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[[Jake]] is excited over the opportunity to attend a franchising conference, where he'll have the opportunity to meet franchising genius [[Terry PerryBarry Barlow]] -- a man who famously saved a balloon crew by opening a rip panel with his teeth. The rest of the family is not quite as excited, particularly [[Quinn]], who's been forbidden to date while [[Helen]] and Jake are out of town. She is permitted to have one friend sleep over; however, when she tries to invite [[Stacy]], she ends up inviting the rest of the [[Fashion Club]] when [[Sandi]] guilt-trips her. [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria's]] plan to stay at [[Jane]]'s is similarly derailed when Jane informs her that she and [[Tom]] have something planned for Saturday night. And Jake's plans are almost ruined as well when Helen has to stay behind to handle a case, until Daria decides to accompany him in order to avoid Quinn and her friends (and for the opportunity to visit the [[Museum of Medical Oddities]]).

At the symposium, Jake and Daria run into Jodie's parents, and as the boorish [[Andrew Landon|Andrew]] introduces Jake to Terry PerryBarry Barlow, [[Michele Landon|Michele]] and Daria head to the snack table to talk (and snark). Barlow is impressed with Daria's frankness when he later asks her opinion about theme restaurants, and invites her and Jake to go ballooning with him early the next morning. Daria initially resists, but relents when she starts feeling guilty about how she and Jake have never really gotten to know each other. In the morning, Daria, Jake, and Barlow prepare for their balloon trip, but [[Arno]], the assistant and the man who ''really'' opened that rip cord, balks due to the weather, Jake's inexperience, and Barlow's attitude. When Daria's snark convinces Arno to bail, Barlow decides to chuck the trip and go sailing, but Jake is inadvertantly launched in the balloon, where he's successful in finally overcoming his fear of heights... right before crashing into a tree.