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No Time For Nuts is an Academy Award nominated, computer animated short film from Blue Sky Studios (20th Century Fox Animation), starring Scrat of Ice Age fame, premiering on the DVD release of Ice Age: The Meltdown, much in the same vein as Gone Nutty on the previous movie's DVD release. It was nominated for an Oscar in the "Animated Short" category for 2007.

Scrat, while chasing an acorn, finds a buried time machine next to the ice-encased body of a time traveller. He accidentally activates the machine, sending himself and the acorn to the Middle Ages. After the acorn becomes wedged under a rock, Scrat uses a sword found in a stone as a lever to move the rock. The acorn is dislodged, but Scrat now finds himself under attack by an army of unseen archers. He races off to find cover, only to hide in the barrel of a lit cannon. Scrat, the acorn and the time machine are fired into the path of a fusilade of arrows; Scrat just manages to activate the machine in time. He materializes in an arena in Ancient Rome. Scrat reaches for his acorn, but is dragged off when his tail is caught in a chariot. Scrat manages to free himself, but hears the growl of a dangerous animal coming from a tunnel. He activates the time machine again, and apparently lands back in his home time. He soon learns that it is really 1912 when he sees the RMS Titanic heading towards him. The time machine is activated again, and Scrat finds himself in time of the first Ice Age film, where he fights another saber-toothed squirrel (himself) for his acorn. The time machine fires, sending him to a flury of different locations: under a launching rocket, in a darkened jewelry store, in a girl's locker room, in the French Revolution (where he appears under a guillotine), during Benjamin Franklin's expirement using a kite, in front of a wrecking ball, in front of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, on the tracks of a steam locomotive, and in front of Michelangelo's David. Frustrated, Scrat punches the machine, which sends him into a strange realm of clocks and timepieces. Scrat spots his acorn and tries to reach it, but is sucked into a wormhole. The wormhole lands him in front of an enormous oak tree. Overjoyed at the sight of so many nuts, he tosses away his acorn, which activates the time machine. Before he can be swept through time, Scrat beats the time machine into submission. Scrat attempts to remove nuts from the tree, but discovers that it is only a statue, with a plaque on it reading "Here Stood The Last Oak Tree." Scrat realizes that he is in the far future, when oak trees (and acorns) are extinct. He makes a dash for his acorn, but the time machine manages to transport the acorn away one last time before collapsing into bits. Stranded in the acorn-less future, Scrat lets out a scream of frustration.

• In the beginning of the short film, the time machine states that the initial sequence of the short film (and likely the entire Ice Age series), takes place in or around 20,000 BC.
• In the ending scene of Ice Age, he is found cryogenically frozen on a tropical island, apparently after his discovery of the time machine, indicating that he did not perish in the future. Like Gone Nutty, this short is considered non-canonical.

• No Time for Nuts Official Blue Sky Studios Website
• Co-director Chris Renaud on No Time for Nuts Animated News & Views interview

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