45 seconds of storyboard animatic
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3605700820181199437&q=bartop+brawl&pl=true

The cherry wears a bandana.

Ideas:

#1 Ninjas vs Pirates
Under the cover of night, several ninjas descend to the deck of a pirate galleon anchored in a cove. Silently they slip into the captains quarters at the back of the ship, and pick the lock of a treasure chest therin. As the lid to the treasure chest creaks open, a group of armed pirates rises up out of the shadows behind the ninjas.

#2 Mech Battle
An alarm begins to blare in the barracks of a base, soldiers clamor up ladders and along metal walkways, they jump into robotic walkers and make their way to the battlefiend outside their base. Laser cannons fire over their heads and missles are launched continuously until the invading army is demolished.

#3 Pen and the Sword
Two pirate ships meet in the ocean and one attempts to board the other. The two captains clash with steel on the deck of the defending ship. Each time one strikes, he throws an insult at the other captain, and to parry the strike the opposing captain must best his insult with another that rhymes.

3 sentence REVISED Synopsis #3
A doctor is performing open heart or stomach surgery.

The doctor gets a phone call and freeks out, (perhaps his wife or child is in danger) so the doctor needs to find his keys, and looks everywhere, but cannot find them.

Just when he's about to give up to take a taxi, he realizes that his keys are inside of the patient.

3 sentence synopsis #2
Lost from home, an animated child that is more of a creature than a human, is searching for their mother.

the child runs into a strange person, and does not know who or what he is, or whether or not to trust them.

the child ends up being evil, after the audience sympathizes with it, and the child eats the questionable stranger.

3 Sentence synopsis #1:
On a pier / dock, a pirate / sailor has lost his boat.

The sailor becomes angry at the harbor master, blaming him for the loss of his boat.

The sailor sees the tip of his mast poking through the surface of the water, and as he realizes that his ship is sunk, he jumps in to join his companions.

Story Synopsis for "Really Fresh Hot Dog" 3 Sentance synopsis:

There is a man vending hot dogs, and he carefully places one on the bun and turns to begin his harking when the hot dog begins whistling and making cat calls to a passing woman and the vender is blamed and slapped.

After a few more times of this, the vender is assaulted by a gigantic man who is walking with his girlfriend.

When he wakes up, the vender decides to give up and frustrated demolishes the cart, walking away.

Story Idea For "Bartop Brawlers"

3 Sentance synopsis.
The scene starts out on a bar top where the bartender is refreshing the drink condaments tray and an olive bumps into a cherry.

This bumping begins a fight which is carried out with various bartop objects with the two warriors being the cherry and the olive.

The fight ends with the two running each other through with cocktail swords and dying before being placed in their respective drinks.