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* {{Pastiche}}: Supposedly Mel Brooks had gone to see a screening of a Creator/NormanMcLaren abstract animation short, only to hear another audience member grumble and mumble throughout. The animation in this short thus is done in a deliberately abstract [=McLaren=] style.
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* {{Pastiche}}: Supposedly Mel Brooks had gone to see a screening of a Creator/NormanMcLaren abstract animation short, only to hear another audience member grumble and mumble throughout. The animation in this short thus is done in a deliberately abstract [=McLaren=] style.style.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: The audience member justifies his talking over the cartoon by saying that being 71 gives him the right to be loud because he would die soon.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: The audience member justifies his talking over the cartoon by saying that being 71 gives him the right to be loud because he would die soon.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Is dis da sex life of two things?]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Is dis da sex life of two things?]]
-> "What the hell is
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* AffectionateParody: Of Norman [=McLaren=]'s idiosyncratic animation.
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* InTheStyleOf: Supposedly Mel Brooks had gone to see a screening of a Creator/NormanMcLaren abstract animation short, only to hear another audience member grumble and mumble throughout. The animation in this short thus is done in a deliberately abstract [=McLaren=] style.
* LeFilmArtistique: An abstract animated short film, lines and squiggles moving around to music, much to an audience member's disgust.
* LeFilmArtistique: An abstract animated short film, lines and squiggles moving around to music, much to an audience member's disgust.
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* InTheStyleOf: LeFilmArtistique: An abstract animated short film, lines and squiggles moving around to music, much to an audience member's disgust.
* {{Pastiche}}: Supposedly Mel Brooks had gone to see a screening of a Creator/NormanMcLaren abstract animation short, only to hear another audience member grumble and mumble throughout. The animation in this short thus is done in a deliberately abstract [=McLaren=]style.
* LeFilmArtistique: An abstract animated short film, lines and squiggles moving around to music, much to an audience member's disgust.style.
* {{Pastiche}}: Supposedly Mel Brooks had gone to see a screening of a Creator/NormanMcLaren abstract animation short, only to hear another audience member grumble and mumble throughout. The animation in this short thus is done in a deliberately abstract [=McLaren=]
* LeFilmArtistique: An abstract animated short film, lines and squiggles moving around to music, much to an audience member's disgust.
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''The Critic'' is a 1963 animated short film (only four minutes!) directed by Ernest Pintoff, written by and starring Creator/MelBrooks, in his film debut.
The short is a series of animated abstractions, with lines, squiggles, and other abstract figures moving and changing shape against a plain background that changes colors. Playing over this is the voice of an old man, a cranky 71-year-old Russian Jew. The old man, who apparently thought he'd bought a ticket to a European EroticFilm, struggles to make sense of the avant-garde animation and complains throughout.
Brooks had recently gotten his big break playing a character called "The 2000-Year-Old Man," and in this short plays a very similar cranky old man character.
Not to be confused with [[WesternAnimation/TheCritic the animated TV series]] of the same title.
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!!Tropes:
* AlterKocker: A cranky old Jewish man mumbling about art.
* BornInTheTheater: The old man complains about having paid $2 to see the short. At one point a woman tells him to be quiet.
* FauxSymbolism: InUniverse, this is the old man's opinion of the cartoon he is watching.
--> "It must be some symbolism. I think it's symbolic of junk."
* InTheStyleOf: Supposedly Mel Brooks had gone to see a screening of a Creator/NormanMcLaren abstract animation short, only to hear another audience member grumble and mumble throughout. The animation in this short thus is done in a deliberately abstract [=McLaren=] style.
* LeFilmArtistique: An abstract animated short film, lines and squiggles moving around to music, much to an audience member's disgust.
''The Critic'' is a 1963 animated short film (only four minutes!) directed by Ernest Pintoff, written by and starring Creator/MelBrooks, in his film debut.
The short is a series of animated abstractions, with lines, squiggles, and other abstract figures moving and changing shape against a plain background that changes colors. Playing over this is the voice of an old man, a cranky 71-year-old Russian Jew. The old man, who apparently thought he'd bought a ticket to a European EroticFilm, struggles to make sense of the avant-garde animation and complains throughout.
Brooks had recently gotten his big break playing a character called "The 2000-Year-Old Man," and in this short plays a very similar cranky old man character.
Not to be confused with [[WesternAnimation/TheCritic the animated TV series]] of the same title.
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!!Tropes:
* AlterKocker: A cranky old Jewish man mumbling about art.
* BornInTheTheater: The old man complains about having paid $2 to see the short. At one point a woman tells him to be quiet.
* FauxSymbolism: InUniverse, this is the old man's opinion of the cartoon he is watching.
--> "It must be some symbolism. I think it's symbolic of junk."
* InTheStyleOf: Supposedly Mel Brooks had gone to see a screening of a Creator/NormanMcLaren abstract animation short, only to hear another audience member grumble and mumble throughout. The animation in this short thus is done in a deliberately abstract [=McLaren=] style.
* LeFilmArtistique: An abstract animated short film, lines and squiggles moving around to music, much to an audience member's disgust.
