Oscarless Cartoons Bonus 3

Oscarless Cartoons Bonus 3: Partly Cloudy (2009)

In this hilarious Pixar short, one big question is answered: Where do babies come from? Well, in this film, babies of all species are made from living clouds, and storks deliver the babies, puppies, kittens, and ducklings to every corner of the world.

Unfortunately, for Peck, his cloud boss, Gus, always ends up making dangerous baby animals to deliver. When Gus shows Peck a baby alligator, the alligator immediately bites Peck.

Peck pulls the gator off his head and delivers it to Florida. When Peck comes back, Gus is ready with a ram lamb, who immediately rams into Peck.

After getting hit by the ram, Peck looks at a gentler cloud with a puppy, and the stork seemed happier.

However, when Peck looked at Gus, he decided to deliver the ram to the mountains. When Peck returned, Gus had a cloud in the shape of a sheep, but it instead, turned out to be a prickly hedgehog.

Peck reluctantly delivers the hedgehog to who knows where, but when Peck returned, he had quills sticking out of his head.

After pulling the quills out, Gus shows Peck his next creation: A giant toothy shark pup!

Peck decided to see one of the happier clouds for advice, but Gus thinks that the bird's going to abandon him for a friendlier cloud, and Gus cries rain.

To Gus's surprise, Peck wasn't going to abandon him after all; He was just getting some protective gear. Gus and Peck are friends again, and the cloud decides to give him one more baby: An electric eel, which of course, shocks Peck.

The idea for this charming short came from director Peter Sohn when he was a kid. He was influenced by the storks from Dumbo, but he always wondered how the babies were made. Sohn decided that the babies in Dumbo were made from clouds, and the babies needed to be delivered by air.

When Sohn was a kid, his mother didn't speak English, so the only way they could communicate together was through watching movies together. When his mom was confused about a certain scene, since she only spoke Korean, Peter Sohn would try his best to translate what the characters were saying from English to Korean. However, he didn't always translate it right.

Peter Sohn also admits that the characters Peck and Gus are based on him and his mother, while the dangerous baby animals represent the miscommunications that Sohn had with his mother long ago.
The football gear that Peck dons at the end represents Sohn's gesture of love saying 'I love you. I'm not going anywhere. I'm gonna always be there for you.'

Well, that's all I have to say about Oscarless Cartoons Bonus Round #3! On October 12th, I will review the underrated DreamWorks film Mr. Peabody and Sherman!