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Chibi S1E1 Ruby Makes Cookies & S1E2 Cat Burglar

Chibi S1E1 Ruby Makes Cookies




So let's cover the title sequence real quick. There's not a lot to it. To a short fast-paced tune, the three components of the series logo ("RWBY" in usual font, "CHIBI" in unusual font, Ruby's emblem) drop in as if they're objects under cartoon gravity; then Team RWBY (now in chibi form) pop out to pose around it, some looking happier than others.



The episode proper opens on what I infer to be a kitchen. Visible on the freestanding kitchen bench are a mixing bowl (containing a spoon), a packet of "CHOCO CHIPPIES" (that's adorable), two eggs, and a bag of flour. I wonder what this could possibly mean (/s /s /s). If I compare this to the cookie recipe that I have lying around, the most glaring absence from this scene is sugar.

A little dramatic zoom in (but only a little one) soon heralds chibi Ruby rising from behind the bench with a characteristic smile on her face. The music has started; it's fairly domestic.

(I learned after first draft that this is a rearrangement of Gold from the V1 soundtrack. Which is cool and all, but. That song is basically about Yang raising Ruby. Yang is nowhere in this skit at all. Think about it [and be sad].)

Ruby is trying to break an egg, in a manner so exaggerated that it can only end in disaster. I'm thinking that the source of comedy here will be the juxtaposition of the music and Ruby's miserable failure.

I was not entirely correct. Ruby initially was not exaggerated with the egg, but soon lost patience. The result was not quite a disaster, but these cookies will contain eggshell. Also how are eggs the first ingredient?

The other egg is handled offscreen. Next, the flour. It doesn't want to come out of the bag. Until it all does at once, while Ruby was holding it upside-down. There were better ways to have attempted that.

(This has reconverged on something resembling my cookie recipe - if you assume that the bowl initially contained a mixture of sugar and butter.)

The flour cleanup is also handled offscreen, for maximum comedy. The chocolate chips are now open. Ruby rises from behind the bench again to grab them. She snacks on one. Understandable. She realises they're good and keeps going. Not such a good idea. These cookies are about to be choc-chip-less.

Not sure how many choc chips might (or might not) have made it in. The mixing spoon is now stuck in place. Ruby is now making a great physical effort to move it. I've seen this gag literally thirty seconds ago, it's going to unstick all at once and go badly. ...It's not. It's not unsticking at all no matter what Ruby tries. Ruby is just slapsticking herself around the kitchen. Poor Ruby.

Ruby abandons the bowl and eats more choc chips.

All evidence of attempted baking is now gone, replaced with a glass of milk. Ruby rises up from behind the bench again, inexplicably wielding a cookie.

The cookie does not fit in the glass. Ruby makes, I think, her first phonic vocalisation in chibi form: "Noooooo-~!", going high-pitched halfway through as she realises she's falling backwards off the bench, cookie still in hand. The music ends. After an appropriate comedic pause, the glass leaps off the bench after her.

This has been an exercise in feeling bad for Ruby.

{#1: The screen wipes to somewhat pale rose petals, then Ruby jumps at the camera slashing Crescent Rose.}



There is a picture on the wall, of a donkey with no tail and a crosshair on its hindquarters. ...This must be a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey.

The slow zoom out abruptly becomes a swift pull-back-to-the-side to make room for chibi Weiss, in a red blindfold, to fly in and pin the tail on the shadow underneath the donkey. By the laws of comedy, Weiss remains immune to gravity until Ruby, offscreen, declares her to have missed. Even afterward, as Weiss curls up in exasperation, her weapon (the implement of tail-pinning, for maximum comedy) remains perfectly perpendicular to the wall in defiance of how shallowly it's anchored.

{#2: Over another rose petal wipe, Ruby corkscrews, wielding Crescent Rose.}



Ruby enters Team RWBY's dorm room to find nobody else present. "I guess I'll go check out the courtyard," she says, only to trail off as she spots the titular book poorly hidden under Blake's pillow. After checking thoroughly for hidden Blakes, she picks it up and examines it. "Ninjas, huh," she says. Uh oh.

{#3: A grey smoke cloud wipes onto screen. Blake anchors Gambol Shroud at the top center of screen and swings by, wiping the smoke off again.}

Ruby is engrossed in the book. Now her reactions imply she's found the spicy bit. She's enthused, flipping a few pages forward to find what looks like a fold-out artwork. Imagine the printing costs!

"Now that's a katana," declares Ruby to nobody in particular. Being Ruby, there's a 99% chance the katana is not figurative; being chibi Ruby, I can't rule out that last 1%.

{#4: Orange smoke fills the screen from below as Yang drops in from a top corner. She doesn't stick around, leaving by recoil-propulsion via the other top corner.}



Weiss and Yang are in combat stances in a Beacon courtyard, preparing to spar.

Weiss attacks first, a sword slash that Yang ducks under. Yang dodging? This really is sketch comedy. Yang's retaliatory punch is repelled by a Glyph.

Yang blocks Weiss' next hit on one gauntlet, and punches with the other. Weiss' weapon goes clattering away. Yang leaps in for the kill, only to find her gauntlets aren't loaded. Weiss pokes her tongue out (goodness me, this has to be sketch comedy). Weiss forgot that Yang can still punch.

{#5: Another grey smoke cloud is punctuated by Blake somersaulting into frame, then leaping backwards in a different direction.}



Blake looks under her pillow for something, can't find it, and starts to frantically search the communal bookshelf (where she canonically put it in the very beginning). She soon looks up to see Ruby, who holds the book and growls at her.
"Ruby, is that my book?"

"This is filth! FILTH!"
Ruby socks Blake in the face with the book and stalks off (still holding the book).
"Can I have my book back?"

"Later!"
Ah yes, that kind of filth.



The transition to credits is a cut through what looks (and sounds) like a television test pattern, except naturally it's coloured in red, white, black, and yellow. {{I've seen this in some of the YouTube videos I was watching instead of starting on this; apparently it's canon.}}

There's not too much exciting about the credits themselves, except the music.

How much positivity could you pack into fifteen seconds? Less than the Williams duo just did.



Chibi S1E2 Cat Burglar




The title music is the second half of the credits music, sped up (even further) and minus the lyrics.



A news report establishes that a "cat burglar" is currently threatening Vale, complete with ample cat puns. Blake looks exasperated at the puns; the rest of Team RWBY looks concerned, and look at Blake.

I think this room is some kind of common area in the Beacon dorms. Over the back of the couch to stage right I can see a kitchen area reminiscent of where Ruby attempted cookies, and the tables and doorway visible stage left resemble the context of Weiss attempting a party game.

...I think Team RWY are concerned that the "cat burglar" may attempt to steal Blake, which would fit with all the other cat puns in the news report.

...No, I'm entirely wrong, or at least Blake thinks so. She reckons that Team RWY are silently accusing her of being the burglar because she's, quote, "part cat". She stalks off, threatening to report them to Professor "Glynda" Goodwitch. The kicker is that she was swiping a Scroll, a cookie, and another object (I can't tell what it is) off the tables even as she said that. I was getting the feeling that that was going to happen; the laws of comedy demanded it.

"You all disgust me," declares Blake, before grabbing the potted plant near the doorway and blurring away.

Ruby and Yang look at Weiss. Weiss looks back, then shrugs.

Blake blurs back into the room, dives over the top of the couch to steal the remote(?) from Yang's grip, then blurs away again. Immediately the sound of a motorbike starts outside, followed immediately (there's not a lot of time per skit and they used most of it on silent stares) by a breaking news report of a "high-speed chase" of the "cat burglar".

Oh no, Blake stole Bumblebee. I didn't put that together when I heard the motorbike engine.

I maintain that it would have been funnier if someone had stolen Blake.

{#6: A wipe made of Schnee-emblem snowflakes, heralded by Weiss' weapon.}



In a Beacon courtyard, Weiss is ice-skating. She's having a great time.

Team RBY are not - they're embedded in the ice at about waist height. "So, this is the last time we invite her to the pool, right?" asks Yang. Ruby and Blake agree. Weiss wordlessly proclaims her inherent superiority.

#LetWeissIceSkate

{#1}



Out the front of Beacon's amphitheatre entrance, Blake dramatically prepares Gambol Shroud and throws it at Yang, who catches it. The score is helping it all be very dramatic as Ruby sizes up the taut ribbon... and by the laws of comedy, uses it as the world's most overqualified skipping rope. It's hard to tell on the chibi models' faces, but I think Blake looks very put-upon.

Ruby's chant was about Jaune. Camera does a 180 to reveal Jaune, who is injured in a way that suggests that the chant was spot on. The real comedy here is that Blake apparently always reads by candlelight.

{#4}



Blake looks very, very unimpressed as Yang enters the dorm room in front of her and offers a gift: a ball of yarn. Blake also sounds very unimpressed.

A strict reading of the laws of comedy would suggest that Blake is required to play with the ball of yarn in exactly the fashion she just said she wouldn't. But the thing about comedy is that if it always follows predictable laws, it gets boring, and boring is the opposite of funny. So instead Ruby flies in from the door behind Yang and starts playing with the ball of yarn. Being chibi Ruby, she does it on destructive fast-forward. Neither of her teammates present was expecting that.

{#5}



Zwei enters the dorm room, slowly at first. He seems to find whatever he was sniffing for and heads for the camera. Then he detects something else in the visible corner of the room. He barks in that direction, advances, growls, prepares to pounce, and is called away by an unseen Yang whom he knows better than to ignore.

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Blake was hiding in that corner. How did she possibly fit behind that reading light? Well, you get desperate sometimes.

I was expecting Zwei to return once Blake let her guard down, but no such thing occurs. Cut to credits, with music from the episode score this time.

I guess Weiss has been out ice-skating for a while...



The reupload stitches both episodes together by starting the Cat Burglar skit immediately after the test pattern of Ruby Makes Cookies.

The credits are de-emphasised and mixed together (to Cat Burglar's credits audio, which is an insult to We're All Chibi, although it is the easier one to lengthen to fit more credits slides in) in favour of someone speaking a channel outro, although I have to admit "do things to bells" is a new spin on a clause of the 'like, comment, subscribe' spiel. Also, fun YouTube note, the last time he says "subscribe" is punctuated by the actual Subscribe button lighting up rainbow.
 
Chibi S1E3 Reloading & S1E4 Fighting Game

Chibi S1E3 Reloading




The sound of a ringtone. Cut away from black to Jaune being Jaune (i.e. harassing Weiss by Scroll call), but in chibi form (i.e. even more cringe comedy). It is merciful relief to me when he overdramatically (for comedy) slips on a loose pebble.

{#1}



For some reason, Ruby is using the courtyard as a firing range. For some reason, Weiss is being her voice-operated autoloader. Don't think about it too hard.

Maybe think about it a little harder than Ruby did - she called for gravity ammo without the slightest preparation for its enhanced recoil (which is canon, I think, if maybe not to that ridiculous degree). Weiss hesitates before handing it over; as the inevitable consequences occur, the music stops, then Weiss facepalms.

{#7: Just Crescent Rose pinwheeling by on a pale-rose-petal background.}



Jaune continues to Jaune. This skit makes a lot more sense if he's talking to Weiss' answering machine.

Jaune's low self-esteem strikes again. I'm actually slightly sympathetic now. We'll see how long that lasts, given this is Chibi.

{#5, but without its usual dramatic musical accompaniment.}



Yang has decided that she's playing tag with Blake. Blake utterly no-sells her with shadow clones. Over and over and over again. It's almost sad.

{#6}



Jaune has thrown away my sympathy by progressing into anger.

Jaune invokes "if [Weiss was] here right now", so by the laws of comedy, cue Weiss. Apparently she lost her Scroll, explaining why she didn't so much as acknowledge the existence of any of Jaune's voicemails. Jaune now has a problem: most of said voicemails are now ticking time bombs.

Blake has found the offending device. Jaune immediately smashes it, which is a comedically appropriate response, but terrible in every other way, including 'destroying the property of others' and 'how do you know that voicemails are stored on-device with no remote backup?'. He then takes a few moments to gather himself, then leaves nonchalantly (without his own Scroll). Neither Weiss nor Blake have any words for this, and neither do I.

{#8: A single large Glyph heralds a wipe to blue. Weiss chases after it in a way I'd more expect out of Blake.}



Zwei appears at a common room doorway. He tries to look in the bin (he can't reach), then under the nearest chair to the doorway (he can't fit). He wanders off deeper into the room.

The freezer swings open to reveal a very cold Blake. It might be funny if I didn't lose a couple of degrees in pure placebo sympathy.



{{Wait holy cow is that the legendary Mojojoj credited as a concept artist?}}



Chibi S1E4 Fighting Game




I'll give you one guess what Ruby and Yang are doing. Yang, scoring the tying game, basks in her superiority as Ruby loses sorely.

Proceedings are briefly interrupted by Zwei dragging an insensate Blake past the dorm room door. This is why you don't hide in a freezer, kids. While Yang is briefly scolding Zwei, Ruby discards Yang's Scroll and starts the next game. Yang notices the game start, but can't find her Scroll to play it, so goes full fireball. Ruby seems to appreciate that she might be in danger.

(I don't think that the game graphics on their Scrolls have anything to do with the implied gameplay state. Low-budget animation strikes again!)

{#2}



Ruby rises dramatically from behind ...some kind of icy surface? And starts applying a hammer and chisel to it? ...Oh, I see, "ice sculpture contest". I wonder how this is going to go heartbreakingly wrong.

Ruby makes little progress on her iceblock before stopping for a breather. Pan to Weiss, who just applies Glyph to will hers into shape. Pan to Blake, who doesn't have an iceblock. Ice clone time? Ice clone time.

Ruby gives up and wanders off. "Look at me, I use Dust, I have a cool Semblance, life is so easy." So that's how.

{#5, still with no music. I think that's normal.}



Yang, with great exertion, pushes a stereotypical giftwrapped box into the dorm. It is an apology present for Blake, she explains to a guarded Blake. The laws of comedy require this to be another cat toy, which is going to let all the air out of this heartwarming atmosphere.

It's not. It's a tea set. There is exactly one way for this to go heartbreakingly wrong and I hope it doesn't.

...Oh my gods, Blake actually barely cares about the tea set, she's in it for the box. Yang's disappointment is legendary. Okay, one-and-a-half ways.

{#4}



Yang is playing I think the same fighting game on her Scroll. Team RWB are taking turns to poke her with sticks. I'd say this can't go well, but we just learned what happens when I'm certain about the upcoming joke.

Yang goes at least half-fireball.

Are those. Have Team RWB put marshmallows on those sticks. I think they h*cking have.

(Is this continuity? Did Ruby hatch this plan after last time?)



The credits music, which doubled as the in-game music, appears to be an 8-bit remix of Red Like Roses Part 2. I have extremely (re)mixed feelings about this.



Reuploaded:
 
Blake reading by candle stick is a call back to the sleep over prior tot initiation, also yeah the Jaune & Weiss stuff is cringe at best, RWBY Chibi's comedy was always extremely hit or miss to me,. I am legit curious how ese the tea set could have gone wrong if Blake had liked it?
 
Blake reading by candle stick is a call back to the sleep over prior tot initiation
Yep! Chibi just assumes it wasn't purely a situational thing. Although I guess the reappearance of the candelabra in V01C09 could also have implied otherwise...

also yeah the Jaune & Weiss stuff is cringe at best, RWBY Chibi's comedy was always extremely hit or miss to me,.
I reckon it's a law-of-large-numbers thing: with this much rapid fire, some of it is bound to miss.

I am legit curious how ese the tea set could have gone wrong if Blake had liked it?
We know what happens to tea sets around Yang:
Yang snaps and shatters the table. Vernal enters with a gun trained on Yang - not sure what that would accomplish - and starts a chorus telling her to simmer down a bit: Vernal orders, Weiss pleads, and Raven mocks while implying she knows anything about Team RWB, which is counterproductive. (Raven's tea set has survived the untabling just fine.)

[...]

At Qrow announcing his return, Ruby yields to Ren and takes a tea set back to the main room, and proceeds to drop it (RIP, much less survivable than Raven's) when she discovers that Weiss and Yang came with.
 
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Chibi S1E5 Sissy Fight & S1E6 The Vacuum

Chibi S1E5 Sissy Fight




Never mind the ad for RTX 2016.



Dare I ask why Team RWBY's partner-pairs have swapped outfits?

It took me a few attempts to work out what Yang said through a mouthful of something, but eventually I worked out that it was "Great costume party, sis!". Ruby shares that opinion. I fear that Weiss and Blake might not. Okay, maybe chibi Weiss might, but Blake looks very put-upon. (But I always think chibi Blake looks like that, so I might be wrong.)

The joke here is Jaune in a spare copy of Weiss' outfit. ...No, the real joke here is same-outfit-faux-pas. (shrugs)

(The music here is a rearrangement of I Burn, aka Yellow Trailer. I conclude that the verses not heard in said trailer are where they hid all the profanity they couldn't write into the show.)

Offscreen Nora doesn't see any problem with this. Apparently Nora's voice is just really recognisable to me.

{#3}



Blake cleans out her ears. All four of them.

That's it. That's the whole thing.

(shrugs)

{#7}



Ruby attempts to construct a house of cards. I wonder how this will go terribly wrong.

Oh, that's bigger than I thought at first.

It nearly goes terribly wrong when Weiss barges into the room, slamming the door open, to accuse Ruby of stealing her notebook. (Reminder that Ruby does canonically steal Weiss' note repositories.) As per the laws of comedy, Weiss soon spots it on the desk near the door.

It does not go terribly wrong when Weiss leaves, leaving the door open.

It does go terribly wrong when Weiss reconsiders that and, wearing her best chibi happy face, slams the door shut behind her.

{#6}



As we pan over the common room, it appears to have been freshly cleaned to within an inch of its life. Finish panning on Weiss, wielding a broom and looking very pleased with herself. The implication is that she did it. I wonder who's going to make a mess all over it. Given that this is Chibi, it could be anyone.

Honestly, my first thought was Ruby. Possibly my subconscious thought she might try to exact revenge for the house of cards. And I was spot on, because here she is leaving muddy footprints through it. Very deliberately, if I'm reading this right. This is how the feud begins.

{#9: Crescent Rose and Weiss' weapon hurtle in from opposite sides of the screen, bounce off each other in a fashion that looks mildly painful (plain grey background), then go hurtling off back to where they came.}



Ruby and Zwei are in the courtyard playing fetch. To clarify, Ruby is doing the throwing and Zwei is doing the fetching. You'd think this would be obvious, but, y'know, RWBY Chibi.

I see we're spoofing old Western gunslinger duels now. Weiss has taken the mud very personally indeed.

Ruby, you need better one-liners.

Zwei does his best tumbleweed impression.

The real question is how they're going to fight. For some reason I don't foresee their weapons getting involved. ...I was very wrong. ...Or not, both drop their weapons behind them on final approach and just slap at each others' hands. I see this one is the title skit.

{#4}



Team RWBY walk down the street, probably in Vale, Ruby retelling something that ends in "Now that's a katana.". The others all find it funny, including Blake, so it might or might not be the time we last heard it. Ruby is not looking where she's going and bumps into a V1-style shadow person. Apologies are exchanged as the latter continues on the other way.

Ruby attempts to rerail the conversation around the elephant in the room for six seconds before Yang decides to confront it: it's not V1 any more, so shadow people are weird. All four of them are relieved not to have been the only ones noticing. A great deal of lampshading ensues.

The lampshading turns up to eleven as Ruby points out her shadow doppelgänger some way down the street. I would entirely believe that the production crew reused silhouettes.



Chibi S1E6 The Vacuum




I'm guessing I'll be putting up with the RTX ad for this and another two episodes, judging by the dates.

Attack of the channelcruft, I swear. It takes 29 seconds to get to the actual content.



Weiss vacuums Team RWBY's dorm room. Chibi Weiss seems to be a big housework fan. She's definitely having fun here; I wonder what will ruin it.

Weiss leaves. Zwei appears from under her bed.

Blake appears from behind Yang's band poster. Don't ask how she fits. But more importantly, "I know, right?". Look, they're bonding over their shared distress. Isn't it precious.

{#7}



Team RWBY wander back into their dorm room, griping about their teachers (and lampshading how Professor Peach might as well not exist). Yang slams the door shut a bit too early, trapping Ruby by the cape. Oops.

Cut to Ruby sitting on her bed (the beds are massively oversized for the chibi character models) reading a magazine, with someone I can't identify (probably Yang) telling her to get a move on to class. Ruby acknowledges, says something about "Crazy kids" which leads me to believe I misidentified her book as a magazine, then hops down from the bed - except her cape is stuck under the book. By the laws of comedy, the book is heavy enough to keep her suspended off the ground and being strangled by her cape. Welp, this bit aged like the milk she drinks.

Cut to Ruby reading in the common area, making it clear that her cape is notably stretching over the course of this skit, which doesn't bode well for not getting caught in more things in a vicious cycle. Oh no Jaune's about to walk over it and get one or both of them killed. Mainly himself, it appears, because he's left muddy footprints on it. The only word Ruby has for this is "Dude.".

{#5}



Blake is reading that book about the man with two souls. In the foreground, if I squint through the soft focus, its sequel is in the stack holding up Yang's bed. I think I know where this is going. Of course, I've been wrong before. For structural reasons I've been wrong about Chibi skits very frequently.

I was right: Blake sets aside the book, implying she's finished it, and starts sizing up the sequel. (In focus, its subtitle is "The Man with Four Souls", which is somewhat funny. The Ozma foreshadowing continues apace.)

Blake appears to settle on performing an Indiana-Jones-esque substitution, and assesses a number of candidates: a thicker book, one of Yang's gauntlets (what could possibly go wrong), a pillow, and Zwei (who rejects himself instead of Blake doing it). She settles on the book she was just reading. It seems to be about the same thickness, but I foresee problems with putting literature you know you like in the unusable stacks...

Blake is able to make the swap. Cue Ruby asking to borrow "the book you were reading". Someone better answer that Scroll, because I called it. Blake responds to this by fainting.

{#10: Jaune arrives from stage left and lands flat on his face on a white-to-blue vertical gradient. He picks himself up and looks around for an unusually long time, then walks off stage right. The background leaves via a transparency-to-next-skit of his sword arriving from stage left, then expanding to fill the screen.}



Yang gets most of the way into the punchline of an otherwise unheard joke before Jaune brings in the remainder of Team JNPR for their chibi debuts. Team RWBY appear to have seen V3 where Team JNPR either have not or are pretending very hard that they have not.

{{Clearly the latter, because here we have the famous "Nothing bad ever happened. Ever.".}} Nora's wide-eyed stare at the camera is what really sells it.

Team JNPR are just fine with Ren's suggesting that they "keep doing comedy segments". Fourth wall? What's that? (/s) Team RWBY are still shell-shocked, with which I sympathise wholeheartedly.



Hey listen, best credits music returns!



The reupload does not have the RTX ad or other channelcruft, making it a much more streamlined viewing experience.

On the other hand, no best credits music. On the extra hand, that's available separately whenever you want it.

(It has been alleged to me that in addition to the Subscribe button lighting up when mentioned, the Like button does similar. The latter isn't happening on my end, for some reason.)
 
Blake appears from behind Yang's band poster. Don't ask how she fits. But more importantly, "I know, right?". Look, they're bonding over their shared distress. Isn't it precious.

Vacuum cleaners give me a headache as is. I don't wanna imagine it with four ears.

Nora's wide-eyed stare at the camera is what really sells it.

And this is the moment where the Chibi writers acknowledged that while some moments might be in character/possibly canon for the main show if you un-chibied, this was a separate 'continuity' and they could and would go really random at times. Not always successfully, but still.
 
Yep! Chibi just assumes it wasn't purely a situational thing. Although I guess the reappearance of the candelabra in V01C09 could also have implied otherwise...
Honestly I could see Blake doing it for the aesthetic and vibes. I mean, she can see in the dark, so she doesn't a lot of like, so it being there for atmosphere would scan.
We know what happens to tea sets around Yang:
Oh my gosh there is a pattern, the previous volumes were trying to warn us!
Blake cleans out her ears. All four of them.
I think that may have been a meta joke, as lots of fans asked about how functional or even real her human ears were a lot, and or it was just meant to look cute?
Honestly, my first thought was Ruby. Possibly my subconscious thought she might try to exact revenge for the house of cards. And I was spot on, because here she is leaving muddy footprints through it. Very deliberately, if I'm reading this right. This is how the feud begins.
Hilariously the first time I watched this I did not realize this was a feud or Weiss was trolling Ruby, or that this is what led to the fight, I have no idea ow I missed this ><
Zwei does his best tumbleweed impression.
That bit was so cute XD
The lampshading turns up to eleven as Ruby points out her shadow doppelgänger some way down the street. I would entirely believe that the production crew reused silhouettes.
I felt bad for her and wanted them to be nice to her.
Chibi Weiss seems to be a big housework fan.
I wonder if this is a Seven Dwarves reference.
I believe they were the Camp Camp kids.
For structural reasons I've been wrong about Chibi skits very frequently.
There's a lot of structural humor going on here.
The Ozma foreshadowing continues apace.)
They can't keep getting away with this!!!
{{Clearly the latter, because here we have the famous "Nothing bad ever happened. Ever.".}} Nora's wide-eyed stare at the camera is what really sells it.

Team JNPR are just fine with Ren's suggesting that they "keep doing comedy segments". Fourth wall? What's that? (/s) Team RWBY are still shell-shocked, with which I sympathise wholeheartedly.
I recall a bit of fan art that had RT coming to collected CHibi RWBY from RWBY Day-Care to take them back to the main series, Pyrrha and Penny and Roman were allowed to stay in said daycare XD
 
Vacuum cleaners give me a headache as is. I don't wanna imagine it with four ears.
I have just remembered what a vacuum cleaner sounds like in person, and now I want to pat both of them.

Honestly I could see Blake doing it for the aesthetic and vibes. I mean, she can see in the dark, so she doesn't a lot of like, so it being there for atmosphere would scan.
(nods)

Hilariously the first time I watched this I did not realize this was a feud or Weiss was trolling Ruby, or that this is what led to the fight, I have no idea ow I missed this ><
To be fair, Chibi skits sometimes have continuity over the wipes (and rarely other skits in between), but mostly they don't, making it reasonable to assume that any given one doesn't until enough evidence piles up to indicate otherwise.

They can't keep getting away with this!!!
Narrator: They did keep getting away with this.

Me: (Does a little victory dance while singing) Called it, called it, said it all along!


EDIT: Oh, oh whoops, this was not meant to be here my bad!!
I'll allow it.

...So Yang is the one who knows tomato is a fruit, and Weiss is the one keeping her from putting it in fruit salads. You know what, I'd believe it.

(Ruby and Yang both have "energetic". It's like they're related! /s)
 
I have just remembered what a vacuum cleaner sounds like in person, and now I want to pat both of them.
Mood.
:3c
To be fair, Chibi skits sometimes have continuity over the wipes (and rarely other skits in between), but mostly they don't, making it reasonable to assume that any given one doesn't until enough evidence piles up to indicate otherwise.
Mhm that does make sense, thanks for the understanding, I fee less silly now XD Less, not totally un-silly, cos I am rarely never a little silly.
Narrator: They did keep getting away with this.
:rofl::rofl:
I'll allow it.

...So Yang is the one who knows tomato is a fruit, and Weiss is the one keeping her from putting it in fruit salads. You know what, I'd believe it.

(Ruby and Yang both have "energetic". It's like they're related! /s)
Thank you for your mercy XD

HAH, excellent summary that has me picturing an exchange like this:
Yang: It makes it healthier!
Weiss: It makes it a travesty!
Both: This is why we broke up!
Blake (Glaring at Weiss) They dated?
Ruby: No, but they are broken up in spirit.

Heh, true facts.
 
Chibi S1E7 Prank Wars & S1E8 Magnetic Personality

Chibi S1E7 Prank Wars




Channelcruft persists.



Team JNPR lurk outside a dorm room (probably Team RWBY's). Nora declares it's "Time for practice!". Pyrrha and Ren are ready for that; Jaune looks at his weapon and says he has to grab something first (so it's probably actually their room).

The other three blur off. Jaune looks into the room; by the sight of Weiss' weapon through the open doorway, it actually is Team RWBY's.

A very long time, relative to this video's runtime, is spent on Jaune peering in, sizing up his own weapon, and thinking. Team RWBY have all left their weapons lying around. Jaune's gaze locks onto each of them from right to left. There is a brief angelic-choir sound effect (and accompanying brief golden tint to the visuals). Uh oh.

(Fraud generally has three elements: pressure, opportunity, and rationalisation. Try to identify all three in this scene.)

{#7}



A bucket is positioned atop a door. When the door is opened, it of course falls, soaking Weiss in water. Team RBY find this funny, Ruby implying that it's cold water. I'm shivering in sympathy.

THE NEXT DAY

{{Uh oh, I think I recognise this one from an offhand reference in a fanfic somewhere.}}

It is as I feared: Just before the door opens, the bucket gets a radiance of ice Dust usage. It lands heavily on Ruby's head (interrupting yet another occurrence of Chibi's recurring katana punchline). She's left cross-eyed (literally) on the floor as Blake and Yang panic a little, then turn their wrath on Weiss, who would not have stuck around if she had any idea of the danger she was in. Or if she had two neurons to chat to each other, it looks like. Sympathy gone.

{#8}



An arcade, huh? With a shooting gallery, and something involving a hammer? What could possibly go wrong?

Sure enough, Nora, Yang, and Ren are unceremoniously ejected from the premises by the all-powerful Shopkeeper. (Yang is presumably still wearing her weapons; the others' are ejected separately.) As he slams the door shut, the sign changes from "OPEN" to "CLOSED FOR REPAIRS".

Nora stands, carrying Yang and Ren entirely on her head, and appears to have a residual beef with the place. A giant teddy bear (i.e. taller than her and more than twice her volume) is tossed out the door to effortlessly displace Yang and Ren. This is what Nora wanted, because that's what early Nora was like even without the Chibi factor. She leaves, abandoning her and Ren's weapons, and possibly also Yang and Ren. That's Chibi for you, I guess.

{#10}



Jaune tries out Team RWBY's weapons in their dorm room. Crescent Rose is too heavy for him to wield effectively. Yang's doesn't augment him much until he accidentally discharges it, at which point the recoil overwhelms him. Practice with Gambol Shroud goes better, which I'm guessing is mostly because he wasn't silly enough to try anything with the ribbon.

Jaune is less trying out Weiss' weapon and more just dancing with it while humming a song I probably ought to recognise but don't. Eventually, per the laws of comedy, he realises that he now has Team RWBY for an audience. How does he handle this? "Don't be jealous." Might even be the least bad option.



Chibi S1E8 Magnetic Personality




Oh hey, the RTX ad is gone already.



Ruby carries a large jar into the common room kitchen, and then comedically struggles to open it.

The struggle is extended. Ruby just cannot have a good time in this kitchen (except by ruining Weiss' good time).

Finally she slices it up with Crescent Rose, revealing that the contents (now sliced) were something resembling a very large pickle. There are other vegetable options, but comedy would suggest pickle because it's the most polarising. Her remark upon eating some of her bounty is "Ugh, dill!", which supports my theory.

{#4}



Yang strolls past a mirror set up near the dorm room door, then does a double-take when she sees herself in it. Is this skit going to rely on a weight loss joke?

Here's a montage of Yang exercising, so I guess so. Casually using Blake as a weight. Oh is this another I Burn rearrangement?

Fade through white to Yang strolling into the kitchen to grab a bottle of water. Here's Nora about to eat an entire cake. I can already see the punchline.

I could not already see the punchline: it is Yang getting envious-angry at Nora's superhuman metabolism.

{#11: Pyrrha's shield flies across the screen one way, heralding a wipe to a red-orange gradient (very Pyrrha-esque), then back the other way to remove it.}



Pyrrha is in the kitchen starting to wash the dishes. Nora drops in to say hi, startling Pyrrha {{here's PyrrhaScream.png}} into levitating every metal object and piling them onto her. This includes the oven/stove, for maximum comedy.

No, that wasn't maximum comedy, here it is with Pyrrha apologising.

Cut to outside, with Nora being excited that Team JNPR are going on a hike. Ren and Jaune do not agree; Ren is exasperated that they still haven't manage to leave Beacon. Jaune blames the compass he's glued to. Oh, I see, this is the Polarity skit.

Sure enough, Ren catches on first that the compass is pointing at Pyrrha. Pyrrha is the last to twig, except possibly Nora, who has been providing the funny background occurrence the whole time.

Cut to Pyrrha sitting on her bed magnetically twirling her weapon. She is startled by Team JNR entering and impales the ceiling light with it. And then Jaune says "Ren found this old stack of VHS tapes!". No. Oh gods no. I can't watch. and neither can they

{#7}



Team RWBY get in a lift, Ruby declaring they're going to the courtyard. Evidently Ruby has not studied the lift controls in any detail before, because it looks like she's never noticed that it goes below "Basement", through a number of increasingly implausible locations before finishing at "Super Secret Vault - Do Not Enter". So of course they go there. What does Chibi put in the vault? Are we getting an Amber cameo? Surely the world cannot be that kind and/or cruel.

That sure looks like the Aura transfer machine, but it's shrouded in darkness. The punchline is the Shopkeeper sweeping the floor. Team RWBY wisely flee rather than stick around for his wrath.



I think this may be the record (so far) for the size of a Chibi episode voice cast: Teams RWBY and JNPR, plus Shopkeeper. Also, skit name confirms that it was a pickle.



Reuploaded:
 
(Fraud generally has three elements: pressure, opportunity, and rationalisation. Try to identify all three in this scene.)
Opportunity is the open door & left behind weapons, pressure is self applied but born from Jaune comparing himself to other Hunters, rationalisation is likely from him measuring up his weapon against theirs?
That's Chibi for you, I guess.
They'll be fiiiine.
Might even be the least bad option.
"I meant to do it" is at the very least a shield.
I could not already see the punchline: it is Yang getting envious-angry at Nora's superhuman metabolism.
Was very much not a fan of this joke :/
No. Oh gods no. I can't watch. and neither can they
This one was cute XD
Are we getting an Amber cameo?
Honestly I could have seen a gag where Amber's either like a ghost haunting Cinder, or she's just like, a little sick? But otherwise fine.
 
Opportunity is the open door & left behind weapons, pressure is self applied but born from Jaune comparing himself to other Hunters, rationalisation is likely from him measuring up his weapon against theirs?
Two out of three! Rationalisation is how the perpetrator justifies the fraud to themselves. Looking at this through the lens of fraud, Jaune's rationalisation is that Team RWBY aren't using their weapons at the moment so it'll be fine if he borrows them. (Among the rationalisations the bank trains me to recognise are "There's enough money, nobody will notice" [they will notice] and "I'll pay it back later" [they do not].)

Was very much not a fan of this joke :/
Weight jokes can be fraught. I'm a weird outlier who's spent much of my life on the boundary between fine and underweight, but I couldn't keep doing that if I inhaled cakes like Nora does here, and generally the average weight of folks in modern wealthy societies trends upwards due to high availability of high-energy-density foods and low emphasis on exercise. It's pervasive RWBY fanon justifying the amounts the characters eat that Aura takes a lot of energy, and it's not like they don't exercise... I'm rambling. Point is, I wouldn't understand, my sympathies anyway. Goodness knows there's enough jokes that I'm very much not a fan of; law of large numbers.

Honestly I could have seen a gag where Amber's either like a ghost haunting Cinder, or she's just like, a little sick? But otherwise fine.
RIP Amber, earliest of the underused characters.
 
Chibi S1E9 Ren Plays Tag & S1E10 Love Triangle

Chibi S1E9 Ren Plays Tag




Weiss sits at the dorm room desk, studying or something. Ruby bursts in:
"I'M BORED! Entertain me."

"I can't right now, I'm studying."
Ruby continues into the room, radiating as much sadness as possible, verbally and otherwise.

Ruby asks about afterwards. Weiss, being chibi Weiss (chibi possibly not necessary), says she'll be pulling an all-nighter. (Protip: this is not great for your health.) Ruby proceeds offscreen, still playing up looking sad.

Ruby slides in from the other side of the screen (don't ask how, it's cartoon logic) and suggests studying together. "Ruby, I really just need to focus." Ruby is actually making crying noises now, hopefully faked.

Ruby slowly sideways-walks up to Weiss at the desk, isn't noticed, loses patience, and leaps into the ceiling. Where is this headed?

Ruby drops onto the desk and flops around, scattering everything (including Weiss). Sympathy gone.

{#12: Ren and his background (pink-green gradient) arrive from top of screen. I'd say it looked ninja-like if that wouldn't be repeating my old cross-Sea-of-Japan (aka East Sea, aka East Sea of Korea) misidentification. He looks around, then the transition leaves in a yin-yang-symbol kind of way.}



Jaune is attempting to hide behind a tree or something. Look, it's chibi Jaune, I'm not sure what he's thinking. Behind him is a bench, over which Pyrrha now appears to attempt a jump-scare, then just says "Tag!" while booping his nose. (Ow my heart.)

Jaune leaves (Pyrrha leaps away), swiftly spotting Nora attempting to hide in the next tree. I say "attempting" because one of her feet and half her dress are sticking out. Jaune taps the foot. "Tag!"

Nora retracts into her tree, and, being Nora, emerges headfirst out of the next one along to punch Ren (sitting on the bench below): "Tag! You're it!". Being Nora, gravity now applies and she falls and lands headfirst. Being Nora, this bothers her not at all, and she skips away with a giggle that I recognise perfectly as her countering sound effect in Grimm Eclipse. I'm not sure Ren even noticed, which sounds about right for chibi Ren.

No, no, he did notice. His eyes widen. Dramatic camera orbit. (Team JNP just visible in the background wandering off.) "I'm... it?" This won't be a Kuroyuri joke, this was released before V4. ...Definitely not. He's taking this very, very seriously, complete with inexplicable headband.

Cue montage (I'm slightly disappointed in myself for not recognising the basis of the music) of Ren doing pushups, then meditating, then balancing on one hand on top of Zwei. Now he's meditating while balancing in the updraft of a fan. Just Chibi things. This guy is going to be It exactly once in his life and that time is now, I'm certain.

In the common room, Ren dramatically catches a flying ...I think that's a breath mint... between a pair of chopsticks held in one hand and then eats it. Another, from the other direction, gets the same treatment via chopsticks in his other hand. Camera pans 180° to reveal Ruby, wearing an identical headband for some reason and looking very serious. I'm a bit lost. I'm less lost when Ruby stops looking serious and says "You're ready.". Then, being Ruby, she eats another mint.

Cut to Nora skipping happily down the dorm hallway. Ren lurks very dramatically just inside what the lack of bunk beds tells me is probably Team JNPR's room, but it seems too wide for that. (Maybe the chibi geometry is throwing me off.) At the right moment, he somersaults out of the room to land right in from of Nora. "Tag."

"Tag back!" says Nora, slapping him to the floor and walking off over his body. Yep, that's Chibi.

Dramatic camera orbit (and music) around the fallen Ren (complete with spiral-eyes). Then he snaps back to awareness and makes a sequel-hook kind of wordless noise.

My goodness that was a long skit. (The other one was almost as long, but didn't quite feel like it. Don't ask me why.) I'm also not very sure what I was meant to get out of it. Oh well, sometimes humour doesn't land.



If I remember correctly (which I might not), this is the first episode of Chibi not to feature Blake. Or Yang, for that matter.



Chibi S1E10 Love Triangle




A concerning Chibi episode title if ever there was one. But first, what the h*ck is this an ad for?

...I still don't even know. Fortunately, judging by release dates, I won't have to know or care ever.



Weiss stands around in the Beacon courtyard, tapping away at her Scroll. Enter Jaune. Uh oh.

Jaune proceeds to Jaune, heedless of Weiss restricting the pleasantries to a bare minimum and focusing very intently on her Scroll.

Jaune suggests studying together. Weiss pulls out a second Scroll for some reason, says actually she's more productive on her own, and leaves. I don't think Weiss' productivity was what Jaune had in mind.

There's so much camera focus on Jaune looking rejected that this skit can't be over and it's not going to be great.

I was absolutely right. Pyrrha walks up from behind Jaune and sends exactly the same signals. Jaune, being Jaune, misses all of them because he's busy feeling rejected (and also being Jaune). Chibi, why do you do this to me.

And then it got worse: Weiss (sounding very much like she's in a recording studio booth) inexplicably shows up behind Pyrrha, and the cycle repeats.

And then it got worse: Ren was watching the whole thing. "If only they could see what's right in front of them," he pronounces.

And then it got worse: Behind him is Nora, holding a sign reading "NOTICE ME!!" and festooned in hand-drawn hearts. "Yeah, if only!"

{#13: The gradient is white-green, this time arriving and departing by way of bone-shapes. Of course it's Zwei.}



Zwei stands on a plinth in the courtyard, motionless except for his tail wagging, which probably can't be seen from the front.

The purpose of this is that Ruby, Ren, Blake, and Nora are painting him. (As the goodest boy deserves.) Their painting styles match their personalities: Ren and Blake are careful and deliberate (Blake a bit more furtive), Ruby is flailing her paintbrushes somewhat wildly, and Nora has eschewed paintbrushes entirely in favour of putting paint on her hands and slapping the canvas.

It is to the latter scene that Weiss arrives for purposes unknown, and clears her throat. We now see that, in defiance of all logic except Nora-logic, Nora has painted a surprisingly good likeness of Zwei. "That's... good," says Weiss. I have identified the thing Weiss is holding as a clipboard, which leads me to believe that this is some kind of contest that she is judging.

Blake's somewhat better likeness is given "A for effort, but F for following the rules". I don't know what the rules were, so I don't know what was going on there. (...I'm blind, she has drawn cat!Zwei.) Ren's is better still, and is ajudged "It's... beautiful!".

The laws of comedy require that Ruby has painted either an abomination, or something that Weiss will have to grit her teeth and admit is perfect. We won't find out for a few moments, because Ruby is making last-minute finishing touches.

Ruby's painting does not quite qualify as an abomination, but it is quite clearly a painting of Zwei from the back. Weiss throws down her clipboard in disgust and walks off, heedless of Ruby shouting about her "vision!". Yes Ruby, it is a butt. No Ren, don't encourage this.

{#12}



Nora slides into Ren's personal space in Team JNPR's room.

Aside from Nora temporarily having four arms for comedic purposes, I fear for what those four implements mean for Ren. Ren sounds like he fears it too, but not enough to say no.

Ren disappears under an opaque pink cloud as Nora works her beautifying magic (complete with much cartoonish teleportation around the room). When he reappears...
"I look exactly the same."

"Subtlety is the key."
That concerns me: for Nora, "subtlety" is just 'being loud where the target can't hear'. Sure enough, the hand-mirror Ren was given only let him check his front; the back side looks mostly the same, except that hair has been removed in a pattern that looks distinctly like "R+N". We all know what that means.

In case anybody wasn't sure, Nora winks at the camera as she follows Ren out of the room.



The reupload was surprisingly difficult to find: the link on the wiki is missing an underscore at the start of the video ID, and so links to something else entirely that no longer exists.
 
Ruby drops onto the desk and flops around, scattering everything (including Weiss). Sympathy gone.
"You made me do this!" XD
her countering sound effect in Grimm Eclipse.
Damn you have a good ear, also neat that you played that!
Then, being Ruby, she eats another mint.
Gotta keep that breath fresh, plus she is the best person to go to for speed XD
I'm also not very sure what I was meant to get out of it
I think it was, gosh there's a term for it but its like subverted anticipation, like you build up to a thing, but the result is actually super minor, or doesn't fails.
No Ren, don't encourage this.
He respects commitment to the bit XD
for Nora, "subtlety" is just 'being loud where the target can't hear'.
This description is brilliant, I love it XD
 
Damn you have a good ear, also neat that you played that!
It's more that, in my quest to collect all the Steam achievements (paused indefinitely due to only having one friend), I played kind of a lot, attempting to spread playtime out over all eight characters. And about the best way to squeeze maximum ultimate charge out of each enemy (on one's way to the ultimate-related mastery challenges) is to counter a lot, because countering has the best charge/damage ratio. So I've heard that exact sound effect about two or three thousand times.

I think it was, gosh there's a term for it but its like subverted anticipation, like you build up to a thing, but the result is actually super minor, or doesn't fails.
Thank you very much for the hour I just wasted on TVTropes trying to find out if it had a specific term. I haven't found out yet, in case you're wondering.
 
Chibi S1E11 Nurse Ruby & S1E12 Little Red Riding Hood

Chibi S1E11 Nurse Ruby




Chibi releases on YouTube seem to be a major vehicle for self-advertising. Case in point, here's one for theatrical screenings of V2.

Oh hey, this episode is surprisingly long.



We return to the kitchen bench. The ingredients laid out this time are milk, flour, butter (it does exist!), vanilla extract, one egg, and what looks to be pancakes. I think that last one is a product rather than an ingredient. Camera trucks (it does not pan) over to Ren, who is making another pancake. It stops with the existing pancakes just still in view, removing the most obvious window for shenanigans.

Ren flips the pancake he's just finished making over his head onto the stack on the bench behind him. Mad skillz. As he turns back to the stove to get the syrup (which he kept there), the camera trucks over a little more than last time, and the pancakes are now just barely out of view. ...Yep, they vanish. He scans the entire vicinity, but can't find any evidence of contraband or culprit.

Cut to the exact same thing, but later and with more pancakes on the stack. This time he is diligent about splitting his focus between cooking and guarding, well enough to do both, and much less ostentatious about the flipping. I think he's focusing on the wrong security hole - he still has the syrup over by the stove, meaning he'll still have to turn to retrieve it, and he'll still spend long enough on that for the stack to vanish while his back is turned. ...I'm psychic. It went exactly the same as last time. Ren is not amused in the slightest.

Cut to the exact same thing, but crossed with the famous board game Mouse Trap: the completed pancake stack is on the floor with a giant metal cage suspended over it. This will either go perfectly and trap the pancake thief, or backfire perfectly and trap Ren. It's a coin flip. Speaking of flip, Ren adds the last pancake to the stack, carefully backs up to the stove, and turns to grab the syrup. The trap activates.

(gestures at the empty moon) Look at everybody who's surprised that it was Nora! On the other hand, she still managed to eat the pancakes. Being Nora, she has absolutely no shame, asking about the syrup. Being chibi Nora, she looks like she did that time she ate the entire cake, just stuck sideways under the cage.

Ren inverts the syrup bottle over her head. This being Chibi, it's all going to emerge at once. We leave just before that happens.

{#10}



For some reason, Jaune has set up a microphone in one of the dorm rooms. I can't see the beds to be sure which one. JNPR's dorm would make more sense, but the context clues are making my subconscious shout that it's RWBY's.

So this is that ASMR thing. I went and checked when it got popular, and at least on KYM there's no record of any major spike in interest in the months leading up to this episode's release (when it would have been produced), so I can't explain the thought process. Anyways, which members of Teams RWBY and NPR will inadvertently keep ruining this? Get your guesses in now.

No ruining yet, just Pyrrha wandering past the open door and silently looking exasperated at Jaune yet again being oblivious to her. My poor Arkos heart. Correction, I paused to write that about two frames before Pyrrha said hello.

Jaune has started his noise library that's not actually a library yet with an electric hair trimmer. I'm waiting for somebody to startle him into accidentally trimming a great obvious mark through his hair. ...No such thing, he's turning it off again.

Jaune is a fellow salt-and-vinegar enthusiast.

Nora has appeared at the doorway and subtly giggled. Let's all brace ourselves.

Here's Nora in the room about to jump-scare an oblivious Jaune.

The jump-scare is much quieter than I was expecting for that much inhaling - Nora just says "Hey.", at a positively restrained volume. Jaune still panics and falls over.

That's all, apparently. I'm not sure whether that skit was much longer or much shorter than it seemed.

{#8}



Weiss lies in bed and groans. Is this the title skit? You'd think it would have to be given the time left in the episode, but some of them get really short.

Ruby enters, gets mid-sentence through inviting Weiss on a social occasion, then notices Weiss being under the weather and changes strategies entirely.

This is Chibi, so I fear to think what "medicine" Ruby has just retrieved. ...Yep, Ruby has obtained supplies that would be perfectly suited for a convalescing Ruby. For added bonus points, the "motivational cat poster" is of chibi Blake.

This is apparently the only strategy Ruby ever learned from Taiyang. That's either funny or sad depending on your point of view. I'll go with sad.

Weiss appeals to Yang, only to discover that Yang thinks exactly like Ruby.



The credits have started saying that stories were by "RWBY Chibi team".

I'm not sure when the credits music appeared in the episode, but I can make a reasonable guess, given that it appears to be a rearrangement of Boop (V2).

The Rooster Teeth post-credits outro, previously familiar from the couple of times it turned up after Chapters of V2 and V3, has changed which scenes it uses. Previously, I couldn't tell you what was going on in two of them, and the third was the characters of Red vs Blue. Now, the first is Qrow as depicted late in V3, still not sure about the second one but it's different, and the third is Ruby falling off the bench in dismay at the end of the very first Chibi skit.



Chibi S1E12 Little Red Riding Hood




Another surprisingly long episode. No ad this time; just the omnipresent channelcruft then straight into "Junior Detectives", which means that we're likely about to get chibi Sun and Neptune. Well, here's Sun at least, striking up a conversation with Jaune, which Jaune promptly lampshades.

Why is Neptune sneaking up behind Jaune?

Neptune slaps Jaune's drink out of his hand. Sun and Neptune immediately declare Jaune to be littering. Welp, this just isn't going to be funny.

(It was not. It was very much a product of 2015/2016.)

{#1}



Team JNPR settle in before an improvised stage as Professor Ozpin narrates:
"And now, Team RWBY presents an original stage play, entitled: Little Red Riding Hood."
Let's all brace ourselves.

Ozpin continues to narrate - they must have gotten him on side somehow - as Ruby is introduced playing the eponymous main character. You know the core structure of the fairy tale, it's just being spiced up by some choice quips.

I somehow wasn't even thinking about the rest of the casting, but here's Yang as Grandmother. What are the chances that Blake gets typecast as the wolf? Probably higher than I'd like. ...Yang has apparently deviated from the script here and Ruby is not amused. I can feel the wheels coming off already.

Yep, Blake got typecast as the wolf and she's not happy about it. Ruby is not happy that people are asking stupid questions.

Zwei couldn't be cast as the wolf, explains Ruby, because he's the stagehand.
Ruby: "Plus, the wolf's a bad guy, and you can't be mad at that face!"

Zwei: (recognises he's being complimented, perks up, forgets to keep holding the rope by which Blake is for some reason suspended)

Blake: (impacts the stage, voice muffled by floor) "I can be mad at that face."

Blake brushes herself off and attempts to recover her dignity as the narration kicks back in.

Big Red Trailer vibes in Ruby pulling out Crescent Rose. Blake follows the script and retreats.

"Scene change!" calls Ruby. Zwei obliges. The forest backdrop is disposed of; the newly revealed backdrop is of the inside of a house. Zwei manhandles (womanhandles? doghandles? which one is even closer to correct?) Blake onto stage; Yang misses her cue and has to be reminded by Ruby.

Yang has hijacked the production. Ruby will not be happy. ...She is not.

Chibi checks Bumblebee off its list of shipping jokes to make. Oh, two for one! Just let me use a drop of brain bleach on that.

The play is rerailed, for the moment.

Blake, playing wolf-disguised-as-Grandmother, is now the source of choice quips. ...Oh the ears line, oh.

Yang has hijacked the production. Ruby is no less unhappy.

Ozpin has finally run out of whatever means he had to sound unflapped by all this, understandably. Enter Weiss, playing the Woodsman (to the surprise of absolutely nobody). Weiss protests her casting, and the questionable design of Professor Port's weapon. Does he know they have that? He's here, clearly he does.

Blake questions why the Woodsman is needed when Little Red Riding Hood is armed herself. The play disintegrates (as it was always destined to) as Weiss and Yang also vote no-confidence in Ruby's writing, Yang accusing LRRH of being "a total Mary Sue character". Which, fair; LRRH is Ruby's character basis (the only one obvious enough for me to get it blind), so it would be funny if she then based in-universe LRRH on herself, and funny is what Chibi is all about.

Maximum comedy is achieved when it occurs to Ozpin that classes are on and Team RWBY are meant to be in them. Or maybe he's just doing his best to end the ongoing embarrassment, who knows. Team RWBY flee in at least three different directions.

We end on the goodest boy. No word on whether Team JNPR were still there to see him.

Most Chibi episodes were shorter than this skit. Entire Chapters of Volume 1 were shorter than this skit.



I was fully primed to enjoy best credits music, then the ad-speech kicked in. The links it's talking about don't even show up any more.

We return to the older version of the Rooster Teeth post-credits outro.



Reupload confirms to me that Boop was playing during the pancake skit. It added to the humour by abruptly stopping whenever Nora swooped in.

Okay, so, you know how I said:
(to Cat Burglar's credits audio, which is an insult to We're All Chibi, although it is the easier one to lengthen to fit more credits slides in)
Well, I take that qualification back, because for this reupload they have gone and lengthened We're All Chibi somehow. I can't quite hear how over this guy talking, but they did.
 
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