Diary of a Wimpy Kid (animated series)

This page is about the life of Greg Heffley from Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

## Episodes

* It's a journal, not a diary!
* The first day...of middle school.

## Section heading

Greg Heffley
 clarifies that "this is a JOURNAL, not a diary." He then explains that
he only agreed to write in one for when he's "rich and famous," and "for
 now, I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons." Greg then
discusses the Cheese at his school. It started when someone left a piece
 of cheese on the blacktop, and it got moldy. If you touch it, you have
the "Cheese Touch," which you're stuck with until you pass it on by
touching someone else. However, the last victim of the Cheese Touch
moved away, and Greg "hope[s] someone doesn't start the Cheese Touch up
again, because I don't need that kind of stress in my life anymore." He
also talks about his best friend, Rowley. Although Greg wants to be
famous and explains popularity to Rowley, "it just goes in one ear and
out the other with him."

Greg then introduces his family. He has a teenage brother,
Rodrick, who likes to pick on him, and a little brother, a toddler named
 Manny, who is "spoiled rotten" because he gets everything he wants and
gets away with everything he does wrong. Greg's father does not
encourage his way of life — playing video games all day — rather than going outside and playing sports.

Near Halloween,
 Greg writes that his father likes to hide in the bushes on Halloween
day and drench teenagers with a trash can of water. Greg and Rowley
decide to make their own haunted house, although they end up profiting
only two dollars. On Halloween day, Greg and Rowley go
trick-or-treating, but are challenged by teens who spray them with a
water-filled fire extinguisher. When they get home, they are mistakenly
soaked by Greg's father.

Greg fails a geography test after a girl named Patty Farrel
catches him cheating. At home, Greg's mother forces him into auditioning
 for the school play (based on *The Wizard of Oz*).
 Greg lands the role as a tree, while Patty Farrel is cast as Dorothy,
the protagonist of the novel. During the show's performance, Greg
becomes too nervous to sing, confusing the other trees. Patty gets
frustrated, and Greg starts throwing props at Patty. The other trees
join in, and while Greg's mother is disappointed, Greg ends up enjoying
the play due to him getting back at Patty.

After getting few presents for Christmas, Greg decides to play a
game with Rowley in which Rowley must ride a bike while Greg tries to
knock him off. On one of Greg's tries, the ball gets under the front
wheel, which causes Rowley to fall off and break his arm. When Rowley
goes to school with a plaster cast, the girls take care of him (carrying
 his books, feeding him food), which makes Greg jealous.

Greg decides to join the Safety Patrols at his school, hoping
that he'll get authority. He gets Rowley to sign up as well, and enjoys
the benefits of being in the Safety Patrol, such as getting free hot
chocolate. He tries to get a spot in the school's newspaper as a
cartoonist, and teams up with Rowley. Greg comes up with a strip called *Zoo-Wee Mama!* Greg starts wanting to do other strips, but Rowley wants to continue with *Zoo-Wee Mama!*
 Greg submits his comics to the teacher, and ends up getting the
cartoonist job. However, the teacher completely changes Greg's comic,
even making his character a "curious student" instead of a "cretin."

After an incident where Greg chases some kindergartners with a
worm on a stick and is confused with Rowley, Rowley gets fired from the
Safety Patrols. However, after it gets cleared up that Greg was the real
 culprit, Rowley is re-hired and promoted while Greg is kicked off.

Greg notices that the school year is coming to a close and tries
to get on the yearbook's Class Favorites page. He plans to go for "Class
 Clown," but his plans don't work out. At lunch, he gets an issue of the
 school newspaper, and learns that Rowley is the new cartoonist, with
his *Zoo-Wee Mama!* strip left unchanged.

Greg confronts Rowley for not even listing him as co-creator and
hogging all the fame. As they argue, the teens who chased them at
Halloween appear and force Greg and Rowley to eat the Cheese. Greg lies
that he's lactose intolerant, while Rowley is forced to eat the whole
thing. The next day, when everyone notices that the Cheese is gone, Greg
 lies that he threw it away. However, people now think he has the Cheese
 Touch.

The book concludes with Greg getting his yearbook, seeing Rowley on the "Class Clown" page, and throwing it in the garbage.