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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The Dot to the Squiggle, who is "wild and unkempt." However, she eventually realizes just how unappealing he is and ends up with the Line.

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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The Dot to the Squiggle, who is "wild and unkempt." However, she eventually realizes just how unappealing (not to mention unorganized) he is and ends up with the Line.
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* HangoverSensitivity: The Line goes on a frenzy of making angles that is symbolic of a drinking binge. He gets up bent out of shape, as the narration says, "Oh, what a head!"

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* HangoverSensitivity: The Line goes on a frenzy of making angles for half the night that is symbolic of a drinking binge. He gets up bent out of shape, shape the next morning, as the narration says, "Oh, what a head!"
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* HaveAGayOldTime: The narrator describes the Squiggle as "gay and free".

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* HaveAGayOldTime: The narrator Dot describes the Squiggle as "gay and free".
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* HaveAGayOldTime: The narrator describes the Squiggle as "gay and free".
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The book became the subject of a 1965 animated short by Creator/ChuckJones, his first after leaving Warner Bros., with a screenplay by Juster (which is mostly Juster's original story read verbatim). It won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Animated Short Film.

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The book became the subject of a 1965 animated short by Creator/ChuckJones, his first after leaving Warner Bros., with a screenplay by Juster himself (which is mostly Juster's original story read verbatim). It won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Animated Short Film.
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-->--'''Opening narration'''

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-->--'''Opening narration'''
-->-- '''OpeningMonologue'''

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* RealityEnsues: Following a montage of stills where The Line imagines himself interposed in a multitude of situations, he realizes that he can't just imagine himself in such positions. Hence his little, ahem, bender.


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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Following a montage of stills where The Line imagines himself interposed in a multitude of situations, he realizes that he can't just imagine himself in such positions. Hence his little, ahem, bender.
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->''One upon a time, there was a sensible straight line who was hopelessly in love... with a dot.''

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->''One ->''Once upon a time, there was a sensible straight line who was hopelessly in love... with a dot.''
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* RealityEnsues: Following a sequence of snapshots where The Line imagines himself in a multitude of functions, he realizes that he can't just imagine himself in such positions. Hence his little, ahem, bender.

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* RealityEnsues: Following a sequence montage of snapshots stills where The Line imagines himself interposed in a multitude of functions, situations, he realizes that he can't just imagine himself in such positions. positions. Hence his little, ahem, bender.
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* RealityEnsues: Following a sequence of snapshots where The Line imagines himself in a multitude of functions, he realizes that he can't just imagine himself in such positions. Hence his little, ahem, bender.
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* {{Narrator}}: Creator/RobertMorley reads the story in the cartoon.
* RacialFaceBlindness: One of the many jokes. The Line's friends, urging him to forget about the Dot, say "They all look alike!" Well, circles ''do'' all look alike.

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