Guy gets dropped by his agent, Bernie, and becomes depressed, never leaving the house or his bed. To get his spirits high Jenny convinces two fans to give him an award, unknowing that is an award for a lifetime achievement of bad acting. Meanwhile Maggie sees a cute new car for sale at the mall and buys it, even though it's a stick shift and neither her nor Jenny know hot to drive it.
After initially having some trouble, Jenny finally tells her father the truth. He plans on continuing his life with a current flame but changes his mind and come home to try and be a father for Jenny. He eventually decides he's not ready for this and goes to leave. But a phone call from Jenny's current boyfriend changes everything.
An aspiring writer brings a screenplay he spent the last two years of his life writing to Inky Pete's, but Jenny loses it on the bus before she can make copies. So she has to try to get it back from a sleazy producer. However the slimy producer brings it in to Inky Pete's not knowing that Jenny and Maggie work there.
Maggie brings Jenny along on a date because she thinks the guy will be a real ""snoozer"". The guy happens to be a relationship therapist and stands in the way of Jenny and his brother's possible relationship when Maggie tells him that Jenny just got dumped by her fiancée. And seeing as this isn't true Max poses as Jenny's ex-fiancée and is thought to have left Jenny for Cooper by Maggie's fellow.
Jenny starts dating Zak, who's supposedly a struggling musician who comes from a poor family. What she doesn't know is that Zak is actually stinking rich. When Jenny finds out she dumps him for not being honest, in return he tells everyone at MTV's ""The Real World"" (the show he's on) that she dumped him because she couldn't handle the fact that he's poor. But Jenny exposes him for the fraud he is.