Bob and the gang are preparing for recycling. Farmer Pickles tells Travis to look after his old tea set, but when Spud and Travis are not around, they forget about the tea set and the gang almost recycles it.

Bob ends up stranded on a broken clock tower when Lofty gets scared by a bat and knocks the ladder down. All the while, Muck tells a joke about an elephant in the fridge and starts grumbling when Scoop tells him to let Dizzy get on with her mixing, claiming that "it's not fair". That night, he bumps into Lofty just as Scoop and Wendy find both machines so they can rescue Bob.