During a normal afternoon in the city, a young couple is in the process of moving to their new
beautiful apartment. They have plenty of boxes of their own to unpack, but they are surprised
to discover that the landlord left behind an old funky refrigerator. Gail is not impressed at all
but Rob finds it very interesting because this old model has the motor above instead of underneath
like modern models. He explains that hot air rises so it does not make sense to put the motor
underneath the refrigerator because it allows the hot air to go up in the machine, but Gail does not
care and just agrees to whatever he says to humor him. Afterward, Gail takes out a bottle of wine
to share with her husband, and Rob excitedly opens the fridge to get ice. He discovers that
the freezer is full of old disgusting frost and compares it to Superman’s Fortress of Solitude.
After pulling with all his strength, he manages to barely get just a little ice cube out of it.
Then the couple shares a toast to their new life together, but before Rob can take a sip of his
drink, he notices there is something weird inside the ice. He grabs it to look at it more closely
and asks Gail if he is seeing things, but Gail confirms she is seeing something too. To be sure,
she grabs a magnifying glass for a better inspection and confirms that inside the cube
there is a miniature mammoth with various spears piercing its body. Wondering if there are more
things like this, Gail opens the freezer again and quickly takes out all the things left by the
landlord, only to be shocked by what she finds. Rob soon joins her and confirms that apparently
they have a tiny lost civilization living in their refrigerator. Right there on the ice,
there is a whole medieval city with tiny little people living their daily lives and not noticing
the two giants that keep watching them as if they were a movie. These little people also
move incredibly fast as they continue to build their city and work hard to achieve progress.
Gail points out that this does not make any sense, explaining that this is an early medieval city but
woolly mammoths died thousands of years before the medieval ages. Rob does not understand much about
history so he just agrees to humor her. Afterward, Rob decides to bury the little frozen mammoth in a
pot of dirt. It seems this has made him very sad, so Gail tries to cheer him up by saying the tiny
animal will be good fertilizer, but Rob thinks it is too soon for jokes. Soon curiosity gets the
better of them and the couple checks the freezer again, only to be shocked by what they find next:
the tiny civilization has evolved at a drastic speed and it is now going through
the Industrial Revolution, which includes all kinds of buildings like factories and roads
getting built all over the ice and filling the freezer with smoke. Since the couple had only
been gone for ten minutes but decades passed for their little people, Gail reaches the conclusion
time moves faster inside the freezer, and Rob is disappointed when he realizes they have missed
the Renaissance period. As Rob watches two little men sitting next to a building under construction,
he finds himself wondering if the tiny people see him and Gail as gods. However,
the two little men are actually making fun of the couple. They find their giant faces
hilarious and are annoyed by the broccoli stuck in Gail’s teeth because they have been looking at
it all day. It takes only a few seconds for the little civilization to start changing again, and
now modernized buildings are being built at great speed. Rob notices things flying around, and Gail
realizes they are airplanes. She also notices the new skyscrapers, making her reach the conclusion
that the little civilization has reached the present time. Rob agrees when he notices a
Starbucks store, confirming this brand truly shows up everywhere. Then Rob notices something
strange and comes closer for a better look. At that moment, a missile falls in the middle of
the city and explodes, blinding Rob and making him back away until he falls to the floor. While
screaming can be heard coming from the freezer, Gail rushes to Rob’s side to help him calm down,
but Rob continues to panic as he points out actual nukes are blowing up in their freezer. However
Gail can not take him seriously because Rob looks like a huge tomato and it makes her laugh, so she
hands him a toaster for him to see how ridiculous he looks. Inside the freezer, huge nuclear bombs
continue to explode. Rob notices things are getting worse yet the couple can only stare as
the little civilization is taken over by violence, screams, and more explosions. Feeling frustrated,
Gail closes the freezer, pointing out that people can not just outgrow war in a couple of minutes.
Rob wonders what they should do, and Gail simply says they should get pizza. Later in the evening,
the couple enjoys their pizza for dinner while trying to wait patiently, but eventually Rob can
not take it anymore and says they should open the freezer again. Gail reminds him that they
need to accept the possibility the civilization did not make it, but Rob goes to open the freezer
anyway. Surprisingly, the little civilization has become a futuristic city full of bright
lights and flying cars that remind Gail of Emerald City from the Wizard of Oz. Rob is in awe at how
beautiful and advanced everything is, and at that moment, a building emerges right in front of them,
which reminds Rob of an adult toy. A huge pyramid-like structure also pops up in the middle
of the tiny city, growing tall as bridges connect all around it to get energy from other buildings.
However the structure suddenly transforms into a diamond-shaped fortification that glows so
brightly that it has to consume the whole city until it explodes. The resulting glow looks
like a star and ejects beautiful dashes of light that begin to fly around the couple’s kitchen,
lighting up every corner as Rob and Gail watch with fascination and big smiles. Their theory
is that little people may have discovered how to travel through space and time. Afterward,
the lights return to the freezer and gather into a sphere before outright disappearing. Rob and Gail
go from smiling to looking quite sad and confused, and when Rob wonders if the little people will
ever return, Gail says it is unlikely. Feeling the need to grieve, Rob pulls the refrigerator’s
plug as a way to move on and accept the little people are gone. Gail gives him a hug to comfort
him before closing the freezer, deciding they are done for today. The next morning,
Rob makes coffee and shares it with Gail. Although they do not say a word, it is quite obvious they
can not stop thinking about the tiny civilization in the freezer, so they give in and try opening
it again. To their shock, they discover there is a cold mist coming out of it even if it is still
unplugged. An even bigger shock is that inside the freezer there is a new ice age going on,
showing primitive homo sapiens eating the huge bodies of ancient creatures. It seems the little
civilization has not disappeared, instead it was reset and has started from zero. At that moment,
a Tyrannosaurus Rex roars loudly and begins chasing after the primitive men, catching one
in the air with its huge mouth before going after the one that just fell to the ground. Now where
could this civilization possibly have come from? It turns out that after finishing his creation,
God is now a pretty bored old man. He sits in his fancy office all day and admires the small version
of Earth he has on his table, where primitive people are living among large animals and plants.
God is in the middle of a book when his butler Geoffrey asks him about it, so God explains he
is happy because he has found a recipe for a black hole. At that moment, God notices that people on
his tiny Earth are advancing pretty quickly, and at first he finds it quite amusing. However when
the primitive men discover how to make fire by rubbing some sticks and rocks, God gets angry
because he should be the one to give them such a power. He wonders what period it is on Earth,
and Geoffrey explains that they should still be 200,000 years away from getting fire according
to plan. Furious, God orders Geoffrey to put out the fire, and Geoffrey immediately blows
at the tiny people on the table. From the little guys’ point of view, this is a very powerful wind
and they quickly lose the fire, which makes them feel helpless. God feels satisfied and goes back
to his book while complaining about how much humans annoy him. Then God orders Geoffrey to
drive the little people into a cave, so Geoffrey swipes his hand over the small Earth’s ground,
which scares the elephants. These huge animals begin running around and frighten the humans,
who also run to hide in a cave as God points out that it would be good to shrink their brains. Soon
the tiny people come out again to start a ritual dance that should bring rain. God curses them, not
understanding why humans are unhappy now. Geoffrey explains that they forgot to turn off the drought
on Earth, so God sighs and lets Geoffrey give them some water. Geoffrey is surprised that God
is being merciful for a change, then he proceeds to throw some water on the small Earth with his
spray bottle. The little people raise their hands to celebrate the rain, but God can only laugh at
their reaction. Next, God asks Geoffrey to spray the humans again and again so he can keep laughing
at their weird behavior. Once he is satisfied, God returns to his book while ordering Geoffrey
to release a plague. Shocked by this sudden change in God’s mood, Geoffrey picks up an antique box
to retrieve a very creepy-looking vial. After looking at God for confirmation, Geoffrey pours
a plague from the vial, and the tiny people immediately begin to feel incredibly sick and
die. God admires the horrors he has caused with a blank face, then he simply returns to his book.