Zou and Nanna bake a cake as a Mother's Day surprise, but Dad returns and accidentally eats it. Zou must quickly bake another by himself. Zou and Elzee borrow a camping tent from Grandpa and set it up in the garden. After hearing stories about the animals in Africa, their imaginations run wild when they think they hear wild animals outside the tent.

When Zou is asked to stop making so much noise and to tidy his room, he decides to leave home, but, Zou wonders if he made the right decision. Zou decides he wants to be King of the Household, so Grandpa helps him find his crown and sceptre. Zou soon finds that being King is not all that he thought it would be.

Zou decides he wants to be a postman. At first, he is most helpful delivering items to his family members, but when he gets over-confident, the various packages are delivered to the wrong addresses. Luckily, Grandpa is here to help. Zou decides that he is going to be a detective. His first case is the Mystery of Nanna's Missing False Teeth.

Zou works on a school project and decides he needs some photographs to illustrate it. He borrows the family camera, but when it goes missing, Zou makes up excuses to cover his mistake. Zou makes an army of ants his new pets. The ants cause trouble in the house when they get loose, but luckily Poc, his loyal pet, is on hand to help.

After seeing an illusionist at a local theatre, Zou wants to be a magician too; when his magic trick, a disappearing cabinet, malfunctions and his glamorous assistant, Poc, goes missing for real, Zou wonders if he really is a magician.

Zou receives a drum for his birthday and drives everyone crazy playing it molto fortissimo. Nanna shows him that you do not need to play so loud to make pleasant music. Zou and Elzee go on a trip to the moon in their spaceship, a cardboard box covered in tin foil. When it loses one of its engines, they land on a mysterious planet.