Jack comes up with the perfect new act to try to increase attendance at the carnival. Jack's away for the day and Eddy has signed for a shipment of corn brooms.
Stripes becomes obsessed with collecting bubble gum wrappers for a contest which boasts a fabulous prize. Stripes runs away after Jack makes an offhand remark about a certain replaceable tiger.
When Marvin's old tape machine breaks, he promises his friends that he'll find them a live band for their show. Jack wants to make a television commercial for the carnival and asks Eddy to shoot it.
While Stripes is having his cage repaired after an unfortunate accident, Marvin invites him to be his roommate. Stripes has a toothache but is too afraid to go to the dentist, so his friends devise a way to get the dentist to come to him.
Eddy tells a story that leaves his friends with the wrong idea that his grandmother is a stern and imposing figure. Everyone's been working very hard so Jack gives them a day off.
Marvin is asked to do a television commercial for a breakfast cereal and the whole carnival gets swept up in the excitement. Stripes makes disparaging remarks about the junky prizes contained in Jack's latest carnival game, the Iron Claw Machine.
Elizabeth is so terrified of the haunted house that she refuses to go anywhere near it. While running an errand in town, Eddy accidentally breaks a coin operated ride.
Elizabeth doesn't like to try anything new, but her friends talk her into trying out Jack's new hot air balloon. The carnival has a mysterious new food vendor, Mr. P. Nutty. He never says a word and never takes off his peanut costume.
