| Skull Boys Don't Cry | |
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| Season: | 1 |
| Episode number: | 10 |
| Directed by: | Robin Budd |
| Written by: | Carolyn Bennett |
| Production number: | 110 |
| Air date: | December 17, 2006 |
| Previous episode: | "Quadro-Gloomia" |
| Next episode: | "Bad Hare Day" |
Synopsis[]
It's club day in Gloomsville and everyone has made up their own club, except for Skull Boy, who can't think of a club that really suits him. Then he meets a group of skeletons who love to play jazz and he decides to form a jazz club. But whenever Skull Boy tries to introduce the skeletons to his friends, they disappear and Skull Boy's friends start thinking that he made them up.
Opening Sketch: "Chores can be fun!"[]
Ruby talks about the fun stuff you can do while doing the laundry.
Closing Sketch: "Misery and Miserabla"[]
Misery does a ventriloquist act with her puppet, Miserabla.
Trivia[]
- The gang walks under the moonlight the way they do in the theme song.
- Skele-T and the Skele-Tunes Debut.
- They form these clubs:
- Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow (Ruby, Misery, and Iris)
- Fright Club (Boo Boo and Scaredy Bat)
- Read Poe Society (Poe, Edgar, and Allan)
- The Wandering Rock Minstrels (Frank & Len)
- Unnamed club where members play with yarn balls (Doom Kitty and Mr. Buns)
- When Ruby walks up to Skull Boy in the graveyard, blink and you'll miss it, but he smiles upon seeing her new hairdo for the first time.
Hidden references[]
- Boo Boo’s rule about Fright Club is a straight-forward reference to the rule from Fight Club: “Do not talk about Fight Club.”
- Branch Not Taken refers to the poem "The Road Not Taken."
- Red Poe Society refers to the movie "Dead Poet's Society"
- This episode's title is a spoof to the movie, "Boys Don't Cry", starring Hilary Swank.
Goofs[]
- After Skull Boy meets The Skele-Tunes, Ruby walks up and says “Hey, Skull Boy.” But her mouth doesn’t move.