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As a widely acclaimed (on Youtube anyway) comedy, it boasts an extremely high gps (gags per second) ratio. They're almost all visual and work either by internal cartoon logic or context.


  • Jean catches a beaver with a food snare tied to a boulder. He's extremely proud, until the previously seemingly trapped beaver pursues him, swinging the boulder over head like a morning star.
  • Jean tries to set up his stick fishing rod to catch fish while he's away by attaching it to a snowman, with the stick as the snowman's arm. When a fish is caught, it easily pulls the rod free because the rod is flimsily attached to the snowman. Jean's solution? Design the snowman to look very buff so that fishing rod will have a stronger hold in place. Doesn't work at all.
  • The furrier tries hitting on Jean while her father isn't looking, much to Jean's discomfort. First by showing some ankle, then stripping down to her skivvies and doing a full stripper pole dance.
  • When he's chased from the beaver dam, Jean has to ride away on a floating block of ice. A mob of beavers is instantly gaining on him, on the toon logic that their block of ice moves faster in the desired direction because it's shaped like an ocean liner. After that one is sunk, the beavers produce an even faster series of ice blocks which are shaped like a train and cars.
  • Jean at one point causes an icicle to plummet towards him. He is unable to get from under its path because the icicle is able to purse him so that it even revolves around a tree to chase him. Ultimately, Jean has to compel another icicle to fall at an angle so that it impales the one pursuing him.
  • During the climax, Jean with hundreds of beavers on his heels pauses by a row of sleds to contemplate which one he'll use for his getaway even though they're essentially identical. The pulse-pounding music stops with a record scratch.
  • Several scenes with the Native American's horse, which is the least convincing guy-in-a-mascot costume of the movie, so much that you can see the outline of the person bent over to play the back half and there's no attempt to conceal the face of the front-half person under the horse head. In one scene, the Native American is under the horse with sound effects like he's doing car maintenance on it. In another, he needs to ride the horse away for an emergency, which because it's such an awkward arrangement (the Native American actor is much larger than either of the horse actors) means the horse collapses after maybe three steps. The final instance, it's very anticlimactically crushed by the Beaver Voltron, causing the Native American to melodramatically cry and go into a vengeful rage.


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