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* ImpactSilhouette: When born, Edison blasted out of his mother and left one of these in a door.
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* AHeroIsBorn: The movie starts with Edison's birth, where he's somehow working on inventions while still inside his mother.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' pointed out that Armand's will wouldn't hold up because he doesn't specify Edison's last name.
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** Edison’s car security system rather predictably proves instrumental in catching the bad guy.


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* GroinAttack:
** Bradford gets nailed in the nuts by a tennis ball launcher, then while he’s bent over double another ball hits him in the head.
** Edison’s “car alarm” turns out to shove the foot pedal into a would-be thief’s crotch.


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* MajorityShareDictator: Bradford overrides every other board member to sell the company once he has 51% of the shares.


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* WackyWill: Armand changed his will practically at the last minute to give all his shares to Edison, unless the share price drops below $20, at which point the shares transfer to his nephew Bradford. Resulting in Bradford scheming to tank the share price and make it look like Edison was responsible.
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That old man was Armand Macmillan (Creator/JackWarden), who is so inspired by Edison's penchant for inventing that, some time later, after his death, it is revealed that he left Edison his invention corporation, Macmillan Industries, in his will. Armand's nephew, Bradford (Creator/LarryMiller, in full SmugSnake mode) is left Armand's "most prized possession," his surfboard. This boxes his plans to inherit, and then sell, the company for millions of dollars, and he concocts a scheme to hustle the company out of Edison's hands. Meanwhile, Natalie Stockwell (Creator/CourtneyThornSmith), the Vice President and overseer of production, finds herself frustrated, yet oddly charmed by this new quirky chairman.

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That old man was Armand Macmillan (Creator/JackWarden), who is so inspired by Edison's penchant for inventing that, some time later, after his death, it is revealed that he left Edison his invention corporation, Macmillan Industries, in his will. Armand's nephew, Bradford (Creator/LarryMiller, in full SmugSnake mode) is left Armand's "most prized possession," his surfboard. This boxes his plans to inherit, and then sell, the company for millions of dollars, and he concocts a scheme to hustle the company out of Edison's hands. Meanwhile, Natalie Stockwell (Creator/CourtneyThornSmith), (Creator/CourtneyThorneSmith), the Vice President and overseer of production, finds herself frustrated, yet oddly charmed by this new quirky chairman.

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