When Tim is celebrated for accidentally inventing a pencil holder, Flint gets jealous and starts to doubt his own skills as an inventor. Flint begs Sam to let him see her most treasured possession, but when Sam relents Flint damages it and has to find a way to make it up to her.

When Steve wins the Swallow Falls lottery, townspeople line up claiming that they are Steve's best friend, causing Flint to question Steve's true affections. Flint and Sam babysit so they can buy a new board game, but when Brent hires them as his babysitter, they have to decide whether the humiliation is worth the reward.

Flint modifies Sam's weather-predicting orb to predict the future, but knowing their future isn't as fun as they thought it would be. Mayor Shelbourne brings a panda to Swallow Falls, but when the town falls under the panda's spell it's up to Flint and Sam to find out what's really going on.