Pulp Fiction Super Mario Bros.
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Animator Jeremie Duval remixed Super Mario Bros. with the tone and sound of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. Content warning: not for mushroom lovers.
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Pigeon: Impossible
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Walter Beckett, a junior CIA agent, receives a briefcase that controls a nuclear missile. The hand-off goes smoothly, until a pigeon gets trapped inside. Pigeon: Impossible is a six-minute short film by Lucas Martell. It is his first animated film, and it took him almost five years to complete it.
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Anthropomorphic Foods
Which is better, a fresh apricot or a dried apricot? The way they argue, nothing will be settled. This is just one example of a series of talking food ads to promote the Supercooks program from the British Food Standards Agency. See sausages, potatoes, nuts, and more discuss their virtues at Eat Me Daily. Link -via Everlasting Blort
Dancing Ferrets
A group of ferrets dance for your entertainment. The music is a cover of Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” arranged by The Moog Cookbook. Animation by Sandro Cruz. -via Buzzfeed
Fantaisie in Bubblewrap
The bubbles are doomed when people get hold of bubble wrap! An award-winning horror story by Arthur Metcalf. NSFW language. -via Everlasting Blort
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Forensic Reconstruction of Fictional Skulls

If scientists and police investigators can reconstruct a face from a skull, why can’t we figure out what Skeletor looked like before he was a skeleton? David at Ironic Sans went to work, or to be accurate, his wife did, and recreated faces for Skeletor, Manuel Calavera, and Jack Skellington. Link -via Laughing Squid
Cardboard
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This amazing animation is a wonderful combination of real public space & cardboard animation filmed stop-motion, by Dutch animator Sjors Vervoort with audio by Steven Aerts.
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The History of the Chipmunks

In some cases, no one will get behind a wacky idea until there’s nothing left to lose. Such is the case with Ross Bagdasarian Sr. who recorded a novelty song called “The Witch Doctor”. As his record company was close to bankruptcy, three executives went along with recording a chorus of three sped-up voices he called The Chipmunks.
Production commenced and in just a few months leading up to Christmas of 1958, the record shot to the top of the charts, becoming one of the best selling singles of all time. Bagdasarian won two Grammy Awards, Liberty Records was saved from bankruptcy, and the Chipmunks became a household name with children all over the world.
And that’s just the beginning of the story of Simon, Theodore, and Alvin. Link -via Boing Boing
Simon's Cat in "Hot Spot"
A brand new animated short by Simon Tofield.
More videos of Simon’s Cat featured here on Neatorama: Fly Guy, TV Dinner, Let Me In!, and Wake Up!
Resonant Chamber by Animusic: Animated Self-Playing Musical Instruments
This one is fantastic: take a look at this very cool computer graphic animation of self-playing musical instruments, titled Resonant Chamber by Animusic.
Link [embedded YouTube clip] – by the way, The Presurfer is 9 years old today. Happy Blogiversary, Gerard!
If you like that, here’s another one called Pipe Dreams over at Miss Cellania: Link
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The Cat Piano
A short film by The People’s Republic of Animation. The musical instrument featured is a Katzenklavier (previously at Neatorama). -via Metafilter
This is part of Neatorama’s “A Day Without Cats Counter Protest” inspired by A Day Without Cats on the Internet.
Little Big Love
Love is hard when you’re a little robot in a big world. A little bit creepy and a whole lot of cute, Little Big Love is a bittersweet short film from Tomas Mankovsky. Link
Blip
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See what happens when two aliens try to take over the same world in Blip, a short animation by Sean Mullen and Ben Harper of the Irish School of Animation. -via the Presurfer
Fly Guy
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Simon’s Cat tries to catch a fly. From the drawing board of Simon Tofield. -via Metafilter
Previously: Cat Man Do, Let Me In, and TV Dinner.
The Spongebob Squarepants Quiz

We all love Spongebob Squarepants! Even when he is (or maybe because he is) ridiculously annoying. Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will test your knowledge of Bikini Bottom trivia. I only scored 50%, but my kids aced it. Link
Work In Progress
An animation from Industrial Light & Magic, Work in Progress tells the story of a couple of modern-day Dr. Frankensteins. The moral of the story is that brains and brawn are small beans compared to the power of magic pixie dust. Link -via Dark Roasted Blend
Candy Fireworks
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Sweet, safe, and delicious fireworks, from PES. -via Buzzfeed
The Terrible Thing of Alpha Nine!
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Space explorers go to Alpha Nine to check out the monster, which turns out to be what you’ve secretly thought space aliens were really all about. This animation was Jake Armstrong’s thesis film at the School of Visual Arts. -via Dark Roasted Blend
Deadline
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Bang-Yao Liu created this stop-motion animation for his senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. It’s cute and clever, and I really relate to the pressure of working on deadline and dealing with distractions. There’s also a “making of” video. Music by Röyksopp. -via Digg
Wedding Invitation
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Corey McKenna created this unique stop-motion video as an invitation to his wedding to Rachel. The music is M79 by Vampire Weekend. More detailed directions are in another video. Do you think anyone will show up? -via Arbroath
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Sorry I'm Late
Have you ever had one of those days where everything goes wrong and you just can’t get where you’re trying to go? That’s the idea behind this collage-style animation by Thomas Markovsky. Link -via Everlasting Blort
The M.A.S.K. Quiz

Of course you are familiar with Transformers, He-Man, and G.I. Joe, but there was also M.A.S.K. If you remember this show, you’ll do well on Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. Link
Roman Klonek

I just love the whimsical designs of Polish artist Roman Klonek! This picture shown is a detail from an animation called Cheewing Gum. Link to artist’s site. Link to an exhibition of posters. -via Everlasting Blort
Humans! A Public Service Announcement
Humans! is a short animation by Reza Rasoli, Greg Gunn and Casey Hunt of Three Legged Legs. It’s done in the style of a PSA – and while you may not agree with the gloom and doom depiction of humans as parasites, it’s still a very interesting (though a bit gory) animation.
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Reinterpreting Little Red Riding Hood
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For a school assignment, Tomas Nilsson decided to create this animation of the story of the Little Red Riding Hood, in the style of Röyksopps Remind Me music video.
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The Seed
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This video by Johnny Kelly follows the life cycle of a seed, but that simple description doesn’t do justice to this animation. -via Digg
Penguins Travel in Groups

Advertising agency Duval Guillaume produced a cute ad for Belgian bus company De Lijn, emphasizing that it’s safer to travel in groups. Link
Guard Dog
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Guard Dog is about a bulldog who takes his duties very seriously. This animated short by Bill Plympton was nominated for an Oscar in 2004. -Thanks, Katherine!
The New Simpsons Intro
After almost 19 years of the classic Simpsons introduction scene today the brand new HDTV intro with brand new drawings and animation is being heralded across the interwebs. Being a life long fan of The Simpsons TV show this really is quite a breath of fresh air to the tired yet famous intro scene. So far since this post there have been up 521,439 views alone on YouTube since February 13th.
Sebastian's Voodoo
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A brave little voodoo finds a way to save the day in this award-winning short from Joaquin Baldwin. See more of the winners of Aniboom’s annual competition. Link -via I Am Bored
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