In this animated short, Sleeping Betty is stuck in bed, victim to a strange bout of narcolepsy. The King calls on his subjects to rescue her and they all respond to the call: Uncle Henry VIII, Aunt Victoria, an oddly emotional alien, a funky witch and a handsome prince. But will a kiss really be enough to wake the sleeping princess? The film, drawn in ink, is a classic example of the anachronistic and playful world of Claude Cloutier.
For ages 5 - 8
Directed by Claude Cloutier - 2007 | 9 min
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can we talk about the witch vacuuming w/ her broom. that’s fckn gold
Love it 😊
My fav too 😄😻
😆 🤣 😂 😹
🤣🤣🤣🤣 genius
😂😂
I like how she looks like a normal teenage girl just trying to get some sleep.
🚑
😂 😂
"an"
@@cherellgini4840 No, the OP is correct. It is "a normal". You wouldn't use an in their sentence.
انا حاليا اتعلم اللغه الانجليزيه ودرست ان الأهم هو وصول المعلومه للطرف الاخر حتى ولو كانت الجمله صياغتها بها بعض الأخطاء.. مجرد مبتدئه🙃
Lol, when the king was describing everything on the phone and literally did the sleeping pose, lmao.
Akrjrjcjsjdfjrkskdjdjfjfjf *sleeps* ajdjfjddjfjdj!!!! 😁😁
And at first I did not understand why he was silent for a while. Thanks for clarifying)
This animation somehow managed to make me feel nostalgic as if it was made 20 years ago.
It was made 17 years ago so pretty close
the horse was funny..more princely than the Prince!
lol he's like "move over bro, I got this"
Chungki Bhutia
The prince looked like a caricature of Prince Charles to me lol.
Rayana honestly prince charles looks creepy, don’t bother
Obrigado por tudo ❤💋💙
I love how the only thing that’s normal I’m this animation is the girl just sleeping ..
Deep ass sleeper that girl🥴😂
nah its the sky
The sheer silliness of the whole thing is absolutely incredible. I haven't seen anything with such density of visual gags for a very long time.
I love how there's like medieval? and modern mixed in as well as fairy tales and reality mixed. Its so interesting and new-
Welcome to the 60's cartoons. It's what made them way better than succeeding crap since,
@@capie44 Funny, I don't recall 2007 being in the 60's, but whatever
@@numberq1134 boy, did you miss the point.
@@capie44 I think I did too..... What does this have to do with the sixties? Is it the same style or something?
@@bobc7557 : Ah. Okay. Something obvious/ relatable to me is not necessarily relatable to others. Oops. My bad. The drawing-style, bright colors, using animals in slap-stick and glaring pure 2-D animation brings me back to Chuck Jones & Mel Blanc.❤
I love how noting is normal in this animation. You expect something but that doesn't happen. Like the horse coming out of gate 2 and the bow hitting back.
Tina K *true beauty*
I’m your oxyJIN YAY SOMEONE NOTICED
Abnormality in this animation became normal. It's the same but with another polarity.
Nd horse fighting a monster
Oh god,someone speak spanish😑🙀
i bet the neighbors be like "they do this every morning!"
this comment is gold
They so seem like the eccentric type.
That comment really made me laugh !
Dammit, that's the fiftht time this week!
Imagine
Really beautiful drawing style and the gags are hilarious; it's almost like an animated vintage MAD comic!
Exactly!! MAD was the shit
MAD Magazine. Alfred E. Newman for president
@@annahkurtin5345 Yes because we have Spy vs Spy in the WH now.
Φ kzhead.info/sun/itySeJl7j5SmjHk/bejne.html
@Aidan Casserly Yes! Way better than Mad magazine, more like when Mad was an EC comic and the artwork was awesomely crazy.
This Artist have very strong imagination power !!
I agree
Why there's no one talking about the hilarious and exagerated way the mum was crying😂😂💔
😂😂😂😂
BAAAWWWWW. *gasp* BAAAAAAWWWWWW.
😂 lol
Because it's not particularly funny, probably.
Miyu Natsumi i got that one 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
The mother's cry had me dying.
AngelConductor They would have had to kick me out
AngelConductor when the knight and his horse pass the cowboy on his!!!! 😂
She was crying or leaking pearls :P
Uuuuuuuhhh... Eehh....uuuuuuuuhhh
AngelConductor ikr xD
this has to be one of the only things ive ever seen where every ten seconds something gets a reaction out of me. The other one is Double King by Felix Colgrave
ikr! I told myself "thats some Felix Colgrave-level of absurd writting and I love it" xD
I laughed to craziness ! And tears came out !
Yes. It's got that trippy vibe like Colgrave, and when Mad was an EC comic, and 60s underground comix.
When you have a dream and remember it clear enough to turn it into a cartoon
Lol🤣🤣🤣👍
😀😀😀
So perfect. The wry humor, and the clever juxtapositions- horse pulling a car, the broom-vacuum, prince S.O.S., moose head on a dragon. Makes no sense but makes perfect sense, beautiful.
Look at the very beginning of the cartoon :3
Your comment is dead on! Did you notice the knight with the axe in his head would make a clink when the doctor checked his leg reflex as if he had on his armor on still? And then on the other on his horse with the suit of armor and the orchestral music the. Suddenly he passes the Wild West and the music changes? That got me laughing so hard.
And the horse literally fighting the moose while the knight just hung there bc they were actually really used as weapons. Funny and kinda grim.
Teresa Ni I
+D.Meyod 6
*The sound of her tears is everything*
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Yup 🤣
E v e r y t h i n g
child sleaping
8:10 the best scene of the entire episode 😂
I don't know how many times I've watched this now, but it never gets stale. I do love Canadian animation, they have a different spin on things. I expect more good stuff to come outta there.
I too watched multiple times, I love it! The Horse Steals The Show Too!!!
It's not Canadian, it's Quebecois.
I have no idea what the hell I just watched, but I loved it.
Angelica Butterfly, this was my EXACT thought. Very Python inspired. Fantastic.
Yep I don't know what is this but I love it
Absurdist humor ;)
Canadian tax dollars at work.
Me too😅😘
When the horse punched the moose/dragon’s nose I lost it 😂😂😂😂😂
Hey Talitha just wanted to let you know that I was about to like this comment but then I saw 69 likes and didn't want to ruin it.
Alhaad Hussain mad respect ✊
Hi talitha i feel u
Okay but who gave that doctor a license 😂😂😂my mans really just checked the girls butt instead of her heart and pulled out a saw🤣🤣🤣
Isn't that how doctors check if they have a fever? I'm so confused... Like cutting off the buttocks helps reduce the fever!
Hey man
Me BRAZIL man
I'm a mother and this is just a mother trying to SLEEP while the WHOLE WORLD is trying to MESS WITH HER
Sure, a mother totally writes the way you do.
His glasses move but his eyebrows don't. ♡♡♡
The mom crying dramatically is me at any minor inconvenience
She was crying for the sake of crying 😭 😂 😂
Wasn’t that the lady’s maid?
@@d.v.crystal5589 She was wearing a crown. I think the overweight woman standing with the rest of the household was the Grandmother Queen.
😂😂😂
Same hahahahaha
I love how it was antiquated and modern all at the same time. Very imaginative ❤
The prince looked like” Prince Charles ! “ 🤣
The guy with an axe stuck to his skull is literally just vibing
i love the drawing style ! lol when the horse pushed away the prince
lol i know that horse is crazy!!!! and the drawing OH MY GOODNESS I LOVE IT!!!!!!!
The horse need his own story
TheMsLollidella ikr! XD
The drawings are in the style of John Tenniel, who also illustrated Lewis Caroll's Alice in wonderland and through the looking glass.
Omg Dean trbl haha~~🌸🌸
I'm so confused, but I love everything about this.
Same
It's parody version of sleeping beuty Mr mrs
When the vid first came out. KZhead: nah. 7 years later. KZhead: *YES*
His time has come. Release him
The absurd humor is everything xD it looks like a cartoon caricature from a newspaper 🗞 edit: thanks for the likes and keep appreciating 2D animation
My Linh Fontugne it does 😁 hilarious.
and its awesome 😊
My Linh Fontugne like Punch magazine
Exactly
Agreed. Do those horses have two legs, or four? It's a pretty clever gag using 2D, though.
Nine minutes of background gags in a beautiful artstyle. I love it
Loved this! the countless gags with the prince and horse, the doctor's eyeglasses distorting with emotion while he remains expressionless, the surreal nature of everything else...
The gags combined with the artstyle were just everything in this I was in literal tears laughing
every second there is a joke
Its so funny that the doctor at the beginning was trying to knock him on his knee meanwhile he had a ax into his head
later we cane to know that doctor was the one who hit him with the ax like he was going to do with the girl.
It’s because he was testing his reflexes to see how damaged his brain was
I mean if the axe caused a lack of reflexes that might be note worthy
Thats the joke. We all watched the video
❥ coOckiee ❥ Is it obvious to everyone that the SOS Prince looked like Charles, Prince of Wales?
Poor dragon, that horse was hilarious though, and this whole thing was amazing and really funny, something that looks like it could be played on television. 😂🥰
The prince's resemblance to a certain British royal just about gave me a nosebleed!
Then the horse pushes him aside and gives a kiss.
Yes. The horse is her true love.
El sueño es su único amor.
oofy oofer it was actually the alarm clock that woke her up
@@kat55967 whooooooosh
No, her alarm clock is the true love
No man! It was the alarm clock which woke her up. "true love" kind of thing has nothing to do here😅
The cross of mid-evil and modern worlds is really cool
*medieval
Craig Corson yeah I didn’t remember how to spell it so I went for the closest I could XD
Figured that. I like to help out where I can. I have a knack for spelling, always have.
Soooo coooool! Thanks!
@uerchen Huh? Who are you thanking, and for what?
Summary: don't change anything about your self because of other people, even if they were worried about u and think that's not OK. As long as u know that u'r doing the right thing, don't care what others think☺️
The best parody I have seen in 5 years.
This animation is gorgeous, so smooth and the art style fits it so perfectly, love the story too was very charmingly funny
This was probably made in the 1990' s
They were having a lot of fun with the "walk cycles" on the horse in particular. Love the way they adapted it to a dog's running gait in one section. Very effective visual gag. It was made in 2007.
the horse👍
I love it!
(Tomska)
This was amazing. Good to see different styles of animation. It's honestly refreshing. All hope is not lost. Keep up the great work. 👏🏼
Fabulous deconstruction of a classic fairy tale....
Hahahaha! 😂😂😂 Lesson learned: dont disturb the person sleeping when its not yet time😅
Fkj or usherettes kkml
Fkj or usherettes kkml
The.. way the glasses expressed his emotions was genius and impeccable
YT just recommended this for me out of the blue and I’m so glad. Brilliant.
This is what you call ' i dont know what'll happen next' It also is a very realistic to how dreams are
I died when the goat tried to blow the guitar 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Guess we've been playing it wrong all along 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
I dieddddd
Obvious but subtle, an awesome sense of humor maintained in every scene
Wasnt it supposed to be Pan
This entire animation was brilliant =)
This was freakin awesome. I want that horse.
This is actually amazing, all the jokes and gags are so smart and hilarious.
The exquisitely drawn tree at the start blew my mind and it just got better from there 👍
So much brilliant storytelling in under 10 min!!! Also the doctor's expressive eye glass frames😂
I can't believe this was made in 2006! The art & drawing style had me thinking the entire time this was a cartoon from the 1960s/70s! Incredible! 👏
Well you're a dumbass.
Well I mean...they wouldnt have known anything about stoplights and modern houses and rollercoasters back then would they?
pogue972 there was no animation back then
@@skullcandy1158...? Pretty sure there was. I mean The Beatles had their films snd Disney also existed so..
Um... They didn't have the tech to do this kind of thing back then.... I'm so confused. How'd you think that?
The best combination of artistic style and humour I have ever seen. 😂
6:36 the horse saw his crush so he started doing acrobatics 🤣🤣🤣
i really enjoyed this,the prince looks like a cross between prince charles and pres george bush.
I thought Prince Charles too. Now I can see George Bush too. Lol
I thought that too... Lol
They are both incompetent.
@@devilslayerthesaintofkille1317 🤣😂😂😂
zero 0000 by Jove you’ve stroked the nail on the head you have
love that horse most :)
This was weird but great art and comic relief. I would hate to see the dark side of his imagination. Really good work. Loved it.
I loved this short film, the artwork was wonderful and the hilarious nonsense was like something from Monty Python
That awkward moment when it's literally Prince Charles to the rescue.
Thought it was George W Bush lol
And that's Queen Victoria, in black.. thought I saw Henry V111 too.....😂
And he faled.. 😂
He’s the guy to call when you need someone to criticize architecture.
she gets up exactly when she wants to 💜💜
This is up to now the best in the sense of "funniest" one that I've ever seen...thank you for providing us with it...💝💝💝
It's perfect. The style, the sound, the humor and the music. Watched this video several times in the past, but only today after watching Maleficent I noticed the music of the end credits. Genius.
Henry the VIII, Prince Charles, Dr Freud, all types of silliness. Very Monty Python-ish, loved it!
Betty bought a butter But the butter was bitter So Betty bought a new butter To make bitter butter better
Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better, but the bitter butter made the better butter bitter
Betty Botter bought a bit of butter but it made her batter bitter so she bought a better butter which made her bitter batter better
Wow.
Betsy bought some butter but the butter was bitter so betsy bought some more butter to make the bitter butter better
Say that 3 times fast but accurately! Lol
the Prince Charles on a horse was a stroke of genius
Best Sleeping Beauty I've ever seen !
seriously, can someone please write a book about this? about the physics and everything of the world. stunning work!!
Tatzme I bet you could come up with notes and diagrams about how I it could work! World - building is so much fun!
Tatzme you mean the physics book 🤓?
4:32 the way the horse runs lmaooooo😂😂
Haha the horse hits each angle when running 😂
The horse is a star of that film!)))
Garry's Mod in a nutshell
don't all horses run like that ? :/
@@LostInSpace97 I've never seen a horse run like that 😂
Ahhhh just got the deux cheveau reference. This is gold.
Since I found that marvelous pearl, I have to look at it every now and then, and over years, it has not ceased to amuse me. Hilarious, brilliant, is there some more of that kind?
Anyone notice at the beginning the tree has faces?
I have now.
Yep!
Actually looks like a pig
Im terrified now.
Yes I saw three faces
*horse tries to show off* *horse runs into pole* *takes taxi* me : *dying laughing almost pissing myself*
I went to a field trip in elementary school where a bunch of short films were screened for us, and this was one of them. I still remember it every now and then, a fun watch.
The most funniest animation I have ever seen 🤣
Betty is me ignoring all my alarms in the morning 😂
Sunflower Bae me too, lol
I feel like this should be called “Wrong Answers Only” this was great! lol
Not gonna lie That horse walking was really smooth
One of the smartest, excellent executed, sarcastically funny animated work I have seen for a long time... Bravo 👏
jeez, a girl cant oversleep once in awhile?😕
She didn’t oversleep
Tj Rotich cruel world😟
Tj Rotich shes just a character happens to be a woman , it had nothing to do with gender.
Butt hurt feminist
@@bruhzone8466 Why are you so triggered ? She only said the word girl.
I dont know how many times i said "WTF" while watching this. 😂
I know, right? ROTFHLMAO too many times to count!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣!!!!!
I love the fact that all these characters are weird but the princess is the only normal one
Brilliant.They were all in: Henry 8th,Q.Vic.P./K.Charles etc.Loved it.Bison riding horse etc.
The entire animation gave me anxiety but I couldn’t stop watching for how cool and freaking well made this was!
I kinda get it.
Loll the animation style made me uncomfortable
truee 😂
I feel it too 😅
HAHAHA AMAZING The style is gorgeous! it's definitely like those illustrations we see in story books. It brings a sense of nostalgia, both the style and the slapstick humor. Love the creative amalgam of medieval/fairytale elements and modern lifestyle and technology. Everything is so wacky and unpredictable that I burst out laughing. Kept me hooked 'til the end XD This was a ride! Definitely will watch again.
You are the only comment in this whole damn comment section that is actually good... congrats! As an Art student most of the comments here just pisses me off
The whole was brilliant and very entertaining. The part with the witch was hilarious 🤣
Awesome! Did anyone else think the Prince looked like, well, the Prince of Wales?
Well, atleast, when her alarm clock rings, she wakes up immediately..
Horse breaking the 4 wall, priceless!! Love the astetiks!!!
Omg thats so funny 😂😂😂😂 the way her mum was crying 😂😂 the doctor's spects or eye whatever 😂😂 the horse 🤣🤣🤣 lmao and the ending!! 👌😂😂
I've watched it around 5 years ago, had a blast watching it, and the forgot about it. But then I found it again. I'm so happy.
When she woke up , everyone was like *"NANI?!"*
SANA is GAY iS sAnA rEaLlY gAy ThO okay sorry that was irrelevant
Alarm: omaveamu shindeiru Every one in room: noni Princess: hello world
@@multifandomtrashygrassyehe2715 lol we know the problems of being a kpop stan like...i see kpop *i reply*
I have watched this animation so many different times and it never gets old. I love it, it's a gem!
I do appreciate that the king is drawn like the king on playing cards
THIS IS GOLD! IM HAPPY THAT THIS VIDEO EXISTS!