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[[File:POINT.jpg|frame|Original cover art for The Point]]
 
A 1971 more-or-less independent animated musical featuring songs from [[Harry Nilsson]] and many [[Disney Acid Sequence|Disney Acid Sequences]] ,<ref>thisThis is likely due to Nilsson having come up with the concept on a walk through the woods...on acid</ref>. It'''''The Point''''' acts as a companion film to an album by Nilsson of the same name.
 
This story is framed as a father (voiced by Ringo Starr in the home video and DVD release, though some older tropers remember Dustin Hoffman and Alan Thicke both voiced the narrator in past TV releases, with [[Your Mileage May Vary|arguably better]] results) reading a story to his son.
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The movie is interspersed with songs, nearly all of which have [[That Reminds Me of a Song|little or nothing to do with the actual plot]] other than a line or two. This is totally excusable since the songs and the movie are both [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moments of Awesome]] in the composer's body of work (in this troper's [[Your Mileage May Vary|opinion]], of course).
 
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* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: (Taken to extremes).
* [[Anvilicious]]
* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: (They do not consistently draw clothes. They also don't (consistently) draw what lies under them).
* [[A Boy and His X]]: Oblio and Arrow.
* [[Children Are Innocent]]
* [[Disney Acid Sequence]]
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* [[Home Version Soundtrack Replacement]]: In non-musical form with the multiple voice actors due to Hoffman's contract only covering the initial TV broadcast.
* [[Kid Hero]]
* [[Large Ham]]: (Played to amusing results with the evil Count).
* [[The Musical]]
* [[Not So Different]]: (Heroic variant).
* [[Pinball Protagonist]]: (For most of the film).
* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: (Both preached and practiced).
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]
 
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