The Practical Joke War

The Practical Joke War is the 12th episode from My Brother and Me. It was directed by Adam Weissman and written by Demetrius A. Bady and Calvin Brown Jr.
==Plot==
Alfie and Dee-Dee are locked in a prank war with each other. Their respective friends: Goo (Alfie's friend) along with Donnell and Harry (Dee-Dee's friends) joins their respective friend. However, when Alfie and Goo's prank goes too far, Melanie and Dionne gets involved. Meanwhile, Roger and Jennifer are finalists in the Best Family of the Year and are warning their kids to behave. 
==Sypnosis==
Alfie begins his prank on Dee-Dee by messing up his height chart to make him appear shorter and later dousing him, along with Donnell and Harry with water balloons. Annoyed, the boys come up with a good prank on Alfie by giving him trick gum and ultimately humiliating him in front of a girl he has a crush on in front of the school. Goo recognizes the gum as the one that the Comic Book store sells and realizes that Dee-Dee, Donnell and Harry played him for a fool in front of everyone in their school. 
At Home, Melanie and Dionne discusses about the Parker family being finalists to the Queen City magazine's Best Family of the Year award which promises a renovation, $10,000 cash pay-out, a new car and a cover story. Alfie and Goo come back and discuss their plans for revenge against Dee-Dee and his friends. Melanie refuses to get involved and warns the two older boys to behave. Dionne agrees and asks if they're too old to play practical jokes. Alfie points out that Dee-Dee and his friends went too far. 
When Alfie and Goo's latest prank by making Dee-Dee, Donnell and Harry's chili dogs extra spicy, Melanie and Dionne get involve. They pay the two older boys by throwing pies in their faces and leaving them to face Mrs. Pickney's wrath for making a mess in her comic book store's carpet. Outside, Melanie, Dionne, Dee-Dee, Harry and Donnell are seen laughing at the older boys as Mrs. Pickney hands them wet towels and a vacuum to clean the floors.
At the house, Alfie and Goo gripes over Melanie and Dionne's involvement to help Dee-Dee and his friends. The boys decide to get back at the older, high school girls. Before they can think of a plan, Roger comes in and orders Alfie to clean his room. Goo makes a hasty retreat to his own place. Before Alfie could sneak off to his room, Roger calls him back in front of him and talks about his life stories which gets so long and boring. He tells Roger that he has homework to do and tries to leave again. He stops Alfie and notices some green stains on his face. When Roger asks about it, he mentions that he got mint pie thrown in the face alongside Goo
The older boys get them back by replacing their can for their school's fundraiser with one that says "Ugly Funky Feet Fund". Dee-Dee, Harry and Donnell pay Alfie and Goo back for humiliating Melanie and Dionne by squirting them with water guns. The children's prank war escalates further.
Roger and Jennifer win Best Family of the Year award, but are humiliated by the children's prank war. They let Melanie, Alfie and Dee-Dee along with their friends know their disappointment. This includes explaining their behavior to Miss Honeycutt when she was presenting the award. Roger mentions that he will discuss proper punishment for Melanie, Alfie and Dee-Dee. Jennifer agrees and even informs Donnell, Dionne, Harry and Goo that they're not getting out of their own punishments either because she will have a personal talk with their own parents. The kids are soon arguing amongst themselves about who's to blame for the prank war, which Melanie, Dionne, Dee-Dee, Donnell and Harry agreeing that Alfie and Goo started it. The Queen City Magazine article later does an expose about the children's prank war in their April Fool's issue.