[6] "Spooky, Scary Skeletons" was one of nine original songs on the album Halloween Howls, released, according to Gold on his 1996 liner notes, to fill a void of availability of fun and scary Halloween original songs.
They paired the song with the 1929 animated short film The Skeleton Dance by Ub Iwerks.
[2] "Spooky, Scary Skeletons" has since become an Internet meme, with its origins in YouTube gaming culture.
[2] Intelligencer's Brian Feldman called the Living Tombstone's remix "probably the most well-known version of the song".
[2] This remix further propelled the song's status as an Internet meme; both the original song and the Living Tombstone remix are often paired with such visuals as The Skeleton Dance and a video of a man dancing while wearing a pumpkin head and a black unitard, the latter being from a mid-2000s broadcast on local news station KXVO in Omaha, Nebraska.
[22] A cover of the song by LvCrft was used by Freeform to promote their "31 Nights of Halloween" programming block in both 2020 and in 2021.