# Rejected Cartoons - weird funny link **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-cartoons-weird-funny-link/524199 "2010-01-08T20:37:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-cartoons-weird-funny-link/524199/1 "2010-01-08T20:37:38Z")
A little strange, but this cracked me up this morning. I like to imagine a room full of Family Learning Channel executives watching these with a strange look on their faces. [Rejected Cartoons by: Don Hertzfeldt](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJYxCSXjhLI) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-cartoons-weird-funny-link/524199/2 "2010-01-08T22:05:21Z")
yes quite funny: [Rejected was Hertzfeldt’s first film out of college. Released in theaters in 2000, the short won dozens of awards, was nominated for an Oscar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Hertzfeldt) > [@](#): > > Although the film is of course fictional and Hertzfeldt has never done any commercial work, he did receive many offers to do television commercials ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-cartoons-weird-funny-link/524199/3 "2010-01-08T22:38:35Z")
They’re mildly humorous. But short of shitting on the table and flinging the poo at the screeners, I’m not sure what else he could have done to make himself less attractive to his would-be patrons. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-cartoons-weird-funny-link/524199/4 "2010-01-08T23:23:19Z")
There were no would be patrons. This was an independent film that Hertzfeldt did when just out of college. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-cartoons-weird-funny-link/524199/5 "2010-01-08T23:29:44Z")
Right. The “clients” were fictional. I like his “[Billy’s Balloon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpc5vgi9zbM&feature=related).” ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-cartoons-weird-funny-link/524199/6 "2010-01-08T23:44:30Z")
I’m still imagining my room full executives and you can’t stop me! 🙂 These are good too. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-cartoons-weird-funny-link/524199/7 "2010-01-09T01:04:15Z")
Frosted Mini Wheats now uses a mini wheat mascot on their box that looks like a Hertzfeldt character. So whenever I serve mini wheats to my kids for breakfast, I always shout “My anus is bleeding!” and they laugh and laugh … .