A kid late for school is the oldest setup in animation. This one stretches a five-minute commute into pure absurdist chaos, each obstacle more ridiculous than the last. Takashi Murakami directs like he's watching a bear's entire morning dissolve frame by frame, turning something mundane into something you can't look away from. The humor lives in how seriously the bear takes his disaster. By the end, you're not sure if he ever made it, or if that was ever the point.

Graduation Bear oversleeps on the morning of his graduation and has to hurry if he wants to arrive at such an important event on time. Nothing cooperates. One improbable obstacle after another stands between him and Dropout University, and he must find inventive ways past each one. Takashi Murakami directed and produced this single-episode music piece, a brief slice-of-life take on a truly bad morning.