History Creator / BillPlympton

* RuleOfFunny: Sentiment? GreenAesop's? All incidental. Bill just wanted to tell funny, engaging stories!

* ''WesternAnimation/Cheatin'' (2014)

* ''Cheatin''' (2014)

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[[caption-width-right:250:Pictured above: the artist. Also one of his more normal drawings.]]

* 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.

* 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 ''WesternAnimation/HairHigh.''

* 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."
** That said, Plympton has done a few films that were geared towards younger audience, such as ''12 Tiny Christmas Tales'' (a ChristmasSpecial he made for Creator/CartoonNetwork) and ''Gary Guitar'' (for Nickelodeon's [[WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons Random Cartoons]]).

** That said, Plympton has done a few films that were geared towards younger audience, such as ''12 Tiny Christmas Tales'' (a ChristmasSpecial he made for Creator/CartoonNetwork) and ''Gary Guitar'' (for Nickelodeon's [[WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons Random Cartoons]])/

-->''"The thing I love about Bill's stuff is that I know it'd make [[TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]] laugh his ass off."''
-->--'''MattGroening'''

* 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.

** Longtime fan Creator/MattGroening voices Will in ''Hair High.''

* HighSchoolDance- In Hair High

* NaughtyNuns- In I Married a Strange Person

* 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]]
** ''Draws''. He usually has assistants do the coloring and compositing.

** [[{{Futurama}} Sexlexia?]]

-->''"Bill Plympton is God!"''

It just so happens that one of his greatest admirers is MattGroening, who once quipped that Bill's stuff would "make [[TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]] laugh his ass off." High praise indeed!

''"Bill Plympton is God!"''

[[caption-width-right:300:Pictured above: the artist. Also one of his more normal drawings.]]

[[caption-width-right:349:Pictured above: the artist. Also one of his more normal drawings.]]

* ''TheTune'' (1992)

* ''The Tune'' (1992)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheTune'' (1992)