- The famous tale of Marcia's first house party, which almost doesn't happen after she is accused of scrawling an unflattering picture of her teacher in class. Marcia's brothers conspire to ruin the party, with the predictable result.
- The girls are excited that their parents are allowing Marcia to host her first ever slumber party. The boys are less excited about the prospect of a bunch of Marcia's girlfriends invading their house for the night, until Greg comes up with a plan for the boys to have some fun of their own at the girls' expense. It may be a moot point as Mrs. Denton, one of Marcia's teachers, passes along a doodle that was found in Marcia's desk and that has Marcia's name on it to the school principal, Mr. Randolph. The doodle itself is a drawing of a face with the caption "Mrs. Denton or hippopotamus". Marcia admits to having done the doodle, but that the face is supposed to be that of George Washington. Marcia, however, vows that she did not write the caption. Going only by what he sees as the overwhelming evidence against her, Mr. Randolph decides to punish Marcia. As an extra punishment, Mike and Carol disallow Marcia to have the slumber party. Marcia is more disappointed in her parents not believing her than she is about not having the slumber party. Regardless of Mr. Randolph or her parent's actions, Marcia still wants to find out who wrote the caption. After she thinks she knows who it is, Marcia decides to exact her own form of retribution.—Huggo
- The episode seems to be trying to take a stand on the destructive effects of bullying, (Marcia gets in trouble for allegedly drawing a mean picture of her teacher Mrs. Denton). However it undermines that message when Mike has a parent teacher conference with Principal Randolph. Mike agrees the problem is serious, and confers with the principal if he actually knows Marcia did this. Then later, he sheepishly asks, "does she really look like this?" "Unfortunately, yes she does," the principal responds, smirking a little bit. (And this is done to a laugh track). This is a mean spirited exchange, which undermines the anti-bullying message and shows that the parents (and indeed the show producers) are actually as shallow as the kids are on the show.
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