When Trevor is late getting an essay written for school, he begs Ron to help him. Ron agrees, but then gets carried away and ends up writing the paper himself. When Trevor's teacher submits the paper to a citywide essay contest, and Rachel brags about the honor, the Aimeses decide that the best way to save face is to keep quiet - and hope Trevor loses. Meanwhile, Francine brings in a painting of a clown to spruce up the reception area, not realizing that Bruce as a morbid fear of clowns.

Ron gets angry at Rachel for opening his mail and tells her to respect his privacy. But when Rachel refuses to tell Ron her computer password, he becomes obsessed with finding out what she does on the internet. Ron and Bruce surf the Internet at the office and find someone who appears to be Rachel in a chat room called ""I'll Take Romance."" Fearing his wife is bored with their marriage, Ron tries to spice things up by recreating the night they met. When Rachel tells Ron that she was not surfing the net, they both realize it must have been Trevor using her password, and set out to teach him a lesson about the dangers of playing around on the information superhighway.