Ruby Gloom

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Television series
German title Ruby Gloom
Original title Ruby Gloom
Country of production Canada
original language English
year 2006
length 25 minutes
Episodes 40 in 2 seasons
genre Children's series
synchronization

Ruby Gloom is a Canadian animated series that has been in production since 2006. The main character's name represents her ruby ​​red hair, as well as the dark, lonely world in which the girl lives.

action

The series is about the beautiful side of the dark, the importance of friendship in life. The action takes place in Gloomsville, the hometown of Ruby and her friends. There they experience small and big adventures and have a lot of fun, even if the city seems rather sad and desolate at first glance. But Ruby loves the dark atmosphere and, with her cheerful manner, always manages to bring life to the city.

main characters

Ruby Gloom

Ruby describes herself as the happiest girl in the world, even if she grew up in a gloomy world. But she sees the good in everything and loves the gloom of her hometown. She likes her strange friends and a heart and two crossbones is her trademark. She has ruby ​​red hair and red and gold freckles on her white face. She writes her experiences and feelings in her diary. She always finds reasons to party, but doesn't like it and likes to roam Gloomsville with her black cat Doom Kitty. She is often with her, only eats china, doesn't like uninvited guests, can't stand the fact that no one except Ruby understands her and is sensitive to the subject of her favorite toy ball since it was stolen from her. She also likes to play with Mr. Buns, a plush bunny that Ruby made out of a sock.

iris

Iris is a good friend of Ruby, who, like a cyclops, only has one big eye. She has long black hair and, like Ruby, wears a black dress, but with a red collar and buttons, striped tights and ballerinas. In addition, she always wears a black and red bow in her hair. Iris enjoys adventures and loves to research strange things, but she often overlooks important things and is clumsy. She is always in too much of a hurry and reads a lot, but only half of it. She has several pets: one Squic, a giant caterpillar, a talking carnivorous plant called Venus, and she loves to raise dust bunnies.

Skeleton (Skull Boy)

Ruby's insecure, nervous friend is all made of bones, and often he loses one or falls apart. He drinks a lot of milk and exercises to build muscles, which are not there. The fact that he doesn't know who he's descended from often makes him sad and makes him doubt his identity. He loves books, science and art. Skelettie has big green eyes and wears black gloves and a black sweater, gray skinny pants with a skull belt and belt chain, and red chucks .

Misery

Misery is grumpy, grumpy, sarcastic, and grouchy. She is unlucky because her great-great-great-great-grandmother's cousin insisted that her family should always be unlucky. She is mostly attached to Ruby, which makes her feel a bit cramped, even if Misery is her friend. She sleeps on a bed of nails, likes dolls, disaster stories, and family sagas, while loathing the fact that she is haunted by bad luck, often struck by lightning, and when she is not prepared for disasters. Misery used to be the baby model for a cream, but the strange events accumulated on the set. For example, the cream was radioactive , which made her teeth so white that she almost blinded other people with her smile. Since then she has been afraid to smile. She has floor-length black hair, over it she wears a blue scarf, pinned with yellow clips, has a blue dress and her complexion is bluish too.

Frank and Len

Frank and Len share a body with two heads and one brain. One of the two has the logic, the other has the feelings. That's why there are often arguments, they only agree on the subject of music. The two play in the two-man boy band RIP and rehearse in Ruby's garage. Len, the right half and the right head is green, Frank, the left part, blue. They are wearing a red T-shirt with a smiley face printed on it, which is also the symbol of the two, blue jeans, Frank's foot a black and white slip-on in the checkerboard pattern by Vans , Lens' black Doc Martens with red flemings.

Flutterman (Scaredy Bat)

Flutterman is a scared bat . He is afraid of the dark, of flying, is afraid of heights and is terribly scared. He is always attentive and always hiding under Ruby's bed in fear. He's less afraid in company, meditates to calm his nerves and likes to read in his hammock. He always wears a purple scarf and is warm-hearted. Ruby thinks he's incredibly cute.

Poe

Poe is the only adult featured on the series. He went to college and has two brothers named Allan and Edgar, which is due to the fact that they descended from the budgie Edgar Allan Poes . He likes Gloomsville because he can study literature there in peace and at the same time give advice, although he doesn't always know what exactly he is talking about. He doesn't like to exert himself, but he prefers to eat. Poe is a raven , has glasses, wears a white shirt and purple jacket and his mark is a feather.

Boo boo

Boo Boo is a ghost, his sign is a black ghost in front of a white moon. He's very short for his age so he always tries to be scary and creepy, which is why he hates being called cute. He loves to scare people, his favorite victims are the fearful flutterman and misery.

Production and publication

The series has been produced by Nelvana since 2006 under the direction of Robin Budd. In Canada, the series has been shown by YTV since October 13, 2006. Since October 6, 2007, the German broadcaster Super RTL has been showing the series of the same name on Saturday and Sunday mornings. MIA sings the German dubbed title song . -Singer Mieze Katz . The series was also televised in French, Spanish and Polish and was released on DVD in Canada, Germany, France, Japan and Australia.

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role English speakers German speakers
Ruby Gloom Sarah Gadon Rubina Kuraoka
iris Stacey DePass Nicole Hannak
Skull Boy / Skeleton Scott McCord Michael Wiesner
Misery Emily Hampshire Peggy Sander
Frank David Berni Konrad Bösherz
Fluttermann / Scaredy Bat Peter Keleghan Jesco Wirthgen
Len Jeremy Harris Dirk Petrick

Books

Six books were also published on the series.

Awards

In 2008 the episode Hairless the Musical - part 1 won the Gemini Award for the best music, the prize went to Tom Szczesniak , Carolyn Hay and Ray Parker.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Super RTL shows Ruby Gloom in German for the first time
  2. ^ German dubbing index : Ruby Gloom accessed on August 3, 2011
  3. ↑ IMDb on nominations and awards for the series

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