The dot, finding the line to be stiff, dull, and conventional, turns her affections toward a wild and unkempt squiggle.

After he straightens himself out, he settles down and focuses more responsibly on this new ability, creating shapes so complex that he has to label his sides and angles in order to keep his place.

No matter how hard he tries to re-shape himself, the squiggle still remains the same tangled, chaotic mess of lines and curves.

Fed up, the dot tells the squiggle how she really feels about him, denouncing him as meaningless, undisciplined, insignificant, and out of luck.

She leaves with the line, having accepted that he has much more to offer, and the punning moral is presented: "To the vector belong the spoils.

[6] The short film also inspired The Dot and Line, a blog that publishes essays about cartoons and interviews with voice actors and creators including Genndy Tartakovsky, Andrea Romano, Brandon Vietti, Fred Seibert, and Natalie Palamides.