After Martha explains that the vocab words are about travel, she and Danny are seen in the attic, finding suitcases for a trip. Martha wishes she could come along as well, but they will be flying, and dogs aren't allowed on planes. Later, Helen, Martha, Alice, T.D., and Truman are talking about their summer plans (with Martha jealously sighing) and Helen reveals the trip is to Montana. Then, she reveals that Martha and Skits are coming with them after all, but they'll be riding in the cargo hold, which scares Martha.
Later, she talks to Rinty, John, Burt, Francois, and Cisco about her problem, and they reveal that they've ridden in cargo holds before, but slept through it. On the way to the airport, Helen explains that she will give Martha and Skits sleeping pills.
However, when Martha meets a cat who claims he isn't taking a pill, she refuses to take hers, belatedly realising that the cat isn't flying in the cargo hold due to his size. Martha is very scared and sad in the cargo hold, but then she hears the barking of another scared dog. She tries to escape to find this dog, but can't until she tries using a suitcase label but accidentally opens the suitcase, the clothes fly out and knock something over, which knocks over another suitcase, which knocks over a box, which knocks over another box full of marbles, and a marble bounces on the cage, letting her out.
She finds the dog, who, like her, was given a pill but refused to take it. Then, turbulence wakes up all the dogs who did take pills, but luckily, Martha has gotten over her fears and reassures them all. Then, the plane lands, and the Lorraines embark, as does the cat, who is cranky due to having been scared of the turbulence.
This episode provides examples of
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal:
- When Martha imagines being in Hawaii, England, and Mexico, she imagines herself in a lei, cap, and sombrero respectively.
- Helen once puts a cowboy hat on Skits.
- Ahem: In the intro, the flight attendant clears her throat when Martha is not allowed to be with the passengers.
- Animal Jingoism: Downplayed. The cat teases Martha but isn't too mean to her.
- Dogs Love Fire Hydrants: Downplayed. Martha lists sniffing the fire hydrant as an upside to staying in Wagstaff City, before admitting it smells just the same as usual.
- Face Your Fears: Martha, due to opting out of her sleeping pill, has to brave the cargo hold, as does another dog.
- Fantasy Sequence:
- Martha imagines herself at the beginning going to Hawaii, England, and Mexico.
- Then, she imagines being dumped in the cargo hold.
- Green-Eyed Monster:
- When Helen and her friends all mention they'll be travelling for their vacations, Martha is jealous because she thinks she's not going to Montana with the Lorraines.
- When Martha is put in the cargo hold (along with Skits, but he took a sleeping pill), she's jealous of the cat who gets to fly with the passengers.
- Hula and Luaus: Martha imagines Hawaii as a beach-y place in which she wears a lei.
- "I Can't Look!" Gesture: At one point in the hold, Martha puts her paws over her eyes.
- I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham: Discussed when Truman asks Martha how she knows she wouldn't like riding in the cargo hold if she's never done it before. Martha points out that some things can be feared without having done them before, like falling into a volcano.
- Imagine Spot: Martha briefly imagines the cat living it up with the passengers.
- Irony: The cat was scared of the turbulence, despite having teased Martha for being scared earlier.
- Joke and Receive: Martha jokingly asks her friends if they were asleep during their plane rides when they say they can't remember. It turns out they were.
- No Animals Allowed: The reason Martha and Skits have to be in the cargo hold is because any animal larger than a housecat is not allowed with the passengers.
- Obviously Not Fine: Martha denies being scared to the cat despite looking and sounding scared.
- Split Screen: At one point, Helen and Martha in the car are shown on a split screen with Martha in her cage.
- Staircase Tumble: In Martha's imagination, she gets flung down some stairs in a dog cage.
- Stock Animal Diet: Martha imagines the cat being served cream.
- Vacation Episode: Downplayed — the episode is about the Lorraines (except Jake, who's left with a babysitter) preparing for a trip to Montana, but we only see them there at the last scene.
- You Can Talk?: At the end, two flight attendants hear Martha speak and say, "Huh?!".
