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I'm gonna bump this because I too remember the short. I don't remember what it was called, but I've been looking for it too. Wasn't it in a poem-type format with rhyming narration? If not I may be mixing up two different shorts but the premise YOU described is just what I remember.
The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror. -Tim Curry
Yes, I'm pretty sure it was in rhyme. I remember when the sister was talking the brother back into human form, she said "(something something) lookin'...now you're cookin'!"
You're only the second person I've ever come across in 20 years who remembers this. (Unless you were the person who posted that You Tube comment, in which case you're the only other person.)
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UPDATE: It was called "Ikkk!" (or maybe "Ikkkkk!") and it was by Tanya Weinberger, the same person who did "Grace" and "Fast Food" (the short with the three chefs trying to cook a frog). I found it in a list of some of Weinberger's cartoons that were shown at some film festival: http://www.throughwomenseyes.com/files/FilmFestivalHistory.pdf
I already had a hunch, because yet another Weinberger short shown on Nickelodeon, "Dog", had a similar animation style, it was in rhyme, and the end credits even had black and white photos of the crew members as kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYzVr8JyID8
Now the only thing left for me is to someday find and watch "Ikkk(kk)!" again...
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Thank you! Wow I love finding stuff like this. Tanya Weinberger's work really never leaves you, ya know? Grace haunted me for YEARS in a good way. Hopefully we can find IKKK! soon
The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror. -Tim Curry
All right, this one has been bugging me for 20 years. Back when Nickelodeon used to show shorts as filler when they had extra time after a program (like "Housecats", "Grace" and the "Sports Cartoon" series), there's one short I think I only saw once, but which I've always remembered. It had a little boy who was bored or overly imaginative or something, and imagined himself into a huge monster, body part by body part. His older sister walks in and exclaims "Ick!" Then she talks him back into his normal self, gives him a kiss on the cheek, credits roll. I remember the credits having black and white photos of the crew, and the names may have been handwritten. From my memory, the cartoon was animated in a scribbly crayon style, and it may have been voiced by actual kids.
I am almost positive that the sister's exclamation "Ick!" was the title of the short, though my memory can't pin down if it was spelled "Ick!", "Ickk!", "Ikk!" or some other way.
I saw the short back in 1992 or 1993 at the end of an episode of Danger Mouse I had taped, and found it unsettling enough that I rewound the tape to before the short so that the next episode I taped would record over it. I never saw or heard of it again, but when I first watched Aaah! Real Monsters and saw Ickis' ability to get bigger and scarier, for some reason it made me think of that mystery short.
I've spent the last 20 years trying to find out anything about it. Over the years I've asked about it in various places online, and nobody seems to remember it. I think one person mentioned it in a comment on a You Tube video of another Nick filler short (I think it was "Grace"), but the video and the comment have since been deleted. But the fact is that someone else on the Internet besides me mentioned it, so I know I'm not imagining it/going insane.
Does anybody, anybody, remember this Nickelodeon short at all?
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