History Creator / DonHertzfeldt

* FrickinLaserBeams: The scene with the Giant Eyeball.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: The main protagonist keeps getting horrifically slaughtered by every girl he meets, all because he was being nice to them. The last woman he meets only stays with him because he has money.
* TheChewToy / TheyKilledKennyAgain: The main protagonist.

There was also series of Pop-Tarts commercials which were ''not'' by him, but made, without his permission in his style after he refused offers to make advertisements.

--->'''"Homar"''': '''DOH. DOH. DOH. DOH. DOH. DOH. DOH. DOH-'''

* {{Dystopia}}: Implied. A place ruled by a self-styled "dark lord" whose spokesperson remarks that all animals can scream, in a show which uses "amusement is control" as a slogan... doesn't seem to be a very nice one.
* EvilOverlord[=/=]NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: All hail the Dark Lord of Twin Moons!
* LossOfIdentity: See above.

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* DeathOfPersonality: The design of the characters and the show changes so radically that by the year 10,535 the family has been reduced to a disturbing collection of caricatured mutants that can only sputter broken catchphrases and hock merchandise.

* NoEnding: [[Spoiler: The film simply ends with the creator punching the rabbit.]]

* GenreRoulette: Discussed.

* "Ah, l'amour" (his earliest student work and source of the name "Bitter Filsm")

'''Don Hertzfeldt''' (born August 1, 1976) is the creator of many short animated films, including the Oscar-nominated [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuOvqeABHvQ "Rejected"]] and ''Everything Will Be OK''. He has an odd style, stick figures on paper with very little use of digital processing. You can get his films at his website, [[http://www.bitterfilms.com/ Bitter Films,]] and read up on some WordOfGod in [[http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/eykz5/don_hertzfeldt_filmmaker_ama/ this Reddit thread.]]

* NuSpeling: The terrifying "Sampsans" of the year 10,535 showcases a few new months (Aprall, Oktobar, Marchrüary — no Smarch, though), a new decimal calendar system, and "a"-heavy phrases like "outernet markat," "now availabal," and "epasode numbar."

* PropagandaPiece: InUniverse: The phrase "Amusement is control" seems to imply the show has become this, presumably because of The Dark Lord of the Twin Moons.

* EvilOverlord: The Dark Lord of Twin Moons seems to be one.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast / RedBaron: The dark lord of the twin moons.

* PropagandaPiece: The phrase "Amusement is control" seems to imply the show has become this, presumably because of The Dark Lord of the Twin Moons.

* WhoWouldWatchUs: Once one of the blobby cloud things realizes that people are watching him while he isn't wearing pants, he gets extremely nervous.

* AmnesiacLover: Homar's memories of the old Marge make her far-future self even more disturbing.

* AmnesiacLover: Homer's memories of the old Marge make her far-future self even more disturbing.
-->I still love you.-Epasode Numbar 20,254\\

* ArtEvolution: First Homer fiddles with a time-traveling remote that viscerally morphs him back to his crude 1989 model, then in a panicked attempt to undo the rewind, he launches into a far future where he and his family are grotesque mutant caricatures that barely resemble their original selves.

* OnlySaneMan: Homer seems to be the only one to retain a portion of his humanity.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack[=/=]LonelyPianoPiece: The music that plays in the background as Homer reminisces about his "past" episodes is Music/FryderykChopin's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGRO05WcNDk Nocturne Opus 9, No. 2]]. A bit of a TearJerker, at least.

* SurrealHorror: Simpsons-style.

[[AC:''The Animation Show'']]

* "World of Tomorrow", the first short film by him to be animated digitally.

[[AC:World of Tomorrow]]
* AnAesop: "Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail."
* BadFuture
* CheerfulChild: Young Emily.
* CloneDegeneration: Emily explains that the clones get worse with each generation.
* FlightOfRomance: Future Emily explains how she and Simon romantically sailed within balloons on Mars.
* InterspeciesRomance: Future Emily and Simon.
* MyFutureSelfAndMe
* TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace: Future Emily explains that time travel is still very unpredictable and extremely dangerous in her time: "If the position of the orbiting earth is not accurately calculated, a person can be sent off the planet. Many of our brave test clones are also still regularly crushed beneath the ground, or accidentally deposited hundreds of thousands of years into the past."
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to Simon after Emily left him.

* DeathOfPersonality: The design of the characters and the show change so radically that by the year 10,535 the family has been reduced to a disturbing collection of caricatured mutants that can only sputter broken catchphrases and hock merchandise.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/ItsSuchABeautifulDay It's Such A Beautiful Day]]'', made up of the three shorts "Everything Is Going To Be Okay", "I Am So Proud of You", and ''It's Such a Beautiful Day".

* TheChewToy / TheyKilledKenny: The main protagonist.

* [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal Half Dressed Cartoon Blobby Cloud Thing]]: "But I'm not wearing any pants." "ME NEITHER!"

-->Still love you Homar.-Epasode Numbar 20,254\\

* The CouchGag for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Clown In the Dumps"

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: The main protagonist keeps getting horrifically slaughtered by every girl he meets, all because he was being nice to them.