2001 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film. This is the 2015 restoration of "Rejected", remastered from the original 35mm film for Blu-ray: bitterfilms.com...
I watch Rejected just about yearly, and the Collapse act is really still incredible. It doesn't just break the fourth wall - something Deadpool loves to do and people love him for it - no, Rejected rolls around in it, Rejected submerges itself in the fourth wall like a generous lover until, inevitably, the viewer reaches its climactic release.
Don Hertzfeldt basically made asdfmovie years before asdfmovie, and did it with a message about artistic integrity and commercialization to boot. You're a legend, sir.
The first time I saw rejected, TH-cam was still the wild west. No ads. No suggested videos based on what you've already viewed. And somehow I found this. My 15 year old brain was immediately transformed for the better. Thanks for that.
I think someone gave me this on a CD-RW when I was also about 15. I distinctly remember that at the time, nothing had ever made me laugh harder than this short. The anal bleeding is still the best part.
I think being exposed to this short at such a young age and watching it over and over again was a contributing factor to my strange sense of humor. Thank you Don Hertzfeldt.
I swear that joke was from monty python. Maybe I'm thinking of the 'very silly' political party, and the silly walk sketch, but I thought they had a silly hats sketch too.
I still remember my friend telling me about this video at 7th grade recess like it was yesterday (31 now) - and then finally getting to watch it on freaking dial-up internet on my dad's work computer in the middle of the night while he was asleep and just losing my shit for 10 minutes straight. The epitome of formative moments.
What amazes me is that despite how whacky and funny the majority of the movie is, the last part where everything “begins” to fall apart always fills me with a sense of dread. It’s true art, and I love it.
The Blu-Ray compilations have actually sold really well, from what I've heard. Of course, not every single person that has watched this will buy one, but a dedicated fanbase will always help finance your career.
@@dominicbofficial Oh I don't doubt they sold well, but just in comparison to how many people have watched and enjoyed his work it seems like it can't nearly be enough.
@@dudeivealreadydonethis5tim289 nah- i was just hoping someone would remember what i'm talking about. i first watched it on one of those dvds from a music magazine back in the day
I remember watching this in 2000 in 144p in real video player from a zip disk I got from a friend since he had 1 megabit DSL and it would have taken all night to download over dial up.
@@smallmoneysalvia minus the zip disk, this is about the time I watched it. Plus, I was in the school library because everyone in my area still had 56kbps dial up. Oh the memories!
Adrian Thomas-Prestemon sure as shit wasn’t paying for no expensive ass CD burner, and that video was like 12 megs, it would span half a box of floppies!
This is not only one of the funniest cartoons ever made and most likely the grandfather of internet culture as we know it, but it’s just a masterpiece of simple yet complex animation.
Has this been added to the Library of Congress yet? You defined a generation's humour with this short. I'm almost thirty and I still think of lines from this a few times a year. Especially when my anus is bleeding.
2002, last semester of college, a huge huddle of us around a desktop computer, dialing up the internet, and then crying laughing at the deranged beauty of this video. Today, 2024, sharing this video with my 10yo son on an iPhone, watching *him* cry laughing as I realize that when I approve of myself in the mirror and say, “I am feeling fat…and sassy!”-it originated from this. Damn, Don-what a ride!
The canned laughter and applause in the background gets me every time lol. Like the baby rolling down the stairs is just another gag in a daytime comedy show.
I still have friends that if I say "Ma spoon is TOO BIG" we all erupt into laughter, and most people around have no idea wtf is so funny! Best inside joke ever!
gorak9000 I have a spoon that’s way too big just so when a lady comes over for the first time I can say mah spoon is too big. If she doesn’t know or at least laugh we probably aren’t going to last.
Back in high school this video was a right of passage to becoming my friend. If you watched it and laughed your self near to death you passed. Thanks for making me into the man I am today Don.
At 8:08 this is seriously one of the greatest animations ever. Possibly one of the greatest 4th wall breaks too. I’ve watched a lot of cartoons and animators and I’ve never seen anyone ever do anything like how that cartoon figure is pounding at the “glass” and the paper wrinkles at every pound. Don is a fucking talented genius
@@G.A.C_Preservething is this was originally made 15 years ago. 15 years. That kind of animation back then took serious talent, whereas nowadays you can make something similar with 1/100th the effort due to how far animation programs have come. Give credit where credit is due.
I've been referencing "my spoon is too big" since I was a little kid and my brother showed me that short. Thank you for one of the longest running inside jokes I've ever had!
It's weird how seeing this animation in such crisp clarity is really jarring to me, and I can't tell if it's nostalgia playing tricks on me, or if the comparatively grainy nature of early 2000's heavily compressed 240p actually lent itself to the theme and style of the short.
I haven't seen this since I was 17. I'm 28 now and the "silly hats only" bit actually spoke to me. During my mid 20's all I wanted to be was part of the alternative musician crowd. When I acted and dressed the same as they did they saw right through me and I was treated like shit by almost every one of my friends. Eventually I cut ties with all of them for beating me down and have my own life. Some of them were more successful than me and some of them weren't, but the point was that I didn't exclude people trying to find their heart, I only helped them find it. And it's led to more lifelong friends than any of the people who beat me with a baseball bat will ever feel in their lives.
That's pretty similar to my life experiences, but also kinda the opposite lol, the alt musician crowd in my city is actually the only community I've ever really felt like I can be myself and have people appreciate me for who I am, but I think it's mostly because most of the people I know in that scene are just really great people in general
That's awesome, I just chanced upon this crazy animation, and the funny hats only bit spoke to me. Not in the same way you described, but your reply was somehow even deeper than the animation. I hope you read this. You sound like a great guy. We need more people like you to give acceptance to others.
This cartoon basically made a generation of ppl have really obscure senses of humor. It was kind of like a surreal Far Side where Far Side comics were sort of my childhood intro to weird / dark humor. This just pushed that humor off a surreal cliff.
I don't know if it was the ultimate source, but the early 2000's and the Wild Webs did produce a lot of surreal/absurdist humor that was a major influence on Millennials and even more so Gen Z -- this, Nigahiga, ASDF, hell, how many people _still_ say "I am le tired"?
This film is one of the core reasons why my sense of humor is so fucked up in my adult years. First saw it when I was around 9 or 10. Still just as legendary now as it was back in the day. A true masterpiece of modern animation.
Not so much random as surreal. Surrealist humour has been a thing for a while, and is often misunderstood. Monty Python used surrealist humour, as did one of their primary influences, The Goon Show by Spike Milligan. If surreal humour is your thing, you can find many Goon Show radio broadcast episodes on the BBC archive sites. Dates to just after WW2 when the BBC was still quite young and didn't preserve much so some is missing.
That metallic groaning noise at 7:16 is one of the most genuinely frightening things I've ever heard. That's the sound of something enormous and probably important, failing. If you ever heard that in real life you might very well be screwed.
we admired you back in 8th-grade history class around 2002. All that a group of us would draw every day during that class, what we considered was an ode to such art. We thank you.
So, funny enough, the first time I saw Rejected was actually at a film festival featuring animated shorts, including Dr. Tran. I think I paid ten bucks to see it at the local theater and I felt like it was worth every penny. My friends and I were quoting Rejected for the next 6 months. "MY ANUS IS BLEEDING" would elicit unstoppable laughter every time it was uttered. We weren't kids. We were in our early 20s. I am so glad that this is up here.
The first time I saw this was in film school. Not college: a little film school for kids in Buenos Aires. I don't know why they thought this was suitable for children. I was eleven, maybe twelve. It blew my mind, specially the ending. I've loved Hertzfeldt since then. So glad this masterpiece is now available for all, and in all its demented glory.
My fondest memories are from this: laughing on the floor, 10 years old, in a small town on the peninsula of Mexico, with my parents and their friends spilling their wine. Thank you Dan.
I just wanted you to know if you see this that my best friend of my entire life showed me this when we were in seventh grade. He took his own life and sometimes i still come back to this just to laugh and occasionally cry like a bitch. Thank you for accidentally helping me remember my boy. You’ll never understand how much i need this video lol
Internet Humour's always had an absurdist, surreal or just fucked up streak like Badger Badger Mushroom- th-cam.com/video/EIyixC9NsLI/w-d-xo.html (I can remember drunk people singing this outside a nightclub in 2003) or Salad Fingers- th-cam.com/video/wpVTORX_ifk/w-d-xo.html or the video that the Salad Fingers guy did for Aphex Twin's Milkman- th-cam.com/video/SgqMBzB1kHo/w-d-xo.html All of these pre-date YT.
There's something that unnerves me about the final shot where as the character is screaming, the animation stops, your suspension of disbelief collapses, and now it's merely only a drawing of the character in the chaos. The paper crumpling effects are an obvious fourth wall break, but that moment of depersonalization gets to me.
this is really deep and emotional. the “ my anis is bleeding” segment is a parallel to how in life, you may be suffering but everyone around you is still living happily not caring about you.
Hi Don, I met you about a decade ago in Oly Washington, participated in your Q&A session, and had you sign my old DVD copy of REJECTED. You didn't want to carve your name into the cover with my switchblade, but you did sign it and draw stars all over the cover; which was cool. Hope all is well.
My student newspaper had this on all 4 of the computers in our one-room office playing on loop simultaneously, but nowhere close to being synchronized. For days. Some of the best days of my life.
I watched this for the first time back in 06 and will watch whenever I am reminded of its existence. 18 years later, and im still laughing. No notes, just pure brilliance.
If this was really posted by the creator. I want to offer a genuine thank you for putting something in the world that made life a little more joyful for me and my freinds. I can't tell you how any times we watched these shorts, laughed and quoted them.
This film was going to be aired on adult swim but (ironically) they rejected it due to some references to god/jesus, as Adult Swims parent network wouldn't allow that at the time.
Hah! This coming from the network that had shows like Black Jesus, Lucy: Daughter of the Devil, and Your Pretty Little Face Is Going To Hell? (I know, those shows came later...)
This animation is probably one of the biggest inspirations to me I love it so much. I think it's also worth noting Don's technique of folding and crumpling and shaking the paper under the downshooter is a genius way of showing that the cartoons are falling apart. God bless
Whenever you think, "wow, Internet/Millennial (and Gen Z) humor is weird and random and nonsensical", watch this and remember, humor today is tame compared to the insanity of the Wild Webst.
Technically this is only barely gen-x as the creator was born in 1976, and anyone that watched this as a kid was necessarily a millennial or gen z. Your comment would make more sense if you were talking about monty python or something.
I remember seeing this in college back in 2004, on a big projector screen in animation class. It was held in high esteem on campus, like Homestar Runner.
Same! Showed Homestar Runner to my classmates as an example of an awesome animated website, and it went "viral" back in 2001-2003 (Perth). My handle is a mash up of homestar and marzipan :P Toons!
As a sophomore in college, I remember my very drunk friends showing me this in 2004; and knowing I was looking at something that would transcend time and space. 16 years later, still holds true.
In an alternate timeline, Don Hertzfeldt was not a successful animator, but a pioneering filmmaker, producing among other things an entirely new kind of TV series that would go on to have a tremendous influence on television for the next decade or so. Meanwhile, on the internet, you would find comments saying "David Lynch? Isn't that the guy who made those fake animated commercials?"
He kind of already is this, though? In film and animation circles, Don's incredibly well respected as a pioneer of what would become internet humor and It's "Such A Beautiful Day" is considered a modern masterpiece. He hasn't had the overt success in the entertainment industry that David Lynch has had, but even HE hasn't had THAT much. Just like Don, he has an incredibly devoted fanbase and is respected by critics, but the average person you meet on the street probably hasn't watched Twin Peaks or Mulholland Drive. They have varying degrees of popularity, but they're still cult filmmakers lol
20 years later and this still brings me so much joy. Got to Don Hertzfeldt twice... highlight. In about 2004, I showed the DVD of this to my Swedish niece (she would have been about 15)... the happy tune playing during "my anus is bleeding" is, apparently, a Swedish children's xmas song! It just added to genius of this.
East Lansing student film festival, March 24th 2000. It was my 16th birthday and I had just eaten mushrooms for the first time. This began playing as soon as the shrooms kicked in. Thank you, Don, for making my first time tripping balls as well as my birthday into something I will never forget!
I was an only child but I met the love of my life. She had two brothers and a competitive sports father. 10 years later and I couldn't be happier that I found this video again.
Who remembers (without Googling it or looking on Wikipedia) the name of the animated short that beat out "Rejected" for the Academy Award? That's right, nobody! Don Hertzfeldt for the win in the long term!
My demented childhood brought back in glorious hd. So much quoting was done from this back in the day. To this day I say to my wife. "I'm feeling fat and sassy." Regularly.
18 years on, and still the head of its oddly specific (but nonetheless highly populated) class. I have the Blu-ray already, but thanks for uploading this, Don!
@@johto ...why can it not be the "real meaning"? Why can it not be about deterioration, breaking down, things just getting worse and all your struggles to stop that decline being worthless until all you can do is scream out a pointless noise? Part of the artistry of this particular piece is that the "obvious narrative" is a valid interpretation, but that it need not be the only interpretation. Unless Don himself states otherwise, there's more than one possible "real" meaning, and refusing to acknowledge the validity of the obvious narrative is only self-aggrandizing closed-mindedness masquerading as something else. Sometimes, a cigar really is just a cigar.
I remember back in 2002 this video caused our internet privileges to be taken away. I still think it was worth it.
Bahahahahhahahahahahahaha
I was born in 2002
Damn I wasn’t even born yet
Thanks guys now I feel old. 😁
Meanwhile my parents showed this to me
Adult Swim would give this guy 10 seasons and a movie
This short film heavily inspired adult swim
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👁 👄 👁
*11
They better give us #sixseasonsandamovie
Jokes aside, that last segment where everything crumbles apart is some seriously impressive animation.
If I recall correctly, this short was nominated for an Oscar at the time of its release.
@@3N3MY0FF473 It was for "Best Animated Short Film" or something.
My exact thoughts watching it again today
7:06
I watch Rejected just about yearly, and the Collapse act is really still incredible. It doesn't just break the fourth wall - something Deadpool loves to do and people love him for it - no, Rejected rolls around in it, Rejected submerges itself in the fourth wall like a generous lover until, inevitably, the viewer reaches its climactic release.
"I'm a consumer whore!"
"And how!"
10 years later and it still gets me for some reason
It's a magical pony flying through the sky on a magical journey...
@@zyansheep Shoot it down.
I still refer to myself as a consumer whore because of watching this video over half a decade ago
Love that part
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"For the love of God and all that is holy, my anus is bleeding" has stayed crystal-clear in my mind for almost a decade now.
"My spoon is too big!" Or "I'm a banana" stick with me just as much
I have to stop myself from saying it.
@@bp67499 Any time I am handed a large spoon, I have to actively fight the urge to say it.
I just came back coz out of a sudden I heard my self saying "I live in a giant bucket"
Same. I could even remember how it sounded like it was recorded on a cheap mic.
Don Hertzfeldt basically made asdfmovie years before asdfmovie, and did it with a message about artistic integrity and commercialization to boot. You're a legend, sir.
I was just thinking that. I wonder if Tomska has seen this?
That's literally what I thought when I first watched this
and got a Academy Award nomination for it
@@reignbow_official2582 It seems pretty obvious to me
I mean, it's really nothing like asdf beyond a surface similarity in the medium and style.
The first time I saw rejected, TH-cam was still the wild west. No ads. No suggested videos based on what you've already viewed. And somehow I found this. My 15 year old brain was immediately transformed for the better. Thanks for that.
The first time I saw it TH-cam didn't exist.
I think someone gave me this on a CD-RW when I was also about 15. I distinctly remember that at the time, nothing had ever made me laugh harder than this short.
The anal bleeding is still the best part.
I saw it on Limewire hahah
FastForward to Today, I got an Ad in the Middle of the “MY ANU.....then AD smh
@@ratpunkgurl Came here to post just that, thank you
this being nominated for an oscar is the greatest thing to ever happen
Wait really?
@@DasGam3rz yes!!!!!
agoodpersonwithhappyfeelings No, the greatest thing to ever happen would be if this actually WON the award.
Cheyenne Cyr I thought he did, apparently I lied to myself for all these years
@@ashcyr3711 u right u right
I have always loved how this goes from random ass humor to cosmic horror
Don't hug me, i'm scared.
The ideal format to see this film in is a highy corrupted avi file, the VHS of the early 2000's.
but the restoration is BEAUTIFUL!
context..?
Like A beat up Texas Chainsaw Massacre Tape, Well Said.
Rejected - Don Hertzfeldt REAL.exe
No really, this is highly accurate. I remember the compression artifacts so well.
Who else here is 30 years old reliving their humor from when they were 14
41 years old here. Saw the first Internet websites. The years go by fast.
40 and 25
Thought this looked familiar
48, just ordered the Blu-ray and it will sit next to the out of print DVD's.
My friends still curse me for introducing them to this.
Raises hand
all these years later, i still have "my spoon is too big" permanently etched in my brain
its a toss up betwen my spoon is too big and the dancing clouds XD
I just said it out loud at dinner and had to (just HAD to) educate my buddy on the reference. I’m glad I did.
I'm so happy I'm not the only one, all these years later, saying the same thing. 😂
Only a spoonful
0:40
I think being exposed to this short at such a young age and watching it over and over again was a contributing factor to my strange sense of humor. Thank you Don Hertzfeldt.
Can completely agree
@@bungus1496 this makes we people 3
You can add a fourth. I'm so happy this still exists
hmm yes thats quite a floppy noise
Same
The "SILLY HATS ONLY" part will never get old. This video as a whole will never get old.
I swear that joke was from monty python. Maybe I'm thinking of the 'very silly' political party, and the silly walk sketch, but I thought they had a silly hats sketch too.
Other than their hats, those dudes seem pretty serious.
It's an official trailer of Team Fortress 2
“My spoon is too big” does it for me
yes
I still remember my friend telling me about this video at 7th grade recess like it was yesterday (31 now) - and then finally getting to watch it on freaking dial-up internet on my dad's work computer in the middle of the night while he was asleep and just losing my shit for 10 minutes straight.
The epitome of formative moments.
What amazes me is that despite how whacky and funny the majority of the movie is, the last part where everything “begins” to fall apart always fills me with a sense of dread. It’s true art, and I love it.
Yes, that is the best part of the movie. I kinda hate all the rest
Tell me about it. There is actually a legitimate horror in the last portion.
Scott Villanueva Do you remember the animated short that parodied The Ear Scene in Reservoir Dogs? If so any idea where to find it? Thank you
Outside of their skits they are still sort of hanging out.
@@ImGazu Sorry, random question, but are you Doug Dimmadome, owner of the Dimsdale Dimmadome?
I appreciate Don being willing to put this up for free. There's no way enough people have bought it for him to get the compensation he deserves.
I did, though. And a lot of people have bought his Blu-Ray movies on kickstarter, so...
The Blu-Ray compilations have actually sold really well, from what I've heard. Of course, not every single person that has watched this will buy one, but a dedicated fanbase will always help finance your career.
@@dominicbofficial Oh I don't doubt they sold well, but just in comparison to how many people have watched and enjoyed his work it seems like it can't nearly be enough.
@@dominicbofficial what's "really well" for you?
My college film club bought a copy circa 04/05. I have to assume many others did at least
This video shaped my childhood. I truly am, a banana.
*vacuum noises*
I found out I had ulcerative colitis around the time this was released and I've gotten A LOT of mileage out of "My anus is bleeding!"
🤣
My spoon has always been too big
You'n'me both - a bunch, as it were.
Ah yes, A Comically Large Spoon
@PoogliPuss spoonful
This spoon is abnormally large
It's only a spoonful
Mah SCHPoon is to big!
There is no spoon.
I haven't seen this video in probably ten years. I haven't forgotten a bit of it, and I've never felt fatter or sassier.
TheChrononaut1 Do you remember the animated short that parodied The Ear Scene in Reservoir Dogs? If so any idea where to find it? Thank you
SAME
and how!
@@meghandailey8807 was it a Don Hertzfeldt animated short?
@@dudeivealreadydonethis5tim289 nah- i was just hoping someone would remember what i'm talking about. i first watched it on one of those dvds from a music magazine back in the day
6:36 When he said "E MONKEY PORK COFFEE mike MOOTS" I felt that
I remember watching this in 2007 in 240p. Those were much different times.
I remember watching this in 2000 in 144p in real video player from a zip disk I got from a friend since he had 1 megabit DSL and it would have taken all night to download over dial up.
much different. so other. wow.
@@smallmoneysalvia minus the zip disk, this is about the time I watched it. Plus, I was in the school library because everyone in my area still had 56kbps dial up. Oh the memories!
@@smallmoneysalvia You had Zip disks?!
Adrian Thomas-Prestemon sure as shit wasn’t paying for no expensive ass CD burner, and that video was like 12 megs, it would span half a box of floppies!
The only remaster I need in my life.
Hey the Warcraft 3 remaster doesn't hurt either though.
The only way this could be better would be to have the director's commentary from the old upload as subtitles.
Ok now you are becoming the new Justin. y
@@jasper1064 Where else have you seen me?
Honestly early in the relationship with my now spouse, I discovered he had the Rejected DVD, and I knew it was a good sign.
This is not only one of the funniest cartoons ever made and most likely the grandfather of internet culture as we know it, but it’s just a masterpiece of simple yet complex animation.
Has this been added to the Library of Congress yet?
You defined a generation's humour with this short. I'm almost thirty and I still think of lines from this a few times a year. Especially when my anus is bleeding.
Not yet but hopefully someday.
Doyoooooo
Kayaaaaaaa
Waaaaaaaah
Waaaaaaaaah
You say that as if your anus bleeds multiple times a year.
@@ToxPhy You say that like yours doesn't 🤔
@@ToxPhy if he suffers from perpetual hemorrhoids his anus would be bleeding multiple times a year.
2:41
“I’m feeling fat and sassy”
“DOYOOOHHHHH!!!!”
By far my favorite part
The insane; freewheeling jazz in the background completes it.
Lmao, absolutely. My friend and i still quote it to this day 😂
GAYAAAAAAHHH-
Fat and sassy always makes me giggle uncontrollably. The inflection is juuuuust right
@@ewwjellyUWAAAAAAAH- pop
2002, last semester of college, a huge huddle of us around a desktop computer, dialing up the internet, and then crying laughing at the deranged beauty of this video. Today, 2024, sharing this video with my 10yo son on an iPhone, watching *him* cry laughing as I realize that when I approve of myself in the mirror and say, “I am feeling fat…and sassy!”-it originated from this. Damn, Don-what a ride!
The baby falling down the stairs gets me every time. It's so out of nowhere and random I can't help but laugh.
It's my all-time favorite part of this
Not gonna lie I come back periodically every few years to watch it. Was in my head at work at night, oh and south park's rendition of r kelly
The canned laughter and applause in the background gets me every time lol. Like the baby rolling down the stairs is just another gag in a daytime comedy show.
It's right when it zooms out to reveal how ridiculously long the staircase is that sends me lol
And the part at the end of that commercial is the icing on the cake.
This film shaped me into the man i am today.
I still say "im feeling fat and sassy" after every meal.
wolf397 yeah I use it frequently as well haha
I quote so much of this video haha.
I still have friends that if I say "Ma spoon is TOO BIG" we all erupt into laughter, and most people around have no idea wtf is so funny! Best inside joke ever!
gorak9000 I have a spoon that’s way too big just so when a lady comes over for the first time I can say mah spoon is too big. If she doesn’t know or at least laugh we probably aren’t going to last.
“i LivE In a GIaNt BucKeT”
Back in high school this video was a right of passage to becoming my friend. If you watched it and laughed your self near to death you passed. Thanks for making me into the man I am today Don.
1:40 I love that even the angry tumour is going “WTF is that?” when the flying octopig sails past.
Aggressively anti-consumerist, post-modernist, hilarious. This influenced me deeply.
It probably helped configure the current dadaist and surreal state of internet humor.
@@Solaire_of_Astora13 I mean it helped
It looks like a bunch of pseudo intellectual bullshit
ehhh, anti-commercialization, not consumerist. But honestly even that is a bit of a stretch.
I'm also a consumer Whore!
My eyes cant handle the quality! I still have the pixely 140p video on my computer from over a decade ago.
"I live in a giant bucket." Never related so hard to anything in the whole wide bucket.
When you first saw this you were either….
A stoner at a film festival,
or a kid who was about to get the computer taken away from them.
Why do I feel like this was the ASDF movie of its time
In a way it was. Asdfmovie was influenced a lot by Hertzfeldt's work.
I think Rejected, The Lazer Collection, and ASDF are a sort of holy trinity in their own way, they always had similar vibes going on
@@willswain7144
It was done because they knew in the future, it would piss you off. And you are of no consequence.
Anyone else remember the demented cartoon movie?
@@WolfgangDoW what’s it Called? I wanna see it
At 8:08 this is seriously one of the greatest animations ever. Possibly one of the greatest 4th wall breaks too. I’ve watched a lot of cartoons and animators and I’ve never seen anyone ever do anything like how that cartoon figure is pounding at the “glass” and the paper wrinkles at every pound. Don is a fucking talented genius
I guess you've never watched Chowder
@@blackcat80yearsago96 i guess you dont want to accept
@@panuru9175 ?
@@panuru9175 i saw it before, not like he invented this or anything
@@G.A.C_Preservething is this was originally made 15 years ago. 15 years. That kind of animation back then took serious talent, whereas nowadays you can make something similar with 1/100th the effort due to how far animation programs have come.
Give credit where credit is due.
This must never be allowed to leave TH-cam. Keep the tapes circulating, the next generation must witness this gloriously stupid masterpiece.
That's right kids,
This was nominated for an OSCAR (one of the times they got something RIGHT)!!
Should have won best picture honestly.
@@RevolutionaryLoser or at least the category for which it was nominated.
Yeah. Nominated, but didn't win. But I heard you still get a cash prize even if you're nominated, so...
I still quote "Tuesday's coming, did you bring your coat?"
"I am feeling fat and sassy"
I live in a giant bucket.
I've said this to people countless times! lol
And I will randomly say "i am a baNAna!"
“Mah spoon is too big...”
The left handed ones with the jibberish are my absolute favorite. Brilliant all around.
Jibberish? Clearly that was French.
“Guess they couldn’t handle the Hertzfeldt style!”
See ya later N-
@@silverdays2909 SAYONARA N-
I've been referencing "my spoon is too big" since I was a little kid and my brother showed me that short. Thank you for one of the longest running inside jokes I've ever had!
heh. I found myself quoting it before pressing play lol
I feel man, it's a shame people dont get it when i say it and I have to be like "eh nevermind"
I literally came to find this comment after I had a moment where I said “my spoon is too big” to myself (I wanted a spoon for my icecream)
...
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just watched It’s Such A Beautiful Day and stumbled across this nostalgia gem
It's weird how seeing this animation in such crisp clarity is really jarring to me, and I can't tell if it's nostalgia playing tricks on me, or if the comparatively grainy nature of early 2000's heavily compressed 240p actually lent itself to the theme and style of the short.
i was thinking that too! the fuzziness of the old version really added to the surreal nature of it all
Idk maybe it did?
davyinatoga Do you remember the animated short that parodied The Ear Scene in Reservoir Dogs? If so any idea where to find it? Thank you
@TheIgors20 your unnecessary rudeness made me laugh, take my upvote
It’s been remastered
I forgot how this ended. Sweet Jesus, it's terrifying.
I haven't seen this since I was 17. I'm 28 now and the "silly hats only" bit actually spoke to me. During my mid 20's all I wanted to be was part of the alternative musician crowd. When I acted and dressed the same as they did they saw right through me and I was treated like shit by almost every one of my friends. Eventually I cut ties with all of them for beating me down and have my own life. Some of them were more successful than me and some of them weren't, but the point was that I didn't exclude people trying to find their heart, I only helped them find it. And it's led to more lifelong friends than any of the people who beat me with a baseball bat will ever feel in their lives.
that's really deep man
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That's pretty similar to my life experiences, but also kinda the opposite lol, the alt musician crowd in my city is actually the only community I've ever really felt like I can be myself and have people appreciate me for who I am, but I think it's mostly because most of the people I know in that scene are just really great people in general
That's awesome, I just chanced upon this crazy animation, and the funny hats only bit spoke to me. Not in the same way you described, but your reply was somehow even deeper than the animation. I hope you read this. You sound like a great guy. We need more people like you to give acceptance to others.
This cartoon basically made a generation of ppl have really obscure senses of humor. It was kind of like a surreal Far Side where Far Side comics were sort of my childhood intro to weird / dark humor. This just pushed that humor off a surreal cliff.
Whole-heartedly agree!!!
@@scottsadler4215 Charlie The Unicorn
Also Salad Fingers by David Firth
I don't know if it was the ultimate source, but the early 2000's and the Wild Webs did produce a lot of surreal/absurdist humor that was a major influence on Millennials and even more so Gen Z -- this, Nigahiga, ASDF, hell, how many people _still_ say "I am le tired"?
Wait this was supposed to be funny?
This film is one of the core reasons why my sense of humor is so fucked up in my adult years. First saw it when I was around 9 or 10. Still just as legendary now as it was back in the day. A true masterpiece of modern animation.
This. Random and sick sense of humor grew inside me thanks to this. I remember I was screaming of laughter when I saw this series the first time.
Exactly same, this was the pinnacle of comedy when i was like 9 i had never laughed harder in my life up to that point
me too
Same. This and 2005-2006 /b have corrupted me.
Saw this at ACEN in like 03 and was like WHAT THE FUCK never fully saw it until I got high-speed at home in 08 I still laugh at it.
A true pioneer of “random” humor.
don hertzfeldt walked so eric andre could run
Not so much random as surreal. Surrealist humour has been a thing for a while, and is often misunderstood. Monty Python used surrealist humour, as did one of their primary influences, The Goon Show by Spike Milligan. If surreal humour is your thing, you can find many Goon Show radio broadcast episodes on the BBC archive sites. Dates to just after WW2 when the BBC was still quite young and didn't preserve much so some is missing.
That metallic groaning noise at 7:16 is one of the most genuinely frightening things I've ever heard. That's the sound of something enormous and probably important, failing. If you ever heard that in real life you might very well be screwed.
sweet jesus have you heard it before? Hope you're ok :(
@@lilacKurage I imagine the people at the Hyatt Hotel probably heard something like that.
It does sound quite frightening
That's the sound of a cruise ship going over an extremely large wave in a terrible storm.
I'm guessing that's the sound of a mechanical failure on a large ship or something?
Me: Awwwyeee i remember this shii..
Also Me, 9 minutes later: HoLy ShIt WhAt ThE fUcK
we admired you back in 8th-grade history class around 2002. All that a group of us would draw every day during that class, what we considered was an ode to such art. We thank you.
8:20 "Then, suddenly the animator suffered a fatal heart attack!"
The cartoon peril was no more.
Ni
Tis' but a scratch
it’s only a model
@@maverickhunterstupidiocy7779 shh!
So, funny enough, the first time I saw Rejected was actually at a film festival featuring animated shorts, including Dr. Tran. I think I paid ten bucks to see it at the local theater and I felt like it was worth every penny. My friends and I were quoting Rejected for the next 6 months. "MY ANUS IS BLEEDING" would elicit unstoppable laughter every time it was uttered.
We weren't kids. We were in our early 20s. I am so glad that this is up here.
The first time I saw this was in film school. Not college: a little film school for kids in Buenos Aires. I don't know why they thought this was suitable for children. I was eleven, maybe twelve. It blew my mind, specially the ending. I've loved Hertzfeldt since then. So glad this masterpiece is now available for all, and in all its demented glory.
Your teacher had a fuckin great sense of humor haha
They probably thought it being animated automatically made it suitable for kids.
Alejo Paredes Do you remember the animated short that parodied The Ear Scene in Reservoir Dogs? If so any idea where to find it? Thank you
Was it subtitled? That’s kinda cool that your school showed this though lol
@@jakesommer3914 Yes, she was my favourite teacher ever, probably.
bruh "im feeling fat and sassy" is the quote of my life
Yaasss the reason I'm rewatching this
Perhaps, but I'm the queen of France
I saw this 20 years ago on the night I met my future wife. She first saw me on the floor crying with laughter at this video. We’re still together. ❤️
That is a lovely story. No better way to sort out who you can love.
My fondest memories are from this: laughing on the floor, 10 years old, in a small town on the peninsula of Mexico, with my parents and their friends spilling their wine. Thank you Dan.
Miapapia yo también tenía entre 10 y 9 años cuando solía ver y dibujar estos cortos porque me parecían tan geniales
If this isn't in the criterion collection it needs to be added immediately.
I know Don has a Blu-Ray with a most of his work collected togeather
I just wanted you to know if you see this that my best friend of my entire life showed me this when we were in seventh grade. He took his own life and sometimes i still come back to this just to laugh and occasionally cry like a bitch. Thank you for accidentally helping me remember my boy. You’ll never understand how much i need this video lol
*_maaah spoon is too big_*
I am a baaanaaanaaaa!
*Vacuum noise*
That was perfect
@@TABBYMUSIC What was perfect?
I've never met anyone, who would understand this quote. And I really try to use it, even though we don't speak English that often here...
The film that invented the TH-cam sense of humor.
ZanraiKid Honestly though. I feel like asdf movie owes everything to this man.
6 years before youtube even existed.
DroehnIng people will pay for likes, they seem to have some sort of value
Banana for scale
Internet Humour's always had an absurdist, surreal or just fucked up streak like Badger Badger Mushroom- th-cam.com/video/EIyixC9NsLI/w-d-xo.html (I can remember drunk people singing this outside a nightclub in 2003) or Salad Fingers- th-cam.com/video/wpVTORX_ifk/w-d-xo.html or the video that the Salad Fingers guy did for Aphex Twin's Milkman- th-cam.com/video/SgqMBzB1kHo/w-d-xo.html
All of these pre-date YT.
There's something that unnerves me about the final shot where as the character is screaming, the animation stops, your suspension of disbelief collapses, and now it's merely only a drawing of the character in the chaos. The paper crumpling effects are an obvious fourth wall break, but that moment of depersonalization gets to me.
The fact that I can still say "I am a banana" in that voice 10 years after I first watched and people still laugh is a fucking blessing to this world.
My little kids now act out that bit. They’ve never seen it but do it perfectly 😂
this is really deep and emotional. the “ my anis is bleeding” segment is a parallel to how in life, you may be suffering but everyone around you is still living happily not caring about you.
My life sucks
Lol it’s a clone from the Joker movie now stfu
Plus, sometimes my anus really is bleeding. This resonates with me on so many levels.
@@latehateisme1632 this is from 2000
@@Koichi-Kun NOOOOOO OF COURSE NOTTTTTTTTTTYTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
Hi Don,
I met you about a decade ago in Oly Washington, participated in your Q&A session, and had you sign my old DVD copy of REJECTED.
You didn't want to carve your name into the cover with my switchblade, but you did sign it and draw stars all over the cover; which was cool.
Hope all is well.
Don Hertzfeldt's
Rejected
Now with blu-ray restoration!
Sweet Jesus!
And How!
I am a consumer whore!
And there goes the baby! Down the flight of stairs!
Now with vitamin C!
Thank all that's Holy!
Having only seen this on TH-cam the difference fidelity really shows the beauty of the cartoon style.
But this is on TH-cam
Thankfully now you're viewing it on TH-cam instead of TH-cam.
My student newspaper had this on all 4 of the computers in our one-room office playing on loop simultaneously, but nowhere close to being synchronized. For days.
Some of the best days of my life.
We used to do that with badger badger mushroom.
Artwork of this quality belongs in a museum.
The last segment with the rippling and crumbling paper is a stellar piece of animation.
It truly shows the destruction and stagnation of Don’s creations.
I watched this for the first time back in 06 and will watch whenever I am reminded of its existence. 18 years later, and im still laughing. No notes, just pure brilliance.
If this was really posted by the creator. I want to offer a genuine thank you for putting something in the world that made life a little more joyful for me and my freinds. I can't tell you how any times we watched these shorts, laughed and quoted them.
This is the real guy. I bet he saw this comment.
These look like real bumpers for Adult Swim. Have they called this guy yet?
This film was going to be aired on adult swim but (ironically) they rejected it due to some references to god/jesus, as Adult Swims parent network wouldn't allow that at the time.
Hah! This coming from the network that had shows like Black Jesus, Lucy: Daughter of the Devil, and Your Pretty Little Face Is Going To Hell? (I know, those shows came later...)
They included clips from it on an episode of Off The Air
th-cam.com/video/9NhYqMSfF_A/w-d-xo.html well
@@deathmetal271 which one?
This animation is probably one of the biggest inspirations to me I love it so much. I think it's also worth noting Don's technique of folding and crumpling and shaking the paper under the downshooter is a genius way of showing that the cartoons are falling apart. God bless
Whenever you think, "wow, Internet/Millennial (and Gen Z) humor is weird and random and nonsensical", watch this and remember, humor today is tame compared to the insanity of the Wild Webst.
Technically this is only barely gen-x as the creator was born in 1976, and anyone that watched this as a kid was necessarily a millennial or gen z. Your comment would make more sense if you were talking about monty python or something.
i live in a giant bucket
Honse
Pretty much gen z humor
This is millennial humor...
Don hertzfeldts imagination is insane and I love it
As a kid, this made me laugh with my friends. As an adult, I am nostalgic and so impressed at the quality of this work.
I remember seeing this in college back in 2004, on a big projector screen in animation class. It was held in high esteem on campus, like Homestar Runner.
Homestar runner dot net. Its dot com.
Same! Showed Homestar Runner to my classmates as an example of an awesome animated website, and it went "viral" back in 2001-2003 (Perth). My handle is a mash up of homestar and marzipan :P Toons!
As a sophomore in college, I remember my very drunk friends showing me this in 2004; and knowing I was looking at something that would transcend time and space. 16 years later, still holds true.
Those were good days.
In an alternate timeline, Don Hertzfeldt was not a successful animator, but a pioneering filmmaker, producing among other things an entirely new kind of TV series that would go on to have a tremendous influence on television for the next decade or so. Meanwhile, on the internet, you would find comments saying "David Lynch? Isn't that the guy who made those fake animated commercials?"
the only reason don is an animator is because 16mm film was too expensive for live action
He kind of already is this, though? In film and animation circles, Don's incredibly well respected as a pioneer of what would become internet humor and It's "Such A Beautiful Day" is considered a modern masterpiece. He hasn't had the overt success in the entertainment industry that David Lynch has had, but even HE hasn't had THAT much. Just like Don, he has an incredibly devoted fanbase and is respected by critics, but the average person you meet on the street probably hasn't watched Twin Peaks or Mulholland Drive. They have varying degrees of popularity, but they're still cult filmmakers lol
The ending of this short is so reminiscent of Twin Peaks: The Return, which is wild since it came out like 15 years later
@@apullcan david lynch is mainstream lmao what are you talking about 🤣🤣
@@chrisdawson1776David Lynch who?
20 years later and this still brings me so much joy. Got to Don Hertzfeldt twice... highlight. In about 2004, I showed the DVD of this to my Swedish niece (she would have been about 15)... the happy tune playing during "my anus is bleeding" is, apparently, a Swedish children's xmas song! It just added to genius of this.
6:55 This is one of my most favorite parts of animation in history. Without a purpose, a world will tear itself asunder.
I wish more TRUE ART like this was nominated more for oscars nowadays 😭😭🤧
The last part where everything falls apart actually gives me a genuine sense of dread.
Our animation god has returned...
I read that in Shake's voice.
East Lansing student film festival, March 24th 2000. It was my 16th birthday and I had just eaten mushrooms for the first time. This began playing as soon as the shrooms kicked in. Thank you, Don, for making my first time tripping balls as well as my birthday into something I will never forget!
No way, I was at that show too!
we share the same birthday:)
"Angry ticks fly out of my nipples" will never cease to be funny to me lmao
Oh god the nostalgia is so strong my Furby and Gameboy Color just blasted into my room through a wormhole that was playing Linkin Park
Thank God I get to watch this in crystal-clear quality, it’s like I’m really there!
It's LiKe i CaN ToUcH yoU
I was an only child but I met the love of my life. She had two brothers and a competitive sports father. 10 years later and I couldn't be happier that I found this video again.
Who remembers (without Googling it or looking on Wikipedia) the name of the animated short that beat out "Rejected" for the Academy Award?
That's right, nobody! Don Hertzfeldt for the win in the long term!
It’s such a beautiful day?
My demented childhood brought back in glorious hd. So much quoting was done from this back in the day. To this day I say to my wife. "I'm feeling fat and sassy." Regularly.
Even after all these years, the ending is still the best part. Absolute genius in how it was created.
18 years on, and still the head of its oddly specific (but nonetheless highly populated) class. I have the Blu-ray already, but thanks for uploading this, Don!
The film is actually about the slow deterioration of the animators mental state.
LOL. Thats a "given" Its the "obvious narrative". It's told in plain sight, but if you think thats the real meaning you must be a moron. Dig deeper !
@@johto ...why can it not be the "real meaning"? Why can it not be about deterioration, breaking down, things just getting worse and all your struggles to stop that decline being worthless until all you can do is scream out a pointless noise? Part of the artistry of this particular piece is that the "obvious narrative" is a valid interpretation, but that it need not be the only interpretation. Unless Don himself states otherwise, there's more than one possible "real" meaning, and refusing to acknowledge the validity of the obvious narrative is only self-aggrandizing closed-mindedness masquerading as something else. Sometimes, a cigar really is just a cigar.
What clued you in? Was it the text talking about how the animator's mental state was deteriorating?
@@Khoros-Mythos I said this because most people were like “haha it’s so lol random”
This singular video is a perfect representation of the spirit of the times from 2002.
so far i've wached this 5 times instead of doing homework...
I'm doing homework ON this, lol. Writing a paper for History of Animation on Hertzfeldt as an auteur.
The older I get, the more I appreciate this.
One of the single most influential peaces of media.