Aberdale has a yearly hot dog contest similar to a pie contest, Clarence is determined to win the hotdog contest with his newest creation, the Clarence dog.
Clarence makes a hotdog that mostly has candy for toppings and a hidden nickel to bribe the judges.
At the contest Clarence tries to scope out the competition, Belson has a state of the art nuclear powered hotdog making machine, you see a petting zoo type area next to it and on the gate there is a sign that says ingredients.
Sumo takes the hotdog contest very seriously, he has created his own blend from his private collection of meats, he has a chefs hat and a metal bucket on a wireframe over a fire, Clarence asks how his dogs are doing.
Jeff is deathly afraid of hotdogs, he knows what's in them, he is protesting the contest with his mom, his other mom is in the contest, she is the previous years winner. Clarence knocks various seasonings into her meat, like cayenne.
Clarence passes by various other town members, Miss Shoop has a bean burger, Larry is looking through his notes and hasn't started yet, etc.
He happens upon a man that has the same type of hotdog as Clarence, Clarence thinks he stole his hotdog, except this one uses a chocolate eclair as a bun instead of a normal bun like Clarence's.
Shenanigans ensue, Clarence is determined to report this man, he tries his mom, Chad, Ms. Baker (who is a judge along with Gilben), no one has time to hear it, especially Gilben.
Clarence takes things into his own hands and ends up trying to ruin the hotdogs but only makes them better, he curses his own superior hotdog making skills.
At the end of the episode he offers the man his own hotdog as an apology, which he forgot to enter in the contest, the man eats the nickel in the hotdog and starts choking, he then coughs it into the other contestants hotdogs causing a chain reaction and everything is ruined. Belsons machine starts producing mutant hotdog creations, a hotdog flies into Jeff's mouth, etc.