Papa, Brother, and Sister Bear are skeptical when a skunk moves into the dilapidated burrow, but Mama Bear insists that the family help the skunk fix up his new home.
Sister's noisy sixth-birthday party is considered "Too Much Birthday", and her sympathetic parents help her realize the true importance of having a birthday.
Sister is playing with the boys and they're not happy. They form a boys-only club, then Sister forms a girls-only club. Then they get rid of the clubs.
When a dinosaur bone goes missing at the Bear Museum, the Bear Detectives arrive to help Dr. Bear search for the bone so it can be enjoyed by the angry visitors.
Papa buys from Raffish Ralph "The Secret of the Dancing Bees" book and dons a bee costume in hopes of extracting Queen Nectar's honey. His plan works and humors the bees, but when Ralph tries it, the bees are not impressed.
After Papa Bear explains about the rules with strangers, Brother decides to only talk to strangers with radio-controlled airplanes, and Sister is suddenly scared of everything and views all strangers as ominous.
With Papa's honey supply missing, Brother, Sister, and Cousin Freddy and his dog Snuff do detective work while Papa does his ineffective searching. It turns out that Papa took and ate the honey in his sleep.