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Medium Awareness: Crops up more than the web series, most notably in "Death". When the claymated blob from the "Create Your Own New Friend" kit comes to life, Yellow Guy exclaims, "Ugh, claymation!" Instead of making the show bigger and bigger [for television], we wanted to turn around and get intensely claustrophobic instead” — Baker Terry, Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared co-creator Art Directors Club Announces 2016 ADC Young Guns Winners". Animation World Network. 14 September 2016 . Retrieved 15 September 2016.
In the series, each episode starts like a typical children's series, consisting of anthropomorphic puppets akin to those featured in Sesame Street or The Muppets. The series parodies and satirises these TV programmes by contrasting its childlike, colourful environment and its inhabitants against disturbing themes; each episode features a surreal plot twist in the climax, including psychedelic content and imagery involving graphic violence, dark humour, existentialism, and psychological horror. Gilbert, Jan (1 May 2012). "Directors of Short Films at Sundance London". Sundance London. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013 . Retrieved 17 March 2014. Joseph Pelling as Red Guy, Colin the Computer, Brain Friends Theme Singer, Brain Friends Announcer, Big Red Guy and Bigger Red Guy Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: your guide to the cult webseries making the jump to TV". Nationalworld. 9 September 2022 . Retrieved 10 September 2022. Sundance Film Festival: Indie Episodic, Shorts and Special Events Announced". Sundance Institute. 3 December 2018 . Retrieved 26 December 2018.a b c Coldwell, Will (27 January 2016). "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: the puppets who sing, dance and eat raw meat". The Guardian . Retrieved 17 April 2016. With this explosion of popularity came a strong interest from broadcasters to adapt the show to television, but there always seemed to be a catch. “They’d say things like, ‘This show’s great! If you get a celebrity involved, we could commission it,’ or ‘If you adapt it to put in this other show, that could work for us.’ So many different compromises big and small, so we just resisted it all.” In the end, Channel 4 would eventually become the show’s new home. The show had a history with the network — Channel 4’s Random Acts division funded the second episode of their web series, ‘Time’. “Channel 4 just seemed to get it — we pitched a way of expanding Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared to them, which they completely understood,” Terry says. Guide, British Comedy (17 February 2023). "National Comedy Awards 2023 results". British Comedy Guide. Creepy Family: Lily & Todney's family, and how. They live in a disgusting-smelling filthy apartment, serve tea that looks like diarrhea and their "family tree" is a literal talking tree they keep in a dark room, festooned with photos of their relatives, most of which have been ominously crossed out. The tree also apparently feeds on the blood of unsuspecting guests. Also their brother looks 40 years older (to the point he gets mistaken for their father), and their father looks younger than them, dresses like a schoolboy and plays video games under their bed at night. At dinner, they're finally revealed as eldritch monstrosities with gaping, toothy monster mouths. Oh, and they kidnapped Yellow Guy to make him their new mum.
The creators have been involved in a lot of collaborations since then, including directing a Tame Impala music video, crossing over with The Amazing World of Gumball, and even creating their own line of Lazy Oaf clothing. With this increased profile, have they found any unexpected fans? “Elon Musk,” says Pelling. Musk has tweeted about the show in the past, and even referenced one of the show’s lessons on creativity in a 60 Seconds interview. “There are rumours going around that he dresses as Red Guy on his birthday,” says Pelling. Beggs, Scott (30 December 2011). "Year in Review: The 11 Best Short Films of 2011". Film School Rejects. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016 . Retrieved 17 April 2016. The television series explores jobs, death, family, friendship, transport, andelectricity. It was met with similar acclaim as the web series.Joy, Samantha (27 July 2016). "Five of the Best: YouTube Animations". TenEighty . Retrieved 16 August 2016. SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL: INDIE EPISODIC, SHORTS AND SPECIAL EVENTS ANNOUNCED - sundance.org". 3 December 2018. Mangan, Lucy (23 September 2022). "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared review – you'll want to watch this brilliantly horrible comedy again and again". The Guardian.
Aerith and Bob: "Friendship" features a character named Warren. On the other hand, Yellow Guy's name is so long it takes Red Guy half a minute to type it out, and apparently includes a hyphen. And his maiden name was apparently "Rat Eyes." Keep in mind the computer they are typing on isn't a qwerty keyboard. A long-form TV pilot was produced in 2018 with Super Deluxe, Conaco and Blink Industries. [22] The pilot premiered at 2019 Sundance Film Festival, appearing in the "Indie Episodic Program 1" alongside other short films. [23] [24] The idea, which involved "current affairs", was later scrapped, [25] and the trailer was removed from the YouTube channel. [26] [27] The setting, which Sloan attributed some roots to South Park, did not have "the timelessness and claustrophobia of the originals." [25] No. If you’ve never seen the YouTube series Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared before, it’s best described as watching CBeebies while in the midst of a fever dream. A demented take on Sesame Street, the show melds educational life lessons and a whimsical aesthetic (puppetry, animation, claymation, and so on) with a nihilistic philosophy and Carpenter-esque horror. Starting life as a YouTube short in 2011, it’s now become a six-part, 30-minute television series for Channel 4. It took a decade to get there, and along the way, its creators have faced compromising commission offers, extraordinary collaborations, and perhaps the most unusual superfan they could’ve ever imagined. In "Jobs", the puppets ask the employees at Peterson's and Sons and Friends if any of them have seen Briefcase, and one of them points them to a first aid kit. At the end, it turns out the first-aid kit was actually Briefcase in disguise the whole time.
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Watch: Banksy Dismaland Previ ew & Short Film Program". Slashfilm. 26 August 2015 . Retrieved 17 April 2016. The six episodes of the web series explore and discuss basic subjects typical of preschool education, namely creativity, time, love, technology, diet, and dreams, while the television series touches on jobs, death, family, friendship, transport, and electricity. The web series received widespread acclaim for its story, production design, psychological horror, humour, hidden themes, lore, and characters, and is regarded by many as one of the greatest web series of all time. The television series was met with similar acclaim. In "Transport", the Choo-Choo Man's song is done in a 2D animation style similar to the one used in episode 6 of the web series. Also, Yellow Guy has a dream that's done in stop motion. Furry Confusion: In "Job", the teacher is a briefcase who has a briefcase, causing Yellow Guy to say "He's one of those guys with one of himself".
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