History Recap / PixarShorts

* ''Recap/{{Presto}}''

* ''Recap/{{Bao}}''
* ''Recap/DayAndNight''
* ''Recap/LaLuna''
* ''Recap/Lou2017''
* ''Recap/LuxoJr''

* ''Recap/{{Boundin}}''

* ''Recap/JackJackAttack''
* ''Recap/MrIncredibleAndPals''

* ''Recap/TheAdventuresOfAndreAndWallyB''

* ''Recap/Piper''

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[[folder: Mr. Incredible and Pals]]

Main page: ''WesternAnimation/MrIncredibleAndPals''

This short is a parody of 1950s-60s cartoons with LimitedAnimation, [[ClicheStorm even more limited plot]], and NoBudget to speak of. The story goes like this:

Before superheroes were forced into hiding, [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Mr. Incredible]] and Frozone allowed an animation studio to use their images to produce the kids cartoon ''Mr. Incredible and Pals''. A pilot episode was created, but it never saw the light of day since superheroes were forced into normal life soon afterwards. Much later, the pair watch the pilot. They are not impressed.

The pilot begins with a narrator bombastically announcing "The Adventures of Mr. Incredible and his pals Frozone and Mr. Skipperdoo!". As the short opens on a short of a bridge with a chunk taken out, Mr. Incredible and Frozone begin their commentary.
->'''Mr. Incredible''': Hello. This is Mr. Incredible, here with-
->'''Frozone''': -Frozone.
->'''Mr. Incredible''': You know, I've actually never seen this.
->'''Frozone''': Yeah, me neither.

Mr. Incredible explains how ''Mr. Incredible and Pals'' came to be, as the episode itself progresses to Cartoon!Mr. Incredible and Cartoon!Frozone talking about the missing bridge and the strange giant glowing screw-thing that Mr. Incredible found, with Mr. Skipperdoo contributing the occasional bounce. Frozone focuses on his cartoon self, and he's not very happy with what he sees.
->'''Frozone''': Wait a second. What's this? Is that me?
->'''Mr. Incredible''': What?
->'''Frozone''': I'm white. They made me a white guy?
->'''Mr. Incredible''': You're... black-ish.
->'''Frozone''': They made me a white guy!
->'''Mr. Incredible''': Well... maybe the print's faded. You're tan...ish?
->'''Frozone''': Is that supposed to be me? I sound like a-a-a-a what? A beatnik. That's it, I sound like a beatnik!
->'''Mr. Incredible''': It was meant to sound cool.
->'''Frozone''': Well it doesn't sound cool, and it doesn't sound like me. ''I'' sound cool. And if it sounded like me, it would sound cool.
->'''Mr. Incredible''': Hang on, I'm sure it gets better.

As the cartoon trio concludes that it was the work of of the fictional supervillain Lady Lightbug (who cartoon!Mr. Incredible describes as "sinister, yet lovely") and move out to fix the problem, Frozone wonders if the cartoon is even animated. After all, the only thing is actually ''moving'' is their lips, which look like live-action human lips and are quite out-of-place in the cartoon's style. Mr. Incredible [[DamnedByFaintPraise defends it]] as having ''technically'' been animated. Frozone is also annoyed when the cartoon doesn't show him using ice to fix the bridge (instead focusing on him shooting a blue beam out of his hands, and then showing the completed bridge when he's done). And what's up with the rabbit?
->'''Mr. Incredible''': Hey, c'mon. Don't be like that. We're ''recording'' this.

Cartoon!Mr. Incredible leads them to an abandoned amusement park that he thinks is Lady Lightbug's hideout. As the cartoon heroes search for Lady Lightbug (via Cartoon!Mr. Incredible lifting up various structures and declaring that Lady Lightbug was not underneath them), Real!Frozone once again questions the characters' too-realistic-for-the-rest-of-them lips.
->'''Mr. Incredible''': I was tol-[laughter]- I was told it was a new process!
->'''Frozone''': Ooh, new process?
->'''Mr. Incredible''': A breakthrough!
->'''Frozone''': And what would that new process ''be'', Mr. I? Cheap-O-Rama?
->'''Mr. Incredible''': This is breaking through!
->'''Frozone''': And that rabbit is getting on my ''last'' nerve!
->'''Mr. Incredible''': The rabbit is ''cuddly''! Kids like little cuddly sidekicks!
->'''Frozone''': I mean, gah...
->'''Mr. Incredible''': The rabbit... it's a time-tested t... okay, the rabbit bites.

Meanwhile in the cartoon, Mr. Skipperdoo bounces up and down- he's found the bridge! Which was actually directly ''above'' Mr. Incredible, in plain sight.
->'''Frozone''': [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe Are you kidding me]]? [[SuddenlyShouting WHAT KIND OF SHOW IS THIS]]?

Now that the bridge has been found (and Frozone is venting about how bad the cartoon is in the commentary), Lady Lightbug (a sort of human/firefly hybrid) flies out from one of the structures that Mr. Incredible lifted up earlier. She shoots 'radioactive silk' at cartoon!Frozone, which glows, restrains Frozone perfectly, [[ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics and appears to have no actual radioactive properties]]. The real Frozone is naturally upset.
->'''Frozone''': Oh-oh-oh, ''I'' get ''caught''! The black superhero gets caught!
->'''Mr. Incredible''': Well, a minute ago you were complaining they made you white.
->'''Frozone''': Oh, that's right- the ''tanned'' superhero gets caught!.

As Mr. Incredible defeats Lady Lightbug by going up on a roller coaster to get the height needed to tackle her, the real Frozone is highly upset that his image has been sullied by association with this horrid cartoon. Mr. Incredible tries to get him to calm down by pointing out that they couldn't know that it turned out this badly and it never was actually shown on tv, but Frozone is having none of it.
->'''Frozone''': And now you have me involved in this commentary, further connecting me to work that is clearly ''inferior'', AND CONNECTING ME TO A ''RABBIT''! DID YOU OKAY THE RABBIT?
->'''Mr. Incredible''': I HAD ''NOTHING'' TO DO WITH THE RABBIT, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY GOT THE RABBIT!
->'''Frozone''': WELL, ''SOMEBODY'' OKAYED THE RABBIT!

The cartoon ends as Lady Lightbug curses Mr. Skipperdoo for imprisoning her in a giant jar over the newly-repaired and good as new bridge, though how Mr. Skipperdoo imprisoned her is anyone's guess. The narrator invites the audience to watch next week's episode, which has Mr. Incredible vs. an anthropomorphic ear of corn.

Well, even if that next episode had been made, there's no way Frozone would be watching it.
->'''Frozone''': You know... we've been friends for a long time. I'm telling you, this thing should've ''never'' seen the light of day.
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[[folder:Dug's Special Mission]]

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[[folder: Jack-Jack Attack]]

Main page: ''WesternAnimation/JackJackAttack''

You remember when [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Kari]] said she could "totally handle anything this baby could dish out"? Well, in this short [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter she puts her money where her mouth is]].

The short begins with Kari being interrogated by Rick Dicker. She begins to recount her recent job babysitting 'Jack-Jack' Parr, and the film flashes back to her reassuring Helen Parr that she can handle Jack-Jack. The phone call cuts off (because Syndrome had just attacked Helen's plane, but Kari doesn't know that). She gives Jack-Jack some toys, and puts on a Mozart CD. She then turns around- and Jack-Jack's gone. She looks around for him, and finds him behind a flower vase on the dining room table.

She thinks he's playing hide and seek, and runs up and takes away the vase- but he's not behind it. He's at the refrigerator, getting his bottle of milk. She comments on how weird that was, and tells Jack-Jack to wait there while she calls Helen (the first of the calls from her that Helen gets when she's going home after defeating the Omnidroid). Jack-Jack doesn't teleport any more, but he ''does'' float up to the ceiling. When she turns back around, she freaks out upon seeing him gone. While she looks for him, Jack-Jack pulls the lid off his milk bottle. She's right under him, so she gets splashed with the milk.

This is the ''least'' of what she's going to get put through. Later that night, she's put Jack-Jack in a playpen (with a chair on top of it to prevent him from getting out) and she calls Helen once more. During the call, she glances away for a bit- and when she's glanced back, Jack-Jack has chewed his way out of the pen. She notices him on a shelf, and rushes to catch him as he falls over- but he phases through her hands and the floor. She frantically searches for him as he floats through the house, phasing through the walls, and eventually manages to catch him when he's in the middle of phasing through the washing machine door.

Kari then decides to calm Jack-Jack down by playing with flashcards. Unfortunately, her third card, 'Campfire', gives Jack-Jack ideas. He bursts into flames and runs around the house, leaving little fires wherever he steps. Kari chases him with fireplace tools, and eventually puts him out by dunking him in the bathtub.

By the next day, Kari is exhausted, but she's gotten used to him and can counter whatever powers he comes up with. Sets himself on fire again? She's got a fire extinguisher at the ready. Points EyeBeams at her? She holds up a mirror and deflects it up to the ceiling. She hears a knock on the door and goes out to answer it. Syndrome is at the door.
->'''Syndrome''': Is this the Parrs' residence?
->'''Kari''': ''Yes''! I'm '''Kari''', the ''baby''-sitter!
->'''Syndrome''' (unnerved): Well, hello... uh, Kari. I'm-
->'''Kari''': *Holding out Jack-Jack* ''You're my replacement, THANK HEAVENS YOU'VE COME!'' What does the 'S' stand for?
->'''Syndrome''': For... 'sitter'! [[SureLetsGoWithThat Yeah, sitter]]. Originally I was going to have initals for 'baby-sitter', but then I would've been going around wearing a big 'BS', and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar you understand why I couldn't go with that]].

Back at the interrogation room:
-> '''Rick Dicker''': And you believed him.
-> '''Kari''': The baby was ''EXPLODING''! YOU EVER SAT AN EXPLODING BABY BEFORE, MR. DICKER?

Dicker asks if Kari told anyone else (she told her parents, but they didn't believe her). She comments that she wishes she could forget the whole thing.
->'''Rick Dicker''': You will, kid. [[LaserGuidedAmnesia You will]].
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[[folder:Presto]]

The short opens on a poster announcing the magician Presto Digiotagione and his Hat of Wonder. It then moves out to show a rabbit, Alec Azam, in a cage. Alec is hungry and there's a carrot on the table next to him, but he can't quite reach it. Presto then enters the room. He looks at a watch and freaks out a little- he doesn't have long before he's supposed to begin his act. He then swiftly locks the door to his room, opens a drawer, and after making sure nobody's watching, he opens the drawer's false bottom to reveal two hats- a top hat and a pointy wizard hat.

Presto puffs some smoke into the wizard hat, and the smoke appears in the top hat. He then sticks his hand through the wizard hat- it too appears from the top hat. Presto brings both hats over to Alec, who's optimistic that Presto might feed him. Presto takes Alec out of the cage, but carries him past the carrot, and stops him whenever he tries to walk over. Presto puts the wizard hat on Alec and gestures to him to be patient. He then practices the 'pulling a rabbit out of a hat' trick, pulling Alec through the wizard hat and out the top hat. He then picks up the carrot and prepares to feed it to Alec, but before he can, the beginning of his act is signaled. Presto then picks up both hats and Alec (whose mouth is still open in expectation of food), and walks onstage, with Alec (equipped with the wizard hat), on a table just backstage.

Presto begins his act. He produces the top hat, shows the audience that there's nothing in there, and, to a dramatic drumroll, sticks his hand inside- and gets nothing. Alec has taken the wizard hat off, and Presto's hand is grasping at thin air. Presto tries to gesture to Alec to put the hat back on, but Alec refuses. He wants Presto to feed him first. Presto is under pressure to perform his trick, and he furiously grasps for Alec, who simply turns the wizard hat in different directions and then slaps it against the table, causing Presto to withdraw his hand in pain.

Presto starts walking backstage, and Alec promptly puts the hat back on. Presto resumes his trick, but instead gets his fingers caught in a mousetrap, which gets a round of applause from the audience. Presto bows and then glares in Alec's direction. Alec had put the opening of the wizard's hat down near the mousetraps, and when Presto glares at him, he tries to signal to Presto to feed him. Presto does not get the message, however, and since the wizard hat's opening is pointing towards Alec, he drops an egg into the top hat. Alec quickly turns the wizard hat upside down, so the egg returns through the top hat and hits Presto in the eye.

That gets applause, so Presto puts on the top hat and bows, but then turns to Alec, takes out the carrot, and turns it into a flower. Alec is not amused, and points the wizard hat into an air duct, causing Presto's head to get sucked through the top hat. Presto manages to get the hat off, but his face has turned red and he's got a very interesting new hairstyle. The audience applauds, and Presto bows slightly before again glaring at Alec, who still wants Presto to feed him. Presto tries the rabbit-out-of-the-hat trick once again, but Alec shuts his hand into a drawer.

While the hand's still stuck, Alec pulls magician props like cards, flowers, and ribbons out of the sleeve. Presto sees it and runs screaming towards Alec, who points the wizard hat directly at Presto, causing the magician to poke himself in the eye. While blindly grabbing for the wizard hat and Alec, Presto manages to pull his own pants off. Alec finds this hilarious, but then Presto gives him a DeathGlare and gets ready to kick him. Alec then drops a ladder through the wizard hat. Since the top hat is underneath Presto, it gets him [[GroinAttack between the legs]].

Presto sees that the ladder is very long and gets a plan. He holds the ladder back while pointing the top hat at Alec, and then lets go. Alec dodges, the ladder hits the door behind him, and as it falls it ends up pushing Presto across the stage. Presto breaks off a part of the ladder, takes out the carrot, puts a handkerchief over it- and then beats the crap out of it with the ladder fragment, horrifying Alec. When Presto next tries to grab him through the wizard hat, he points it at an electrical board, electrocuting Presto and causing him to pick up a square dance broadcast (the orchestra rolls with it).

After this, Presto has had enough. He chases Alec around backstage, but accidentally causes himself to be hoisted up to the top of the theater. Alec rejoices, but Presto is terrified. And then the rope holding him breaks, sending him plummeting down to the stage, followed by a moon decoration, several star decorations, and a piano. Alec's jubilation suddenly turns to horror, and he saves Presto by getting the top hat directly under Presto when he falls. Presto falls into the hat and through the wizard hat, ending up safe and sound on the stage.

The audience is very impressed, giving him a standing ovation and throwing roses onstage. Presto is happy about that, but Alec, not so much. He begins walking away. Presto gets him to come back by revealing the carrot from before, totally whole. Alec returns, eats the carrot, and takes a bow with Presto. The short ends with a shot of Presto and Alec's new poster, with a bouquet of roses for Presto and a bouquet of carrots for Alec beside it.
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* AmusingInjuries: '''Presto'''. Interestingly enough, they're this InUniverse, as the audience likes his act, despite (or perhaps because of) him being injured a lot in it.
* AntiVillain: At worst, Presto is somewhat thoughtless and a bit mean.
* TheCameo: Statler and Waldorf are seen sitting in one of the theater boxes.
* ExpressiveEars: Alec, as he is a rabbit.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Presto has red-and-white striped boxers.
* MagiciansAreWizards: Presto is a stage magician who appears to be actually able to perform magic, although if what Alec pulls out of his sleeve is any indication, he also uses regular magic tricks.
* MundaneUtility: Presto has a pair of magical hats that serve as portals... which he uses to pull off the old "PullARabbitOutOfMyHat" trick.
* PullARabbitOutOfMyHat: The short can basically be described by 'Presto attempts to pull an unwilling rabbit out of his hat, and HilarityEnsues'.
* PunnyName: Presto Digiotagione = Presdigitation, and Alec Azam = Alekazam.
* TheVoiceless: There's no dialogue in this short, although Alec vocalizes rabbity squeaks and Presto vocalizes pained noises.
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[[folder: Boundin']]

The short opens on fish jumping in a creek in the American West.
->'''Narrator''': Here's a story on how strange is life with its changes,
-> And it happened not long ago
-> On a high mountain plain where the sagebrush arranges
-> A playground south of the snow.

The camera focuses on a rock over the creek, where a fluffy white lamb is sleeping under a bush. He wakes up and walks out into the sun, and the narrator continues:
->'''Narrator''': Lived a lamb with a coat of remarkable sheen.
-> It would glint in the sunlight, all sparkly and clean,
-> Such a source of great pride that it caused him to preen,
-> And he'd break out in high-stepping dance.

After looking at his reflection in the water, the lamb begins tap-dancing on the rock.
->'''Narrator''': He would dance for his neighbors across the way.
-> I must say that they found his dancin' enhancin',
-> For they'd also join in the play.

A group of prairie dogs, two fish, a rattlesnake, and an owl dance with him, and everyone's happy. But this happiness doesn't last.
->'''Narrator''': Then one day...

An automobile drives up behind the lamb and a human hand snatches him away. It begins to rain, and eventually the lamb is thrown back where he was (where there's now a puddle)- sans his wool. He sees his reflection in the water, and he's horrified- he looks absolutely ridiculous and his prairie dog friends laugh at him. He curls up under his bush again, and starts to cry to himself.

A ray of light peeks through, spotlighting the jackalope bounding up the roadway and then expanding to make the day once again clear.T
->'''Narrator''': Then a-boundin' up the slope came a great American jackalope.
-> This sage of the sage, this rare hare of hope
-> Caused to pause and check out the lamb.
->'''Jackalope''': Hey kid, why the mope?
->'''Lamb''': I used to be something, all covered with fluff,
-> And I'd dance in the sunlight and show off my stuff,
-> Then they hauled me away in a manner quite rough
-> And sheared me and dumped me back here in the buff.
-> And if that's not enough,
-> My friends all laugh at me, cause they think
-> I look ridiculous, funny, and pink.

The prairie dogs immediately prove the lamb's point by laughing at him, but they stop when the jackalope gives them a DeathGlare. The jackelope then returns his attention to the lamb.
->'''Jackalope''': Pink? Pink? Well, what's wrong with pink?
-> It seems you've got a pink kink in your think.
-> Does it matter what color? Well that gets nope,
-> Be it pink, purple, or heliotrope.
-> Now sometimes you're up, and sometimes you're down.
-> When you find that you're down, well, just look around.
-> You've still got a body, good legs and fine feet,
-> Get your head in the right place and hey, you're complete!

The jackalope then proceeds to demonstrate his own alternative to dancing- bounding and rebounding high across the landscape.
-> '''Jackalope''' Now as for the dancin', you can do more.
-> You can reach great heights, in fact you can soar.
-> You just get a leg up and ya slap it on down,
-> And you’ll find you’re up in what’s called a bound.
-> Bound, bound, and rebound.
-> Bound and you’re up right next to the sky,
-> And I think you can do it if you give it a try,
-> First get a leg up, slap it on down…”

The lamb gives bounding a try, and soon finds himself bouncing around the creek, with the other animals dancing along like they did in the beginning. The scene shifts to winter, with the lamb's coat having grown back and him still bounding. By the next year, he's accepted being shorn.
->'''Narrator''': So every year, along about May,
-> They'd load him up and they'd haul him away
-> And they'd shave him and dump him all naked and bare.
-> He learned to live with it. He didn't care.
-> He'd just bound, bound, bound and rebound.

The jackalope, his work done, bounces away, with the prairie dogs following.
-> '''Narrator''': Now in this world of ups and downs,
-> So nice to know there are jackalopes around.

! Tropes
* BlitheSpirit: The jackalope.
* EmpathicEnvironment: It's dark and rainy when the humans shear the lamb, but it becomes sunny again when the jackalope shows up.
* NamelessNarrative: We just get species names.
* TalkingToHimself: Bud Luckey plays every speaking role (Narrator, lamb, jackalope) along with writing and co-directing the short.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Brad Bird originally wanted [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Agent Rick Dicker]] to be the one telling the story- there'd be a scene at the beginning with him picking up a banjo and beginning to play the music.
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[[folder:For the Birds]]

A small bird lands on a power line. He is quickly followed by another, which gets in his personal space. The first bird pecks the second away, which causes a squawk-argument. Meanwhile, more birds land on the line, and the fight spreads to them. Soon all the (many) birds are squabbling, until they're interrupted by a different birdcall. The sound is from a larger bird on the nearest pole, who waves at them with his wing. The small birds all stare at the big bird, and then turn to ridiculous impressions of him. However, their attention is diverted by the big bird (who doesn't seem to have noticed the little ones mocking him) calling again. They move farther away, and begin to cheep amongst themselves. They're interrupted by the big bird landing in the middle of their group. This causes the power line to stretch downwards, which makes the little birds all slide towards the big one.

The little birds aren't happy about this, and they try to make this known to the bigger bird by cheeping angrily at him. It doesn't work, until one frustrated bird pecks at his claws, causing him fall over and hang from the line upside down. The little birds to crash into each other, and the bird that pecked the big one does so again, which causes one of the bird's claws to let go. This gives the birds a plan, and the two closest to the big bird start pecking at the big bird's feet while the others cheer them on.

After this has been going on for a bit, one of the birds looks down and then gains an OhCrap look. The camera zooms out, and it turns out that the large bird's weight has been steadily lowering the line, until it's very near to the ground. The bird warns the others of the danger, but unfortunately they don't get the pecking birds to stop in time. The large bird loses its grip, and the power line snaps back, leaving a cloud of feathers behind.

The large bird is mostly unharmed, but the same can't be said for the small birds, who are now entirely featherless. The large bird laughs himself silly at them.

! Tropes
* CaptainOblivious: The larger bird.
* GoodIsDumb: The larger bird is nicer than the small birds, but is as dumb as rocks.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The little birds get it for picking on the large bird.
* MassOhCrap: The birds cheering the pecking birds on, as they all notice at once what trouble they're in.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The punchline.
* OhCrap: Three distinct ones. First, a bird looks down and sees ''just how far down'' the line has gone. Second, the rest of the birds, as the first bird warns them. Second, the birds doing the pecking, as the big bird is just about to lose his grip.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The little birds. They even sound like squeaky toys!
* TheUnintelligible: The birds speak entirely in cheeps and squeaks.
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[[folder:Luxo Jr]]

A ball rolls onto the screen and bounces off of a Luxo lamp. The lamp examines it from several angles, and then bats it back off screen. It then rolls back. The lamp plays with the ball in this manner again, but the ball rolls off. It then looks to the right and then moves out of the way as a smaller Luxo lamp, the titular Luxo Jr, comes hopping onscreen. The lamps look at each other, and then in the direction of the ball. Luxo Jr hops off to get the ball, and rolls it back on screen. Luxo Jr bats the ball to the larger Luxo, who bats it back. Luxo Jr then jumps onto the ball and bounces on it, which causes it to deflate. The lamps look at it, and Luxo Jr tries to get it to roll, but only succeeds in flipping it over. The big Luxo shakes its head at Luxo Jr. Luxo Jr seems cowed, and hops offscreen. Luxo watches it go- only to do a DoubleTake as Luxo Jr returns with an ''even bigger'' ball.

! Tropes
* AnimateInanimateObject: The lamps. They're surprisingly expressive.
* CharacterTitle: ''Luxo Jr'' refers to the smaller lamp.
* EasterEgg: The Luxo ball from this short has made it into many other Pixar films.
* VanityPlate: The Pixar vanity plate of the lamp hopping up and down on the 'i' until it collapses, and then replacing it, came from this short.
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