Doug accidently hands in his doodle of Mrs. Wingo with his homework assignment and fantasizes how Smash Adams, secret agent, might get it back. After searching all over town for his lost journal, Doug's worst fears are confirmed - Roger has found it.

When Doug goes camping with the Bluffscouts, Roger chooses him as his partner and makes him do all the work. Doug and Skeeter win tickets to see their favorite rock group, the Beets, but they have to miss the concert when Skeeter is grounded.

Doug is excited about attending the school dance with Patti until the class bully, Roger, reminds him that he can't dance. Doug builds a volcano for the school science fair. A rumor that his project has burned down the science lab leads him to disguise himself and go "on the lam."

When Roger bothers Patti, Doug imagines he's Quailman, a superhero who fights with the powers of a quail. Do the shoes make the man? Doug thinks so and he wants to trade in his old sneakers for the new Sky Davis Inflatable Air Jet Shoe.

Looking for the right barber, Doug narrowly escapes the clutches of crazy hair stylists, including "Fluke", the most dangerous haircutter in Bluffington. "Doug On the Wild Side": Doug's wild Grandma Opal takes him on an exciting new adventure, including his first motorcycle ride and sushi lunch.

Doug imagines that he is Quailman and must use his powers to battle the evil Dr. Klotzenstein (Roger), who is using his "brain beam" to s**k the smarts from all the kids at school. When Coach Spitz refuses Patti a spot on the softball team because she's a girl, she challenges the school team to play her own team, made of all the other kids the coach has rejected.

Doug is mortified when his sister Judy plans to perform at a school assembly and he has to introduce her. Roger steals Vice-Principal Lamarr Bone's yodeling trophy, but all the evidence points to Doug.

Doug and Patti run into trouble when they team up for a school cooking contest. Doug seeks everyone's advice before his first babysitting assignment - watching Skeeter's baby brother Dale.

At the Big Bass-Off fishing contest, Doug teams up with Mr. Dink to catch Chester, the fish who stole Dink's wallet 30 years earlier. When Doug and Skeeter accidentally break Mr. Dink's custom grill just before his big barbecue, they try several money-raising schemes to replace it.

On a field trip to Bluffington town hall, Doug steps in for the mayor and inadvertently saves the town from a major meltdown at the ice cream factory. Doug performs a ventriloquist routine for the school talent show.