# Animation that "gets dust in your eyes"... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521 "2009-07-10T02:35:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/21 "2009-07-10T08:47:49Z")
Monsters Inc.: “Kitty!” ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/22 "2009-07-10T09:58:29Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > “Robot test #12. Go see Pixar’s UP. If your date doesn’t cry, robot.” —Nathan Fillion True dat. I will add _Bambi_. Geeze, what is it with Mickey Rat & orphans…?:smack: ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/23 "2009-07-10T11:28:27Z")
You are all **pathetic**. Being prone to such tawdry emotional responses, especially when watching simple cartoons with their tedious sentimental set-pieces, is just inexcusable. As a grown man, I am in control of my emotions and certainly capable of rising above this kind of trivial, saccharine and manipulative nonsense. However, I _have_ noticed that whenever **Finding Nemo** is on and we get to the part where Dory is trying to persuade Marlin to stay around and not give up, because “nobody’s ever put up with me this long before”, the room tends to become unusually full of annoying dust particles, and it’s usually just after I’ve eaten some food stuff or other that has the annoying after-effect of forming a large lump in my throat. That’s what happens, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/24 "2009-07-10T11:37:39Z")
Another YouTube classic animation, made by a graphics student: [the kiwibird that wanted to fly.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/25 "2009-07-10T12:24:19Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > Another YouTube classic animation, made by a graphics student: > [the kiwibird that wanted to fly.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs) I’d just gotten done letting the memories of that one scab over. [Thanks.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tim5nU3DwIE&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/26 "2009-07-10T13:22:18Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Monsters Inc.: “Kitty!” Damn you, **Yookeroo**! Seconded, for truth. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/27 "2009-07-10T13:29:28Z")
There’s a scene in the manga/anime ‘Maison Ikkoku’… Kyoko Otonashi is a 24-year-old widow. It’s been less than a year and the dog (who shares a name with her husband) she got with her husband is lost. As she’s searching she’s remembering all the interactions with the dog, herself, and her husband. At one point it comes out of a flashback and she’s standing perfectly still with tears pouring down her face. It is pain laid bare and plain and I never have a defense. But I’m a sentimental, romantic, silly man. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/28 "2009-07-10T13:37:54Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Monsters Inc.: “Kitty!” All I had to do was _read_ that… ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/29 "2009-07-10T13:39:31Z")
Kiwi bird, yes. Maison Ikkoku, yes. Grave of the Fireflies, and Dumbo I can’t even watch. I pretty much had wet eyes through my whole first watching of WALL-E. I love that movie. Haven’t seen Up yet. Oh, god, and “Kitty!” One more thing. Sometimes I think that animation can do even better, with certain people, at bringing emotion to you. There’s not people to get in your way, perhaps for certain people it’s easier to identify with the animated characters. Hard to explain. ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/30 "2009-07-10T14:25:52Z")
This scene from [Ratatouille](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDK2azVSE5Q) always puts a lump in my throat because this has happened to me. The smell of freshly baked Hefezopf and good coffee will instantly transport me back to my Uroma’s humble little kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/31 "2009-07-10T14:36:20Z")
> [@Mycroft\_Holmes](#): > > This scene from [Ratatouille](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDK2azVSE5Q) always puts a lump in my throat because this has happened to me. The smell of freshly baked Hefezopf and good coffee will instantly transport me back to my Uroma’s humble little kitchen. Without looking at it I know which scene you are talking about. Yes, some things instantly take me back to sitting on the floor or on a low cot in India, with a plate of piping hot prontis and makhan and achaar being put in front of me. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/32 "2009-07-10T14:45:49Z")
Goodbye may seem forever Farewell is like the end But in my heart’s a memory And there, you’ll always be If you don’t tear up at that part of The Fox and the Hound, you’re not human. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/33 "2009-07-10T16:30:53Z")
[**Feed** the Kitty](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6762987539031638117&ei=DGxXSuKeFYe6qQLuiJ1M&q=feed+the+kitty&hl=en), that Looney Tunes short with the bulldog and the kitten. When the woman hands him the cat-shaped cookie, and he starts blubbering, it is simultaneously both completely hilarious and a total tearing-up moment. Complete genius. Got me when I was a kid, and still does (just did). ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@Black\_Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/34 "2009-07-10T17:00:36Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > Goodbye may seem forever > Farewell is like the end > But in my heart’s a memory > And there, you’ll always be > > If you don’t tear up at that part of The Fox and the Hound, you’re not human. Dammit. Why’d you have to go and do that? “We’ll always be best friends forever, right?” Excuse me, I have to go get a glass of water. ---
**Author:** ![Tanbarkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tanbarkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanbarkie)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/35 "2009-07-10T17:15:34Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > The _Futurama_ episode _The Luck of the Fryrish_ where Fry digs up his brother’s grave to get his 9-leaf clover back, and discovers that it’s his brother’s son’s grave, and he was named after him. As he puts the clover back, “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” by Simple Minds begins. > > _sniffle_ This one. Even moreso than “Jurassic Bark,” because the latter left me too numb with sadness to react outwardly. “Luck of the Fryrish” brought forth my favorite response to any art: _happy_ tears. In other words, Best. Twist Ending. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/36 "2009-07-10T18:28:45Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > Another YouTube classic animation, made by a graphics student: > [the kiwibird that wanted to fly.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs) I hate to admit these sorts of things, but I do tear up every time I see that video. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/37 "2009-07-10T21:36:21Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > Another YouTube classic animation, made by a graphics student: > [the kiwibird that wanted to fly.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs) that is a tear jerker ! The version with Mad World music (it should show up as one of the related You tube videos) is a real tear jerker. That music works much better with the video IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/38 "2009-07-11T00:02:21Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > Another great animated show that _NEEDS_ to be released on DVD is [When the Wind Blows](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EbsrJuAoQo), I’ve seen most of the Post Apocalyptic/ “Day After” nuclear war films, The Day After, Threads, and others, but WTWB just hits me _hard_ in a way the others simply can’t, maybe it’s because you spend the first part of the show really getting to know the Bloggs, as a nice, pleasant elderly English couple, they become real people, then, after the bomb detonates and you watch the Bloggs suffer from the progressing effects of Radiation Sickness, all while cheerfully hoping that “The Powers that Be will get (to) us in the end” and that “The Government” will make it all better, yet you know full well that they’re doomed it just crushes your spirit, it has to be one of _THE_ darkest, most depressing, soul crushing animated programs I have ever watched, yet I love it for that same unfailing honesty and refusal to paste on a stupid “Hollywood” happy ending… > > on a side note, I think that Jim Bloggs honestly believed all the Council/Government crap and really thought they were going to help them survive, they just had to tough it out, “Stiff Upper Lip” and all that rot right up to the end, wheras Hilda figured out near the end that they were doomed, I also think she figured out that the pamphlets were bunk quite early on in the show and was just putting on a strong front for Jim, I’m sure she knew what the paper bags they were getting into at the end were _really_ for… > > What animated programs “get dust in _your_ eyes”? As was recently discussed in a thread about the British war plans of the mid-60s, the British were pretty much aware that a country as small as Britain would get **saturated** in a nuclear war, with the survival rate of anyone other than a handful of government people in deep shelters hovering around zero. Not much room for post-apocalyptic fantasies there. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/39 "2009-07-11T00:22:15Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Toy Story 2: “[When Somebody Loved Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px0j1EHF8Y0)” That was what immediately jumped to mind when I saw the thread title. Every single time I see that scene, and I’ve seen it dozens of times, I cry. Without fail. I have a lump in my throat right _now_ and I haven’t seen it in months. Randy Newman’s beautiful song, Sarah MacLachlan’s wonderful singing, the brilliant Pixar animation all move me deeply…but the capper, the thing that makes me get all weepy as I type this, is Joan Cusak’s amazing acting. “You never forget kids like Emily and Andy…but they forget you” is wrenching enough, but after the song when Jesse responds to Woody’s “Jesse…I didn’t know…” with “Just go” turns me into a weepy blob. I didn’t think they could ever top that, but the scene in Up!: The montage of Carl and Ellie’s life together, and Ellie dying. …could serve as the Voigt-Kampf Empathy test from Bladerunner. Didn’t cry? Replicant. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521/40 "2009-07-11T01:04:43Z")
Fullmetal Alchemist - the episode with the Chimera Dude and his daughter, Nina. And now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go be depressed for the next 72 hours. Big… Brother? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animation-that-gets-dust-in-your-eyes/502521.md?page=3)