A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain story
An old man married to a younger self-absorbed woman takes an untested youth serum. Directed by: Bernard Girard. Story by: Lou Holz, Rod Serling.
18 total · 1 choice · 8 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with aging | choice | Harmon lamented that he couldn't keep pace with his young, vivacious wife. |
| brother and brother | major | Raymond chastised his older brother Harmon for having married Flora, before agreeing to inject him with an experimental youth serum he'd been developing. |
| husband and wife | major | Harmon and Flora Gordon. |
| poetic justice | major | Flora behaved like a spoiled brat and couldn't wait for her rich old husband to die. Instead the husband took a youth serum and became a baby which Flora had to nurse - with the prospect of now growing older with a much younger husband |
| rejuvenation technology | major | Raymond injected old Harmon with an experimental youth serum that he'd developed. |
| unrequited love | major | Harmon confided in Raymond about how he dearly loved his wife Flora, but she utterly resented him, and had only married him for his money in the first place. |
| wicked wife stereotype | major | Flora behaved cruelly toward her elderly, but loving husband Harmond. |
| young and old romance | major | The elderly man Harmon was unhappily married to a beautiful woman forty years his junior. |
| young character vs. old character | major | Harmon (an elderly man) couldn't keep up with his young and carefree wife Flora. |
| boredom | minor | Young, vivacious Flora found life with her elderly husband to be "terribly dull". |