When Blossom is in charge of the home for one night, when her father performs on a cruise ship, she sees Anthony's new girlfriend stealing a family heirloom.
Nick challenges Tony to get a job or move out. Tony gets a job, but gets fired, so Nick makes him move out of the house. Meanwhile, Blossom tries to write a song for a music class.
Blossom dreams back to when she was in private school and how she schemes to get into public school and join the band. Meanwhile, Joey plots to pass a history test.
Blossom reminisces in her diary about boyfriend Jimmy and the possibility of going to second base. Tony obsesses over earthquake preparedness. Nick writes a eulogy for a friend who died too young.
Nick is reacquainted with Buzz, his former musician father-in-law with whom he had a rocky relationship. However, instead of skipping town to go back on the road, Buzz considers staying to get to know his grandchildren.
Blossom and Six find a joint on the school bus and consider smoking it. Before they get a chance, it is found by Nick who interrogates everyone in the family to find out who it belongs to.
Blossom is upset when a male friend spreads rumors that he scored with her. Joey accidentally gets put in an honors class and fears he will be considered a geek. So he tries to come up with a way to get kicked out of the class without failing.
Anthony tries to intervene when he sees that one of Joey's friends is depending too much on alcohol. Blossom and Nick decide to ditch school and work to spend a day together having fun.
Joey meets the girl of his dreams. However, there is one problem- she doesn't speak English. Fearing that her parents are getting divorced, Six begins to spend more of her time at Blossom's house.