Brendon Small, an ambitious eight-year-old filmmaker, shoots movies in his basement with his two best friends, while coming to terms with adolescence, life, and relationships.
Cast: Brendon Small, H. Jon Benjamin, Melissa Bardin Galsky, Ron Lynch, Janine Ditullio
After the Brendon, Jason and Melissa's latest movie is berated in a focus group, the kids begin wondering when they lost their passion for filmmaking. They return to their roots and and try to inspire themselves by watching the first film they ever made, only to find that they never created an ending.
Brendon, Jason and Melissa are assigned a family tree project in school. Meanwhile, when Coach McGuirk's discount laser eye surgery somehow goes wrong, he becomes an occasionally blind possible prophet.
Laid up with a leg injury, Brendon spies on his new neighbor, Raymond Burley, who quite possibly may be involved in some potentially suspicious behavior. Coach McGuirk finds a life-changing pamphlet that leads him to bartending school.
Brendon's lucky goal ruins the record of the other team's uptight star goalie, Cho, who then moves in for revenge. Cho's team's choice of game music brings back some long-repressed memories for McGuirk.
Cheating-- McGuirk's got to pass his driving exam. Fat chance. He coerces Melissa into helping him; and Brendon, in addition to being blackmailed by classmates to steal the answers to the test, has to deal with Jason's crush on the new girl Penny, who's just a big of an oddball as Jason. Life sucks when you're eight sometimes.
Finding a lost puppy threatens to break up Brendon, Jason and Melissa's friendship -- until they realize how much he sucks.
Brendon gets in trouble for making a movie about a foul-mouthed robot, and Paula gets out the curse jar. Meanwhile, Melissa gets jealous when her dad, Erik, wants to date a woman from his journal writing class.
Brendon, Melissa and Jason do a Hitchcock film for a contest at the local video store. And McGuirk has the perfect blonde bombshell -- a waitress at the local diner that he's intent on picking up.
A disillusioned Brendon abandons his unfinished rock opera to join the fun-sounding Skunk Scouts, while Jason and Melissa are left to attract investors for CGI shots
Brendon begins writing reviews for a movie Web site called movie-weiner-or- winner.com and begins offering his opinion about everything. Meanwhile, Coach McGuirk wreaks havoc at school because he's finally got a friend "on the inside."
Brendon tries to break up with Fenton; Paula tries to break up with her new boyfriend; McGuirk's chest tries to break up with McGuirk.
Brendon directs the school play. Hilarity ensues. McGuirk gets to realize his lifelong dream of driving a car onstage.
Brendon, Jason and Melissa attend Camp Campingston Falls for the summer, home to stifling heat and crappy music counselors. Meanwhile, McGuirk's camping trip with The Crywalkers, a sensitive men's group, turns out to be not entirely about the free food.