The New Family....Thing..?

"**The New Family....Thing..?**" is the 4th episode of season 1 of *The Adventures Of Tachy Dixon* and the 4th episode overall. It premiered on YouTube on January 16th, 2022.

## Synopsis

The boys accidentally make a new...."pet"...And now have to take care of him while keeping it a secret from their parents, but that's easier said than done.

## Plot

In the cold opening, we see an alien and a robot stranded on the floating debris of a planet, desperate to get a connection.

After the intro, We see a slowly panning down shot of the front view of the Dixon house, as Tachy and Ralphie are talking about the new baseball bat they got. Cut to Jaden in his room, working on an invention. A baseball goes crashing through his window, which makes Jaden inclined to check out what's going on. Ralphie asks what Jaden is doing, and Jaden brings the two into his lab.

Jaden is telling the duo that he's creating the best house pet. He shows them the controls of the machine. Ralphie presses every single button on the machine and it causes it to malfunction, creating an amalgamation of animals into one. Ralphie loves their new pet, but Tachy doesn't, which makes Tachy want to destroy it, but Ralphie quickly stops him. He explains that it needs to be taken care of. Tachy asks Ralphie to give him the pet, in which Tachy tosses it in the trash. Jaden gets it out, and tells the two that they need to take care of it, and not tell mom and dad.

Later at the kitchen, the trio want to name the pet. Jaden and Ralphie come up with names, but it doesn't go through. Tachy notices that Mom and Dad are home, and are walking in the kitchen. Tachy panics and stuffs the animal under him. Mom and Dad open the door. Mom expresses how proud she is of Tachy doing well on a test, while the pet is chewing on Tachy's butt. Tachy tries to hide the fact that he's in pain to avoid exposing the pet. Dad says that they are planning to take the them to Almost Death Land. The pet bites Tachy's butt so hard to the point where Tachy yells out "FLARKINBARCH!". Tachy tells them to forget he said that, and they both agreed. After mom and dad leave the kitchen, Tachy places the pet on the table, and confirms that FlarkinBarch is it's new name.

Later at school, the boys show FlarkinBarch to their friends, in which Cindya tells them that they shouldn't have spent money on buying him. FlarkinBarch snatches Cindya's lunch tray and slobbers all over it. after Ralphie says that they're keeping it a secret from their parents, Francis disapproves of the idea, and suggests they should tell them, but they already left. At the park, Ralphie wants to walk FlarkinBarch, but FlarkinBarch dissolves the leash by slobbering all over it with acid. The boys chase FlarkinBarch as it spits acid on everyone, killing them. Later, Tachy finally catches FlarkinBarch. FlarkinBarch spits acid at Tachy, but he keeps dodging it. Ralphie grabs FlarkinBarch, and says he can sleep in his room.

Cut to next morning, the boys go to the basement lab to see that FlarkinBarch appears to be bigger after drinking growing potions (which Jaden used to dominate the world, as seen through Jaden's weird vision). After Tachy and Jaden bicker a bit, they realize FlarkinBarch is gone. They go to get him, but their mom is ready to go to Almost Death Land. Jaden makes an excuse to go later which gives them more time. One funny fake-out later, they fail to get FlarkinBarch.

The Dixon's are now at ADL. The parents go to the Love Rat ride, which leaves the trio to split up and find FlarkinBarch. They fail to find him, but discover him on the snake ride. Tachy finds him inside the snake, which FlarkinBarch bursts out of, and starts spewing acid everywhere. Jaden pulls out his shrink ray and attempts to throw it to Tachy, but Tachy gets eaten before he could throw it. One funny fake-out death later, Ralphie goes up and hugs FlarkinBarch to calm him down. This was really a distraction so that Jaden could shrink him.

The parents come back to see that the theme park had been completely destroyed. The boys end up explaining everything. The parents are surprisingly very forgiving and decide to keep FB as long as he doesn't cause anymore trouble. The boys listen to some gucci music, and the credits roll.

After the credits, M-16 proclaims he wants a pet now.

## Trivia

* This is the first episode of 2022.
* This episode is so far the longest time it took to release an episode, as episode 3 was about 9 months before this
* This is the first time Billy spoke in the show.
* This is the first appearance of FlarkinBarch.
* This episode had exporting issues, which led Tariq to have to record it off the IMovie project, which explains the video's quality.
* This is the first episode to show the new designs of Billy, Casey, and Jaden.
* This episode was the first time Francis and Cindya appeared. As well as their first speaking role.
* This episode is (technically) the first time the show's ever had an original song, which is the Almost Death Land jingle.