Portal Potty
Outline: Russell, an average blue collar worker, leads a boring life. He goes to work, sits in his cubicle, pretends to work, and longingly gazes at the collage he made of his top 8 travel destination in history pinned up on his cubicle wall. Russell repeats this process every working day. One of these boring days Russells normal routine is broken.
Russell has returned home from another boring day at work. He throws his shoes off, and walks to his bathroom in order to wash off all the boring from the day. Russells bathroom routine is always the same after he gets home from work: he uses the toilet, washes his hands, brushes his teeth, and finally takes a shower. Russell, on the first stage of the bathroom routine, is using the toilet. Russell finishes and flushes the toilet, except today when he flushes the toilet Russell is abruptly whirled away as if he is being teleported somewhere. Russell, in the midst of teleportation begins to hear the sounds of crashing waves. The familiar yet confusing sound eases Russells nerves as the whirling sensation stops. Russell, still on the toilet in the bathroom, quickly gets up and opens the door back to his apartment except instead of his apartment the door opens to an island paradise. Russell, in awe at where his toilet has taken him, steps through the door. Looking around and exploring, never more than a few feet away from the bathroom door, Russell realizes that he has seen this place before. Looking back at the bathroom Russell sees that his entire bathroom is detached from his apartment and has teleported with him. Russell steps back into the bathroom, still in wonderment about the deja vu he is experiencing, sits back down on the toilet and flushes it again hoping to recreate what just happened in order to get back to his apartment. Russell is again whirled away except this time the toilet has taken him to a different setting, other than his apartment. Russell again recognizes the place the toilet has taken him and quickly realizes that the deja vu he is experiencing is due to the fact that each different setting behind the door correlates to the collage of pictures on his cubicle wall. What Russell doesn’t know is that the toilet is taking him back in time. Russell continuously flushing the toilet in order to try and get back to his apartment is only taking him further away.
Act 1: The audience is introduced to Russell and his boring life. We discover Russells longing for a change of scenery through the collage he made of his top 8 travel destination in history pinned up on his cubicle wall (Ancient Rome, island paradise, Eiffel tower, etc.).
Turning point: Russell returns home, uses the bathroom, but after flushing the toilet the toilet teleports him to a random place.
Act 2: Russell, amazed and scared at where the toilet has taken him keeps flushing the toilet to try and get back to his apartment. After the toilet has taken him to several different places, Russell realizes that the toilet is teleporting him to places according to the collage of pictures on his cubicle wall at work.
Turning point: Russell realizes that each time he is teleported to a new place he is actually going back in time.
Act 3: Remembering that the last place on his top 8 travel destinations in history is the Jurassic Period, Russell drastically tries to figure out a way to reverse the direction of travel from past to future. Russell finds the controls for the time traveling toilet, and upon pressing the button to change directions the button breaks. Unsure whether the direction change was successful Russell flushes the toilet again.
End: The button press did not register and Russell is teleported to the Jurassic Period, however, he doesn’t see any dinosaurs so Russell steps out of the bathroom door. Upon stepping outside he sees T-Rex standing behind him. The, hungry T-Rex eats Russell. Fades to black.
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