History WesternAnimation / Pibby

* CrisisCrossover: The premise of the series, as shown in the trailer, is that an EldritchAbomination is destroying several different cartoon shows (fictional and real, the latter all owned by Creator/WarnerBros except for ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' and ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', both owned by Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}) and killing their casts. Pibby is forced to dimension-hop into these shows and meet with other characters in the hopes of stopping it.

* CrisisCrossover: The premise of the series, as shown in the trailer, is that an EldritchAbomination is destroying several different cartoon shows (fictional and real, the latter all owned by Creator/WarnerBros except for ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' and ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', both owned by Creator/Nickelodeon) and killing their casts. Pibby is forced to dimension-hop into these shows and meet with other characters in the hopes of stopping it.

* CrisisCrossover: The premise of the series, as shown in the trailer, is that an EldritchAbomination is destroying several different cartoon shows (fictional and real, the latter all owned by Creator/WarnerBros) and killing their casts. Pibby is forced to dimension-hop into these shows and meet with other characters in the hopes of stopping it.

* GenreRefugee: A protagonist from a preschool edutainment series, a dopey superhero sidekick, and a classic cartoon villainess are thrust into a multiverse spanning CosmicHorror story against an EldrichAbomination.

* DeadSidekick: Inverted. One of the worlds seen in the trailer is a city inhabited by a [[TheCape traditional superhero]] and his [[KidHero young sidekick]]. A later scene shows the former being assimilated by the EldritchAbomination antagonist (hammered home by Pibby's narration concurrently saying that "there's no superheroes left"), which is implied to leave the sidekick with insecurities about his ability to save the world on his own.

* MetafictionalDevice: Implied in the trailer. The opening spells out certain words in the theme song on-screen, typical of a cartoon made for very young children. Once the EldritchAbomination invades, however, the letters in "Pibby" are shaken up by the impact. Later scenes suggest that the characters can directly interact with these: Pibby inadvertently blows her cover while hiding when she attempts to tell her friends to be "QUIET" and summons the word by accident, while a massive battle in the same setting briefly shows other letters scattered on the ground amid the commotion.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: Pibby's home is all smiles and sunshine until the glitch blob starts invading and reduces it to this.

Pibby is a cute little girl who stars in her own educational cartoon for preschoolers (''Learning with Pibby''), learning about spelling and caring with all of her cuddly animal friends. This all comes to a screeching halt when a glitchy, eldritch blob suddenly invades her world, consuming and absorbing all of her friends and forcing her out of her show altogether. Just as she is about to be eaten herself, Pibby finds herself in the credits of her own show. Soon, she finds herself traveling to other worlds – that is, other cartoons (both real and fictional) – and discovering that they are also under threat of being assimilated into this nightmarish abomination. While her newfound allies doubt that they'll be able to deal with such an apocalyptic problem, Pibby holds out hope that there's a way of beating back the darkness – but before then, she'll need to learn a lot more than she bargained for.

* BloodlessCarnage: Averted; Pibby, being a parody of preschool cartoon characters, is ''legitimately'' unfamiliar to the concept of blood.

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* ThePowerOfLove: In the trailer, one of Pibby's companions sarcastically asks if she'll use "the power of love" to defeat the EldritchAbomination that threatens their worlds, to which she agrees that it sounds like a good idea. The very next shot shows [[SubvertedTrope what she actually meant]]: using a Franchise/{{Care Bear|s}} [[CaptainErsatz knock-off]]'s heart-shaped CareBearStare as a makeshift weapon against it.
* ThePowerOfLove: Parodied; Pibby believes that she and her new friends can defeat the blob through the power of love. This involves using a rabbit who has a heart on its chest that can shoot laser beams out of it as a gun of sorts.

Pibby is a cute little girl who stars in her own educational cartoon for preschoolers, learning about spelling and caring with all of her cuddly animal friends. This all comes to a screeching halt when a glitchy, eldritch blob suddenly invades her world, consuming and absorbing all of her friends and forcing her out of her show altogether. Just as she is about to be eaten herself, Pibby finds herself in the credits of her own show. Soon, she finds herself traveling to other worlds – that is, other cartoons (both real and fictional) – and discovering that they are also under threat of being assimilated into this nightmarish abomination. While her newfound allies doubt that they'll be able to deal with such an apocalyptic problem, Pibby holds out hope that there's a way of beating back the darkness – but before then, she'll need to learn a lot more than she bargained for.

* ArtStyleDissonance: The many cartoon styles featured in the trailer are all generally child-friendly, not at all suited for an action-horror series centering on an EldritchAbomination devouring entire worlds.
* ArtStyleDissonance: As part of its SubvertedKidsShow nature, the short juxtaposes bloody violence and frightening imagery with a cutesy and cartoony art direction.

* EldritchAbomination: The trailer sets up the series' main antagonist: a formless, [[OminousVisualGlitch glitchy]] mass that invades various worlds and relentlessly consumes anything it can touch. If someone gets [[TheAssimilator assimilated]] into it, they become a part of it – either their face appears on its body or they become one of its minions, sporting an eerie grin and glitch-marred facial features in both cases. (Several shots depict it with a lower FPS than anything else in the scene to further indicate how alien it is.)
* EldritchAbomination: The characters must fight off some mysterious entity that appears to be a blob of ink and glitches. Anybody who gets consumed by this blob are turned into malformed zombies.

* EyepatchOfPower: The trailer shows Pibby with an eyepatch on after she receives [[EyeScream an injury to one eye]]. It ties into her maturation and CharacterDevelopment, as several scenes afterward show her acting as a sword-wielding leader.
* EyepatchOfPower: Pibby eventually loses her left eye and resorts to wearing an eyepatch.

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Characters from several different series that have aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork – including ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'', ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'', ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Unikitty}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' – are all seen in the trailer.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: The short features appearances and cameos from various characters owned by different Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/WarnerBros [=IPs=], including [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone]], [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Finn the Human, Jake the Dog]], [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Scooby Doo, Velma, Shaggy]], and WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.

* SubvertedKidsShow: The trailer opens up as though it were a completely unironic preschool show, only for an EldritchAbomination to interrupt and reveal its true nature as a dark work of metafiction.
* SubvertedKidsShow: The short starts off like your typical preschool cartoon, with musical numbers and cutesy imagery... up until the glitch blob shows up and the short quickly turns into a more mature cartoon with bloody violence and ExistentialHorror.

''Pibby'' is an action-horror {{metafiction}}al short uploaded to Creator/AdultSwim's [=YouTube=] channel on October 30th, 2021. Its creator, Dodge Greenley, [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CVqb_n1PLoV has stated]] that he plans for it to become a full series, but that any further development hinges on viewers' reactions to the initial short (which doubles as a trailer).

Pibby is a cute little girl who stars in her own educational cartoon for preschoolers, learning about spelling and caring with all of her cuddly animal friends. This all comes to a screeching halt when a glitchy, eldritch force suddenly invades her world, consuming all of her friends and forcing her out of her show altogether. Soon, she finds herself traveling to other worlds – that is, other cartoons (both real and fictional) – and discovering that they are also under threat of being assimilated into this nightmarish abomination. While her newfound allies doubt that they'll be able to deal with such an apocalyptic problem, Pibby holds out hope that there's a way of beating back the darkness – but before then, she'll need to learn a lot more than she bargained for.

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''Come and Learn with Pibby!'' is an animated short created by Dodge Greenley, known for his work on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} shows such as ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig'' and ''WesternAnimation/PinkyMalinky'', for Creator/AdultSwim. It was released on the channel's Website/YouTube account on October 30, 2021.

The short follows a cartoon girl named Pibby, who teaches children about spelling, the alphabet, and friendship... up until her home gets invaded and absorbed by a mysterious blob of glitchy ink. Just as she is about to be eaten herself, Pibby finds herself in the credits of her own show and soon joins forces with other cartoon characters to stop this mysterious blob from destroying the universe.

The trailer (titled "Come and Learn with Pibby!") can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btu0O47u3rY here]].

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''Come and Learn with Pibby!'' is an animated short created by Dodge Greenley, known for his work on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} shows such as ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig'' and ''WesternAnimation/PinkyMalinky'', for Creator/AdultSwim. It was released on the channel's Website/YouTube account on October 30, 2021.

The short follows a cartoon girl named Pibby, who teaches children about spelling, the alphabet, and friendship... up until her home gets invaded and absorbed by a mysterious blob of glitchy ink. Just as she is about to be eaten herself, Pibby finds herself in the credits of her own show and soon joins forces with other cartoon characters to stop this mysterious blob from destroying the universe.

The short can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btu0O47u3rY here]].

!!This short provides examples of:



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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: One scene in the trailer is set in an old black and white cartoon (though the main three remain in color).

* ArtStyleDissonance: As part of its SubvertedKidsShow nature, the short juxtaposes bloody violence and frightening imagery with a cutesy and cartoony art direction.
* BloodlessCarnage: Averted; Pibby, being a parody of preschool cartoon characters, is ''legitimately'' unfamiliar to the concept of blood.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: Pibby's home is all smiles and sunshine until the glitch blob starts invading and reduces it to this.
* DeconstructorFleet: The short appears to be a {{Deconstruction}} of various children's cartoon tropes. Ending credits are apparently foreign to cartoon characters, Pibby genuinely has no idea what blood is, and the blob appears to be a metaphor for network executives.
* EldritchAbomination: The characters must fight off some mysterious entity that appears to be a blob of ink and glitches. Anybody who gets consumed by this blob are turned into malformed zombies.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: At the beginning, Pibby styled her hair into two hairbuns to show how childlike she is. But at the end, she [[LettingHerHairDown lets her hair down]] to show she is no longer a CheerfulChild but a hardened and experienced warrior after the horrors she went through.
* {{Expy}}: Two of Pibby's allies are a young superhero named Beta-Kid, who parodies typical superhero sidekicks like ComicBook/{{Robin}}, and an anthropomorphic cat named Melira, who parodies classic Disney villains such as [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Ursula]].
* EyepatchOfPower: Pibby eventually loses her left eye and resorts to wearing an eyepatch.
* LittleMissBadass: Pibby, who becomes a hardened badass after realizing what the horrors she's been put into.
* LoveToHate: Interestingly, Melira is an InUniverse example. According to Greenley, she's meant to represent why people love bad guys.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: The short features appearances and cameos from various characters owned by different Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/WarnerBros [=IPs=], including [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone]], [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Finn the Human, Jake the Dog]], [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Scooby Doo, Velma, Shaggy]], and WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.
* ThePowerOfLove: Parodied; Pibby believes that she and her new friends can defeat the blob through the power of love. This involves using a rabbit who has a heart on its chest that can shoot laser beams out of it as a gun of sorts.
* ReluctantHero: Greenley outright describes Pibby as this, stating that she wants nothing more than to remain child-like forever but has to mature if she wants to survive.
* SubvertedKidsShow: The short starts off like your typical preschool cartoon, with musical numbers and cutesy imagery... up until the glitch blob shows up and the short quickly turns into a more mature cartoon with bloody violence and ExistentialHorror.
* TookALevelInBadass: Pibby goes from being a innocent and naive preschool character who become frightened by monsters that attacked her show and friends to a kick-ass and experienced eyepatch-wearing warrior who battled against monsters and stop the apocalypse.

* SolarAndLunar: The MirroredConfrontationShot in the trailer shows a living moon on the protagonists' side, staring down a [[OminousVisualGlitch sun]] on the antagonist's side.

* {{Expy}}: One brief scene in the trailer shows a rabbit with a heart symbol on its belly that is clearly designed to emulate the ''Franchise/CareBears''. They're even able to shoot heart-shaped lasers from it like a CareBearStare.

* MediumBlending: The trailer has a brief scene where the main cast (all cartoon characters) run across a table in a live-action commercial for grape juice, with a live-action young boy watching in shock.

* MirroredConfrontationShot: Near the end of the trailer, there's a shot depicting Pibby leading an army of uncorrupted cartoon characters against the EldritchAbomination antagonist, each at opposite ends of the screen. (Driving the dichotomy home, [[SolarAndLunar the heroes have a moon on their side while the antagonist has a sun]].)

** The trailer has a dark one. The scene set in ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' recreates that series' opening, with Fred yelling "Yabba dabba doo!" and sliding down a ''Brontosaurus'' to exit work… only an EldritchAbomination awaits at the bottom and quickly assimilates him.

* NinjaProp: The opening of the trailer spells out certain words in the theme song on-screen, typical of a cartoon made for very young children. Once the EldritchAbomination invades, however, the letters in "Pibby" are shaken up by the impact. In addition, a later scene depicting a massive battle in the same setting briefly shows some more letters scattered on the ground amid the commotion.

* ThePowerOfLove: In the trailer, one of Pibby's companions sarcastically asks if she'll use "the power of love" to defeat the EldritchAbomination that threatens their worlds, to which she agrees that it sounds like a good idea. The very next shot shows [[SubvertedTrope what she actually meant]]: using a Franchise/{{Care Bear|s}} {{expy}}'s CareBearStare as a makeshift weapon against it.

-->'''Pibby:''' I know we're not heroes. But maybe… we can learn.

* DarkReprise: The trailer opens with ''Learning with Pibby'''s theme song, a cheerful and innocent tune suitable for a cartoon for small children. Near the end, well after [[SubvertedKidsShow the true tone of the series becomes evident]], the background music changes to a version with slow, emotionless vocals and a progressively harsher mechanical beat. In particular, as Pibby witnesses an EldritchAbomination assume the former of her deceased friend Bun-Bun, the last line is layered to sound outright demonic.

* BreakTheCutie: She begins as the sweet, innocent protagonist of a cartoon for small children, only for an EldritchAbomination to invade, ruin her world, and force her to mature quickly as she grapples with the horror of the scenario. The trailer strings together several scenes to show her progression: she goes from innocently wondering what "red water" is after [[EyeScream receiving an eye injury that causes her to bleed]] to leading an army of cartoon characters against the antagonist, sword in hand.

* TheAssimilator: The antagonist is suggested to be one of these in the trailer. In addition to consuming several different characters and occasionally wearing their faces on its body, one scene near the end shows Pibby and company fighting against a horde of victims that the abomination is puppeteering.

* CrisisCrossover: The premise of the series, as shown in the trailer, is that an EldritchAbomination is destroying several different cartoon shows and killing their casts. Pibby is forced to dimension-hop into these shows and meet with other characters in the hopes of stopping it.

Pibby is a cute little girl who stars in her own educational cartoon for preschoolers, learning about spelling and caring with all of her cuddly animal friends. This all comes to a screeching halt when a glitchy, eldritch force suddenly invades her world, consuming all of her friends and forcing her out of her show altogether. Soon, she finds herself traveling to other worlds – that is, other cartoons (both real and fictional) – and discovering that they are also under threat of being assimilated into this nightmarish abomination. While her newfound allies doubt that they'll be able to deal with such an apocalyptic problem, Pibby holds out hope that there's a way of beating back the darkness – but she'll need to learn a lot more than she bargained for beforehand.

* BreakTheCutie: The trailer and synopsis show that this is crucial to Pibby's arc. She begins as the sweet, innocent protagonist of a cartoon for small children, only for an EldritchAbomination to invade and force her to mature quickly to deal with such horror. The trailer alone strings together several scenes to show her progression: she goes from innocently wondering what "red water" is after [[EyeScream receiving an eye injury that causes her to bleed]] to leading an army of cartoon characters against the antagonist, sword in hand.

** The climax of the trailer depicts a serious action scene where Pibby witnesses the EldritchAbomination taking on her friend's form, then immediately reverts back into a cutesy children's show for a brief moment before it ends. It's {{downplayed||Trope}} a bit, since an OminousVisualGlitch mars the seemingly innocent moment.