Come and Learn with Pibby!

Pibby (Also known as Learning With Pibby and Learning With Pibby: Apocalypse) is a proof-of-concept short aired on the official Adult Swim YouTube Channel on October 30, 2021. It follows Pibby, a character from a fictional educational show, who is forced to cross a multiverse of Warner Bros. shows, chased by an unknown, glitchy darkness with the ability to infect and control characters it touches. Ever since the upload of the short, it quickly became famous and viral on Youtube, with many fans asking for a full series for the character.

On April 1st, 2022, some AS originals and the bumpers had glitched Pibby and Bun-Bun, supposedly to make the great invasion of Adult Swim (A.K.A Pibby Fools).

The Sign off IDs was even changed for AS. It had the Morph (Zoomed Out) sign off instead of the current Dinner Party sign-off.

The original music for that sign-off was replaced with a Pibby goodbye song. Sometime later, a billboard was even redesigned to let the darkness consume it.

During 2023, a video of an alleged storyboard, featuring Pibby's voice actress, from what would've been the first episode leaked on the internet, which sparked many rumours about the show being announced soon. However, on October 3, 2023, series creator Dodge Greenley revealed via Instagram that Pibby had not been greenlit yet and would likely not be greenlit. On June 27, 2024, Greenley confirmed the series was dead. On November 6, 2024, it was further explained the series was scrapped due to the merger between Warner Bros. and Discovery as Warner Bros. Discovery in 2022. Dodge Greenley went on to be a storyboard artist for Jellystone! and boarded the crossover episode Crisis on Infinite Mirths.

Synopsis

Pibby is a preschool animated series character who is on the run from a mysterious dark stain of ink and glitches that is engulfing everything and destroying her home, while devouring her beloved friend. As she goes, she is forced to confront the apocalyptic horrors that have not only destroyed her world, but are spreading and annihilating the universes of Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera.

Plot

The short starts with the opening of a preschool cartoon show, Learning with Pibby (The parody of Sesame Street), which is rudely interrupted by a strange black, glitchy liquid consuming the area. The titular character, Pibby (The simply-designed girl with blue skin and pink hair) and her rabbit companion, Bun-Bun, retreat to their house where she promises that she will always keep him safe. However, the scene cuts to the darkness consuming Bun-Bun, with Pibby failing to rescue him. Just as the darkness closes in on her, she is saved as the show cuts to credits, taking her with it.

Pibby then narrates that she discovered other worlds, being other shows, such as a generic superhero world, Bedrock (Where she meets Fred Flintstone), Coolville, where she encounters corrupted versions of Velma, Shaggy and Scooby Doo, Ooo, where she encounters corrupted versions of Finn and Jake and what appears to be O-Town from Rocko's Modern Life.

Additionally, the bathroom in SpongeBob's house from SpongeBob SquarePants is seen for a few seconds. Another scene shows a live-action commercial with a boy watching the animated characters run from the darkness, in which they are shown to be much smaller than the boy.

Pibby is forced to team up with a superhero's sidekick and an aristocratic cat villain as they search for a way to stop the darkness and build a rebellion.

Characters

Main Characters

Citations Needed

• Pibby (Voiced by Nikki Castillo)
• Bun-Bun (Voiced by Jack Stanton)
• Alloy Boy (Voiced by Marcus Toji)
• Melira (Voiced by Alex Newell)
• The Darkness
• Captain Platinum (Voiced by Scott Whyte)
• The Puppy Twins (Voiced by Danny Pudi and Jennifer Losi)
• Mailman Moe (Voiced by Tony Hale)
• Ally Gator (Voiced by Eric Bauza)
• Buggy (Voiced by Grey DeLisle)
• Fred Flintstone (Voiced by Jeff Bergman)
• Porky Pig
• Amethyst
• Bubbles
• Dee Dee
• Craig Williams
• Gumball Watterson
• Finn the Human (Voiced by Jeremy Shada)
• Jake the Dog (Voiced by John DiMaggio)
• Velma Dinkley
• Shaggy Rogers
• Scooby-Doo
• George Jetson
• Lady Rainicorn
• Buttercup
• Lion
• Darwin Watterson
• Jonny 2x4 and Plank
• Samurai Jack
• Aku
• Unikitty
• Muriel
• Bugs Bunny
• Rick Sanchez
• Courage the Cowardly Dog

Production Information

On November 3, 2020, The Cartoon Network Inc. filed a trademark with the name Learning with Pibby: Apocalypse. On October 30, 2021, a trailer announcing the potential series was uploaded by the Adult Swim YouTube Channel after being shown the show's premiere, viewers quickly became fans of it's interesting plot by forming a new community/fandom. On October 3, 2023, creator Dodge Greenley announced that Pibby had not been moving forward as a series. In 2023 and 2024, around the months close to April, stories are revealed storyboard and scripts.

Gallery

Learning with Pibby Title.

Pibby and Bun-Bun hiding in a house.

Bun-Bun getting taken by the Glitch.

Pibby in the credits.

Fred Flintstone being taken by the Glitch.

A bunch of characters infected by the Glitch.

The Scooby Gang being infected with the Glitch.

Pibby after being attacked.

The trio hiding from infected Finn and Jake.

Pibby using a rabbit to fend off the Glitch.

The trio being surrounded by the Glitch.

Melira using a fake gun.

Alloy Boy and Pibby.

Infected Grapes of Atwater advert.

Infected Pibby show.

Infected Bun-Bun.

Pibby and Bun-Bun in the title card.

Pibby Promo Poster.

External Link

• YouTube