I can't even begin to really explain this, but I thought it was hilarious.
Rejected

edit: You'll have to just use the link since DD doesn't seem keen on letting me post it up directly.

Yeah. I've seen these before. Funny stuff! :D

Someone posted this in the golden days of the TD. :)
I wonder what the real story behind it was though? Just made for fun or what?

I still love the dancing cloud people.

ozoneocean
I wonder what the real story behind it was though? Just made for fun or what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Learning_Channel [en.wikipedia.org]

Rejected is one of the early work made by Don Hertzfeldt. If you don't know him then I recommend looking him up. There's some twisted work after him out there.

Here's another early work after him. Genre

SpANG

ozoneocean
I wonder what the real story behind it was though? Just made for fun or what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Learning_Channel [en.wikipedia.org]

Thanks, but providing the info directly would have been nice. ^_^:

Rejected is a 2000 animated short comedy film by Don Hertzfeldt that was nominated for a 2001 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It received 27 awards from film festivals around the world and in 2004 was ranked by the Internet Movie Database as the 3rd best short film of all time.

Rejected has a cult following and has grown into a pop culture icon that is frequently quoted or referenced.
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This line from wiki is a bit depressing though:
The short's enduring popularity has led the film to be described as "this generation's A Hard Day's Night".

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh... It's not that good. I always liked it, it's an entertaining little bit of internet flotsam, but... Not that remarkable.

Hertzfeldt is great. He also made the brilliant "Intermission in 3D".

haha! when i was a sophmore about 6 years ago i used to watch that almost every day! i love when the baby falls down the stairs! haha. oh! then when the dude rips out the other guys stomache and puts it on his head and his arms goes all fucked up! ahhh, then that other dude shoots bees outa his nipples and makes thet weird cow/bomb siren noise. fuckin eh that's NASTOLGIA!!!!! thank you for this. thank you.

im not sure, but by the style, i think this is the same guy who does the pop tart commercials. anyone else agree?maby his commercials finally broke through!

That is a brilliant masterpiece.

PIT_FACE
im not sure, but by the style, i think this is the same guy who does the pop tart commercials. anyone else agree?maby his commercials finally broke through!

It's not the same guy, Poptarts just blatantly ripped him off. The Family Learning Channel is fictional also. The whole point of Rejected (aside from just being funny) is that commercialism stifles creativity and uniqueness which makes what poptarts is doing all the more annoying.

ozoneocean
This line from wiki is a bit depressing though:
The short's enduring popularity has led the film to be described as "this generation's A Hard Day's Night".

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh... It's not that good. I always liked it, it's an entertaining little bit of internet flotsam, but... Not that remarkable.

Have you seen A Hard Days Night? It really isn't more than entertaining flotsam either. It's just about as cartoonish as Rejected too.

Product Placement
Here's another early work after him. Genre

The last 5 seconds of that one is awesome.