The Sad Story of Pablo and Tyrone

Theatrical release poster

***The Sad Story of Pablo and Tyrone*** is a 2023 American animated drama film written, produced, and directed by Jonah Campbell. It is the first installment in the *The Adventures of Pablo and Tyrone*. The film features the voices of Oddcast Tom, Oddcast Steven, Oddcast James, Streamlabs Kimberly, Streamlabs Salli, Oddcast Julie, Streamlabs Joey, Oddcast Susan, Oddcast Dave, and Oddcast Allison.

*The Sad Story of Pablo and Tyrone* premiered at YouTube on September 15, 2023 at 7:00 PM EST, and was released in theaters in North America on the same day.

## Synopsis

Pablo and Tyrone are two happy, carefree brothers who live with their parents. Little do they know about two troublemaking college-aged girls that've been best friends since kindergarten, whose families disapprove of their friendship. All heroes and villains have a backstory. This one you're about to hear is of the evil Zara Dawson and Zoey Balkin. They soon turn out to be the worst nightmare of the poor, innocent brothers who've sadly been orphaned. And now Pablo and Tyrone's lives will never be the same again...

## Characters

### Starring roles

* Pablo
* Tyrone

### Featuring

* Dallas Jones
* Gwen Jones
* Zoey Balkin
* Zara Dawson
* Glenn Balkin
* Kimberly Balkin
* Randall Balkin
* Lisa Balkin
* Steven Balkin
* Diesel Dawson
* Catherine Claire Dawson
* Zack Dawson
* Erika Dawson
* Annabelle Dawson

### Appearing roles

* Pilot
* Co-Pilot
* Flight Attendant
* Mabel Griffin
* Sheriff Bronson Stone
* Paramedic #1
* Paramedic #2
* Mr. Wilcox
* Mrs. Wilcox

## Plot

Pablo and Tyrone Jones are two happy, carefree, loving, innocent teenage boys who live in a cozy suburban house near Vyondville with their parents, Dallas and Gwen, who are both more than happy to have a family. They always love raising their two sons, getting them everything in the world that they want, spending quality time with them, and lots more. Little does the Jones Family know that in the same exact neighborhood, there happen to be two troublemaking college-aged girls, Zara Dawson and Zoey Balkin, who've been best friends since Kindergarten, causing nothing but chaos, havoc, and trouble throughout the city ever since the minute they first met, which causes them to get grounded both frequently and occasionally by their families, who disapprove of their friendship.

One day in February of 2023, Pablo and Tyrone are informed by Dallas and Gwen that they're leaving to go on an out-of-town business trip for a few days so they can attend a dental convention in Atlanta, Georgia. As it turns out, Zara's parents, Diesel and Catherine, are going on the same exact business trip, while also taking along Zara's three older siblings, Zack, Erika, and Annabelle. Upon making it to the airport, the Dawson Family encounters Dallas and Gwen, who quickly befriend the sweet couple and three out of four of their kids. Meanwhile, Pablo and Tyrone meet an elderly woman named Mabel, who flew in all the way from Friendship, Maine and intended to visit Dallas and Gwen, but instead ended up meeting their two sons. After some conversation, Mabel informs Pablo and Tyrone that in case Dallas and Gwen die anytime soon (or if it happens before the boys reach adulthood), she and her husband (who lives in Wyoming for unknown reasons) will take the boys in and adopt them as their own sons, according to Dallas and Gwen's will.

Shortly after Mabel leaves, a supermassive gunshot is suddenly heard out of nowhere, with its source presumably coming from an undisclosed location of the neighborhood.

## Voice Cast

1. Oddcast Tom as Pablo
2. Oddcast Steven as Tyrone
3. Oddcast James as Dallas Jones
4. Streamlabs Kimberly as Gwen Jones
5. Streamlabs Salli as Zoey Balkin
6. Oddcast Julie as Zara Dawson
7. Streamlabs Joey as Glenn Balkin
8. Oddcast Susan as Kimberly Balkin
9. Oddcast Paul as Randall Balkin
10. Streamlabs Joanna as Lisa Balkin
11. Streamlabs Justin as Steven Balkin
12. Oddcast Dave as Diesel Dawson
13. Oddcast Allison as Catherine Claire Dawson
14. Streamlabs Matthew as Zack Dawson
15. Oddcast Samantha as Erika Dawson
16. Oddcast Kate as Annabelle Dawson
17. Microsoft Sam as the Pilot
18. Microsoft Mike as the Co-Pilot
19. Microsoft Mary as the Flight Attendant
20. Microsoft Betty as Mabel Griffin
21. Jonah Campbell as Sheriff Bronson Stone
22. Microsoft David as Paramedic #1
23. Microsoft Zira as Paramedic #2
24. Microsoft Richard as Mr. Wilcox
25. Microsoft Linda as Mrs. Wilcox
26. IVONA Eric as the Narrator

## Gallery

### Concept art

Dallas and Gwen's corpses laying next to a plane wreckPablo and Tyrone watching Zoey and Zara removing their makeupDallas and Gwen together in Heaven
### Screenshots

The dedication card seen at the end of the film
## Technical Specifications

* Release Date: Friday, September 15, 2023
* Rating: PG
* Protagonists: Pablo and Tyrone
* Antagonists: Zoey Balkin and Zara Dawson
* Duration: 1 Hour, 27 Minutes, 10 Seconds
* Footage: Color
* Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos®
* Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 (or 16:9)

## Trivia

### General

* This film is the first installment in *The Adventures of Pablo and Tyrone*, and also Jonah Campbell's first feature-length movie overall.
* At the very end of the closing credits, there's a dedication to Jonah Campbell's friendships with Dark Kendall (2019-2020), David Griffin (2020-2021), and Chase Swenson (2021-2023).

### References

* Certain context/scenes throughout the film are based on similar concepts from some of Jonah Campbell's favorite films.
	+ The scene where Dallas, Gwen, Diesel, Catherine, Zack, Erika, and Annabelle are all brutally killed in the plane crash is based on Mufasa's death in Disney's *The Lion King* (1994).
	+ Zoey and Zara kidnap Pablo and Tyrone from the Vyondville Orphanage so they can take them in and "raise" them as their adoptive nephews, which illegally makes them Pablo and Tyrone's adoptive aunts. Instead of caring for them, the girls never seem to make the boys feel loved. They treat them like slaves, feed them fish heads, and make them sad and feel like they never had love in their lives. The girls have a tendency to beat the boys whenever they might disagree with them or backtalk, and almost always send them to their bedroom without any dinner. Rarely calling the boys by their real names, the girls usually call them very rude nicknames, such as "rotten little grubs" and "nasty little beasts". This is based on Disney's *James and the Giant Peach* (1996) when Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker take in James Henry Trotter and "raise" him after the death of his parents, followed by them being extremely nasty and abusive towards James.
	+ Toward the end of the film, Pablo and Tyrone are both called in by Zoey and Zara after they all put their pajamas on. As the boys are watching the girls remove their makeup during some conversation, Tyrone asks Zoey and Zara if they'll take them back to the Vyondville Orphanage as they promised. Zoey then asks why they'd want to leave, and Pablo tells them that if they don't go back, they'll never be adopted. Zara then says that nobody would want "two homely teenage boys like them". This brings Pablo and Tyrone to tears. With their spirits shattered, the boys then go back to their bedroom and sit on the floor, still in tears as they pray to God that they'll escape from Zoey and Zara someday. This is based on Disney's *The Rescuers* (1977) when Madame Medusa makes fun of Penny's dream to get adopted by asking her why someone would want to adopt "a homely little girl like her".
	+ The final scene of the film (which is the ending) where Dallas and Gwen reunite in Heaven with Zoey and Zara's deceased families is based on the ending of James Cameron's *Titanic* (1997) when Old Rose DeWitt Bukater is seemingly asleep in her bed, with her photos on the dresser depicting a life of freedom and adventure inspired by her deceased love interest, Jack Dawson. Young Rose reunites with Jack at the Titanic's Grand Staircase, applauded by those who died the night the ship sank. It is unsure by many people whether Rose is dreaming or if she has passed away and entered the afterlife.
* This film references *Ratatouille*, *The Lion King*, and *Burnout Paradise*.

### Goofs/Errors

* When Diesel and Catherine ground Zara for going to the beach with Zoey while grounded, they sternly address her by her full name. However, despite including her second middle name, which is "Irene", they don't include her first middle name, which is "Gretchen".
	+ Although this part isn't entirely a goof, Zara's first middle name is eventually revealed in *Pablo And Tyrone's Epic Escape*.
* It is unknown why Pablo and Tyrone didn't immediately get Mabel right after the airplane crash occurred and killed Dallas and Gwen. It is possible that the boys quickly forgot about her for the remainder of the film as soon as they heard the supermassive gunshot being fired from an undisclosed location of the neighborhood.
	+ Fortunately, this problem is solved in *Pablo And Tyrone's Epic Escape*.
* As Diesel, Catherine, Zack, Erika, and Annabelle's corpses are all being loaded up into the ambulance so they can be escorted to the morgue, Catherine is briefly seen wearing her default attire (a navy blue jacket with a red undershirt, a navy blue tutu, white knee-high socks, black dress shoes, and her broadcast headphones) instead of what she was wearing on her and her family's trip to Atlanta: a white tank top with a pink sash, a white tutu, pink high hells, pink flower earrings with yellow centers, and a lilac-colored bridal flower hat.
* In the aftermath of the plane crash, Dallas and Gwen's corpses can be seen covered in bloody gashes, bruises, scabs, and scars. Their clothes are also severely torn up to shreds and heavily stained in blood. However, when Zara's deceased family gets taken away to the morgue, their corpses look perfectly normal without any blood and gore. Their clothes are also not torn up, either.
* When Zoey and Zara angrily snatch their wigs back from Randall and Lisa, their hands aren't seen wearing the red gloves they always wear.
* During the end credits, "Open Sea Morning" is said to be composed by ScoreStudio. This is incorrect, as the said song was actually composed by Puddle of Infinity. It is possible that Jonah Campbell forgot to correct this and put the right composer as he was creating the end credits for the film.