(mouse clicks)
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
♪ (brash orchestral music) ♪
- "Rejected."
- Don't know what this is.
- Rejected! - Love this so much.
- I watch this all the time!
- "In the spring..."
- Too long. Did not read.
- "The cartoons were completed in five weeks.
The Family Learning Channel rejected all of them upon review,
and they were never aired..."
- Okay. I'm looking forward to this.
- (man) My spoon is too big. - Yeah, it is.
- That guy is a genius.
- (reciting along) My spoon is too big.
- (chuckles)
The banana will help him.
- (reciting along) I am a banana!
(vacuum whirring)
♪ (upbeat muzak) ♪ - Wait, what? That was it?
- Is this legit? I've always been very curious about this.
- Oh, more stick figures.
- (man 1) Tuesday's coming. Did you bring your coat?
- Good lip-syncing. - (man 2) I live in a giant bucket.
(nondescript noises)
(eerie echoes)
(creature speaking alien language)
- This is the best thing I've ever seen in my life.
- Octopus cat. Pig. Cat-pig octopus. Heh.
♪ (quirky muzak) ♪ - This is so bizarre.
- (man 1, with brogue) Say, do you want to go see a movie?
- (laughs)
- (man 2) I'm feeling fat... and sassy.
(both kiai-ing loudly)
- (sighs)
- Oh my god!
- Oh my gosh.
- Ooh. Ooh! Ooh.
- (laughs heartily)
- This wasn't actually made for the Family Learning Channel.
(alternating screams)
- They can go on for hours.
- I mean, this reminds me a lot of TomSka.
♪ (dramatic classical music) ♪ - All right, what's this?
- "Johnson & Mills."
- Okay.
- (mother) Honey, come quick. Poopy's taking his first steps.
- Aw. - (audience) Aw.
- (laughing)
- No! No! No!
- I don't know why people are so against
babies being hurt for comedy.
♪ (Scandinavian music) ♪ - Yes. This is my favorite one.
- (creature) Everybody dance! - Okay, I'm dancing.
(creatures cheering) - Oh my god.
That's really cute, dancing little clouds.
- This is Swedish!
♪ (mumbling to music) ♪
(chuckles)
- (creature) Life is good!
(creatures cheering) - Yay! Yay!
Oh my god! What's happening?!
- (creature) My anus is bleeding. - (laughing)
- (chuckling)
-(chuckling)
- (creature) My anus is bleeding!
(creatures cheering) - (chuckling) What?
- He needs to see a cloud doctor.
- (creature) For the love of God and all that is holy!
MY ANUS IS BLEEDING!
(creatures cheering) - Why are they so happy?
(creature screaming) - I guess it's that time of month, huh?
- Oh, so much anus blood.
♪ (sweeping orchestral music) ♪
- "They began to fall apart."
'Cause apparently they hadn't fallen apart yet.
- Ugh, this is so-- this ending is, like, awesome too.
- Oh. They're, like, all-- they're all coming together?
- Someone's died in almost every cartoon so far.
(rumbling and creaking) - There's the banana. (laughs)
- No! Not the banana! - (Anthony chuckles)
(crashing) - (laughing)
- Oh god. Get out. Get outta there. Get out.
- They're breaking the fourth wall.
- This is like some Ring stuff right here.
- I imagine this is what every person on the internet
believes is happening when something changes.
(sounds end abruptly)
- Incredible. Incredible.
- Truly disturbing.
- What did I just watch?
No wonder they were all rejected.
- Oh... memories.
- Yeah. Gimme that old school.
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
- (Finebros) So have you seen that before? - No.
- Absolutely not.
- Definitely not.
- No, this is my first time.
- I had not seen that before.
- Definitely have heard people say,
(drawling) "My spoon is too big."
- I know "my anus is bleeding" and "my spoon is too big."
But the rest, I kinda... (whistles)
- Yes, a very, very, very long time ago.
- (both) Yes. - Many, many, many times.
- Dozens upon dozens.
It was kind of like what a lot of Internet cartoons
eventually came to be.
- (Finebros) How would you describe it to someone
who has never seen it? - (chuckling)
- Random cartoon humor.
- Cartoons gone wrong.
- Surrealist and gore-- gore-focused stick drawings.
- Randomness and it's dark,
and that's the best stuff on the Internet.
- A really cute cartoon. - Mm-hmm. Everyone should watch it.
Everyone and their kids should watch it. - Mm-hmm. And babies.
- Did it actually happen?
Did somebody give him money and/or the ability to do this?
Because if that's the case... whoops.
- (Finebros) So was this made for TV networks and food products?
- Maybe. I don't know.
- No, I don't think so.
- They're just too over-the-top.
No one would think this would make a commercial.
- This guy is pissing blood out of his bum.
I mean, surely, that's not gonna go on TV.
- Johnson & Mills, the Family Learning Network--
those things don't exist.
Unless he's South African or something
and they have brands I don't know about.
- (Finebros) Did you like it? - No.
- I don't think it would be something
I would watch in my spare time.
- Yeah, it was hilarious.
- Yeah, I loved that.
- I got a laugh out of it. I didn't know what function it served.
- That's like my [bleep].
If I felt like my audience could handle it,
I would do a lot more stuff like that, you know?
But for now, I stick to the dick jokes.
- Makes me laugh. Makes me smile.
Anus blood?
Why are you guys smiling right now when I said "anus blood"?
- (Finebros) And what happened to that one poor cloud?
- He was raped.
- He drowned in a pool of anus blood.
- I didn't learn that in meteorology.
- That's when I crossed my legs really hard.
- You know how that goes, man.
Sometimes you're dancing with your buddies,
and then your anus just starts bleeding.
And then you drown in the blood
that spilled out of your ass[bleep].
- (Finebros) What was the song that was playing there?
- ♪ (vocalizes song) ♪
They're singing that it's Christmas again.
- (Finebros) Oh, that's what the song actually is?
- Yeah. - (Finebros) I never knew that.
Why were all of his friends so happy,
even though he was drowning in his anus blood?
- (while laughing) I don't know.
- Because they're all screwed up!
- Maybe they didn't like him. Maybe he was the dark cloud.
- It's the group effect.
When a bunch of people see someone bleeding from the ass,
you don't do anything. When it's one person seeing
someone bleeding from the ass, you help.
- That was a test of true friendship. - Yeah.
- If your anus is bleeding and your friends are still happy,
they're not your real friends. - Yeah.
- Their basic purpose in life is to be fluffy,
celebratory cloud things.
If there is a situation presented to them
that maybe doesn't make sense
for them to be perfect celebratory, puffy cloud things,
they don't know what else to do.
And so they continue doing the only thing they know how to do,
which is to be celebratory cloud things.
- (Finebros) So a lot of times, on the React shows,
when we talk about things that have been so popular,
a lot of the response we get as to why is random.
Why does something random make things so popular?
- People like to see something that's unexpected.
- People are just looking to get entertained really fast.
When stuff is random, there's really nothing to think about.
- Because these days, when you watch so much content,
you see so many videos,
nothing really shocks you. So when something
is random, you're like, "Wow, for the first time,
I've been weirded out in a long time. I have to show people."
- From content in general,
we have come to expect very specific things.
Here's the story and here's how TV works,
and all the genres are very defined.
- You are subjugated to these terrible structures
and orderly ways of thinking,
so we crave for a childhood freedom.
To achieve that as an adult, you need to go
to more extreme measures than you were able to as a child.
- (Finebros) So this was made in 1999.
- People were sharing it on MSN Messenger.
- Wow, like before YouTube.
- (Finebros) But not only that,
it won 27 animation awards around the world...
- What?!
- (Finebros) ...and was even nominated for an Academy Award
for Best Animated Short. - An Oscar. Wow.
- WHAT?! What?! What the heck? No!
- How? How'd that happen?
- That's a bit of a stretch, isn't it?
It's like a YouTube video getting nominated for an Oscar.
- As it should be. Anus blood.
- I totally agree.
I think it should win more awards. - Yeah, I agree too.
I think it should've won everything it was nominated for.
- (Finebros) What do you think about the fact
that it even was nominated for an Oscar, this?
- Wow.
- I am shocked it was nominated for an Oscar.
- It's definitely ahead of its time,
'cause the comedy is still relevant now.
It's still a funny video today, and I only saw it today.
- I think that we typically call this type of stuff art
because there's no other explanation other than,
"Well, I guess I don't understand it. I suppose it's art."
- That probably speaks to the fact
that a lot of people working in animation--
'cause those are the people who make those decisions--
were sick of something.
Tired of making content for Johnson & Johnson
of fluffy bears wiping their fluffy butts
with fluffy Charmin toilet paper.
- (Finebrod) Do you see artistic merit with this?
Like, is it trying to say something? - No, not really.
- This is funny and random. That's all I got from it.
- I'm pretty simple. I never thought of anything like,
"Oh, that really means something."
It made me laugh, and then I would go back,
and it would make me laugh some more.
And that's all I need out of video and art.
- There's definitely more to that short than just stupid jokes.
- It says something about an industry
and about being a creative professional,
which is that a lot of the time,
you do terrible stuff that you kinda hate.
I think that he was probably tired of making the bull[bleep].
- (Finebros) Finally, this animator's name is Don Hertzfeldt.
Would you watch more animated films by him?
- Yeah.
- Sure, why not?
- I'd be interested in seeing what else this dude's up to.
- I'd love to see the other stuff he's created.
- Yes, 100%.
- He made more after that that was the same style.
Yeah, I watched all those ones too.
- Does it involve anus blood? - (Finebros) Maybe, maybe not.
- That would probably be my yes-or-no answer
contingent upon whether or not there's anus blood.
- (Finebros) What would you say to Don if he was watching this?
- Nice cartoons, man. More anus blood, please.
- And that is the end of another episode of YouTubers React.
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- Goodbye!
- (high-pitched voice) My anus is bleeding!
- Yay! - No, my anus is bleeding!
- Yay! - You're a [bleep] friend.
- Yay!
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