Drake and Josh sign up for a salsa-making competition and wage a side bet with high stakes, but things start to get a little spicier when little sister Megan sticks her nose in.
The Hardy boys try to prevent cheating at a Halloween mystery contest, sponsored by Bayport's Merchant Association, that promises big prizes to the winners.
After winning a competition to design a new cereal and consuming multiple bowls of it while shooting a television commercial, cereal-loving Stephen's tastes change.
Unpopular sixth-grader Burdette "Bird" Weaver persuades the new boy at school, whom everyone thinks is mean and dumb, to be her partner for a spelling bee that might win her everything she's ever wanted.
In Overton, Ohio, in the 1920s, Fran Parker and her family adjust to such modern inventions as the radio and the airplane, and Fran enters a radio contest.
Troy leaves Gabriella out when he and his teammates decide to compete in the Battle of the Bands, and Sharpay forms a girl group to be their competition.