History WesternAnimation / RubyGloom

* NoHuggingNoKissing: While it was clear that Ruby and Skull Boy had feelings for each other, neither of them acted on them and no other characters had feelings for anyone else. The closest was the episode Ruby Cubed where Skull Boy obtained a magic hat that made Iris and Misery fall in love with him (and strangely has no effect at all on Ruby).

* NoAntagonist: The closest the show ever came to a bad guy was the thieving rabbit in Bad Hare Day.
** There was also a pair of con artists who falsely presented themselves as Skull Boy's family in hopes of getting a reward and or stealing from them. But they get a FaceHeelTurn at the end of the episode.

** Skull Boy is absent from 'Doom with a View'[[note]]He appears in the ending skit[[/note]] and 'Tooth or Dare'.

** UpToEleven in "Hair(less) The Musical", there's a whole musical number dedicated to this catchphrase and it's repeated several times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xp6l7TK8rE

* UpToEleven: In the episode "Out of This World", after they [[spoiler: get the house back from orbiting the moon]], Frank and Len [[ShoutOut crank the volume of their music up to eleven.]] Cue fireworks and an explosion that [[spoiler: sends Poe, Frank, and Len into space. [[HereWeGoAgain And orbiting the moon.]]]]

** Skull Boy is absent from 'Doom with a View' and 'Tooth or Dare'.

* TheChewToy: Misery
* CompanionCube: Mr. Buns

* NightmareFetishist: Misery could be this sometimes. Of course, Ruby herself is also a PerkyGoth, and all of the main characters are this to some degree living in the scary mansion (except [[LovableCoward Scaredy Bat]])

* DependingOnTheWriter: Misery switches back and forth between hating her bad luck and tolerating it. In "Disaster Becomes You" she even likes it.

* NightmareFetishist: Misery could be this sometimes, depending on the writer.

* PlagueOfGoodFortune: Every Friday the 13th, everyone in Misery's family has extraordinarily good luck and their normally extraordinarily bad luck is spread to those around them.
** Misery has so much good luck to make up for that she even gains FertileFeet.

** Skull Boy is absent from 'Doom with a View', 'Bad Hare Day' and 'Tooth or Dare'.

* AdvertisedExtra: Despite appearing in the opening theme and being treated like a main character, Boo Boo only appeared in thirteen episodes.[[labelnote:Which?]]'Doom with a View', 'Missing Buns', 'Science Fair or Foul', 'Poe-Ranoia', 'Quadrogloomia', 'Skull Boys Don't Cry', 'Shaken Not Scared', 'Once in a Blue Luna', 'Lucky Me', 'Tooth or Dare', 'Seeing Eye to Eyes', 'Ubergloom' and 'Hair(less) the Musical: Part 2'.[[/labelnote]]

The show ran for 40 episodes over 2 seasons, airing from 2006 to 2008. The entire series can be watched for free on Nelvana's [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUIixndCOJ8yMeztWQnV3ClZ8rjtX6VL5 Treehouse Direct channel]].

** Boo Boo, due to his status as an AdvertisedExtra, does not make an appearance in ''twenty-eight'' episodes.

* AdvertisedExtra: Despite appearing in the opening theme and being treated like a main character, Boo Boo only appeared in twelve episodes.[[labelnote:Which?]]'Doom with a View', 'Missing Buns', 'Science Fair or Foul', 'Poe-Ranoia', 'Quadrogloomia', 'Skull Boys Don't Cry', 'Shaken Not Scared', 'Lucky Me', 'Tooth or Dare', 'Seeing Eye to Eyes', 'Ubergloom' and 'Hair(less) the Musical: Part 2'.[[/labelnote]]

** Boo Boo, due to his status as an AdvertisedExtra, does not make an appearance in ''twenty-nine'' episodes.

* AdvertisedExtra: Despite appearing in the opening theme and being treated like a main character, Boo Boo only appeared in eleven episodes.[[labelnote:Which?]]'Doom with a View', 'Missing Buns', 'Science Fair or Foul', 'Quadrogloomia', 'Skull Boys Don't Cry', 'Shaken Not Scared', 'Lucky Me', 'Tooth or Dare', 'Seeing Eye to Eyes', 'Ubergloom' and 'Hair(less) the Musical: Part 2'.[[/labelnote]]

* AdvertisedExtra: Despite appearing in the opening theme and being treated like a main character, Boo Boo only appeared in eleven episodes.[[labelnote:Which?]]'Doom with a View', 'Missing Buns', 'Science Fair or Foul', 'Quadrogloomia', 'Skull Boys Don't Cry', 'Shaken Not Scared', 'Lucky Me', 'Tooth or Dare', 'Ubergloom' and 'Hair(less) the Musical: Part 2'.[[/labelnote]]

* BeeAfraid: Misery and Malady both get attacked by bees and, despite the swelling, don't seem too bothered.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first episode gives introductory scenes to most of the cast. The best one may be Misery's, where a few sentences into an already gloomy conversation, she puts the always-optimistic Ruby at a temporary loss for words by describing her own genetic predisposition toward being struck by lightning.
** Two seconds later, Ruby further establishes her own character by changing the subject and managing to lift her spirits a little anyway.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Poor Misery.
** Sometimes Iris.

The show ran for 40 episodes over 3 seasons, airing from 2006 to 2008. The entire series can be watched for free on Nelvana's [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUIixndCOJ8yMeztWQnV3ClZ8rjtX6VL5 Treehouse Direct channel]].

The show ran for 40 episodes over 3 seasons, airing from 2006 to 2008. The entire series can be watched for free [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUIixndCOJ8yMeztWQnV3ClZ8rjtX6VL5 here]].

* AbsenteeActor:
** There are several episodes where one of the main characters is absent without explanation.
** Scaredy Bat is mysteriously absent in the episode where Boo-Boo needs to scare someone to become a full-fledged ghost, because of course if he was there the story would be over in a few minutes.
** It's implied Frank and Len's absence in "Time Flies" is [[WrittenInAbsence because they went shopping for guitar picks]].

* AdvertisedExtra: Despite appearing in the opening theme and being treated like a main character, Boo Boo only appeared in about ten episodes.

Originally based on a line of melancholic stationery, and a prime example of the PerkyGoth mentality, ''Ruby Gloom'' is a Canadian animated program produced by Creator/{{Nelvana}} for Creator/{{YTV}}. The series focuses on the adventures of eponymous [[ThePollyanna Ruby Gloom]], who lives in the aforementioned mansion alongside her circle of eccentric friends, which alongside the aforementioned spooks, include a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold know-it-all]] talking raven, a [[AcrophobicBird bat too scared to fly]], a [[ThePrankster prankster]] ghost, and a [[LivingToys living toy]] named Mr. Buns. Oh, and Ruby's pet cat [[DeathbringerTheAdorable Doom Kitty]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Counterclockwise from left to right: [[TheDitz Frank and Len]], [[GenkiGirl Iris]], [[PerkyGoth Ruby Gloom]], [[TheEeyore Misery]], [[FriendlySkeleton Skull Boy]], [[ThePrankster Boo Boo]], [[LovableCoward Scaredy Bat]], [[SilentSnarker Doom Kitty]], [[SmallNameBigEgo Poe]], and [[LivingToys Mr. Buns]]]]

->''"So today we're gonna\\
take the time to show ya\\
the br-br-bright side of the dark side."''
-->-- The first lines of the show's theme song

* WraparoundBackground: Parodically lampshaded during the episode "Name that Toon". As Skull Boy leads Scaredy Bat past the backdrop sheets of his cartoon, he says he'll try to avoid Repeat Pans, another name for this trope, and Scaredy Bat agrees that they invariably look cheesy. This entire sequence is shot in front of a Wraparound Background, made particularly obvious as the same two distinctive backdrop sheets are repeated over and over.

-->'''Frank:''' Does anything about this seem strange to you?\\

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** In the episode "Ubergloom" [[spoiler: a visiting brother and sister have locked themselves in a room to develop their photographs.]]
--->'''Iris:''' Yeah, but they've spent the last three hours alone in a dark room. How much fun can that be?\\
'''[[NightmareFetishist Misery]]:''' Actually, a lot.\\
''[Everyone reacts]''
** Poe's poem:
--->'''Poe:''' ...The bats will not harm you, I told them, "Let pass!" The ghouls are a problem, best watch your...\\
''[Edgar and Allen stop playing and give him a surprised look]''\\
'''Poe:''' ...em... [[LastSecondWordSwap bottom...]]
** And in another episode:
--->'''Poe:''' There once was a crow from Nantucket...
** One of the episodes was called "Skull Film/BoysDontCry."
** From "Broken Records" at the end of the TelecomTree scene:
--->'''Skull Boy:''' Misery, we're having a brainstorm session. My room in ten minutes! ''(hangs up)''
--->''(Misery, Scaredy, Frank and Len exchange awkward looks)''
--->'''Skull Boy:''' ''(picks up again)'' Oh, [[NotWhatItLooksLike that goes for the rest of you too]].
--->'''Others:''' Oh.
** In the episode, "Missing Buns", how Ruby acted towards Skullboy after [[spoiler: learning that he was the cause of Mr. Buns' strange disappearance. The music that played during the scene didn't help.]]
** In the first episode, Doom Kitty tries to stop Iris from reading Ruby’s diary by pretending to '''hang herself'''.

* ''Mockumentary'': In "Frank and Len Unplugged", Misery films a rockumentary of the two.

* {{Leitmotif}}: Enter Misery, cue spooky organ music.

* AllJustADream: One episode reveals near the end that most of the episode was must Misery dreaming. Some of the beginning and ending skits feature this as well.

* VineSwing: Misery's cavewoman relative Mayhem travels this way.