Eddies friends have new walkie talkie's and they start pretending to be Martians. Meanwhile, Herman is playing with his new ham radio set pestering people world wide and hears the kids pretending. He believes that they are really spacemen and the next day he drags Grandpa in on it.

Herman insults Igor on take a pet to school day for Eddie so Grandpa changes into a bat to go in his place. Eddie then trades his grandpa for a squirrel.