In 2158 A.D, Old Gramps Ford and his sizeable family are all cooped together
in their ramshackle Alden Village home, with Gramps regularly cutting members
of the family who misbehave out of his last will and testament. One family
member, Mortimer, or “Morty” cracks and pours half of Gramps’ anti-gerasone
drug, which keeps everyone who takes it alive and kicking for hundreds of years
(hence Gramps’ huge family; the youngest is 73) down to the drain. Another
member of the family, Lou, catches Morty and proceeds to fill the bottle up
again. After a series of unfortunate events, the bottle cracks and Gramps,
believing Lou was trying to kill him, flees the home. Chaos ensues and the huge
family is arrested. The story ends with Gramps returning to his home and the
family members locked up (and enjoying the roominess) of prison.
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