Francis tells Nate that Artur's his competition. When Nate's at school, he sees Artur sucking up to Mr. Galvin, Nate's science teacher, and calls Artur the biggest suck-up in P.S. 38. After Nate sees Gina, Nate's arch enemy, sucking up to Mrs. Godfrey, Nate's social studies teacher, he (Nate) drops Artur down to second and also says that Gina's ahead. Nate also says that the teachers always falling for the sucking up bugs him and thinks that they are made for each other and calls them the perfect couple because they both get on the honor roll, they both annoy Nate, and they never get in trouble. The problem is that Artur goes out with Jenny, Nate's crush, and Nate thinks he is a better match for Jenny than Artur and says that he has known her longer. Nate thinks of a way to convince Artur to go out with Gina and dump Jenny so Nate can go out with Jenny. Nate opens his locker while saying that he will "Sweep Jenny off her feet" when random junk flies out leaving Nate on his back, which makes him a laughingstock. Jenny comes in and calls Nate a slob and Artur suggests that if Nate cleans his locker, it will not be messy. He shoves all the junk back in his locker, while saying that he has to avoid getting detention so he will be free after school to sell the warm fuzzies. He starts sucking up to the teachers to get on their good side. But during the last period of school, Science, his mind wanders to the prize skateboard and he starts doodling in his notebook. Gina peers over his shoulder and tells Mr Galvin that Nate was drawing. Nate tries to explain the skateboard, but Mr Galvin says that he would like to see Nate in the hallway. In the hallway, Mr Galvin mentions that he was also once a Timber scout and says that he will let Nate off the hook and not give Nate detention. After school, Nate tries to get Artur to like Gina by mentioning that she is smart. Artur soon says goodbye and mentioned that he would spend the afternoon sailing, which makes Nate realize that he could get a head-start selling wall hangings. He sprints home, changes into his uniform, and goes out to sell the warm fuzzies. As he heads to his next-door neighbor Mr Eustis's house, he is jumped on by Spitsy, Mr Eustis's moronic dog.