Boundin'

Directed by:	Bud Luckey Roger Gould
Written by:	Bud Luckey
Release date:	2003
Running time:	4 minutes, 40 seconds

Boundin' is an animated short film made by Pixar in 2003. It was written and directed by Bud Luckey. In the West lives a lamb whose pride and joy is his wool. When a man comes and shears him, the lamb becomes depressed. It takes a Jackalope to teach him to bounce back from life's troubles.

Trivia

• This is the first theatrical short to have dialogue. To date, this is the only Pixar short to feature dialogue that isn't based on a pre-existing property. Indeed, the man talking on the radio in Day & Night is a recording of a speech by Dr. Wayne Dyer.
• Bud Luckey, who performed all the voices, played Rick Dicker in The Incredibles. He also worked on Sesame Street as the Alligator King in an animated short.
• In the first draft, Rick Dicker was going to sit on a chair and tell the story.

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  Stanley statue in Cars.

  The car that the man drives is Stanley from Cars. There is a statue of that car in the film.
• The hand that grabs the sheep belongs to the dentist from Finding Nemo.
• Also, the fish seen in the short are based on Gurgle.
• The Cars DVD and Blu-Ray contain a version of Boundin' with Mater as the Jackalope and Lightning McQueen as the lamb. 6 Guidos is also seen briefly as the groundhogs.