Going Viral

"**Going Viral**" (French: "La Mort m'a Tuer") is the fourth episode of season one of *The Crumpets*.

## Synopsis

Caprice gets rejected from starring in Granny's and Lil'One's internet videos. After her parents urge the siblings to show appreciation of their depressed sister, they chastise Caprice and she attempts different ways to commit suicide while Granny capitalizes on her granddaughter's internet fame.

## Plot

Filming a new video that is being streamed to the internet, Granny orders a couple of her grandkids to position a cloth with a hole. Lil One is on top of a roof and has a ball, and tries to be "natural" to confront the intense height. As Lil One remains scared and after Pfff begins shooting the video, Granny reminds Lil One of the global audience watching him live. Lil One slips and falls while failing to keep holding the ball. The camera immediately points to Caprice distracting the stream and saying she likes reality shows. Granny gets upset at Caprice's inclusion in the shot, Lil One lands at the cloth on the ground, and the twins take away his ball. Caprice explains to Granny that she can act and has star quality, and demonstrates her acting. Lil One jumps and pushes Caprice to the ground before wanting to star in more videos, and Granny raises that the focus of her videos are "bunny pets and falling babies". Caprice saddens from the facts that she's too old to be in those videos and that Lil One is the star despite of her talent. She throws her smartphone back and Lil One claims it.

Inside the house, Ma hears Caprice sobbing in the latter's bedroom and responds by recommending her to recover like a car that wipes its windshield and cools its wheels. After laughing a bit, Caprice is distasted by Ma because she simply is her mother, mentions her poor popularity ratings, and doesn't like herself anymore. She tells Ma to leave her alone and be allowed to write her will.

As the family gathers in the hall, Ma encourages her children to lift Caprice's spirits and Pa concurs. The children however are not thrilled at this mission, so they chant "unlike". Granny calls Lil One to leave the meeting, and the latter tells Ma that he and Granny are filming a show and encourages her to view it. Ma decides that the family should make a documentary about Caprice. Pa seeks a director for the new project, and the children pick Granny to fill the directorial shoes. Granny asks Pfff on his opinion on documentaries. He responds that it will "fizzle" if it's "boring", but can be enjoyed and viral if it's "touchy feely". Lil One hears this and becomes concerned on his lack of stardom in the forthcoming documentary, but Granny promises to keep him in mind when needed. Lil One remains feeling betrayed and goes to his own filming efforts.

At filming for the documentary, Granny interviews King regarding Caprice's best quality. Outside, Lil One sits frustrated on a wooden plank leaning over the doghouse, and the twins show up to perform something that would have their "careers take off". Back to King's interview, he makes unpleasant remarks on Caprice such as avoiding "like the plague". Back outside, the twins jump to the other end of the wooden plank, and like a seesaw, it launches Lil One to the air and he land to the ground. At his own interview, Fynartz compares Caprice to adding watercolor to an oil painting. The twins also get interviewed, wondering if Caprice has any quality and whether if anger is one before they smile. Pfff complains of the lack of napping from shooting video before Granny takes his camera and lets him nap.

Once the family prepares to view the finished documentary, Caprice remains grumpy despite the reassurance from Pa. As not what her parents hoped, the documentary is critical of Caprice and contains additional reprimands from King, Triceps, and the twins with the voice of Granny. As the other children laugh, Caprice screams, pulls her shirt, and wishes to "curl up and die". Granny finds this a moment of "action" and impatiently forces Pfff to start shooting the video. As Caprice tries to die by holding her breath, Triceps activates a stopwatch and her parents join at Caprice's activity. After Pfff notices the stream going "mega viral", the twins attach wooden clips on Caprice's nose. A red-faced Caprice removes the clips and releases a shout powerful enough to blow her terrified siblings as well as the head of Ditzy. Granny enjoys the stream's popularity while Caprice persists to be gloomy and not feeling deserved to live. Granny follows Caprice for being a "money shot".

Now with the twins cooperating him, Lil One's next stunt has him charging to an elastic target which bounces him back to the doghouse. T-Bone accidentally holds Lil One in his mouth before spitting him out. The twins laugh at him, and while Lil One is proud of himself he realizes his nappy is missing, takes one of the "LIKE" messages that substitutes the nappy, and retrieves the nappy back from the dog's mouth. The twins desire checking if the new video went viral, but they and Lil One discover the phone to be missing. They saw Caprice distressingly lying on the grass and holding the phone. Lil One tries getting it back and says she won't need it. Caprice says she would "inherit" the phone to me and wait to die from the phone's radiation, then Lil One takes away the phone as she rests. The twins jump on Caprice, who responds to Lil One's scorn by approaching to "plan B".

Caprice's next suicide attempt has her holding a lightning rod and standing next to a tree in a lightning storm. As Granny and Pfff works on filming this, a lightning strikes the latter's rake and harms him instead of Caprice.

At the next scene, Blister throws a big fruit with a slingshot and it bounces over the kitchen. It hits T-Bone and is supposed to reach Lil One sitting in a high chair. But before the watermelon gets to him Caprice catches it midair, enraging Lil One. Granny narrates her viewers on what Caprice would do next and the camera points at her she prepares to be stuffed with fruits to death. She inserts a funnel to her mouth and brings fruits to it, and after Blister shoots another fruit, Caprice withdraws from this suicide attempt and moves to a "hunger strike" Lil One questions her if she'll go viral with this "stupid idea", but Granny reminds him that she's already viral. Caprice reassures that her baby brother wants "fame and attention" and she desires to "die in peace". She decides to freeze to death with a refrigerator and Granny looks forward to mental depression becoming a "stock market commodity". Caprice's attempt to die by frost gets disrupted by her sneeze and she walks away with her head and sneeze frozen.

Lil One and twins are in the site of a sandbox with Bother igniting the fuse of a rocket-shaped firework. Caprice suddenly appears and grabs the explosive. Once Lil One complains of his sister trying to die in someone else's home video, Bother steps and spits at the fuse spark. Caprice resumes her quest to die by eating sage, which is "lethal in high doses". Granny gets to film this enthusiastically but Caprice ends up vomiting the sage at Granny. Meanwhile, the twins film Lil One riding the extremely fast clothing wheel. Caprice is captured on video again carrying a piece of railway track, to which Granny wonders what is her new track. Caprice finds it the right word, then drops and lays on the railway track awaiting a train to kill her. Lil One's next stunt involves him riding a bike to get pushed off the top of a tree to the ground by Bother.

Caprice would then try to bury herself six feet under in a grave plot with the aid of T-Bone. Granny notices a rope with a hook from a blimp looking like Caprice lowered to the partly buried Caprice, who becomes enlightened by the act of saviorship. As her fans rescue their "hero", Caprice grabs the hook and she takes off to the air as Granny grabs her foot, and Pfff stays behind feeling thrilled of the rescue. Granny shouts as she wants the fans to back off her "investment" just before a sudden rope pull has released her and fall to the ground. Ma arrives with her truck, is worried of Caprice's abduction by the fans, and tells the two to investigate the fans' plans before driving after the blimp.

Back in the house, Granny hosts a memorial service for Caprice that the children attends. As she prepares to play one of the viral videos, the front doors open and reveal Caprice kissing towards the crowd of fans outside as she is between her parents. With the children happy for her return, Caprice now loves the fame gained from her suicide attempt videos. After Triceps closed the doors, Pa asks his mother on what she's about to watch, to which the latter nervously reply "nothing". Pa persuades her to play the film, which is a eulogy of Caprice narrated by Granny and includes clips of the suicide attempts. The kids react by chanting "bravo", then Caprice wails and calls them "heartless monsters". Pa and Ma choke Granny, Ma rushes to her crying daughter, and Pfff observes his new video's likes. Caprice changes her mood to happiness again and touts of being the "best actress on the digital screen" and appreciates the film for being "gothic".

Arriving severely injured in a wheelchair and being equipped for the forthcoming stunt, Lil One flies uncontrollably from inside the house and crashes to the moon.