- After Greg is grounded for a week for careless driving, he gets in a dispute with his parents over their "exact words." Meanwhile, Bobby and Peter enter frogs in a frog-jumping contest.
- After doing Bobby a favor of driving him to the pet store to buy a frog for the frog jumping contest which has a $25 first prize, Greg is rewarded for his efforts by getting grounded - no use of the car for one week - as Bobby tells his parents of Greg almost getting into a car accident purely out of his own carelessness. Greg is annoyed enough about Bobby blabbing on him and being grounded in and of itself, but he is more depressed about the repercussions on his dating life, as there is no way he can now pick up the concert tickets for his already promised date with Rachel. Greg thinks he's found a loophole in the grounding as he drives a friend's car to pick up the tickets instead. Caught in this action, Greg is further grounded, which means that he will now miss his date with Rachel altogether. Feeling he is being cheated while still doing whatever he can to keep his date, Greg enters into a negotiation with his parents as to his punishment. Based on Greg's argument, Mike believes that there may be a better way for Greg to learn that what he did was wrong through another method. Meanwhile, Peter, when learning about the frog jumping contest, believes that a wild and free frog from Burke's Pond will do better than Bobby's $2 frog. Only the results of contest will tell for sure.—Huggo
- Thanks to his rubbernecking, Greg is involved in a near car accident. Bobby blabs, and Greg is prohibited from driving the car for a week. Greg finagles himself a loophole in Mike's directive and finds himself in deeper trouble. Greg reasons to his parents that he didn't follow the punishment because of its ambiguity, resulting in an "exact words" agreement when it comes to rules and chores. Greg soon learns that sometimes rules, punishments, etc. are meant to be ambiguous ... but only after he and girlfriend Rachel are swamped with frogs at the drive in!—Brian Rathjen <briguy_52732@yahoo.com>
- After doing Bobby (Mike Lookinland) a favor of driving him to the pet store to buy a frog for the frog jumping contest which has a $25 first prize, Greg (Barry Williams) is rewarded for his efforts by getting grounded, no use of the car for one week, when Bobby tells his parents of Greg almost getting into a car accident purely out of his own carelessness. Greg protests and tells Mike (Robert Reed) that being grounded from using the car for a week is not fair.
Greg is more depressed about the repercussions on his dating life. Since the places including the library and music store are now sold out of tickets, there is no way he can purchase the concert tickets for his already promised date with Rachel except at the stadium. Greg thinks he's found a loophole in the grounding as he drives a friend's car to pick up the tickets instead.
His ruse is discovered when his friend's mother crosses paths with Carol at the grocery store, and asks if the Bradys' car is broken, mentioning Greg was using the friend's car. Mike and Carol (Florence Henderson) call Greg out on it, and he states that he was complying with the letter of the punishment, by not driving "the family car." Caught in this action, Greg is further grounded for ten days and can only leave the house to go to school, which means that he might now miss his date with Rachel (Hope Sherwood) altogether. While on the date, Bobby's frog jumps on the pizza. And soon eventually, Bobby's frog dies and he has to get a new pet frog.
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