Because of Thunk's dislike for a certain meal, he leads a pack of Bearowls to the Croods cave and when the Boor's cave is overtaken by an Albatrocerous, the 2 rival clans are forced to share a cave while Eep and Thunk try to reverse the situation.
After getting a giant head from a Spiderant bite, everybody is convinced that Grug is now completely intelligent and he uses this to outstrip Snoot's role as Ahhh! Valley's Problem Solver.
Gran befriends a pack of Crabby-Tabbies (cat-crab mix creatures) who wish to be crabby to all while Grug and Ugga take desperate measures to get into Snoot's party.
When Eep is literately grounded for causing mischief, she bets Grug that he can't take the teen life, so the ever prideful Grug sets out to prove her wrong, but he ends up in danger.
Grug meets a doppelganger of his named Gurg (voiced by Christian Slater) and he has Gurg pretend to be him so he won't do his chores, but Gurg decides to steal his family away.
When Grug gets fed up with the hardships Ahhh! Valley brings, he takes his family on a vacation to the wilderness where they meet a seemingly nice family.