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Hair High
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Hair High is a 2004 animated film by Bill Plympton. Genre-wise, it falls somewhere between romantic comedy, and horror, or Horror Romantic Comedy... But one thing that can be agreed on is it's a trip what with this being a Plympton work and all.Rod and Cherri rule the school as prom king and queen, respectively. New kid Spud accidentally offends both Cherri and Rod, and so is forced to become Cherri's slave. Naturally, they immediately hate each other, but later fall in love. However, Rod is not too pleased with this and, having already warned Spud beforehand, this could mean trouble.It features a huge ensemble voice cast including, but not limited to, Sarah Silverman, Dermot Mulroney, David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Ed Begley Jr., Matt Groening, Justin Long, Zak Orth, Craig Bierko, Martha Plimpton, Michael Showalter and Don Hertzfeldt. | |
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Daydream Surprise | |
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Daydream Surprise: Spud bucks Cherri off his back who is literally walking all over him, causing her to fall into a puddle, and then the Earth crumbles while Cherri floats away into the sea as he waves at her smugly. Then as it turns out, it was just his imagination. | |
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Chunky Salsa Rule | |
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Chunky Salsa Rule: A non-video game example. Vomiting up your organs and and football jumping through you? Survivable. Being crushed and drowning? Fatal. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: The young couple have their reservations about how true the story JoJo is telling them, and seem to infer that the crazy stuff happening in it may or may not be just JoJo's own embellishments. Though Cherri and Spud coming back as skeletons might be true. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: Zip electrocutes a frog in his "sex organs" which seems to cause an erection. Frogs don't have penises. Ironically, the scene takes place in biology class. | |
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Framing Device | |
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Framing Device: The movie is a story JoJo is telling to a young couple who are on the way to prom. | |
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Fingore | |
| Hair High / int_1e8f4221 | comment |
The aforementioned fingore scene, where Rod graphically tears off Zip's fingernail with a switchblade. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Everything that's immoral, disgusting, and possibly just plain offensive is Played for Laughs. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Alpha Bitch: Cherri, at first, who apparently rules the school with her Jerk Jock boyfriend, Rod, and takes pleasure in humiliating Spud for giving her a bogus answer to the teacher's question. She shows a much softer side when she and Spud inadvertently exchange looks. Darlene is a straighter example after Cherri dies with Spud and takes over the role of Rod's new girlfriend. | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen | |
| Hair High / int_28c1d543 | comment |
Defrosting Ice Queen: Cherri begins to fall in love with Spud after some strong tension. | |
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'60s Hair | |
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'60s Hair: Beehive hairdos for females, pompadours for males, and both are exaggerated for comic effect. The movie's title, which also serves as the name of the high school, alludes to 60s hair in general. | |
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The Hero Dies | |
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The Hero Dies: Spud when he drowns in the lake with Cherri. | |
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Alma Mater Song | |
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Alma Mater Song: The titular school's anthem plays during Zip's fantasy of Darlene doing a cheer routine topless, and plays again after a brief Moment of Silence due to Zip's sudden but apparent demise from falling from a scoreboard. | |
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Disney Acid Sequence | |
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Disney Acid Sequence: Spud and Cherri's kiss stand out in particular simply to visualize the feeling. | |
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High School | |
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High School: The setting of the film. Which gives us... High-School Dance: An important topic with the characters to be nominated prom king or queen. | |
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Dark Is Not Evil | |
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Dark Is Not Evil: Spud and Cherri are nothing but nice to JoJo after they come back from the dead. The only people they antagonize are Rod, Darlene, and their cronies, and most of the school seems to support them. | |
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Beehive Hairdo | |
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Beehive Hairdo: A lot of female characters (and even some males) sport gravity defying hair-dos as part of its '50s-'60s motif. | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: Exaggerated with Spud and Cherri. They even outright torture each other in one scene only to find themselves staring into each others eyes afterwards... and then quickly turning away. | |
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Accidental Public Confession | |
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Accidental Public Confession: Rod tries to cover the fact that Spud and Cherri had drowned in the lake (after he butted them off the road) by saying that they moved to Mexico. Come next year's prom when Spud and Cherri, as skeletons, return that night and attempt to reclaim the crown but Rod refused to believe that that's them by saying out loud they drowned in Echo Lake through a microphone... Nice. | |
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Jerk Jock | |
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Jerk Jock: Rod, Cherri's and later Darlene's boyfriend. | |
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Cool Car | |
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Cool Car: Rod owns one to which he is very attached with. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Zip and Rod. The former's mother even says she's glad he's dead. At his funeral. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: Rod is devoured by the animals from Spud and Cherri's skeletons after their arrival. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: At the beginning when the guy squishes two flies that were, er, having sex on the table, it prompted JoJo to tell them the story of Cherri and Spud. Also, the ballad played a few times in the movie as background music had the lyrics explicitly mention that the couple die on the way to the prom. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: Spud, who by then had grown a spine, rebuffs a bully by poking him in the eye with the bully's own toothpick. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: Gory, surreal imagery, and death is thrown everywhere. More so in-universe. Zip seems to have been crushed after falling off the scoreboard and the whole stadium is silent for awhile. Then the cheerleaders begin dancing and everything is back to normal with the crowd cheering and music playing. | |
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Silly Brain Diagram | |
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Silly Brain Diagram: One scene shows Cherri's brain, divided into sections with nothing but pictures showing her doing things like preening herself and putting on a crown, showing that she's a vain and mean popular girl. But slowly a picture of Spud appears in her brain, to signify that she's starting to like him. | |
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Still Sucks Thumb | |
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Still Sucks Thumb: Darlene starts sucking her thumb in a mix of fear and panic when she sees Cherri and Spud's reanimated skeletons usurp her and Rod's title for prom king and queen. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: "The Ballad of Spud and Cherri" states their deaths were an accident. It wasn't. They were murdered by Rod and Dwayne. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: When Rod forces Spud to be Cherri's servent, he hopes Spud falls in-love with her, simply so he has an excuse to brutalize him. And he does, but Rod didn't count on Cherri falling in love with him back. | |
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Raging Stiffie | |
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Raging Stiffie: Rod gives Zip one in the form of an aphrodisiac disguised as a tonic so he could have the courage to ask Darlene out for the prom. After drinking the whole thing, he began humping at just about everyone and everything. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Zip, literally. He's the first one to die after dry humping a giant image of a chicken on the scoreboard and falling from it. | |
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Gang of Bullies | |
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Gang of Bullies: Rod terrorizes Spud, with Zip and Dwayne backing him up. After Zip dies, Dwayne becomes Rod's sole support. | |
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Dem Bones | |
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Dem Bones: Spud and Cherri (who are apparently undead) return to the following year's prom with their bodies already decomposed. Naturally, everyone is shocked. | |
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Musical Spoiler | |
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Musical Spoiler: "Ballad of Spud and Cherri", which plays as JoJo begins the story, pretty much tells us point blank that they die on their way to prom. | |
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Lightning Glare | |
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Lightning Glare: An unlikely usage which indicates two people who are falling in-love with each other, such as when Spud and Cherri accidentally gaze into each other's eyes after the two get into a violent scuffle just seconds before. It's put into use again with Buttercup and Wally before sharing a passionate kiss. | |
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Gorn | |
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Gorn: The movie dips into it at times. For example, Mr. Snerz who after choking on a cigarette, he coughs up all of his entrails on the table. Then the students, with the help of Spud's knowledge in Biology, attempt to hurl it back in in the proper order! The aforementioned fingore scene, where Rod graphically tears off Zip's fingernail with a switchblade. | |
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The Starscream | |
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The Starscream: Darlene is Cherri's best friend who wants to steal the title of prom queen from her as well as her best friend's boyfriend. She does so by suggesting to Rod that Spud is fooling around with his girlfriend, causing his animosity towards the new kid to escalate leading to him eventually bumping him off the road with Cherri, who by now made it clear has decided to go steady with Spud. | |
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High-School Dance | |
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High-School Dance: An important topic with the characters to be nominated prom king or queen. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: In a way, despite Spud and Cherri both dying. They share a kiss at prom in the end while they symbolically revert to their human forms. | |
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Together in Death | |
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Together in Death: Spud and Cherri are forced off the road by a jilted Rod and into the lake. As the car sinks to the bottom, they share one last kiss. | |
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Real After All | |
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Real After All: Wally and Buttercup don't believe JoJo's story about Spud and Cherri going to prom as skeletons. However, Wally catches a glimpse of Cherri behind them. Wally and Buttercup barely miss them walking out the door and peel off the road, but they notice the flower trail left behind as a symbol of Spud and Cherri's strong love. The teens finally buy it. | |
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