- The boys try to spook the girls in the middle of the night with a ghost, so they try to get revenge by giving them a taste of their own medicine. But after Alice criticizes them for being so scared, the kids collectively have a new target.
- Jan and Cindy are awaken in the middle of the night, scared by mysterious sounds that seem to be emanating from the attic and the vision of what looks like a ghostly apparition outside their window. Investigating, Mike and Carol discover the window in the attic open, the noise from the wind causing a creaking rocking chair to rock, and that there is nothing in the trees outside. What they are initially unaware of is that the cause of all this commotion was the boys - Peter masquerading as the apparition - who wanted to scare the girls. Ultimately Marcia believes the boys were responsible for everything, and she leads her sisters in getting back at the boys with a little of their own medicine. All this pranksterism may get out of hand, especially with a comment added by Alice. Meanwhile, Carol is sculpting a bust of Mike's head for her art class' competition.—Huggo
- After the boys scare the girls with a " ghost" outside, the girls decide to get even and give them a taste of their own medicine. After Alice makes a comment about not getting scared easily, the kids decide to scare her only for it to backfire on them.
- The Brady house is the place for horror when the boys decide to scare the girls with a slide-projected ghost. The girls devise some ghostly revenge of their own by daring the boys to sleep in the "haunted" attic, but things really get out of hand when Alice opens her big mouth to say she doesn't scare easily. The kids gang up to scare her out of her socks, with some unexpected results.—acidxian
- Carol is sculpting a bust of Mike for an evening art class she's taking. Mike begrudgingly "poses" for her by sitting still and falling asleep while she mimics his features.
Upstairs, Jan and Cindy are awakened by creaking noises coming from the attic above their bedroom, and they both look outside and see the image of a ghost flitting outside their window. Their screams wake up Marcia, who didn't see or hear anything. Mike and Carol come in to see what was the matter, and when they hear about the "ghost" they agree to go look in the attic. The creaking noises are explained away by an open window and a nearby rocking chair, the breeze causing it to move, but Cindy and Jan swear they actually saw the ghost. On their way back to their bedroom, Mike and Carol see the boys out in the hallway and immediately suspect that they had something to do with it. Sure enough, the boys go back into their room and laugh about how bad they scared the girls. Marcia talks to Jan and Cindy and tells them that she also suspects the boys, and they all vow to investigate and figure out how their brothers did it.
The next day, they sneak into the boys' room and piece together the puzzle: the "ghost" was actually a slide projected onto the trees, and the creaking sound was made by a rope the boys fed up into the attic window and then removed once the gag was complete. Incensed, the girls decide to get even.
That night at dinner, Marcia, Jan and Cindy all talk about how scared they were, and how they'll never go near the attic again. The boys laugh and say that they don't believe in ghosts, and the girls throw down the gauntlet, betting the boys a week's allowance that they won't spend the night in the "haunted" attic. With the reluctant permission of Mike and Carol, the bet is on.
After the boys are securely in the attic, the girls unleash their scheme. A spooky voice emerges from an old trunk, waking up Bobby and Peter, and they are horrified when the trunk opens on its own, a shadowy figure rising out of it. They bolt from the attic, ruining the bet, and when everybody goes back upstairs, they find Greg disassembling the "ghost", which seems to have been created with a plastic dry cleaning bag. The girls are satisfied that they got their "revenge", but Mike and Carol warn them against taking their pranking any further.
Alice seems a little too smug to the kids, however, going on about how she isn't afraid of anything, and before long they are hatching a plan to scare her out of her wits. When Carol takes her finished bust of Mike to an art show, Alice goes to the movies with Sam, and the kids seize the opportunity. They create a haunting variety of frights to scare Alice with when she comes home, darkening the house by turning off the lights at the fuse box. Unfortunately, Mike and Carol get home first, and while they are off fixing the fuse box, Alice comes home and gets spooked in the dark house. Seeing Carol's sculpture in the dim lighting, Alice mistakes it for an intruder and hits it with her purse, smashing it to smithereens.
Carol is brokenhearted over her shattered artwork, which captured a prize in the art show. Mike punishes the kids and sends them upstairs to bed. In a brief postscript, the kids humorously try to make amends with Carol by gluing her sculpture back together in an amusingly crude way, while Alice finds herself Carol's next model/victim for another sculpture.
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