Tinkerer Prints

'I think I found the problem.'

'Mom! Dad's eating my science fair project!'

"However good father's 'beaver-o-matic' was..."

For years he had spent every free moment working on his perpetual motion machine. So far, he was up to 18 seconds.

Transactional Analysis - The Child.

"I thought you were making a coffee table?"

"To build a lowrider bike, we may need some extra car parts."

Fixing the TV.

"Harolds been keeping busy tinkering in the backyard." (woman on the phone talking while husband is in the backyard building a rocket ship)

"The Graphene making process is working perfectly."

"Norman's building a small Hadron Collider."

Drastic Oil Change

Gracie tries to invent a shrinking spray and squirts Baldo with it.

Steel fabricator

Unfinished project at the auto jumble.

"You put in the batteries the opposite way!"

'Andrew loves taking things apart and putting them back together...except he can never actually put them back together...'

"Still it would be a great mistake to abandon your work on the perpetual motion machine."

Mowing manual.

'It's lovely, Daddy, it's just that I wanted you to make me a red one.'

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

Congratulations on your retirement!

'You see Mum, I've modified your FM-radio to be powered straight from the electric fence...'

Square Pegs into Round Holes

Invention of the 3-Way Light Bulb.

Pounding speeds up the computer.

"Young Frankenstein"

Robot Parts $5

Robots search for people's personal information in the cloud.

'My penmanship has really improved since I got a laser printer.'

The Computer Bore

boy plugging leak in a barrel with his finger

"I'm grounded. I forgot to delete the car's computer history after we did those crop circles on Earth."

'First you forget logarithms. Then you forget how to do long division. Then the multiplication table begins to go...'

"This software will cut my workload in half, so I purchased two."