Adam Young, a fourteen-year-old genius, starts work as a high school science teacher. When the school bully, Jordan "Slab" Slabinski, threatens to beat him up and steals Adam's master key and wreaks havoc throughout the school. Now Adam must get creative in order to resolve the conflict and outwit the big oaf, or his first day on the job could be his last.

When Adam has trouble controlling his class, he creates a robot student, Arthur, to enforce the rules. When Mr. Tater finds out, he figuratively says that he is going to kill Adam. However, Arthur takes it literally and tries to destroy Tater, as one of his directives is to protect Adam. Adam and Derby must stop his creation, or he himself could be "terminated."

Adam learns that Echo is taking the same route home from school and is excited to walk with her. That is, until he learns he has detention duty and the only way to get out of it is to prevent anyone from getting in trouble...including Slab.

When Adam's "college buddy," a gorgeous twenty-three-year-old girl, comes to visit, Adam thinks she wants to be more than just friends. Derby finds out that she has a boyfriend and has to try to stop Adam from embarrassing himself on their date. Meanwhile, Echo convinces Slab to stage a non-violent protest to prevent Tater from getting rid of the vending machines while Slab gets her to bully people for him.

When a botched experiment in Adam's lab creates a gas making everyone tell the truth. When Tater finds out, he places Adam, Echo, Derby, Slab, and Ivy under quarantine. Derby makes Slab cry and then tries to apologize, but he keeps saying the wrong things. Adam tries to prevent any form of communication between him and Echo because he's afraid that if he talks to her, he will tell her how he feels about her. Ivy tries to get out of the school to get to the mall, but Dang keeps stopping her.

When Adam discovers that Slab is secretly taking ballet, he and Derby follow him to dance class hoping to blackmail him into behaving at school.

When no one is willing to sign up for the talent show, Mr. Tater offers a get out of detention free card as incentive to sign up. Because no one is getting detention, except for Derby, Tater starts to make new rules in order to give out detentions. When he sees Ivy texting in the hall, he tells her that there is a new rule against it. To avoid getting detention and having to sign up for the talent show, Ivy tries to use different forms of long distance communication, but Tater bans them all. Meanwhile, Adam convinces Echo to sing in the school talent show, but when he realizes she's a terrible singer, he tries to prevent her from taking the stage. Meanwhile, Derby searches for a talent to use in the show.

Adam is made faculty advisor for the school play "Romeo & Juliet", but when Tater casts Echo as Juliet, Adam tries to prevent her from kissing another Romeo.

When Adam's mom sells his prized "Mr. Marvelous" comic book to Slab, Adam dresses up as the superhero in an attempt to get it back.

Having had his career ruined by Derby, Preston Pickles takes a job as Finnegan High's new shop teacher. But while no one else will believe him, Derby is convinced that Preston is trying to get rid of him. Derby must find a way to restart Preston's career as an infomercial pitchman, or face the wrath of the Derbinator 3000.

Adam pretends to be a student at Finnegan High, so that he can join the Quiz Team and help Echo win a trophy. But when Slab takes Echo's spot on the team, Adam tries to force Slab off, so Echo can take his place.

The red carpet is rolled out for Finnegan's brightest stars to present their movies at the first annual Film Festival. With each student submitting a film, entries run the gamut from a sappy romantic comedy, to a 3D action thriller, to a Kung Fu extravaganza. May the best movie win!

In hopes of getting Derby to stop acting up, Adam and Principal Tater decide he needs some responsibility. They suggest Derby run for Student Council President. However, when Derby does them one better by campaigning for School Superintendent, Adam and Tater must stop him from winning or risk losing their jobs. Meanwhile, Echo helps Slab for his cousin's birthday.

Adam's robot from a previous episode, ARTHUR, returns after being defeated and recycling himself and reprogrammed himself to make android copies of all humans, but the person he is based on comes and he knocks him unconscious at the end. Meanwhile, Echo writes a report about the dangers of robotics, but chaos ensues when the robot Echo holds a paper about the wonders of robotics. But the Derby robot does not get replaced.

After Slab threatens Derby for tattling on him to Principal Tater, Derby fears retaliation and asks Tater for protection. Tater offers Derby a chance to pose as an exchange student from Britain, Simon. As Derby masquerades as Simon, Tater must convince Slab that Derby has actually moved away.

After Adam secretly tweaks Echo's science fair project, she wins first prize. With everyone thinking Echo is a genius, she is instantly graduated from Finnegan and offered a full scholarship to Great Northern University. Now Adam, with the help of Derby and Slab, must crash a frat party and convince Echo to come back to Finnegan.

Adam's neural-imaging unit goes on the fritz, accidentally switching the gang's personalities. In order for Adam, Echo, Derby, Slab, Ivy, and Dang to return to their own bodies, they must work together to fix the machine before Principal Tater discovers their secret.

Adam, Echo, Derby, Ivy and Slab tell the principal how they destroyed Tater's scooter in aseries of flashbacks. When Adam, Echo, Derby, Ivy, and Slab find themselves waiting outside Principal Tater's office together, they realize they're all in trouble for the same crime - wrecking Principal Tater's scooter. We hear their stories, which include hamsters being born, chickens being freed, and trips to Ireland.

When Adam coaches the Engineering Squad in a paper airplane competition he finds that Slab is a master at it and recruits him.Meanwhile Ivy is trying to look ugly so that the nerds will want to "obtain" her. With the paper airplane competition approaching, Finnegan High's Engineering Squad has no hope against rival Western High - that is, until Adam discovers Slab's untapped paper-folding genius. Adam must convince Slab to embrace his inner nerd and join the squad.

Echo gets "nurse" on her aptitude test, but when she decides to disbelieve it, Adam goes to great lengths to try to convince her that it is her ultimate profession; he becomes an alligator wrestler.

The school loses power and the students try to live without technology when they accept a dare from Principal Tater.

The class goes to a Magic Mansion. Adam tries to get rid of everyone with a "magic box" so he and Echo can be alone, and in a string of odd events later ends up trying to saw Echo in half. Meanwhile, Principal Tater tries to get a new membership card.

Adam accidentally gets Santa Claus's elves fired and must work to get them rehired, or feel their pint-sized wrath.

After freeing a Sasquawk, a giant chicken monster, Adam is kidnapped by the beast who loves him.