The Idea Man is a three minute short film by Jim Henson which was used for a live performance with Limbo on The Mike Dou | dG1fU0JQWm9COHo5QXM
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00:00You know, I'm an ideal man.
00:22I spend a lot of time thinking.
00:28Thoughts are funny things.
00:30Sometimes they're so aimless, like when I daydream.
00:38Other times, they can lead to ideas.
00:46There's one now.
00:47Now, when you get an idea, you have to look at it from every direction.
00:53Well, that one wasn't any good, but I'll have another one in a minute.
01:00There's one.
01:01It's just a little idea, but I forgot it already.
01:10I guess you know, many of the good ideas have already been taken.
01:17Ideas like the zipper, the hula hoop, television, relativity, the safety pin, the sewing machine,
01:35atomic energy, polyunsaturated fat, cellophane.
01:42All those ideas have already been done, and lots more, too.
01:55I guess most of the best ideas are all used up already.
02:03Sometimes I worry about that, but then along comes a new, fresh idea, and this gives you
02:12other ideas, which gives birth to other ideas, and maybe all these ideas gradually begin
02:21to intermingle, and finally, the whole thing crystallizes into one gloriously marvelous,
02:28great, big, beautiful idea.
02:33And so you say to the world, I have a gloriously marvelous, great, big, beautiful idea, and
02:41the world says, that idea won't work.
02:48Oh, well, it doesn't matter.
02:58Maybe I'll get another idea next week.