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Graveyard Song

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The setup

Two visitors enter a haunted cemetery, but a pair of friendly ghosts keeps derailing the residents’ frightening musical number.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Two visitors enter a cemetery on Halloween and awaken its singing residents. A hooded reaper, two animated tombstones and a talking tree try to frighten them with a rehearsed number. Friendly ghosts Paul and Phil repeatedly interrupt, introduce themselves and break into their own dance, irritating the other performers. When the residents offer the visitors a chance to escape by solving a riddle, the ghosts blurt out the answer. The visitors thank them with beer, which the ghosts cannot hold, before the cemetery returns to their cheerful refrain.

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Highly quotable.

The only thing I know for sure is that they're Paul and Phil.

We're ghosts.

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