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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Special Delivery is a 1978 animated short film written and directed by Eunice Macaulay and John Weldon. It was produced by the National Film Board of Canada.On a cold, snowbound winter day, Ralph Phelps ignores his wife Alice's nagging to clean the snow all over his front porch. This decision bites Ralph in the butt shortly thereafter, when the mailman slips on their steps, breaks his neck, and dies. Ralph, panicking over both the legal and financial difficulties he could face from having a mailman suffer a fatal fall on his porch, elects to hide the body.It is available on the NFB's YouTube channel.
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 Black Comedy: Throughout, as the death of the mailman and the disposal of the corpse forms a story told in animation suitable for a children's cartoon, with suitably whimsical narration. Ralph remembers about how a neighbor got sued when a mailman broke his leg, then the narrator says "a broken neck was probably considered as bad as ten broken legs."
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 Disposing of a Body: The whole plot, as first Ralph and eventually Alice have to do this.
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 Drop Dead Gorgeous: A doubly rare example in that it's both animated and male. Ralph has to strip the mailman nude after he realizes that he has to complete the mailman's route.
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 Cheating with the Milkman: When Alice finds the body it is revealed that she and the mailman once had an affair, and she thus assumes that his presence means he wanted to re-kindle their love.
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