When the house of Roger's annoying friend Ned Cauphee burns down, Doug thinks is his fault after telling Ned that ""he'll get his someday"". Theda offers to house him while Ned's house is fixed. When Ned arrives, Doug can't believe how well he behaves because he is nothing like that at school. Doug even starts to feel sympathetic towards Ned. But now Ned is off to visit Grandma Funnie with the rest of the Funnies and Doug is worried he'll ruin his grandmother's home.

Doug enters a school contest to paint a mural on a new school wall. But when he has to share the mural design with Roger, he's not sure he can do it with him because he thinks Roger can't really draw. Also, Bluffington is in a heat wave and the Sleech twins think it is their fault, so they set out to change the hot weather.