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General
- Anytime Ruby is annoyed.
- Virtually anything Len says.
- Misery is just full of classic one-liners.
Season 1
Gloomer Rumour
- "Is there no privacy in this house?!"
- Misery explains that she's prone to getting struck by lightning:It's genetic. The electrical current is drawn to the high lead content in our blood, and then BOOM! ...people use you to charge their batteries.
- Doom Kitty blowing on a party horn, only for it to make a meowing sound.
- Frank’s analogy of the Denial stage of the Five Stages of Grief flying right over Len’s head:Frank: Say your amp’s not working. What’s the first thing you do?Len: My amp’s not busted.Frank: Exactly. You deny it.Frank: That’s denial.Len: (points accusingly at Frank) Hey, did you bust my amp?!
Grounded in Gloomsville
- “I am squeaking to you most ferociously.”
- When Ruby and Misery pick up Scaredy, they roll up his hammock while he’s sleeping in it and carry him to the Manor.
- Ruby getting airsick after being saved by Scaredy.
Doom With a View
- Misery talking about her aunt's Ouija board.Misery: My late aunt used an Ouija board to call up ghosts.
Frank: What happened? Something heinous?
Misery: Yes. One day, she brought the Ouija board out of the cupboard...
Frank: ...and?
Misery: And it fell on top of her head. May she rest in peace.
Frank: ...
Misery: It was a heavy board.
Missing Buns
- During the game of hide-and-seek, Misery declares that “this is one girl who will not be defeated by a stuffed sock!”, then when everyone else glares at her, she corrects “I mean, our special one-of-a-kind friend!” The next morning, a very tired Misery walks into the dining room:Misery: I’ve been defeated by a stuffed, one-of-a-kind sock.
Iris Springs Eternal
- When the alarm blows and sets off the sprinklers while Misery is playing with a toy train.Ruby: Misery, it's raining on your parade.
Misery: At least it's not acid rain. - Later...Ruby: You don't mind if we turn off the alarm, do you?
Misery: No, although I do find it comforting.
Poe-ranoia
- This exchange:Len: Frank, you go, I'll stay.
Frank: Len, that doesn't make any sense. I'm older. - Poe, in the middle of fearing for Skull Boy's life, notes that he never realized how big Skull Boy's head is.
- The ending where Frank and Len move into Skull Boy's room.Skullboy: Please get out of my room.
Frank: But there's lots of space for us roomies.
Skullboy: You're not my roomies!
Unsung Hero
- Ruby singing.
- Misery's "singing" while awake.
- Misery can't count sheep. Why? She imagines them jumping over the fence...and off of a cliff.Misery: ONE!...I can't sleep for fear more sheep will be harmed.
- Misery's entire sugar-high sequence.Misery: HOLLAND, 1134, SEA FLOOD! That's a lot of waterrr...CHINA, 1290, EARTHQUAKE! SOMEBODY STOP THE SHAKIIING! Kitchen, Tuesday, stubbed toe, OWWW!
Skull Boys Don't Cry
- Misery's afro."So that conditioner you gave me to straighten my hair didn't work. Although... I do feel like getting my groove on. Whatever that is."
Happy Yam Ween
- Skull Boy rhetorically asks what life is. Poe tries and fails to answer philosophically. Frank later offers this answer:"So, in answer to your question Skull Boy: life is like cheese. There may be some holes in it, and mold, and it may stink. But wow! Oh, is it ever tasty."
Ruby Cubed
- Misery with her shadow puppets in the segment "The Magnificent Queen Misery".
Once in a Blue Luna
- Even if it’s a bit sad, Ruby going back inside out of fear of the Luna Monster.Iris: Are you ok?
Ruby: Sure, Everything’s fine. I can see just as well from the house.
Misery Loves Company
- Iris accidentally telling Misery that her cousins are coming over while Ruby tries to silence her.
- Malaise asking Ruby if she talks to herself in the bathtub.
- Ruby and Malaise share the same voice actor. So basically, Ruby IS talking to herself.
- Malady talking about her arm injury.
- Right before Ruby asks what happened to her arm, Misery fails to stop her.Scaredy: I will never say ‘hello, how are you’ again in my life.
- Right before Ruby asks what happened to her arm, Misery fails to stop her.
- "Family visits are always fun. Family visits are always fun."
- Frank and Len surfing out to Misery on their guitar.Frank: Unbelievable, on the seventh anniversary of the day Misery was rescued from an ice floe, she's stuck on an ice floe.
Len: I believe that is what's called "Onomatopoeia".
Frank: No Len, it's not. It's irony.
Len: Well, that sure would be easier to spell.
Sunny Daze
- Len getting attached to the “furry gray rodent” on the radio’s nature channel.
- Immediately after Skull Boy’s epic rescue of Mr. Buns from the sunlight, he trips over a pebble.
Broken Records
- When all the feathers are being used by Iris to break the record for “Fastest Pillow Stuffer”, Poe has to pluck and use one of his own to write in the record’s book.
- When Scaredy Bat pulls up Misery to join the call on what to do about the feud between Ruby and Iris:Misery: (picks up) Hello, 911? Did you get my message?
- When Scaredy, Misery, Skull Boy, Frank and Len are on a chain trying to reach Ruby in the well:Scaredy: She can’t reach! We need one more!Misery: Can’t reach! One more!Skull Boy: Can’t teach, run store!Frank: Can’t speak and I’m bored!Len: Canned peach at the front door?
- Ruby and Iris’s long apologies. Even better when you realize what country this show is from.
Season 2
Gloommates
- The intro skit of How To Play Golf with Frank and Len. Frank introduces it with "Today, we'll teach you how to play a game we know nothing about."Len: SIX!!
Frank: Don't you mean "fore", Len?
Len: Oh, right. MINUS TWO!!- The golf ball then crashes into the cameraman, and Len marks it as a hole in one. "Landed right in his bellybutton!"Frank: Say good night, Len.
Len: Good night, Len!
- The golf ball then crashes into the cameraman, and Len marks it as a hole in one. "Landed right in his bellybutton!"
- Misery gets sidetracked when trying to suggest counseling for Poe and Skull Boy.Misery: HEY! I have seen this scenario play out many times before!! Like with my half-cousin twice removed, and her husband, a guy named Husband, who had half a leg once removed...twice.
Tooth or Dare
- Scaredy Bat's Deconstruction of the Tooth Fairy, and the general response of his friends.Scaredy: (clears throat) Um, a strange winged creature sneaks into one's room under the cover of darkness to steal one's teeth...
[Beat]
Scaredy: AND EVERYONE IS OKAY WITH THIS?!?!
Iris: Yup.
Misery: Sure.
Boo Boo: Good with me. - Misery strikes again:"My grandmother used to say leeches could cure anything. Those were her last words."
- The ending skit sees Misery listening to a self-help record on "How to Brighten Someone's Day", and her (erroneously) deciding in the end that she already follows it well. First it advises that there's no harm in smiling. Cut to Misery making The Unsmile at a mirror and shattering it. Next it advises giving others a cheery "hello." Cut to Misery startlingly waking up Scaredy Bat up with a very loud "Hello!" Finally, it tells her to compliment others. Cut to Misery struggling to stay awake through Poe's poetry:Poe: So? Misery, what did you think?
Misery: Better than nine on valerian root
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Venus de Gloomsville
- The opening skit "The Skull Boy Show" has credits entirely dominated by Skull Boy, except the "Dedicated To" credit, which lists "Skull Boy's Parents (whoever they are)."
- Afterwards, Skullboy tries rocking his chair only to be stuck as it can’t stop rocking.
Skullboy: Whoa, hey. How do you stop this thing? Hello, guys? Doom, how does this work?! - Venus’s story in general is basically Cinderella with Ruby Gloom characters.
- Venus mentions it’s a love story about a girl named Ella only for Frank and Len to add that she loves to rock. This causes Ella (Ruby) to spontaneously rock out on a guitar.
- Doom throwing a bucket on the Fairy Godmother (Misery).
- Her ride to the ball is Squig chasing after a carrot on his head.
- The Prince (Skullboy) flexing his moustache when he notices Ella.
- Right when Ella arrives, it’s midnight so Ella does a rapid fire greeting with everyone.
- Venus mentions the Prince didn’t even have a shower or change of clothing the next day and freshes him up with huge powder.
- The Prince presents the stepsisters (Edgar and Allen) with the Glass Slipper but they end up fighting over it.
- Frank and Len’s version turns the godmother into an alien princess who only speaks her language, turns the Glass Slippers into rocket shoes and puts themselves in as Frank Man and Len Boy.
- Right before Venus interrupts, Ella is seen just about to crash into the brothers.
- Venus’s response to Poe’s version of her story.Venus: Poe, I love it except for two, itsy bitsy things...the singing, and the rest of it.
- During the recap of the previous stories, Ella rocks out on her guitar only to get trapped in big birdcage, the alien Godmother appears with the bucket on her head (That Ella mentions) and knocks over the cage, the rocket shoes appear which blast her all over the place while chasing Frank Man and Len Boy and Poe’s ship catches on fire.
- During Skull Boy’s take on the story:Skull Spade: I had to find the foot that fit the slipper and the girl that owned the foot before I found that I couldn’t live without finding the foot belonging to the girl with the foot that fit the slipper. But first, I had to figure out what I just said.
Name That Toon
- Skull Boy's cartoon.
- Skull Boy shows Scaredy his detailed, intricate backgrounds for his cartoon, and the two discuss how cheesy it is to have a Wraparound Background...while, as the two walk past Skull Boy’s board of backgrounds, the board is on a wraparound background.
Déjà Vu – Again
- When Ruby tells Misery about what happened the previous day due to the "Groundhog Day" Loop:Misery: Ruby, I would have definitely remembered because I’m the queen of remembering disasters, remember? I’m also the queen of disasters, by the way. And the princess. And the baroness. See you there. And the countess! And the viscountess!! THE EMPRESS!!
- Ruby realizing she’s out of the time loop and running outside declaring it’s Tomorrow much to the confusion of everyone.
Hair(Less): The Musical
- During the first number, Frank says he has to be somewhere. Len who is attached, asks if he can come too. He responds with an annoyed look on his face.
- Iris’s song is just yelling out gibberish.
- Skullboy’s body kicking his head.
- Frank and Len’s song.Len:Skullboy’s the guy we know know/ And he’s sitting right over there there/ We’re singing over here on this side of the room/To sing this uh.../Song for him.
- Even if Bummed Out is heart wrenching, The small scene of Ruby swatting a fly off Skullboy’s face before he stares at Ruby in confusion as she innocently shrugs.
- Followed by Ruby pointing out spinach on his teeth much to his shock.
- The Recap of second part is one major Mood Whiplash between the the end of the first part and beginning of the second part.Narrator: Previously on Ruby Gloom, everything was normal. (Well, except that everyone seemed to be singing.) When Skullboy decided he needed to know who he was , big time. After a series of events with him trying not to be bummed out about it, everyone tried to convince him not to be bummed out about it. Skullboy decides to be less bummed out about it. (Inhale) So he leaves to a new magical land to meet a wizard. Sorry, wrong script. He leaves with Skele-T. Ok, off he goes. Bye bye. Then Ruby has to cheer the gang up which we we all know she’s really good at, but they miss Skullboy so much, it doesn’t even work. Not only that, for the first time, Ruby has a hard time cheering herself up. She sings some touching song here. Oh, me already. Ok so, I think we’re all caught up here perfect. Tune in next time I mean now or anytime really to the continuing saga of Hairless the Musical. (To the characters) What are you looking at me for? Get going! Am I getting scaled for this gig?
- Everyone’s attempt at getting along without Skullboy.
- Ruby making angels in the leaves with Boo Boo but due to being a ghost, he can’t even touch the leaves. He then dejectedly floats away.
- Iris sitting on a seesaw with a huge boulder on the other end.
- Ruby and Misery staring at a jump rope due to the absence of a third person.
- Skullboy bumping into a lamppost and apparently writing “ow” in his letter.
- Skullboy scatting.
- Misery's charades impressions of Skull Boy.
- When everyone leaves on the trolley to get Skullboy back, Skullboy’s trolley passes by them not noticing them as he finally goes home.
- Misery's dentist appointment.
- When Frank and Len are overworked from trying to keep up with Scaredy's drumming:Frank: I got blisters on my fingers!!Misery: Ooh! Can I see??
Out of this World
- This line from Misery:
- The house starts experiencing zero gravity, causing everyone inside to float, and Misery goes "Hey, look at me! I’m a bridge to nowhere~"
- When Poe is discussing how to will the house back to the ground:Poe: And think of the house as a light feather…Len: What kind of feather?Poe: Well, any kind will do.Poe: (getting annoyed) Yes, yes, yes, that’s fine. Now, focus on that feather floating down…Len: Hey, Frank, what feather you thinking about?Frank: Penguin.Poe: (increasingly frustrated) I SAID FOCUS ON THAT FEATHER, FLOATING DOWN TO EARTH FROM SPACE!Len: (Beat) What feather you thinking about, Poe?Poe: WELL, ANY FEATHER!!Len: Huh? What kind of bird’s an ‘Any’?Poe: Oh, this is impossible…(walks away)Frank: You’re not kidding! How do you expect us to work with so many different kinds of feathers floating around? (Poe groans in the background)Len: Hey! What if instead of a feather, we thought of a kitchen appliance? (Poe squawks in the background)
Frank And Len Unplugged
- Skull Boy, as Frank and Len’s manager, tries to make negotiations with Misery for her documentary about them. Which leads to him at first insisting that all profits be paid to Frank and Len in licorice, then getting so nervous and sweating so much that a notable pool floods the studio, and finally he decides they’ll take nothing. All while Misery just stands and stares at him without uttering a word.Skull Boy: They're worth every penny they didn't get!
I'll Be Home for Misery
- Misery’s initial attempts at hosting her family reunion:Misery: Just think, you’re all related! Yaaay…
Disaster Becomes You
- Frank and Len’s conversation with each other when the house floods:Frank: It appears that the house is flooding, Len.Len: Oh, that’s all. Thanks, Frank.Frank: No problem. Any time.Len: Great! (realizes what he just said) So, uh, did you say the house is flooding?Frank: That’s what I said, Len. I said the house is flooding. Try paying attention sometime. (Beat)
- Misery’s frustration with her good luck:Misery: I stood outside in the middle of a lightning storm today, and didn’t get hit, ONCE!!
- Frank and Len cleaning the flooded house, and Len becoming more and more insistent on rules of the house being followed.Len: IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO HANG UP YOUR COAT AS YOU’RE FLEEING A FLOOD?!
- Poe tells the story of being pushed off a cliff by his mother as a chick during Misery's Disaster Camp.Misery: (whistles) So, what have we learned from this latest disaster session?Scaredy: Poe likes to ramble on and on?Misery: Yes, very good. (writes on notepad)
- When everything is back to normal on Saturday the 14th, Misery is ready to party, only to be crushed by a ladder, and then by a boulder, with her muffled voice murmuring “Party...party…”
