Jonesy, Wyatt and Jude have a competition to decide who of them smells the best after a week of not bathing of any kind.
Caitlin becomes obsessed with finding a guy who will make a cute picture with her in the mall's new "baby-maker" photo boothnote after it seems like everyone who goes through the booth gets a beautiful baby picture except for her.
Jen feels that Caitlin's just overreacting, figuring that the booth just produces random baby pictures "and throws in some ugly ones as a joke," but after making Jude go through the booth with her to prove this, all it does is produce a beautiful baby photo (with Caitlin even calling Jen and Jude's "baby" the most beautiful baby she's ever seen). Jude becomes attached to the photo, to the point of where he starts treating it like it's an actual baby (which, of course, creeps people out, including Jen and the rest of the gang).
Tropes:
- Determinator: Caitlyn absolutely refuses to settle for a bad baby picture, going so far as to push the booth next to her lemonade stand and offering discounts to any guy she comes across just to get a beautiful picture.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: If you take the idea that the baby photo maker booth is also a compatibility checker, Caitlyn getting nothing but bad baby photos from every guy she tries pairing with indicates nothing but a bunch of unhealthy relationships due to Caitlyn's impossibly high and superficial standards. The only guy that gives her a good picture is the one guy who isn't willing to put up with her crap, Ron the rent-a-cop.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: Despite her figure, Caitlyn manages to push the huge baby photo maker booth all the way to her lemonade stand with only minor complaints about how heavy it is and not looking tired afterwards. Lampshaded by Nikki.Nikki: For a Size 0, she can really carry a load.
- Signature Scent: Jonesy's the one who comes up with idea for the contest, and the girls of the main six acting as the judges. However, the contest gets way out of hand—for example, the girls of the main six end up wearing these fruit-scented hairclips on their noses so they wouldn't have to smell the boys (Jen ultimately describes the situation as, "At this point, it's not about who smells 'the best' anymore—it's about who smells the least horrible!"). When the day of the actual judging came, the rules that the girls lay out are whichever one of the guys makes it closest to them without being yelled at to stop would be declared the winner. In the order the boys went, the results were:
- Wyatt — He was worried that he'd smell the worst out, but he made it about halfway/two-thirds of the way to the girls before they yelled at him to stop, making him (and Marlowe) realize that he wasn't nearly as smelly as he thought he'd be.
- Jonesy — He was confident that he'd end up smelling the best after a week of not bathing, but not only does he end up losing, but he didn't even make it more than two steps before the girls were overwhelmed by his BO. In fact, Nikki was so nauseated by the smell that she vomited on the food court floor—and on top of all that, Jonesy ends up getting fired from his latest job at a flower shop because his BO killed the florist's entire supply of products.
- Jude — He wasn't worried about how he'd smell and ends up making it all the way to the table that the girls were sitting at before Caitlin points out to Jen and Nikki that Jude doesn't smell any differently than he normally does. As a result, Jude's declared the winner, much to Jonesy's chagrin.
- The Pig-Pen: The guys all become this to decide who smells the best after a week of no bathing of any kind.
- While Jude's always been, it's really cemented in this episode—when Caitlin notices that he doesn't smell any differently than he normally does, Nikki claims that Jude never bathed much to begin with and that he's always had a "faint, lingering odor." And at the end of the episode, Jude reveals that he hasn't bathed in two weeks, much to the shock and disgust of the rest of the gang, who toss him into the mall's fountain for an impromptu bath.
- When Wyatt considers dropping out of the contest, Marlowe assures that she's not bothered by what he and his guy friends are doing and convinces him to go through with it—she also points out to her boyfriend that plenty of the world's top celebrities have poor personal hygiene (which, unfortunately, is Truth in Television for some celebrities). After the contest was finally over, Wyatt claims that he left a huge ring around his bathtub after finally getting a chance to shower.
- Jonesy, as previously, ends up smelling the worst of the three guys after a week of not bathing—even before the judging began, Ron the Rent-a-Cop almost vomited when he noticed just how bad Jonesy's BO had gotten. And after the contest was finally over, Jen claims that Jonesy had to put his clothes through the wash twice just to get the stench out.
