Tear Jerker / Ruby Gloom

Even Ruby can't find a bright side to this.

Sometimes it isn't easy to find the bright side.

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General

• Misery counts as a tearjerker herself. Even when she's perfectly fine, she always looks so despairing and miserable, you can't help but want to give her a hug and wipe those permanently-teary eyes.
• Skullboy in general doesn’t have any family and sometimes tries finding out where he’s from.

Season 1

Poor Doom...

Gloomer Rumour

• Even though it might possibly just be a case of Early-Installment Weirdness, that Misery, the character who can shrug off things that would break most people emotionally and most likely physically, openly weeps at the thought of Ruby moving out. The one main character in the entire series who is used to horrible things happening to her and is able to get past them without any trouble, practically breaks down when one of her friends might be leaving for good.

Iris Springs Eternal

• The gang looking at the hole where Iris crashes down.
  Ruby: Iris, where are you?

Science Fair or Foul

• Venus’s reaction to the destruction of Skullboy’s “father”.
• A small one, Poe offering to be a father figure and help Skullboy with his science project but Skullboy already built a robot to help.
• The robot’s death in general. It was programmed to help win the science fair but ended up so crazy it accidentally killed itself.

Bad Hare Day

• Doom tries to warn everyone about Bunny but not even Ruby believes her.
• Doom Kitty being kicked out of the house by Bunny followed by her looking at a photo of her and Ruby in the rain.
• Ruby looking out the window being worried about Doom when she’s missing.

Happy Yam Ween

• Everyone besides Ruby blaming themselves for breaking the Yam Ween chime.
• Poe thinking nobody got his name.
• When everyone draws names for the gift exchange, Poe’s name falls through the vent with Doom Kitty being the only one noticing. When Doom and Ruby find it, she regrets not telling anyone.

Once in A Blue Luna

• Ruby being so afraid of the Luna Monster that she retreats back to the house while her friends check on her.
  Iris: Ruby, you ok? Cause, if there’s anything wrong, you can tell us.
  Ruby: I’m...afraid.
• Frank and Len’s story about the Monster where his ruby went missing and the Monster tore up towns but never found it.

Broken Records

• Iris keeps failing to break a record while Ruby accidentally breaks records which causes Iris to break up their friendship.
  Iris: I don’t need you Ruby!
• Ruby and Iris avoiding each other. Though it turns out Ruby was helping Iris break a record for the longest time lapse between friends.

Season 2

Where you going, where you going? This Goodbye is getting drawn. Going once, going twice. Going, going, gone.

Hair-Less

• Skullboy’s solo in the beginning musical number where he doesn’t know where he came from.
• After hearing a few advice songs Skullboy gives up while Ruby solemnly realizes cheering him up is gonna be hard.
  • Which is followed by a reprise of “Who am I.”
• Skullboy’s goodbye to his friends.
  • Scaredy fearing he’ll never see Skullboy again.
  • Iris is clearly trying not to cry.
  • Poe who was usually annoyed by Skullboy not knowing what to do without him.
• The whole “Bummed Out” number.
  • The fact that unlike other episodes, the ending of the first part was completely somber with no ending skit to lighten the mood.
• Skull Boy moving out is the one thing that can make Ruby, the quintessential Perky Goth, forlorn. And not only is Misery also distraught by this, she actually tries to cheer up Ruby.
• Everyone tries to cheer themselves up by doing stuff they usually do with Skullboy but it fails.
• After Reading Skullboy’s letter:
  Frank: Wow, sounds like he’s having a good time.
  Len: Yeah, I wish I was there!
  Ruby: (Sad Smile) Me too…
• During the Dark/Dawn Duet, Ruby reveals it’s hard being the happiest girl.
• What finally makes the gang get Skullboy back? Len asking Skullboy to pass the salt.
• The others also miss him.
• Skullboy being homesick.

The Beat Goes On

• Scaredy eavesdropping on everyone talking about how his constant drumming was driving them crazy.

Frank and Len Unplugged

• Frank and Len have a falling out and they both go solo. When Frank does his solo show, he can’t bring himself to sing until Len joins in.
• Earlier in the episode, Len finds Frank’s sweater.
  Misery: What’s that?
  Len: Frank’s sweater, he gets cold sometimes on buses. I guess I don’t need to pack that.
• When the feud begins, Frank is clearly venting out all of the bottled stress he had from Len.

I’ll be home for Misery

• Misery’s family failing to show up.
  • Skullboy’s reaction.
  Skullboy: Misery, you’re lucky, at least you have relatives.

Last Train to Gloomsville

• Ruby falling off the train.
  Iris: She’s gone, Ruby’s...gone.

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