"They were all his ideas, stupid," the cartoon father said. "That's what I keep telling you. The telephone, the submarine..."

REWIND.

The cartoon boy and his father continued talking and talking and blurred, red, blue, yellow...

"Shit," I said, and pressed STOP.

PLAY.

The cartoon boy was in a bathroom, pointing his little penis at the viewer and pissing into an off-screen toilet. I pressed FASTFORWARD, getting him out of the bathroom, then pressed PLAY.