Hoping to get a letter of recommendation for MIT, Teddy does whatever he can to impress Sydney's mother, Meghan, but things don't go as planned.

Things start to short-circuit when Emil develops an instant crush on Ryan Gibson, Teddy's longtime arch rival at the Illinois State Junior Tech Fair.

Something is wrong when Teddy uses weird slang and slacks off; he even takes part in Emil's human cannonball prank -- of his own accord.