The next morning, everyone was getting ready for work today. They were at the horse stables, cleaning up horse poop.

"Oh, my gosh, I'm not doing this," Rhonda complained. "You can't make me!"

Chuckie was very disgusted and even sneezed from his allergies.

"Come on, guys, horses don't clean up after themselves." Jade told the others.

"Ah, I was born for this job." Phil smiled as he seemed to enjoy cleaning up the horse poop.

"You might wanna keep that to yourself." Rhonda deadpanned.

"No kidding." Angelica agreed as she was putting on make-up.

"Well, I for one refuse to get close and personal with horse dung!" Lil complained. "It'll ruin the foray of my jeans..."

"The life of a cowboy isn't all about fashion and fancy hats," Tommy pointed out. "We have to work up to earn it!"

"I know what you mean," Mike nodded in agreement. "Working on a ranch is never easy."

"I wish I could be strong like you, Mike." Lil sighed.

"Sometimes, you just gotta go with it," Mike told her. "I always told Lu and Og that."

"You worked on a ranch before?" Rhonda asked Mike.

"With my uncle, Jess Harper." Mike nodded.

Big Red, Little Red, Medium Red, and Belinda gasped at the name.

"You're related to him?!" Big Red asked.

"That's right." Mike confirmed.

"No way!" Belinda gasped.

"It's true," Scott agreed with Mike. "I've seen him in person."

"Me too." Jade added.

"Well, I'll be doggone." Big Red said out of surprise.

"Seems like you mean big shots for this kind of work lasso them." Chuckie said to Tommy.

"Come on, Chuckie," Tommy told his best friend. "You want the Reds, Scott, and Jade to think you're soft?"

"What about Rhonda?" Mike quickly added.

"Rhonda?" Chuckie repeated before looking to the rich girl of his dreams.

Rhonda was putting make-up on while looking at herself in the mirror.

"Leave it to Tommy to make shoveling manure a good rep." Susie deadpanned.

Belinda just giggles as Tommy smiled and blushes at the girl. Little Red saw Courtney shoveling the poop.

"Do you need any help?" Little Red offered.

"Umm... No thank you." Courtney replied.

"Man, Courtney's doing better than I expected her to." Mike commented about the rich girl.

"Dib, give me your shovel." Phil demanded.

Dib handed him the shovel and Phil growled and broke the shovel in half.

"What'd you do that for?" Dib asked.

"Rage." Phil scowled since Little Red was clearly hitting on Courtney behind his back.

"Why don't I help ya shovel, Blondie?" Little Red smiled bashfully to Courtney.

"Oh, no, that's okay, I really don't mind." Courtney told him.

"No, really, I can help you." Little Red insisted.

"No thank you," Courtney reassured him. "I can just ask Philly if I need any help."

"That Courtney Gripling, always getting the boys." Angelica commented.

"Angelica, I don't think you should say that around Phil." Junior warned his girlfriend.

"Huh?" Angelica asked. "Why?"

Junior points at Phil who is about to unleash his inner wolf.

"Good idea." Angelica gulped in fright.

"So, uh, you ever see The Ridonculous Race?" Junior asked Belinda.

"Nope." Belinda shook her head as he felt like just another kid.

"You watch internet videos?" Buddy asked since he was an internet icon like Junior was a reality TV star for being on a Total Drama series.

"'Fraid not, city boys." Belinda giggled innocently.

"She doesn't have internet or television." Scott told the others.

"What?!" Angelica gaped at Belinda. "What kind of life do you have?!"

"Farm livin' is the life for me~" Belinda shrugged before walking away to help her crush. "Just the way my pop raised me, I guess. Excuse me, I better go help Tommy out."

"Phew! I'm finished," Courtney smiled in relief. "That was easier than I thought."


Angelica soon wandered off on her own and Junior followed her. They ended up in the barn where no one was there but a chicken laying yet another egg in the haystack.

Angelica took off her hat and lay in the hay with a sigh. "Mm... This is definitely one star, but it'll do."

"Angelica, I don't think we're allowed to be in here." Junior told his girlfriend as she was about to take a nap.

"Ah, relax, honey, and take a load off," Angelica told him. "Come and join me."

Junior looked around and shrugged, then lay down beside his girlfriend and took a nap with her.


Eventually with the others, they finally finished scooping up the horse manure and they all lay down in the sun, totally exhausted.

"Well, take a look at what the kids can do." Grandpa Lou smiled.

"Well, you city folks were always good at shovelin' this kinda stuff, but I'd say this is a mighty excellent job." Red approved.

"So, Red, where's the chuck wagon?" Tommy asked. "'Cuz me and my posse are ready to celebrate."

"You kiddin'?" Red chuckled. "This is just the warm-up!"

"Warm-up?!" The others asked.

Susie then backed up and accidentally made the poop dump out of the wheelbarrow it was collected in.

"Aw, man, my new sneakers!" Gerald yelped as the manure ended up on his shoes.

"Who cares?!" Rhonda screamed. "It's on my brand new jeans!"

"Oh, brother." Mike scoffed.

"So, uh, dare I ask, what's the next step?" Buddy asked Red.

"Piggies in the mud," Red smirked before taking out an old photograph of a little girl with her hair in wild pigtail braids, overalls, and boots covered in mud as she was hugging a pig that tackled her and licked her face. "Scott's sister used to love it."


"SOOOOEY! SOOOOEY!" Young Albertha called out only for a pig to tackle her in the mud and lick her face like a dog which made her laugh and hug the pig. "Aw, I love him, you're my special little piggy, you're so much better than a baby brother!"


"Does that mean we gotta work in the mud?!" Lil complained.


Soon enough, everyone was forced to the field where the pigs were in the muddy patches. Lil was in a hazmat suit while Phil fell in the mud, but he actually enjoyed it. Tommy and Chuckie then worked on the fences. Tommy made a hole to put the fence down as Chuckie was putting the wire up it was almost successful, until the wood fell down and caused Chuckie to get tangled up by the wires.


Angelica and Junior were still sleeping. The two seemed to hug each other in their sleep.


"Susie, I know you wanna be bad, but I think it's as impossible as Helga G. Pataki having an actual human heart." Gerald told his girlfriend as he tried to wash his shoes while she went up behind a cow.

The cow then lay down before she could do anything else.

"What are you saying, I can't be bad?" Susie glared at her boyfriend. "I can be bad just like Duncan and Abby!"

"Um, not really..." Gerald smiled sheepishly. "I mean, you're just too nice and perfect, even when we were in preschool."

Susie just glared at her boyfriend and soon walked away from him.

"Smooth, Gerald..." Gerald muttered under his breath before following after Susie.


"Would it kill you to at least help?" Dib complained to his sister as he pulled on ropes with the others while Dil was coordinating.

"Will it kill you to shut up?" Gaz retorted. "I'm trying to concentrate on my game!"

Dib sighed to his video game obsessed sister. As soon they pulled the ropes, they cheered as they were done. Big Red, Belinda, Scott, and Jade checked it out and smiled ,but the barn fell back down and everyone walked away in disappointment, except for Gaz. It was soon dark as night and Angelica and Junior were still asleep in the hay together. The chicken pecked the hay before waddling off and its egg came out from the hay and began to hatch.


Everyone else was at the barnyard, resting after the big day of working.

"You guys tried your best." Belinda supported.

"What a week!" Phil said as he lay down on his cot.

"Phil, it's been a day," Lil pointed out to her twin brother as she cleaned her shoe. "You stink!"

"In honor of the great cowboy tradition, I refuse to shower." Phil smirked before sniffing his own armpit.

"That's gross, and I thought that Ed had bad hygeine." Mike winced which made Lil giggle.

"Ha ha, very funny." Phil narrowed his eyes at the tomboy.

"The upside's not being able to breathe." Chuckie muttered as he put bandages on his arms.

"Howdy ho, partners," Tiny greeted as he popped his head in the window. "You put in a long day, huh?"

"I've never worked so hard in all of my life." Kimi replied as she soon laid down.

"Well, I need a couple of volunteers for KP Duty," Tiny told the others. "You won't be doing all of the outdoorsy stuff that you did today."

"ME!" Kimi suddenly lifted her head up and raised her hand up high. "Me, me, me, me! Me, me, me, me, me! Buddy, you can help too!"

"Oh, we got a couple of takers." Tiny winked.

"Goodbye, Horse Poop!" Kimi cheered before hugging Buddy and kissing him all over his face.

Buddy blushed and smiled sheepishly from the kisses.

"Oh, you gotta get up two hours earlier than yer buddies so we can get breakfast on." Tiny told the young couple.

"Uggghhh!" Kimi soon groaned and buried her face into her pillow.

"Aw, Kimi." Buddy frowned and sat down next to the girl to comfort her.


Dil and Dib were writing something down in a notebook and tore out a piece of paper from the notebook.

"Listen up, amigos." Dil spoke up.

"We have an idea that we both came up with." Dib added.

"Oh, brother." Gaz groaned.

"Since ranch people don't believe in TVs, we've filled the void with writing a mock episode of Hospital Detention," Dil told the others before holding out the paper to his brother with a fake mustache before going to Susie with an eye patch. "T, you'll be playing Enrique. You're in a coma, and debating on whether or not to move towards the light. Suze, you're Estella, you want Enrique to bite it, because he loves Linna. She's bad to the bone."

Susie smirked and then took the eye patch since it would allow her to become a bad girl. They then heard screaming, and where it was Angelica and Junior running back in the barnyard.


"It's chasing us!" Angelica yelped. "It's hideous!"

A baby ostrich soon came inside.

"Aww... It's adorable." Courtney cooed.

"GET IT OFF ME!" Angelica cried out.

"What is it?" Gerald asked.

"I dunno, some kind of duck?" Junior shrugged.

"We accidentally hatched it and now it won't stop following us!" Angelica complained before running to her cot to avoid the baby ostrich. "Stay away from us! I have orange sauce and I am not afraid to use it!"

"Aww... Look... The little thing thinks you're its Mama and Dada." Susie cooed to Angelica.

"That is adorable." Courtney giggled.

"Well, we're not!" Angelica glared at the chick as she hid with Junior. "That thing is ugly and dirty and smells like Phil!"

Phil glared in offended response.

"Someone get it out of here!" Angelica demanded.

"I can't," Gerald replied. "I've lost all feeling in my arms."

"You're lucky," Chuckie said. "I'd love to lose feeling in my arms."

"Are we going to do this every day?" Lil complained. "I don't think I can handle it sedation wise."

"All you guys can think about is yourselves," Dil frowned. "What about poor Enrique?"

"Who cares?" Rhonda scoffed. "I'm sick of Enrique, he's probably kicked it by now!"

"How can you say something like that, Miss Fashion Freak?" Dib glared. "At least I don't whine and complain like a little baby," he then imitated Rhonda. "'Oh, my gosh, I broke a nail, my life is over'!"

"You trying to say something, Big Head?!" Rhonda sneered.

"MY HEAD IS NOT BIG!" Dib glared.

"Ya could've fooled me." Rhonda scoffed.

"Yeah, well, at least I'm not a spoiled Daddy's girl!" Dib told Rhonda.

"Oh, that really hurts." Rhonda folded her arms and rolled her eyes sarcastically.

"Newsflash, guys," Angelica glared at Dil and Dib as she tried to put the chick into a basket. "People usually don't survive a LOBOTOMY REVERSAL!"

"Stop it, stop it!" Susie told the others. "Why are we yelling at everybody?"

"Yer friend is right," Belinda added. "This is no time to fight each other."

"And you're right too, Belinda," Susie agreed before glaring. "This is the time where we should be fighting on Tommy!"

"What?!" Belinda asked. "Why?"

"It's his fault that we're here in the first place!" Susie told her.

The others agreed and began to rant and yell at Tommy.

"Hey, guys, it'll be fun, I promise!" Tommy smiled nervously.

"Leave him alone." Belinda glared as she stood in front of Tommy.

"Get out of the way, Farm Girl!" Angelica demanded.

"What did he do to you guys?" Belinda glared. "The Tommy Pickles I remember helped me up against a bully I've been harassed by for almost my whole life before he managed to get back at her and save all of us on Teeter-Totter Gulch even though we were all just babies back then, but I'll never forget that day because it was the first time I knew what it was like to fall in love with a city boy, not just any city boy, but one of the bravest boys I have ever met!"

"Thank you." Tommy said which made Belinda blush.

"Anyone else want to stand by Tommy's side?" Angelica huffed.

"Yeah, me." Mike said as she soon came to Tommy and Belinda's side.

"WHAT?!" Angelica asked.

"You heard me," Mike told the blonde girl. "I'm on Tommy's side."

"Lil, do or say something!" Angelica panicked. "You're dating her!"

"If Mike's with Tommy, then I am too." Lil gave in.

"HUH?!" Angelica asked out of shock.

"Are you serious?" Susie asked Lil. "You know what he did to us!"

Lil then went over to Tommy's side.

"Traitor!" Angelica snapped.

"What did you even do to make everyone mad at you anyway?" Belinda asked Tommy.

"I dunno," Tommy shrugged. "I just thought maybe we could handle living like cowboys since we used to pretend to be some when we were kids."

"Anyone else?" Angelica sneered. "Come on, who's gonna betray us next?!"

Courtney rubbed her arm nervously and went over to Tommy's side.

"Courtney, not you too, I thought you were cool!" Angelica told her.

"Angelica, you should know that I don't care about being cool anymore," Courtney told her. "You can just ask Miranda, Mipsy, Tad, and Chad."

"What the heck, Courtney?" Rhonda asked her fellow rich girl.

"I'm not like you, Rhonda," Courtney defended. "I always love to try something new."

"That explains why you were willing to date Phil." Lil smirked.

"Philly always taught me what normal people do, and I really enjoy it." Courtney replied.

"Normal..." Mike and Lil muttered to each other before laughing slightly.

"It's up to you, Rhonda, but I'm with Tommy on this one," Courtney folded her arms at her fellow rich girl. "Besides, aren't you friends with a certain someone known as Big Patty?"

"Hmph! I don't know what you're talking about," Rhonda declined. "You're talking nonsense!"

"Who cares? Let's just get Tommy!" Angelica replied.

"Count me out," Phil replied as he went over to Tommy's side. "You're not going anywhere near Courtney."

"Chuckie?" Tommy smiled hopefully to his best friend.

"I'm really torn on this one, my friend," Chuckie replied as he looked to his bandaged arms. "Really torn."

Junior and Buddy looked to each other and went over to Tommy's side.

"NOT YOU TOO!" Angelica and Kimi cried out.

"I'm sorry, Angelica, I love you, but I have to be on Tommy's side on this one," Junior said as he hid behind Phil, even he was a little afraid of Angelica's wrath. "I think that ranching is kinda fun."

"Me too, and I've been on a ranch before." Buddy added.

Angelica soon saw herself, Kimi, Susie, Rhonda, and Gerald on her side.

"Do we have a chance?" Rhonda asked.


"What's going on in here?" Scott asked as he came inside with Jade to see the kids divided up into two sections.

"What's with all the ruckus here?" Jade added.

"It's not really a ruckus, it's more of a hubbub." Dil replied.

"Well, you guys better get to bed," Scott suggested. "You've got a big day ahead."

"Scott's right," Jade agreed with her boyfriend. "We're proving yourselves so hasty like, and at the end of the week, we're inviting you guys to a Big Drive!"

"Now, just for the record, you don't mean like a car trip to Grandma's House, you're talking about the real deal, right?" Susie asked.

"Yep," Jade smiled as she tipped her hat. "And y'all better get some sleep because yer gonna learn how to rope and ride!"

"Come on, Jade, let's go back to bed," Scott added before ruffling up Belinda's curly blonde hair. "Night, Squirt."

"Night, Scott." Belinda nodded to her older cousin.

"We're going on a cattle drive!" Phil beamed in excitement. "We're going to be cowboys. Real cowboys!"

"Si..." Dil added as he put his hand on Phil's shoulder. "Si."

"Well, Tommy, looks like you're not gonna die tonight." Phil told his friend.

"Thanks... Wait, what?!" Tommy flipped out. "You were really going to eat me?!"

Phil just walked away ominously to join Courtney in bed.

"Answer me!" Tommy yelped.

"Aw, Tommy, I'm sure he was just kidding." Belinda soothed.

"Remind me to never make Phil and Lil mad." Tommy told her as he shuddered as he remembered when he first learned their secret.

Belinda only shrugged as she didn't know what Tommy was talking about. Soon enough, everyone went straight to bed to start a whole new day that would be bright and early tomorrow.