Animation Sucks
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Animation Sucks is an episode in the fictional animated series Beavis and Butt-head. It appeared in the fifth season (1994-1995) and is available on DVD as part of The Mike Judge Collection.
[edit] Synopsis
Mr. Van Driessen introduces a lesson on animation as part of Beavis and Butt-head's art class. He begins by showing them an animated sequence on racism he composed when he was in school, in which two different colored characters poke each other in the stomach with weapons, drawing red blood from both of them, at which point they make up. The two deduce the wrong message, concluding that animation allows them to draw as much bloody and gory artwork as their imaginations will allow.
As the class begins drawing, the two draw multitudes of "dead people", two per cel - some of them being attacked by a dog and others being stabbed with a giant trident or shot. Van Driessen then shows the class each student's animations. When Beavis and Butt-head's animation is played, the cels have been arranged to show the two "dead people" (who look mysteriously like Beavis and Butt-head themselves) being killed in action. Beavis and Butt-head cannot understand why there are only two "dead people" instead of hundreds, and despite Van Driessen's immense praise and an encore presentation of their work, they give the concept of animation their all-too-familiar rating of "sucks".
