Oh, Sure

This little minute and a half piece absolutely cracked me up. The understatement and the ridiculousness of it is awesome. The plot is so simple. Ask someone, "Can you do this?" Do something and ask them they can do it. What a wonderful mind!

A man comes up to another man sitting on a park bench and challenges him to bobble his head. "Oh, sure" says the second guy and does so. His second challenge is a little more...challenging.

It's a very short piece of loose-styled animation by Richard Condie for Canada's National Film Board. It looks like the sort of black-out gag from a longer TV show, like LAUGH-IN or some other comedy sketch show. It's weird and wacky, and if it's not among the best of Condie's work, it doesn't try to be anything other than it is: just a brief piece to show off Condie's wackiness. At less than a couple of minutes, it's worth your while.

If most directors did a cartoon like this, it would probably be the oddest thing they ever did. But for Richard Condie, this is a comparatively normal short ("comparatively" being the operative word-Condie does nothing "normal") whereas everything else I've ever seen is stranger than this within sixty seconds. Condie is an acquired taste and I've acquired it myself, which probably means a great deal, but I'm getting better, honest. Condie is a national treasure (or should be) in Canada, the Mad Genius. A wonderful short, well worth tracking down. Most recommended.