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 "Don't Download This Song" and "TMZ", and there is currently a documentary being made about him.

Tropes present in his work include:

 * 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.