“Hey, Carl, I think I found something you’ll like.”
Carl the Animator: “Mmhmm?”
Ted the Animator: “Open up Photoshop, and load any random frame.”
Carl the Animator: “Gotcha.”
Ted the Animator: “…nice choice. Now, use the ‘quick selection’ tool to automatically grab most of the purple background.”
Carl the Animator: “Done.”
Ted the Animator: “Now, hit ‘delete’.”
Carl the Animator: “…it wants to use ‘Content-Aware’ fill. What’s that?”
Ted the Animator: “The funniest thing ever. Hit ‘ok’.”
Carl the Animator: “Ok, I was just–”
Carl the Animator: “…oh my gosh.”
Ted the Animator: “Told’ja.”
Carl the Animator: “That is… a masterpiece. The heck did it do?”
Ted the Animator: “Photoshop looked at the rest of the image, and tried to clone in a nice, natural background.”
Carl the Animator: “…which, I take it, doesn’t always work.”
Ted the Animator: “Yes indeedy. Try another.”
Carl the Animator: “Let’s see how it handles all the shapes in this one.”
Carl the Animator: “…freeeaaaky.’
Ted the Animator: “It looks like something you’d see in an ancient manuscript prophesying the end times.”
Carl the Animator: “What if we reverse it, and select a character instead?”
Ted the Animator: “Hm, smart.”
Carl the Animator: “…oh.”
Ted the Animator: “It’s like the creepiest invisibility cloak ever.”
Carl the Animator: “The selection tool likes to grab things weirdly, too… it just got Velma’s glasses while I dragged around her head.”
Ted the Animator: “Well, let’s see what happens.”
Carl the Animator: “…wow.”
Ted the Animator: “My favorite part is the elongated double face between Daphne and Fred.”
Carl the Animator: “Here, lemme grab one more from Aloha.”
Ted the Animator: “Should be a–… wait, Carl, you missed selecting one of the background guys’ fa–”
Carl the Animator: “BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
Ted the Animator: “Magnificent.”
Carl the Animator: “He looks so confused!”
Ted the Animator: “ ‘Um… hello? Anyone? How did I get inside this hair?’ “
Carl the Animator: “…can’t… breathe….”
Ted the Animator: “I’ll go put on another pot of coffee… it’s gonna be a looooong night of ‘shopping, I can feel it.”