# What's your favorite animated short of all time?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 20, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342 "2010-09-20T00:13:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/1 "2010-09-20T00:13:47Z")
Inspired by the [Bugs Bunny thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=578700).
Mine is and likely always shall be [Tex Avery’s **Magical Maestro**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBDYNnBoX3E).
Others that missed the top spot by not very much: [**Symphony in Slang**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTlZZ0LgaxM), **Duck Amuck** , [**One Froggy Evening**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvX_TvnBcOU), [**Swing Shift Cinderella**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df5H_dCgqBg), and [**Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aSw5qDBn-o).
What are some of yours?
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/2 "2010-09-20T00:22:47Z")
I love **One Froggy Evening** and **Duck Amuck**.
For biggest belly laugh, it’s **[Bambi meets Godzilla](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-wUdetAAlY)**
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/3 "2010-09-20T00:27:59Z")
[**Snow White**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BehS6OLsqNM) (the Betty Boop version) from the Fleischer Brothers.
Runners-up:
Chuck Jones’ [_Duck Amuck_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce8J92AEfCs)
Jan Svankmajer’s [\*Dimensions of](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdfCOCIv_DU) [Dialogue\*](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhX1tvTgqC8)
Frederic Back’s gorgeous [_The Man who Planted Trees_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BnmPUCKK0E&p=E1DDBF3BC35B30FF&playnext=1&index=39)
Nick Park’s _The Wrong Trousers_ (w/Wallace & Gromit)
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/4 "2010-09-20T00:31:02Z")
[The cat came back](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bETCusT5kNM).
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### Author:  [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/5 "2010-09-20T02:51:28Z")
_What’s Opera, Doc?_
Here’s a list you might want to consult if you’re trying to remember the names of some famous short animated films:
> **[The 50 Greatest Cartoons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_50_Greatest_Cartoons)**
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> The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals is a 1994 book by animation historian Jerry Beck.
> It consists of articles about 50 highly regarded animated short films made in North America and other notable cartoons, which are ranked according to a poll of 1,000 people working in the animation industry.
> Each cartoon is under 30 minutes long and cel animated (with the exception of Gertie the Dinosaur). Seventeen of the selected films were produced for Warner Bros.'s Loone...
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/6 "2010-09-20T03:05:12Z")
Gotta be [The Dot and the Line](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmSbdvzbOzY&feature=related).
(Grr . . . I moved heaven and earth to find this on DVD a few years back, and now it’s on YouTube. Figures.)
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### Author:  [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/7 "2010-09-20T03:11:01Z")
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves is tops in my house. We sing it all the time.
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### Author:  [@pudytat72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pudytat72)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/8 "2010-09-20T03:28:24Z")
Pixar’s “For the Birds”
[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6484138201640748049#](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6484138201640748049#)
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### Author:  [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/9 "2010-09-20T03:31:12Z")
[Early to Bet](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quikxqr73aU)
I love the names for all the gags, and the use of the filing cabinet in the game “Penalties”. There’s something about needing a filing system to play the game that tickles my funny bone.
“Not ‘The Gesundheit’! No, not that!”
And something that should’ve been included in the “Penalties” game.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1bqrCN3tkI)
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### Author:  [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/10 "2010-09-20T03:39:20Z")
[Feed the cat.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VMELKCH-Vo)
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### Author:  [@footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/footballisplayedwithyourfeet)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/11 "2010-09-20T09:41:35Z")
Father and Daughter
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhieqAEi2r4)
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### Author:  [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/12 "2010-09-20T09:55:50Z")
Figure Eight, Schoolhouse Rock
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jeq5a8bBh8c)
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### Author:  [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/13 "2010-09-20T10:36:30Z")
I don’t know the names of them, but there’s several.
From Looney Tunes:
Daffy installs a futuristic button pad in Porky’s home. This leads to all kinds of shenanigans, with Porky doing the same to Daffy at the end.
The previously mentioned What’s Opera, Doc?
From MGM:
All of the What will the future hold? and what do you get when you cross \_ and \_? episodes
From Disney:
Donald Duck as a beekeeper.
The episodes where the professor duck tells what the future will be like.
Mickey, Goofy, and Donald are going on a trip with a camper in tow.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/14 "2010-09-20T11:19:13Z")
I think that, overall, I’d take **Duck Amuck** , followed closely by much of the Chuck Jones/Michael Maltese early 1950s output – the Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck/Elmer Fudd “Hunter’s Trilogy”, **One Froggy Evening** , **What’s Opera Doc?** and the early Road Runner cartoons.
Outside of Warner Brothers, I think Mel Brooks’ first outing, **The Critic** is hilarious
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otPkk1sUFkI)
And, as I’ve remarked before, I like **The Edifice**
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nHOWkfGFsk)
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### Author:  [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/15 "2010-09-20T11:28:41Z")
Tex Avery’s **Rock-a-Bye Bear** , by a long chalk.
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/16 "2010-09-20T11:41:27Z")
[Kiwi](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs)
Closely followed by Wallace & Grommit’s **The Wrong Trousers** , then the other W&G shorts
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/17 "2010-09-20T12:01:35Z")
[Rejected Cartoons](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJYxCSXjhLI) by Donald Hertzfeldt.
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### Author:  [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/18 "2010-09-20T12:33:05Z")
I really like the [Simon the Cat](http://www.youtube.com/user/simonscat)series of shorts.
Probably the first Wake Up one is my favorite, but I like the Let Me In one too.
The simple animation is great, but also, the soundtrack is superb.
I had a favorite cartoon from when I was a kid, and old school, beautifully animated short feature. It was sort of an Ugly Duckling story except the duckling was an eagle whose egg had turned up in an unlikely nest. I’ve tried to find it again, even posted about it here, but nobody seems to remember it.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/19 "2010-09-20T12:57:07Z")
> [@Caprese](#):
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> I really like the [Simon the Cat](http://www.youtube.com/user/simonscat)series of shorts.
The name of the cat (and the series) is Simon’s Cat.
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### Author:  [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/20 "2010-09-20T13:05:22Z")
> [@seosamh](#):
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> Tex Avery’s **Rock-a-Bye Bear** , by a long chalk.
Just so you know: I very easily could’ve chosen Tex Avery shorts for all of my selections. As far as animated shorts are concerned, Avery truly was a god among men.
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