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Jamie is smitten with Jessica, a snobby rich girl. He's tried several times to get her interested in him, but he's lacking the funds that would make her fall in love w him. Harriet has sneaked over to the middle school to remind Jamie that she's still in love w him. Jamie is definitely not interested. Warren sees Jamie talking to Harriet and expresses that he wishes he had babes crawling all over him like Jamie does. Meanwhile, back at home, Mr. Lawson is programming Vicki to rebudget the family finances because he's thinking about how expensive it will be to send Jamie to college. He now has placed Vicki in charge of their family budget, but left $200 cash with Vicki as an emergency fund. Jamie comes home from school and asks for a raise in his allowance, which Vicki denies. The next day at school, jamie again tries to get Jessica's attention, to no avail. Warren hits him up to give him tips on how to get a girls attention. At first, jamie isn't interested. But then Warren sweetens the deal and offers him cash for tips and now Jamie is interested. Jamie borrows Warren's wad of cash to impress Jessica. Doubtful at first, Jessica is soon impressed w Jamie's wad of cash and agrees to go out w him. Back at the house, Vicki has scanned a budget cookbook and Joan is making dinner w cabbage. Ted hates cabbage and asks Vicki for the emergency fund money, Vicki shoots him down. Jamie and Jessica are out in their date at a fancy French restaurant. Warren is hiding behind a tree to observe and take notes. After dinner, Warren approached Jamie to tell him that he has to go because he has to be home by 8. Warren asks Jamie for a few dollars for a cab, since Jamie has all of Warren's money. Jessica is shocked to hear that the wad of cash that Janie had flashed to impress her didn't belong to Jamie, it belonged to Warren. She decides to let Warren take her home instead, Warren takes back his wad of cash, leaving Jamie no way to pay the bill now. Jamie has no choice but to call his parents. Back at home, both Ted and Joan are lecturing Jamie that he shouldn't have to spend money to impress someone, that he should just be himself. Jamie has learned this is true. They now need the emergency $200 that Vicki has hidden away because Ted had to pay Jamie's restaurant bill. Vicki decides that this is an emergency and discloses the location of the money.