Dobie lies about joining the navy to impress a girl's sea-mined father.
Dobie finds a girl who doesn't care about money, until her younger sister starts going on finance dates with a richer boy.
A discouraged Dobie finally gives up on finding his dream girl and agrees to marry Zelda.
Dobie's new date's father turns out to be a cop with whom he had a disagreement about picking flowers in the park.
Dobie falls for an older nurse and feigns a disease so he can be near her.
Maynard falls for a French girl and shaves off his goatee.
Dobie's newest girlfriend's father happens to be opening a new grocery store. Mr. Gillis tries to spy under the name Fred C. Dobbs.
Dobie and Chatsworth complete for the attention of a shoe store owner's daughter in order to get a job at the store.
Herbert worries about what will happen to the store after he's gone.
Dobie, Maynard, and Chatsworth must all share the same tuxedo to get in to a black-tie party at the Armitage mansion.
Thalia hatches a scheme for Dobie to sell sandwiches at the school picnic.
Dobie wants to prove he's grownup, so he moves into a small apartment with Maynard.
Doblie's dad wants him to romance a banker's daughter so he can get a loan.
Dobie and most of his friends reluctantly participate in a talent show.
Dobie, Maynard, and Thalia capture a crooked dry-cleaner who had almost conned them before.
Dobie and a girl friend take a baby-sitting job. However, the Gillies suspect Dobie is secretly a father.
Maynard gives a chicken an overdose of growth hormones as a biology class project .
Thalia tries to educate Dobie in logical thinking.
Dobie and Maynard are puzzled when a rumor they spread about Zelda inheriting a fortune seems to become reality.
In order to win Thaila from Chatsworth, Dobie reads a book on mental power so he can be the dominating man Thalia wants.
Thalia talks Dobie's parents into sending him to Willoughby prep school.
Dobie falls for trapeze artist Aphrodite Millican,.
Dobie goes on a hunger strike until Thalia agrees to be his.
Dobie becomes Top Fist by knocking out the legendary Moose. Milton tries to gain the title and Thaila's affections by challenging Dobie.
Dobie runs against Milton for junior class president. Thalia is Dobie's campaign manager.
Mr. and Mrs. Gillis take in a young and handsome border from South America.
Herbert seeks free advice from a child psychiologist.
Mr. Gillis is driven crazy by all the Christian celebrations, and almost spends the holidays in jail.
Dobie thinks everyone has forgotten his birthday.
Dobie falls for Poppy Herming but has to win her father's approval too.
Dobie is up against Milton to be leading man in a school play.
Before the big football game, Dobie hatches a scheme for winning by stealing the opposing mascot.
Dobie tries to earn $6 to take Thalia to the Junior Prom.
After a throat operation, Dobie can sing better than Milton, thus attracting Thalia.
Maynard gets drafted.
Dobie's older brother Davey convinces him to invent an affair with a married woman to impress a new girl in school.
Thalia urges Dobie to become a doctor, but he meets Zelda Gilroy and learns about the scientific concept of propinquity, the psychological tendency for people to form relationships with those whom they encounter often.
Dobie competes with Milton Armitage to see whose wardrobe can impress Thalia the most.
Dobie and Maynard conspire to rig the raffle at the local movie theatre so that Dobie can win enough money to take Thalia to the prom.
