November 22nd, 2022

DISCLAIMER: gore and horror and themes

 

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared is a web show turned into a tv show. The show was created by Becky Sloan, Joe Pelling, and Baker Terry. The first video was posted on YouTube on July 29, 2011. They didn’t think they would continue the series after the first video but after fans begged them to, they decided to continue. The second one premiered January 8, 2014. It took them three years to make a second episode in the series.

 

The web series follows Red Guy, Yellow Guy, and Duck as they learn about different topics, each episode ending where the last episode ended. It teaches you about creativity, time, feelings, and dieting. The TV show’s first season has six episodes on  transportation, death, jobs, and friendship. The TV series follows a Red guy, Yellow guy and Duck in their house waiting for a new character to arrive to teach them a new lesson. The show is made with puppets, but it does have different types of animation like live action, puppetry, traditional animation, flash animation, clay animation, and computer animation. 

 

It took them eleven years to turn it into a TV show. Their first attempt was with the media company Super Deluxe. The pilot premiered at Sundance in 2018. The pilot was called Wakey Wakey and it follows a town called Clayhill, where Duck, Yellow Guy, and Red Guy live, and the mayor Mr. Pigface is missing. Red guy goes to find the mayor, Duck finds the key to the city,  all while it’s Yellow Guy’s birthday. He became a punk that doesn’t want to follow Duck rules as the new mayor. The plot is lost in the media which means they can’t find the original full pilot anywhere. After the original pilot they started to make a new TV show with a different media company located in the UK, which came out this year. 

 

The creator Baker Terry said the show summary is “I suppose it’s like a kids’ show for adults,”. “We kind of want people to be watching it and thinking: ‘What is this? What the [….] is  this?’,” says creator Baker Terry. I guess they always wanted to keep the show small because they wanted to continue with the original topics of the show and keep it set up the same even though they grew a fan base.

 

In conclusion if you like horror, the Muppets and different cartoons, this is the show for you. After every episode the show resets like nothing. None of the crazy stuff happens from the last episode. It teaches you life lessons that kid shows would teach but when there is a climax it becomes freaky and weird and teaches you the wrong message of the theme of the episode. You should watch this show because the show has three lovable characters, very cool Easter eggs, and hidden meanings. It also has new characters and different types of animation. 

 

By Autumn Karolyi

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