Skippy and Jerry are excited! Jerry's pen pal is coming to visit. And the pen pal is no ordinary kid, his letters have told Jerry that his dad is an archaeologist who goes to EXOTIC places, sometimes in physically dangerous locations, and often taking his son with him. However the boy turns out to be a fake. In fact he's got quite an ordinary family from a farm. But when he told his previous pen pals the truth, they didn't want to know about him. So he made things up and for a time it worked - he got Jerry really excited didn't he? At the end of the episode, he is ready to face up to himself as he really is and introduce his real father to the Hammonds and Skippy!