The Tutor

The Tutor is the eleventh episode of the first season of Fred: The Show.

Synopsis
Fred is assigned a tutor to help him study for his upcoming test. When she shows up, Fred thinks she is a Russian spy and tries to expose her even if it means failing his test.

Plot
The episode begins with Fred being agitated as he just gets home from school. He talks about having a lot of work to do in school and reveals that he flunked his algebra test, resulting in his teacher making him get a tutor. Although he is initially apprehensive, he decides to go along with lessons given by a sweet and Southern-accented tutor named Eloise.

Eloise later asks Fred various questions to get to know him, which freaks him out. Given the answers she's given him when he asks her where she's from and the nature of her questions towards Fred, he assumes she's from Russia and that she's a spy trying to extract information from him.

Fred becomes more paranoid of Eloise and mistakes her romantic advances and stalkerish tactics for malicious spying tactics-- so he undergoes various attempts to expose her as a spy.

Before the algebra final, Eloise gives him some baked apple dumplings she made especially for him. Fred tries to concentrate on the final, only for it to be difficult because he neglected to study in all his scheming. Ms. Capshaw, the algebra teacher, becomes sick after having eaten one of the apple dumplings, leading Fred to think that Eloise was trying to poison him. He begins to yell that she is a spy while stomping on the dumplings, drawing the attention of the entire class and hurting Eloise's feelings.

Ms. Capshaw mentions that she's allergic to apples, which explains her reaction. As everyone casually goes back to their tests, Eloise tells Fred that all her actions were attempts to get him to like her. She then begins to cry due to Fred's poor reception to everything.

He reassures her that he does like her, but as a friend, and asks if they can start over. Eloise agrees and proceeds to give back all the stuff she had secretly taken from him.

The episode ends with Ms. Capshaw passing out from her reaction to the dumplings. This leads to the test being cancelled and everyone celebrates.

Trivia

 * Tessa Netting guest stars as Eloise. She makes another appearance in "No Clue".
 * The episode was originally called "Spy Day".