The family is eating breakfast, and George seems preoccupied with something, but says it's nothing important. Jane goes next door to borrow cream, and Elroy plays with the empty milk pitcher, noting that they've also run out of milk. Judy tells him to be careful, but it breaks. George wants to tell Jane the truth, but Elroy wants to lie that there was a sonic boom that broke it. George insists that honesty is better than lying, and it cements their bond. However, when Elroy does tell the truth, Jane is too angry and sad about her pitcher being broken to sympathise with him and cries in a glass dome, which also breaks.
George takes the pitcher to get repaired and praises Elroy's honesty, but the repairman thinks it's better to lie than to tell the truth. An old woman enters and the repairman makes up a lie about him being injured saving a boy from an incinerator and donating blood. She exits, and he cites that as an example of why lies are allegedly better than honesty; he thinks she would have gotten mad at him if he told the truth.
At work, an actress named Bubbles Blastoff is visiting, so George comes up with the idea of having her award a certificate to the most safety conscious employee. Jane video-calls George, asking for a night out, and he introduces her to Bubbles. Bubbles gets Jane's name wrong, which annoys her, but she is happy when he says yes to the night out. Spacely thinks it was stupid of George for letting Jane know about Bubbles, but George feels keeping mum would be dishonest. He then takes Bubbles on a tour of the workplace.
Later, George drives to the repair shop with Bubbles and tells the repairman to make a reservation at the diner, then he drops Bubbles off at a spaceship. Unfortunately, George ends up stuck on said spaceship and cannot call Jane due to a meteor shower shaking the ship. One of the meteors makes a hole in the spaceship, but luckily, George ends up being flipped upside down and plugging the hole with his butt. Back in the apartment, Jane falls asleep waiting for George to come home.
When George lands, it is on a moon where no spaceships are scheduled to leave until twelve hours have passed. A circus ringmaster offers him a lift and when he tells the repairman about it, the repairman believes he's lying and actually spent the night with Bubbles.
When George comes home, Jane is too tired to go out with him, so he puts her to bed. The next morning, Jane is wondering why she woke up in her formal attire and why the repairman, who came over, is saying that George looks fine in spite of his hectic night. George tells Jane the whole story, and the circus performers arrive to return his lost wallet, but the repairman lies that George spent the night with him due to being woozy from donating blood.
Jane pretends to believe it so that the repairman will leave, and the kids ask if they can go to the circus.
This episode provides examples of
- Accidental Misnaming: Bubbles accidentally calls Jane, "Mrs. Johnson".
- Alliterative Name: In addition to George, Jane, and Judy, there's also Bubbles Blastoff.
- Bad Mood Retreat: Jane cries in a glass dome.
- Cassandra Truth: The repairman doesn't believe George's tale about getting a lift from a circus ringmaster, but it's true.
- Corporal Punishment: Discussed. When George mentions warming Elroy's heart, Jane replies, "I'd sooner warm his bottom".
- Emotionally Tongue-Tied: Spacely is attracted to Bubbles, so he ends up saying that he used to be a person, then saying, "purple" instead of "person".
- Honesty Aesop: Even though Jane got mad at Elroy when he told the truth, the episode still sends the message that the truth is the best option, since she's pleased he told the truth about being late.
- Joke of the Butt: George ends up inadvertently plugging a hole in a spaceship with his rear end.
- The Klutz: George's coworkers are seen clumsily messing up their jobs when Bubbles is shown around.
- Literal Ass-Kicking: Discussed when Jane mentions wanting to "warm [Elroy's] bottom".
- Mistaken for Cheating: When George tells the repairman the truth about getting a lift from a ringmaster, the repairman thinks George actually slept with Bubbles.
- Prank Injuries: The repairman pretends he got a serious injury from saving a boy from the incinerator and subsequently donating blood to avoid making an old lady mad.
- Priceless Ming Vase: It's a milk pitcher, not a vase, but it still follows the "valuable object gets broken" plot.
- Soap Punishment: Discussed when the repairman, who thinks honesty is bad, suggests George wash Elroy's mouth out with soap for telling the truth.
