When Webster decides to join the school's community service club, he finds that all of its members are nerds. But after giving back to a community of retirees, Webster discovers that nerds are people too.
George and Webster get butterflies in their stomachs when a family recipe wins a contest and a TV chef (Stephen Vinovich) offers to tape Katherine preparing the dish.
When Nicky (Corky Nemac) has trouble writing to a girl (Ami Dolenz) he has a crush on, Webster comes through: excerpts from Katherine's old love letters.
Webster and his friends want to see a violent movie that one reviewer described as "more violent than The Three Stooges at a hardware store." Katherine, George, and the other parents object until they see it first.