Kate and Spencer are not enjoying their weekend with their parents. Advice from Leo's father helps him sort out their troubles to make their weekend fun.
Leo takes his family out camping in Dirk Flannery's Sharkmobile, but get locked outside the car, forcing them to use some survival skills for a camp out.
A remark from Hank leads Leo to believe that he is starting to lose his mane with age. Spencer tries to convince Kate to help him join the school chorus, who are getting tickets to see his favorite rock band, Isaac Iceberg and the Titanics.
Kate must write the perfect poem to be the best and smartest student in the class, but she loses it accidentally after it turns out to be one of Spencer's songs, and Kate has to confess the truth about her missing poem.
Kate fixates on what she considers to be her "elephant ears" and starts wearing her hair "Dolly Parton-style" to hide them. Leo and Lana strike compete to determine who is the better speller, forgetting that Kate is going to be in the Spelling Bee.
Leo must face his fear of horses and learn to ride in order to appear in a cowboy movie, while Spencer faces his fear of the brown dog down the street.
Leo must lose 10 pounds and remove a piece of his gray mane in order to prevent Leonardo Bartholomew, MGM's hottest actor, from taking his place for MGM's 75th anniversary gala.