'Going To The Store': Short Animated Film Confuses, Entrances (VIDEO)

A wildly bizarre short-animated film, "Going to the Store," entranced hundreds of thousands of people on YouTube this weekend. Nobody is quite sure what the appeal is here -- some laugh, some say WTF, but nobody can stop watching. Perhaps it taps into some base desire to go flailing through the streets, but more likely it's the tagline -- "normal guy normal walk" -- that gets you, as does the tellingly subtle ending.

The film is animated by David Lewandowski, the lead animator on "Tron: Legacy." He created this short for the final episode of Channel101's "Everything" series, a non-profit short film festival. The "normal guy" in the film is walking to music by Jean Jacques Perrey's "Little Ships."

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Comments

[MohammedAbbasi]

08:33 AM on 09/08/2011

ahh i get it! thats deep!

[kokotye157]

01:04 AM on 09/08/2011

ooooookaaaaayyyyy.................

[Chris Berry]

12:57 AM on 09/08/2011

Okay, it only makes sense if that sign at the end was real. If not, then wtf. If so, then brilliant. Or maybe brilliant both ways. F#%&.

[MagicNateball]

02:48 PM on 09/07/2011

I'm not really sure what just happened, but I think some subliminal message has been implanted in my brain. Sometime in the near future I'm going to get an email with a link to a video similar to this one in which a naked flailing man flails all over a subway station, and then the programming will take over and I'll become a mindless... naked killing machine.

[JudgeCCrater]

02:15 PM on 09/07/2011

I don't get it.

[chrisfrenzy]

11:22 PM on 09/06/2011

Loved it. Sue me.

[chaapai]

11:21 PM on 09/06/2011

WOW, if that entrances a lot of people, then it says a lot about humanity and it aint good!

[Aryeh Melaris]

04:53 PM on 09/06/2011

That is going to take years of therapy to erase from my mind...

[Sociologyst]

02:17 PM on 09/06/2011

That was..... interesting...

[secUnd3r]

01:43 PM on 09/06/2011

What has been seen...

[binq56]

01:40 PM on 09/06/2011

meh

[chasgato]

01:32 PM on 09/06/2011

bizzarely golden!

[timetraveler2039]

01:23 PM on 09/06/2011

Is it a metaphor for the way most of us "bounce" through our lives just waving our arms and pretending to be connected and important? I love it!

[LeoChild]

03:53 PM on 09/06/2011

Oh wow,dont hurt youself there! Love those pseudo intellectuals!

[Chazzam]

08:16 AM on 09/09/2011

Because musing and engaging something thoughtfully is "pseudo-intellectual". Right. You should realize that there are a fair number of ACTUAL intellectuals out there doing the thinking the that can make life and art meaningful and appreciated. Now it's likely that you are probably not such a person. You are also probably not in a position to be an Intellectual Inspector.

[frenchybob]

01:16 PM on 09/06/2011

Just what Dancing with the Stars needs for ratings week.

[Decipherer]

01:11 PM on 09/06/2011

[sound of crickets chirping]