Ivan Mickelson had been working on his lifelong mission of cloning himself into the perfect being. However, an accident involving Mountain Dew, a $10 gift certificate to Salvation Army, and a vinyl copy of 'Lincoln' by They Might Be Giants killed him and destroyed his cloning machine. But all was not lost! Up from the wreckage arose two more Mickelsons, flawed but functional, the final product of his life's work: this is how Jon and Krista came to be.