"Will you go to the prom with me? 🔪😈"
―A sentence in the video's description.
The Promening is the third episode of Murder Drones by Glitch Productions and premiered on YouTube on February 17th, 2023.
Synopsis[]
Proms are dumb and stupid, but Uzi has to attend one anyway when her classmate begins picking off fellow students one by one.[1]
Plot[]
The episode opens on a female Worker Drone student with glasses running past some missing poster and away from someone, only to be caught up by that person, who is none other than Doll, who then uses the Absolute Solver to rotate the school's camera towards the wall, cut the student's right arm off, and kill her with multiple thrown cleavers.
Doll then comes home, using her telekinesis to put her books on the shelf, while crossing out Kelsey Day's name on a list. Her bag is then shown to be full of oil, and possibly Kelsey's corpse. She then says that she's home to her "mom" and "dad," while the camera pans to a swarm of robotic cockroaches on the walls.
The scene then cuts to Uzi Doorman on sleep mode with the text "GUILT: ACTIVE" on her visor. A flashback plays, wherein Uzi still holds guilt over refusing Serial Designation N's help after their battle with Eldritch J. The camera pans out to show that her room's a mess, with even more papers than usual and an added notebook on the floor. Looking up at her investigation wall (or, in this case, ceiling) Uzi focuses on what is possibly N's drawing of himself and Uzi, thanking her for being his friend. She groans.
Her groaning is stretched out to her in class, the gym, and opening her locker. The stack of books she stood on to reach her locker gets kicked off by Rebecca passing by which Uzi angrily responded by trying to throw a book at her, only to hit Braidon instead. As Rebecca and another Worker Drone continued to talk trash about her, she sighs and walks away. She then sees the security cameras glitching, along with a janitor cleaning up an oil spillage, and realizes that something's wrong.
She then sees missing posters, and begins to cackle, taking some of them and skip home to put them up onto her ceiling, only to then see that the papers on her ceiling were gone. As it turns out, her father, Khan Doorman, had gotten hold of them, and had put them away in a closet labeled "NORI'S KOOKY INSANE STUFF," which contains even more papers.
Khan then walks into Uzi angrily sulking, who then yells at him for snooping in her room. Khan says that "personal space for very alarming coping mechanisms isn't covered under a non-optional family support structure," which he read from a manual. Uzi calls Khan out for previously being neglectful and tries to leave to talk to N, only to stumble on a skeleton of a child in a dress. Uzi questions it, and Khan says that it's her prom dress, and that she's grounded from seeing the Disassembly Drones. As it turns out, Khan and her teacher also got Lizzy and Doll to help Uzi prepare for prom, and that Khan himself is chaperoning, followed by Uzi screaming.
Her screaming transitions to two skeletons, one of a male in a suit and the other of a female in a red sparkling dress, sitting against each other inside the Disassembly Drones' Landing Pod. N still feels guilt over what happened, while Serial Designation V discusses her plan of showing up to prom and killing everyone, including Uzi. N refuses to help V due to them not knowing their past, then V says that she promises to only kill what they need to survive if N and Uzi stopped trying to investigate.
The scene cuts abruptly to Uzi, Doll, Lizzy in Doll's house. Lizzy complains about her house being dirty, while Doll completely ignores her statement and says that she put a sheet up, as "they're" sleeping. Uzi tries to leave, but the door gets shut, with Doll then telling her that the bathroom is down the hall to the left.
The scene then cuts again to N and V. N tells V that if she's hiding something, they could figure it out together if she just tells him. N then asks V what she knows but gets cut off as V decapitates him. V says that that was best for N, even if he hated her for it, before flying away and escaping from the Landing Pod along with the red dress.
In the next scene, we see Uzi in the bathroom in front of the mirror, apparently fixing her hair. One of her eyes flickers to the Absolute Solver, and Uzi says, "Easy, robo-satan, not this mirror." She then gets back to getting ready, when the Absolute Solver suddenly reappears and the mirror shatters.
Uzi then hears Lizzy saying that no one will notice Uzi missing. Lizzy also tells the person she's talking to to do their thing, and she'll let 'him' be, and she'll see them at the prom. Uzi then realizes there was blood dripping from something that looked like a container. She goes to investigate, and opens the container, before she gasps and the scene cuts.
N wakes u with his head finally having regenerated. He looks at the skeleton which used to hold the red dress and starts to panic. He reaches for the ladder and looks back at the skeleton with the suit. He then turns back to the ladder, but looks at the suit again, in a rush to find V, but wanting to wear the suit at the same time. He tells himself there was no time and climbs out. But his head reappears upside-down, and he whispers, "Dapper N..."
The next scene, we see a close up of Uzi's visor, and we see her sweating. She pants, and the contents of the container we saw earlier appears to be several discarded mirrors covered in oil. Uzi hears steps approaching, and she looks around for an escape. She looks at the ventilation shaft, and the next thing we know, it cuts to Doll coming into the bathroom, only to see a pile of mirrors leading to the open ventilation shaft. Doll proceeds to say, "As they say in Russian, whoops, I should've predicted that someone could escape out of a ventilation shaft using discarded mirrors as stairs."
We then cut to Uzi running away from Doll's apartment, panting. N then suddenly appears and lands in front of the Worker Drone abruptly. They then have an awkward moment, and N says that he could help at the prom but thinks that Uzi probably doesn't want him. Uzi then admits that she could use his help by being there with her. N then rushes behind her and hugs her, saying, "Dapper Buddies!". Uzi then hits him, before proceeding to smile.
The scene cuts, and the prom has started. We can see a close up of the Punch Bowl, which has the words, 'Decoration only, you will super die" on it. We also see Thad break dancing and doing push-ups and being admired by a group of drones. We then zoom into Khan, who is looking around for something, presumably Uzi, with a worried expression. Then, we see Lizzy on the stage, saying that since the whole prom court "mysteriously" disappeared, they were doing the ceremony a little early and says, "Your queen by forfeit is... this."
Right after that, V crashes right onto the stage, while someone in the crowd yells, "Oh, we're gonna die!". V cackles, and Lizzy tells the crowd that V is her friend, and that V was done with the murder and that they've been hanging out. V then reveals that she had been manipulating Lizzy and manically laughs but then stops right as she pulled out her submachine guns, saying, "Prom queen?". Lizzy grins nervously and V catches sight of the crown being hold by Penny, the crown bearer, which disgusts the latter.
We then see Doll crumbling the prom queen paper and smiling. Then, we zoom back to Lizzy, who apparently forgives and forgets what V has done, and she says she would get her dad to dock the crowd of students' grades if they don't agree. She also says Rebecca can't sit with them, and the spotlight goes to Rebecca, and she says, "Fine, I forgive her! Settle." Then, V gets crowned prom queen, and everyone asks for a speech.
Khan tries to open the door but finds out the door had been closed by the Absolute Solver, the working of Doll. V then decides to just kill everyone after, and goes in front of the microphone, which was marked with an X. Doll giggles as she gets ready to kill V with the Absolute Solver, when Uzi and N suddenly appear, jumping from above.
Uzi shouts "Unhand them, you fiend!" while stopping midway, as nothing bad seems to be happening. Doll continues on her revenge plan and gets ready to strike, to which Lizzy yells at V that she's way hotter than Doll and tells her to run. Doll then immobilizes V by impaling her arms with rebar, while Lizzy gets flung across the venue and Penny gets her neck snapped, before being completely crushed.
Doll slowly approaches V while teleporting and greets her with a "Hello, V", before exploding another Worker Drone in front of her. She then shows V a flashback of her killing Doll's father as he flashes a camera in her face. The younger Doll watches in fear as he gets killed, with the Absolute Solver glyph flashing on her visor. V is then brought back to reality, dumbfounded at what she just saw, as Doll says "Anyway, you get it," before impaling V's stomach. V manages to free her right arm and shoot at Doll, who deflects the bullets with the Absolute Solver.
Doll summons a cleaver and throws it at V's arm, slicing it off. She then rips out the blades of a fan and begins rapidly spinning it, planning on slicing V in half. Meanwhile, Uzi and N contemplate on what to do, to which N suggests helping V, as Uzi groans in response.
Just before the fan blades can hit V, N kicks it away while Uzi throws a knife at Doll, who effortlessly blocks it. Doll releases the seal on the door, and everyone else runs off as Khan gets pushed out of the gym, who watches the scene anxiously.
Doll, shocked, asks Uzi why she's siding with the Disassembly Drones, as she's not the only one who has lost family to them, alluding to Nori Doorman. Uzi tries to reason with Doll, saying whoever started the fight between the Worker Drones and Murder Drones wanted them to fight, and that she's done dealing with everything alone.
N and even Khan smiles at Uzi's statement, while V looks at her with a pang of sadness. Doll, however, disregards Uzi's speech, saying that she doesn't need help, before impaling N's left leg and throwing more fan blades at him. N pushes Uzi out of the way while giving her a thumbs up as he and V get dismembered and thrown backstage.
As Uzi gets thrown on the floor, Khan tries to enter the gym to help her, only for Doll to smile at him and close the door on his face. Uzi coughs up oil as Doll approaches her and throws a knife at her, but Uzi stops it with her left hand. Uzi pulls the knife out of her hand as she cackles menacingly, while Doll attempts to use her powers, only for an error to come up that Uzi is a "like object" and therefore, "non-interactive." Doll throws a knife at her, but Uzi swats it away, which shocks the former.
Backstage, V's arm crawls near N, who grabs it. He asks if that's her arm, but she grabs it with her mouth before he can finish. Lizzy looks at them, saying they look like garbage. V calls Lizzy a traitor before her arm gets snatched. Lizzy says that she was aware of V using her to kill everyone and calls her petty before she questions where her arm goes. N thanks Lizzy for helping them, before he gets called a loser by the two. Lizzy then helps the two Disassembly Drones repair themselves while the camera cuts back to Doll and Uzi fighting.
The knife Uzi swatted away gets thrown onto the DJ controller, breaking it and lighting up the whole gym. Doll uses her telekinesis to grab the knife and throws it at Uzi again, who does a backflip onto the stage to dodge it. Uzi kicks the microphone stand at Doll, who uses a pop-up force field to stop it. Uzi rolls down the stage and walks towards Doll but then gets pinned down by the microphone stand and another piece of rebar as the knife lands near Doll.
She picks it up and clones the knife, throwing all of them at Uzi. Just as Uzi is about to get hit, N reappears, now fully repaired, protecting Uzi with his wings. He offers a hand to Uzi, who tells him to quit saving her as she frees herself. N grabs her hand and spins her around as they dodge a table that was thrown at them, while Uzi grabs a knife that was flying towards her. Uzi spins back to N and hugs him as he throws a missile, while she throws back the knife. The knife nearly stabs Doll in the face, but she gets flung back from the missile and lands on the chairs and tables.
Uzi looks at N's stomach wound and tells him not to risk himself to save her again. N only says her name, before immediately throwing her as Doll recovered and lifts up the tables, making them fly around the venue. Uzi gets caught in the crossfire, as Doll hurls the tables at Uzi. Uzi jumps on the tables to keep herself afloat just as Doll chucks even more knives at her.
Uzi uses her legs to kick back one of the knives and manages to break off Doll's bracelet. Doll looks at the bracelet, giving Uzi an opportunity to roundhouse kick her in the face upon the former turning her head back to face the latter, sending her tumbling backwards. Doll stands up and tries again to use her powers on Uzi. However, she abruptly gets shot from behind by V, killing her off.
Uzi scolds V for rendering Doll dead, as they needed her for answers. V brushes it off, saying that she's fine and just "a little tuckered out" as Doll lies on the ground with a bullet through the head. N yells that V did it on purpose, as "she's hiding mystery stuff and being over dramatic about it," making V punch him and telling him that he sucks.
Uzi yells "You!" at the both of them, to which the two pointed at each other, trying to dodge the blame from themselves. Uzi picks up Doll's bracelet and reveals the key to her apartment, declaring that their investigation has not ended yet.
A time skip happens, where the trio enter Doll's house. Now able to investigate her apartment more clearly, N and Uzi gets shocked by the number of corpses and oil everywhere, whereas V only says "Nice." The camera gives close ups to bodies, oil and robotic cockroaches swarming the surroundings. Uzi is shocked, but then an arm appears, revealing V sucking on it for oil. Uzi throws it away and yells at her to have some self-respect.
Uzi and V split up, while N follows V. Uzi questions why Doll, a Worker Drone, would do this, as she picks up oil with her finger, to which Uzi then asks herself if Doll was eating her victims. Uzi throws the dismembered arm in a pot, then looks back, staring at it.
It then cuts to N, who stops himself from stepping on one of the roaches, then sees a large, dirty sheet by the table. It cuts back to Uzi, who stares at her oil-covered fingers while a ringing can be heard in the distance. It closes up to her mouth, almost as if she's tempted to eat it.
It transitions back again to N uncovering what's under the sheet, showing the remains of Doll's parents, looking as if they had been left there for a while. V says that their oil didn't even taste that good, and N tells her that she "kind of sucks," which V agrees with, eating a roach while saying she is "not doing okay." N looks back at Uzi, who seems to have licked the oil from her fingers, as they give each other a thumbs up. N helps Uzi through the kitchen table as she approaches the corpses.
While they focused on Doll's parents, however, Doll herself teleports inside her apartment, smiling. She repairs her visor and rips out the bullet from her head, preparing to shoot. She says, "Just in time for dinner," to which N, V, and Uzi notice her and gasp. The screen cuts to black while a gunshot sound is heard. A purple Absolute Solver glyph lights up as the black screen is revealed to be from Uzi's visor, as it turns out, Uzi's Absolute Solver powers activated at that moment, stopping the bullet mid-air.
Doll, shocked, says that she's sorry for Uzi, while Uzi lets go of the bullet, sending it flying next to her. Doll says that she'll help Uzi if she finds what she's looking for, while Uzi is startled. Doll apologizes again and tries to teleport away, but not before V shoots her again, this time with a missile. Doll herself is not found, however. Uzi whines and yells "I hate it here!"
The camera transitions to the winter wasteland that is Copper 9, as a lone male Worker Drone, namer Reid, looks for something. He finds his "excuse to be outside right now," that being his glasses. Reid then hears something in the distance, then looks up to the sky and sees a flash, which turned out to be a Disassembly Drone Landing Pod coming straight towards him. Reid manages to dodge the pod as it crashes, as a second pod soon follows and objects fly out from the pods and land on the ground around him.
He looks up to see a third Landing Pod approaching, this time landing more gracefully, latching onto the decayed buildings and landing properly. A human jumps out, pulling out a sword and immediately slicing off Reid's head. The human is then revealed to be none other than Tessa Elliott, now an adult woman who works for JCJenson as a certified technician.
Tessa says "Righty-o, work to do, eh J?" as a fully reconstructed J flies next to her. J gives her a key with a key chain of the Earth as she notes "Maintenance work," the Landing Pod beeping like a car. The scene pans out to the two Landing Pods with Tessa and J in the distance, as they all get completely obscured by a winter storm.
Characters[]
Main Characters[]
- Uzi Doorman (voiced by Elsie Lovelock)
- Serial Designation N (voiced by Michael Kovach)
- Serial Designation V (voiced by Nola Klop)
Antagonists[]
- Doll (voiced by Emma Breezy)
Supporting Characters[]
- Lizzy (voiced by Caitlin Dizon)
- Khan Doorman (voiced by David J. Dixon)
Minor Characters[]
- Penny (voiced by Elsie Lovelock)
- Rebecca (voiced by Nola Klop)
- Kelsey (voiced by Nola Klop)
- Reid (voiced by Michael Kovach)
- Trevor (voiced by Liam Vickers)
- Tessa Elliott (voiced by Daisy Rose)
- Braidon (cameo)
- Thad (cameo)
- Emily (cameo)
- Teacher (cameo)
- Serial Designation J (cameo)
- Yeva (corpse and flashback only)
- Doll's father (corpse and flashback only)
- Nori Doorman (pictured)[2]
Deaths[]
Total of On-Screen deaths: 2
- Kelsey at 1:08
- Penny at 11:04
- Unnamed Prom Attender at 11:08
- Reid at 18:05
Total of Off-Screen/Unknown: 8 (4)
Missing Posters at 1:00
Doll's Apartment
- Various Worker Drones 15:15 - 17:30
- Doll's Parents at 16:15
Total: 10
Title in different languages[]
| Language | Localized title | Literal translation |
|---|---|---|
| Filipino | "Ang Promening" | The Promening |
| French | "Le Bal de Promo" | The Prom |
| German | "Balltanz" | Prom Dance |
| Hindi | "बदलाव की सैर" | Journey of Change |
| Hungarian | "Bálkirálynő" | Prom Queen |
| Japanese | "プロム開催" | Prom held |
| Mandarin (China) | '毕业舞会' | Prom |
| Brazilian Portuguese | "O Embailamento" | The Embedding |
| Russian | "Выпускной Бал" | Prom |
| Spanish | "Elegantes" | Elegant |
| Thai | "บทนำ" | Incline |
| Turkish | "Balo Kâbusu" | Prom Nightmare |
| Ukrainian | "Випускний Бал" | Prom |
Credits[]
- Created, Directed & Written by
- Liam Vickers
- Executive Producers
- Kevin Lerdwichagul
- Luke Lerdwichagul
- Producer
- Kevin Lerdwichagul
- Consulting Producer
- Evan Baily
- Development Producer
- Jasmine Yang
- Cast
- Uzi & Penny - Elsie Lovelock
- N & Reid - Michael Kovach
- V, Rebecca & Kelsey - Nola Klop
- Khan - David J. Dixon
- Doll - Emma Breezy
- Tessa - Daisy Rose
- Lizzy - Caitlin Dizon
- Trevor - Liam Vickers
- Concept Artist
- Liam Vickers
- Voice Acting Director
- Jasmine Yang
- Storyboard Artists
- Matthew Peckham
- Robin French
- Cameron Qayoom-Taylor
- Editorial
- Kevin Lerdwichagul
- Layout Artists
- Matthew Peckham
- Jarrad Rumble
- Look Development
- Max Rudland
- General Production Manager
- Oliver Ma
- Shot Production Manager
- Jarrad Rumble
- 2D Artists
- Liam Vickers
- Alicia Howard
- Lead 3D Artist
- Max Rudland
- 3D Character & Crowd Artists
- Max Rudland
- Alicia Howard
- Guillaume Coquel-Danchin
- 3D Asset & Prop Artists
- Alicia Howard
- Max Rudland
- Jonathan Corroto
- Guillaume Coquel-Danchin
- Texturing & Surfacing Artists
- Max Rudland
- Alicia Howard
- Guillaume Coquel-Danchin
- Jonathan Corroto
- Environment Artists
- Alicia Howard
- Max Rudland
- Lead Rigger
- Marc Humphreys
- Riggers
- Bryan Pan
- Evan Huang
- CFX Artists
- Bryan Pan
- Marc Humphreys
- Maya Technical Artist & Tools
- Marc Humphreys
- Lead Animator
- Matthew Peckham
- Animators
- Rafael Capricho
- Woei Ping Mak
- Mikaylah Haddon
- Jacopo Poto
- Jarrad Rumble
- Kevin Temmer
- UE5 & Houdini VFX Artist
- Stephen De Mata
- After Effects VFX Artist
- Dean Musumeci
- Graphic Design & UI Artist
- Dean Musumeci
- Post Production Lead
- Luke Lerdwichagul
- Post Production Hands
- Paul Marundan
- Abhignya Cavale
- UE5 Animation Composition
- Jarrad Rumble
- UE5 Technical Artists
- Paul Marundan
- Max Rudland
- UE5 Engineer
- Aythan Maconachie
- UE5 Optimization
- Paul Marundan
- Aythan Maconachie
- Lighting Artists
- Selina May
- Max Rudland
- Shader Artist
- Max Rudland
- DoF
- Selina May
- Set Dressing
- Alicia Howard
- Crowd Technical Artist
- Aythan Maconachie
- Physics Simulation & Rigid Body Destruction
- Stephen De Mata
- Fluid Simulation
- Stephen De Mata
- Rendering
- Abhignya Cavale
- Paul Marundan
- Luke Lerdwichagul
- Compositing
- Dean Musumeci
- Color Correction
- Dean Musumeci
- IT Technician
- Aythan Maconechie
- Music by
- AJ DiSpirito
- Choir
- Alexander Andriyan
- Sound Design
- Epic Mountain
- Sound Mix & Mastering
- Epic Mountain
- Distribution
- Kevin Lerdwichagul
- Luke Lerdwichagul
- Jasmine Yang
- Marketing Director
- Kevin Lerdwichagul
- Marketing Manager
- Dom "Cube"
- Marketing Creative Officers
- Zamir Parvez
- Luke Lerdwichagul
- Marketing Artists
- DitzyFlama
- Matt Gaglione
- Story Consultant
- Katie Hood
- Special Thanks
- Screen Australia
- Epic Games
- James Bailey
- Paul "MediExcalibur2012"
- Dom "Cube"
- Aaron Rogers
- Chris "TheInvertedShadow"
- Colin Rodgers
- Cloud64
- Juniper Creates™
- The GLITCH & SMG4 community
Trivia[]
- In Kelsey Day's perspective, her system makes fun of her blurry vision by saying "LOL NICE VISION."
- During the scene where a Worker Drone is cleaning up after a murder scene, the wet floor sign says "WET MURDER" instead of the usual "WET FLOOR."[3]
- In one of the scenes where Doll's face is shown close-up, a brief red-colored image of Nori's ID portrait pops up.[2]
- As of April 19th, 2025, it has over 36M views, making it the second most-viewed episode, and the seventh most-viewed video on the Glitch Productions channel.
Errors[]
- At 9:32 while V's laughing, it appears that her mouth is yellow.
- The credits incorrectly list Reid's voice actor as David J. Dixon instead of Michael Kovach.
References[]
Gallery[]
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