Doug unintentionally spends all of his money on a video arcade game ""Bag a Neematoad"", when he was supposed to be buying a beetball for a birthday present for Patti. So Doug figures the only way to get a present for Patti with no money, is to make something.

Doug and his friends are all building soapbox racers for the Mt. St. Buster Downhill Speed Race, and they all want to win, and Doug and Skeeter are having trouble keeping their racer a secret. But once the race starts, there's a disaster on the track, and everyone finds out that helping a friend is more important than winning.

Doug wants to go to the Hoe-Down dance with Patti. But when Connie asks him, Doug lies and says he's staying home to take care of his sick cousin ""Melvin."" His lie gets him into big trouble when Patti and Connie come over to visit his cousin. Doug asks Judy to help him out and does such a good job because then, Melvin is invited to the Hoe-Down.

Doug and Skeeter are having trouble finding a scary monster for their homemade video movie, until Mayor White creates a monster of his own with his ""beautify Bluffington"" campaign, which was inspired by Doug's Mom.

Doug wants to raise enough money to buy a new skateboard and sets up a lawn mowing enterprise to do so. Skeeter and the Sleech Twins join in, but they soon feel Doug is being unfair. Doug may raise the cash, but he risks losing his riends in the process.

Everyone in school is talking about the final scene in the latest horror movie, but Doug closed his eyes and missed the ending. After thinking that he's a chicken for not seeing the ending he finally gets up the courage to see the film again, and realizes it's not only not scary, it's silly.

Doug is accused of cheating when he and Chalky score identical marks on a test. He is given one day to confess or he'll have to take a re-test. Doug knows he didn't cheat so he tries to talk about it with Chalky, but he keeps avoiding Doug.

Doug's Bluff Scout Troop #617 has to raise money for new canoes, so they sell ""Bluff Scout Booster Bars"" door to door. But after being rejected by everyone, Roger offers a new way to sell the bars, which Doug doesn't agree with. Then when Doug sells a bar to Mr. Swirly, he realizes the problem of why the bars taste so horrible.

Doug wishes he was more fashionable until his friends at school accuse him of dressing like Dylan Farnum from the TV show ""Teen Heart Street"". He's tired of being told he's copying someone else's style, so he decides to shop for a new look.

Doug and Skeeter go digging for artifacts when they get assigned to research Bluffington's history. They soon get into trouble though, when they are caught digging on the Bluff estate even though they didn't know.

Doug delivers invitations to his 12th birthday party.

A "Name Your School" student contest causes fierce competition.

Doug enters negotiations with a shady character to get Judy's hat back.

Bluffington makes elaborate preparations for a fright-filled Halloween night.

When Doug finds a lost puppy that is too troublesome to keep, he leaves the pooch in the park where he found it.

Doug does an old-fashioned book report that fascinates the class.

Judy and Doug set out to shape their new baby sister's personality.

Doug wakes up one morning to find Porkchop gone.

The lives of Doug and all the other students at Beebe Bluff Middle School become a frenzy when Mr. Bone returns and becomes the middle school's new vice principal. He soon starts throwing Roger into detention and making new school rules. Also, eighth graders invite Doug to join a secret club of the future powerful men of the universe. But in order to be worthy to join, Doug must prove he can be a successful person and it's cutting himself out of monster hunting with Skeeter.

When Guy invites Patti to go to a star-studded premiere of a new movie called Slag & Felpy, Doug feels jealous that Guy took Patti out on a date. In a Quailman daydream, the Golden Salmon appears in Megalopolis, but Quailman isn't sure he's a superhero. Meanwhile, Dr. Rubbersuit separates Quailman's dark side into an evil personality knows as the Dark Quail.

Bill Bluff's public relations firm decides that Bill should have Thanksgiving Day dinner with an average Bluffington family to increase his popularity. Doug's family is choosen and turns their simple Thanksgiving plans upside down. They won't let Patti join their dinner and Judy doesn't like what Bill is doing in preparation for the big dinner. So Doug sets out to make everyone happy for Thanksgiving.

When Doug worries he is only average, he decides that to make his level of importance higher he should be a collector of unusal and (hopefully) valuable items. So he goes to a flea market with a valuable collecters item book looking for rubber tub stoppers and bowls, but someone has already gotten to them. Meanwhile, Roger gets on Mr. Bone's good side to get himself out of detention and Skeeter asks the A.V. Nerds to help him find the Lucy Duck Monster using A.V. equipment.

Doug imagines that Quailman has to contend with an absent-minded professor while trying to stop five fiery comets.

Doug lends Roger his press pass to get into a movie screening.