Mr. Oleson gets kidnapped by a pair of bumbling ex-convicts. When he learns that Mrs. Oleson refuses to pay their ransom demands, Nels thinks of a way to bring about his freedom, resulting in a large number of Walnut Grove residents also getting kidnapped by the same pair of men.

An overweight boy comes to school at Walnut Grove. The schoolkids pick on him because he is so heavy. Nancy persuades the boy to bully the other school children. The jokes of the school children get so bad that the obese boy decides to quit school. The school children then decide that enough is enough. They go over and apologize to him.