Captain Bones

First game up!/Game time! Captain Bones!

Captain Bones is a moving object game seen on Crashbox.

Captain Bones
Seen in	Crashbox
Animation style	Stop motion
Debuted in episode	Episode 2

Synopsis

Taking place at a shipwrecked pirate ship, a reanimated pirate skeleton named Captain Bones (Voiced by S. Scott Bullock) will introduce himself and take himself apart to make visual math puzzles out of his own bones, in the style of a digital clock or scoreboard. He does this because he's usually bored and wants to prevent himself from "going stark ravin' mad". The problem is always incorrect, so the goal is to fix the problem by only moving one or two bones. Occasionally, Bones will instead form a picture with his bones, and the goal is to then change the picture into something else, also only moving one or two bones. Throughout the game, Bones will openly mock and demean the player using several pirate-esque insults, eventually becoming so irate he demands them to leave his sight - moving to the next game.

Appearances

1. Episode 2
2. Episode 4
3. Episode 6
4. Episode 7
5. Episode 15
6. Episode 16
7. Episode 17
8. Episode 18
9. Episode 19
10. Episode 23
11. Episode 24
12. Episode 26
13. Episode 27
14. Episode 28
15. Episode 29
16. Episode 32
17. Episode 34
18. Episode 35
19. Episode 37
20. Episode 41
21. Episode 43
22. Episode 45
23. Episode 47
24. Episode 48
25. Episode 50
26. Episode 52

Trivia

• An LA Times article on the show in 1999 states this game was originally called "Skeleton Crew."
• Captain Bones' name is a reference to the The Hundred Years' War.
• 12 segments were produced for Season 1 (7 math puzzles, 2 picture puzzles, 1 counting puzzle and 2 math calculations), 7 of which were repeated for Season 2A (5 math puzzles, 1 counting puzzle, and 1 math calculation). 7 segments were produced for Season 2B (2 picture puzzles and 5 math puzzles), making 26 appearances (17 of which are math puzzles, 4 of which are picture puzzles, 2 of which are counting puzzles and 3 of which are math calculations) and 19 segments in total (12 of which are math puzzles, 4 of which are picture puzzles, 1 of which is a counting puzzle, and 2 of which are math calculations).
• Captain Bones is used interchangeably with Psycho Math; If one game is played in an episode, then the other will not be played.
  • Crashbox 41 and 47 mark the only times both games are played in the same episode, while Crashbox 22 and 25 are the only episodes to feature neither game.
    • None of the Captain Bones segments with math are paired up with Psycho Math in any of the episodes.
• Much like Lens McCracken and Think Tank, Captain Bones was the first game played in two consecutive Season 1 episodes, and never started an episode again.
• The music in this game is "The Twin Sisters", by the Chelmsford Folk Band. This track is also used in the popular Nickelodeon cartoon SpongeBob Squarepants.