After Joey storms off to his room, Slater tells Connie that if the show is cancelled an accounting will reveal that he embezzled $80,000. That same day, when Slater lashes out at Joey for reading a comic book instead of his new script, Joey refuses to go on with the show and threatens to tell everyone that B. was right about their being a bad influence on Joey, who might grow up to be a 'mug' like them if they stayed.

After they are fired, Duke privately admits to Sach that P. will not talk to him and tells Slater that he has no choice but to fire Sach and Duke. L.'s head while trying to duplicate a magic trick set up by Connie. His admiration for Sach eventually wanes, though, when Sach cracks a raw egg on B. Even though Sach's uncouth ways and unintended insults to the Taylors cause problems at the party, B. Taylor, where they will assuredly make fools of themselves and force P. likes Sach and Duke, Karl suggests that they invite the boys to a party at the home of the show's sponsor, soap tycoon B. Some time later, Slater, Connie and their cohort Karl try to think of a way to curtail Sach and Duke's influence over Joey. Joey, who is happy to have two friends and looks forward to going fishing with them at the end of the television season, is crestfallen when his greedy uncle announces that they have just signed a new contract to extend the show through the summer. They readily accept and soon are enjoying a large office and the charms of their voluptuous blonde secretary, Connie Forbes, who is Slater's girl friend. is impressed with the influence Sach and Joey have with Joey and offers them jobs as the company's 34th and 35th vice-presidents in charge of inter-relational activities.

The next day, Joey has a tantrum about the new script and refuses to perform until Sach and Duke look at it and enthusiastically say that his fans will love it. agrees that they have been wrong and invites Sach and Duke to the station to see the new show. Kelly, but Sach and Duke threaten to sue and loudly criticize him and Slater for not letting Joey be a normal boy. recognizes it as the plot of next week's script, Joey confesses that he ran away because he never has any fun or time off. and Joey's uncle, George Slater, arrive to take him home, Joey relates a dramatic tale of his 'kidnapping.' When P. At the police station, when a concerned P.

The boy acknowledges that he is Joey, but says that he was kidnapped by Sach and the others. Just then, two policemen arrive at the door looking for Joey. Kelly's cooking and scoffs at the new suit Sach bought. A short time later, the little boy insults Mrs. Morley has placed a call to police captain Wells to inform him that child star Joey Munroe is missing. Meanwhile, at the Consolidated Television Network, executive P. Although Duke is skeptical of the boy's story, he, Sach and friends Chuck and Myron use the money from Sach's piggybank to buy the boy some fresh clothes. Kelly, a devoted follower of a popular television serial, remarks that there was a similar story recently on the show, then proceeds to make the boy a hot meal. Kelly, their kindly landlady, is immediately sympathetic to the boy, who claims to be an abused orphan whose parents died in a blizzard. In New York City's Bowery, when Horace DeBussy 'Sach' Jones and his pal, Stanislaus 'Duke' Coveleskie, find a feisty little boy trying to steal their old jalopy, they take him to the boardinghouse where they live.

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