Felix Funicello is a Catholic faculty fifth-grader in 1964, whose declare to fame is his cousin Annette Funicello, the well-known Mouseketeer and teenage film queen. However grammar and arithmetic transfer to the again burner this vacation season with the sudden arrivals of substitute instructor Madame Frechette and feisty Russian scholar Zhenya Kabakova. Whereas Felix learns the which means of French kissing, cultural misunderstanding, and tableaux vivants, Wishin' and Hopin' barrels towards one outrageous Christmas!