The Hypnotist

98th Street School gathers in the assembly hall for a hypnotism show, to which no-one is enthusiastic about The Astounding Godfrey calls for a volunteer, but no-one volunteers. He picks Mr Boyd for his trick, asking him how old he is. He refuses to say, so he chooses 25, and tells the audience that he will hypnotize him into believing that he is a child of six. As he carries out his trick, Principal Prickly finds himself being slowly hypnotized. After the trick, Godfrey asks Boyd how old he is, to which he again refuses to answer. However, Prickly answers, "I'm six, but I'll be seven in June!".

At recess, the gang mock Godfrey's failure. Meanwhile, Godfrey demands payment for his act, but Boyd refuses. Prickly then runs out of the school, and starts running around the playground, acting like a little child.Greta correctly deduces that Godfrey accidentally hypnotized him instead of Boyd. Rus tries to tell someone, but CJ. insists that this is a golden opportunity to have things their own way for a change. However, Rachel overhears, and tells Boyd of what happened.

The teachers try to confront Prickly, but are unsuccessful. The gang then approach him, and convince him to act like the principal. At a teacher's meeting, Mr Boyd tells the faculty that The Astounding Godfrey is unavailable because he is on his way to a bar mitzvah in Peru, and self-appoints himself as acting principal. However, a disheveled Prickly storms in, and starts reading out a new set of rules in a child-like manner. Boyd goads him into his office, before locking him in. Prickly finds his microphone, and starts burping and making armpit farts over the system, much to the disgust of the Aubrees, as well as the Megans.

As the teachers break their way into the office, Prickly climbs out the window and finds the gang. C.J. tells him that they will always be friends, but the others remind him that he cannot be a kid forever and that they have to turn him back. C.J. is reluctant, until Boyd accidentally broadcasts to the entire school that she will now be acting principal. The gang try to convince Prickly that he is a grown-up, but he becomes scared and tries to climb away from them. Greta follows him, and successfully hypnotizes him to bring him back to his normal adult self.

In Principal Prickly's office, Mr Boyd brings the gang in to face his judgement. However, before he can tell them their punishment, he is distracted by his picture on the wall, which he had drawn a red goatee on whilst in his child-like mind. When Boyd tries to bring him back on point, Prickly lets them off with a warning, saying that "kids will be kids". Boyd leaves with the kids, and C.J. thanks him as he leaves. Prickly then muses that he should grow a goatee beard, before taking a yo-yo out of his pocket, and playing with it as he looks out of the window, whistling.