Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.

Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Father's Day contest, but changes it to My Dad.

Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.

Thelonius Monk comes to town and invites Maynard to sit in on bongos. But Herbert needs a favor which will require Dobie and Maynard to switch identities.

Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.

Maynard finds a purse full of cash.

Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.

Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race.

Dobie choses going to a huge Christmas party with Chatsworth rather than a small one with Maynard and feels guilty enough to have a Scrooge-like dream.

Dobie meets a pretty fatalistically morose French girl who savors the negative things in life. She thinks Dobie is an oaf and Dobie hates her bleak attitude. Yet, she keeps coming around.

All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.

A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.

In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Drifting?

Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.

Maynard is convinced that he is dragging Dobie down in life so he tries to antagonize Dobie into ending their friendship.

Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.

Dobie, Maynard and Zelda think an old Central High star athlete is a bum, while he is actually a big executive.

Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.

It's Dobie's graduation and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.

Dobie and Maynard, out of high school, don't know what to do with themselves and seek professional help. In the end they decide to enlist in the army.

Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.

Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him.

Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.

Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.

The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.

Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.

Dobie's mother becomes jealous when she learns that the attractive widowed mother of Dobie's latest girlfriend is an old flame of Mr. Gillis.

Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.

Dobie gets cast in the army play and while in costume, leads an army officer's daughter to believe he is an army official.

Dobie and Maynard get weekend passes, but Zelda has been telling all the girls back home that she and Dobie are engaged.

Dobie exaggerates his dad's war record to impress a girl from a long military family.

Zelda invents a secret engagement to try and impress some sorority girls.

Dobie and Maynard organize a tribute to Mr. Pomfritt, hoping to convince him not to leave Central High.

Dobie, Maynard, and Zelda believe that the store's beautiful blonde next patron is secretly an alien.

Offended by what he sees a laxity in today's army, ex-sergeant Herbert Gillis puts his son's squad through some rugged training exercises before they graduate.