>> "Dear Ruby:
What do I do about skeletons in
the closet?
Signed, Worried To The Bone."
Well, Worried, there's nothing
to be worried about.
Right, Doom?
After all, everybody has
skeletons in their closet.
Some of them are my best
friends.
[Muffled music playing]
Are you hearing what I'm
hearing?
[Snapping]
It does sound cool, but I
wonder where it's coming from?
The closet?
It's not like you can fit a
whole band in there.
>> Hi, Ruby.
The Skeletunes and I are
recording a new album.
The acoustics are great in here.
Why don't you slip on in and
listen to us cats lay one down?
>> Thanks for the invite, Skull
Boy, but I'll just wait for the
record.
>> Cool, kitty.
Oh, and, uh... Doom Kitty.
Later!
>> What do ya know?
You can fit a whole band in
there.
Like I said, every one has
skeletons in the closet.
Some of us more than others.
♪
♪ So today we're gonna
♪ Take the time to show you
♪ The br-br-bright side
of the dark side ♪
♪ Only thing you oughta
♪ Know, you really gotta
♪ See the br-br-bright side
of the dark side ♪
♪ Ruby Gloom, Ruby Gloom
♪
♪ We're gonna show you why
♪ There's more than
meets the eye ♪
♪ The br-br-bright side
of the dark side ♪
♪ Only thing you oughta
♪ Know, you really gotta
♪ See the br-br-bright side
of the dark side ♪
♪ Ruby Gloom, Ruby Gloom
♪
>> Thanks for helping out with
my song writing, Doom.
You make a great metronome.
[Ticking]
I think I've got something
here.
>> SKULL BOY: Attention, people!
Crew on set in ten minutes.
Ten minutes, please!
Catchy tune, by the way.
>> Thanks!
>> You're welcome.
Nine and a half minutes, people.
Crew on set in nine and a half.
>> Did you hear that?
Skull Boy liked my music.
You're right.
I think he is making a film.
I wish I knew where he was
shooting it, though.
>> In the graveyard!
Uh, just so you know.
>> I got my wish.
>> Good morning, people.
>> Oh, dear.
Uh, excuse me, Skull Boy.
You know, there is no need to
amplify your voice.
We are in your proximity.
>> Yeah, and we're real close,
too.
>> Oh, sorry, guys.
It's just... I've called you all
here to make a big, big
announcement!
I've decided to make my first
full length feature film!
>> I really like the home movies
you shot at Poe's birthday.
>> Indeed.
You managed to capture all of my
best sides.
>> And that got me thinking that
maybe I'm descended from a long
line of big time Hollywood hot
shots!
>> So who, might I enquire, have
you cast as your dashing lead?
>> Glad you asked, Poe.
I'm not only writing and
directing this boffo flick, I'm
also playing its matinee idol
hero.
The name's Kid, Skull Kid.
But, I'm gonna need your help,
people, if it's okay with you.
Every one gets their own copy of
my soon to be a blockbuster
script.
[Ruby grunting]
>> I've written your job
descriptions on each cover.
>> Music?
Me!
>> I really liked the piece I
heard you play earlier.
It would make great theme music
for my film.
>> Really?
Wow.
I'm a composer.
>> Ahem.
>> You okay, Frank?
Want some water?
>> Oh course, you'll be backed
by our resident guitar maestros,
the indispensible Frank and Len.
>> Killer.
>> Right on.
>> Great.
Let's get to it.
>> Want that water now, Frank?
[Frank sighing]
>> We start shooting tonight,
people.
First up, the scene where Skull
Kid confronts the fierce
griffin.
>> Ah, the griffin.
A mythical half lion and half
eagle beasty.
>> You got it, Poe baby.
Iris, costumes are your
department.
>> Half lion, half eagle.
Gotcha.
>> Great, great, great!
Let's get started!
Quiet on the set.
Lights!
Camera!
Cue the fierce griffin.
And... action.
Cut!
Uhm, Iris, your griffin is kind
of more cute than fierce.
>> You think so?
Thanks!
>> Hmm, I might have to rethink
this part.
We're moving on to the big
eruption scene, people.
Poe baby, how's that molten lava
spewing volcano coming along?
>> Oh, uh... wonderfully.
Although, it still requires a
little work.
>> It's a bit tiny, isn't it?
>> For some reason, I ran out of
flour and newspaper.
[MUFFLED]: Edgar?
Allan?
I can't seem to move.
Yoo-hoo.
Any one.
>> Well, keep working on it.
I want it big.
Big!
Moving on to the crowd scene,
people.
You wouldn't let me down, kid.
Tell me you found enough extras.
>> Well, not quite, but I have a
solution.
[Glass tinkling]
>> We can create a huge, angry
mod using smoke and mirrors!
Well, just mirrors, actually.
I am extremely allergic to
smoke, you know.
Argh!
There he is.
Ooh, get him.
Oh, who am I kidding?
That would not even scare me.
>> Couldn't get a monster,
couldn't get a volcano, couldn't
get a crowd.
This film is a disaster.
>> Misery Catering Service, at
your, uhm... service.
[Rumbling]
[Gasping]
>> Oops.
Ow.
>> Oh, sorry, guys.
I can't remember what I played
before, and that's my job as a
music composer.
No, I know what you're gonna
say, Doom.
It may be bad for me, but it's
worse for Skull Boy.
It's his movie.
I better go tell him.
[Skull Boy sighing]
>> Hey, Skull Boy.
How'd the first day of filming
go?
>> Terrible!
Not one thing went right.
>> Really?
Not one thing?
>> Nope, but at least I'll have
a great musical score.
You're really gonna save my film
with that catchy tune you wrote!
>> Yeah... how did that go,
again?
[Skull Boy chuckling]
You kidder.
Any way, I'm looking forward to
hearing it.
>> Yeah, me too.
>> I just wish the rest of the
film was going as smoothly.
>> Maybe you just need to scale
it back a bit, do some thing you
know.
>> My drawings!
They moved!
Look.
>> Hey, that's pretty funny.
>> Thanks.
Maybe I actually come from a
long line of animators.
[Skull Boy gasping]
That's it!
Instead of filming my Skull Kid
adventure, I'll animate it!
What ever I need, I just draw.
Of course, I'll still need your
great score.
Music and animation go together
like--
♪ The toe bone's connected to
the foot bone ♪
>> Great.
I better get, uh... connected.
>> Good news, Skull Boy!
I have managed to recruit a
swarm of mosquitoes for your
crowd scene!
>> No need for crowds, Scaredy.
I'm making a cartoon instead.
>> Ooh, a cartoon.
Oh, how exciting.
>> I'm calling i The Animated
Adventures of Skull Kid.
Come on.
I'll show you around the cartoon
factory.
This here's the design
department, and this is a model
sheet for my cartoon alter ego,
Skull Kid.
>> Well, you know, it looks just
like you, only much smaller and
very much flatter.
>> I plan to avoid using repeat
pans in my cartoon.
You know, the ones where the
characters pass by the same
thing, over and over again.
>> Yes, that invariably looks
cheesy.
>> Here, I'll show you a few
scenes I've shot so far.
[Ragtime music playing]
>> Oops.
Must have shot those backwards.
>> Really.
Well, I found the hero's
reaction extremely believable.
Oh my.
Skull Kid appears to have lost
his head.
Oh, no.
There it is.
It now appears I am seeing
double.
Ah, that is much better.
And now, not so much.
>> So, what do you think so far?
>> Oh, I cannot wait until it is
finished.
In fact, I am going to camp out
right now in anticipation of its
big premiere!
>> And that, based on what I did
today, should be in--
Three years!
That's gonna be one long camp
out.
>> My live action Skull Kid
didn't work.
The animated version will take
forever to finish.
Now what?
Wait!
What did Ruby say earlier, when
I wasn't listening?
Hmm.
>> Blaggity blah blah do some
thing you know blah blah
blaggity blah blah.
>> Hmm.
Some thing I know.
That's it!
I'll set my cartoon here in
Gloomsville, and base it on
every one I know!
Best of all, with me and my
friends as the characters, the
new script will practically
write itself.
Well, it might need a little
nudge.
>> I am very sorry, Mr. Buns.
I have no idea when the exciting
Skull Kid cartoon will begin,
you know.
[Ruby humming]
[Piano playing]
>> IRIS: Ruby!
>> Hi, guys.
What ya got there?
[Poe giggling]
Oh, a casting call, Ruby.
Skull Boy requires thespians to
voice his animated film about a
group of fascinating friends.
>> We're gonna rehearse
together.
>> Wanna come, Ruby?
>> Thanks, but I still have
Skull Boy's movie music to
write.
Have fun!
It seems like Skull Boy's really
hit on some thing with this
cartoon thing.
>> So, Iris, I'd like you to
read for the part of
happy-go-lucky Irene.
>> Uh, Irene?
Well, I was thinking of reading
for glum and morose Mona.
I just feel like... like... I
know her.
>> That's quite possible.
Mona, take one.
>> Wow, it sure looks like rain!
Hopefully it's not acid rain.
Did I ever tell you what
happened to my
great-great-great-great-nana
when it rained?
Oh, it was really bad, and I
just washed my hair, too!
Ow.
Figures!
So?
>> Great.
Next.
>> I would like to read for the
role of fun loving, energetic
Irene.
>> Not glum, low energy Mona?
>> No, I don't really get her.
>> Okay.
Irene, take one.
>> Come on.
Let's go...
And do some adventures.
Wee...
[Coughing]
Crash.
Uh, I'm good.
>> Really... great.
Next.
>> Today, I shall read for the
part of the exceedingly
handsome, and some how oddly
familiar, Byron.
I have, however, taken my quill
to the script, as I felt a
character so paramount to the
story warranted considerably
more screen time.
Now, for my first line, I would
add at least three more
adjectives.
[Popping]
>> Crikey, I feel faint.
It's okay, Fraidy Bat.
There's nothing to be afraid of,
I hope.
>> Wow.
You sound great, Skull Boy.
>> Thanks!
I've decided to do all the
voices myself.
>> Hey, are those your
characters?
"Sapphire Sombre."
She sort of looks like me.
>> She's not really you.
She's just based on you, like
the others.
>> "Mona," "Fraidy Bat," "Fred
and Ed."
You are making a cartoon about
us.
I can't wait to see it.
>> I can't wait to show you.
[Thunder crashing]
>> "Ow."
[Thunder crashing]
"Ow."
[Thunder crashing]
"Ow."
This next scene features a
character I based on Doom.
"Are you thinking what I'm
thinking, Chittychat Kitty?"
"I think I'm thinking what
you're thinking, I think."
With my new, limited animation
approach, I'm just churnin' the
scenes out.
So, what do you think?
>> I'm speechless, unlike
Chittychat Kitty.
>> Things are going so well, I'm
premiering my cartoon tonight.
Would you mind handing out these
invites for me?
By the way, when can I get your
music to add to my animation?
>> Oh.
I'll, uh... get it to you in
time.
Speaking of time, I better get
going.
See ya!
>> And speaking of going, I need
to visit the little animators
room.
[Whistling]
>> What?
No Skull Boy.
[Sighing]
I was hoping to check on the
progress of his long awaited
cartoon.
Well, I am sure he would not
mind if his biggest fan took a
peek.
Just a little peek.
Ooh, what?
Excuse me, but this is not a
Skull Kid adventure.
Is that funny bird there
supposed to be Poe?
And, look!
There is Ruby, but not really
Ruby.
How exciting!
A cartoon about us!
Oh, wait till every one hears
of this.
>> Whoa.
No.
Ow.
Uh, it's no use.
I better tell Skull Boy I can't
remember the tune.
>> Ah, Ruby.
Do you know any thing about
Skull Boy's animated picture?
The one in which he plans to
mock us unmercifully?
>> Uh, Poe's words, not mine.
>> He showed me some of it, but
he's not really making fun of
us.
>> Oh, but I fear he is.
From what I can tell, Skull Boy
turned me in to an oblivious
chatterbox, and Misery in to
some sort of disaster magnet.
[Thudding]
>> Ow.
>> How could he be so
insensitive?
Oh, sorry.
>> I never meant to be
insensitive.
I have to set this right.
>> What I saw of Skull Boy's
cartoon looked funny to me, but
you can see for yourself.
He's invited us all to the
premiere tonight.
See you there.
>> Like Ruby said, the scenes
with Byron were most amusing, as
were the cartoon antics of the
brothers Fred and Ed.
>> Fred and Ed do sound pretty
funny.
>> Ha, yeah.
Especially Ed.
>> I hope Skull Boy doesn't take
it too hard when I tell him I
don't have his movie score.
[Clock ticking]
>> Skull Boy, there's some thing
I have to tell you.
>> No need, Ruby.
I heard every thing.
Don't worry about a thing.
>> Really?
You're not disappointed?
>> I understand completely, but
the show must go on.
>> You're a great guy!
I mean, that's great, guy.
See ya tonight.
[Munching]
>> Thanks, every one, for making
it to my cartoon premiere.
Uh, I really hope you like me...
it!
Uh, like it.
"Respect-ishness."
"Understanding-ivity."
"Mindful-icious."
"That is friendship-icity."
>> Skull Boy, what happened to
your funny cartoon... ishness.
>> I kind of overheard what Poe
said about me being insensitive.
>> Uh, you did?
>> Uh-huh.
So, I chucked that cartoon and
made a new one that didn't make
fun of my friends.
[Sighing]
>> But, we came to see the crazy
cartoon antics of Fred and Ed.
>> And Irene, and Mona, and
Fraidy Bat.
Oh, and Sapphire!
>> Don't forget Byron.
>> Too bad you chucked it, huh.
>> Well, I didn't literally
chuck it.
[Slurping]
[Roaring]
>> "Yoinks!
That mud monster's eating our
house.
Somebody do some thing!"
[Guitar playing]
>> "I meant, to stop the
monster."
"Oh."
"Skull Kid will stop it."
[Clattering]
"Once I pull myself together."
"Egad!
We're doomed!
Doomed, I say."
"We're not doomed, Byron.
We just need a doomcake picnic
party."
[Slurping]
[Laughing]
"Way to go, Sapphire!"
"Oh course, I was that close to
implementing the same plan
myself."
[Laughing]
[Cheering]
>> Bravo!
I had no idea I was such a comic
genius.
>> I think the real genius
around here is a certain
animator.
>> Speaking of genius, what ever
happened to your catchy tune,
Ruby?
I can't get it out of my head.
Da bada-da-da-dum uh-huh.
>> That's it!
Guess it was catchy, after all.
>> What are we waiting for?
Let's rock!
♪
>> What's with the camera, Skull
Boy?
>> Animation was way too much
work, so I've decided to make a
live action documentary instead.
>> Sounds great!
What's it about?
>> Life in Gloomsville.
I just shot a great scene of Poe
getting out of his bird bath.
>> POE: Skull Boy!
I'm going to get you, and your
little camera, too!
>> Oh, yeah.
Great acting.
Give it to me, baby.
Yes, yes!
Oh, your anger almost seems
real!
>> With Skull Boy.
>> And Scaredy Bat.
>> Hi, every one.
Inspired by this cool book,
Animation For Boneheads I
decided to make my own portable
cartoon theatre.
Ah, it looks like Scaredy's
volunteered to demonstrate it
for us.
>> Ooh.
Oh, dear.
I have?
>> I drew these poses myself,
each one part of a walking
action.
Now, I just pin them to the hat
brim and start the engine.
As the brim turns, the drawings
kind of melt together, and they
create the illusion of movement
known as animation.
>> Oh, you are right!
My cartoon self appears to be
walking.
And now I am running!
Running like the wind!
[Scaredy laughing]
[Scaredy groaning]
>> You okay, Scaredy?
>> Oh, yes.
But I fear that all of this
running has left me very tired.
Good night.
♪