If you watched Up, you were probably dying to know what happened to the black dude and the white guy with a mullet who came to put Carl Fredrickson in a home.  They’re like the Riggs and Murtaugh keeping old people from bumming us out.  Lucky for you, Pixar just released this short, George & AJ, featuring precisely those characters. It seems Carl’s balloon stunt inspired other old folks around town to cook up similarly wild schemes to keep George and A.J. from taking them away, making them increasingly desperate and confused.  Though if you ask me, George and A.J. have only themselves and their lack of foresight to blame.  Everyone knows the key to kidnapping  old people is to come prepared.  They didn’t even bring a butterfly net.

The whole thing is very much reminiscent of the classic 1987 comedy Disorderlies, starring the Fat Boys.
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