A lot of things stop moving. I spend the next year in the institution. Lot of white jumpsuits. More of the same. A day later, they're all shot down after going out for chili fries.
Fish learn to talk, and how to hold things.
A super-magnet is created so powerful it attracts itself around the circumference of the Earth and begins to orbit, thus paving the way for perpetual motion machines, cheap overseas travel, and grotesquely large office supplies. Fish talk about things they've held, are holding, or plan to hold. Back to work at the milk-shake polymer plant. New uniforms in day-glo grey. Britain emerges from Price War II with only 10,000 casualties, dominating the marketplace and raising hell in Japan with its best-selling product, the Bob Hope Joke Book Brain Implant.