The first clip shows off the elementary school of New Holland. All of the kids are decidedly offbeat and, as Tim Burton has said in the past, they’re all based on specific horror icons.
The new teacher is an intimidating Russian man (voiced by Martin Landau). He explains that he’s replacing the old teacher for the time being.
“He was hit by lightning!” says Igor.
The teacher explains – through a strange metaphor about immigration to the US – that lightning does not hit you. And he goes through the scientific steps of what happens.
“But it’s very rare,” says the teacher.
“It’s not,” says one kid. “There’s a lightning storm here almost every night.”
The kids get into a debate about why the town is so strange and what causes the storms. One blames it being built on an abandoned gold mine.
“I heard it was a graveyard,” says another. “It’s where they buried the miners,” the first retorts.
Another says it’s the windmill in the town that brings evil there.
Another scene shows Victor and Igor. He’s made Frankenweenie and Igor wants in. Igor goes to the pet store and looks at tank of fish (INCREDIBLE animation on the fish).
“I want to buy one,” he says and then points to a dead, floating one. “THAT one!”
In his attic Victor and Igor try to bring the goldfish back. It seems the fish has been vaporized, but they realize that it hasn’t: It’s alive again, but invisible.
