History WesternAnimation / WhoKilledWho

* DemBones: A regular skeleton, and a red one (a ShoutOut to comedian "Red" Skelton). Earlier on, a skeletal cuckoo in a clock calls out the time.

* PeekABooCorpse: A closet that holds ''hundreds'' of corpses that fall out one by one, for (presumably) a very long time. Lampshaded:
-->'''Random corpse:''' Ah yes! Quite a bunch of us, isn't it?

-->'''Victim:''' Heavens! I can't die at eleven-thirty! ''[a second dagger with another note is thrown in; it reads "P.S. Okay... we'll make it 12:00]''

-->'''Victim:''' Heavens! I can't die at eleven-thirty! ''[a second dagger with another note is thrown in; it reads "P.S. Okay...make it 12:00]''

* {{Arrowgram}}: The victim of a potential murder receives a note attached to a dagger that reads "You will die at 11:00!"
-->'''Victim:''' Heavens! I can't die at eleven! ''[a second dagger with another note is thrown in; it reads "Okay...make it 11:30]''

Beginning with an announcer proclaiming the cartoon as an educational example of how crime doesn't pay, it is set in an old, spooky house on the "[[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Gruesome Gables]]". The elderly owner is murdered (''how'' dead he is, though, is a matter of question) and, seconds later, a crafty detective arrives to investigate -- but he finds out that the house is a haunted and wacky place, where finding and unmasking the murderer might prove very problematic.

-->'''Detective:''' Which one of you bumped off the ol' man?! Whodunnit?!
-->'''Suspects:''' Awwww, wouldn't YOU like to know!

* OminousPipeOrgan: Heard throughout the short.

* ExtendedDisarming: The detective demands to "see some guns here on this table". A few seconds later, he ends up with a pile of various weapons reaching up to the ceiling.

* CruelMercy: The victim is sent a note warning he will die at 7:30 p.m. When the victim says he can't die then, the killer agrees to make it 12:00. Subverted as the clock ''immediately'' turns to show 12:00.

* BornInTheTheatre: Done with a black silhouette of a "theater patron" who moves around despite the detective's order of "Everybody stay where you are! Don't nobody move!", followed by him knocking out the guy with a club "That goes for you too, bub!"

* CruelMercy: The victim is sent a note warning he will die at 11:30 p.m. When the victim says he can't die then, the killer agrees to give him an extra half-hour.

* ExtendedDisarming: The detective demands "the gun" to be placed on the table. A few seconds later, he ends up with a pile of various weapons reaching up to the ceiling.
* GenreRoulette: And how. The narrator sets this up to be a 'RippedFromTheHeadlines' true crime story, the opening makes it looks like a HauntedHouse movie while the cast of characters is out of Creator/AgathaChristie.

* LiteralMinded: When told by the killer to "reach for the ceiling", the detective actually stretches his arms all the way up to the high ceiling.

--->'''Victim:''' Let's not get nosy, bub.

* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: The detective. Though, first he uses a small pitch pipe to find the correct octave.

** The killer's gun final three shots at the victim replicate the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_chimes NBC Chimes]].

* SpinningClockHands: When the victim receives a message, that he is going to die at midnight, he looks terrified at the cuckoo clock; there's still a few hours left, but then the hands suddenly spin, all the way to midnight.

* TickTockTerror: Played for Laughs with the creepy cuckoo clock, which rapidly hits the top of the hour so that the chimes play clock Chopin's "Funeral March" before the victim gets offed.

Beginning with an announcer proclaiming the cartoon as an educational example of how crime doesn't pay, it is set in an old, spooky house on the "[[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Gruesome Gables]]". The elderly owner is murdered (''how'' dead he is, though, is a matter of question) and, seconds later, a crafty detective arrives to investigate--but he finds out that the house is a haunted and wacky place, where finding and unmasking the murderer might prove very problematic.

"Who Killed Who?" is one of the early WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons, created in [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1943]]. The short is a pastiche of whodunit cases.

* TheButlerDidIt: Actually not, but he does act very suspicious, so he might have done some other crime not uncovered yet.

* [[spoiler: TheDogWasTheMastermind: The murderer is ''the live-action announcer.'']]

* MemeticMutation: -- Thanks to a YouTube poop, its not uncommon to see clips of the Red Skeleton swagger to Bun B's The Inauguration.

* Memetic Mutation: -- Thanks to a YouTube poop, its not uncommon to see clips of the Red Skeleton swagger to Bun B's The Inauguration.

* Memetic Mutation -- Thanks to a YouTube poop, its not uncommon to see clips of the Red Skeleton swagger to Bun B's The Inauguration.

* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Gruesome Gables.

* LiteralMinded: When told by the killer to "reach for the ceiling", the detective actually stretches his harms all the way up to the high ceiling.