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* ''Cheatin''' (2014)
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* ''The Tune'' ''WesternAnimation/TheTune'' (1992)
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** This trope is actually a plot point in ''Mutant Aliens.''
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* MyNameIsNotDurwood: No, [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton the 42nd president of the United States]] is not also an award-winning animator.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bill was offered a ''six figure'' deal with Disney to animate for ''WesternAnimation/Aladdin'', an offer he very nearly went through will until he was told that the company held intellectual property over anything he created while working for them.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bill was offered a ''six figure'' deal with Disney to animate for ''WesternAnimation/Aladdin'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}}'', an offer he very nearly went through will until he was told that the company held intellectual property over anything he created while working for them.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Bill created "25 Ways To Quit Smoking" in an effort to get his own mother to quit. And it worked!
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Bill created "25 Ways To Quit Smoking" in an effort to get his own mother to quit. [[SurprisinglyHappyEnding And it worked!worked]]!
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* AnimationAgeGhetto: Averted. For one thing, he isn't popular enough to be expected to produce animation for a specific demographic, and those who are familiar with him know his stuff is ''not'' for kids! His refined, nuanced art style is also not particularly "cutesy."
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** ''Draws''. He usually has assistants do the coloring and compositing.
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* AscendedFanboy: He got to produce and help animate a colorized and voiced update of "The Flying House", the final film of his hero Creator/WinsorMcCay.
** Longtime fan Creator/MattGroening voices Will in ''Hair High.''
** Longtime fan Creator/MattGroening voices Will in ''Hair High.''
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* GreenAesop: "Parking."
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* RuleOfFunny: Sentiment? GreenAesop's? All incidental. Bill just wanted to tell funny, engaging stories!
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* ArtEvolution: His earliest films were low-tech even for their day. Backgrounds were often re-drawn on every frame a lá Creator/WinsorMcCay, leading to a number of shorts with characters acting in negative spaces. In the late '80s, his started cutting out his colored-pencil drawings and pasting them onto cels for a much slicker look. This practice continued until the '00s when he began shooting digitally, often alternating between digital ink & paint and digitally composted pencil drawings.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: For all his demented humor and bizarre films, the guy can ''really'' draw!
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* DomesticOnlyCartoon: Bill Plympton draws everything himself.
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* DomesticOnlyCartoon: Bill Plympton draws everything himself. [[note]]He's gone on record saying that, if he could, he would do a big-budget animated feature with an AllStarCast, lavish musical score and animation from the top artists in the business. The one thing holding him back is the difficulty of projecting exactly what he sees in his head into other people's drawings.[[/note]]
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* AnimatedMusicVideo: Two for Music/WeirdAlYankovic ("Don't Download This Song" and "TMZ") and one for Music/KanyeWest ("Heard 'Em Say").
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* AscendedFanboy: Longtime fan Creator/MattGroening voices Will in ''Hair High.''
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bill was offered a ''six figure'' deal with Disney to animate for ''WesternAnimation/Aladdin'', an offer he very nearly went through will until he was told that the company held intellectual property over anything he created while working for them.
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** Similarly, ''Shuteye Motel'' was based on his waking up after a night of sleeping on a very, very soft pillow to find it had completely caved in under his head, which gave him the idea for [[spoiler: a pillow that eats heads]].
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His first feature, ''The Tune'', lacks much of his trademark political incorrectness in favor of a light fantasy musical with a very sincere romantic subplot, the absolute naughtiest thing about it being a brief (less than two seconds) shot of nudity during the "Dance All Day" sequence. His follow up, ''I Married A Strange Person'', solidified his reputation for adult fare.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Bill created "25 Ways To Quit Smoking" in an effort to get his own mother to quit. And it worked!
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* TheParanoiac: A canine one in "Guard Dog". It doesn't end well for his master...
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* DomesticOnlyCartoon: Bill Plympton draws everything himself.
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* ''Hair High'' ''WesternAnimation/HairHigh'' (2004)
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* Troll {{Troll}} - "Surprise Cinema". It NOT only hurts when you laugh.
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* AllAdultAnimationIsSouthPark - YMMV. While he is ''very'' fond of senseless violence and throws in ''ToiletHumor'' for the lulz, he doesn't need lame sex jokes - as an independent author, he can show the sex directly, up to plain porn.
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* HappilyFailedSuicide - Egads, which trope should this be filed under, Plympton screwing with them as usual? A man can't find his keys and hangs himself, and what happens is [[spoiler:his life flashes before his eyes, until he knows where he left the damn keys. Cut the rope, exit happy man.]]
* HauntedHouse - The "Shuteye Motel". Beware the deadly fanged [[spoiler:pillow]]!
* HauntedHouse - The "Shuteye Motel". Beware the deadly fanged [[spoiler:pillow]]!
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* OurMermaidsAreDifferent - One is jobbing as ticket maid at the cinema, and the other...[[ComicSutra "The New Act at Aqua Land"]]...nuff said.
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* ToiletHumor: ToiletHumor - Loads. Best one: "The building left Elvis!"
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* BestialityIsDepraved - Underground animation would be incomplete without this trope, so to say. As usual, mostly played for Teh Lulz. Remarkably this is the only joke that backfires on the Troll of "Surprise Cinema" (see below): He changes out the wife for an octopus, but underestimates the power of the AnythingThatMoves trope. HilarityEnsues.
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I could edit this page all night... :-)
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* HeroicSacrifice - "The Fan and the Flower". Another TearJerker by Bill (don't think he did nothing but DerangedAnimation !)
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And tomorrow I\'m through ALL of his oeuvre, which is large.
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* AmusingInjuries - He's at least on par with Tex Avery when it comes to mauling his characters. "When Push Comes To Shove" takes this to Eleven, with a brilliant subversion at the end.
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* TertiarySexualCharacteristics - In "Nosehair". Hairs?? Very simple - the female hair is curvy, the male one edgy.
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* LIsForDyslexia - Dyslexic *sex*, to be precise. ItMakesSenseInContext.
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Bill Plympton is an Acadamy Award-nominated animator and director whose work is known for being...[[DerangedAnimation somewhat unique]]. His films and shorts have featured everything from outlandish 1950s-style monsters to musicals about sexual fantasies to the truth about Santa's fascist past.
His animated films are:
* ''The Tune'' (1992)
* ''Mondo Plympton'' (1997 shorts compilation)
* ''I Married a Strange Person!'' (1997)
* ''Mutant Aliens'' (2001)
* ''Hair High'' (2004)
* ''Idiots and Angels'' (2008)
He also did the videos for [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic "Don't Download This Song" and "TMZ"]], and there is currently a documentary [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexiaanastasio/adventures-in-plymptoons-a-documentary-on-oscar-no being made about him.]]
!!Tropes present in his work include:
* BMovie- He likes to homage these
* BadSanta- Santa: The Fascist Years
* BlackComedy
* CouchGag: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EFbdcObHHSU Did one for]] ''TheSimpsons'', featuring the love between Homer and... [[CargoShip his]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext couch.]] It's [[TearJerker surprisingly sad]].
* DerangedAnimation
* FilmNoir
* HeroicDog- Well, a dog that wants to be one...
* HighSchoolDance- In Hair High
* NaughtyNuns- In I Married a Strange Person
* OurAngelsAreDifferent
* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl
* TakeThat - One of the shorts Bill did was a scathing parody of abstract animation called ''Spiral''. Was actually controversial within the independent animation community and angered many abstract animators. One of them, Steven Woloshen, did a film rebutting called, well, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Rebuttal]]''.
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His animated films are:
* ''The Tune'' (1992)
* ''Mondo Plympton'' (1997 shorts compilation)
* ''I Married a Strange Person!'' (1997)
* ''Mutant Aliens'' (2001)
* ''Hair High'' (2004)
* ''Idiots and Angels'' (2008)
He also did the videos for [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic "Don't Download This Song" and "TMZ"]], and there is currently a documentary [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexiaanastasio/adventures-in-plymptoons-a-documentary-on-oscar-no being made about him.]]
!!Tropes present in his work include:
* BMovie- He likes to homage these
* BadSanta- Santa: The Fascist Years
* BlackComedy
* CouchGag: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EFbdcObHHSU Did one for]] ''TheSimpsons'', featuring the love between Homer and... [[CargoShip his]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext couch.]] It's [[TearJerker surprisingly sad]].
* DerangedAnimation
* FilmNoir
* HeroicDog- Well, a dog that wants to be one...
* HighSchoolDance- In Hair High
* NaughtyNuns- In I Married a Strange Person
* OurAngelsAreDifferent
* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl
* TakeThat - One of the shorts Bill did was a scathing parody of abstract animation called ''Spiral''. Was actually controversial within the independent animation community and angered many abstract animators. One of them, Steven Woloshen, did a film rebutting called, well, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Rebuttal]]''.
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