Mesmerized by musicals, Ned gets Taye Diggs and Rachel Bloom to help him create his own musical episode. High School Musical: The Musical: The Series stars Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett inspire Cornelius to find his voice. BETI and the CLODs stage a production number.

Obsessed with winning an award, Ned hosts his own awards show, with D'Arcy Carden and Oliver Hudson. Cornelius is beamed to the surface to take an acting class. The CLODs make a Western.