Tootie's new boyfriend, Jeff, is the star football player on the football team at Eastland. However, she learns a startling secret that he's been keeping, he's illiterate. She now must decide whether or not to encourage his behavior of having other kids do his work for him.

Natalie starts dating a black guy, and Tootie thinks that Natalie hates him because of his color.

Tootie's first date with Jeff since he started college leaves her feeling she must sleep with him to keep him.

Cupid can be perverse: all the girls old boyfriends happen to show up just before the Valentine's Day dance.

Tootie's boyfriend says he can't make it to town for the Winter Carnival so Tootie decides to go with someone else.

The fat hits the fire when Natalie and Tootie's boyfriends meet, and Jo blows a gasket over the repair job on her bike.

Rick proposes to Jo in his own crazy way, and everyone anticipates a wedding everyone, that is, except Jo, who still hasn't accepted.

Tootie recieves a hideous pendant as an engagement present from Jeff's formidable grandmother, and it's pulverized at Andy and Pippa's wild party just before the woman arrives.