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Son of Flubber Page #3
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- 1963
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use around here, it's a little revenue.
Yes, we certainly...
[ both ]
internal revenue?
Your tax bill for the first three
quarters of the current year.
The figure includes delinquent
penalties of $12,895 at five percent...
For the first two quarters... all based on
an estimate of projected earnings, of course.
$656,000?
[ Stammers ] oh, I realize
that the estimate is low...
considering the staggering
potential of flubber,
But uncle Sam is willing to be understanding
until you get your financial house in order.
But, Mr. Harker,
we don't have 656 cents.
You don't say?
Let me explain, Mr. Harker. You see, I turned my
discovery over to those people at the pentagon.
Now they put a top-Secret
classification on it.
I- I'm not even supposed
Yes. I know those boys
at the pentagon.
I used to review some of the general's
personal tax returns. A million laughs.
- [ Chuckling ] well, then you do understand.
- Certainly.
- [ Buzzer ]
- Excuse me.
Now if you'll just give me a check for
the amount on this paper here, please.
But how can I pay you
if nobody pays me?
Well, I regret to say,
professor, that's your problem.
But... look at it
from our standpoint.
We've been counting on you.
We trusted you.
Uncle Sam needs the money.
You don't build those rockets to
the moon with green stamps, you know.
Excuse me, dear. Joey's here
to collect for the paper.
Do you have half a
dollar? I don't think so.
You estimated your income for the
current year at a million dollars.
Is this true? Well, that was
just a wild guess, Mr. Harker.
We thought the money was going to come
rolling in from all directions... millions.
We wouldn't be able to count
it all. There's ten cents.
There's another dime. That's twenty.
We'll have to owe him the rest.
He wants his money.
But you did make this estimate based on this
tidal wave of money that you speak about.
That's right. There's another
dime. That's all Ive got.
There's not another cent
in the whole house.
You see, essentially, professor,
we have a trusting nature.
When a taxpayer makes an estimate,
we believe 'im. We're happy for 'im.
We're rooting for 'im
all the way.
Well, that's very kind of you,
Mr. Harker.
Oh, Ned, I cleaned all
the loose change out of there.
Oh. Well, we should
have company over more often.
Uncle Sam has to run his store on
current income just like everyone else.
When the money he's counting on
doesn't come in, he's very sad.
Now in this case, the sadness is represented
by a delinquent penalty of $12,895.
We're still a dime light.
Then Ill just have to go and
talk to him. Uh, professor.
may I?
Thank you, Mr. Harker.
Thank you.
Now,
In addition
to the six percent penalty,
In the case of willful failure to pay your
estimated tax, there's a $10,000 fine...
or imprisonment...
Thank you, Mrs. Brainard.
I'll give you your receipt.
Professor... what is, uh,
the little lad's name?
Uh, joey Marriano.
And how many customers would
you say he has on his route?
Oh, Id say around 30.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute. What are you doing with
that information about little joey?
Uh, just a reminder to myself to put a spot-Check
on the lad. A small thing, you might say,
But you'd be surprised how much
unreported income turns up this way.
But joey's only
seven years old.
You wouldn't take
money from a child.
[ Laughing ]
You know, professor, your wife
has a refreshing sense of humor.
We don't run into it often in our
line of work, and that's a fact.
You ought to be ashamed.
Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah.
Sticks and stones, etc.
We do our part to keep the
wheels of democracy rolling.
Warriors unsung,
unknown, misunderstood.
If need be, I imagine you'd put
your own mother in jail.
about mom.
A little matter of some unreported
income from jams and jellies.
We nailed her
dead to rights.
Well, I won't bore you
with shop talk.
Uh, one last little
parting thought, professor.
to throw the book at you,
We have some lovely punitive
And section 6653, paragraph b,
is a real jim-Dandy.
Good day, sir, and a pleasant
day to you, Mrs. Brainard.
Oh, Ned.
I forgot to kiss you
when I came home.
I missed you.
I missed you too.
You know all I could think about
while I was there in Washington?
What? I just couldn't help
feeling sorry for all those people.
They have their problems, too, you
know. Now you take that income tax man.
Ned Brainard, don't you dare, dare
try to straighten out the government.
We have our own troubles
right here. But, sweetheart,
I was only thinking about
the welfare of our country.
Well, this is part
of the country, isn't it?
Th-This house is on united
states territory. We're citizens.
Now look, I don't want to appear selfish,
but just once, can't we think about ourselves?
Betsy, I don't blame you for feeling
the way you do, but please believe me:
Everything's going to work
out all right. But, Ned...
Now sit down, and hold your breath. I have
something of great importance to tell you.
Oh? I wasn't going to tell you
till I had it completely worked out,
But if I keep it to myself
any longer, Im going to bust.
Betsy, this is going
to bowl you over.
I think Ive managed
to get hold of the weather.
What does that mean,
you "got hold of the weather"?
What it means, Mrs. Brainard, is
that flubber was only the key...
that unlocked a great
storehouse of cosmic forces.
Out in that humble garage, from the
residue of flubber, I found a gas.
I call it "flubber gas," and I have reason
to believe that with this flubber gas,
I can activate a change in the
molecular balance of the atmosphere.
It could even trigger off the energies which
give us rain, snow, sleet, electrical storms,
Blue skies, sunshine,
whatever, wherever we choose.
Do you realize what that would mean, Betsy?
It would mean that, for the first time,
Weather would become the slave
of man, rather than his master.
It could change the future of the whole
world, the history of mankind itself.
That's very nice, dear. Very nice?
Betsy, this is the greatest...
Ned, why do you always have to
do something so world-Shattering?
Can't it be something modest that would
bring just a few dollars into this house?
Like goop that would keep
fingernails from breaking?
Or trash can lids that would
actually fit the top of trash cans!
Trash cans? Or some little machine...
that pays the grocer and the dry
cleaner at the end of every month.
I'd say I could use a little
machine like that right now!
Betsy, please be serious. Do you realize
what a wonderful age we are living in today?
Anything can happen.
Anything!
Forty years ago... even thirty years ago...
if I said Id found a way to control weather,
No one would've listened, but
today, do you know what they'd say?
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