Francine creates her own newspaper after shadowing Buster's mother at work and becomes a tabloid writer, taking out-of-context pictures of her friends with insulting captions. When Francine finds an embarrassing picture of her circulating the school, she finds that her sister Catherine is behind it, and understands how her friends felt. D.W. accidentally grabs the wrong backpack at the pool; due to most of the letters on the name tag having rubbed off, they spell out a nonsensical name, "Omble." Arthur and D.W. examine the contents of the backpack, and the mysterious "Omble" is later revealed to be Tommy Tibble.