Against Ted's wishes, Joan enters Vicki in the "Little Miss Shopping Mall" beauty pageant, but Ted changes his mind after finding out that Harriet is also in the pageant.
Pro wrestler Jesse Ventura comes to the Lawsons' for dinner with a surprise for Ted: years before, he was the nerdy kid called Wally whom Ted teased in college.
To win a promotion over Brandon's fawning boss, Ted decides to reveal Vicki's robot secret to his boss at a company picnic, unaware that Brandon is out to sabotage his effort.
Vicki literally balloons after Ted unwittingly upgrades her energy-supplementing polynucleotide processor with an appetite, which creates excess digestive gases and creates an issue with the upcoming school dance.