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I just saw the most random video clip I have ever seen. This clip eclipses the ‘Alannis Morisette’ song, the song with the midgets singing about sandwiches and even the badger badger badger badger mushroom flash cartoon. Below is a recount of the trials and tribulations contained within the clip.

Imagine, If you will, a pear tree. Now imagine a pear falling off this tree and a gigantic, aboniable mandarin with antlers sprouting from said pear. Of course, the mandarin is quite friendly and if a small child should come along trying to reach a pair in the tree, it would help out.

Now, if you were a child and a mandarin helped you get a pear off a tree, I’m sure you would immediately fall in love with it (as happens in the clip). You’d go and watch a movie. Stroll through grassy fields. Play hide and seek. But of course, you’re only a small child and when it comes time for your family to move on, you have to go as well. You must tear youself away from the mandarin as much as it hurts to do so. And so in the clip the girl leaves the mandarin with antlers her hat, as a memento of her visit.

I think now would be a good time to mention the clip is in a paper-cutout animation style cartoon. Now back to the story.

The Mandarin waits, as seasons pass. As spring comes around again, we see a tear run down his cheek. He does what any good mandarin would do, he goes on a journey to find his beloved girl. He faces many adversaries, such as the wolf which he scares off with his evil mandarin x-ray stare and fangs. Over the course of many years, he eventually finds the house of his one true love.

But she is all grown up and has fallen in love with a human boy, not the mandarin that she once played hide and seek with. And so the mandarin lets out his last tear, and turns into a pear tree, under which said girl gets married.

It really is the perfect love story, although adapted to include a huge personified piece of fruit. I couldn’t believe my eyes. Mandarins don’t grow on pear trees.

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