Oliver Cross, who's used to being the most popular student at Stansfield Academy, has to deal with a new roomate, transfer student Chris Hilton, who instantly becomes a favorite of all the guys who always looked up to Oliver. Oliver starts to resent Chris suddenly being the object of everyone's attention. Meanwhile, Stansfield goes coed, with one of the new female students being Dinah McGee, grand-daughter of the headmaster.

Chris looks forward to a visit from his parents, who are in South Africa filming a documentary. X, anxious about pleasing his father (El Jefe), asks Chris and Cross to help him become a star student in exchange for X helping them to clean their room, otherwise known as ""the Jungle.""

Cross takes it to heart when Dinah tells him off after falling for another one of his scams. In an effort to show her he's not such a bad guy, Cross invites Dinah's boyfriend to Stansfield's Saturday night dance, not knowing the two had broken up and Dinah didn't want to see him.