Romeo experiences what life is like for Percy when he acts as the man of the house for one hectic day, which includes balancing the pressures of work with his responsibilities as caregiver to four demanding kids. Meanwhile, Mrs. Rogers is desperate to repair her broken-down circus car, which she calls ""Betty.""

Romeo failed a algebra test and gets a chance to take a re-take the test the next day, but instead of studying he has friends over to watch a very anticipated basketball game while Percy is out of town. That leaves Percy's new girlfriend Angie to babysit, and she intends to make Romeo study. Gary pretends he is sick to distract Angeline from catching Romeo watching TV with his friends instead of studying.

Jodi go's to a college fair to pick a good college but all her choices are turned down by Percy.

Romeo is asked to join the school's bowling team, but when everyone at school makes fun of them, he has other opinions about joining; Louis takes credit for Myra's ceramics project.

Romeo falls for a girl in his drama class; Gary starts a paper route business.

Hacksaw gets the band a gig at The Place, a big venue, and decides that it's time to enter phase two of their career. He brings in backup dancers and a choreographer for Jodi, a former rock keyboardist for Louis and sets up press for Romeo. With all of the extra work and time that phase two requires, the kids are burning out and each begin to believe that they should be the star of the group. Ro uses a TV interview to bring the band back together to where they should be - enjoying themselves and remembering that first and foremost, they're a family.

Angeline is working on an art exhibit with Ponce, a neurotic artist. When the tube containing the band's poster gets mistaken for Angeline's blueprints, Romeo makes the exchange at the museum but accidentally damages Ponce's piece. Not wanting to bother Ang when she's so stressed, Ro, Myra and Louis don disguises, use Angeline's ID, and sneak into the museum to fix the piece.

Jodi agrees to baby-sit Marco Fishwick (Gary's former employee), even though Gary doesn't like him. After Jodi encourages Gary to play with Marco and give him another chance, Gary learns that there is more to Marco than he first realized.