There once was this dude named Troppo...
Troppo lived on a small island in the Pacific Ocean. He was happy on his small island, all alone. Except that he hated it. He was on a cruise ship with his co-workers, when he fell overboard. He was always the guy who asked people at the water-cooler how in the world people fall overboard in those cruise ships. Karma can suck pretty badly, apparently.
He had been showing off for his co-workers. It was one of his "things." Every office has a talker. Every office has the guy who drives the fantasy sports. Every office has the innocent-looking woman who turns out to have porn in her desk drawer. And every office has the guy who shows off his abilities - even abilities no one would want or need. (One time, he showed off his ability to paint a picture on black paper using only white-out.)
That one particular day, he was showing off his ability to hit on the waitresses after drinking half a liter of whiskey. As usual, he was the life of the party, judging by the laughs he was getting. Soon, however, a waitress got mad when he fell over on top of her on his way to the karaoke stage to sing "Achy Breaky Heart," for the fifth time that evening, and she had the captain throw him in the brig.
But that ship didn't have a brig. The waitress, who thought it was a naval warship, thought it did. And the captain, who was tired of explaining the difference to her, just had the crew confine Troppo to his quarters.
Troppo didn't make it to his quarters. He tried to escape the crew by jumping into a life boat and driving that around. He thought his ability to drive the life boat would cheer people up. But, instead of jumping into a life boat, he jumped over board.
He washed ashore this island, much like the characters do in movies. If you saw Tom Hanks in Cast Away, just imagine that's Troppo. Except he's fatter. And has more hair. (His girlfriend liked to braid hair, so he grew it out.) (Except she really didn't like to braid his hair.) (He didn't even really have a girlfriend.)
So he built himself a shelter, and found a way to turn the sea walter into fresh water. And he found food, and he created a casino so he could watch and gamble on sporting events. But he decided to knock the casino down, because he was terrible and always lost. And the simulcast thing never quite worked.
So he went to work trying to build a rocket ship. But he couldn't get enough propulsion out of the coconut branches, so he gave that up, too.
Finally, as a last resort, Troppo just built his latest and greatest invention: a time machine. Troppo had designed it years before, but hadn't built it for fear of time-travel paradoxes. Or paradi. Or whatever they're called. Basically, if you go back in time and change time, then the new flow of events wouldn't include you going back in time to change time, so the new events never happen, and they go back to the way they were, and that flow includes you going back in time to change it.. and so on until you barf.
But Troppo needed to get off the island. So he built his time machine, and went back in time to when he was about to fall overboard. But, unfortunately, he didn't build the ability to move through space - just through time. So, he was still stuck on the island. So he went WAY back in time, so when the island was actually part of mainland Mexico. He dragged his time machine to where Los Angeles was (where the cruise ship departed), and went forward in time. He beat up his other self (the one that would eventually fall overboard) and left him stranded in a hotel room, where he would miss the departure of the cruise ship.
Then, the Troppo who built the time machine and moved around in time got on the cruise ship, and set sail.
This time, he stayed away from the one waitress, and had a kick-ass cruise.
He got back home, and his other self kicked his ass. Then they decided that they had to do something, because two Troppos wouldn't be allowed to work at the same office. But that's another story, maybe...
