Michael and Norman get the chance to touch superstardom when their sock-eating plants Stanley and Fluffy win roles in the movie "The Revenge of the Swamp Monster," starring Arnold Snickersnacker.
While their family is away, Harold and Chester, a dog and a cat, are boarded at Chateau Bow-Wow where Chester becomes increasingly alarmed by the strange disappearance of one of them.
In 1946 Mandy feels trapped on her stern Aunt Bess's northern Ohio sheep farm, but as time goes on she finds herself getting involved with helping to tend the sheep.