Gordo is feeling a little left behind: the girls are going crazy over Ethan Craft, who gets a new dirtbike for his 14th birthday, just like all the ""men"" in his family have. Even Larry Tudgeman is shaving now, though not very well! Gordo now wishes he had celebrated his bar mitzvah, the Jewish ceremony performed on the 13th birthday that marks the passage of a boy into manhood. Concerned about what makes a boy a man, Gordo takes his camera interviews many different men to get their experiences. He tries several different ""manly"" things that they mentioned, even going to a tattoo parlor! But he decides they are not for him. He asks his parents why they didn't insist on a bar mitzvah for him. They tell him they trusted his judgment then, and that at the time he didn't think it was necessary or important. But Gordo has made up his mind now--he wants to be bar mitzvahed. The ceremony is held with all his family and friends in attendance.

戈德以成年禮標記他的成年轉變。

Gordo viert zijn bar mitswa, maar denkt eerst na of er geen alternatieven zijn om stil te staan bij zijn godsdienstige meerderjarigheid.

Gordo se siente cohibido cuando ve que Ethan Craft y Larry Tudgeman crecen antes que él. Trata de ser "masculino" al hacer cosas masculinas, pero al final decide tener un Bar Mitzvah que lo iniciaría en la vida adulta. Mientras tanto, Jo se cansa de que su marido no se toma las cosas en serio cuando Matt se porta mal y hace huelga obligando a Sam a lidiar con el comportamiento de su hijo.

El Bar Mitzvah marca la entrada de Gordo a la vida adulta.