It's unfortunate that Billy died. He seemed like quite a character (from what bit I saw of Discovery's Pitch Men) and would probably have been fun to work with, even if his pitches often skirted the edge of being annoying. But some of the more gimmicky products were fun to watch, simply because it left you wondering why people would actually buy them.

But for some reason, his untimely demise leaves me picturing a new curse to put on people: May the ghost of Billy Mays haunt you for the rest of your life! Just picture it, if you would... "BILLY MAYS HERE! BLAH BLAH..." (And yes, always talking at FULL BILLY VOLUME!) I hope nobody is too upset, but my humor is wierd like that.

It's neat to see I'm not the only one that got the uncanny Aeon Flux vibe on this. (At least from the short trailer on YouTube, all the others were killed off by the copyright police.) But is it because Peter Chung was influenced by Dali (there is some element of surrealism in Peter's style, so I don't doubt that), or could it even be that Peter Chung was working for Disney (and worked on this) when the animation was resurrected from the vault and finally completed from the old storyboards? That would be a fun piece of trivia to know.

I haven't seen the full version, so I'm not sure how the CGI is. However, the idea of it doesn't seem that far out of character. From what I could guess about Dali based on what I've read about him, if he ever had access to it - he is the type that would have used it. Even if not using CGI directly to make art, definitely there would have been some collaboration with those who could help bring the vision to life. The fact he got together with Disney at one point to do animation (a media he normally doesn't work in, and the closest comparable thing to CGI of the era) would seem to support the idea.