Doug's 1st Movie/Recap
The film begins when Roger and his gang (and later Doug and Skeeter) are out the forest, Roger plays a prank on Doug by dressing up like the monster they're hunting and everything's going as usual until they hear a noise in the bushes, everyone takes off as fast as they could but Skeeter manages to take a picture of a mysterious foot print with his camera.
The next day, all everyone can talk about is the upcoming dance, Connie mentions that no one has offered to sign up to help plan it and naturally Doug starts daydreaming what it would be like to plan the dance with Patti Mayonnaise. As Doug suggests the idea of her working on the dance to her, the two are interrupted by Guy Graham who begs Patti to attend the upperclassman dance instead of the lower grade one, but she refuses. Doug grows angry with Guy for interrupting.
Meanwhile, Roger and his gang are discussing the events of the previous night and the gang tries to convince Roger that the reason the monsters started roaring at them was because it was protecting Skeeter. Paranoid, Roger hatches a plan of building his own robot to protect him from the monster if it ever came back.
Meanwhile, Doug and Skeeter are talking about the photo the camera took but are interrupted by Beebe who tells Doug that he can no longer help with the dance because Guy changed his mind about attending the eighth grade dance so he could be with Patti. Doug grows jealous and disappointed, and Beebe explains how Guy decided on helping out with the dance. Beebe reminds Doug how Guy has far more accomplishments than him and how he knows her father, Bill Bluff.
After that, Doug imagines how famous he will get once he shows the world he has a snapshot of the Lucky Duck Lake Monster....in the stylings of a Quailman day dream of course! In this dream it features Guy who is hypnotizing Patti into dancing until Quailman rescues the city from a giant monster and he earns praises from her.
Meanwhile, Roger is planning on building his robot to protect him from the monster, with the help.of Al, Moo, and the AV Nerds.
Later, Skeeter and Doug are in the woods, inspecting the footprints of the monster and Patti calls them with big, big, big news- Guy has asked Mr. Bluff to pay for the dance, and they're having it in Funkytown! Doug says the news is great but he can't talk right now and promises Patti that he'll meet her at Swirly's in an hour.
When the two boys get back to the house they finally find the monster in Doug's bedroom, at first they are terrified but realize he's friendly. When the monster tries eating the book "Moby Dick" they come up with the name Herman Melville for him, and the monster loves it!
Later, Doug and Skeeter visits the Dinks house to tell them the big news but Tippy suggests they keep everything about Herman a secret for his own safety and tells them about how Bill Bluff has been polluting the lake.
When Doug enters Mr. Swirly's he goes to tell Guy about Mr. Bluff polluting the lake but Mr. Swirly says he left with Patti and went to Funkytown. When Doug finds Guy and confronts him about the situation, Guy denies it being true due to his friendship with Mr. Bluff. Annoyed at Guy, Doug leaves but the picture of the foot print falls out of his pocket and Guy picks it up and calls Mr. Bluff right away.
Meahwhile, Doug throws a press conference to expose the truth about Herman but when the monster doesn't show up, Patti believes Doug is a liar.