Ham enlists his family for help in finding a speech for his Public Speaking Elective. Judy, Beef, and Honeybee pitch competing stories for Ham to select from and end up secretly drawing from Top Gun, Good Will Hunting, and The Matrix in the process.

When Cheesecake gets evicted from his trailer but finds a dangerous job on a crabbing boat, Wolf and Honeybee struggle to get him a local job and to teach him interview skills. Meanwhile, Beef tries to help bring business to Carissa's failing coffee hut.

As the Tobin family receives their annual oil dividend checks for living in Alaska, they all have different approaches on how to spend them. Honeybee and Wolf attempt to create a homemade gym in their guest house, and Beef, Moon, and Dirt scavenge junk yards looking for an extravagant object to buy. Meanwhile, Judy coaches the local hockey team in hopes of attracting their audience to her one-woman show protesting the dividends.

Out of concern for Beef's health, the kids push him to see a doctor. Meanwhile, a grave marked "Wife" pushes Honeybee, Judy, and Aunt Dirt into researching the corpse's life.

After Carissa’s friends tell Beef he needs to be more romantic, he takes her on a full day of consecutive dates. Honeybee and Judy plan their second annual opening of “The Tobin Family Pool”.