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Does anyone remember a dark 2-color animation where a squeaky ball appears to try to get up/past a mountain of some sort? IMHO, this has got to be the most abstract and mysterious animation on the show.
The general pattern was that the ball rolls up slowly from the right with an intermittent squeaking sound. The ball stops at a large obstacle on the left that looks like a mountain, and seems to want to try to get past it. Eventually, the ball just gives up and rolls away the way it came in.
There were no spoken words in this animation, just different sound effects.
Like the grid of circle-dots, there were variations on this sketch when it ran:
1. The ball seemed to have gotten angry, and, to the sound of its
squeaking reapeating to the resonance of an electric drill, grinds out a
small hollow inside the edge of the mountain. He actually jumped to do this, producing the rounded gap about his diameter's height above the ground. But that action does not appear to have done it any good, and the ball eventually leaves.
2. The ball tries to roll up the slightly curved incline of the mountain,
and actually makes it to an out-of-sight point up the slope. Then the ball
falls and bounces several times with a "boing" sound before bouncing out of
the picture to the right.
3. Shortly after the ball rolls in, a second ball enters the picture. This other guy passes the first ball, and, opening its mouth like a Pac-Man (may have had teeth?), rapidly chomps a horizontal path through the mountain. A second or two later, the entire mountain falls down with a thuderous crash on the linear gap/path he created. The regular ball, deciding to follow the example of the other one, thinks he can do the same. So he takes a tiny nibble out of the mountain. munches on it, then spits it out. He evidently decided that he'd never get through the mountain at that rate, and just rolled away.
The general pattern was that the ball rolls up slowly from the right with an intermittent squeaking sound. The ball stops at a large obstacle on the left that looks like a mountain, and seems to want to try to get past it. Eventually, the ball just gives up and rolls away the way it came in.
There were no spoken words in this animation, just different sound effects.
Like the grid of circle-dots, there were variations on this sketch when it ran:
1. The ball seemed to have gotten angry, and, to the sound of its
squeaking reapeating to the resonance of an electric drill, grinds out a
small hollow inside the edge of the mountain. He actually jumped to do this, producing the rounded gap about his diameter's height above the ground. But that action does not appear to have done it any good, and the ball eventually leaves.
2. The ball tries to roll up the slightly curved incline of the mountain,
and actually makes it to an out-of-sight point up the slope. Then the ball
falls and bounces several times with a "boing" sound before bouncing out of
the picture to the right.
3. Shortly after the ball rolls in, a second ball enters the picture. This other guy passes the first ball, and, opening its mouth like a Pac-Man (may have had teeth?), rapidly chomps a horizontal path through the mountain. A second or two later, the entire mountain falls down with a thuderous crash on the linear gap/path he created. The regular ball, deciding to follow the example of the other one, thinks he can do the same. So he takes a tiny nibble out of the mountain. munches on it, then spits it out. He evidently decided that he'd never get through the mountain at that rate, and just rolled away.
