Ronald's friend Reginald is visiting weeks after the events of the previous episode, and although their classmates have forgotten about it by now, Ronald is still embarrassed over the news article which claimed he "plays" with action figures. Reginald suggests that Ronald start his own newspaper, with help from Reginald's cousin, who works for the Wagstaff City news.
Thus, he prints his newspaper and calls it the Ronald Report. When Helen, Martha, and Carolina discover it and Helen reads that it has an article about a basement fire, Carolina fears that it'll put the Carolina Town Crier out of business. She decides that they'll need a big story to increase their sales, and Martha decides to find one. T.D. comes over and looks for inspiration in a paper called Wacky News, but Helen thinks that its stories are made up. Then, he suggests making an article about a giant pumpkin he saw.
On a street corner, Ronald and Carolina are selling their newspapers and arguing. Then, Martha comes and tells them (along with Reginald, whose last name is revealed to be Steinglass) about the giant pumpkin. Then, Carolina leaves with Martha, while Ronald tells Reginald to do research at the Wagstaff City Department of Agriculture.
Carolina is unconfident when Martha shows her that her source is T.D., but he insists he's reliable, and explains that he and C.K. found it on C.K.'s farm and it must have weighed a ton. Carolina is more confident now and gives T.D. some money, then she begins researching pumpkins online. Then, Ronald phones her and reveals that Reginald discovered that the world's largest pumpkin weighs 1,502 lbs. She asks why he doesn't do his research online, and Reginald starts ranting about the Internet being unreliable, until T.D. and Martha call up. They say that T.D. was wrong and it only weighs two hundred pounds. However, T.D. claims that there is other giant produce on the farm, which Carolina shares with the teenage boys. They gather that T.D. is the source since they know his uncle is a farmer, and they plan to get the story before Carolina.
They show up at the farm, pretending that they're doing a school report on giant pumpkins. C.K. shows them the pumpkin, which he's nicknamed "Big Bonnie". Afterwards, Ronald comes up with a plan to put the Carolina Town Crier out of business. Martha then answers the phone, and it's an anonymous caller claiming to have a tip for the Town Crier, and to be one of several giants living in the woods near C.K.'s farm.
T.D., thinking that the giants must have grown the large vegetables, tells Carolina and he, she, and Martha arrive on C.K.'s farm. He shows them his crops, including "Big Bonnie", then they see what looks like giant footprints. They take a photo, and it gets put in the Carolina Town Crier, then a real news crew comes to interview Carolina. However, then, Ronald and Reginald reveal that the footprints are fake and Reginald's brother made them with his lawnmower. Martha tells Carolina that it was all a lie, and Carolina tells the TV reporter, but T.D. gives her another story: that T.D.
This episode provides examples of
- Absurdly Elderly Mother: The newspaper T.D. reads involves a woman giving birth at one hundred years old. Perhaps justified, since Helen thinks that all that paper's stories are made up.
- Again with Feeling: When Helen reads the name of Carolina’s new rival paper, Carolina repeats it incredulously.Carolina: The Ronald Report?!
- Alliterative Name: Reginald's brother is named Simon Steinglass.
- Alliterative Title: Ronald's newspaper is called the Ronald Report.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: When C.K. asks Ronald and Reginald what class their alleged school project is for, Ronald claims it's history, while Reginald claims it's biology. Ronald then claims that it's a new class called "biology-history", that combines both.
- Call-Back: What kickstarts the plot is that Carolina feels threatened by Ronald's newspaper, which he made due to being embarrassed from the events of the last episode, "Martha: Deadline Doggie."
- Comically Missing the Point: When T.D. is reading to Martha from Wacky News, Helen says, "How about Boy Fails Math Due to Reading Newspaper to Dog Instead of Doing His Homework?" T.D. doesn't seem to realize that she was suggesting that would happen to him, and just says, "Meh, not a very catchy title."
- Death Glare: Carolina glares at Martha for finding Ronald's article "gripping."
- Didn't Think This Through: T.D. really didn’t take any time to stop and think A) if giants are even real in the first place or B) if they are, how exactly they would be able to call Martha’s house. Instead, he immediately believes the anonymous caller and goes to tell Carolina the breaking news.
- Dork in a Sweater: Reginald wears a sweater vest and speaks in Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
- Embarrassment Plot: Downplayed. Embarrassment doesn't take up most of the plot, but it starts it, with Ronald starting his newspaper because he's still embarrassed by the article in Carolina's.
- Evil Laugh: Ronald and Reginald laugh meanly whenever they talk about their plans to put Carolina's newspaper out of business.
- Flashback: We see a scene of T.D. and C.K. discovering the pumpkin.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Downplayed for the Steinglass brothers, Reginald and Simon. They're not evil, but they are antagonists, wanting to take Carolina's newspaper out of business, and both of them wear glasses.
- Giant Footprint Reveal: Carolina, T.D., and Martha find giant footprints in C.K.’s field. It turns out that they were made by Ronald and Reginald (with the help of Reginald’s older brother) to convince the group that there are giants living in Wagstaff.
- Intrepid Reporter: Martha takes on this role again in this episode, with added help for T.D.
- It's All My Fault: Martha blames herself for giving Carolina false information. Carolina, however, assures her that it wasn't Martha's fault; it was Ronald and the Steinglass brothers' fault for lying.
- I Resemble That Remark!: Carolina is surprised and doubtful that T.D. is Martha’s “reliable source” as T.D. sits reading his Weekly Wacky News paper with chocolate ice cream all over his face.
- I've Heard of That — What Is It?: When Carolina calls T.D. an unreliable source, he says, "What?! I'm a great source! What's a source?"
- Karmic Twist Ending: Ronald started the plot and made his newspaper so that people will forget his embarrassing secret of playing with action figures. However, at the end, Ronald is humiliated when it's broadcasted on live TV that he plays with them.
- Less Embarrassing Term: When T.D. is accused of exaggerating when claiming the pumpkin weighed more than it did, he claims he wasn't exaggerating; just "stretching the truth."
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: A reference to the Halloween Special It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.
- Pun: Reginald says that he and Ronald will "squash" Carolina's pumpkin story.
- The Rival: Ronald creates a rival newspaper to the Carolina Town Crier out of revenge for her story about him still playing with action figures.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Reginald often uses big, complicated words that he has to explain for Ronald:Reginald: Ah, what a paragon of journalistic integrity.Ronald: Does that mean it's good?Reginald: Indubitably!
- Shaped Like Itself: When T.D. finds out that a ton is two thousand pounds, not two hundred like he thought, he says, "Wow; a ton weighs a ton!".
- Split-Screen Phone Call: Carolina's phone calls with Ronald, Reginald, T.D., and Martha are shown on a split screen.
- Stereo Fibbing: When C.K. asks the teen boys what class their alleged school project is for, Ronald says, "History" and Reginald says, "Biology" both at once. Ronald claims that it's a new class that combines the two subjects.
- Unmanly Secret: Again, of the "childish secret" variety — Ronald is embarrassed about owning action figures and is still fuming about the newspaper article which states that he "plays" with them.
