The Funnies have moved from Bloatsburg and are just arriving at their new home in the town of Bluffington. 11-year-old Doug Funnie writes his thoughts in his journal and worries he will not be able to make any friends. On a search to find food for his Mom (Theda), Dad (Phil), sister (Judy), and himself, Doug meets his next door neighbor Mr. Dink. He shows Doug a video about Bluffington and introduces him to the popular hangout fast food restaurant called The Honker Burger. When Doug gets to the hangout, he meets Skeeter Valentine who befriends him right away. Doug also meets Patti Mayonnaise and, right away, has a secret crush on her. However, all is not well when he also meets the local bully Roger Klotz who tricks Doug into believing he has to catch a monster called a Neematoad at Stinsen's Pond to be a town hero.
Doug is excited about going to his first school costume dance, and possibly having the opportunity to dance with his dream girl, Patti. But Doug's excitement soon fades when Roger reminds him that he has no dancing talent, so Doug goes to Skeeter for dancing tips. Doug makes a model of a volcano for a science project. But when rumor has it that the volcano erupted, and caused the whole science room to explode, Doug decides to disguise himself as Jack Bandit and go on the lam to avoid the cops.
When Porkchop begins acting very strangely, Doug tries to find out what's causing his friend's odd behavior. It turns out that Porkchop has come down with a case of "puppy love" for a local poodle. Doug refuses to get his picture taken for School Photo Swap Day at school, because he has suddenly become self-concious of his nose after Skeeter's brother Dale calls Doug "big nose".
Doug joins the Bluff Scouts and on his first camping trip with the scouts, Roger "volunteers" to be Doug's camping partner. Skeeter and Doug win tickets to go see The Beets live in concert. Unfortunately, everything comes to a halt when Skeeter gets grounded and can't go with Doug to the concert. Doug wants to go to the concert, but sticks with his best friend. On the night of the concert, the two of them head off to the Honker Burger and get the surprise of their life.
Doug is thrilled when Mrs. Wingo tells him that he'll be introducing a special performer for an upcoming school show. That is, until he finds out that the performer is actually his sister, Judy. A prankster steals Vice Principal Bone's "Der Grosser Yodelmeister" Trophy, and puts it in Doug's locker. Mr. Bone searches all the school's lockers and is convinced that Doug had stolen the trophy.
For Student Government Day, Doug is chosen to interview the Mayor of Bluffington, Mr. Robert "Bob" White. He visits the mayor on a field trip to Bluffington Town Hall, and saves the ice cream factory from a meltdown. Doug is entered (thanks to Roger) into a school talent contest, and decides to try out a ventriloquism act. Once their on stage, Doug has to keep his new pal Buster from losing his head on stage.
Doug feels inferior because he doesn't have awesome new shoes, Sky Davis Inflatable Air Jet, like everyone else. That is, until he meets the real Sky Davis. Roger begins pestering Patti to help him with his book report, and when Patti finally loses her temper and yells at Roger to leave her alone, they get punished with a trip to detention. This doesn't sit well with Doug, who tries to stop Roger from bugging Patti. (First appearance of Quailman).
Doug decides that he needs a haircut, but he doesn't want just ANY kind of haircut. He goes around town, trying to find a barber that can cut his hair the same way his old friend in Bloatsburg did. He looks all over and finds Mr. Sweney before escaping the dangerous baraber Fluke. Doug's motorcycle-riding Grandma Opal comes to visit and she teaches Doug to takes risks and enjoy life while taking him on his first motorcycle ride and sushi lunch.
Doug accompanies Mr. Dink to the Big Time Bass-Off Contest, in order to try and catch a fish named Chester who stole Bud's wallet 30 years ago. Doug and Skeeter try to make some money in order to buy Mr. Dink a new grill, after they accidentally break his old one with a baseball.
Doug freaks out when he can't find his journal anywhere. All his personal thoughts are in that journal, and he'll do anything to get it back. After posting flyers around town, he learns that Roger has found it. Doug accidentally hands in his doodle of Mrs. Wingo, instead of his essay assignment. Hoping he won't get into trouble or be embarrassed, Doug tries to get the doodle back as Smash Adams.
Doug and Patti are both paired up in a cooking class competition. When Patti tells Doug she can't cook, Doug invites her over to his house to practice some easy recipies and decide what to cook for their class. Doug is nervous because he is given the job of babysitting Skeeter's younger brother, Dale, when the Valentines leave for a trip. So he asks all his friends for advice on babysitting, but Doug finds out you can't always rely on other people's advice.
Doug spends a day drawing his favorite cartoon super hero, Quailman, who saves students from the evil Dr. Klotzenstein, who is using his "brain beam" to suck intelligence out of kids at the Bluffington School. Patti is rejected from the school baseball team by Coach Spitz, only because she's a girl. She then organizes her own team with the other kids who have been rejected, and challenges Coach Spitz to a game.
Doug is reluctant to ask Patti to the Tri-County Fair, so Skeeter invites Beebe to go with them too. Once at the fair Doug wants to get the chance to ride the giant ferris wheel with Patti. Before Beebe's big costume party, Skeeter has to tell Doug that they can't go because he believes that he and his family are going move to a new town. Doug can't believe Skeeter has to move, but then Skeeter secretly moves in with Doug in order to stay in Bluffington with his best friend.
Beebe brings her new expensive radio to school, in order to impress the other students. When it ends up missing, Mr. Bone threatens to hold the whole class in afternoon detention, if the radio is not returned. Hoping to catch the real culprit, Doug decides to take the case as ""The Chameleon"", who is a master of disguise. But when Doug finds out that Skeeter has the radio, he'll either have to turn him in or cover for him. Doug writes a secret love song about Patti, and makes it into a video at a new store in the mall where you can make your own music videos. But after a mix up at the store, Doug gets Mr. Bone's video and Doug thinks his tape fell into the hands of Patti who is taking it to a slumber party at Beebe's house.
Doug unintentionally spends all of his money on a video arcade game "Bag a Neematoad", when he was supposed to be buying a beetball for a birthday present for Patti. So Doug figures the only way to get a present for Patti with no money, is to make something. Roger invites everyone over to his house except for poor Doug, who begins to feel left out. Doug later imagines himself as Quailman battling Dr. Klotzenstein, the mad scientist who turns all Bluffington citizens into mindless zombies with his zombie chips. Doug then faces Roger at his trailer to discover he has organized a one year anniversary party for Doug.
A secret admirer is putting love letters inside of Doug's locker and Doug is sure that it's Patti. Doug is excited when his Aunt Betty-Ann invites Skeeter and him to be on a TV show. The only problem is that it's the kiddie show "Kiddie Koral". Doug's goes to the kiddie show with Skeeter and later regrets it when Roger sees him on the show and tapes it. But when Betty-Ann recognizes Roger, the embarassement tables are turned.
Patti invites Doug over for dinner with the rest of the gang and Doug is thrilled. It's a dream come true for Doug until Patti tells Doug she will be serving liver and onions (one of Doug's most hated foods). Doug tries everything (including hypnosis) to overcome his fear, and believes he's ready to eat the liver with Patti. An exchange student from Yakestonia named Fentruck Stimmel comes to live in Bluffington and attend the Bluffington School. But after Fentruck asks Doug to help him write a letter, Doug begins to suspect that the new kid may have eyes for Patti.
Roger tricks Doug into breaking a school rule which causes Mr. Bone to give his entire class a detention on a Saturday. Doug imagines how Quailman would handle the situation of battling the Rulemeister and his pointless rules to try and get his friends out of detention. Doug is angry at Porkchop for chasing a raccoon and accidentally putting his paw-prints all over his painting for the Arts Guild Exhibition. But everyone, including the art teacher Mrs. Perigrew, thinks his ruined painting is a brilliant piece of art! When Doug's art is hung in an exhibit, Doug imagines how Smash Adams would get it out, and tell the truth about his "masterpiece".
Mr. Bone's nephew Percy Femur is at the Bluffington School for a day and Roger gets ready to be the bully he is. But it turns out that Percy is very tough and a lot bigger than Roger, and soon, Doug has to break up a fight between Roger and Percy. When the kids in Mrs. Wingo's class criticize Mr. Bone's dull school news video show, he challenges the class to do a better one. So the entire class turns their classroom into a newsroom with reports from the students.
Doug wants to go to the Hoe-Down dance with Patti. But when Connie asks him, Doug lies and says he's staying home to take care of his sick cousin "Melvin." His lie gets him into big trouble when Patti and Connie come over to visit his cousin. Doug asks Judy to help him out and does such a good job because then, Melvin is invited to the Hoe-Down. In front of the dance teacher, Miss. Mimi, Doug signs up to be the lead dancer in the school ballet so he can be dance partners with Patti. But Beebe's mom, Betty, is trying to get her daughter the female lead, so Doug considers "fixing" Beebe's tryout. But then he realises that he doesn't really need to.
Doug and his friends are all building soapbox racers for the Mt. St. Buster Downhill Speed Race, and they all want to win, and Doug and Skeeter are having trouble keeping their racer a secret. But once the race starts, there's a disaster on the track, and everyone finds out that helping a friend is more important than winning. Theda and Phil go to Judy's school dance as chaperons and Doug plans a night in the house all by himself. But a huge thunderstorm knocks out the electricity and ruins his plan. In order to get the power back in his house, Doug must find the power box in his basement, in the dark.
The Bluffscouts are on a canoe trip. But trouble arrives when Scoutmaster Dink heads off into the forest to fix his broken computer, leaving Roger in charge. Doug and Skeeter can't stand Roger's orders so they search for Mr. Dink who seems to have disappeared. When Doug gets The Beets to play a concert at school, Mr. Bone cancels the deal. In a Quailman daydream, he battles RoboBone and his robotic army, which leads to a compromise with Mr. Bone.
The Beets concert is sold out, and luckily Judy has two tickets which she doesn't want. Judy gives Doug her tickets and he and Skeeter set out on an incredible adventure on the road and end up as Beets roadies when they meet other fans. Doug's tooth hurts after biting into a candy bar at the movies, and afterwards has to go to his dentist. Although he doesn't want to go to the appointment, he daydreams how Secret Agent Smash Adams would handle a dental situation, but soon his frown turns to a smile when he meets his new female dentist, Dr. Kay.
Bluffington students are cast in the school play, which shows the historic founding of the town. But when Judy is hired as director, she decides to take on a more "modern" approach to the story. But parents then begin to complain and Doug has to stick up for his sister. When Roger starts acting nice, Doug's worst nightmare has finally become a reality - Roger has developed a crush on Judy. The only thing that could make things worse for Doug, is if Judy has fallen for Roger, so he has to find out.
Doug competes in the Mayor's fitness test featuring Ronald Weisenheimer and to get in shape, Doug starts a crash exercise program. But this only brings Doug to hurting every muscle in his body, and with sore muscles, Doug may not be able to compete. When J.B. Spiggot, a famous movie director is looking for someone in Bluffington to be in his movie, everyone is sure they'll be chosen, especially Judy. When Doug almost gets an offer, he worries about hurting Judy's feelings, but he's saved when Porkchop is who J.B. wants.
Doug wins a Super-Pretendo with the video game "Space Munks", but the more he plays, the more he can't put it down. Suddenly, he realizes the weekend is over and he hasn't even started his homework. A mysterious hat floats onto Doug's head. Strange and wonderful things begin to happen to him so Doug claims the hat as lucky, and it isn't long before Roger wants to get his hands on it.
Roger asks Doug to take care of his cat, Stinky, while he goes on a trip. Stinky not only rips up the Funnie home but also eats all the junk food in the house and gets sick. Doug rushes him to the vet, hoping he'll be OK. But when Doug gets there, he finds out Stinky isn't a "he". Someone has sabotaged the wheelbarrow race at the Bluffington picnic and now no one can be in the race. So, Doug and Patti team up to solve the mystery of who did it and why.
Judy catches Doug breaking a vase that belonged to their mom. To keep her quiet, Doug must agree to be her slave for a week. He suffers until he realizes that the only way out is to tell the truth. Doug destroys an entire old house in a rock-throwing contest with Roger. But when Patti witnesses the contest she gets angry at Doug, and he has to figure out why.
Doug and Skeeter decide to work together to create their own comic book featuring Silver Skeeter and Quailman fighting the evil Wacky Weather Man. Roger and his cat, Stinky, challenge Doug and Porkchop to enter the Bluffington pet talent show.
For Career Week, Doug is chosen by a computer to be corporate executive in charge of a class project. But he can't handle the stress, until he finds out there was an error in the guidance counselor's computer. Doug was only defending himself when he punches Larry the AV nerd in the face because Doug thought he was making fun of him. Now he's popular because of his fight, but Doug can't stand that he punched Larry and wants to be friends again. But everyone likes Doug for it and his popularity could disappear.
Doug is invited to Beebe's party, but something shows up on his that face makes it impossible for him to go out in public. Phil convinces Doug that he has a great idea to build the perfect kite to compete in the upcoming Bluffscout airshow. But Doug thinks his Dad's idea is too simple, so he changes it thinking it will be better, but he gets surprising results.
For a class project, Mrs. Wingo lets her students get to know each other more and Doug is paired with the two people no one else wants to be paired up with, the weird twins Al and Moo Sleech. When it's time for Doug to write his report, the Sleech twins have one already written up for him. But Doug knows he's going to have to visit the Sleech's to get his own facts. Judy is getting her license, and Doug tells Patti that she'll take them to the amusement park, Funkytown. But Judy fails her test when she can't parallel park, and Doug must help her pass any way he can so he can get that ride from Judy.
While Mrs. Wingo is away, a substitute named Ms. Newberry takes her place. But Doug makes a bad first impression which places him as the class troublemaker and Roger as the nice guy. So Doug tries everything to change Ms. Newberry's image of him. Doug and his friends are on the team Patti's Pulverizers, and they are on top when it comes to winning games. But all of the parents, including Doug's dad, think it's unfair that only Patti gets to pitch and they want their own kids to pitch. But after the parents have their way, they realize that it may not be a good idea.
Assistant Principle Bone shuts down the school newspaper because of Doug's unflattering cartoon of the school's least favorite lunch food, magic mystery meat. But all the other students love the cartoon, so they rally to get their newspaper back. Doug and Skeeter are having trouble finding a scary monster for their homemade video movie, until Mayor White creates a monster of his own with his "beautify Bluffington" campaign, which was inspired by Doug's Mom.
Some tough high schoolers offer to sell Doug the very rare first issue of Man-O-Steel Man comic book, the issue he is missing. That same issue turns out to be missing from Sully's comic book store, and Doug feels guilty that he owns the only copy around. But when Mr. Sully only lets one customer into his shop at a time for security reasons, Doug decides what is right for everyone. There's a new girl in town named Loretta Lequiqly who says she is from Yakestonia and can speak the language. Loretta catches Skeeter's eye and Doug is convinced that Loretta is a liar, and Skeeter is believing everything she says. So Doug asks Fentruck to try and catch Loretta in a lie.
Doug wants to raise enough money to buy a new skateboard and sets up a lawn mowing enterprise to do so. Skeeter and the Sleech Twins join in, but they soon feel Doug is being unfair. Doug may raise the cash, but he risks losing his friends in the process. Everyone in school is talking about the final scene in the latest horror movie, but Doug closed his eyes and missed the ending. After thinking that he's a chicken for not seeing the ending he finally gets up the courage to see the film again, and realizes it's not only not scary, it's silly.
Mr. Bone is in the hospital and Doug unwittingly volunteers to take get well soon cards to him from Mrs. Wingo's class. But when Doug gets there, Mr. Bone thinks he's getting Doug's prized skateboard instead. What's more, the skateboard brings childhood memories to Mr. "T- Bone". Mr. Dink volunteers Doug to dress up as the Big Honkerburger and talk to kids in costume at the Honker Burger for a week. Plus, he has to go to the Bluffington picnic with Patti and be the Big Honkerburger without telling anyone who he is. Doug's busy weekend will be something he'll have to handle all on his own.
Doug and Skeeter are playing with Patti's new Wacky-Wizzer frisbee and accidentally toss into a fenced-in yard. Going in after it, Doug has a near-death experience when he encounters a huge guard dog named Lady. Beebe gets Doug and Skeeter their first gig for their new band -- but they have to let her join. Now, every time Doug wants to add something to the show he has to let in new members, and it seems they all just want to play the drums.
When the Bluffington School float for the upcoming Beet parade goes missing, Doug is accused of helping the Moody School students steal it. So Doug and Porkchop must sneak into the Moody School to see for themselves. Doug tries to impress Patti with a magic trick from his new magic set, but it backfires and they end up handcuffed together, without the key, for the entire afternoon. This does not sit well with Patti as it makes her miss planned activities. After many attempts to get the key, they realize the magic store owner may have a solution.
Doug gets a letter from his school and panics when he sees it's addressed to his parents. Since he's doing poorly in math, Doug immediately assumes that it's a failing notice! So he does everything to find out what the letter says and avoid his parents from seeing it. If that wasn't enough, Patti is trying to tell Doug something and get her message to him. It's the day of the big football game against Bloatsburg and Doug is snared by Coach Spitz, who mistakenly believes Doug has a "golden toe" for field kicking. Doug is then put into the next football game by Coach Spitz, and he is very nervous when he finds out that Percy Femur is on the other team.
Doug is accused of cheating when he and Chalky score identical marks on a test. He is given one day to confess or he'll have to take a re-test. Doug knows he didn't cheat so he tries to talk about it with Chalky, but he keeps avoiding Doug. Patti asks Doug to go with her to the movies, and now everyone at school is teasing them about dating. Even Doug wonders if it is really a date or not. In order to find out, Skeeter goes through dating scenarios from a book with Doug.
Doug's Bluff Scout Troop #617 has to raise money for new canoes, so they sell "Bluff Scout Booster Bars" door to door. But after being rejected by everyone, Roger offers a new way to sell the bars, which Doug doesn't agree with. Then when Doug sells a bar to Mr. Swirly, he realizes the problem of why the bars taste so horrible. Over the weekend, Doug puts on a few pounds at Grandma Funnie's house and has been invited to Beebe's pool party. Doug is so embarrassed to be seen in a swimsuit, so he decides to work the extra weight off before the party using Ronald "Prepare to Suffer" Weisenheimer's videos.
Doug dresses up as a hero named Race Canyon. When a spooky new amusement ride, Blood Stone Manor, opens up at Funkytown on Halloween night, Skeeter wants to check it out instead of trick or treating. Doug reluctantly agrees to go, but when the park closes before their turn comes up, Roger convinces them to go on the ride anyway. Once on the ride, Roger scares Doug and Skeeter big time, so it's up to them to scare Roger back!
Doug wishes he was more fashionable until his friends at school accuse him of dressing like Dylan Farnum from the TV show "Teen Heart Street". He's tired of being told he's copying someone else's style, so he decides to shop for a new look. Doug becomes the victim of a contest scam that promises to make him rich. But after trying so hard and paying a lot of money, Doug later realizes he may not be as close to winning as he thinks.
Doug is impressed by Mr. Bluff's gifts to Beebe. Phil feels pressured to make more money for a better birthday present for his son, so he decides to start his own photography store. At first, Doug is excited by the thought of more money, but when he sees the effects on his father and their family, he realizes that money can't buy happiness. After performing a magic trick, Doug becomes adored by a third grader named Todd Bentley, who starts to follow Doug everywhere. Soon Doug is embarrassed by all the attention Todd is giving him, and tells Todd to leave him alone, which upsets Todd and leaves Doug feeling guilty.
Doug is nominated for class treasurer, and when he finds himself running against Willy White, the mayor's son, he starts making promises to his voters he knows he can't keep. Meanwhile, Tippi Dink runs for Mayor of Bluffington and wins! Doug beats Patti in a bowling match, and Skeeter tells everyone about it. Doug gains popularity, but feels bad about beating Patti everytime they play a game. It seems Patti is having a losing streak and is upset about it.
Doug and Skeeter go digging for artefacts when they get assigned to research Bluffington's history. They soon get into trouble though, when they are caught digging on the Bluff estate even though they didn't know. Skeeter gets a high score on an intelligent test making him a genius, and Doug is convinced Skeeter got the wrong test results. But soon Skeeter starts to spend less time with Doug and more time thinking about going to college, and Doug thinks he's lost his best friend.
All of Doug's friends have cool bikes, but Doug hates his--until he discovers that someone has stolen it. He thinks about who could have taken it, and wonders if one of his friends is a theif. Doug and Judy get into a fight and blow their big chance to stay alone in the house while their parents are on vacation. Instead, they're cursed with the very, very strict baby-sitter, Mrs. Stintson.
When Porkchop has been mistakenly accused of attacking Beebe, Doug has to try and clear his best non-human friend out. Unfortunately, Bill Bluff and former Mayor White are determined to make sure that Porkchop never bothers anyone again by having him euthanized. After a trial in court, Porkchop is sentenced to a dog pound for bad dogs. Then, Doug convinces the court to let Porkchop return to the scene of the alleged crime to show them what really happened.
An envelope of money falls from a speeding car and Doug finds it with a huge fortune in it. Doug hands it in to the police and everyone makes fun of him for doing it. After no one claims the money, the police tell Doug he can keep the money. When Doug discovers who the real owner is, he must choose between what's legal and what he knows is right. Theda invites Judy's new boyfriend over for dinner, but Judy is embarrassed by her boring family, especially Doug. So she decides to "spruce" things up around the house.
Doug is having his first house party, and he is very nervous about it--especially when he sees how his parents are planning for it. But when Roger suggests to play Truth or Dare, Doug hopes it makes his party better. Skeeter exaggerates about how Doug can ride on a horse and Doug lets his friends believe the lie. But then Roger challenges Doug to show them, and Patti suggests they all go to a dude ranch to settle the argument. Since Doug can't ride a horse very well, he's nervous about going to the ranch.
Doug and his friends are getting ready for the end of sixth grade and are graduating from Bluffington School. Doug feels a bit sad about leaving so he tries to find Principal Buttsavitch to talk to him. But when he finds out that Roger is as reluctant to leave the school as he is, Doug convinces Roger (and himself) that the new school will be great. As the summer begins, the Funnies plan to drive across the country to visit the Great Painted Gorge. Phil is committed to keeping to a schedule, but Doug and Judy convince him to stop at several tourist traps along the way. The family isn't having any fun on the trip, until they finally reach the stop that makes it all worthwhile.
The summer is coming to a close and Doug is delivering invitations for his 12th birthday party to all his friends. While he goes all around town, he discovers that Bluffington (as well as his friends) have been through changes. The Honker Burger is gone, Roger is rich, The Beets are breaking up, a new Middle School is being built, Patti is being home schooled in the mornings and Doug needs a hair cut. So many things have changed that it makes Doug sick of changes, so he cancels his birthday. But later, Judy makes him realize that changes makes us different from rocks, and Doug reinstates his party just in time for some shocking news from Theda.
It's the first day of seventh grade at the new middle school which still does not have a name, so a "Name Your School" student contest is created by the former Mayor White who is now the school's principal. The contest causes fierce competition between Patti and Doug when they don't like each others school name suggestions. Doug meets all his teachers including his homeroom and English teacher Miss Kristal, and during breaks, the students realize the school isn't quite finished yet. Also, the gang is on the search for the perfect new hangout since the Honker Burger is now gone.
Doug and Skeeter wear their Bluffscout uniforms to school to prepare for the upcoming Shindiggarama. But Doug gets laughed at and concludes the Bluffscouts are "kids stuff," so he quits. Doug then tries to live a more grown up life by talking and dressing like a grown up. A mature party at Roger's house makes him realize he's not having fun as an adult because he cared too much about what people think. Doug then goes back to Bluffscouts and has a great time at the Shindiggarama.
The Funnie family is curious when Doug gets a letter from Bolivia. Doug's explanation involves the previous summer, where Doug went to the Grinning Bear Sports Camp with Patti. Meantime, Doug's asthmatic cabinmate Leonard, who has made a career of escaping summer camps, plans yet another escape. However, Doug, Chalky, and Patti have to worry about the upcoming basketball game they have to play against a tougher camp.
Patti eyes the snooty club, The Junior Daughters of the Founding Mothers and Fathers where no boys are allowed and Doug is surprised she's interested in it. Doug worries if Patti joins the club, she'll change and won't have time for him anymore. Also, Skeeter has his eye on Muffy Silverson who is part of the club, so Doug and Skeeter dress up as girls to find out all about the snooty place. Meanwhile, Ned, Willy and Boomer accidenally save the oldest tree in town and are treated as public heroes.
Doug wants to go to The Beet's Final Farewell Concert with Patti. In order to get enough money to buy concert tickets, Doug gets a job in his grandmother Edna's craftee shopee. She agrees to let Doug make the store more hip by adding a hot foamaccino bar and other various hip toys which increases sales. Soon, Doug has more than enough money for two front row tickets at the concert and even has enough to make the night special. But the day of the concert a trendier store opens accross the street which leaves Doug with no money, and his grandmother out of business.
For a class project, Judy lets Doug borrow one of her theatrical Napolean hats after making him sign a contract. Doug loses the hat and Roger finds it and won't give it back to Doug. In order to get the hat back from Roger, he asks Doug to do many favors including stealing a plastic cow. After all the favors are done, Roger still refuses to give the hat back. Since Doug can't return the hat to Judy, he must suffer the consequences.
After Connie starts a rumour, the students of Beebe Bluff Middle School get into an uproar that Skeeter is really a vampire. Doug and Roger investigate the rumour and soon everyone becomes scared of Skeeter after they see him hanging out with bats. Soon all of his friends avoid him and on the night of his Halloween party, Doug feels guilty for not going to his party without even knowing what Skeeter thinks about the rumour.
When Doug gets tired of being insulted by Roger and his gang, he gets help from Mr. Dink, who provides him with some home movies of the famous insult comedian, Rick Nickles. After viewing these home movies, Doug gets the ability to crack insulting jokes. At first it puts Roger in his place, but Doug soon realizes that he's made a mistake when he makes wisecracks about the people he loves. Meanwhile, the Beebe Bluff Middle School baseball team goes on strike after Chalky is unfair in his coaching.
Doug ends up directing the annual Founder's Day Pageant after Judy drops out of directing duties. The group decide to stage a musical based on the founding of Bluffington by the Bluff family. But everyone has different ideas for what to do, and the argument causes everyone to split up. A sudden blizzard leaves everyone stuck inside the school, and Doug realizes they will all have to cooperate to pull through. When help comes to rescue them, they decide to stay in school to finish the play.
It's B.L.A.B.A.B.B.A. Day at the middle school, and there are dozens of clubs the students can join. Doug tris to find the best club and thinks that the Brain Team would impress Patti, and make him less average. Doug then takes the Brain Test and in order to be on the school's Brain Team. When he cheats, he ends up on the team but can't handle studying for the Bowl of Brains Quiz Bowl.
After Doug and Skeeter see a commercial for the new movie Targetman, they desperately want to see it. Soon, all of Doug's friends and even his teachers are talking about Targetman. When Doug tells his parents he wants to see it, they don't allow him because it is way too violent and they feel Doug is not mature enough to see it. So Doug tries to be more mature in front of his parents in order for them to let him see the movie, but they still say no. Doug goes with Skeeter to see the movie anyway, only to regret it later on. Meanwhile, Mr. Klotz is in town to visit Roger who also wants to see Targetman, but Mr. Klotz won't let Roger see it, and he doesn't realize why.
Doug complains to Patti about how tough he has it at home. Doug thinks she must have it easy because she is home schooled. Soon, Beebe and Skeeter and Chalky and Roger debate over who has it hardest. So they all agree to switch places for a day. Also, Moo comes to Doug for advice on his brother who is dying his hair, changing his style of clothes and making friends, and Moo doesn't want his brother to change.
Doug complains that Miss. Kristal gives too much homework, and wishes she wouldn't. After Willy tells his dad that Miss. Kristal is a bad teacher, Principal White fires her. So Principal White becomes their new teacher and brings an end to homework. The class is happy that there is no more homework, but soon Willy is the teacher and when he goes overboard, the entire class realize how good Miss. Kristal was.
With a new baby on the way, Doug's family is too busy to have a traditional Christmas and Doug wants one. So Doug and Porkchop decide to have their own secret holiday celebration in his room. But when he later finds the house completely empty Phil phones with news, the baby is born on Christmas Day. Meanwhile, Fentruck tells all his friends how they spend Christmas in Yakestonia.
Doug finds a lost puppy in Lucky Duck park and he decides to keep it until its owner is found. But the puppy proves to be too much trouble at home. The new puppy may be cute, but he isn't like Porkchop and Doug realizes a regular puppy is a lot of work to take care of. When the puppy's owner is still not found, Doug gives all his friends a chance to own him. Meanwhile, Al and Moo calculate the day an alien is schedueled to land in Lucky Duck Park.
It's student counsil elections at the middle school and Beebe, roger and Chalky are all running. Doug meets eighth-grader Guy Graham who gives him a job on the school newspaper as the cartoonist. Guy tells Doug to create a cartoon on the school student coucil election and draw who he thinks should win. When Roger and Beebe get word, they bribe Doug to make him draw the cartoon about them. Meanwhile, Chad Mayonnaise becomes the middle school's new history teacher and Patti now attends school full day.
When the house of Roger's annoying friend Ned Cauphee burns down, Doug thinks is his fault after telling Ned that ""he'll get his someday"". Theda offers to house him while Ned's house is fixed. When Ned arrives, Doug can't believe how well he behaves because he is nothing like that at school. Doug even starts to feel sympathetic towards Ned. But now Ned is off to visit Grandma Funnie with the rest of the Funnies and Doug is worried he'll ruin his grandmother's home.
Miss. Kristal assigns a book report with no rules, she tells the class to use thier imagination. At the same time, Beebe is being filmed for a documentary sponsored by her Dad. This means the book reports will be shown on TV, which makes everyone in the class want to have the biggest and best report in the entire class. Doug decides to show some drawings he drew, but he realizes that it's not exciting enough, so he goes on a search to find a book where he can make a more exciting report. But when he doesn't have an exciting report the night it's due, he either has to present his drawings or nothing at all.
The new snack fad "Nic Nacs" is targeted at adults and kids are going crazy to try some. It soon turns into a negative snack that kids are not supposed to have, which just makes all of Doug's friends wanting some. Through Doug's research for an article for the school paper, he discovers that the snack has an unpleasant and temporary side effect. Also, Mr. Dink quits his job at Bluffco and tries to write his own book.
Guy sees a musical and is inspired by it. He tells Skeeter to work on a secret script for a huge drama play for Beebe Bluff Middle School. The play is a love story between Leonardo da Vinci and the Mona Lisa. Doug gets interested in auditioning when he learns Patti gets the female lead, and is in a KISSING SCENE at the end of the play. Doug trys hard to get the male lead, but when Guy gives himself the role, Doug wonders if his work was wasted. But before showtime, Guy gets sick and someone else has to be the male lead.
Doug finds hair in his comb and fears he's going bald, and figures Patti won't want to hang out with him anymore. The gang also is going to meet at the new water park when it opens and Doug doesn't want to go because of his hair. Meanwhile, Patti gets her first pimple. Beebe gets her first nose job and Roger may have gotten his first whisker. Doug lets all these things get in the way of his fun, and later realizes he shouldn't have. Also, Skeeter gets his first failing grade in shop class when his coat rack assignment isn't simple enough, so he is given a second chance to make another simple object.
Doug begins to worry that the new baby Cleopatra Dirtbike will end up being another Judy, and Judy is afraid she'll grow up to be like Doug. So the two set out to shape the baby's personality. When Phil and Theda go out for an evening, Judy and Doug are left to babysit and don't want the other to be left alone with Dirtbike. But when their fighting leaves Dirtbike alone in Mr. Dink's house, they realize they are going to have to co-operate to get her out.
Doug wakes up the morning after the Flounder's Day Picnic to find that Porkchop has packed up his things and is gone. He concludes that someone must have done something bad to him to make him pack up and leave. So he goes to talk all his friends to question them about what happened to Porkchop the day before.
Doug enters a school contest to paint a mural on a new school wall. But when he has to share the mural design with Roger, he's not sure he can do it with him because he thinks Roger can't really draw. Also, Bluffington is in a heat wave and the Sleech twins think it is their fault, so they set out to change the hot weather.
Doug and his friends decide to meet at Funkytown and spend a day having fun, so Judy volunteers to drive him there. But before she drops Doug off, Judy wants to shop at Snord Grupen. After leaving the giant mall, Doug and Judy get lost on the way to Funkytown.
The lives of Doug and all the other students at Beebe Bluff Middle School become a frenzy when Mr. Bone returns and becomes the middle school's new vice principal. He soon starts throwing Roger into detention and making new school rules. Also, eighth graders invite Doug to join a secret club of the future powerful men of the universe. But in order to be worthy to join, Doug must prove he can be a successful person and it's cutting himself out of monster hunting with Skeeter.
Skeeter is dating Beebe and Doug is disgusted by Skeeter's lovesick attitude and jealous of their friendship. Doug decides to fight back which ends up in the end of their friendship. Doug and Skeeter have been friends forever, but not anymore. Then when Doug tries to break up Skeeter and Beebe, Elmo reminds Doug who got them together. Meanwhile, a flood is reported to hit Bluffington and Roger wants to be part of "the biggest thing to ever hit this town."
Patti panics and thinks she's fat after watching a commercial selling a diet kit, so she, Connie, and Beebe set out to lose weight. Patti decides to go on a drastic diet and excercise routine. But once she starts losing weight, she can't seem to stop herself, even with Doug's help. Meanwhile, Doug and Skeeter are convinced that the only way to catch the Lucky Duck Lake monster, is to lure it with a female monster.
When Guy invites Patti to go to a star-studded premiere of a new movie called Slag & Felpy, Doug feels jealous that Guy took Patti out on a date. In a Quailman daydream, the Golden Salmon appears in Megalopolis, but Quailman isn't sure he's a superhero. Meanwhile, Dr. Rubbersuit separates Quailman's dark side into an evil personality knows as the Dark Quail.
Judy helps out with Gwen Gauntlet, her favorite actress and teen role model, while she is in town to shoot an entertainment show. Judy hopes she can get a recommendation from Gwen for Vole University. However, Gwen is so self-absorbed that it tests the limits of Judy's patience. Meanwhile, Doug and Skeeter think they've shot proof of the monster on Judy's video camera and Judy won't let them see the tape.
Connie Benge becomes obsessed with winning a local radio-station contest to become a rock 'n' roll star. She brings Doug into it, and is so obsessed she thinks about quitting school just like Flounder from The Beets did. Soon she realizes Flounder may have not done the right thing. Meanwhile, Al, Moo and Skeeter try to contact the monster of the lake by creating a monster calling machine.
When Doug worries he is only average, he decides that to make his level of importance higher he should be a collector of unusal and (hopefully) valuable items. So he goes to a flea market with a valuable collecters item book looking for rubber tub stoppers and bowls, but someone has already gotten to them. Meanwhile, Roger gets on Mr. Bone's good side to get himself out of detention and Skeeter asks the A.V. Nerds to help him find the Lucy Duck Monster using A.V. equipment.
Bill Bluff's public relations firm decides that Bill should have Thanksgiving Day dinner with an average Bluffington family to increase his popularity. Doug's family is choosen and turns their simple Thanksgiving plans upside down. They won't let Patti join their dinner and Judy doesn't like what Bill is doing in preparation for the big dinner. So Doug sets out to make everyone happy for Thanksgiving.
One of Doug's New Years resolution is to tell Patti how he feels about her. But when Doug realizes he hasn't done that yet, he decides that giving her a kiss at Beebe's New Years Eve party will do it. So Doug rents movies and uses balloons for practice. At the party, midnight is approaching and Doug finds out that Patti left Beebe's party to go to other parties with Guy. It looks like Guy had the same plans for Patti as Doug did. Meanwhile, Roger tries to break his own record of how many girls to kiss at midnight and Judy hates all the New Years celebration.
Popular eight grader Cassandra Bleem asks Doug to be her date at the upcoming Bluffington Blowout Bar-Becue and Beach Bash beach party and he does everything to prepare to be cool in front of Cassandra. Meanwhile, the Sleech twins try different kind of ways to get dates for the beach party.
Doug is practicing for the Rudolph Bluff Memorial Bike Rally, where he is on Patti's team and they are determined to beat Roger's team. But after Doug has a bicycle accident, he breaks his leg and once it heals, he is afraid to get back on his bike. His fear won't let him practice or even ride in the rally, and if he doesn't overcome his fear, it would let Patti and the team down. Meanwhile, Doug learns about Mr. Dink's phobia of beans and how he has tried to overcome it.
Doug, Patti and Guy are invited to see The Beets recording a new record in Bluffington, but Doug promised to clean his grandma's attic with his Dad. As he cleans, Doug escapes into a daydream about how goofy Quailman's Dad is against the Golden Salmon. Back to reality, Doug finds out that his Dad was in a band in the 70's and when he drops Doug off at the recording studio, they learn that the Beets need a replacement drummer for a song. When Phil steps up to take the job, Doug just hopes he won't be embarassed.
Patti and Skeeter comment about how great Guy's weekend party was which makes Doug decide to have his own party. At school, Patti and Skeeter accidentally get locked in a janitor's closet after doing a favor for Miss. Kristal. While being locked in, they share a secret and promise each other not to tell anyone else. But somehow Roger finds out and he tells the whole school about Patti and Skeeter's secrets, which leaves the question of who spilled the secret. Patti thinks Skeeter told, and Skeeter thinks Patti told. The two friends become so angry at each other, that Doug has to try to get them to be friends again before his party.
Beebe is having a Halloween party with a costume contest. After Doug's homemade Lucky Duck monster costume is destroyed by Dirtbike, Doug needs help for a new Halloween costume. So he goes to Skeeter, Judy, Mr. Dink, and Roger for help, but Doug can't believe they are all too busy to help him. Later, Doug can't believe that people all over town are turning into Doug clones!
While Chad is out of town, Patti comes to stay with the Funnies for a week and Doug worries she will realize that he is just an average guy. So he tries to be someone else in front of Patti in order to impress her. Meanwhile, Al, Moo, and Skeeter build a submarine out of junk to look for the Lucky Duck monster.
Roger blames Doug for hitting Mr. Bone with a football, which sends Doug to detention. Roger then pretends to break his ankle and again blames it on Doug. Feeling guilty, Doug then becomes Roger's servant. In Megalopolis, Quailman thinks he is to blame after Dr. Klotzenstein's Funky Pumper stops working after Quailman uses his Quaileye on him. He decides to go inside his body to cure him, but soon finds out the real cause of Kloztenstein's illness.
A new change is coming to the Beebe Bluff Middle School... school uniforms! But all the students don't want uniforms so Sally rallys Patti, Roger, Fentruck and Beebe and forms a protest group. But after Principal White and Vice Principal Bone don't listen, Sally stages a student debate. But Sally ends up losing her voice, so Patti has to take over the debate. But it seems the power has gone to Patti's head. Meanwhile, Doug and Skeeter wonder what to do for their Civics class report.
Patti is better than Doug at every sport they play, and Doug wonders how he will ever impress her. So he daydreams about how Quailman would try to impress a new superhero who arrives in Megalopolis named Supersport.
Flounder wants to start a new group and talent searches in Bluffington. When he sees interest in Judy's "music" he starts dating her and Doug gets three tickets to Flounder and Judy's upcoming concert. At school, Doug becomes popular because he promised 20 tickets for 20 people, but he now has to risk his popularity in telling them only two tickets are available. Meanwhile, Theda gets a makeover and wonders if she should keep her new look.
The S.T.U.A.R.T. corporation's faulty products are making citizens in Megalopolis uncharacteristically short-tempered. Quailman has had enough of the faulty products, so he and Silver Skeeter set out to find the leader.
Doug volunteers to spend time with the residents of the Maturing Meadows retirement home. He meets Mrs. Whackhammer and doesn't make a good first impression (or a second impression). Doug turns to Quailman, to see how he would handle a monster who turns the citizens of Megalopolis grouchy.
Judy auditions for an acting admission to Vole University, and she accidentally hands in Doug's doodle to the Dean. Judy ends up accepted to Vole, but only because of Doug's doodle. Judy is okay with it until the Dean asks her to draw examples for a class. Meanwhile, Doug tags along with Judy and finds out what he really wants to do with the rest of his life as he waits for the results from a drawing talent contest.
Everyone at Beebe Bluff Middle School is worried about the upcoming mysterious S.P.I.T. tests. If they fail, they could be sent back a grade... or so the rumour says. Then, Doug bumps into Mr. Bone who leaves behind the S.P.I.T. test folder. If Doug takes a look inside the folder, he can tell his friends what's on the test. Doug wonders if thats the right thing to do, then turns to Quailman. In Megalopolis, the Quizzler is stealing information and words all over town and Quailman must set everything back to normal.
In preparation for Bluffington Pride Day, the contest to write the official Bluffington Anthem is on. Patti has written the perfect song, the only problem is she can't sing to save her life. Doug lies to Patti about her singing which leads to her entering the contest and Doug has to tell the truth or convince Patti to drop out of the singing contest because it would only embarass her.
Doug's old best friend Bobby Bodingo is moving to Bluffington, and Doug can't wait to show him around school and introduce him to his friends. But Bobby just isn't the same as he used to be, he's rude and crude and even makes Doug go in the girl's bathroom. As a result, all of Doug's friends don't like him and won't spend time with Doug if Bobby is around him.
Mr. Dink is always busy with several gadgets and he's too busy to give Doug his Bluffscout "snoarking" badge test. So in a daydream, Quailman tries to help his friend Professor Quint in his experiments. But the Professor always fails because, he's always busy with so many different things. Quint thinks he'll succeed in crime instead of science and Quailman must set him straight. After his daydream, Doug uses Quailman's actions on Mr. Dink.
Doug always manages to have a bad hair day on school-picture day. So when school-picture day comes around again, Doug douses himself with hair-care products to prevent bad hair. Meanwhile, he daydreams how Quailman would handle a bad hair day, as an evil shampoo from the S.T.U.A.R.T. company is taking over the hair of all the citizens in Megalopolis.
Beebe Bluff's family is penniless due to heavy investments in the Yakestonian snoozegraffle crop, which gets completely destroyed due to a storm. Also because of the destroyed crop, Fentruck's family can't support their son overseas and will have to send him back home if he doesn't raise enough money. Doug, Patti and Skeeter try to save Fentruck from leaving and show Beebe that you don't need a lot of money to have a good time.
Judy forces Doug and his friends to do a Shakespearean tribute to recycling instead of a fun play they came up with on their own. Meanwhile, in Doug's daydream Judydra is turning everyone in Megalopolis into performance artists and Quailman (along with the League of Ultra Buddies) must stop her.
Patti worries her Dad, Chad, is dating Edwina Klotz, so she does everything, including eating at Chez Honk to find out. Doug and Patti discover Chad is dating someone, but it's not Edwina. When she has dinner at the Mayonnaise's, Patti feels she is trying to replace her mother. Meanwhile, Doug finds out the truth about what happened to his pet goldfish as a kid.
Quailman is finally getting recognition. Doug has been offered to draw a Quailman comic for the school paper, The Weekly Beebe. But the night before Doug's Quailman comic is due, Doug has not begun drawing. Meanwhile in a Quailman daydream, Quailman has lost his powers and feels he can't save Megalopolis without them, which allows Dr. Rubbersuit to steal all the beets in the entire city.
Convinced that girls like rebels, Doug decides to cut school during an assembly and have a wild adventure with Skeeter. But Mr. Bone finds out and although he can't tell who is cutting school, he is determined to hunt down the fugitives. Doug and Skeeter go to the mall, Swirly's and the park and find out that cutting school is not as wild as they thought. When their boring adventure is over, they return to school only to find out that Patti doesn't like a real rebel.
An alien being named Generalissimo Twang tries to convince the three evildoers Dr. Klotzenstien, RoboBone and the Golden Salmon that they can defeat Quailman if they work together.
Roger gets Doug to teach him how to be a gentleman in order to get Beebe to ask him to go to the Bumpkin Day Hoe-Down Dance with him where the girls ask the guys. Doug hopes Patti will ask him, but she's sick and Doug is afraid she'll ask someone else once she's better. Also, Skunky shows his friends that he has webbed toes which is distracting everyone in gym class, so Coach Spitz forces Skunky to cover up his toes at all times.
Even though he knows he is not supposed to, Doug loans Roger his school newspaper press pass so Roger can get into an early screening of a movie. But after Roger gives a bad review of the movie to the press wearing Doug's press pass, Doug has to confront the consequences. In Megalopolis, the Kabrain twins help Quailman turn into Rubbersuit to learn more about him. But when the real Rubbersuit finds out about this, he visits the Kabrain twins to get them to change "Rubbersuit" back into Quailman.
While surfing the internet on the Funnie family's new computer to find music for the upcoming retro dance, Doug and Skeeter encounter Webster, a 'kid' they agree to meet to exchange some records. What the boys don't know is that Webster is really 'Friendly Frankie,' a rather unscrupulous adult. Instead of meeting them, however, Webster/Frankie creates a distraction and steals their records. Horrified, Doug and Skeeter go back online and find similar records for sale at Friendly Frankie's Used Records. At the store, when the boys try to talk to Frankie about their records, Doug and Skeeter find themselves in a bad situation. Meanwhile, Judy is online in the 'Bluffington's Pretentious Artists Chat Room,' where she meets a guy who uses the screen name 'Leonardo D'Warhol'. Believing she has met the man of her dreams, Judy arranges a meeting in person only to discover that Leonardo is not quite the man she expected.
Doug is horrified to find out that Todd Bentley is going to be on his team for the Bluff Scouts hike. Doug imagines Quailman having to teach Quailkid how to be a super hero. The only problem is that he'd rather discover why things all over Megalopolis are being stolen. Quailman finds out Rubbersuit is behind it, along with his Little Rubber Army and Quailkid wants to join.
For the final school dance of the school year (the Spring Fling A-Ding), Doug tells his class he can get The Beets to play at the dance, but they suddenly break up again after fighting over a banana. Meanwhile, Phil's old band members visit the Funnie's and they decide to play at the dance when Doug invites them. But after Doug hears their horrible practice session, Doug has to decide if he should fire his own Dad from playing at the dance and embarassing himself.
In the series finale, more changes in Doug's life are underway as Judy prepares to leave for college and Doug's voice begins to crack. Seventh grade is over for Doug and his friends, to start off the summer Chad Mayonnaise and Miss. Kristal are getting married. Principal White is performing the ceremony and Doug is asked to carry the wedding ring, but while paying for frothy goats he accidentally loses it. Convinced he gave the ring to Mr. Swirly, Doug and Skeeter ride all over town to try and find him and the ring before the wedding starts. Meanwhile at the church, Mr. Bone and Mr. Fort argue over who should get to play at the wedding, Judy complains the stage she is performing on is too small, and one of Mr. Dink's very expensive machines goes crazy. If that weren't enough, Roger's wedding present lands on top of the reception tent causing the tent to collapse, and Principal White faints as soon as the wedding starts. After the happy couple is married, Judy drives away towards Vole,
In this full-length feature film, Doug and Skeeter finally discover the monster of Lucky Duck Lake, and it turns out that he's actually a nice monster. Doug and Skeeter name him Herman Melville after he tries eating a copy of "Moby Dick". After only showing Herman to the Dinks, Mrs. Dink realizes that Herman came out of the lake because Bluffco has been polluting it for years. Although Doug and Skeeter try to keep Herman a secret by making him live in Doug's room, Guy finds out about him and tells Bill Bluff. Once Bill knows, he attempts to cover the whole thing up by capturing Herman. One night when Skeeter and Doug try to let Herman free, Bill and his men capture Herman. As soon as Herman is captured, Doug and Skeeter, along with the Sleech twins, spend a day planning Herman's escape. Also, when Roger and his gang see the monster come out of the lake, he realizes that Skeeter now has a monster on his side. So Roger comes up with a plan to have a monster of his own on his side, and his plan calls for the A.V. nerds and the Sleech twins to work together to create a mechanical robot. Plus, Doug wants to take Patti to the school's upcoming Valentine's Day dance which is taking place in Funkytown, but he has to compete with Guy who is on the dance planning commitee with Patti, and also wants to take her to the dance.
Disney's Doug Live! is a 30-minute musical stage performed at Disney-MGM Studios in Florida featuring live action and animation. Doug continues to try to win the heart of his dream girl Patti Mayonnaise. Porkchop and Skeeter help Doug win tickets to see The Beets, and Roger tries to stop Doug's attempts to ask Patti to be his date. Before the show, a recorded message from Jim Jinkins appears on a large screen. Lucky audience members are chosen to play small parts in each performance - four adults have the chance to play The Beets, while one child is given the opportunity to be Quailkid and help Quailman battle the Dr. Rubbersuit in a fantasy sequence.
A number of short animation clips with a duration of 15 seconds that aired during commercial breaks when Disney's Doug aired in syndication during "Disney's One Too" on weekdays. The following is a list of the titles of these shorts: - A Very Expensive Moment With Bud Dink - The Top 10 Screams of Roger Klotz - Judy and Her Giant Egg - The Adventures of Quailman - Al & Moo's Big Book of Dating - Skunky's Word for the Day - Skeeter's Science Experiment
