Dobie names Thaila as his beneficiary on a life insurance policy, then becomes paranoid that she and Maynard are trying to kill him. Mrs. Gillis's cousin Virgil visits and gets the Gillises to ...

Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard. Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Father's Day contest ...