Inventing Genius Gifts

'My idea's quite simple really. Put the money in the bag!'

"Young Frankenstein"

Circa 1928, The Reese's Candy laboratory.

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"Actually, I'm hoping what I'm going to be when I grow up hasn't been invented yet."

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

'I couldn't think of a science fair project so I just re-invented the wheel.'

"We're playing doctor. Do you have any old magazines for our waiting room?"

"Looks like we grafted a few too many human genes into the kohlrabi."

Eureka!

Deep in the heart of the RAND think tank, the world's greatest scientists would gather to brainstorm Batman's fight sounds.

Early cyborg.

"Draw your own path."

'I don't know what he gets up to in there, but it keeps him busy.' (Noises are recorded, man reads paper, has beer.)

'Is this the new input device?'

'Yes, sir, what can I do for you?'

"I hear you've been doing exciting things with eggs and dye."

'I have a feeling one day when he grows up he'll be an artist of some kind.'

Congratulations on your retirement!

"I have no toys just yet. I have a concept of a plan for toys...toys like no one has ever seen before."

"I'm Necessity and this is my son, Invention."

Artist and Musician

Work colleague says 'This is great, where do you get your ideas from?' as man gets them from small elves living in the wall

'Because of the mess, 'Mr. Potato Salad-Head' never took off.'

FRY's FAMILY - Young Tom was always fiddling around with bits of machinery.

"Quick! The ideas are hatching!"

'I call it a flat.'

'Don't push your luck Simkins with that alleged glove stretcher!'

'The kids just love doing paint by numbers.'

"But some of my best ideas come while I'm in the litter box."

'Please Henderson - Not another one of your bright ideas!'

Jenkins took special pride in his new invention, the rubberband-powered runabout.

The invention of the wheel and the axel.

'Think, son! What was that formula you fed that tree?!'

"Hydro density appartus invention? Go away - I'm not disturbing his bath for that!"