No Time for Nuts is a 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 "Best Short Film, Animated" in 2007, though it never received a billing with a Fox feature film. It also won "Best Animated Short Subject" at the Annie Awards.

Synopsis

Scrat, the saber-toothed squirrel (an unknown animal but supposed extinct), while trying to find a place to bury his acorn, finds a buried time machine next to the ice-encased body of a time traveller who appears to be Albert Einstein. He accidentally activates the machine, sending the acorn to somewhere. Scrat gets mad and tries to beat up the time machine but it sends him to the Middle Ages. After the acorn becomes wedged under a rock, Scrat uses The Sword in the Stone as a lever to move the rock. He pulls out the sword but now finds himself under attack by a group of unseen archers. He grabs the acorn (now disloged from the rock) and time machine and races off to find cover, only to hide in the barrel of a lit cannon, which fires him into the path of the incoming arrows. The time machine teleports the acorn and Scrat manages to activate the machine just in time.