Cory wants him, Meena, and Newt to be on the president’s Reading Benefit show so they can be on television. However, Samantha will not let them. They trick Sophie into joining the band so they can be on the show, but Sophie figures it out and makes them play her song about cats instead. Meanwhile, Samantha tries to convince the President not to do bird calls on television.

Like every year, Newt is forced to run for school president by his parents. Cory comes up with a plan to make everyone vote for Candy Smiles instead of him, but it backfires. Cory then enters the race and plans to go in a cage with Newt who will be disguised as a bear. However, Cory ends up in the cage with a real bear. Meanwhile, the President is upstaged by another dad when visiting Sophie's school and tries to redeem himself.

Meena and Newt plan to go skiing in South America and Cory wants to go. However, Stickler, who is also coming (uninvited), uses CIA technology to destroy Cory's ATM card. In order to get the needed money, Cory gives secret tours of the white house in which they see Sophie. However, when Sophie finds out she isn't going skiing, she steals Cory's money and runs off. Meanwhile, the President is having trouble sleeping and is keeping Victor up during the night.

Newt is sworn in as student president and plans to make a chill zone where students can just relax, however, ex-president Candy Smiles wants to make a pep squad instead. Cory joins thinking it will make Meena like him. When Candy asks him out, he goes out with her to make Meena jealous.

Cory and Newt sample Bahavia's Independence Day dessert, the nakishka. While the president is out of town, Samantha is in charge of a very important medal banquet honoring Professor Bushwick. Victor is in charge of the meal and he can not come up with a dessert. Cory gets Victor to serve Meena's nakishka's, but a mix up in the recipe spells disaster. Meanwhile, Sophie is teased about not being able to ride a bike without training wheels, and tries to get her dad to come home and teach her how.

Cory, Meena, and Newt finally get their first gig at a local juice parlor. Meena’s father, Ambassador Paroom, decides to stop buy and watch the band perform. Meena becomes nervous, and in order to make her less nervous and to congratulate her, Cory buys her a present that comes from Bahavia. It turns out to be a morchaca, which is rumored in Bahavia to give people a curse. After touching it, Meena becomes plagued with bad luck, and backs out of the show. Now Cory and Newt must find a way to convince her to do the show.

The President attends a press conference while he has a cold, which results in crazy reporter Michelle Wallace hitting him with questions about killer bee attacks. With some help of Grandma's special hot sauce, the President's cold goes away. At school, Michelle asks Cory a bunch of questions which results in him given some incorrect answers. Michelle then creates a bad report about the President. Now, Cory and Samantha come up with a plan to stop her. Meanwhile, Meena tries to go along with some of Newt's ideas, including his idea for their music video.

The President wants to buy the First Lady some perfume, but he can not go out in public without creating a big scene. Cory disguises the President and the two head to the mall. At the mall, Cory leaves the President to get a new video game, and gets into a small fight with Stickler. Stickler tries to use memory wipe spray to make Cory forget about the game, but the President gets a hold of it and uses, winding up working in a cheese shop. Meanwhile, Sophie wants to hang out with Meena, so she tries to act Bahavian, but it only gets on Meena's nerves.

Newt meets the new girl in school, Jessica, and develops a crush on her. Lucky for Newt, she likes him. When Jessica asks Newt out on a date, Newt accepts. However, Newt doesn't feel like he can go through with it since Jessica is smart, and he is not. With a little help from Stickler, Cory and Meena use a special ear piece to talk to Newt and they tell him what to say. Meanwhile, the President's mother comes for a visit and redecorates the Oval Office. In order to keep her out of the office, the President makes Victor keep her distracted, which results in a cooking contest between them.

Cory and his band finally get a big break, when they get their first live gig at school. However, The Juicer suddenly shows up in D.C. as part of a school trip. Cory is afraid that he will make him look like a weenie in front of all of his new friends, so he agrees to what every The Juicer demands. However, this results in The Juicer thinking Cory's band gig is a surprise birthday party for him. Meanwhile, Victor tries to make homemade ice cream.

Meena is really excited that her favorite Bahavian singer, Nanoosh, is coming to town, and Cory quickly gets jealous. Meena enters a contest to meet Nanoosh. When Meena gives Cory the postcard to mail, he decides not to mail it, and gives it to Newt instead. When Newt forgets to mail the postcard, Cory is pleased and ready to comfort Meena. However, Meena somehow wins. Cory and Newt pretend they are Bahavian musicians in order to sneak into the studio and stop Meena from kissing Nanoosh. However, it seems that Nanoosh is not what he seems.

The Russian Prime Minister is visiting and the President shows him the deed to Alaska, which the Prime Minister takes as a gift. However, the President takes it back. The two leave the room, and Cory puts on the President's jacket and looks at the deed. When the President returns, Cory hides the deed in the jacket, which the President then gives to the Prime Minister. Then, when Cory accidentally ends up on Air Force One with the President and the Prime Minister, he must figure out a way to get the deed back.

When the President decides to make new uniforms for the White House tour guides, Raven shows up to help design them. When she has a vision of the hallway clock falling on the President, she tackles him to save her, but the clock does not fall. She runs away and the President has the whole security team trying to find her. Since Raven has to stay out of sight, Cory dresses up and pretends to be her to pitch her tour guide uniform ideas to the President.

Victor is making dinner for a special White House dinner, and puts Cory in charge of watching the Sweet Potato Pie while he serves dinner. Cory decides to go sell "White House Water" during the twenty minutes he has to waste, but quickly gets distracted and the pie burns. Victor then grounds him. After a late night meeting at school, he wishes on a shooting star that he was President, and it comes true. Sophie is now his Vice President, and Newt and Meena are his adviser and general. Cory soon lets the power get to his head and ignores a top-secret file containing information about a robot invasion. Soon, everyone in the White House begins to become robots, all with a mission to get rid of Cory!

Cory manages to get Vince Valentine, a music executive, to come to the Liberry to watch DC3. Thinking they need to sound as good as they can, Cory decides to hold auditions for a keyboard player. At the end of the auditions, only Stickler is good enough to join the band, which everyone detests at first. After they let him join, he gives them bracelets as a thank you. However, Cory's is a special bracelet that sucks out all of his rhythm! Since Cory can no longer play the drums, Meena and Newt ask him not to go to the performance so they have a chance of getting a record deal. It turns out that this is all a plan by Stickler, for him to become famous instead of Cory!

Cory decides to blow off a play date with Sophie to go to the Liberry with Newt and Meena to mingle. Before he goes, Sophie sees him dancing to the Kung Fu Kats theme song and saves it to her computer. When she finds him at the Liberry, she sends the video to him as blackmail, saying that unless he can hang out with the big kids, she will send the video to everyone. Sophie then gets rid of the three new friends they made, and makes them do stuff against there will, so Cory, Newt, and Meena decide to make Sophie hate being with the big kids.

Victor surprises Cory when he has Lionel shipped from San Francisco. When he brings Lionel to school, everyone makes fun of him, causing him to give Lionel to Sophie. When they realize that they were wrong, they apologize. Cory tries to get Lionel back, but Sophie has him thrown out. As Cory tries to get Lionel back, he blows off a date with Candy. Meanwhile, the President tries to think of some jokes when the press accuse him of having no humor.

The President wants to get more Americans to exercise, so he decides to bring in Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to the White House to figure out some ways to do that. Seeing it as an opportunity to meet him and do some business, Cory, Newt, and Meena make an exercise machine for him to endorse. While trying to sneak it upstairs, the get stuck in a closet. Before they can figure out how to get out, The President, Victor and Samantha all get trapped in the closet as well. Meanwhile, no one will come to Sophie's tea party because of The Rock. However, she may get a very special guest at her tea party.