“Sorry, Carl, but... bad news.”
Carl the Animator: “Oh, great, what now?”
Ted the Animator: “It’s about your skeleton.”
Carl the Animator: “My skeleton’s amazing! What’s the problem?!”
Ted the Animator: “…it’s too good.”
Carl the Animator: “…what.”
Ted the Animator: “Hanna-Barbera just sent the rest of the script. They forgot to mention it was just a guy in a costume all along.”
Carl the Animator: “Aaaaand my super-epic skeleton is wrong for that why, exactly?”
Ted the Animator: “Well… the whole ‘not having room for a body underneath’ is prolly part of it.”
Carl the Animator: “Oh. That’s stupid.”
Ted the Animator: “There’s no time to change this earlier stuff, but things like real, exposed leg bones…”
Ted the Animator: “…don’t exactly work…”
Ted the Animator: “…for a ‘fake sheriff guy in a suit’ reveal.”
Carl the Animator: “Humph. Well, I’ll endeavor to make him look sufficiently less-cool in the future.”
*2 weeks later*
Ted the Animator: “…so, about the current skeleton design.”
Carl the Animator: “Oh no.”
Ted the Animator: “It’s just that… well, HB just informed us that the fake sheriff is gonna be a very corpulent fellow.”
Carl the Animator: “C’mon, I’ve been adding more room in the ‘suit,’ and gave a black outline!”
Ted the Animator: “Yeah, but he’s… he’s a very large guy.”
Carl the Animator: “Ugh.”
Ted the Animator: “And very ridiculous-looking.”
Carl the Animator: “I feel like my skeletal artistic vision is being stripped away.”
Ted the Animator: “Can you just try to make him a little pudgier and less-serious from now on?”
Carl the Animator: “Fiiiiiiine.”
*1 week later*
Ted the Animator: “Ok… um… as unsure as I am about that guy behind him…”
Ted the Animator: “…that’s a nice improvement. That’s a sufficiently chubby, less-real-looking skeleton.”
Carl the Animator: “Thanks, I guess.”
Ted the Animator: “…buuuut HB would like it if he could be a little–”
Carl the Animator: “Seriously?! MORE pudgy and ridiculous?!”
Ted the Animator: “Yes, unfortunately, they–”
Carl the Animator: “FINE. Here.”
*30 seconds later*
Carl the Animator: “There. Is that lame enough to work?”
Ted the Animator: “…erm… yes, actually, they love the design, and… want us to stick with it.”
Carl the Animator: *sigh*
Ted the Animator: “Y’know, somehow, I feel a little something has been lost along the way since the first depiction of the character.”
Carl the Animator: “You mean like ‘any semblance of dignity?’ Like that?”
Ted the Animator: “Well… yeah.”
Carl the Animator: “My poor, poor skeleton.”
Ted the Animator: “I’ve never felt bad for a bunch of collagen fibers and inorganic mineral, but that’s animating Scooby-Doo for ya.”
it’s 10 o'clock, we’re still making gnocchi, have a skeleton reblog tonight
