History WesternAnimation / TheBigSnit

** The high altitude shot of nuclear missiles flying all over the world includes a shot of Santa Claus and his sleigh and reindeer - complete with jingle bells.

* HappyFlashback: After their argument, the husband finds an old photo of him and his wife goofing around at the beach. After remembering that day, he decides to apologize.

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: The newsreader who interrupts ''Sawing for Teens'' to announce that worldwide nuclear war has broken out has already had the flesh flayed from his bones, leaving nothing but a skeleton in a suit. This does not stop him from maintaining his professional diction and demeanour to inform the public of the (useless) safety precautions they should take - even when his skull falls off his neck and onto the desk.

* BlatantLies: The wife yells at the husband for sawing the table as part of his obsession with sawing. Even though he is doing so ''as she speaks'', he still shouts back, "I AM NOT SAWING THE TABLE!"

''The Big Snit'' is a 1985 animated short directed by Richard Condie for the Creator/NationalFilmBoardOfCanada. A husband and wife are playing TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}; as the husband obsessively re-shuffles the tiles on his rack (not that he can make many words with seven "E" tiles), the wife decides to do some vacuuming until he puts down a word. The husband takes advantage of her absence to watch his favourite television programme, ''Sawing for Teens'', and begins sawing along with the teens on the TV before dozing off, thereby missing an announcement that worldwide nuclear war has broken out, and the human race has just minutes to live.

'''Wife:''' It's your tur-\\
'''Husband:''' Just.. just ''wait a minute''!

** At the end of the short, the husband and wife somehow do not notice that [[spoiler:they have been killed in a nuclear explosion and gone to Heaven,]] in spite of the very otherworldly scene stretching before them. The husband simply remarks that on days like this, he doesn't feel like doing much of anything, and suggests that he and his wife finish their Scrabble game.

* BittersweetEnding: The husband and wife [[spoiler: have peacefully made amends... but they died in a nuke, and they're none the wiser]].

* BittersweetEnding: The husband and wife have peacefully made amends... but they died in a nuke, and they're none the wiser.

%%* BlackComedy: And how.
%%"And how" is not context.

* ScrabbleBabble: A non-cheating variation. The wife's scrabble rack reads CARROST, the uncorrected order implying that she doesn't realize she has an entire word. The husband's frustrated reordering of his tiles becomes hilarious when we see his rack: EEEEEEE.

''The Big Snit'' is a 1985 animated short directed by Richard Condie for the NationalFilmBoardOfCanada. A husband and wife are playing TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}; as the husband obsessively re-shuffles the tiles on his rack (not that he can make many words with seven "E" tiles), the wife decides to do some vacuuming until he puts down a word. The husband takes advantage of her absence to watch his favourite television programme, ''Sawing for Teens'', and begins sawing along with the teens on the TV before dozing off, thereby missing an announcement that worldwide nuclear war has broken out, and the human race has just minutes to live.

* BlackComedy: And how.

* HappierFlashback: After their argument, the husband finds an old photo of him and his wife goofing around at the beach. After remembering that day, he decides to apologize.

* WeInterruptThisProgram

The film was nominated for Best Animated Short at the 1986 Oscar ceremony (some still say it was an AwardSnub after it lost to another brilliant short ''Anna & Bella'', a Dutch film about two sisters with similar existential themes).

The film was nominated for Best Animated Short at the 1986 Oscar ceremony (some still say it was an AwardSnub after it lost to another brilliant short ''Anna & Bella'', a Dutch film about two sisters with similar existential themes ([[spoiler:mainly the two sisters looking in their scrapbook were already dead at the beginning]]).

The film was nominated for Best Animated Short at the 1986 Oscar ceremony (some still say it was an AwardSnub after it lost to another brilliant short ''Anna & Bella'', a Dutch film about two sisters with similar existential themes ([[spoiler: mainly the two sisters looking in their scrapbook were already dead at the beginning]]).

The film was nominated for Best Animated Short at the 1986 Oscar ceremony (some still say it was an AwardSnub after it lost to another brilliant short ''Anna & Bella'', a Dutch film about two sisters with [[spoiler: similar existential themes]]).

The film was nominated for Best Animated Short at the 1986 Oscar ceremony (some still say it was an AwardSnub after it lost to ''Anna & Bella'', a Dutch film about two sisters with similar existential themes).