When the Dock Hag bans Flapjack and K'nuckles from setting foot on the main harbor until they pay off their tickets, they take in a rich stranger in the hope he will pay them for being such kind friends. However, they rethink their idea when the stranger begins to take advantage of their hospitality.

When Flapjack helps Captain K'nuckles look for his lost hat on an island filled with chimpanzees, they end up encountering a researcher living among them. With her help, they must reach the "secret meeting place": an active volcano whose crater K'nuckles must cross so he can get his hat back.

When K'nuckles refuses to lose weight, he risks losing Flapjack to a real adventurer.

K'nuckles tries to prove he's a captain by visiting a sunken ship to collect his captain's papers.

K'nuckles and Flapjack visit a storytelling club, where K'nuckles finds out that his own stories may be outdated.

Flapjack gets invited to a birthday party, but feels embarrassed when the other kids perceive K'nuckles and Bubbie as "weirdos".

Flapjack pretends to be a dog for Lady Nicklebottoms, while K'nuckles experiences the joys of owning a dog.

Bubbie (and eventually K'nuckles) tries to rescue Flapjack from an old woman, who thinks he's a missing child.

Sally Syrup returns to Stormalong (much to her dismay) and Flapjack must convince her that Stormalong is not all that bad.

K'nuckles challenges Peppermint Larry to a game of pool to settle the ownership of Candy Wife.

Flapjack and Captain K'nuckles struggle to escape from the Dock Hag's house after a feeble attempt at sabotaging K'nuckles' dock tickets, only to discover that the Dock Hag has a crush on the old captain.