History WesternAnimation / Lifted

''Lifted'' is a 2006 animated short film by Gary Rydstrom. It is one of the WesternAnimation/PixarShorts.

* HeavySleeper: Ernie sleeps through his whole "attempted abduction" ordeal, despite getting his head hit on the wall several times, thrown around the room, squeezed through a half-open window and dragged through several tree branches.

[[caption-width-right:350: Mr. B watches Stu look over the UFO drivers manual.]]

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* AnimationBump: Two new pieces of software were created for the short: one to animated Mr. B masterfully manipulating all of the controls to put Ernie's room back together (in which multiple arms overlap in a MotionBlur) and one for the alien's gooey texture (an early version of the inhabitants of the AXIOM in ''WesternAnimation/WallE'', when they were devolved jelly creatures instead of obese humans).

* TheMillstone: Stu not only fails at extracting Ernie from the farmhouse with any shred of competence, he gets in the way of Mr. B doing it correctly, and when Mr. B lets him drive the saucer as a consolation prize, promptly rams it into the ground.
* MythologyGag: Tinny from ''WesternAnimation/TinToy'' can be clearly seen under Ernie's bed.

* StockScream: The Wilhelm Scream can be heard in the credits when Ernie gets up with the alarm clock and falls into the pit.

* ByWallThatIsHoley: The short ends with Stu crashing the ship on Ernie's house, flattening it into a pit. That is, except for the farmer's bed, which fit right into the hole at the bottom of the spaceship, saving the farmer's life.

* TractorBeam: They can be dangerous if you don't know how to work them.

* AllThereInTheScript: The aliens are named Stu ([[PunnyName as in "Student"]]) and the teacher is named Mr. B ([[InspirationForTheWork Named after a teacher Gary Rydstrom had, who always gave everyone B grades, regardless of how much or how little effort they put into any of their assignments.]])

* ByWallThatIsHoley: The short ends with Stu crashing the ship on the farmer's house, flattening it into a pit. That is, except for the farmer's bed, which fit right into the hole at the bottom of the spaceship, saving the farmer's life.

* EarlyBirdCameo: The farmer actually has the same design as Linguini from ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', which this short played in theaters before.

* MythologyGag: Tinny from ''WesternAnimation/TinToy'' can be clearly seen under the farmer's bed.
* NobleDemon: While the aliens were trying to abduct the farmer, Mr. B is kind enough to save him from falling to his death and reorganizes his house.
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Stu cuts off the tractor beam too soon, dropping the man five stories or so before Mr. B flips the switches and arrests the farmer's fall six inches from the ground. The farmer is fine.
* OhCrap: Stu, when he drops the farmer from a great height.

* SilenceIsGolden: No dialogue, as is true of almost every Pixar short.
* StockScream: The Wilhelm Scream can be heard in the credits when the farmer gets up with the alarm clock and falls into the pit.

* AllThereInTheScript: The aliens are named Stu ([[PunnyName as in "Student"]]) and the teacher is named Mr. B ([[InspirationForTheWork Named after a teacher Gary Rydstrom had.]])

* PetTheDog: After poor Stu fails his abduction test, Mr. B offers to let him fly the ship... [[*noGoodDeedGoesUnpunished only for him to crash into the ground while trying to lift off.]]

* PetTheDog: After poor Stu fails his abduction test, Mr. B offers to let him fly the ship...only for him to crash into the ground while trying to lift off.

The setting is an isolated farmhouse in the dead of night. A TractorBeam shoots through the window, picks up the farmer, and carries him to the window--until the floating farmer bonks into the windowsill. It turns out that the whole affair is a test for a young greenish blob of an alien, who is attempting to abduct his first Earthling. As his stern examiner scribbles on his notepad, the young alien continues to bungle the abduction, and gets more and more flustered.

* ByWallThatIsHoley: The short ends with the little alien crashing the ship on the farmer's house, flattening it into a pit. That is, except for the farmer's bed, which fit right into the hole at the bottom of the spaceship, saving the farmer's life.

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: The little alien cuts off the tractor beam too soon, dropping the man five stories or so before the instructor flips the switches and arrests the farmer's fall six inches from the ground. The farmer is fine.
* OhCrap: The little alien, when he drops the farmer from a great height.
* PetTheDog: After the poor alien fails his abduction test, the instructor offers to let him fly the ship...only for him to crash into the ground while trying to lift off.

* AllThereInTheScript: The aliens are named Stu ([[PunnyName as in "Student") and the teacher is named Mr. B ([[InspirationForTheWork Named after a teacher Gary Rydstrom had.]])

* MythologyGag: The WesternAnimation/TinToy can be clearly seen under the farmer's bed.

* StockScream: The Wilhelm Scream in the credits, when the farmer gets up with the alarm clock and falls into the pit.

* PetTheDog: After the poor alien fails his abduction test, the {{Jerkass}} instructor offers to let him fly the ship...only for him to crash into the ground while trying to lift off.

* TheCameo: The Tin Toy appears under the bed of the farmer.
* CatharsisFactor: The student alien beating up on the control board mirrors director Gary Rydstrom's frustration with audio mixing boards as he does sound for Pixar.

* StockScream: The Wilhelm Scream in the credits, when the farmer gets up with the alarm clock and falls into the pit.

The setting is an isolated farmhouse in the dead of night. A tractor beam shoots through the window, picks up the farmer, and carries him to the window--until the floating farmer bonks into the windowsill. It turns out that the whole affair is a test for a young greenish blob of an alien, who is attempting to abduct his first Earthling. As his stern examiner scribbles on his notepad, the young alien continues to bungle the abduction, and gets more and more flustered.

* DramaticAlienVTOL: The alien ship departs in a slow, dramatic climb straight up from its position over the farmhouse, [[spoiler:then gets [[MoodWhiplash slammed into the ground]] by the [[DrivingTest student pilot]]]].

* DramaticAlienVTOL: The alien ship from ''Lifted'' departs in a slow, dramatic climb straight up from its position over the farmhouse, [[spoiler:then gets [[MoodWhiplash slammed into the ground]] by the [[DrivingTest student pilot]]]].

* PetTheDog: In "Lifted", after the poor alien fails his abduction test, the {{Jerkass}} instructor offers to let him fly the ship...only for him to crash into the ground while trying to lift off.