Bill Plympton

Bill Plympton is an Acadamy Award-nominated animator and director whose work is known for being...somewhat unique. His films and shorts have featured everything from outlandish 1950s-style monsters to musicals about sexual fantasies to the truth about Santa's fascist past.

His animated films are:

• The Tune (1992)
• Mondo Plympton (1997 shorts compilation)
• I Married a Strange Person! (1997)
• Mutant Aliens (2001)
• Hair High (2004)
• Idiots and Angels (2008)

He also did the videos for "Weird Al" Yankovic's songs "Don't Download This Song" and "TMZ", and there is currently^[when?] a documentary being made about him.

Bill Plympton provides examples of the following tropes:

• B-Movie- He likes to homage these
• Bad Santa- Santa: The Fascist Years
• Black Comedy
• Couch Gag: Did one for The Simpsons, featuring the love between Homer and... his couch. It's surprisingly sad.
• Deranged Animation
• Film Noir
• Heroic Dog- Well, a dog that wants to be one...
• High School Dance- In Hair High
• Naughty Nuns- In I Married a Strange Person
• Our Angels Are Different
• Seemingly-Wholesome Fifties Girl
• Take That - One of the shorts Bill did was a scathing parody of abstract animation called Spiral. Was actually controversial within the independent animation community and angered many abstract animators. One of them, Steven Woloshen, did a film rebutting called, well, Rebuttal.