Angela has a brand new microscope and eagerly shows it off to her friends. Despite Gordy's lack of enthusiasm, Angela manages to convince him to look at his eyelash under the lens. Gordy gets more then a glimpse of an enlarged eyelash: he also spots a bug! Angela tries to calm his frazzled nerves by revealing that the bug on his eyelash is harmless. Everyone has microscopic bugs all over their body. This revelation offers little comfort and sends Gordy into a state of panic. He wears protective gloves and masks and keeps his distance from his friends lest their parasites find their way onto him. Then Gordy learns that it's just not other people's germs that he has to fear. Even inanimate objects such as books and food have parasites. Gordy doesn't know where to put himself. Angela tries to help but everything she tries backfires. Soon Gordy has no other alternative but to sit in a bathtub all day. Will Angela be able to calm her friend before he shrivels away? Or is Gordy destined to live in a plastic bubble forever? (thetvdb.com)