It's National Backwards Day, and every clown is performing something backward. In the process, Loonette learns how someone can accurately scracth an itch on one's back.

Molly refuses to eat her food, so it's up to Loonette to make Molly eat her food.

It's nap time for Molly, but she doesn't want to take a nap. Can Loonette find a way to get Molly to snooze, or will everyone fall asleep on her?

Loonette is in a swinging mood, practicing her golf, her tennis, and her baseball. She takes Molly to a swing at Granny Garbanzo's garden, where a couple of close calls prompt Major Bedhead to tell a story on playing safely.

Loonette is upset that her name isn't in a book of names. So she decides to change her name to Sarsaparilla, and also to change the look of the couch and herself. It proves absolutely unfabulous to Major Bedhead and to Granny Garbanzo, who has tried to spruce up her cart. Before long, both Granny and Loonette decide, ""Out with the new and in with the old.""

Loonette and Molly have fun making up rhymes and pictures. After a bath, Loonette reads a rhyming tale about a sheep who got stuck while climbing a mountain.

Loonette wants Molly to know that it's important to try new things. Molly sees for herself when she climbs a stair. And Loonette sees for herself when she ventures into Granny Garbanzo's cellar for a jar of jelly.

Loonette is intent on moving the couch to show Molly that they have no dust bunnies, but the couch is too big and heavy to move by herself. She tries to get help from Granny Garbanzo, but she has to rush off to Clowntown for a medicine to help an ailing Snicklefritz.

It's Molly's mirthday, and Loonette wants to give her a companion. Before she succeeds, Loonette tells Molly the story of how they met. But that raises a dilemma: Where do clowns come from? Loonette rushes out to the garden, where Granny Garbanzo tells all.

Loonette wants to teach Molly about school, but she doesn't know much about it herself. Granny Garbanzo and Major Bedhead provide some insight.

Not much is soft and cozy today. Molly hits a pillow viciously to try and soften it, but she gets carried away. A session of tae-clown-doe doesn't help, so Loonette must tell her in song to use words, not swinging hands, to express her feelings. They then have to teach Snicklefritz the same lesson.

It's the Longest Night of the Year, a big holiday in Clowntown, and that means Loonette and Molly get to stay up all night with the others. Everyone exchanges gifts at Granny Garbanzo's cart, learns to appreciate the entire year, and sees heart-felt thanks.