R.I.P., Mommy and Daddy

"R.I.P, Mommy and Daddy", also called "Max and Ruby_0004" is/was a cancelled Creepypasta turned semi-animated horror short film by Bluey, the creator of the Spirit Halloween; The Musical series. It is based on the Creepypasta of the same name, written by an unknown author. The story was twisted by Bluey to be a sort of awareness video about suicide, that "death isn't your only release", as well as a short horror film. The story follows a 15-year-old boy who suddenly gets a strange gift for his younger cousin....it came with dire consequences....
Development/Creation:
The short film was composed after Courtney "Bluey" Setzer, the creator, producer, artist and composer of the Spirit Halloween; The Musical series had a nightmare about the Creepypasta. Many people before had attempted to try and recreate the lost episode, the earliest being in 2015/2016. She had a nightmare about one of these attempts.
At first, Bluey had no intention of making a short film about the lost episode horror story, she had originally planned to make shitposts/memes of the Creepypasta; specifically similar to the "Everything looks like Among Us"; but everything looks like how Max and Ruby look. In the episode, the anthropomorphic rabbits have no facial features, only these huge black holes as eyes. Bluey took simple objects with large holes in them; such as a coconut or a bowling ball; even the character Coco from the Animal Crossing franchise, all while making references to the episode such as "death is our only release" and "it's such a shame". She then scrapped this idea because a day before settling on shitposting about it, she released the instrumentals for "Tell Me Your Dreams" from M3GAN in ParaMollnan. She didn't want to spam her channel with uploads, so Bluey scrapped the idea, and instead, settling on making a short film about it, with a boy her age as the protagonist as the main character.
As of now, the project is presumed "dead", and if you're expecting it to release, it's not gonna happen. Due to the stress of juggling two projects at once (this and ParaMollNan), Bluey cancelled doing progress on the short horror film on January 25th, 2023 for her mental health. Sorry for everyone who was looking forward to this as much as I was.
Plot Sypnosis:
Before the film begins, Bluey (the lead artist and producer), states a fair warning that the film may contain serious topics and disturbing imagery that may be disturbing to some ill-hearted people (death, suicide, loud screams/noises, glitching and graphic blood), and that they should click away if these things make them uncomfortable. As for the monsters that stick around, she references Tales of Worm Paranoia (YOU FILTHY CHILDREN!!!!) and tells them to watch and enjoy if they dare.....
The film starts off very different than the original Creepypasta, with a teenage boy at the hospital, his face appears to be wounded with a shotgun. The boy is narrating the story, saying this was an attempt at suicide- and sarcastically asks the viewer if they want to know how he ended up in the hospital. He then goes on that it may sound childish, but all the events in the story are completely real. He then finishes this off by saying; "death ISN'T the only release..." An instrumental version of the Max and Ruby theme playing backwards is heard with a bloody af TITLE CARD!!!!! (Dead Meat Reference)
After the title card, the viewer gets context on what is happening in the story. The story takes place in 2009 (originally 2004, but changed to fit the end credits of the episode) around Christmastime. The boy in the hospital is our protagonist- a 15-year-old by the name of Matt Legrangue- who everyone makes fun of for his last name sounding French- but he is not the ethnicity. We see him at a grocery store, buying wrapping paper and last minute gifts for his family. Matt explains that Christmas was coming around, and as such, he had to do last minute shopping. He had already gotten gifts for the rest of his family members, but he still needed to get a present for his baby cousin Susan. Susan was his aunt's daughter, and she is very much younger than him. Matt says she wasn't hard to shop for since she was 4 at the time the story takes place. He then states that Susan enjoys preschool TV shows such as Peppa Pig and My Little Pony, but she specifically was obsessed over Max and Ruby (a show on Nick Jr./Noggin that aired from 2002-2019), although he is unsure why it is. He then thought that buying Susan a Max and Ruby DVD would be perfect for a Christmas gift. Unfortunately though, many stores were out of them because of the last minute shopping sprees during the holidays, so that lends Matt to ordering DVDS off on eBay.
The scene then switches to Matt at home on an old early computer (this is 2009 shhh) , on eBay, scrolling through various listings for Max and Ruby DVDS for sale. He questions himself if he is doing the right thing since this is a selling site, and he can't trust the conditions the DVDS are in. As Matt describes, he was "still searching for a stupid DVD", when he heard a box being pushed to his door. Like any good person would do, he grabbed the package before his dog (later heard named Sparky) ate it. He opened it, and inside there was something that he really couldn't explain.
Inside of a package was a DVD, yes, but there was something odd about it. It was just plain white with no writing on the back, and it was like some toddler had got ahold of it, drawing on the cover with a marker. It was a custom cover, with the words "Max and Ruby" on it, with poorly drawn images of two rabbits stood with big black eyes. Matt is a bit freaked out by this, but immediately gives the DVD a watch over, and everything seemed to fine! The episodes were all in good quality! It was as if the delivery was a regular DVD with only a homemade cover! It is only the title screen he found a bit odd, instead of having episode names, it was like "Episode_0001, Episode_0002, Episode_0003 "and so on. Matt tracked down the list of the actual episodes and renames them on the back of the DVD, as well as replacing the cover with an official Max and Ruby DVD cover so it would look more appealing and less concerning. Proud of his work, we get a whole montage of Matt figuring out how to wrap the present while "Red Suited Super Man" plays in the background.