# Embarrassing gotoAndPlay Question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/embarrassing-gotoandplay-question/92642>\
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**Created:** [October 20, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/embarrassing-gotoandplay-question/92642 "2003-10-20T01:32:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![KarenInPA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@KarenInPA](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/KarenInPA)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/embarrassing-gotoandplay-question/92642/1 "2003-10-20T01:32:51Z")

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Greetings to everyone in kirupaville. 🙂

It’s been a long time since I’ve been here, but alas it’s been about that long since I’ve had the time to have a little fun with Flash.

Anyway, I’ve started a small project and everything seemed to be going well until I started turning on some actionscript. I know I’m rusty, but I didn’t realize I was _this_ rusty… but here’s the issue.

I can’t get a simple gotoAndPlay action working! Duh!

The main movie has two layers and one frame. Layer 1 is the actions layer and layer 2 has a movie clip named “doohickey”.

Doohickey has three layers and 16 frames. First frame is blank with a stop action. Second frame is labelled “fadeIn” and begins a tween. The next 15 frames are a simple tween (no AS). Frame 16 is blank with a stop action. Layer 1 is actions. Layer 2 is labels and Layer 3 is the tween.

The actions layer in the main movie:

```auto

_root.doohickey.gotoAndPlay("fadeIn");
stop();

```

The tween will not fire! The only way it’s working is if I put a play action on the second frame in the doohickey movie clip.

For the love of God, what am I doing wrong? You would not believe how long I’ve been trying to figure this out today…