Spooky Scary Studio 360: How to Make Your Skeleton Scary

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Happy Halloween!

Jack Handey, thinker of Deep Thoughts, takes on the ultimate holiday question: If a skeleton’s not scary, what’s the point of having one? He offers a few tips on how to make your skeleton live up to its reputation so you’re not burying just another ho-hum pile of bones.

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0:00.0	From PRX.
0:07.0	You, D.
0:08.8	O.
0:11.8	That's it.
0:13.9	Happy Halloween, everyone.
0:18.3	I'm Krista, and I'm a producer here at Studio 360. And since today is the
0:23.3	spookiest day of the entire year, I figured I would play you a segment that combines all of the
0:29.6	fun parts of Halloween with all of the really macabre and gross parts. This is an original
0:35.4	story by Jack Handy, so you know it's going to be weird.
0:39.9	And it's called How to Make Your Skeleton Scary.
0:43.9	Enjoy.
0:48.3	I suppose we all have the same dream.
0:56.1	A hundred years from now, a man carrying a lantern enters a darkened tomb.
1:00.4	He's already nervous, and he hears something behind him.
1:09.2	He turns and holds up the lantern.
1:11.6	It's a hideous skeleton.
1:13.6	Speechless with fear, he stumbles backwards.
1:16.6	He trips, dropping the lantern.
1:19.6	The oil spills and catches him on fire.
1:21.6	A flailing fireball he runs from the tomb into the night.
1:25.6	You may be asking, why do they still have oil lanterns
1:29.6	a hundred years from now? Look, I think you're missing the point. The point is, after you die,
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