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* UnreadablyFastText: During the picture-taking scene, an ''extremely'' brief message shows up, written between one of the pictures of the child alone. [[spoiler: "[[KidsAreCruel Cordell's kids are evil]] -> Dillon, Joshua + Jackson"]], right next to a message addressing the viewer not to pause the film. Doubles as a FreezeFrameBonus.
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* UnreadablyFastText: During the picture-taking scene, an ''extremely'' brief message shows up, written between one of the pictures of the child alone. [[spoiler: "[[KidsAreCruel Cordell's kids are evil]] -> Dillon, Joshua + Jackson"]], right next to a message addressing the viewer not to pause the film. Doubles as a FreezeFrameBonus.FreezeFrameBonus.
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* AffectionateNickname: Roger occasionally refers to Doris as "Wiggles", and Doris refers to Roger on two separate occasions as "Lumpy" and "Peanut", the latter of which the child adopts as part of its OneWordVocabulary.
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* HemisphereBias: Yep, that's North and South America visible as the star hurtles to earth.Earth.
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* OneWordVocabulary: When Roger and Doris are contemplating the toddler that just landed in their living room, Roger says to Doris, "What's this, peanut?" The child then learns that word "PEANUT!" And yells it. Many many times. Eventually it becomes a MadnessMantra for Roger.
* OrWasItADream: The closing image showing the woman pregnant with ''six'' babies that all bear a resemblance to the demon child is rather eerie.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Eventually Doris has enough and leaves.
* StaggeredZoom: On Roger when he opens a door to the child's room and finds out that it has made a communication device from the telescope and other electronic devices it has cannibalized.
* OrWasItADream: The closing image showing the woman pregnant with ''six'' babies that all bear a resemblance to the demon child is rather eerie.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Eventually Doris has enough and leaves.
* StaggeredZoom: On Roger when he opens a door to the child's room and finds out that it has made a communication device from the telescope and other electronic devices it has cannibalized.
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* OneWordVocabulary: When Roger and Doris are contemplating the toddler that just landed in their living room, Roger says to Doris, "What's this, peanut?" Doris asks Roger, "What should we do, peanut?". The child then learns that word "PEANUT!" And word, "PEANUT!", and yells it. Many many Many, ''many'' times. Eventually Eventually, it becomes a MadnessMantra for Roger.
* OrWasItADream: The closing image showingthe woman Doris pregnant with ''six'' babies that all bear a resemblance to the demon child is rather eerie.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:Eventually Eventually, Doris has enough and leaves.
* SkywardScream: Roger does this during the montage of the child being destructive, yelling for the child to stop calling him "Peanut".
--> '''Roger''': "''STOP CALLING ME THAT!''"
* StaggeredZoom: On Roger when he opens a door to the child's room and finds out that it has made a communication device from the telescope and other electronic devices it hascannibalized.cannibalized.
* StaircaseTumble: Roger has this happen to him near the end of the short as a result of him rushing downstairs after seeing the child's communication device. He gets his shoe caught in a fish skeleton, causing him to fall and collide with the stairs with such force that he breaks his arms, gets an elf's hat [[AssShove jammed up his butt]], and causes all his teeth to fall out, leaving him immobilized. Luckily for Roger, [[AllJustADream it all turns out to be a dream]].
* UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed. While Roger isn't much of a looker, Doris is only marginally better-looking in comparison.
* UnreadablyFastText: During the picture-taking scene, an ''extremely'' brief message shows up, written between one of the pictures of the child alone. [[spoiler: "[[KidsAreCruel Cordell's kids are evil]] -> Dillon, Joshua + Jackson"]], right next to a message addressing the viewer not to pause the film. Doubles as a FreezeFrameBonus.
* OrWasItADream: The closing image showing
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* SkywardScream: Roger does this during the montage of the child being destructive, yelling for the child to stop calling him "Peanut".
--> '''Roger''': "''STOP CALLING ME THAT!''"
* StaggeredZoom: On Roger when he opens a door to the child's room and finds out that it has made a communication device from the telescope and other electronic devices it has
* StaircaseTumble: Roger has this happen to him near the end of the short as a result of him rushing downstairs after seeing the child's communication device. He gets his shoe caught in a fish skeleton, causing him to fall and collide with the stairs with such force that he breaks his arms, gets an elf's hat [[AssShove jammed up his butt]], and causes all his teeth to fall out, leaving him immobilized. Luckily for Roger, [[AllJustADream it all turns out to be a dream]].
* UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed. While Roger isn't much of a looker, Doris is only marginally better-looking in comparison.
* UnreadablyFastText: During the picture-taking scene, an ''extremely'' brief message shows up, written between one of the pictures of the child alone. [[spoiler: "[[KidsAreCruel Cordell's kids are evil]] -> Dillon, Joshua + Jackson"]], right next to a message addressing the viewer not to pause the film. Doubles as a FreezeFrameBonus.
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The NFB has it up on their Youtube channel. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb3yrRttYJc See it here]].
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''Strange Invaders'' is a 2001 animated short film (8 minutes) by Creator/CordellBarker. It was produced by the Creator/NationalFilmBoardOfCanada.
Roger and Doris are a married couple. They are childless and they wish for a baby. One night they wish on a shooting star--and that shooting star turns out to be a toddler, a human-seeming toddler who flies through the depths of space and right into their living room.
Roger and Doris are initially delighted. However, the child slowly starts acting weirder and weirder. It eats dog food from the dog bowl, and fish from the fish tank. It eats dinner plates. It begins to destroy the house, occasionally setting fires, drilling holes in the ceiling, generally wrecking things. And most disturbingly, it builds a communication device, pointed to space...
No connection to feature film ''Film/StrangeInvaders''.
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!!Tropes:
* AllJustADream: Roger wakes up and finds that the alien demon child was just a bad dream. It turns out that his wife is pregnant with human babies...but see OrWasItADream below.
* CreditsGag: The alien baby is called "It" in the credits.
* DerangedAnimation: A deeply crazy cartoon about an alien space baby that wreaks havoc in a couple's home.
* EvilDetectingDog: The dog never trusts the child, barking at it, opening the door and gesturing outside when Roger and Doris wonder what to do with it.
* HemishpereBias: Yep, that's North and South America visible as the star hurtles to earth.
* KnifeOutline: When Roger falls down the stairs, some sharp objects left over from Peanut's cannibalizing everything tumble with him, and penetrate the floor around Roger's supine form, leaving him battered but uncut. Then comes the bowling ball. ''Crunch.''
* KnittingPregnancyAnnouncement: Averted. Doris shows a pair of booties she's knitted, and Roger's delighted...then she shows him an identical second pair of booties. They're for the dog.
* LineBoil: Done deliberately in the opening credits.
* OneWordVocabulary: When Roger and Doris are contemplating the toddler that just landed in their living room, Roger says to Doris, "What's this, peanut?" The child then learns that word "PEANUT!" And yells it. Many many times. Eventually it becomes a MadnessMantra for Roger.
* OrWasItADream: The closing image showing the woman pregnant with ''six'' babies that all bear a resemblance to the demon child is rather eerie.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Eventually Doris has enough and leaves.
* StaggeredZoom: On Roger when he opens a door to the child's room and finds out that it has made a communication device from the telescope and other electronic devices it has cannibalized.
Roger and Doris are a married couple. They are childless and they wish for a baby. One night they wish on a shooting star--and that shooting star turns out to be a toddler, a human-seeming toddler who flies through the depths of space and right into their living room.
Roger and Doris are initially delighted. However, the child slowly starts acting weirder and weirder. It eats dog food from the dog bowl, and fish from the fish tank. It eats dinner plates. It begins to destroy the house, occasionally setting fires, drilling holes in the ceiling, generally wrecking things. And most disturbingly, it builds a communication device, pointed to space...
No connection to feature film ''Film/StrangeInvaders''.
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!!Tropes:
* AllJustADream: Roger wakes up and finds that the alien demon child was just a bad dream. It turns out that his wife is pregnant with human babies...but see OrWasItADream below.
* CreditsGag: The alien baby is called "It" in the credits.
* DerangedAnimation: A deeply crazy cartoon about an alien space baby that wreaks havoc in a couple's home.
* EvilDetectingDog: The dog never trusts the child, barking at it, opening the door and gesturing outside when Roger and Doris wonder what to do with it.
* HemishpereBias: Yep, that's North and South America visible as the star hurtles to earth.
* KnifeOutline: When Roger falls down the stairs, some sharp objects left over from Peanut's cannibalizing everything tumble with him, and penetrate the floor around Roger's supine form, leaving him battered but uncut. Then comes the bowling ball. ''Crunch.''
* KnittingPregnancyAnnouncement: Averted. Doris shows a pair of booties she's knitted, and Roger's delighted...then she shows him an identical second pair of booties. They're for the dog.
* LineBoil: Done deliberately in the opening credits.
* OneWordVocabulary: When Roger and Doris are contemplating the toddler that just landed in their living room, Roger says to Doris, "What's this, peanut?" The child then learns that word "PEANUT!" And yells it. Many many times. Eventually it becomes a MadnessMantra for Roger.
* OrWasItADream: The closing image showing the woman pregnant with ''six'' babies that all bear a resemblance to the demon child is rather eerie.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Eventually Doris has enough and leaves.
* StaggeredZoom: On Roger when he opens a door to the child's room and finds out that it has made a communication device from the telescope and other electronic devices it has cannibalized.
