| rdfs:comment | - A booth-like machine in Dr. Venture's Lab opens, from which ominous green light and smoke pour. A figure silhouetted by the light comes into view from the depths of the gadget. H.E.L.P.eR. moves towards the newcomer, beeping and waving its arms, but is subdued with an arcane gesture. In the compound's living room, Hank Venture and Dean Venture are playing with an Ouija board. Dean asks if he will find true love and the indicator moves by its own power to indicate "YES". Immediately afterwards, a strange grey-haired and bearded man silently enters the room. Before the boys can react, the stranger renders them unconscious with a twitch of his fingers.
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| abstract | - A booth-like machine in Dr. Venture's Lab opens, from which ominous green light and smoke pour. A figure silhouetted by the light comes into view from the depths of the gadget. H.E.L.P.eR. moves towards the newcomer, beeping and waving its arms, but is subdued with an arcane gesture. In the compound's living room, Hank Venture and Dean Venture are playing with an Ouija board. Dean asks if he will find true love and the indicator moves by its own power to indicate "YES". Immediately afterwards, a strange grey-haired and bearded man silently enters the room. Before the boys can react, the stranger renders them unconscious with a twitch of his fingers. The next morning, Dean wakes his father to tell him about the previous night's events. Dr. Venture explains to Dean that the stranger is merely renting out space in the compound because Venture Industries could use the money. He takes Dean to see the man, who introduces himself as Dr. Byron Orpheus, a sorcerer. When Orpheus's teen-aged daughter, Triana, arrives Dean is immediately smitten with her. Dr. Orpheus sends the younger duo off to eat breakfast while he and Venture discuss the difficulties of being single parents. Meanwhile, Hank wakes Team Venture's bodyguard Brock Samson from a nightmare concerning a dead football player named Tommy, and Hank is nearly strangled to death as a result. After some discussion Brock and Hank head to the lab to repair H.E.L.P.eR. When Hank spots the booth, he is entranced, walking towards it in a dazed state. He sees a blissful vision of his father offering to play catch as his mother (heard but not seen) offers them grilled cheese sandwiches. Brock notices Hank's near-hypnosis and forcibly stops him from entering the booth; he glances towards the machine, however, and walks into it in the same trance-like manner. Dean and Triana make small-talk while eating breakfast, Triana remaining cool while smitten Dean approaches incoherence. Meanwhile, Orpheus and Venture arrive in the lab, discussing the new invention. Orpheus trips over Hank, still prone on the floor after being tackled by Brock. Hank tells them that Brock is now inside the booth, which has no controls on the outside, as the locking mechanism is on the inside.). As Dean fantasizes in his room about saving Triana from a dangerous situation, Hank intrudes and explains that Brock is trapped inside the booth and that they have to save him. Orpheus learns that the machine probes the user's brain to manufacture hallucinations of his or her deepest desires, or as Venture puts it, it's a "Joy Can" primarily intended for masturbatory uses (hence the lock is on the inside of the machine). Questioning Dr. Venture further, Orpheus disgustedly demands to know if the booth is powered by the heart of an orphan (which Dr. Orpheus refers to as a "forsaken child") to which Dr. Venture replies "Well, maybe, kind of, I mean, I didn't use the whole thing!" Inside the booth, Brock fulfills his dreams, first by receiving forgiveness from Tommy whom we saw during his nightmare, who is revealed to be a team-mate Brock accidentally killed during college football practice. Tommy then disappears, as Brock's clothing becomes that of a Native American warrior, and ninjas begin to rain down from the sky while Brock is assaulted by cowboys, dinosaurs, and polar bears driving cars mounted with machine guns. Brock proceeds to kill them all brutally; his garb then changes to a tuxedo, and a bed materializes, when Molotov Cocktease appears from nowhere to finally consummate their relationship. While the two doctors are arguing, the boys manage to get inside the machine wearing tinfoil hats. Thinking quickly, they wrap a urine-soaked shirt around Brock's head to block the machine's effects; it works, but they can not find a way to open the machine. Outside the booth, Dr. Orpheus has concluded that true love is the key to opening the machine, but is fruitless at inspiring it. Triana enters the lab, looking for her father. When her voice penetrates the booth, Dean's feelings of love open the doors at once. With Venture's reluctant agreement, Orpheus destroys the foul machine with arcane bolts.
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