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An anthology of darkly comedic original animated shorts based on Gary Larson's Far Side comics and a follow-up to his first anthology short Tales from the Far Side (1994).A housewife discovers an elephant in her living room trying to crush her husband's head. She starts panicking and calls for help. The elephant removers arrive and so do the news reporters. However, another elephant is hiding behind a curtain in their neighbor's home while the clueless neighbor is watching the news about the incident on the TV.Next door, a creepy ACME traveling salesman is welcomed in by an oddball housewife who happens to own a bunch of trophy cups awarded for knocking out men with her frying pen. She knocks him out too.Kids play on trampolines as hungry alligators next door watch. Eventually, the sound of one of them falling in water and attracting the frenzied alligators can be heard.A yard sign says "Beware of Doug" as a man, presumably Doug, hides behind a tree.A scientist creates a time machine and uses it, messing up a wall calendar which has the film's title "Gary Larson's Tales from the Far Side II" written on it. The scientist ends up in prehistoric times where woolly mammoths are trying to crush cavemen's heads while two cavemen, Thag & Grog, perform some kind of unplugged concert in front of them. The cavemen immediately attack the scientist who just barely manages to get away in his machine. The scientist then arrives in the middle of nowhere on March 29th, 7498005, where pterodactyls roam, and his time machine malfunctions. His competitor arrives in his own working time machine with two babes by his side, makes fun of the scientist and then travels away. Just as the scientist gives up all hope, a toe truck for time machines arrives to help him out, but only takes his bumper back to the future (bumpers falling off cars end up being somewhat of a running gag throughout the movie), leaving the scientist at the mercy of a giant, cigar chomping T-Rex, who laughs maniacally, throws the cigar bud away and stomps it to put it out right next to the scientist. In the present, a group of children visits the Natural History Museum and sees, among the skeletons, the T-Rex's skeleton with a cigar still in its mouth and the time machine and the skeleton of the scientist stuck in its rib cage.In "Nature's Symphony," a pack of lions attacks a symphonic orchestra playing in the middle of the savanna, eating the trombonist.Three fairies fly out of swamp flowers at night and fly joyously and harmoniously until a frog eats one of them, a flytrap plant traps the second one and a fish eats the third one.A duck hunter prepares to shoot some more ducks when he sees a pretty huntress with strange voice. As it turns out, an alien swamp monster is hunting hunters using a human like female decoy and a human call whistle which sounds like a seductive woman saying 'Hello, there.'In a live action segment shot in first person view, a cow enters a barn and plays an arcade machine called Stampede, an animated video game where a cow stampede run over everything and everyone in front of them including a farmer who wants to brand them and Elvis. The game ends when they run into a slaughter house, but the cow chooses to play again, this time a two player game.An amoeba party is interrupted when a tourist drinks the glass of water they were all in at an Arab market place.In "Death Takes a Holiday," one of the lengthier and most macabre segment, the Grim Reaper goes on a vacation, and wherever he goes people die.A cowboy shark ropes marooned people.A spoof of Ken Burn's The Civil War (1990) documentary about a civil war between cats and dogs.The Grim Reaper has a nightmare about a woman and her baby crossing the road and not being killed by a truck.A group of gorillas savagely beat and mug a zoo visitor who fell in their cage, but they later turn out to simply be the zoo's sadistic employees in gorilla costumes pulling a cruel prank.A woman named Vera plays the song Crazy by Willie Nelson and dances with her dead stuffed husband, Ed, until the cops burst in and bust her.A ninja deer bent on revenge uses its expert martial arts skills to take on a party of rowdy hunters in their hunting lodge.Two hillbilly aliens relax, drink beer and use Earth for target practice, destroying it completely.