Tombstone Picnic
- This article refers to the Bendy cartoon. For a test comic, see Tombstone Picnic (comic).
Tombstone Picnic is a Bendy cartoon developed and released by Joey Drew Studios. It was produced in 1929 somewhere after the studio's establishment, to coincide with Halloween. The cartoon was made in the early days of the studio whose ending (after the scene where Bendy sees the unknown figure) has not been seen since the cartoon's first run in 1929 and no copies are known to exist.[1]
Characters
Plot
Bendy walks in a field to start a picnic there. The skeleton's arm pops up from the ground and grabs Bendy's ankle, making him fall and throw his picnic basket. He then struggles to break free for a bit before being finally let go by a skeleton, who rises from the ground and winks at Bendy, then finally goes back to its grave.
Bendy looks back to see Boris already taken his picnic basket he threw earlier, eating one of his sandwiches. He angrily rolls up his "sleeves" and goes towards Boris, trying to get his attention. Boris pays no attention to Bendy, as he grabs the picnic cloth and wipes his mouth, making Bendy trip and fly off the screen. After failing to get Boris' attention again, Bendy decides to pull a prank on Boris, by grabbing a drink bottle from the basket then shakes it and blasting it at Boris, with picnic supplies and food flying up in the air off-screen. Boris becomes aggravated at Bendy for his prank. Bendy runs away, with the basket landed on Boris' head and several sandwiches fall to the ground; Boris resumes his eating business.
The camera cuts to Bendy running away to the cemetery and hides behind a gravestone. He checks on a side with the skeleton on the other and checks the right side. Both see each other and Bendy gets frightened, then runs away. Bendy stops at a huge rock to catch his breath, and the shadow of an unknown figure covers him. Bendy nervously smiles at the figure, while the cartoon itself later ends by the projector's interruption.
With the cartoon's other half missing,[1] what happens next during Bendy's encounter with the unknown figure is unclear.
Behind the scenes
- See also: Bendy Cartoons (animated shorts)
Tombstone Picnic is a first official animated short produced for the Bendy cartoon web series on YouTube. It was written by theMeatly and Bookpast, and animated by Timethehobo and WendyLiZard.
Development
It was initially released on August 11, 2017 as a first part of the reveal trailer promoting Bendy and the Ink Machine's then-upcoming Chapter 3 DLC release. The trailer became unavailable around 2018 when theMeatly removed all of the Bendy-related videos from his channel, but the cartoon was later re-uploaded in Joey Drew Studios Inc's YouTube channel on January 7, 2019 with few amount of minor changes.
The cartoon's early title was "Graveyard Picnic", as revealed in Bendy and the Ink Machine's closing credits from the third chapter's initial downloadable content release. It was later changed to its finalized title in update patch 1.3.1.
Other information
The Tombstone Picnic cartoon's clips appeared in Bendy and the Ink Machine. In Chapter 2, the scene clip of Bendy's second meeting with the skeleton is used for the recording studio's projection screen after turning the projector on from the projection booth, but it is mirrored. In Chapter 3, a five more (yet mirrored) scene clips can also be seen inside the Inky Abyss's maze, and in the game files there are three more scenes that went unused.
According to Timethehobo, the mysterious figure at the end of the animation short is Henry Stein who has entered the cartoon world.[2]
Gallery
YouTube thumbnail for Tombstone Picnic.
Video
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bendy. (January 7, 2019). "The infamous 'Lost Ending' Bendy cartoon from the early days of the studio. The ending has not been seen since the cartoon's first run in 1929 and no copies are known to exist. #Bendy #BATIM #BendyandtheInkMachine #vintagecartoon". X/Twitter.
- ↑ Timethehobo. (November 25, 2020). "TP was indeed intended to end with Bendy seeing someone’s shadow before it cut off, but TP was also the only toon to break the fourth wall in-universe. The shadow Bendy saw was Henry entering their world. It was the first hint to the ending of chapter 5, when it was revealed Henry was no longer in the real world.". Tumblr.