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{{Infobox film
| name           = Partly Cloudy
| image          = Partly Cloudy poster.jpg
| caption        = Original poster
| director       = [[Peter Sohn]]
| producer       = Kevin Reher
| writer         = Peter Sohn
| starring       = Tony Fucile<br>Lori Richardson
| editing =       Jason Hudak
| music          = [[Michael Giacchino]]
| production_companies = [[Pixar Animation Studios]]
| distributor    = [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Walt Disney Studios<br>Motion Pictures]]{{efn|name=Disney|Distributed by [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures]] through the [[Walt Disney Pictures]] banner.}}
| released       = {{Film date|2009|5|29|with ''[[Up (2009 film)|Up]]''}}
| runtime        = 5:45<ref>{{cite web|url=http://projection.pixar.com/|title=Pixar Projection - Home|access-date=May 22, 2009}}</ref>
| country        = United States
| language       = 
}}
'''''Partly Cloudy''''' is a 2009 American animated comedy short film, written and directed by [[Peter Sohn]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://adisney.go.com/vault/supplement.pdf|title=Official supplement to David Smith's book, ''Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia''.|access-date=February 7, 2009}}</ref> and produced by Kevin Reher.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/11/first-look-pixars-partly-cloudy/|title=First Look: Pixar's Partly Cloudy|access-date=March 12, 2009}}</ref> It was shown in theaters before Pixar's feature film ''[[Up (2009 film)|Up]]'' and is a special feature on its [[DVD]] and [[Blu-ray]] release. It was included in the [[Animation Show of Shows]] in 2009.

In a CGSociety article, Sohn says his idea for the film came from watching ''[[Dumbo]]'' as a child: in the movie, a stork delivers Dumbo, leading a young Sohn to wonder where the birds got their babies from. His conclusion was that the babies came from clouds, hence flying animals being needed to deliver them.<ref>{{cite web|title=CGSociety - Peter Sohn |url=http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4996 |publisher=The CGSociety |date=April 12, 2009 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412064710/http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4996 |archive-date=April 12, 2009 }}</ref>

== Plot ==
All day long, cheerful clouds in the sky make cute and cuddly babies, such as human boys and girls, kittens, puppies, and other creatures, and give them to storks for delivery to the expectant parents. However, one lonely gray cloud named Gus has the task of creating animals that are cute but not so cuddly. His delivery stork, Peck, gets the worst of it, being bitten by a crocodile, butted by a bighorn sheep, and pricked by a porcupine. When Peck sees that his next delivery is a baby shark, he grows more than a little fearful and flies away.

Feeling rejected, despondent, and angry, Gus unleashes a brief thunderstorm, then starts crying with rain pouring from below him. Peck, however, soon returns with a football helmet and shoulder pads, created for him by another cloud to keep him safe (alluded to in an earlier scene, where the same cloud creates a baby that would grow to love football). Gus instantly cheers up and gives Peck an electric eel to deliver, which shocks him despite the protective equipment; this time, though, Peck remains in good (but slightly frazzled) spirits.

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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|https://www.pixar.com/partly-cloudy#partly-cloudy-main}}
* {{IMDb title|1425244}}

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