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human
ELI5: Why do they show flashes of someone's skeleton when being electrocuted in cartoons?

This does not really happen in real life does it?
gpt
Doesn't happen to people in real life, no.

I always assumed that the cartoon version was a joke along the lines of turning the person into a light bulb and showing the bright bones like the filament of the light, glowing brightly.