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| Directed by | Josh Cooley |
| Produced by | Galyn Susman Pete Docter (executive) Jonas Rivera (executive) |
| Written by | Josh Cooley |
| Starring | Jason Topolski A.J. Riebli III Steve Purcell Peter Sohn Bob Peterson |
| Music by | Michael Giacchino |
| Editing by | Tim Fox Jon Vargo (assistant editor) |
| Studio | Pixar Animation Studios |
| Release date(s) | November 12, 2009 |
| Running time | 4 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
George & A.J. is a short film created by Pixar which uses characters from the film Up to tell what Nurses George and A.J. did after Carl Fredricksen left with his house tied to balloons in the feature film. Instead of being released on DVD like Partly Cloudy, Dug's Special Mission, or any other Pixar short film, George & A.J. was initially released on iTunes as an extra feature that came with a purchase of the film.[1][2] It was later released to fans of Disney/Pixar on their Facebook page[3] and later to the official Disney/Pixar YouTube page.[4] All of the animation is done in a limited "storyboard" style, with some objects moving by keyframes, while other things like characters and their mouths barely move at all. Expressions and story are still conveyed, though.
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The short starts out with a scene from Up, where two nurses from the Shady Oaks Retirement Village knock on Carl Fredricksen's door to escort him to the nursing home. As seen in the film, Carl instead takes off in his house. George and A.J. stare dumbfounded at the sky while their van's alarm goes off (it had been bumped by Carl's house). The next day, a news reporter does a story about sightings of a floating house. She attempts to get George and A.J.'s opinion, but they are still in shock. Meanwhile, other senior citizens around the city, including at Shady Oaks, are watching the news report and learn that Carl has "escaped". A week later, George and A.J. are back at their task of escorting elderly citizens to Shady Oaks in their van. Unfortunately, the seniors have gotten ideas from what Carl did, and every time George and A.J. come to a house to take a person away, the senior living there escapes with their house somehow.
Finally, they arrive back at the Shady Oaks Retirement Village, only to find an old man outside the door who yells "So long, suckers!" and hits his cane against one of many canisters attached to the outside of the building; the other canisters soon follow and spew out a powerful gas. After the man goes inside, the entire building launches into the sky. Still dumbstruck, George and A.J. stare up. A few canisters fall down, and one lands on their van, setting off its alarm again. Suddenly, from behind them, a giant blimp starts to descend. It turns out to be Charles Muntz's Spirit of Adventure dirigible, and Carl Fredricksen is flying it with Russell next to him. The airship lands on top of the van, effectively stopping its alarm. Carl and Russell climb out and George incredulously says "Mr. Fredricksen?" They walk past the nurses, and Russell says that next time he'd like to steer. A.J. turns to George and says "That was the craziest thing I've ever seen!" They look down to find Dug in front of them. Dug says "Hi there!" through his collar, and George and A.J. are even more shocked than before.
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