Surogat

Surogat^[1] (known in English as Ersatz and The Substitute) is a 1961 Yugoslavian animated comedy short film by director Dušan Vukotić, produced by Zagreb Film, then a Yugoslav film production company. The film is also known by several other names in other languages: Cyррогат, Der Ersatz, Le Succēdanē and Surrogatto.^[2]

Starts with a man taking a trip to the beach. He touches the water with his foot, checking its temperature, resulting the temperature was good, he goes to bring it's objects to the beach, but results every object from him (as well every character, himself and environments) are inflatable. He blows one object resulting into a Air pump, he continues blowing some objects with the air pump, later he goes to his car, and finds his shorts and that looks the car's "plug", he removes the car's "plug", the car proceeds to deflate, compressing itself, the man throws the car now compressed to a tree. Later he changes his clothes to going to he was before, continuing pumping another objects, one being a fishing rod. He blows a fish, kicking it to the sea, but immediately leaves the fish from the water, now the fish is put on the frying pan, being cooked. The man eats the fish now as his lunch. Later, the man goes to search a woman. He sits to inflate another objects with the air pump, the first object inflated, results on a woman, the man rejects her, immediately deflates the woman. The man proceeds to inflate the second object, resulting in another woman, now the man checks the woman, looking her breasts, the man pumps the woman, making the breasts grow. The man now needs the woman on his side, but the woman marches away, upset. The man jumps to her, proceeds to kiss her, but the woman escapes from him. She does a kiss position, the man is ready to kiss her, but actually is a trap, the woman proceeds to slap him. The man immediately goes to the water, for the wound. The woman goes to him, using him as a trampoline, the man sees how she's swimming in the water as an tease to him. Angry, the man goes to his objects, pumping that looks a shark, the man tries to gain her love, doing a fake rescue, the woman sees what is doing the man, for avoid to reveal the rescue is a hoax, the man taps the shark with his hat, now he put the shark with his hat on the water. The woman still swimming, she notices the man's hat, thinking that's actually him, she hits the hat, but suddenly, the shark reveals itself, the woman gets scared, the man is ready to the rescue her. He catches the woman with the fishing rod, finally the man did rescue her, but the shark is coming to them, the woman freaks out, the man is ready to battle the shark, he puts that looks a visor and a harpoon. He goes to the water, ready to kill the shark, the woman thinks he's gonna die, but the man appears alive, with the shark inside of a giant sardine can, the woman claps for the man's effort to defeat the shark, however, the sardine can opens, revealing the shark is alive, it ruins the fake rescue deflating itself. The woman marches away, with deception, the man is angry, beating multiple times his head for how his plan failed. The man goes under the woman, jumping, but the woman sees a handsome man doing windsurf while brushing his hair, the woman, glazed for the muscle man, goes to him, leaving the man, the woman calls the muscle man, he notices the woman and quickly grabs her, the man notices the woman is now with the muscle man, they go to a small island. Angry, he goes to them, he notices how the muscle man gained the woman's love, the man, upset, he grabs that looks the woman's "plug", located on her foot, the woman compresses. The muscle man, looking how his love "died", he proceeds to deflate himself. The man, looking how both deflate themselves, grabs the woman, now compressed. The night come, the man grabs his objects, leaving the beach, as well he grabs the environment's "plug", the whole beach compresses into a small object . The man pumps an object, turning into a roadway, however, on the roadway there's a tack, the car explode once touching the tack, and the roadway deflates, the man flies and falls. The short ends with the man on the ground, his "plug" pops, making him deflate.

The film won an Academy Award for Short Subjects (Cartoons) in 1962.^[3][4][5][6]

It was featured in animation historian Jerry Beck's The 50 Greatest Cartoons, where it appears one of 57 "Other Great Cartoons" that did not qualify for the main list but had nonetheless received "a substantial number of votes" as honorable mentions.^[7] The Academy Film Archive preserved Ersatz in 2012.^[8]

According to David Silverman, animator and producer for The Simpsons, the character designs for the in-show cartoon "Worker and Parasite", in the episode "Krusty Gets Kancelled", were based on Surogat.^[9] Simpsons creator Matt Groening said "Worker and Parasite" was one of his favorite moments from the show.^[10]

• Surogat on YouTube
• Surogat on the Internet Archive
• Surogat at IMDb