Editing Rejected (section)

==Story==
[[File:Rejected (2000) banana frame.jpg|thumb|right|''Rejected'' makes heavy use of [[Surreal humour|surreal humor]], such as in this scene that uses a giant spoon and an [[anthropomorphic]] banana to advertise the Family Learning Channel.]]
The film takes place over four segments and is initially introduced as a collection of unaired promo [[interstitial program|interstitials]] for the fictional "Family Learning Channel." The "advertisements" are surreal, feature non-human characters, are often gruesome, and have nothing to do with the product. The second section is introduced as a collection of rejected advertisements for the fictional "Johnson & Mills Corporation" and features the same [[Surreal humour|surreal]] [[Black comedy|dark]] and [[absurd humour]] as the earlier section. The third section is introduced with an explanation that the animator had begun further rejecting the norms of animation and a single shot is then shown which was apparently animated with Hertzfeld's left hand only. In this short, the audio is garbled and the characters speak only complete nonsense.

The fourth and final segment is introduced with a title card explaining that the "rejected" cartoons began falling apart. Various characters and elements from the earlier shorts then appear in disjointed succession as their world literally falls apart: clouds and stars fall from the sky, killing characters; the paper the cartoons are drawn on crumples and destroys the animations; characters attempt to break out of the screen or are sucked into holes in the page. A close-up of a distorted, screaming character ends the short which abruptly cuts to end credits scored with dramatic classical music.