After Theo and his friend from school Cockroach are assigned to read one of Shakespeare's plays for school by their teacher; they instead rent a movie based on the play due to their laziness. When this is discovered; Cliff, Clair, Grandpa Huxtable, their teacher Jonathan Lawrence, and another Shakespearean expert Dr. Barnabus Foster gather the boys in the living room to absorb them to the world of Shakespeare by quoting line-by-line one of Shakespeare's plays; eventually giving them a better grade. on their project.