Plot
Nate Wright wakes up from a nightmare about his social studies class at P.S. 38. Nate sees his best friend Francis Pope reading his social studies textbook, and assumes that they were having a test. Finding ways to skip the test, Francis comes out of nowhere and tells Nate that they weren't having a test, much to Nate's relief. Nate arrives at school and realizes that he forgot his lunch, but his friend Teddy Ortiz gives him a fortune cookie which had the fortune: "You will surpass all others".
Nate attends homeroom and social studies with Mrs. Godfrey, who gives him a detention slip for insolence after catching him checking a list of insulting nicknames he came up with for her. In his subsequent English class, Nate tries to secretly write a love poem for his crush Jenny, only for his obnoxious teacher's pet classmate Gina to reveal this to both Jenny and her boyfriend Artur, another rival of Nate's. Nate ends up ripping up his poem and yells an insult to Gina, causing him to receive another detention slip from his English teacher, Ms. Clarke. During art class, Nate attempts to sneak one of his drawings into the display case just outside the classroom, but he messes up and makes a loud noise which gets him caught by his art teacher, Mr. Rosa, who gives him yet another detention slip.
During lunch, Nate attempts to break a world record in an effort to make the fortune come true, going for a speed-eating record by eating 148 servings of green beans in 10 minutes. Nate reluctantly starts the challenge, only for Principal Nichols to suddenly appear behind him and demand that he clean up the mess, only to slip on a puddle of bean juice and fall over, after which he demands that Nate come to his office for a lecture, during which Nate receives yet another detention slip.
Nate's meeting with Principal Nichols is followed by his gym class, which Nate is horrified to discover is being run for his psychopathic substitute teacher Coach John. While changing into his gym clothes in the locker room, Nate accidentally wets his gym shirts. Fearing humiliation, Nate quickly grabs a pair of extra-large shorts he finds in a duffel bag near the coaches' room, only to discover shortly thereafter that they belong to Coach John, who believes that Nate is making fun of him, for which he forces Nate to run wind sprints before giving him a fifth detention slip. During maths class, Nate gets into a tug of war with the maths teacher Mr. Staples for the pop quiz sheet because he forgot to do the back part of the sheet at the end of the quiz. Eventually the paper tears in half, resulting in a sixth detention slip.
Finally, Nate has science class with his elderly teacher, Mr. Galvin, whom is rumored by the students to have never laughed at anything. Nate decides to try to become the first person to make Mr. Galvin laugh, thereby achieving his fortune, though his efforts result in Mr. Galvin confiscating his special drawing pen. Later, however, Nate notices that his pen has opened and leaked whilst in Mr. Galvin's pocket, causing him to burst out laughing. Furious, Mr. Galvin gives Nate his seventh and final detention slip for five additional hours of detention.
The school day finishes, and Nate bitterly makes his way over to the detention room. Upon Nate presenting his slips, however, detention supervisor Mrs. Czerwicki informs Nate that he is the first student to have received seven detention slips in one day. Realizing that his fortune has "come true", Nate becomes ecstatic, in which he declares himself as a "school record holder", remarking that he "can hardly believe [his] good fortune".
