Things that you don't want to see your Grandpa doing. This short was featured in Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation and lead to the creation of Dr. Tran. It was the first film by Lone Sausage Productions.
More things that you don't want to see your Grandpa doing.
Tran, attempting to eat his breakfast, is accosted by a bombastic movie voice-over proclaiming his status as an action hero.
A Spanish-language commercial for a Mexican restaurant featuring its new, Dr. Tran themed meal
Tran enjoys a peaceful night sitting on a log, when a Chicken innocently approaches and threatens to kill him.
Leland and Fat Friend debate if Tran is an action hero, with Tran sitting mere feet away in a backyard pool that just happens to bear his likeness.
A 1950s style commercial for a Dr. Tran boardgame.
Leland's Grandma Norma attempts to take Leland and Tran to a toy store only to end up killing numerous "little boys" with her senile and reckless driving, effectively scarring the children for life. Hotel Soap makes his first appearance, as the mascot for Toy Cack.
A commercial for an unspecified food product called a 'Dickable', the definition of which keeps changing. Tran somehow ends up in a bunny suit and can't scratch an itch.
A small pastry gets very upset for no discernible reason and runs off in a huff, killing a Shave Ice Baby along his way. (Dr. Tran appears after the end credits, in the posters on the wall as Leland asks Grandma Norma what is going on.)
Grandpa visits Dr. Tran's "100% ICE" stand and gives some business advice to Dr. Tran.
Fat Friend is berated by Grandpa for his "Hot Dog on a Plate" stand.
Grandpa is impressed by Leland's "TITS" stand.
While waiting for the subway, pudgy little Dr. Tran must match wits with a talking fruit hat that demands mint gum.
A fan writes in asking Tran why he killed his mother with a broken lawn chair.
A 9-year old girl with AIDS writes in to Tran. The Narrator berates her.
A fan writes in asking Tran about breakfast specials.
Hotel Soap returns to reminisce about past times with Tran and brings the Shave Ice Babies (as seen in The Furious Little Cinnamon Bun) with him.
Tran is visited by 1944 and 2085 versions of himself after a fan asks about a time machine.
Tran actually gets a positive fan letter. The Narrator will not let him answer it, and instead reveals Tran's penchant for getting erections in answer to a second fan letter. Cameos by Leland, Fat Friend, and an off-screen Grandma Norma.
Tran is still learning to read. A fan writes in with suggestions on what Tran should wear and anything he or The Narrator suggest magically appears on Tran's body. Fat Friend gets shot with a nail gun.
The Narrator haunts Tran once more, forcing him to read fan mail despite the fact that Tran is just learning his ABC's.
