He finds it incredibly difficult, and Mabel suggests he might just not be smart enough to solve it. Stan spots Waddles on the ground and offers to sell him, calling him a "magic pig", and tells a story called "Abaconings".ĭipper and Waddles bond, leaving Mabel lonesome.ĭipper orders a new puzzle toy, the " what-the-heck-ahedron", which promises to feature the person who solves it on its box. The witch proceeds to flirt with him using a book Mabel gave her, and is apparently successful.Īfter the story, the person says they don't want the hand, so Stan tosses it and the hand crawls away. After Stan and the twins leave, a mountain climber turns up. The grateful witch returns Stan's hands to him. Mabel suggests a home makeover to attract potential dates instead, and the Pines, with help from the disembodied hands, remake the cave.
The witch confesses that the hand stealing is a ruse meant to get her a date, but that the plan always ends in failure. Stan relents and kisses the witch's hand, but loses his nerve when the witch claims it was supposed to be a kiss on the lips. Stan returns the watch, but she claims the curse can only be broken by a kiss. The cave is populated by disembodied hands that promptly attack them. Dipper, Mabel, and Stan visit the witch's secret hideout in mountain cave, which they locate using a pamphlet from the swap meet. When his stumps make breakfast difficult, he asks Mabel to make him new hands, but those work poorly too.
A message from the witch plays on the watch, but Stan angrily interrupts it, also refusing to listen to Dipper's suggestion to simply return the watch. The witch curses Stan, and he wakes up without hands the next morning.Īt breakfast, the twins discover that Stan's hands are missing. Stan steals a fake gold watch from an old witch when he, Dipper and Mabel visit the local swap meet. To support this, he tells a story called "Hands Off." He offers the person a disembodied hand, which is ridiculously expensive. Stan explains that after hours, the Mystery Shack has its spookiest attractions for sale. The episode begins with Stan welcoming a person (shown from first-person view) whose car broke down at night into the Mystery Shack, warning the traveler that he may be subject to "Tales Designed to Sell My Merchandise!" In three separate mysterious tales, Stan is cursed by a Witch, Waddles accidentally consumes a bowl of brain-enhancing goop and builds a machine that allows him to speak for the first time, and Mabel faces her fear of Claymation.