Truman is at a spelling bee, and is a bit nervous (funnily enough, while spelling "anxious") but wins. He then shows Helen and Alice his two prizes — a trophy and a virtual dictionary. While the girls walk off to meet with T.D. at the park, Truman goes off to show his prizes to his mother, while playing with his dictionary. However, Bob wakes up and chases Truman, growling.
Bob chases Truman into the library, where he tries to find a book called Escape from Mean Dog, but it's checked out. Bob chases Truman into the park, where he hides in a trash can, but then Bob hears Truman's dictionary and continues chasing him. Meanwhile, the girls and T.D. are playing frisbee, when Helen's phone rings. It's Mrs. Oatley, who's looking for Truman, so his friends search the neighbourhood. Helen finds him up a tree, then Bob chases her up said tree, where Truman explains that Bob "just went nuts".
Bob's owner goes to feed him, but finds him gone. Then, Alice and T.D. go to the park where Truman and Helen are and are chased by Bob, ending with both climbing up the same tree. The kids speculate over what provoked Bob, then Bob's owner arrives. However, he's too scared to reign Bob in, so he climbs the tree instead.
Helen calls Kazuo, but Bob steals his dog-snatching device, so Kazuo climbs the tree as well. Everyone considers phoning different people for help, and Kazuo eventually settles on ringing the Lorraines and sending Martha over (since she can talk to Bob directly).
Meanwhile, the pizza that Bob's owner ordered arrives, but the delivery guy is chased up the tree as well. Martha arrives, but is annoyed by a high-pitched noise and runs away. She phones Helen and reveals that the high-pitched sound must be what's annoying Bob, and that it's too high for humans to hear. The people in the tree wonder if the dictionary machine is what's making the noise, so Truman removes the batteries... and Bob stops being angry, so they go home.
This episode provides examples of
- Baby Talk: At the end, Bob's owner starts babbling to him in a baby voice.
- Continuity Nod: T.D. remembers the "Mutt Murmerer Guy", who's a dog trainer first mentioned in "Skits Behaves".
- Happy Dance: Truman does a little dance after winning the spelling bee.
- Here We Go Again!: Downplayed. The episode ends with Truman testing to see if the dictionary just had the battery put in wrongly, only to be proven wrong and Bob to chase everyone again. However, all that needs to happen is for Truman to take the battery out again.
- Inherently Funny Words: When wondering why Bob is angry, T.D. wonders if he's itchy, but then admits that he only suggested that because he thinks "itchy" is a funny word, which Alice agrees with.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: Truman wonders if the dictionary machine just had its batteries put in wrong... only for Bob to get angry again when he replaces them.
- Leitmotif: Music plays whenever Bob chases Truman.
- Oh, Crap!: Upon seeing the angry Bob, Truman makes a worried noise and makes a nervous expression.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Truman, after winning the spelling bee, says, "I! Am! The! Winner!".
- Running Gag:
- Truman's dictionary machine keeps defining things in impromptu moments.
- More and more people keep being sent up the tree.
- Questioning Title?: The title ends in a question mark.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Even Bob's owner runs up the tree instead of dealing with his wild dog, then later, even Kazuo does the same.
- Silly Simian: There's a book at the library specifically for escaping from monkeys.
- Speak in Unison:
- When Helen tells T.D. and Alice to watch out for Bob, T.D. says, "Bob?". Truman and Helen yell, "Bob!" in unison.
- When deciding who they could ring up to handle the situation, Kazuo says, "There is one person who could handle this situation, only...". Then, everyone else says, "Only?" in unison.
- Split-Screen Phone Call: Kazuo's phone call with Martha is shown on a split screen.
- Title Drop: One conversation involves the title being said numerous times:Martha: "I know what's bothering Bob."Helen: "It's Martha! She knows what's bothering Bob!"T.D.: "She does?"Alice: "What's bothering Bob?"Bob's owner: "What's bothering Bob?"Helen: "Yeah, what's bothering Bob?"
- Took a Level in Kindness: Bob's owner doesn't seem mean the way he was when he first moved in.
- Wasn't That Fun?: An example of the "they really mean it" variety — despite being scared when being chased around by Bob, once T.D. is out of danger he smiles and decides it was fun.
