What are your favorite looped animations?

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We all know them. Take 3 or 4 frames and copy+paste them for several frames and you have a longer animated sequence for only a fraction of a cost. They're incredibly common for wakling and running animations, but sometimes the animators can be quite creative and create hilarious moments out of looped animations.

Some of my favorites include:

In the Tom & Jerry cartoon "A Mouse in the House", there's a scene where both Tom and Butch (the black cat) are fighting. Jerry hits a gong so they can stop and take a time out. Jerry then gives the exact same fight tips to both of them, and when the fight resumes, Tom and Butch start punching each other in a hilarious looped fashion. The funniest part is when they realize they've been tricked.

In the Dexter's Lab episode "Dee Dee and The Man", the animation of Dexter screwing a nut is taken to extremes when it is combined with several other sequences to make one huge scene (almost two minutes). In it, Dexter gets more and more depressed as the scene slows down as it progresses. The best part is that, while nearly everything moves, Dexter's head stays perfectly still all through the scene.

And of course, there's this:
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So what are your favorites?

(Also, don't post just images. This is still a discussion topic)
 
The Spongebob episode "Squidville" did this as well, but iMHO they did it a little better. It was shorter and Squidward was posed a little less awkwardly.
 
Filmation did this with every episode of every animated series they produced. They did everything in house and had to do what they could to keep the budget low.
 
No, cycles have almost always been used since the begining of animation. Fleicher used several very fun, creative animation loops in their Betty Boop cartoons which was said to cut their used budget in half. My favorite example is in Betty Boop Snowwhite durring The St.James Infarmary Koko sequence. There are several surrealistic fish skeletons and creatures cycling to the rhythym.
 
The episode of Tom and Jerry, 'The Truce Hurts', has this hillarious loop of Tom, Jerry and Spike all hitting each other with various blunt objects. The best part of the loop is Tom constantly hitting Spike on the head without even realising he's been swinging a baseball bat at him the whole time.

I mentioned this in another thread not too long ago, but the episode of 'Courage the Cowardly Dog' in which Muriel becomes a weremole had two great ones going on simultaniously for at least a couple of minutes.
One was of Courage being violently swung around in a rabbit costume by the Weremole. The other was of Eustace trying to hit Weremole Muiel with his mallet, Whack-A-Mole style, wrecking their room in the process. Awesome stuff.


Also, Ed repeatedly pummling the ground with his face, before announcing "I'm a Woodpecker!....'cept with dirt!"
 
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