Animated Music Videos (Established Characters)

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This thread is not about AMVs that fans have created; do not link to them, or even mention them, in this thread.

I understand that there have been numerous animated music videos created for legitimate musicians over the years, but most of them have used new characters and had no established characters in them. I wanted to create this thread in order to see which music videos have used established characters, and I don’t really care if the music videos were “real” or if they were made for the sake of a television program, a la They Might Be Giants, who had several of their songs featured in music videos on “Tiny Toon Adventures”. The same band also had a music video that used “Homestar Runner” characters.

Fall Out Boy’s music video for The Carpal Tunnel Of Love was more-or-less an episode of “Happy Tree Friends”, as it used characters from that series and had them all get killed in horrible ways. I know that the band showed the music video while they were on tour, but I’m not sure if it ever made its rounds on television.

Are there any others?
 
The video to Bjork's "I Miss You" features Jimmy the hapless idiot boy and George Liquor. And the video to Weird Al's "Close but no Cigar" features Cigarettes the cat. And there's a video that features Wallace and Gromit.
 
I do not know if this counts, but around the very late 90's, Disney showed something called, "DTV", which featured clips of various Disney cartoon shows and full-length animated features to the tune of famous rock and roll songs. Fortunately, I still have many on tape, but if they ever come out with a DVD collection of all of the songs, I will purchase it.

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Ah, yes...Disney TV. I especially remember "Good Vibrations" with Donald hypnotizing Pluto, "Hello" with Bambi, DeBarge's "Rhythm of the Night" with some Donald Halloween cartoon, and "Private Eyes" with some Goofy Noir spoof. And this came as far back as 1984.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Stan Bush's "You've Got the Touch" Music Video for Transformers the Movie (1986).
 
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