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People ask, where do you get your ideas?

Right here.

All this is my magician's toy shop.

I'm Ray Bradbury, and this is...

Someone's saying something.

Is it my birthday then?

Well, then how come?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I know, I know.

It is wonderful.

I gotta pay back.

I gotta pay back!

Neil?

Who do we owe now?

Long overdue.

Should have paid up years ago.

Chock full of me.

And me's gonna... Well, wait.

Okay, Leo.

What do we put first?

Ha!

Ha!

Again!

Gonna be a happiness machine.

Can I help?

Now is it a happiness machine?

You don't look very happy.

So, what's this about some sort of contraption you're erecting in your

laboratory in Mount Frankenstein?

Bad news travels fast.

First of all, it's not a contraption. It's a machine.

Second, it's not my laboratory. It's my workshop.

Third, it's not...

Count Frankenstein, it's Baron Frankenstein. And fourth, Saul,

I hereby give you the big mouth of the year award.

So this contract, this machine. Happiness, a machine to make happy. Good

Joy tomorrow morning and next week. Work tomorrow morning.

And all next week. Ah, the presentation can wait. I am going to take a vacation

and work on happiness.

When did all this happen?

Dawn.

Sunrise. I don't know.

I got up. I looked out and I never thought so much before.

I, what's the word?

Hyperventilated. That's it.

Filled up.

Exploded. I had to do something or go crazy.

I had to say, you're right, so... Joy.

Happiness, Lena.

Happiness.

Hey, Mr.

Peekaboo. Why are you staring from outside? Come in.

Lena, are you pleased, delighted, joyful, contented?

Do you feel lucky, fortunate?

Are things clever and fitting, successful and suitable for you?

Read that again.

You're not contented, delighted, joyful?

Leo, cows are contented.

Babies, old folks in second childhood are delighted.

As for joyful, look how I laugh ironing your shirts.

Next month we'll take off. Get away.

Next week you'll be asking me what makes my heart beat all night.

Who knows?

Or what's marriage?

Don't ask.

Eat, sleep, breathe, Leo.

Oh, good grief.

Look what you've done.

Happiness. Shall I tell you what it is, Leo?

Happiness is not bread for dinner, but charcoal.

Come back, Leo.

Stop it.

Hey, kid.

Who is that man out there?

It's Papa, man.

Oh.

It used to be our dad.

Who said I'm not?

Any queens?

Goldfish. The happiness machine is done.

Finished.

Complete.

Why am I in bed so late?

Stay there or I'll give you such a hip.

It used to be breakfast.

Then it could have been lunch. Now it's a dog dinner.

What's that?

Can't be.

The happiness machine?

Happiness?

Leo, you haven't spoken to your children in two weeks.

You've lost 10 pounds.

I've lost 15.

Leave off the clock you're building.

You'll never find a cuckoo big enough to go in it.

Yes, Acme trash removal?

I need a pickup today.

No! 11 Elm Street.

Offman.

Ten o 'clock? Yes, that would be fine.

Oh, yes, a big truck.

Thank you. See you then. Bye -bye.

You mean I've just got two hours to prove to you that my happiness machine

the most wonderful idea of all time?

One hour, 58 minutes.

And counting.

Get in.

Does it go up or down?

Sideways. How do I know it's not an elevator down to hell?

Wait. You'll see.

Or a rocket and it shoots me through the roof.

Sit, Lina.

Sit.

I'm suffocating. You're just imagining.

What did you do with the seatbelt? You don't need one. You see the button? Yes,

so many.

Hardly any.

Press for light, sound, music, space, time, memories, futures.

And what if I want out?

Open the door and jump.

How far will I fall?

Near, Lina.

Not far.

Don't worry.

Papa! No!

Come in.

Come in.

No, no, no. She can't be.

Laughing, maybe.

She's crying, Papa. Well,

yes. Maybe.

Like a baby.

What's wrong with power?

Leo, you forgot.

Some hour, someday we have to climb out of that machine and go back to dirty

dishes.

Sure, while we're in there, a sunset lasts forever and the air always smells

good and the temperature is perfect.

But outside, Leo, the children wait for lunch.

And let's be frank, Leo.

Who wants the sunset to last forever?

Who wants perfect temperature?

After a while, who would notice?

People are like that, Leo.

Did you forget?

Did I?

You should never have made quick things go slow and stay around.

And you brought faraway places to our backyard where they don't belong.

Where they just tell you.

You'll never travel, Lena Hoffman.

Paris you'll never see.

Rome you'll never visit. But I always knew that, Leo, so why tell me?

Make do.

Make do.

So what now?

That's not for me to say.

All I know, Leo, is as long as this thing is here...

all want to come out.

And Saul will want to come out like he did last night.

And against our judgment, we'll sit in it and look at all those faraway places

and each time we'll cry and we'll be no

fit family.

Hoffman?

Yes. No.

Eleven Elm?

Yes. No.

Is that it?

Yes. No.

You want us to take it away?

Yes. No.

Children, let's go.

Tomato?

Tomato. Not so.

So? Is that a sunset?

Yes.

understand. How could I be so wrong?

I know.

Look.

Papa, the machine.

Yeah.

The machine.

It's on fire.

It's burning. Leo. Dad, call the fire department.

No.

In a minute.

How long you gonna stay out here?

You stay, Leo.

Look in all the windows.

And then tell me what we've got here.

Do you know what we got here, Lena?

A happiness machine.