Grownup Swim simply slipped a brand new cartoon quick onto their YouTube channel. Within the spirit of Halloween, they’ve introduced us with “Studying With Pibby,” a cutesy sequence from creator Dodge Greenley (Pinky Malinky) the place a blue and purple humanoid blob teaches us letters and numbers. Effectively, that’s the way it begins, anyway, however it’s best to know by now if it’s from Grownup Swim, there’s a twist coming.
What IS sudden is the character of the twist. Barely twenty seconds into Pibby’s present, a darkish black wave begins creeping by her world, corrupting the visuals and sucking her finest buddy, a speaking bunny, into the void. Pibby barely escapes herself however finds herself in an odd and unfamiliar place…staring instantly at a big Cartoon Community emblem.
Pibby has damaged the fourth wall to search out the whole CN / AS universe affected by the virus. Beloved characters like Fred Flintstone, Finn and Jake, George Jetson, Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup have turn out to be shambling zombies, smeared with digital artifacting, their faces frozen in vast, unnatural, Momo-sized grins.
We’ve by no means seen something like this performed earlier than — fairly an enormous factor to say contemplating how a lot is on the market proper now. Certain, WB allowed The Banana Splits Film a pair years in the past, which reimagined the characters of the 70s costume sequence as murderous animals, however nobody cared concerning the Banana Splits by that time, so that they had been secure to trash.
Against this, lots of the characters being changed into creepy monsters in Pibby are nonetheless worthwhile IP and in some instances nonetheless producing episodes. It took a number of nards to make a brief like this. We adore it.
Though it’s being introduced as a brief, Studying With Pibby feels way more like a trailer for a sequence….extra of a proof of idea displaying us scenes from a bigger story than telling a straight story. And if AS is contemplating making this a sequence, we are saying GO FOR IT. The quick is already successful regardless of having solely been revealed for twenty-four hours, with animation communities abuzz throughout social media.
If Pibby goes anyplace, we’ll let you recognize.
