Crum-Step

"**Crum-Step**" is the third episode of season one of *The Crumpets*.

## Synopsis

Lil'One and Granny form a music act that gets popular overnight, while they and much of the family ignore the approaching birthday of Ma.

## Plot

Ringing a dinner bell, Pa notifies his children in the hall of Ma's return to the house next week and advises them to prepare singing for her at arrival. Lil One plays a drum kit outside the group of his siblings, but Pa keeps encouraging choir singing. As Pa begins singing with a microphone, Granny snatches it because her son's singing is "slow on takeoff", and she demonstrates a loud aggressive singing (which blows Pa's hat to T-Bone) and pretends playing a guitar with her windup key. Once Pa demonstrates a "romantic song" again, his mother leaves the room with the similarly-minded Lil One joining her.

On Granny's bed, the two play a video game in her laptop. Once Granny winds by shooting her opponent's head, they hear a "game over, you're dead" voice and realize that the video game's sounds is "music". They sneak at night to assemble a music concert.

As much of the family gather to practice choir singing, a loud concert disrupts the entire house and the neighboring McBrisks. Ms. McBrisk's online dating of "Furious Bull" gets interrupted, and Cassandra, who is reminded of her love interest Pfff, runs to the Crumpet house. The family investigates an empty, noisy concert set up in Ma's workshop. Once Granny and Lil One shout their new catch phrase "game over, you're dead", the noise startles and breakdowns Pa and he walks to the road outside. Uncle Hurry and Aunt Harried phone call each other in their car about the concept of "middle parties" and ask what their adoptive son Cordless thinks of this. While Hurry and Harried stare at Cordless, the latter responds to "look-out" just before the car collides Pa on the road. Being back to his normal state, Pa wonders why his brother's family are driving to the house, and learns that they have a present for Ma despite of a week to go. After the car hits Pa again, Harried hears the concert beat coming from the Crumpet house and she and her husband walk there.

Amidst the partying, the injured Pa is annoyed of T-Bone chewing his hat again. In the middle of the concert he megaphones and fails to stop the children and Granny from disobeying him. It's seen that Cordless is the mastermind behind the "Furious Bull" profile while he stays in his parents' car. Back in the concert, a soundwave pushes Pfff and Cassandra behind him to the wall; Pfff calls it "cool" and the injured Cassandra thinks he complemented her with that word. As Ms. McBrisk texts "Furious Bull" about meeting him, the concert audio blasts her house again and she walks to the Crumpet house to talk to the culprit. However, she stops midway between the houses and transforms into wearing a red party outfit, and as she runs to the concert Cordless follows her. Dancing inside, she gets pushed by Harried into Cordless and they dance alongside. Meanwhile, Caprice captures a video of the concert and uploads it to the internet, granting stardom to Granny and Lil One.

After the concert, Pfff, Hurry, Harried, Lil One, and Granny are already sleeping. Caprice, who is now a consultor, wakes the latter two and notifies them of the concert video having gone viral overnight. She announces her role as manager for the duo, who would have to produce more content. At the front door, Pa discovers the media waiting right in front of him, but Caprice pushes him and does the interviewing. A montage shows the success that the "Crumpstep" duo is achieving (including parodies of real-life album covers).

At the end of Lil One and Granny's meal, Triceps, who is also managing Crumpstep, fails to keep her siblings at bay from reaching the remnants of the meal, who they become fascinated by even the filthiest objects the duo interacted. Pa is annoyed on the children not rehearsing, and Caprice entices the siblings by holding a worn out nappy. After the children step on Pa, T-Bone chews his hat and Pfff takes it off thinking it's Lil One's nappy. Once Pfff goes off, Cassandra hears Pfff's name from Pa and goes after him.

In front of a camera, Caprice teases Crumstep's live tour which would come after the next concert. When Cassandra calls her for Pfff, she tells her he is only interested in his guitar. At the entrance of the concert, Triceps bars Pa from entering there and cites the dress code before throwing him to the wall. As she allows Hurry and Harried, she resumes halting her injured father from entering, then once McBrisk and Cordless went too, Pa tries again and Triceps beats him up. At Granny and Lil One's performance, Pa somehow reaches onstage and warns his children that three days are left to rehearse the chorus, then Triceps pushes and ties him up.

The Crumstep duo would be seen interviewing the media. Once they're told which member had the idea for the band, Granny and Lil One argue over the credit, hurl insults at each other, and fight before splitting their music act. Afterwards, Lil One talent judges and recruits Pfff (despite having an imperfect guitar skill), Bother, and Blister to the "Lil One and His Size McNappies" group, and Granny does the same for Triceps (who can sing and damage the ceiling simultaneously), Ditzy, and Ohoh to the "Granny and Her Denture Adventure" group. The next event has Caprice hosting a concert battle with the audience eventually deciding the winner. With the concert at its course, Cordless gets to grab McBrisk and prepares to kiss her. While Caprice witnesses the likes gained from the concert, the power shuts and reverts the room lighting to normal. McBrisk realizes that Cordless is trying to kiss her and then slaps him.

It's revealed that Ma terminated the concert, and she is surprised by its location at her workshop. Pa, who is still restrained, reaches a microphone and opens the celebration of Ma's birthday. Everyone on stage except Lil One (who doesn't like Pa getting "cheesy") and Granny complies to sing with Pa, and the concert crowd runs away in fear. Ma appreciates her husband singing for the occasion.

Cordless cries and looks back as he is in his parents' car leaving from the Crumpet house, and McBrisk chases that car wanting more fun with Cordless. Back in the house, Ma is celebrated with a giant cake. The reunited Li'l One and Granny emerge out of it and shout "game over, you're dead".

## Trivia

* This episode is also known as "CrumStep".
* The name of this episode is a play on "dubstep".
* The "Pff Crumpet" Facebook profile has behind the scenes clips for this episode. One of them is an alternate version of Ms. McBrisk's party transformation in which she grows breasts and buttocks before "magically" changing clothes rather than doing all in a spin; the description claims that it's censored.
	+ The other clips are other McBrisk concert shots without any lighting or shading effects. One of them never made it to the final episode, the one where Cordless grabs McBrisk and one of her breasts appears to rub his cheek. Another one has Cordless holding her as in the final episode but actually gets to kiss her.
* This is not the only episode where Ma's birthday gets celebrated. Her birthday also occurs in "Puppy Love".
* The "game over, you're dead" phrase is also used in the French dub.