Dorothy Konrad

While their fathers secretly trail them, young Albert Ingalls and Andy Garvey set off to prove their mettle as men by accepting a challenge to live by their wits during a week-long, overland walk from Walnut Grove to Sleepy Eye and back.

Lucy tries to join Viv's Quartet and hires a singing tutor to teach her how to sing.

When Bub has to go out of town for a few days, Steve asks Mike to call an agency and hire a maid. Mike asks Robbie to make the call, and Robbie asks Chip to make the call. Chip calls an agency but it is a marriage agency who matches people.

Uncle Joe tells two plump ladies that Shady Rest is a reducing farm, where their loss is the management's gain.

Gidget and Larue join the screaming fans to welcome the Dingbats, Herbie and Arthur. When John says that the teenage adulation of the entertainers is a revolt against their parents, Gidget determines to test if this is so. By the time she reaches the estate where the Dingbats are hiding, many of her friends know where they are. When Gidget hears Arthur on TV, pleading with his fans to give him one quiet day so he can be married, she decides to warn him that because of her, this is impossible. She gets through the guard at the estate, but at first, doesn't recognize Herbie. Meanwhile, mobs of fans gather outside. Then Herbie realizes Gidget didn't recognize him without his wig. When the screaming fans follow their idols' limousine, carrying Gidget and Larue, dressed in the Dingbats' outfits, Arthur is able to proceed with his wedding in peace. Discussing the happy outcome with her father, Gidget feels he is the world's greatest, since Russ convinces her that everyone, young or old, is rebelling against something.