suit's color washes away and Mr. Byrns refuses delivery, Gabby finds himself caught between an angry customer and a skeptical Mr. Beemish, with no one willing to take the blame.

Jonesy's got his pick of girls for Saturday night's dance, but his cocky approach to dating backfires when he waits too long to ask Cynthy Peters—only to watch his pal Weepy sweep her off her feet instead. With every other girl in town now refusing his last-minute invitations, Jonesy finds himself desperately scrambling to avoid showing up solo and becoming the laughing stock of the whole town.