A dung beetle and a scorpion get humiliated by cacti, and somehow that becomes the most charming three minutes you'll experience all year. Yamada Kuniko's song transforms what could be mean-spirited into something oddly tender, the kind of thing that sticks with you long after it ends. Stop motion this deliberate, this small, this devoted to a single joke that's really about acceptance, that's rarer than you think.

A group of cacti pick on the small creatures around them, and a dung beetle and a scorpion are among the animals on the receiving end of their teasing and taunts. The short comedic piece is made in stop motion and set to a song by Yamada Kuniko, created as a music clip for the Minna no Uta segment on NHK.