FRED: Man, that is one beautiful sunrise.
JOE: Sure is.
It would be even better if...
we weren't trapped on top of the Brooklyn Bridge!
Relax, there's a ladder.
FRED: Yeah, right.
Do you want to walk on that?
Uh... no.
Aha! I've got it!
I've got the solution.
I can use electromagnetism to separate ore.
Uh, Sam, are you okay?
Yuck.
Joe, there's a leak in your ceiling.
( screaming )
What's with the bridge?
I thought we were going into the future!
Well, I messed up.
The Book took us in the opposite direction.
You're right-- it's, like, ancient times down there.
There's no Empire State Building,
no Statue of Liberty.
No elevator.
After you.
Give me a break!
I'm not walking on that.
That's right, sonny boy, you ain't going nowhere.
( all scream )
Be careful what you wish for.
BAND: ? Go! There they go ?
? Three boys surfing on the time continuum ?
? There they go ?
? The green mist fills the air ?
? The Book could take them anywhere. Go! ?
? ? ?
( electric guitars playing steady beat )
? Go! There they go ?
? Three girls warping, time is 2105 ?
? There they go ?
? You can catch a ride with the Time Warp Trio. Go! ?
? Traveling through history... ?
( ticking )
? ? ?
? With the Time Warp Trio ?
? Go! ?
JOE: Ever have one of those days--
everything is normal, and then, poof,
you're trapped on top of the Brooklyn Bridge?
Ladies and gentlemen!
I, the great Joe-dini, will now perform
my world-famous sensational levitational trick.
You, sir.
Would you be so kind
as to loan me your grungy hat?
That's not grunge, that's character.
Yeah, I can smell the character from here.
Rise, O smelly hat.
Rise, I say, before our very eyes.
No way! How'd you do that?
It's magic, Fred.
Never mind magic.
Check this out!
My latest invention!
Another one?
Thomas Edison invented over a thousand things, Fred.
Yeah, but his worked.
Computalkatron, what is four times four?
COMPUTALKATRON: Four times four equals... Copenhagen.
( both laugh )
Everyone knows four times four is Portugal!
I'll never be able to invent anything.
That was my last great idea.
Hey, I know,
let's use the Book to go into the future.
You can find a great invention,
figure out how it works,
then come back here and invent it.
Isn't that cheating?
Nah, why should mankind have to wait around
for something important to be invented?
But how are you going to control the Book?
You always lose it.
( junk clatters )
Check this out.
So long as I wear the backpack,
I'm in complete control.
So, Sam, are you ready to be the next Thomas Edison?
What's going on?
Hey, wait-- no!
I didn't command you yet!
SAM: Something's happening
with the electricity!
( boys yelling )
( electricity crackling )
Trying to cross without paying the toll?
Just for that, you got to pay double:
ten cents apiece.
Uh, ten cents, that sounds reasonable.
Uh, uh...
Hurry up
or you're going down the fast way!
( all gulp )
Uh, Mr. Toll Collector, sir?
Instead of dimes, how about I show you
the best magic trick you ever saw?
I love a good magic trick.
All right, you got yourself a deal.
Ladies and not-so-gentle-men--
I, the great Joe-dini, will now perform
my world-famous sensational levitational trick!
( sighs )
Oh, no, you don't.
You two squirts are in cahoots.
Here, try and raise this.
Okay.
I shall now make
this really heavy sack of coins
hover in mid-air... I hope.
Rise, O sack of coins...
before our very eyes.
Away, away...
Well, I'll be.
You did it!
The great Joe-dini asks... Can we go now?
Sure, why not?
You earned it, laddie.
Hey, wait a minute!
I just figured out how you're doing it.
No, Fred, don't!
There's a thin string right here.
It's almost invisible!
See?
No!
Oh... praise be, that was close.
( seagull calls )
No!
( grunts )
( growls )
For my next trick, permit me to... run!
SAM: Don't look down.
Don't look down.
Don't look...
( screams )
Come on, Sam!
That's it!
To deliver electricity,
we'll use a three-wire distribution system.
Yo, Sam, whatever you're doing, cut it out!
I can vastly improve the dynamo...
What is wrong with him?
I don't know, but something's going to be wrong with us
in about two seconds!
SAM: What are you guys doing?
Put me down!
Duck!
No, it's a seagull.
Oh, duck duck.
Dang!
Missed!
JOE: This way!
I think we lost him.
TOLL COLLECTOR: Well, well, well...
Look what the cat dragged in.
( all scream )
Ready for some batting practice?
WOMAN: Mr. Beaner!
What are you doing?!
Uh... Mrs. Roebling!
I'm surprised to see you here
being that, uh...
That I'm a woman?
As you well know, my injured husband asked me
to oversee the construction of this bridge.
And a fine job you're doing, I might add.
I'm sorry we couldn't pay the toll, ma'am.
Toll?
What on earth are you talking about?
I was raising money for the orphanage
and my poor widowed mum
and those veterans from the...
Enough!
Mr. Beaner, we've discussed
your profiteering many times.
You may consider your employment here terminated.
What?!
Why, you...
Aah, you can keep your bridge.
It'll never get finished anyways,
not with a dame in charge!
I'll get even with you brats.
Hey, thanks for helping us out... ma'am.
It was my pleasure.
This bridge is supposed to unify the city,
not divide it.
Although I sometimes wonder if it will ever be completed.
If only we could work at night.
Maybe we should get out of here
before Bean Boy comes back. Yeah.
I'll just, uh...
Hey, where's my backpack?
You lost the backpack with the Book?!
I can't believe this!
I put the Book in my backpack,
and the whole backpack disappears.
You're lucky you didn't put it in your pants.
Okay, we may be in the past,
but we're still in Brooklyn.
How does that help us?
Well, my great-grandfather once owned the Book
and he also built our house.
The Book will be there
on his bedside table or something.
What do you think?
Well, as bad plans go, that one sounds pretty good.
Okay.
If the bridge is here,
my house would be... that way!
FRED: Man, this place is hopping!
Whoa... what is that?
I could really use something to eat.
Hey, where's Sam?
BOTH: Sam!
It makes so much sense--
parallel circuits along with carbon filaments
could enhance the light bulb.
Look out!
You see, I can use a needle
to record sound vibrations on a cylinder.
I'll be able to hear my own voice.
Something must have happened to him when we warped.
Sam?!
Oh, Sammy, are you in there?
Why are you staring at me?
Is my fly open?
Yeah, but that's not why we're staring at you.
We better find the Book
before you get yourself killed.
Hey, there's my house!
Everything looks so... new.
SAM: Wait a minute!
You can't just walk in.
But I live here.
Not for another 128 years, you don't.
I guess I better knock.
( knocking )
Oops.
Uh, anybody home?
( creaking )
What was that?
Only one way to find out.
Wait, wait--
this could be dangerous.
Look, we've got to get the Book
or your brain will be mush forever!
It's so weird--
the rooms are shaped the same,
but everything looks different.
I feel like I'm in an antiques shop.
( creaking )
Did you hear that?
Yeah, it's just a spooky creaking door.
No books in the living room.
Let's try my room.
Aren't you coming?
Uh, can't, uh... Fred's too scared.
( loud creaking )
JOE: Hello?
Anybody here?
This can't be my room.
( Fred snickering )
FRED: Your room's a girl's room!
( laughing )
( mockingly ): These are your dolls, and this is your doll house.
( in effeminate voice ): Yeah, and this is your frilly bed.
And here's where you keep all your dresses.
( screams )
( both join in screaming )
( screams )
Oh, you scared me!
I didn't know it was you!
We scared you?
What are you doing here?
Something's gone very wrong
and Samantha and Jodie are stuck on the Simulationator,
and it's all up to me, and I hate when it's all up to me!
Did you understand any of that?
Uh-uh. No.
FREDDI: All I know
is that there's no electricity in our city anymore.
The Book said you guys were here,
so I had to come and see what went wrong and...
( electronic beeping )
Oh, right...
it's for me.
SAMANTHA: Have you figured out what happened to the electricity?
Not yet.
Well, hurry up!
Jodie is going to puke all over me
in about ten seconds!
Sorry, Freddi, it's probably my fault.
I was trying to convince Sam
to go into the future
and steal... uh, I mean borrow an invention
and somehow we ended up here.
Well, that's terrible and immoral and all,
but it doesn't explain losing electricity.
Eureka!
Parallel circuits along with carbon filaments
will greatly extend the life of the light bulb.
Excuse me?
And don't forget that a rapidly moving shutter
will allow the Kinetoscope to display moving images.
One other thing we forgot to mention--
Sam has lost his marbles.
Kinetoscopes?
Light bulbs?
Those are things Thomas Edison invented.
Joe, did you say anything right before you warped?
Yeah!
Something about Sam being the next... the next Thomas Edison.
That's it!
If Edison's ideas are in Sam's head,
then Edison can't invent anything,
which means...
No electricity-no lights, no TV,
no Simu... whatever!
We figured it out!
Great.
Whoo-hoo.
Now what?
( snaps fingers )
Well, we probably have to find Thomas Edison
and give him back his ideas.
What about the Book?
JOE: Maybe...
Edison has it.
JOE: So that's how Fred, Freddi, Sam and I found ourselves traveling
to New Jersey to find the great inventor Thomas Edison.
( groans )
Is it just me
or do those hogs really stink?
It's not just you.
The pigs stink, too.
JOE: Come on.
That must be Edison's lab up there.
Uh... Mr. Edison?
Are you in?
EDISON ( shouting ): Go away!
Welcome to Menlo Park.
You can lock the door on your way out.
What are you doing?
I'm leaving is what I'm doing.
I'm supposed to meet with the press this afternoon
and announce my latest ideas.
But for some reason, I don't have any!
My mind is a total blank.
You know why?
Because your ideas are in my head!
Is this some kind of a joke?
I assure you, I am not amused.
Wait! He's telling the truth.
Don't you want your ideas back?
Go on, Sam!
( humming )
( humming more intensely )
( humming shrilly )
Pow!
Go! Go! Go!
( panting ): Anything?
Any ideas?
I have an idea you might be crazy.
Try it again, Sam.
( growls )
( growling )
It's a Vulcan mind meld.
I saw it on Star Trek once.
( growling )
( growling meekly )
You are a very odd young man.
And now I must go, before the press discovers
that I'm a fraud.
I'm sorry, Mr. Edison.
I feel like such a dummy.
"Dummy"...
I've got it!
Mr. Edison,
how'd you like to be in show business?
MAN: Excuse me.
My deadline is in two hours.
Um... we'll be starting
( shouting ): really soon, right?
So, how do we trigger one of your "trances"?
We don't, we just have to wait.
What?!
You want me to go out
in front of all those people and wait?!
( playing drum roll on pot )
Hey, how you doing?
How you doing?
Love the beard.
Yo, welcome to Menlo Park.
So, let me hear it!
( shouting ): Are you ready to rock?
Is this thing on?
Of course not.
It won't be on for another 40 years!
Uh... it gives me great pleasure
to introduce our nation's sensation,
the man who's going to put the o in "toaster."
Give it up for the Wizard of Menlo Park himself,
Mr. Thomas... Alva... Edison!
Gentlemen, welcome.
( voice cracking ): Rather than give you a tedious lecture,
I've prepared something special for today's presentation.
Yes, well, uh...
allow me to perform a little ventriloquism.
So, um...
tell me, dummy,
what amazing new inventions do we have
for these distinguished journalists?
Uh, um... um...
Oh, I have all sorts of cool stuff.
EDISON: Such as?
Um... uh...
Oh, oh, would you like to hear me sing first?
No, dummy!
Tell us about the inventions!
Okay.
I, um...
Oh, I know!
How about a joke?
Yes, a joke.
Um... so,
there was this piece of cheese, right?
Or maybe... maybe it was a yogurt or...
I've had enough of this nonsense!
Excuse me!
Yes?
( clears throat )
I'm wondering if you've invented something
that would allow people to work at night.
Um... ( gulps )
I, uh...
Well, you need light, of... of course, and, um...
It's brilliantly simple!
We can achieve a long-lasting,
steadily burning electric lamp fixture
by utilizing a filament
of carbonized thread.
Why didn't I think of that?
I mean, I'm so glad I thought of that!
But my most revolutionary idea
has to do with the transmission of light.
Someday, we can generate massive amounts of electrical power
that can be sent over wires
to every home and business in the nation.
That's right!
This will revolutionize industry.
Streets, factories, bridges!
Night will become day!
People will be able to work double shifts, triple shifts,
round the clock!
( audience applauds )
Yippee! Yay!
We did it!
Yes!
It will take some time for this to happen, of course.
It will almost certainly be too late to help your project.
I realize that.
But someday-can you picture it?--
our glorious bridge will be lit up at night
for all the world to see.
And it's all because of Sam.
You make a great dummy, by the way.
Thanks.
( sighs )
Isn't it wonderful?
We gave Edison back his ideas, we saved Sam and...
Oh... oh, yeah!
Hey, are you guys okay?
SAMANTHA: Whoo-hoo!
JODIE: Stop this ride right now!
Stop this ride!
Stop! Stop! Stop!
Like I was saying, it's all wonderful except...
Oh, yeah.
Uh, Mr. Edison,
do you have a book by any chance?
A-A blue and silver book?
I have many books,
but none that are blue and silver.
It figures!
Sam gives him a brain; he gives us zip.
I'm heading back to Brooklyn.
Would you children like a lift?
Uh... sure!
Thanks!
Why can't that stupid book ever show up when we need it?
Hey, look, baseball!
SAM: Ooh, yeah, cool.
Fred, forget about sports for a minute and think!
We have to find the Book!
I don't believe it!
Guys, check out second base!
It's my backpack...
with the Book!
Thanks for everything, Mrs. R.
Come on, Freddi!
Oh, no!
( panting )
What's the matter?
He's the matter!
( spits )
Is he a friend of yours?
Oh, yeah.
We threw his money in the river,
hit him with a plank, and got him fired from his job.
I have to get into that game and steal second base,
and I mean really steal it.
KIDS: Ouch! Ooh!
Well, unless you can find a replacement,
you'll have to forfeit the game.
But we don't have any more players!
"Beanball" Beaner has knocked everyone out!
Hey, I'll take his place.
No, Fred, he'll kill you.
We have to get that backpack.
Ah, I can't allow that.
You're not on the official roster.
It's all right with us, Ump.
( menacingly ): The lad did me a favor and I'd like to repay him.
Very well, then.
Play ball!
( cheers )
FREDDI: Go, Fred!
Run!
Hey!
They are out of here!
I made it!
Booyah!
We have electricity!
( electronic ringing )
Hey, thanks, guys!
So, just out of curiosity, what happened?
FREDDI: It was amazing!
Sam turned Thomas Edison into a ventriloquist
and Fred stole second base!
I guess everything's
back to normal.
And I'm back to being the world's lamest inventor.
You just be patient, Sam.
You're going to be a famous inventor someday.
Me? Really?
Yes, you.
Whoops, I shouldn't have said that.
This is great.
What do I invent?
Oh, come on. Tell me!
Please!
Please, please, please!
Okay, okay, okay.
You're going to figure out a way to...
( electricity crackling )
I hate that book.
Maybe your big invention will be the Computalkatron.
Hey, right!
Let's see if it's working.
Computalkatron, what is the capital of Denmark?
COMPUTALKATRON: The capital of Denmark is... 16.
16... 16... 16... 16...
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