This pilot episode was trimmed down and run as the first episode of season 1.

Dobie and Maynard conspire to rig the raffle at the local movie theatre so that Dobie can win enough money to take Thalia to the prom.

Dobie competes with Milton Armitage to see whose wardrobe can impress Thalia the most.

Thalia urges Dobie to become a doctor, but he meets Zelda Gilroy and learns about the scientific concept of propinquity, the psychological tendency for people to form relationships with those whom they encounter often.

Maynard gets drafted.

Dobie runs against Milton for junior class president. Thalia is Dobie's campaign manager.

Thalia talks Dobie's parents into sending him to Willoughby prep school.

Thalia tries to educate Dobie in logical thinking.

Maynard gives a chicken an overdose of growth hormones as a biology class project .

Dobie and most of his friends reluctantly participate in a talent show.

A discouraged Dobie finally gives up on finding his dream girl and agrees to marry Zelda.

Dobie meets a pretty fatalistically morose French girl who savors the negative things in life. She thinks Dobie is an oaf and Dobie hates her bleak attitude. Yet, she keeps coming around.

Dobie finds he has to share his new date, a tender-hearted girl, with another boy on each date he takes her on.

Dobie names Thaila as his beneficiary on a life insurance policy, then becomes paranoid that she and Maynard are trying to kill him.

Dobie's teenage cousin Duncan moves in with the Gillises and tells Dobie's girlfriend that Dobie needs help for a drinking problem.

Maynard and Duncan accidentally lock Mr. Gillis in the meat freezer, and think they've killed him.

When a foreign student likes Dobie because he is simple-minded, Zelda decides to teach him how to improve his memory

Desperate for date money, Dobie figuratively sells his soul to Chatsworth and agrees to fix the outcome of a $5,000 charity raffle.