The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV Series) Skeleton (1988) User Reviews

I've Got a Bone to Pick With This One

[Hitchcoc · 5/10 · 24 March 2015]

This was definitely done for comedic effect. Eugene Levy is a hypochondriac. He is driving his doctor crazy with his perpetual visits to his office. He finally is told off and goes looking for someone who will buy into his nutty behavior. He finds a bone doctor who is about as spooky as one can get. Levy is convinced that his skeleton wants out and is making his life miserable. Levy has a beautiful, very patient wife who tries really hard to straighten him out. But he can't resist going back to this guy who is going to help rid him of his skeleton. Of course, when you think about it at all, you should be able to figure out what we would be like without a skeleton. Just watch this silliness. There is one fun scene when he runs into a fat man in a bar and the guy talks about all the work he has done over the years to make himself fat.

"Perhaps you came into this world with the wrong size skin!"

[classicsoncall · 5/10 · 10 December 2021]

I wish I could be more positive about this episode. It had a nice creepy vibe going for it with that eerie Dr. Munigant (Peter Blais), and it wasn't easy to predict where the story was going. But the payoff for this one was just too silly to take seriously, and felt like a cop out in place of something that could have been more sinister. Considering what a hypochondriac Bert Harris (Eugene Levy) was, I had to second his wife Clarisse's (Diane D'Aquila) remark about how ironic it was that they got married. Ironic too, how the actor portraying the fat man at the bar went by the name of Thick Wilson - how appropriate! He had a pretty good spin on his condition when he referred to his bulging stomach as an epidural buffer. Just think what he would have looked like if Munigant extracted HIS bones!

Bad and dark deadly cure

[blanbrn · 6/10 · 25 March 2021]

This episode from season 2 of "The Ray Bradbury Theater" called "Skeleton" from Feb. Of 1988 is one that twist with a dark and doom like outcome. It stars a well to do married professor family man Bert Harris(Creek TV show alum Eugene Levy) who's a worry wart about things like health he's a hypochondriac! Visit after visit to the doctor's office he's got something wrong, only the episode twist when Bert finds a strange and weird like bone doctor. It's like Harris wants a new body! So he thinks about it and looks at other folks from talking to a fat guy in a bar. Only this story takes a dark twist and turn it's like Bert has his flesh straightened out! Overall okay episode one of the better early one's highly memorable and now a classic due to some early first work from Eugene Levy.

Skeleton

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 31 July 2023]

Bert Harris (Eugene Levy) is a hypochondriac and his doctor is sick and tired of his regular visits over nothing. Bert storms out telling his doctor that his surgery does not even look like a regular doctor's office.

Later he visits weird bone expert, Dr Munigant. At least his surgery looks like a doctor's office. It even contains the bones of Antony and Cleopatra.

After his visit to Dr Munigant, Bert starts to lose weight, looking a little skeletal. His wife is worried about him.

Bert decides to consult the sinister bone doctor one more time. His wife later discovers that her husband is more skin than bones.

A little bit strange and darkly comic. Levy sells it well but the story does not come across to well on the screen. All a bit too silly.

I did like Bert's conversation with the Fat Man at the bar.