History WesternAnimation / Rejected

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: A significant portion of the spoken dialogue has really weird intonation.

* DadaAd: The entire point/FramingDevice of ''Rejected''. Don's ads are bizarre and disturbing, and they have nothing to do with the product they're supposed to advertise. Deconstructed, as they as because of this, they are rejected again and again, causing Don's mental health to degrade more and more.

* DadaAd: The entire point/FramingDevice of ''Rejected''. Don's ads are bizarre and disturbing, and they have nothing to do with the product they're supposed to advertise.

!!These shorts provide examples of:

* DadaAd: The entire point/FramingDevice of ''Rejected''.

''Rejected'' is a collection of animated shorts from animator Creator/DonHertzfeldt. He utilized a very minimalist approach to the artwork and incorporated very surreal elements. It was nominated for the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Animated Short Film in the year 2000.

* BlandNameProduct: The Family Learning Channel and Johnson & Mills.

* CaptainObvious: Every spoken line in the "My spoon is too big" scene.

* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: Any instance of bleeding, but especially the character who drowns in his own blood.
* PopUpTrivia: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjFxc75zuUE This version]] of the short has text commentary by Hertzfeldt.

* SelfDeprecation: The basis of the film is that Don Hertzfeldt is having a nervous breakdown because he can't sell any of his work. Ironically, Don himself admits that he's turned down many commercial deal offers since his fame with Rejected.

* StylisticSuck: The left-handed cartoon.

* TakeThat: The entire short is meant to be a jab at the medium of advertising, which Hertzfeldt described as being built on lies.

Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7JyjZI3LUM here]].

* NapoleonDelusion: "I am the queen of France!"

* SelfDeprecation: The basis of the film is that Don Hertzfeldt is having a nervous breakdown because he can't sell any of his work.
** Ironically, Don himself admits that he's turned down many commercial deal offers since his fame with Rejected.

* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: Literally, with the "SILLY HATS ONLY" segment.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The man with the top hat at the Silly Hats Only party gets beaten with baseball bats because his hat isn't silly enough.

* BlandNameProduct: The ''Family Learning Channel'' and ''Johnson & Mills''

* CreatorBreakdown: [[invoked]]Parodied; Hertzfeldt grows increasingly depressed as short after short is rejected, and as his creativity bottoms out, the animated world collapses in on itself.

* DownerEnding: [[invoked]]Ends with [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the cartoon's world falling apart and collapsing in on itself]] to symbolize Hertzfeldt's CreatorBreakdown. Especially [[NightmareFuel eerie]] since the final shot is of presumably the final person to die, looking up in horror as the image distorts violently before swiping to black.

** The last of the segments for "The Family Learning Channel" has a guy start bleeding from one of his eyes.

* SoundEffectBleep: As soon as the first HongKongDub guy grows a talking mutation on his forehead, the second guy says, "Fuck!", but it's bleeped out.

* SoundEffectBleep: [[invoked]]As soon as the first HongKongDub guy grows a talking mutation on his forehead, the second guy says, "Fuck!", but it's bleeped out.

* SeriousBusiness: The sign says "Silly Hats Only"--and ''means it.'' Anyone who wears a non-silly hat is brutally beaten with baseball bats.
* ScreenTap: [[PlayedForDrama Used to]] [[NightmareFuel horrifying effect.]] In the ending, a stickman desperately bangs on the paper as the animated world around him collapses. It's to no avail, as he is consumed by the DreamApocalypse.
%%* SoundEffectBleep

* MoodWhiplash: The "Dance!" segment begins with a fluffy, cloud-like creature encouraging similarly-shaped friends to dance and have fun. Everyone is happy and cheerful...and then the main character's anus starts bleeding profusely. He desperately screams for help, all while the others keep dancing and laughing.
** "First Steps" begins with a baby walking for the first time...and ends with said baby tumbling down a massive flight of stairs.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[CaptainObvious I AM A BANANA]]]]

* BlackComedy: "Honey, come quick, Poopie's taking his first steps!" (baby then falls down an endless flight of stairs to wild applause)

* CreatorBreakdown: [[invoked]] Parodied; Hertzfeldt grows increasingly depressed as short after short is rejected, and as his creativity bottoms out, the animated world collapses in on itself.

* DownerEnding: Ends with [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the cartoon's world falling apart and collapsing in on itself]] to symbolize Hertzfeldt's CreatorBreakdown. Especially [[NightmareFuel eerie]] since the final shot is of presumably the final person to die, looking up in horror as the image distorts violently before swiping to black.

%%* HappyDance

* SplashOfColor: Blood. And the banana.
%%* StickFigureAnimation

''Rejected'' is a collection of animated shorts from animator Creator/DonHertzfeldt. He utilized a very minimalist approach to the artwork and incorporated very surreal elements. Was nominated for the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Animated Short Film in the year 2000.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Ticks cannot fly no matter how angry they are.

** [[Main/CaptainObvious Rabbits cannot howl or fire angry ticks out of their nipples]].

Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuOvqeABHvQ here]].