My spoon is too big
Pirated copies of Rejected spread across the early web, and its lines became catchphrases of the era's deadpan, surreal humour.
Rejected is a run of fake commercials and cartoons that an animator's clients keep turning down, each stranger than the last, until the paper itself crumples. It was nominated for an Oscar.
Copies passed from computer to computer in the early 2000s, and lines like "My spoon is too big" entered the internet's vocabulary. The AV Club traces a run of bleak, absurd imitators, many of them on Adult Swim, back to it. Hertzfeldt himself has long been wary of unofficial uploads.
Widely cited in writing on the film