# What's your favorite animated short of all time? **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/21 "2010-09-20T13:13:22Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > [Kiwi](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs) This is the first one that came to mind. I don’t know what that says about me, but it’s so deeply bittersweet that it’s hard to forget. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/22 "2010-09-20T13:17:43Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > [Rejected Cartoons](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJYxCSXjhLI) by Donald Hertzfeldt. This was a revelation. I just watched it for the first time and laughed out loud several times. Thanks for posting this! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/23 "2010-09-20T13:30:15Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > > [@jjimm](#): > > > > [Rejected Cartoons](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJYxCSXjhLI) by Donald Hertzfeldt. > > This was a revelation. I just watched it for the first time and laughed out loud several times. > > Thanks for posting this! I’m glad to have shared the joy with others! It’s absolutely magnificent, isn’t it? An amazing combination of the surreal and the grotesque, all done with impeccable comic timing. [spoiler]Johnson & Mills Fish Sticks. Now with more sodium! Sweet Jesus![/spoiler] ---
**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:** [September 20, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/24 "2010-09-20T14:05:40Z")
“Feed the Kitty”-the one with the big bulldog who is actually just a softie, who finds a kitten and spends most of the cartoon trying to hide it from his owner. The whole “Here, take the kitten cookie!” scene has me simultaneously laughing my ass off and crying like a baby, every time. [Youtube has shot this one down too, and I’m not about to go to one of those shady Russian video sites for a link.] ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/25 "2010-09-20T14:38:58Z")
Can’t believe I forgot to mention one of my all time favorites: [**Three Little Bops**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-_ck7AHKKE). ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/26 "2010-09-20T15:12:44Z")
There was a MGM? Warner Bros? cartoon from way back in the day that was set to “The Blue Danube” and the entire thing was the sheet music coming to life on the page. I remember the eight notes galloping like horses. Can’t remember the name, can’t YouTube at work … but it was my favorite ever. Close runner-up: Pinky and the Brain had an animated song listing all the parts of the brain. Brain listed them all except for Pinky’s “Brain stem! Brain stem!!” Brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/27 "2010-09-20T15:17:02Z")
It’s so cliche, but I just adore “One Froggy Evening.” It’s everything an animated short should be, and I love cartoons that tell the story without dialogue (aside from the fact that Michigan sings.) For more recent works, “Presto” is also wonderful, for many of the same reasons. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/28 "2010-09-20T15:23:43Z")
> [@](#): > > There was a MGM? Warner Bros? cartoon from way back in the day that was set to “The Blue Danube” and the entire thing was the sheet music coming to life on the page. I remember the eight notes galloping like horses. Can’t remember the name, can’t YouTube at work … but it was my favorite ever. Sounds like Bob Clampett’s **A Corny Concerto** , with Elmer Fudd doing a parody of Leopold Stokowski from _Fantasia_ > **[A Corny Concerto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Corny_Concerto)** > > A Corny Concerto is a 1943 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies directed by Bob Clampett. The short was released on September 25, 1943, and stars Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck. > They perform a parody of Walt Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon series and specifically his 1940 feature Fantasia. The film uses two of Johann Strauss's best known waltzes, "Tales from the Vienna Woods" and "The Blue Danube". > Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 is heard over the opening credits, featurin... This is what Pepper Mill thinks of every time she hears “The Blue Danube”. Whereas I think of _2001_. > **[Yahoo Image Search](https://images.search.yahoo.com/images)** [http://www.pdcomedy.com/Cartoons/ACornyConcerto/CC.html](http://www.pdcomedy.com/Cartoons/ACornyConcerto/CC.html) ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/29 "2010-09-20T15:30:54Z")
Ren and Stimpy, “Spaaaaaaaaaccce…maaaaddnesssss!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/30 "2010-09-20T16:00:17Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > There was a MGM? Warner Bros? cartoon from way back in the day that was set to “The Blue Danube” and the entire thing was the sheet music coming to life on the page. I remember the eight notes galloping like horses. Can’t remember the name, can’t YouTube at work … but it was my favorite ever. > > Sounds like Bob Clampett’s **A Corny Concerto** , with Elmer Fudd doing a parody of Leopold Stokowski from _Fantasia_ > > [A Corny Concerto - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Corny_Concerto) > This is what Pepper Mill thinks of every time she hears “The Blue Danube”. Whereas I think of _2001_. > [Yahoo Image Search](http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-980&va=a+Corny+Concerto) > > [http://www.pdcomedy.com/Cartoons/ACornyConcerto/CC.html](http://www.pdcomedy.com/Cartoons/ACornyConcerto/CC.html) Naw, that’s not it, sorry. I meant the _actual sheet music_ coming to life: the eighth notes, the quarter rests, the whole rests, sixteenths, and all the rest of 'em, all running around on the five-lined sheet. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/31 "2010-09-20T16:25:39Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > > [@MTCicero](#): > > > > This was a revelation. I just watched it for the first time and laughed out loud several times. > > > > Thanks for posting this! > > I’m glad to have shared the joy with others! It’s absolutely magnificent, isn’t it? An amazing combination of the surreal and the grotesque, all done with impeccable comic timing. > > [spoiler]Johnson & Mills Fish Sticks. > > Now with more sodium! > > Sweet Jesus![/spoiler] Probably the best thing about _Rejected_ (beyond its sheer irresistable genius) is that it was nominated for an Academy Award! ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/32 "2010-09-20T16:34:59Z")
Probably a Tom and Jerry. The one with the baby elephant? The exploding white mouse, Jerry being saddled with nephew Nibbles (he’s always hungry) at thanksgiving. Pixar has some goodies-\> [Knick Knack](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zYSsfs1lUw) ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/33 "2010-09-20T17:13:46Z")
This is a two-reeler, so I don’t know if it fits the criteria, but one of my favorites is [Popeye the Sailor](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwgH6vAEHeA&feature=related) [Meets Ali Baba’s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z91Nk7_I2Hs&feature=related) [Forty Thieves](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR8hMVoC12c) (in three parts - it’s 17 minutes long). If two-reelers aren’t allowed, how about [Hello - How Am I?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vS9mmYVD_8) ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/34 "2010-09-20T20:52:26Z")
The best cartoon short comes from one of the worst cartoon characters _[The Wacky Weed](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFCBjrQFVH0)_ which is an Andy Panda cartoon. Andy Panda is a less than mediocre character but in this short where he does battle with a weed it’s brilliant. And besides I HATE THAT FLOWER!!! Go WEED GO!!! The second best short is _Galaxia_ There was another cartoon I loved, I don’t know what program it was on but it involved a matchmaker guy and a little guy from outer space. First the matchmaker fixes him up with a jukebox, which the spaceman thinks is a woman. The jukebox is playing the song I Love You. So you can get the picture, the jukebox is singing, “I love you,” over and over and the space guy says in a really cool little squeaky voice “She love’s me.” Trust me this is funny when you hear me do the squeaky little voice. Anyway the space guy pays the matchmaker and flies off with the jukebox. A few days pass, and the space guy brings the jukebox, back and he says in that cool squeaky little voice, “She never shuts her mouth, yakita, yakita, yakita, all day long.” So the matchmaker let’s the spaceman trade her in on a gumball machine, which he also, thinks is a woman. A few more days pass and the spaceman returns with the gumball machine. And he says in his squeaky little voice “When ever I hold her hand she loses one of her eyes” In effect he is pulling the lever and it releases a gumball. In the old days gumball machines worked by putting in a penny and pulling a lever for you young guys, who only see modern day gumball machines. I wish you could hear the voice, 'cause as I read this it doesn’t sound funny, but it is. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/35 "2010-09-20T21:10:34Z")
Walt Disney’s [Education for Death](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQqCeEG5hs0). ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/36 "2010-09-20T21:44:59Z")
Can I ask another “Identify this animation…” question? Back in high school, a teacher showed us an animated sort-of-short (I think it was maybe 8? mins long) of a world that consisted of a flat square plane, populated by little animated stick figures and a single treasure chest. The plane would tip in response to everyone’s weight, sliding the box and other residents around. One guy starts sliding the box around to knock everyone else off the plane. It ends with one dude all by himself on the plane, with the treasure chest on the other side. He has to sit far apart from it to keep from tipping himself off. He sits, alone, a miser, unable to reach his own treasure. Years later, at a Pink Floyd laser light show, this animation was one of the background movies they used. None of my friends had any idea why I was suddenly so excited about that one particular bit of footage. They must’ve thought I had the brown acid or something. Anyone seen this one or know who created it? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/37 "2010-09-20T22:05:03Z")
Several of my favorites have already been mentioned, but in recent years I’ve become a big fan of Shaun the Sheep, best episodes are \*Scrumping \*and _The Visitor_. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/38 "2010-09-20T22:09:27Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > Ren and Stimpy, “Spaaaaaaaaaccce…maaaaddnesssss!” 🙂 Can’t forget HappyHappyJoyJoy, now can we? The part where Ren is desperately trying to destroy the electronic Happy Hat which is stuck on his head, by bashing it, and himself, with a heavy stick, in time with the music, had me ROTF. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/39 "2010-09-20T22:22:43Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Can I ask another “Identify this animation…” question? Back in high school, a teacher showed us an animated sort-of-short (I think it was maybe 8? mins long) of a world that consisted of a flat square plane, populated by little animated stick figures and a single treasure chest. The plane would tip in response to everyone’s weight, sliding the box and other residents around. One guy starts sliding the box around to knock everyone else off the plane. [Balance](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91bNp7HJolE) ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/40 "2010-09-20T22:29:29Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > _[The Wacky Weed](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFCBjrQFVH0)_ which is an Andy Panda cartoon. Andy Panda is a less than mediocre character but in this short where he does battle with a weed it’s brilliant. Hahahaaa! He couldn’t help himself! Hahahaa, he _had_ to choke her. I love when he woke her up with smelling salts to choke her. Thanks. That was funny as hell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342.md?page=3)