The chaos escalates. “Sister, Sister” introduces Barbie’s little sisters (Skipper, Stacie, Chelsea) as agents of adorable chaos. “The Great Cookie Challenge” is a fan-favorite bake-off that ends in a flour explosion of epic proportions. Raquelle finally gets a quasi-victory in “Raquelle’s Revenge,” only to have it backfire instantly.

The show goes big. “The Dreamhouse Grand Opening” (a re-opening of the house after a “slight mishap” with a giant slingshot) and “The Movie” (a feature-length special where they get trapped inside a video game). The finale, “The End (For Now),” ends with Barbie literally winking at the camera as the Dreamhouse rockets into space—a perfect, silly, self-aware conclusion.

In the sun-drenched, pastel-perfect hills of Malibu, there stands a structure that defies both architecture and logic: the Dreamhouse. It has a roller coaster for a staircase, a closet that generates outfits like a benevolent fashion volcano, and a pool that regularly hosts sea monsters. This is the world of Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse , a web series that ran from 2012 to 2015 and redefined an icon.

Establishes the world. Classic plots: “The Labrymints” (a contest for the best party favor), “The Principle of the Thing” (Barbie becomes principal of the Malibu school), and “Closet Princess” (Barbie’s sentient closet develops a diva attitude). The humor comes from watching absurd premises play out with deadpan logic.

But the true gravitational center is Barbie’s lifelong “frenemy,” Raquelle. While Barbie is accidentally perfect, Raquelle is deliberately perfect and perpetually thwarted. Her schemes to one-up Barbie—whether by building a taller cupcake tower or cloning herself—collapse into spectacular, hilarious failure.