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[[Bill Plympton]] is an Acadamy Award-nominated animator and director whose work is known for being...[[Deranged Animation|somewhat unique]]. His films and shorts have featured everything from outlandish 1950s-style monsters to musicals about sexual fantasies to the truth about Santa's fascist past.

His animated films are:

* ''The Tune'' (1992)
* ''Mondo Plympton'' (1997 shorts compilation) 
* ''I Married a Strange Person!'' (1997) 
* ''Mutant Aliens'' (2001) 
* ''Hair High'' (2004) 
* ''Idiots and Angels'' (2008)

He also did the videos for [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s songs "Don't Download This Song" and "TMZ", and there is currently{{when}} a documentary [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexiaanastasio/adventures-in-plymptoons-a-documentary-on-oscar-no being made about him.]

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* [[B-Movie]]- He likes to homage these
* [[Bad Santa]]- Santa: The Fascist Years
* [[Black Comedy]]
* [[Couch Gag]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EFbdcObHHSU Did one for] ''[[The Simpsons]]'', featuring the love between Homer and... [[Cargo Ship|his]] [[It Makes Sense in Context|couch.]] It's [[Tear Jerker|surprisingly sad]].
* [[Deranged Animation]]
* [[Film Noir]]
* [[Heroic Dog]]- Well, a dog that wants to be one...
* [[High School Dance]]- In Hair High
* [[Naughty Nuns]]- In I Married a Strange Person
* [[Our Angels Are Different]]
* [[Seemingly-Wholesome Fifties Girl]]
* [[Take That]] - One of the shorts Bill did was a scathing parody of abstract animation called ''Spiral''. Was actually controversial within the independent animation community and angered many abstract animators. One of them, Steven Woloshen, did a film rebutting called, well, ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Rebuttal]]''.

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