Jenna's Bedtime Blues

Summary
Jenna is reluctant to go to Muffy's annual slumber party because she still wets the bed. She decides to wear a pull-up to bed, but what if the other girls find out?

Plot
All the girls in class are doing nice things for Muffy because they are trying to get invited to one of her girls-only slumber parties at her family's mansion. Buster thought Muffy must planning something girly and then Arthur told him about an arcade ice machine and then Buster decides that wants to come but Francine  reminds him that it's for girls only Buster begs Francine to invite him. Jenna receives an invitation because Francine, who is Muffy's best friend, managed to convince her to invite her, but Jenna is worried and it would be disaster.

-- Jenna's bedtime blues--

One day, while playing badminton with Francine, she tells Francine that she thought that Muffy didn't like her that much, but Francine told her that Muffy needs to get to know her more. Jenna said that she had other plans, but then Francine told her the party is at night, and then Jenna said, "Well, maybe I didn't want to go to her stupid party in the first place!", and stormed away.

When Jenna goes back to her locker, she heard the other kids spreading rumors about her, but Buster knows why she won't go to the party: it takes place at night, and also thinks she is an alien crime-fighter in disguise. Later, Jenna appears and tells everyone that the rumors they've been spreading about her are false, after Buster sees the ink on her hands, Jenna simply said that her pen broke, and when Francine asks if she was going to the party, she said, "Yeah... sure i can't wait."

Then at home that same night, she talks to her father, saying that she feels doomed after seeing her alarm. After her father puts on her alarm, than says calmly that she will not be teased "forever". Then Jenna says if there are really others, but she hasn't meet any of them, but her father says that she has met them, but like her they worried about being teased and they keep it a secret. Then she says; "I had done so many great things, but I still wet the bed." Then he tells she does it time to time and wearing the alarm is helping her improve.But she says if leaves it home she has wear an old diaper and be laughed even more. But her father reminds her it is not a diaper it is Pull-Up. But fortunately, her father understands her problem, as he himself also wet the bed when he was a kid and didn't believe his father when he that he will grow it, but he and hopes that Jenna will do the same thing and then Jenna asks when. After the nightmare when Jenna was awarded for downhill skiing and everyone found out her secret, after hearing her alarm go off Jenna wakes and feels her bed, and decided to go to the party.

When the night of the sleepover comes, her father tells Jenna that she can always call him to come pick her up, but she says she can't. She decides that if she can hide the pull-up in her pillow, she can put on when everyone is asleep. Jenna enjoys the party, but spends most of her time in the bathroom. But when it came time to reveal secrets, she lied and said she loves George, but the next morning, even though she made it throughout the whole night without any bed-wetting and having to go to the bathroom many times and one nightmare. In the morning, Muffy hits Jenna on the face with her pillow the girls have a pillow fight, but Jenna's pull up falls out of the pillow. She teased that which pull up it is but the girls were all understanding then Francine ask about her behavior and she told the truth to Francine that she wets the bed. Francine understands, as she used to wet the bed as well.

The next day in class, when Jenna notices that George has been acting differently, Francine assures her that her secret will not pass outside the girls, but then George shyly gives Jenna a flower, saying that his ventriloquist dummy, Wally, wanted to give it to her and to think she worried about her real secret getting out.

Major characters

 * Jenna

Minor characters

 * Arthur
 * Bailey
 * Binky
 * Brain
 * Buster
 * Dr. Doomsday
 * Fern
 * Francine
 * George
 * Wally
 * Mr. Morgan
 * Muffy
 * Prunella
 * Radioactive Squid Woman
 * Mr. Ratburn
 * Scottish Dog
 * Sue Ellen

Background characters

 * 3rd Grade Male Cat
 * Maria

Mentioned characters

 * Jenna's grandfather
 * Fern's cousin

Cultural references

 * The puppets in "Can You Say P?" look similar to the ones in , which also aired on PBS and was produced by Cinar, like.
 * Dr. Doomsday is a parody of, but the name is also a parody of both "" and "".
 * The girls re-enact the sinking of the .

Episode connections

 * Jenna was able to go to Fern's Slumber Party with no problem, which means this episode is set chronologically before then.
 * jenna mention athele of the award that she got in the good sport

Errors

 * When Jenna was sitting on the water bed, she was still wearing her slippers.
 * Before the pillow fight, Fern and her sleeping bag are missing from the floor.

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