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2	[[caption-width-right:350:A little Clearasil will fix that.]]
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4	''Your Face'' is a short (three minutes!) animated film from 1987, created by the patron saint of DerangedAnimation, Creator/BillPlympton.
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6	The entirety of the short (until the last few seconds, that is) is a static shot of a man's face. As a dreamily romantic song plays, the man's face changes and morphs in many bizarre and surreal ways.
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8	The song was written and performed by Maureen [=McElheron=], Plympton's longtime musical collaborator. Her recording was then slowed down to sound male. It was later released as a bonus track for the soundtrack to their feature film collaboration, ''WesternAnimation/TheTune''.
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10	Plympton would create a ShotForShotRemake of the short as a CouchGag for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' season 29 episode, "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage."
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14	* DerangedAnimation: It's a Plympton cartoon. The first thing that happens is that the man's mouth flies off of his face like a butterfly. The surreal tone is maintained throughout.
15	* DiabolusExMachina: After the song is over the camera pulls back to show the man sitting on a chair on the Earth. A giant face opens up in the Earth and swallows him whole.
16	* LineBoil: This was early in his career when Plympton drew and re-drew each panel by hand. Thus, Line Boil a'plenty.
17	* SoundtrackDissonance: The song is a gentle love ballad about how much the singer adores their lover and their lover's beautiful face. This accompanies a man's face morphing and twisting and flipping itself in innumerable bizarre ways.
18	* TheStinger: After the credits end, the giant face in the earth reappears and licks its chops.

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