See? This is why I love THIS version of the Phantom of the Opera...because here, Christine doesn't exactly abandon Erik. She agrees that both she and Raoul will come see him again. So he won't be lonely anymore.
+Buffy8Fan I've never read it either (though I want to), but what I've heard is that Christine and Raoul actually do promise to come see him again, and eventually they keep that promise. Unfortunately, by then he's already died alone, and all they find when they come to visit him is his corpse.
Yeah, it’s sweet. Although it gets a lot more bittersweet if you’ve read the original novel! If you notice, in the episode he asks that they visit him “once more.” That little detail broke my heart, because I know how things played out in the Leroux novel.
@@menslady125eif2590 Erik's genuinely not thought to be human by many characters in the books. Only madame G knows he's just a man. Roule also thinks so, Christine is constantly going back and forth on it. The very first chapter is the future, when they pull Erik's remains from the opera house, confirming he was not a phantom in the most literal sense, but was in Christine's mind as he haunted her as her father's ghost and also as a romantic stalker essentially. He killed people to get to her, I don't think her worrying about him much makes sense. She's so terrified of him she tries to throw herself off the roof when roule finds her. That's also in the musical and the book.
Wishbone!Erik is about a thousand times more deformed than 2004!Erik. As much as I love the 2004 movie version, Gerard Butler looks like he just got an intense sunburn. This show was AMAZING.
The guy who plays the phantom starred with Patrick Wilson in the Alamo in 2004. Wilson played Raoul in the movie version of Phantom of the Opera. Coincidence, I think not. :)
You know you are a Phantom of the Opera nerd when after 5:13, you start singing: "down once more to the dungeon of my dark despair, down we plunge to the prison of my mind, down to darkness deep as hell..."
Why is it every time Wishbone plays the lead role with a love interest, the comments are full of accusations of bestiality? It's his imagination! As far as the imaginary people in his imaginary world where he's the hero are concerned, Wishbone is a human, which is why they can hear him speak. It's not rocket science.
@@venessaarthur2666 Translation: “Why does everyone ask when Wishbone plays a lead in a love story of it’s about bestiality, or when a human loves or engages in sexual intercourse with an animal? The segments taking from books are in Wishbone’s imagination! As far as the characters (the imaginary people) in the book segments (the imaginary world) are concerned, Wishbone is a human, explaining why they hear him speak just as the audience (us watching) can, while the actual people (his person, Joe, and Joe’s friends and family) can’t.
You know what’s incredible? Everyone knows The Phantom of The Opera as a broadway musical. Not as a book! This went from being a book written in 1911, to a 1925 silent horror movie, to a broadway musical as well as a 2004 movie!
In the Muppet version of this I mentioned in Part 1, the Phantom is played by Uncle Deadly. By the way, does anyone else think Ezra Knutsen looks a lot like Carl Fredrickson from "Up"?
That was so cheesey. I couldn't help but giggle throughout the entire program. I used to watch Wishbone faithfully when I was little. Looking back, they're all kind of cheesey. lol
you know you really are longing for a phantom video and dont want to pay when you look up what is that show where the dog solves mysteries? i did..... ever since i was what, 5 and saw this on tv, i have grown a huge crush over erik... but yea i starting humming it. -shrug-
Wasn't Larry Wayne Morbitt the same guy who also played Piangi in the Andrew Lloyd Webber version of the Phantom of the Opera? And by that, I meant the stage version.
No, the author of the book named him. If you actually #readthebook , you'll see the Phantom was never a noncorporeal being and instead a man of flesh and bone named Erik Destler. His cunning and knowledge of the opera house (seeing how he built the tunnels in and underneath it) and all-around air of mystery caused the superstitious staff of the opera house to consider him a ghost. When Christine is telling Raoul about the Phantom, Erik introduces himself to her by name. "That's right, my dear. I am not the Opera Ghost, nor am I the Angel of Music. I am Erik!"
Lots of great info here and mostly right (if a bit harsh? Heh). But from what I recall, Gaston Leroux’s original novel (I read it a while ago, and then listened to it in audio form over the past few days) never provides a surname for the Phantom-only his given name, Erik. A chart I found confirms this and traces the surname Destler to a 1989 film starring Robert Englund. And along those lines, there have been several more surnames provided in the various adaptions that followed the original novel.
See? This is why I love THIS version of the Phantom of the Opera...because here, Christine doesn't exactly abandon Erik. She agrees that both she and Raoul will come see him again. So he won't be lonely anymore.
+menslady125 I've never read the novel. Does that happen in it or is it like in the musical?
Buffy8Fan
I don't know. I didn't read enough of the book.
+Buffy8Fan
I've never read it either (though I want to), but what I've heard is that Christine and Raoul actually do promise to come see him again, and eventually they keep that promise. Unfortunately, by then he's already died alone, and all they find when they come to visit him is his corpse.
Yeah, it’s sweet. Although it gets a lot more bittersweet if you’ve read the original novel! If you notice, in the episode he asks that they visit him “once more.” That little detail broke my heart, because I know how things played out in the Leroux novel.
@@menslady125eif2590 Erik's genuinely not thought to be human by many characters in the books. Only madame G knows he's just a man. Roule also thinks so, Christine is constantly going back and forth on it. The very first chapter is the future, when they pull Erik's remains from the opera house, confirming he was not a phantom in the most literal sense, but was in Christine's mind as he haunted her as her father's ghost and also as a romantic stalker essentially.
He killed people to get to her, I don't think her worrying about him much makes sense. She's so terrified of him she tries to throw herself off the roof when roule finds her. That's also in the musical and the book.
Erik: "Look upon the Phantom of the Opera!" *takes off mask*
Wishbone/Raoul: "Eeeeeewww...!"
I miss Wishbone! Great series. Thank you for posting!
"He's here!" "He found the fusebox, how diabolically clever!"
James Kellogg lol
12:26 "Send the books on floppy disk." technology that'd be replaced with flash drives.
Nathan Osantowske Yeah! It's incredible how the times have changed
@@LucyLovettLestrange Even flash drives are somewhat being replaced with programs like Google Drive and cloud storage.
This is probably one of the best episodes of wishbone
Me too. Who can resist a Jack Russel terrier playing the hero?
Wishbone!Erik is about a thousand times more deformed than 2004!Erik. As much as I love the 2004 movie version, Gerard Butler looks like he just got an intense sunburn. This show was AMAZING.
Exactly, he had his full mask which was better than just half a mask.
TheWanderlustWolf Ii
Kids show man it's a kids show. :)
TheWanderlustWolf IKR this is the love triangle of history
I love how Mr. Knutsen is just the classiest old Texas man
I love this show! I even still have all of the books based of the show! I even still collect the books whenever I can find them.
I loved this Show
Love
The guy who plays the phantom starred with Patrick Wilson in the Alamo in 2004. Wilson played Raoul in the movie version of Phantom of the Opera. Coincidence, I think not. :)
You mean Patrick starfish
You know you are a Phantom of the Opera nerd when after 5:13, you start singing: "down once more to the dungeon of my dark despair, down we plunge to the prison of my mind, down to darkness deep as hell..."
Why is it every time Wishbone plays the lead role with a love interest, the comments are full of accusations of bestiality? It's his imagination! As far as the imaginary people in his imaginary world where he's the hero are concerned, Wishbone is a human, which is why they can hear him speak. It's not rocket science.
Rowan Belling IKR seriously
We all know Wishbone's true love is food lol
In English please
@@venessaarthur2666 Translation: “Why does everyone ask when Wishbone plays a lead in a love story of it’s about bestiality, or when a human loves or engages in sexual intercourse with an animal? The segments taking from books are in Wishbone’s imagination! As far as the characters (the imaginary people) in the book segments (the imaginary world) are concerned, Wishbone is a human, explaining why they hear him speak just as the audience (us watching) can, while the actual people (his person, Joe, and Joe’s friends and family) can’t.
Wishbone is adorable I want a dog that looks like that
You know what’s incredible? Everyone knows The Phantom of The Opera as a broadway musical. Not as a book! This went from being a book written in 1911, to a 1925 silent horror movie, to a broadway musical as well as a 2004 movie!
In the Muppet version of this I mentioned in Part 1, the Phantom is played by Uncle Deadly.
By the way, does anyone else think Ezra Knutsen looks a lot like Carl Fredrickson from "Up"?
Garrettk41 really I need too see that
See what? "Up" or the Muppet version of "Phantom"?
He does! Lol!
i miss this show!
That... Is what we call... a noise....
There are just too many ways to mock this line XD
Cat Bay IKR
Oh! I miss those disk errors....said no one EVER :P ❤
I am only watching this for my love for the Phantom
0:31 Inspector Gadget meets Ghostbusters...right?...
"What was that?" "That is what we call a noise!" Duh!! ( but I love this show non the less lol)
LucyLovettLestrange me too
Rock on! *High Five* :D
Haha! *Gives high five*
my childhood....:)
I think it was because of Wishbone that Raoul became my preference for Christine. XDD
all this trouble just because he wasn't written in a magazine Wow just wow
Haha yeah. Not to mention the index books he was stealing did not belong to him. Even if he created them, they belonged to the library.
I wonder if anyone noticed that Erik's mask is the same style as Lon Chaney's poto one.
That was so cheesey. I couldn't help but giggle throughout the entire program. I used to watch Wishbone faithfully when I was little. Looking back, they're all kind of cheesey. lol
I love this x3
Man Wanda is full of surprises lol
Yes WHY does she have all that stuff? :=)
@@jaymartin8273 in case of intruders
you know you really are longing for a phantom video and dont want to pay when you look up what is that show where the dog solves mysteries? i did..... ever since i was what, 5 and saw this on tv, i have grown a huge crush over erik... but yea i starting humming it. -shrug-
Why did every episode of this show end with showing the audience how the episode was made?
Not every episode
-a puppy goes into the ocean to get christine's scarf. He talks and he loves her-
christine: A puppy? Why no, that's not creepy at all...
Floppy disk. Wow.
I fucking love Wanda
This show introduced me to the Broadway Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in NYC
WISHBONE IS SOOOO KAWAII IN THAT SUIT!!!!!!!! *Japanese anime girl squeal* KAWAIII KAWAII!!!
Michaela Myers IKR they should make a an anime of the phantom of the opera
11:29 is my favorite part
Wasn't Larry Wayne Morbitt the same guy who also played Piangi in the Andrew Lloyd Webber version of the Phantom of the Opera? And by that, I meant the stage version.
At 3:51 you just had to tempt fate
MissRJB IKR
0:01- 0:39 Wanda rocks!
They should make New tv show episode
garcia adrian IKR
Goddammit, Wonda!
NumberJenn what wrong
"ewww" lol
the phantom. SHE NAMED HIM?!!!!
No, the author of the book named him. If you actually #readthebook , you'll see the Phantom was never a noncorporeal being and instead a man of flesh and bone named Erik Destler. His cunning and knowledge of the opera house (seeing how he built the tunnels in and underneath it) and all-around air of mystery caused the superstitious staff of the opera house to consider him a ghost. When Christine is telling Raoul about the Phantom, Erik introduces himself to her by name. "That's right, my dear. I am not the Opera Ghost, nor am I the Angel of Music. I am Erik!"
Lots of great info here and mostly right (if a bit harsh? Heh). But from what I recall, Gaston Leroux’s original novel (I read it a while ago, and then listened to it in audio form over the past few days) never provides a surname for the Phantom-only his given name, Erik.
A chart I found confirms this and traces the surname Destler to a 1989 film starring Robert Englund.
And along those lines, there have been several more surnames provided in the various adaptions that followed the original novel.
A bunch of school-aged kids hiding in a library from an intruder. Boy, that did NOT age well at all.
Snuggles McSquishbottom yeah what you said
Joe: Wishbone! 12:48
It's Larry Musgrove's dad from the big green
Alec Hanson I've never seen the big green
You gotta watched it and you'll see what I mean
Good reason!!!
{BURP!} Don't look at me 12:49
Floppy disk, ha ha...
dirbrody hmmmmmmm
Wanda is such a karen
It's rather creepy that Christine is crushing on a dog.
Ricky Rehbein it is a little bit but hey it's only a show #shrugging