Dear God... That was a horrific and detailed account of that tree describing its own torture, skinning, cooking, and rolling. That thing should be begging WIlly not to put him through the machines.
"You've done well for the order of the pulp, willy. As your reward you will take my place as the paper bag." "Do you mean it?" "Of course, and I will take your burden as a human boy."
Yeah, if anything, he should have been thanking the mother and taking her on a magical educational journey ... Which, would have made for a much more interesting video.
The Papercut killings were a horrible time back in the 1960s. It took John Rock and Jill Scissors 5 years to finally take him down. All victims were covered in a thousand tiny cuts that slowly bled them to death.
Youd think they would have glossed over the fact that an anthropomorphized tree was eventually going to be mutilated. But nope, they leaned into it hard
True Trivia Time: paintball guns were invented for the purpose of marking trees. It saved the foresters time and effort; they could mark trees from 100 feet away.
I'll often read stories to my streaming audience using voices that they pick out for me to read in, and I LOVE how one of their favorites is 'Paper Bag'. lmao
I can't even begin to think about how many films like these my dad had to torturously sit through and watch when he was a kid. It would explain a great many things about him that's for sure, like his unwillingness to talk about his past for example.
I don't know, the part where the tree happily narrates how he is skinned alive, chopped up, boiled and beaten is kind of nightmarish in a world where they're alive and can feel pain.
I suppose I could turn this short into a drinking game where I take a sip every time I hear the name "Willie" but I don't want to die an early death from alcohol poisoning.
I really enjoy the implication that Billy has become unhealthily fixated on inanimate objects before. Dad was way too quick with that "he's sick again" for this to be a first
Did I mention The South yet, Willie? Because it's very important that you realize your paper comes from THE SOUTH, Willie. Remember The South, Willie. The South will rise again, Willie!
"What's that Mr Paper bag? I should get the scissors and make mommy and daddy's skin into bags like you? And then burn the house down to cover up my tracks?"
"Don't bring a gun to the courthouse Willy!" Bang bang Willy's Silver Hammer came down, on his head! Bang bang Willy's silver hammer made sure, he was dead!
"You know Willy, the south makes more than half of all the wood pulp in the United States." Their fun fact was that a half of the country does at least somewhat more than half of the thing. They were REALLY reaching.
It's rare to see parents in one of these things react rationally to bizarre new obsessions in their children and home invasions by weird creatures from other planes of existence.
This is one of my favorite shorts. I would love to see a full length movie about Willy and that paper bag taking over the Earth. DESTROY THEM ALL WILLY. THEY DO NOT DESERVE MERCY.
So, no question about why this child is walking around like he's hypnotized by a freaking paper bag? I'm pretty sure it's secretly a paper-based demon.
As a fan of A Case of Spring Fever, I sincerely hope that there are more shorts in the "avatar of some esoteric common object fundamentally alters reality to teach some chump a lesson" genre.
Starting to remind me of the SNL Chicken restaurant commercial. Tue one where the chicken describes his own demise!! 'Then theu pull arms off..' I think the inspiration is this, or something similar.
Very funny all the way through (of course😎) but the line, "And then we march on Saruman!" was a legit coffee-spitting moment for me! 😝😆😂😂 Anyone else in the middle of a Riff Trax binge..?
"Jewish bankers and the Queen of England are in cahoots to crash the world's currency." These guys must have read Eustace Mullins. LOL Very funny stuff.
8:00 the idea of the kid staring so intently at the paper bag, while the paper bag stares back at him in silence is insane. Acknowledging the parents briefly just adds to the surreal feeling.
"They could've made paper from any number of easily grown materials, like hemp, papyrus or bamboo, but they chose to make paper by chopping down tree forests that take decades to grow, provide much of our oxygen, shelter wildlife and stabilize our soil and climate, Willy"
"Unlike parchment or older forms of paper, Willy, I require an alkaline reserve so your treasured books don't crumble in your fingers after 20 years. My fibers are small and broken, violently mashed together to provide a smoother finish at the cost of strength. Whether they work with nature or with history, I'm a conservator's nightmare, Willy!"
@@robokill387 willy! Oh willy! Gosh willy, don't listen to the bacterists! They seek to undermine Big Paper with pulp fiction! BETTER GET RID OF HIM NOW, WILLY.
Willy went on to be the model patient at the local psyche hospital
Another film in the "inanimate objects come to life and punish humanity with the help of a child" series.
So _AKIRA,_ then?
@@srbrant5391 If Willy starts doing that Tetsuo shit, I'm gone.
@@srbrant5391 i had a spit take and had to dry off my phone because of you
@@Lunar_Atronach This made my day.
@@srbrant5391 rifftrax seems to have cut out the part where willy rampages through the city by crushing everyone with his psychic paper powers.
"The way he holds on to that paper sack..."
"Giving you any ideas, honey?"
"those days ended when we popped him out!"
I'd pay to see the paper bag and Coily the Spring Sprite fight to the death.
Coily would shred paper bag🔥
They would never, they're both demons from the same circle of hell.
I hope it would be a tie.
Throw in Clippy and we could cleanse the scourge of informational animated monstrosities from the Earth.
Great fatal three way,clippy vs coily vs paper bag
When you use a giant saw without safety guards, you’re shaking hands with danger. Budew bubadewdew.
Shake Hands with Paper
Paper is like that
Aaahhhh I see what you did there.😆
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Wah waaaaaahw
I'm still waiting for "Scissors and I", "Rock and I" to complete the trilogy.
I bet they exist. It's just a matter of time until they are found. In fact, I remember a reel to reel film in school about scissors 🤭😁
@@toupac3195 did it teach you not to run with them?
As long as “Rock and I” stars Dwane Johnson, I’ll watch it.
"Come back, Zinc!"
Scissors: Are you ready to take vengeance against your classmates, Willy?
Anyone else creeped out about how chipper he sounded while saying "Where our skin is peeled clean"?
YES
Reminds me of the old "Cluckin' Chicken" skit from SNL.
And how chipper he sounded about going into the chipper.
I was creeped out by that Dad smoking next to his kid at breakfast.
@SR Brant I thought of Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs
Dear God... That was a horrific and detailed account of that tree describing its own torture, skinning, cooking, and rolling. That thing should be begging WIlly not to put him through the machines.
This is just a modern version of "The Epic of Gilgamesh ".
Accidentally a film about environmentalism
If only such a piece of meat appeared in 'This is Hormel'.
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 - especially the part about the United States using twice as much paper as other countries.
"How can we make an ordinary everyday item horrific and nightmarish?"
-The creators of this short, probably
"And a young David Lynch realizes his destiny."
The producers of "A Case of Spring Fever" after seeing this: "Write that down, write that down!"
No kidding. Jeezus, this would've given me years of nightmares if I'd seen it as a child. Hell, maybe even now.
They probably saw the _This Is Hormel_ short and thought "Challenge Accepted."
Lol!!
"You've done well for the order of the pulp, willy. As your reward you will take my place as the paper bag."
"Do you mean it?"
"Of course, and I will take your burden as a human boy."
This is one of the greatest things every written.
NO SPRINGS! I mean... NO TREES!
This is why Dunder-Mifflin should never let Michael Scott make any of their propaganda videos!
Give Michael some credit. Even he wouldn’t have let this fly.
@@jacksongibbs8998 that's what she said
"Thanks for saving my life, Willy!" Dude he was literally a second from popping you.
Yeah, if anything, he should have been thanking the mother and taking her on a magical educational journey
... Which, would have made for a much more interesting video.
"You should've killed me when you had the chance, Willy! Now I'll be with you until the end of time, Willy!"
This felt like the origin story of a paper-obsessed serial killer.
That's because it WAS.
In a Batman movie
The origin of the Origami Killer from Heavy Rain.
@@derekstein6193 Or the end of L.A. Noire
The Papercut killings were a horrible time back in the 1960s. It took John Rock and Jill Scissors 5 years to finally take him down. All victims were covered in a thousand tiny cuts that slowly bled them to death.
"We'll show them their sins, Willy!"
"And then we march on Saruman!"
This is a classic short.
“His temperature is all gone.” You mean, Willy has achieved absolute zero???
Light, sound, the very air around Willy has been stopped in its tracks.
@@Stevie-J It’s there we’ll learn of his transformation due to eating gamma-ray grits, or an experimental peach cobbler gone horribly wrong.
"You're a Bose-Einstein condensate, Willy!"
Hilarious! thank you
@@srbrant5391 Like the movie Spectral (2016)!
HOly crap the tree cheerfully talking about having his skin peeled off, chopped up, and cooked.
Youd think they would have glossed over the fact that an anthropomorphized tree was eventually going to be mutilated. But nope, they leaned into it hard
Getting some strong Hormel vibes off this
And when he says cooked, he means COOKED.
This huffing PSA is way darker than the one i saw in DARE class
Yup, Drugs Are Like That.
@@ClayLoomis1958 Huh? What? A baby?
fill me with your dark magic
Sandwich fumes are habit-forming.
True Trivia Time: paintball guns were invented for the purpose of marking trees. It saved the foresters time and effort; they could mark trees from 100 feet away.
To keep their distance from talking paper bags.
If you think Willy telling the whole class about his paper was bad, wait until you see Paper tell the whole class about his willy
I'll often read stories to my streaming audience using voices that they pick out for me to read in, and I LOVE how one of their favorites is 'Paper Bag'. lmao
Ohai
Ayyy, I love your videos, dude! Keep up the great work!
Hi there, Bob. How ya doing?
Small world Bob lol
It's amazing how well documented the child bedroom invasions are, from the 50s and 60s.
How did our parents survive that dreaded time? 😳😱
The ones from the late 60's & 70's are too graphic to show.
They're locked away in a big warehouse, like the ARK is in.
"The name's Papery! The paper sprite, they call me!"
"I'll show Papery, I'm gonna digitize everything"
"Rayon, New Jersey" got me good.
This is quite possibly one of the most disturbing things anyone has made.
It's like some full ad for Omega Mart.
I can't even begin to think about how many films like these my dad had to torturously sit through and watch when he was a kid. It would explain a great many things about him that's for sure, like his unwillingness to talk about his past for example.
Was he the kid who played Willy?
The last scene is so metal yet so heartwarming. Willy and his parents slay the demon bag together.
"They paid for their arrogance in blood!"
Wow. I never thought 2D animation could so thoroughly lodge itself in The Uncanny Valley.
This short is so freaking horrifying...and the scariest part is, I think the creators think this is charming and delightful.
You don't think being kidnapped out of your bedroom in the dead of night by a paperbag is fun?
@Angela Bryant I wouldn't say it's horrifying. Weird, yes, but not horrifying.
I,d rather be taken by Mr B Natural!
I don't know, the part where the tree happily narrates how he is skinned alive, chopped up, boiled and beaten is kind of nightmarish in a world where they're alive and can feel pain.
12:00 And Thanos snaps causing half of all paper products in the universe to disappear.
4:25 Poor Willy. His mom doesn't even care his high waisted pants are cinched so tight be can hardly breathe.
This boy proves that man can also wear corsets
If their slacks don't pinch the sack - it ain't fit for church
I suppose I could turn this short into a drinking game where I take a sip every time I hear the name "Willie" but I don't want to die an early death from alcohol poisoning.
I really enjoy the implication that Billy has become unhealthily fixated on inanimate objects before. Dad was way too quick with that "he's sick again" for this to be a first
"I'm just serving some gruel to the other captured children." Oh. My. God. Dark, fellows, very dark. But I'm laughing so hard I'm crying.
Mike should get into doing cartoon voices
15:33 “Go on, Willy” give me the sweet release of death
Did I mention The South yet, Willie? Because it's very important that you realize your paper comes from THE SOUTH, Willie. Remember The South, Willie. The South will rise again, Willie!
Huffing sandwich fumes: when knocking back a bottle and a half of robitussin just doesn't do it for you any more.
"What's that Mr Paper bag? I should get the scissors and make mommy and daddy's skin into bags like you? And then burn the house down to cover up my tracks?"
“Paper, paper, paper, paper, must kill parents…I mean paper.”
"Zinc... Zinc, come back ZINC!"
And when Willy flies, his feet flop in the air like broken twigs.
The animation is disturbingly fluid.
A Talking Paper Bag!?!
The bag doesn't sound as drunk as the cat though.
they're like polar opposites of enthusiasm
Paper Bag is somehow creepier than Coily.
Coily was a one-off visitation. Paper Bag visited night after night to abduct his victim.
2:47 - "My god, this one's talking... Burn this whole forest down, leave nothing alive!!" 😂😂😂😂
drink a shot every time they say WILLY.
don't! alcohol poisoning is real!
A drink of beer
Willy won't go home!
Even if you just drink water you would drown!
Bong Hits. and you may get as High as Me here at Mile High Denver.
That voice! I kept expecting it to suddenly say, “NOOooo paper!”
"Don't bring a gun to the courthouse Willy!"
Bang bang Willy's Silver Hammer came down, on his head!
Bang bang Willy's silver hammer made sure, he was dead!
"You know Willy, the south makes more than half of all the wood pulp in the United States."
Their fun fact was that a half of the country does at least somewhat more than half of the thing. They were REALLY reaching.
And this half does slightly more half than the other half, Willy
Paper Bag, fill me with your dark magicks!
That kid was way creepier than that paper bag.
“YOU’LL NEVER BE RID OF ME, WILLY!”
I'm glad it was a used bag talking to him and not toilet paper.
It's rare to see parents in one of these things react rationally to bizarre new obsessions in their children and home invasions by weird creatures from other planes of existence.
"You'll never be rid of me Willy!!"
Why does the construction worker have the most realistic reaction to all paper products disappearing
Ah great. We've met Coily the Spring Sprite's cousin.
This is one of my favorite shorts. I would love to see a full length movie about Willy and that paper bag taking over the Earth. DESTROY THEM ALL WILLY. THEY DO NOT DESERVE MERCY.
Ah yes, the sequel to Withnail and I.
Ah, a fellow thespian!
Scrubbers! Scrubbers! The heart of the paper mill.
This is probably one of the best shorts.
Can't believe there weren't any callbacks to "Case of Spring Fever."
“And a young David Lynch realizes his destiny.”
So, no question about why this child is walking around like he's hypnotized by a freaking paper bag? I'm pretty sure it's secretly a paper-based demon.
That cartoon face is legit terrifying. It'll haunt my dreams.
This is the kind of video that inspired that Simpsons joke "A World Without Zinc."
Today I learned that Zinc Oxide and You wasn't that much of a parody.
If you haven't seen A Case of Spring Fever yet...
30 years later, the detectives try to solve the rash of killings involving paper bag suffocations and pulping machines.
"It's a sack thing, ma, you wouldn't understand!" is one of my all-time favorite riffs.
Imagine the unspeakable horror of a world without paper or springs.
*shudders
Measuring man will save the day.. WAT UP RIFFTRAX FAM
oh jeez, they GOTTA make Measuring Man available for free
"EVERY SPIN IS TORTUUUUURE!!!"
"Stop talking about units!"
@@HylianFox3 “...or a baseball bat.”
“Don’t hit me Measuring Man, please!”
"What is that hanging on his belt there?"
Willie would later grow up to become a Batman villain the other rouges refused to talk to talk to him saying that he was to crazy even for them
Willie went on to be the World's Oldest Bag Boy at Piggly Wiggly
As a fan of A Case of Spring Fever, I sincerely hope that there are more shorts in the "avatar of some esoteric common object fundamentally alters reality to teach some chump a lesson" genre.
Soapy the Germ Fighter, Willy Whistle, Chalky, this guy
Mr B Natural is adjacent
13:04 - "No Springs!"
If Mr. Paper Bag and Coily were to ever join forces it wold be end of us all
I really don't think Willy is well enough to go to school tomorrow, because he's having hallucinations about a paper bag.
Mike's voice for the paper bag lol
"Not a boat, paper bag, I'm seasick."
"Then barf over the side, cause I'm not taking you home!"
"So what if we have segregation at every level - the South is where the paper-producing trees are grown in forests!" It's like a Thomas Dewey speech.
Hi Willy! I'm a rolling paper! You can use me for tobacco....or maybe we can get a little sorted....hehehe
Paper Bag vs Coily: Whoever wins, we lose
Fun fact: In the original draft of the script, the paper bag actually contained Marsellus Wallace's soul.
Lithium isn't gonna do jack squat for him. Kid needs Haldol.
Starting to remind me of the SNL Chicken restaurant commercial.
Tue one where the chicken describes his own demise!!
'Then theu pull arms off..'
I think the inspiration is this, or something similar.
He didn’t even need the arms, they were just used for gesturing.
I was waiting for it to just grow legs and start walking like some sleep paralysis demon
‘…and never forget Willie - I’m everywhere… everywhere.’
"The only me is me, Willy! Are you the only you that's you?"
"It's an endless nightmare, Willy!" lmao love it!
I’m kind of a new fan, but I legit can’t overstay how much I enjoy these shorts.
Yup, you've still got that new fan smell. You've got a LOT of catching up to do. Enjoy it.
Very funny all the way through (of course😎) but the line, "And then we march on Saruman!" was a legit coffee-spitting moment for me! 😝😆😂😂 Anyone else in the middle of a Riff Trax binge..?
“Huff my contents Willy!”
"Jewish bankers and the Queen of England are in cahoots to crash the world's currency." These guys must have read Eustace Mullins. LOL Very funny stuff.
8:00 the idea of the kid staring so intently at the paper bag, while the paper bag stares back at him in silence is insane. Acknowledging the parents briefly just adds to the surreal feeling.
i like that they had nothing to say to the tree being de-skinned. like there was nothing to joke
Zinc.. come back! ZINC!
Good thing it wasn't the toilet paper talking to him.
"Goodbye, cruel world. Hey thanks, Paper!"
Seems like Willy had one hell of a fever dream.
"They could've made paper from any number of easily grown materials, like hemp, papyrus or bamboo, but they chose to make paper by chopping down tree forests that take decades to grow, provide much of our oxygen, shelter wildlife and stabilize our soil and climate, Willy"
"Unlike parchment or older forms of paper, Willy, I require an alkaline reserve so your treasured books don't crumble in your fingers after 20 years. My fibers are small and broken, violently mashed together to provide a smoother finish at the cost of strength. Whether they work with nature or with history, I'm a conservator's nightmare, Willy!"
Actually, most oxygen comes from cyanobacteria, not trees.
@@robokill387 willy! Oh willy! Gosh willy, don't listen to the bacterists! They seek to undermine Big Paper with pulp fiction!
BETTER GET RID OF HIM NOW, WILLY.
@@robokill387 True, but the trees have a better PR machine than bacteria.
Were they afraid we'd forget the kid's name? He said Willy only a thousand times.
Addicted to sniffing sandwich fumes 😂
“They paid for their arrogance with BLOOD!!”