Dennis thinks that his chubby girlfriend will dump him when she loses weight.

When the boys take a trip to the homeless shelter on Thanksgiving, Dennis is reunited with his deadbeat father, Jack. Jack moves in with the boys, but soon they are all sick of him, and try to get him and his stripper girlfriend back together, so he will move back out.

The boys decide to turn Verne into a professional boxer after he gets into a fight with another little person in a club.