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Ted, honey, don't play with your food.
You, either, Mom.
So, mom, do you happen to know if there's like any place
where I could get a real tree?
Ted, we already have a tree. It's the latest model.
Yeah, but I mean a real one that that grows out of the...
...the ground or whatever. You know, like, a real tree.
Really? You would rather have some dirty, messy lump of wood,
that just sticks out of the ground? And it does what?
I don't even know what it does. What's its purpose?
Look at what we've got.
It's the Oak-amatic. The only tree with its own remote.
Summer, autumn, winter, and disco!
- Mom? - Come on, Ted. Get into it.
Dance with the tree.
Oh, it hurts, Mom. Please, stop.
So, anyway... Let's just say I need a tree.
Where would I go? What do I do?
Then you know what? You need to find the Once-ler.
The What? The What?
Mom, it's not really the time for one of your, you know, magical fables, okay?
That's right, I forgot.
I'm old and can't even remember to put my teeth in.
Stand down. That's not what I meant.
No, really, I forgot my teeth.
Would you be a dear and go get them for me?
Sure, Mom.
Okay, here's the deal.
The Once-ler is the man who knows what happened to the trees.
You want one, you need to find him.
The Once-ler?
Okay. Grammy, is this a real thing that we're talking about now?
Oh, he's real all right.
Well, where can I find him?
Far outside of town where the grass never grows
and the wind smells slow and sour when it blows.
And no birds ever sing, excepting old crows.
Quit doing that.
That's the place where the Once-ler lives.
Wait, outside of town?
People used to say, if you brought him 15 cents, a nail...
and the shell of a great, great, great grandfather snail,
he'd tell you everything.
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