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(the art kind of painters not the house kind of painters – nothing against house painters - it does take a lot of skill which does border art, but we want to give a clear picture: dan and keff become picture painters.)

After dan and keff fail to sell their homemade music video “ice cream sandwiches are the best kind of sandwiches” to local ice cream shop CLUMPIES run by ice cream mogul doug clumpie (not his real name), dan and keff realize they are out of cash. They spent all their money on ‘ice cream sandwiches are the best kind of sandwiches” which required a lot of hand painted signs and dance choreography. But when a wig store cashier notices the paint on dan’s pants, he probes the two to show him their art. Wig store guy loves the hand painted signs in ‘ice cream sandwiches are the best kind of sandwiches’ - and he should know, on top of being a wig store cashier, he is also a really good painter. “Art recognizes art,” he says and gives dan and keff his card (his card for his painter self not his wig store job - I mean, the card is made out of balsa wood - tres artiste). and that’s how it happens. dan and keff realize in order to not get evicted from their studio, they’ll need to sell paintings. a lot of paintings.

Oh! and I almost forgot to mention Ricky the spider who keff found on a hill while he and dan were birdwatching, and there’s this really angry Segway driver and a weird guy that watches dan and keff through a portal in the sky and the guy is always wearing this plastic mask that looks sort of like keff’s face. anyway, Keff ends up meeting the masked man when dan semi-accidentally throws Ricky the spider into the portal one day. After that Ricky looks different, and he can speak, too - but that happens after dan and keff open the weird door they find in the forest. As all these misadventures are happening, dan and keff are keeping up their daily nice talks and they also keep running into doug clumpie - the ice cream guy that wouldn’t buy “ice cream sandwiches are the best kind of sandwiches.” doug is really into Ricky - having had a pet spider when he was a kid. So when Ricky ends up missing - well, there really only is one suspect. doug clumpie.

They accuse doug of taking Ricky, dan does a little mad-dogging that neither keff or doug approve of, and the nice talk guys realize not only did doug not steal Ricky - he’s having a really tough time. He has to close clumpies. dan and keff feel awful, on top of that they get their final eviction notice and all their art got stolen. The end…. Ha ha, just kidding. That would be a real downer. Probably win an Oscar, though. We’re hoping for a grammy, though (nice talk is kind of a musical btw). So! After a really sad song, and a little moping - dan remembers their failed acronym B.A.L.A.N.C.E. (by accepting life’s adjustments naturally cosmically entirely) and he and keff realize the only way to make things right is to paint a bunch more pictures, break into clumpies so they can hang them on the wall causing people to flood in to look and while they’re enjoying all the art they’ll probably buy some ice cream which will totally help doug! and that’s exactly what they set out to do, but when they arrive - someone is already there…

It’s the weird mask guy hanging all their original art on the walls - and he has Ricky, too! Turns out, the mask guy is actually keff as an old man, who took the portal to help his old self and his old friend (dan) remember B.A.L.A.N.C.E. By the time doug shows up - after the police are dealt with (old keff went on a runner with Ricky to draw them away) dan and keff are finally able to properly apologize and even connect with doug. Huge ice cream party follows. The next morning there’s a crowd outside - they saw the fliers for free art with every scoop of ice cream (Ricky and old keff put them up after police chase). While they aren’t very impressed with the art (no one takes any home) they do love the ice cream! Clumpies is saved, and doug says he’s buying all the art. “People love hating this stuff.” Big laughs - and cue “ice cream sandwiches are the best kind of sandwiches” remix as the credits roll.