# What's your favorite animated short of all time?

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/61 "2010-09-24T15:36:36Z")

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Just remembered my recent favorite, from Disney’s _Fantasia_: [Firebird](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FWq17CT6Cs).

Two parts give me a bit of a jolt down my spine every time I watch it:

The lava creature’s eyes snapping open at 2:45, and the rejuvinated dryad’s expression of, um, _exuberance_ at 8:44.

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/62 "2010-09-24T16:34:32Z")

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> [@Koxinga](#):
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> Just remembered my recent favorite, from Disney’s _Fantasia_: [Firebird](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FWq17CT6Cs). [/SPOILER]

[Nitpick]It’s from _Fantasia 2000_, not the original _Fantasia_.[/Nitpick]

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**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/63 "2010-09-24T19:34:26Z")

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> [@mack](#):
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> Probably the most touching, though, is Disney’s [The Little Match Girl](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUSzQBaWq0Q). The lousy youtube dub doesn’t do it justice, of course.

I thought of this one, too. It definitely produced tears in my household.

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**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/64 "2010-09-24T19:38:38Z")

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Nevermind. I was totally wrong.

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**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-animated-short-of-all-time/554342/65 "2010-09-24T20:35:59Z")

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Another one for _Rejected_; until I’d seen it, _Billy’s Balloon_ had been my favorite.

I was pretty lucky to have seen _Billy’s Balloon_, _Rejected_, and Hertzfeldt’s three-part _Welcome to the Show/Intermission in the Third Dimension/The End of the Show_ theatrically in animation festivals; the audience reaction to each one amplified just how funny I found them. I bought legal DVDs of them, too (they’re notorious for being heavily pirated), with _Rejected_ having wonderfully insane packaging and disc labeling on its stand-alone disc, and _Billy’s Balloon_ and _Welcome to the Show/Intermission in the Third Dimension/The End of the Show_ were on the DVD _The Animation Show, Volume One_.

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