Piper teaches Bucket and Skinner martial arts, and makes them think they are better than they actually are. But after the now-confident guys accept a challenge to fight the school bully, Piper and Kelly must set them straight.
Bucket and Skinner accidentally lose the school's seal mascot, and enlist the help of Skinner's animal-loving cousin Patty, a blogger visiting from Australia who is excited to record the missing-animal drama for her web series.
Trying to impress Kelly and show he's more than just little freshman, Bucket gets caught in a lie and announces he's running against Aloe for school President.
Kelly has won concert tickets and offers to take Bucket & Skinner, under the condition they babysit for Piper. The boys agree to babysit but quickly realize this job is way more than they bargained for.
The boys are feeling down since Skinner has an ear infection preventing him from surfing, and Bucket is annoyed that Blake & Kelly's relationship is going so well.
Winter formal is coming up and when the most popular girl in Bucket's class, Danielle, breaks up with her boyfriend Bucket decides to ask her to the dance.
Bucket and Skinner head to a rock festival on the wrong bus and accidentally enter a military facility. Elsewhere, Kelly's prom plans go astray when her old childhood pal shows up and Piper ruins her dress.
It's Christmas Eve and Bucket is depressed that his family's annual Christmas trip to the mountains has been canceled. Despite Skinner's efforts to raise his best friend's spirits, Bucket wants nothing to do with the holidays.
After Bucket is disappointed that Kelly is going to prom with Blake, Skinner cheers up his friend with tickets to the rock festival. Piper destroys Kelly's expensive prom dress, and devises a way to get herself and Three Pieces on a TV game show.