After accidentally destroying Kelly's boat, Bucket and Skinner must get jobs to raise money and fix it. Piper is able to get them jobs at Taco, Taco, Taco dressed in costumes for advertisement. Meanwhile, Kelly begins to work as a lifeguard with Aloe and finds him a bit weird.

Due to a paper mix up after a test, Bucket and Skinner are accidentally put in a gifted class. Bucket decides to tell the teacher that gave them the test about the problem, but he and Skinner learn from Piper that students in gifted classes get out of school at noon. So now they decide to stay in the class. Aloe finds out and tells their teacher that they built an engine and the teacher suggests they display it at the science fair. So now the boys have to try to make one to stay in the class. Meanwhile, Piper gets a B on a test and gets angry at the teacher and attempts to sue him but Kelly steps in to defend him.

Bucket auditions for the lead in the school musical so he can kiss Kelly while Skinner auditions to be a talking tree. Aloe ends up getting Bucket's part instead due to his father making a large donation to the theatre. Meanwhile, Three Pieces agrees to help Piper sound good singing in the musical using voice enhancement technology.

Sara Bareilles returns to her hometown of Pacific Bluffs (where Bucket and Skinner live) to hold a song writing contest. The winning song will be featured on Sara's next album. Bucket & Skinner enter the contest and win, but when Bucket realizes he accidentally submitted the love song called Lady Brown Hair (brown hair, referring to Kelly when it was really supposed to be "Soap" the soap song). Bucket and Skinner must scramble to get the song back from Sara. Piper is forced to be nice to Bucket for a week, so she helps, but when she has one last step and plan, her time is up. (Note: this is the episode where Bucket has decided to admit his feelings for Kelly).

Skinner gets detention on a major surfing day, and Bucket tries to get detention also, only to get thanked every time. Kelly accidentally trips and rips a teacher's vest, getting her detention. Bucket gets detention, but with the nasty nurse supervising, they have to get out. Meanwhile, Aloe gets hit on the head with a surfboard and thinks that he is Sven's assistant so Sven decides to boss him around for a while until he gets hit with another surfboard, and Piper tries to get a legitimate excuse for gym class but after being scared by the nurse, she loses her street cred and must find a way to get it back.

Aloe talks Bucket into being his wingman on a double date with two seniors, but the partnership quickly turns into a battle of wills as the guys try to one-up each other to impress the girls. Piper, banned from the prestigious spelling bee for her past aggressive behavior, ropes Skinner into competing for her.

Kelly has won concert tickets and offers to take Bucket & Skinner, under the condition they babysit for Piper. The boys agree to babysit but quickly realize this job is way more than they bargained for.

The boys are feeling down since Skinner has an ear infection preventing him from surfing, and Bucket is annoyed that Blake & Kelly's relationship is going so well. To get their minds off their troubles the guys venture into the dating world. Before they know it both they each meet a girl they like, but the guys soon realize they're dating the same girl, CJ (Samantha Boscarino). Since neither one wants to give up their dates the boys decide to hold a date-off and see which guy the girl picks.

Absent: George Back as Three Pieces

Talent show rehearsal for their magic act goes awry when Bucket and Skinner accidentally handcuff themselves to Kelly. Unable to free themselves, the three do their best to make it through Kelly's stuffy dinner party with her boyfriend's parents without revealing anything is wrong. Also, when Piper is promoted to a senior high science class, she discovers Aloe is her new lab partner.

Bucket and Skinner's latest plan to achieve epic status requires them to spend the whole night in the town's legendary haunted house. They immediately face one terrifying chill after another, until they discover that a jealous Aloe is behind the whole thing. But when the scares continue even after Aloe's plan is revealed, all the guys face their fear that the house may actually be haunted.

Note: This episode was originally scheduled to air on October 29, 2011.
This episode premiered on October 27, 2012 on Nickelodeon (UK & Ireland).

Bucket & Skinner head to a rock festival on the wrong bus and accidentally enter a military facility. Elsewhere, Kelly's prom plans go astray when her old childhood pal shows up and Piper ruins her dress.

Note: This 1 hour special aired as part of "Just Jennette Night" along with new episodes of iCarly and Victorious, all featuring Jennette McCurdy. Also Ashley Argota and Matt Shively get to work together again since they last worked on True Jackson VP. It was the final episode to premiere on Nickelodeon in the United States.

Bucket is upset because this Christmas in Pacific Bluffs it won't have any snow, but after a Christmas Carol parody, he learns the true meaning of Christmas.

Note 1: Episodes 19–26 would air on TeenNick in the United States. This episode was originally scheduled to air on December 17, 2011^[23] on Nickelodeon.

Bucket recognizes his new classmate as a girl from camp who was obsessed with him, and he fears she now wants revenge.

Note 1: This episode was originally scheduled to air on October 14, 2011.

A girl doesn't like Aloe and likes Bucket, so Aloe starts acting like Bucket.

Bucket's crippling fear of chickens embarrasses him when one gets loose at school and he totally loses his cool in front of Kelly. In an attempt to prove he isn't a wimp, he and Skinner stage a fake robbery at the surf shop. Things, however, don't go according to plan.

Bucket and Skinner join Kelly's cheerleading squad when they learn the team is competing for a trip to Regionals in Hawaii. But when they accidentally get most of the squad sick with food poisoning, they must convince rival Aloe to fill-in and save the team. After losing her smart phone, Piper can't stay on top of her busy schedule, and soon embraces the life of a slacker.

After Bucket and Skinner's gym teacher breaks up with her boyfriend, she is mean to the kids, so Bucket and Skinner decide to fix her up with a fantastic boyfriend named Rodolfo.

Bucket and Skinner want to stop a big bully.

Bucket and Skinner must take care of a seal.