Bill’s Dirty Shorts

2006

Adult Animation

Web: http://www.plymptoons.com

Bill Plympton is a seriously deranged man. He is also a very skilful cartoonist with a good eye for a ridiculous situation. His cartoons, even the very short ones, are full of sex, mayhem, and death. Nothing is sacred, not even Jesus or Elvis. From Life Of A Tree to the Death Of Jackson Pollock we are presented with a series of his really strange takes on life. Some are just brief animations, nine of them are short films.

Perhaps a list of the subsections will give you an idea of where his mind wanders.

Sex and Violence – this covers everything from people who share a flat to sex with an octopus.

The Exciting Life of a Tree- about a tree that doesn’t want to become a Christmas tree, and so must defend itself.

More Sex and Violence – naturally

Can’t Drag Race With Jesus

Eat – many food-related shorts ranging from quite disgusting to completely gross

Parking – a short film about a war between a parking lot administrator and a blade of grass that doesn’t want to give in to the bitumen.

Krazy Kock – probably the less said the better, but this is not one for the kiddies. Lets just say that chicken mascots and horse aphrodisiacs don’t mix.

And 30 short flash animation like Rudolfo the Gay Lion Tamer.

We also get as a bonus a series of animations Plympton did for television advertising. These, fortunately for the advertisers, are simply funny.

That is Plympton’s success secret – he can turn any situation into a funny one, like How To Grab A Woman’s Breast. He has no respect at all for conventional social attitudes, preferring to go that one step past reality and into fantasy, gross though it may be. I haven’t seen such skill since the Monty Python days.

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