Marshall loses his comic touch when he becomes "possessed" by a video game. His only hope for salvation: exorcism by the cleric of comedy, Father Guido Sarducci.
Lauren talks Patty into joining the Weemawee girls football team. Coached by a gung-ho Army vet and a women's libber who bristles at the slightest slight.
Marshall tries to prove to Lauren that she loves him by hooking her up to his science-fair project, a "love detector," but the machine ends up short-circuiting every romance in school.
Vinnie's campaign to become school mascot is sabotaged at every turn by an unknown mastermind, so Patty and Lauren play Woodward and Bernstein to break the scandal.
Johnny's talent for hitting home runs rockets him to stardom on the Weemawee baseball team and gets him a scouting visit by the Los Angeles Dodgers' Steve Sax.
Lauren thinks she and Patty have finally been accepted by the "in" crowd, but the real reason for their sudden popularity is something else - and Patty knows what it is.