When Billy, Mandy and Grim go to the beach, Billy is swallowed by a whale known as Blubbery Joe, which also houses in her stomach Mister Geppetto and Pinocchio. Tired of not having a real son, Geppetto convinces Billy to be his "real son", while Pinocchio becomes increasingly jealous and is set on eating Billy's flesh to become a real boy and gain Geppetto's fatherly love and affection. Mandy and Grim search for Billy on board Captain Deadwood's ship, who is made of wood and who has been hunting Blubbery Joe for years. Billy, Geppetto and Pinocchio are expelled from Blubbery Joe's stomach, and as Billy needs to go home, Blubbery Joe accepts to be Geppetto's son.

When Billy and Irwin are yet again bullied by Sperg, they decide to play for the school's football team so they are not bullied anymore. During practice, Irwin shows a powerful arm and he becomes the starting quarterback, while Billy is relegated to being a punching bag. During their first game, Mandy directs the team into scoring their first ever touchdown, so Coach Kilgore gives her the job of captain cheerleader, taking it away from Mindy. With Irwin's arm and Mandy's cheerleading the team reaches the finals. Mindy tries different ways to get back at Mandy and recover her job, but she ends up affecting her own team, which eventually loses the game.

When Billy, Mandy and Grim go to a joke shop, they find the owner is former boy wizard Nigel Planter, who reveals that his powers diminished and was kicked out of Toadblatt's School of Sorcery. Planter steals Grim's scythe and heads to the school to exact revenge on those who wronged him. The guys seek the help of Planter's sworn enemy, Lord Moldybutt, to find the school. Grim recovers his scythe, and Moldybutt turns out to be in fact only a real estate agent, who informs Planter that he is the heir to the "Peanuts by Planter" farming company.