Honey, It's Gloom and Doom

Wayne bastelt an einer Maschine herum, die alle Menschen glücklich machen soll. Sein neuer ausländischer Assistent Vlad ist gar nicht davon überzeugt, dass es richtig ist, die Natur zu verändern.

Wayne is busy trying to perfect his Hypolyptical Organic Oxide Ray (a.k.a. the Hoo-Ray), a device based on mood-ring technology that will cause people to be happy, thus ending war and boosting global self-esteem. Wayne's new foreign assistant, Vlad Bolvahnicz, cautions that changing nature isn't necessarily a good thing. For example, because of accidental global warming, his once-frozen country is now covered with grass and butterflies, destroying their snowshoe and dog-sled economy. Wayne, however, is not convinced. While working late on the project, Vlad is visited by members of the Global League of Oppressed Madmen (GLOOM). Vlad is actually an anarchist too, and his job at Jentech is part of GLOOM's eco-terrorist plot to teach the industrialized, polluting Western hemisphere a lesson by destroying a key polluter city. GLOOM is thwarted, but Wayne realizes they were doing the wrong things for the right reasons -- science shouldn't try to change the way people think and feel - and he

Le nouveau projet de Wayne, baptisé le «rigolisateur», est censé apporter le bonheur à toute la planète et mettre fin à toutes les guerres : c'est un laser qui envoie des ondes positives et entraîne des crises de fou rire. Mais son nouvel assistant, Vlad Bolvahnicz, tente de le convaincre, exemples à l'appui, des dangers que pourrait occasionner cette invention. Nick, de son côté, connaît de nombreux problèmes en classe : il est régulièrement accusé de méfaits qu'il n'a pas commis...