Cory, Meena, and Newt finally get their first gig at a local juice parlor. Meena’s father, Ambassador Paroom, decides to stop buy and watch the band perform. Meena becomes nervous, and in order to make her less nervous and to congratulate her, Cory buys her a present that comes from Bahavia. It turns out to be a morchaca, which is rumored in Bahavia to give people a curse. After touching it, Meena becomes plagued with bad luck, and backs out of the show. Now Cory and Newt must find a way to convince her to do the show.

Newt meets the new girl in school, Jessica, and develops a crush on her. Lucky for Newt, she likes him. When Jessica asks Newt out on a date, Newt accepts. However, Newt doesn't feel like he can go through with it since Jessica is smart, and he is not. With a little help from Stickler, Cory and Meena use a special ear piece to talk to Newt and they tell him what to say. Meanwhile, the President's mother comes for a visit and redecorates the Oval Office. In order to keep her out of the office, the President makes Victor keep her distracted, which results in a cooking contest between them.

Cory manages to get Vince Valentine, a music executive, to come to the Liberry to watch DC3. Thinking they need to sound as good as they can, Cory decides to hold auditions for a keyboard player. At the end of the auditions, only Stickler is good enough to join the band, which everyone detests at first. After they let him join, he gives them bracelets as a thank you. However, Cory's is a special bracelet that sucks out all of his rhythm! Since Cory can no longer play the drums, Meena and Newt ask him not to go to the performance so they have a chance of getting a record deal. It turns out that this is all a plan by Stickler, for him to become famous instead of Cory!

Cory decides to blow off a play date with Sophie to go to the Liberry with Newt and Meena to mingle. Before he goes, Sophie sees him dancing to the Kung Fu Kats theme song and saves it to her computer. When she finds him at the Liberry, she sends the video to him as blackmail, saying that unless he can hang out with the big kids, she will send the video to everyone. Sophie then gets rid of the three new friends they made, and makes them do stuff against there will, so Cory, Newt, and Meena decide to make Sophie hate being with the big kids.