Tyler and Avery get involved with the senior prank, getting them expelled. Meanwhile, Chloe breaks- up with her boyfriend after he tells her he has other girlfriends.

Stan promises Avery that he will keep quiet while he watches a haunted movie on her laptop in her room, but at one stage yells "get out of the house". Hearing this Bennett thinks there is a burglar in the house, but Tyler jumps into the conversation and says the house is haunted. Bennett does not believe him, but gullible Ellen starts to show fear. Avery, Tyler, Chloe and Stan work together to make the house appear haunted to prove this. Meanwhile, Ellen and Bennett overhear Chloe laughing when they scream, so they try to take revenge on the children by scaring them. This works, but Stan talks to them and they run out the house.

After Tyler is offered a big opportunity, Avery puts Tyler to the test to see if he's ready. Later, Tyler gets in, but he has to practice another semester, which he doesn't like.

Stan develops a crush on a dog named Princess, but he has to figure out how to avoid Avery's schoolmate, who is the dog's owner. Meanwhile, Bennett and Ellen tries to keep their distance from the new neighbors. Later, Avery finds out that her new schoolmate is the neighbor's daughter.

Avery gets a bad grade in life skills class after not seeing a point in the class, even though her assignments are always perfect. Meanwhile, Stan visits the vet.

In a special Christmas episode, Stan reminds Chloe about the time he wanted them to get along on Christmas, by hiding the Christmas presents and forgets where. Avery, Tyler, and Chloe go to the park and try to dig holes to try and find it, but a family in the park mistakes Avery and Tyler for one of their relatives, and they have to lie to stay in the park for their Christmas reunion. Meanwhile, Bennett buys an unrepaired trampoline which he has trouble getting together, while Ellen tries to make a better Christmas meal.

Avery gets more into designing clothes and she wants to make some for other people, she makes a cute outfit for Lindsey and Avery wants to make one for Max, but Max doesn't want to wear any. Meanwhile, Stan tries to win over Princess by changing his look. After finding out that Ellen has been secretly putting Kale in his dinner, Bennett tries to make Ellen try new things, which she doesn't approve. Max tells Avery she doesn't like her designs, and Avery is devastated, she then argues with Max and Max tells her she needs a better friend and leaves. Later, Bennett and Ellen learn not to change people when they know about, Avery learns not to change people without them knowing, and Stan learns that Princess likes him after all, even without him trying to act rich.

Avery is worried about a recent dream of she and Karl dating. Stan helps Avery get over her dream, by inviting Karl over.