The Responsible

The Responsible is the second episode of Season 1 of the Amazing World of Pibby.

## Synopsis

Pibby and Bun-Bun babysit Tiffany while Collette and Erick attend a PTA meeting.

## Plot

The episode begins with Erick and Collette getting ready for a parents' evening at school. The doorbell rings, and Collette is greeted by a babysitter, Erick arranged for online, believing the job to be about literally "sitting on babies." Disgusted, she slams the door on him, after which Pibby and Bun-Bun present themselves as viable alternatives. Tiffany is horrified at the suggestion, but as their parents leave, Pibby promises not to disappoint.

Right from the start, Pibby and Bun-Bun prove to be as overly-protective as possible, not letting Tiffany go upstairs out of fear of a potential accident, destroying their television to prevent commercials from corrupting her, and mismanaging a subsequent electrical fire. Through it all, Tiffany proves more adept, properly extinguishing the fire and pointing out the holes in their logic, but ultimately, since Collette put them in charge, she is powerless.

Meanwhile, Collette and Erick are waiting for the parent-teacher meeting outside of Mrs. Garcia’s class. Collette tries to calm Erick down, reassuring that they are adults now and that Mrs. Garcia has no power over them, but their subsequent encounter only rings true to the contrary.

To cheer Tiffany up, Pibby and Bun-Bun decide to take her for a walk in the park, but she is dismayed at being attached to a child leash in doing so. While on the walk, Jeremy teases her with a dog biscuit, causing her to angrily bite his hand; seeing this, Pibby and Bun-Bun assume her to be hungry, and take her back home. They present her with a virtually inedible lunch, then proceed to chew the food up for her, which she then blasts in their faces with a straw. Seeing as there is a big mess, Pibby and Bun-Bun make Tiffany take a bath.

Tiffany reaches her breaking point when they refuse to let her even bathe out of fear that the water is too dangerous, instead insisting she dry clean herself. She orders them to leave, then, behind their back, continues to fill the bathtub. Bun-Bun hears this, but Tiffany says that she just flushed, which reminds Pibby that Tiffany needs to wear a diaper so she does not have an "accident.”

Sick of her brothers' ridiculous demands, she starts running around the house while Pibby and Bun-Bun chase her. Unbeknownst to the three, Tiffany forgot to turn off the faucet, and the water slowly overflows out of the tub. Tiffany manages to lock her brothers outside on the roof while she taunts them by deliberately disobeying their rules. She starts climbing down the ladder of their bunk bed to go take a bath "with real water" (as Pibby and Bun-Bun forbid), but falls into the rising water which is flooding the house. Unable to open the window or the door, Pibby and Bun-Bun are forced to enter through the sewers, coming out of the toilet inside to rescue Tiffany. The fireplace is the only opening to the outside, so they swim into it and are rocketed out into the sky from the chimney before falling painfully onto the sidewalk.

Back at school, Erick unintentionally reminds Collette that the kids are still home alone, which shocks Collette into speeding back home.

When the two arrive back home, Erick tries to calm Collette down and assure her that nothing went wrong, but as she opens the front door, all of the water spews forth, knocking them onto the lawn. Furious, Collette approaches the kids and demands to know who was responsible. Tiffany is about to take the blame, but Pibby wants to be responsible for once and confess it was his fault instead. Upon seeing the furious face of her mother, however, he blames Bun-Bun. The family then proceeds to give reasons why it was not their own fault and blame others, ultimately landing on Erick being inadequate at choosing a proper babysitter. With no one else left to blame, Erick blames the Internet. Ultimately, the whole family decides to go with that excuse, thus ending the episode.