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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 he is and ends up with the line.Line.
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* ComesGreatResponsibility: Once the line discovers his hidden ability to alter his shape, he gets all impulsive with it, creating a mess of jagged edges and angles, no different than the Squiggle. This is what prompts him to handle the ability more responsibly and practices making more eloquent shapes.
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* ComesGreatResponsibility: Once the line Line discovers his hidden ability to alter his shape, he gets all impulsive with it, creating a mess of jagged edges and angles, no different than the Squiggle. This is what prompts him to handle the ability more responsibly and practices making more eloquent shapes.
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[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgqUya0kGPA You can watch the cartoon in its entirety on You Tube here]]. (Ten minutes long.)
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[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgqUya0kGPA com/watch?v=D_QhIVYlcmE You can watch the cartoon in its entirety on You Tube here]]. (Ten minutes long.)
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''The Dot and the Line: a Romance in Lower Mathematics'' is a short book written and illustrated in 1963 by Norton Juster (of ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'' fame). Inspired by ''Literature/{{Flatland}}'', It follows the story of a straight line who is hopelessly in love with a dot. The dot, however, is in love with a squiggle. The line learns how to manipulate himself and wins the heart of the dot.
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''The Dot and the Line: a Romance in Lower Mathematics'' is a short book written and illustrated in 1963 by Norton Juster (of ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'' fame). Inspired by ''Literature/{{Flatland}}'', It follows the story of a straight line who is hopelessly in love with pining for a dot. The dot, however, is in love with a squiggle. The line learns how to manipulate himself and wins the heart of the dot.
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* ComesGreatResponsibility: Once the line discovers his hidden ability to alter his shape, he starts to abuse gets all impulsive with it, creating a mess of jagged edges and angles, no different from than the Squiggle. This is what prompts him to handle the ability more responsibly and practices making more eloquent shapes.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The Dot to the Squiggle, who is "wild and unkempt."
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* ComesGreatResponsibility: Once the line discovers his hidden ability to alter his shape, he starts to abuse it, creating a mess of jagged edges and angles, no different from the Squiggle. This is what prompts him to handle the ability more responsibly and practices making more eloquent shapes.
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[[caption-width-right:350: [[ComesGreatResponsibility "Freedom is not a license for chaos!"]]]]
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chaos."]]]]
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* HangoverSensitivity: The Line goes on a frenzy of making angles that is symbolic of a drinking binge. He gets up wobbly, as the narration says "Oh, what a head!"
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* HangoverSensitivity: The Line goes on a frenzy of making angles that is symbolic of a drinking binge. He gets up wobbly, bent out of shape, as the narration says says, "Oh, what a head!"
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* VisualPun: In the cartoon, as the narration goes on about how besotted the Line is with the Dot and how "perfect" he thinks the Line is, a compass appears and measures the Dot in three directions as having a diameter of 36". This 36-36-36 measurement is a joke alluding to 36-24-36 (or thereabouts) female measurements that are supposed by some to be a good figure.
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* VisualPun: In the cartoon, as the narration goes on about how besotted the Line is with the Dot and how "perfect" he thinks the Line Dot is, a compass appears and measures the Dot in three directions as having a diameter of 36". This 36-36-36 measurement is a joke alluding to 36-24-36 (or thereabouts) female measurements that are supposed by some to be a good figure.
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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. 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.Juster (which is mostly Juster's original story read verbatim). It won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Animated Short Film.
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!Tropes in this story:
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The Dot to the Squiggle.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The Dot to the Squiggle.
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!!Tropes in this
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The Dot to the
* GrayRainOfDepression: In the cartoon, raindrops are falling as the Line wanders across the frame after being rejected by the dot, ending in one drop falling on the Line and rolling down like a tear.
* HangoverSensitivity: The Line goes on a frenzy of making angles that is symbolic of a drinking binge. He gets up wobbly, as the narration says "Oh, what a head!"
* HurricaneOfPuns: There's a host of shape puns, including the lovelorn Line being described as "thin and badly-drawn", and "But even allowing for his feelings, this was probably stretching a point," and of course the moral (see SpoofAesop).
* HangoverSensitivity: The Line goes on a frenzy of making angles that is symbolic of a drinking binge. He gets up wobbly, as the narration says "Oh, what a head!"
* HurricaneOfPuns: There's a host of shape puns, including the lovelorn Line being described as "thin and badly-drawn", and "But even allowing for his feelings, this was probably stretching a point," and of course the moral (see SpoofAesop).
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* HurricaneOfPuns: There's a host of shape puns, including the lovelorn Line being described as "thin and badly-drawn", and "But even allowing for his feelings, this was probably stretching a point," and of course the moral (see SpoofAesop).
* SpoofAesop: "To the [[{{Pun}} Vector]] Belong the Spoils"
* SpoofAesop: "To the [[{{Pun}} Vector]] Belong the Spoils"
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* VisualPun: In the cartoon, as the narration goes on about how besotted the Line is with the Dot and how "perfect" he thinks the Line is, a compass appears and measures the Dot in three directions as having a diameter of 36". This 36-36-36 measurement is a joke alluding to 36-24-36 (or thereabouts) female measurements that are supposed by some to be a good figure.
* VisualPun: In the cartoon, as the narration goes on about how besotted the Line is with the Dot and how "perfect" he thinks the Line is, a compass appears and measures the Dot in three directions as having a diameter of 36". This 36-36-36 measurement is a joke alluding to 36-24-36 (or thereabouts) female measurements that are supposed by some to be a good figure.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The dot Dot to the squiggle.
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* OneDimensionalThinking: Seems to be HurricaneOfPuns: There's a host of shape puns, including the dot's problem with the line.
* {{Pun}}:lovelorn Line being described as "thin and badly-drawn", and "But even allowing for his feelings, this was probably stretching a point.", point," and of course the moral (see SpoofAesop).
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The Dot tells the Line off for being dull and stiff near the beginning of the story. After she sees the Line's HiddenDepths and realizes how superficial her attraction to the Squiggle was, she tells off the Squiggle for being sloppy and irresponsible.
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''The Dot and the Line: a Romance in Lower Mathematics'' is a short book written and illustrated in 1963 by Norton Juster (of ''ThePhantomTollbooth'' fame). Inspired by ''Literature/{{Flatland}}'', It follows the story of a straight line who is hopelessly in love with a dot. The dot, however, is in love with a squiggle. The line learns how to manipulate himself and wins the heart of the dot.
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''The Dot and the Line: a Romance in Lower Mathematics'' is a short book written and illustrated in 1963 by Norton Juster (of ''ThePhantomTollbooth'' ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'' fame). Inspired by ''Literature/{{Flatland}}'', It follows the story of a straight line who is hopelessly in love with a dot. The dot, however, is in love with a squiggle. The line learns how to manipulate himself and wins the heart of the dot.
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[[http://youtu.be/OmSbdvzbOzY You can watch the cartoon in its entirety on You Tube here]]. (Ten minutes long.)
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In 1965, Juster wrote a screenplay and acclaimed animator Creator/ChuckJones directed it. It won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Animated Short Film.
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* LimitedAnimation: The Chuck Jones short is a masterwork of minimalism.
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Chuck didn\'t animated it; he directed it.
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In 1965, Juster wrote a screenplay and acclaimed animator Creator/ChuckJones animated it. It won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Animated Short Film.
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In 1965, Juster wrote a screenplay and acclaimed animator Creator/ChuckJones animated directed it. It won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Animated Short Film.
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* MGMOneshotCartoons
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In 1965, Juster wrote a screenplay and acclaimed animator ChuckJones Creator/ChuckJones animated it. It won an AcademyAward for Animated Short Film.
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''The Dot and the Line: a Romance in Lower Mathematics'' is a short book written and illustrated in 1963 by Norton Juster (of ''ThePhantomTollbooth'' fame). Inspired by ''{{Flatland}}'', It follows the story of a straight line who is hopelessly in love with a dot. The dot, however, is in love with a squiggle. The line learns how to manipulate himself and wins the heart of the dot.
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''The Dot and the Line: a Romance in Lower Mathematics'' is a short book written and illustrated in 1963 by Norton Juster (of ''ThePhantomTollbooth'' fame). Inspired by ''{{Flatland}}'', ''Literature/{{Flatland}}'', It follows the story of a straight line who is hopelessly in love with a dot. The dot, however, is in love with a squiggle. The line learns how to manipulate himself and wins the heart of the dot.
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* AWorldwidePunomenon: "But even allowing for his feelings, this was probably stretching a point.", and of course the moral (see SpoofAesop, below).
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* {{Pun}}: "But even allowing for his feelings, this was probably stretching a point.", and of course the moral (see SpoofAesop).
* SpoofAesop: "To the[[AWorldwidePunomenon [[{{Pun}} Vector]] Belong the Spoils"Spoils"
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* HeyItsThatVoice: The animated short is narrated by Robert Morley, who was the gentlemean on the bench who welcomes the Muppets to England in TheGreatMuppetCaper.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: The animated short is narrated by Robert Morley, who was the gentlemean on the bench who welcomes the Muppets to England in TheGreatMuppetCaper.
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* HeyItsthatVoice: HeyItsThatVoice: The animated short is narrated by Robert Morley, who was the gentlemean on the bench who welcomes the Muppets to England in TheGreatMuppetCaper.
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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 upon a time, there was a sensible straight line who was hopelessly in love... with a dot.
-->--'''Opening narration'''
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