Underplayed Gems

Teeny Little Super Guy (1982)

Teeny Little Super Guy poster
Directed by
Paul Fierlinger
Genre
animation
Country
United States
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

A tiny animated man lives on a plastic cup in a real kitchen. He acts out short stories about small problems and successes that children face.

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What happens

Teeny Little Super Guy was an animated short featured on PBS's Sesame Street. The shorts featured a small animated man, the Teeny Little Super Guy, who resides in a live-action, regular-sized kitchen. He is a small, bald man who wears a yellow hat, a yellow long-sleeved shirt, red pants and black shoes. He also lives attached to a clear plastic cup. Robert W. Morrow described the shorts as including "parables of childhood conflict and striving." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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