DON’T HUG ME, I’M SCARED

Watch them all. I ask that of you.

No one get this? No comments?

Sorry Eds doesn’t work for me for some reason.

eddie wrote:
No one get this? No comments?

I don't get it.

Nor me , but I'm old and thick !

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (often abbreviated to DHMIS) is a live-action/animated surreal horror comedy web series created by British filmmakers Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling. It consists of six episodes, released from 29 July 2011 to 19 June 2016 through the artists' website, and later to YouTube and Vimeo.[1]

Each episode starts like a typical children's series, consisting of anthropomorphic puppets akin to those featured in Sesame Street and other popular children's TV programmes. The series parodies these programmes by juxtaposing this 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 gore and psychological horror. The six episodes explore and discuss the subjects of creativity, time, love, technology, diet, and dreams.

Each episode revolves around Yellow Guy, Red Guy and Duck Guy meeting one or several anthropomorphic characters, who begin a musical number related to a basic concept of day-to-day life with an upbeat melody similar to that of a nursery rhyme. As each song progresses, it becomes apparent that its moral or message is nonsensical or self-contradicting, and that the "teacher" character has ulterior or sinister motives. The climax of each episode typically involves a shock element with use of graphic violence, and sometimes other coercive or warped themes.

Episode 1: Creativity
The first episode begins in a kitchen. A singing sketchbook teaches the main characters to "get creative", singing about childlike activities. Most of Yellow Guy’s ideas are arbitrarily judged by the sketchbook to be non-creative. The climax of the episode is an exaggerated depiction of creativity in which Yellow Guy and Duck Guy become operated by people in suits, like Red Guy, and dance increasingly erratically and engage in deranged acts like covering a heart in glitter and serving a cake made from internal organs, complete with shaky camera shots and increasingly frantic music. The words "get creative" can be found hidden in this part everywhere. The video ends with everything seemingly restored to normal and the sketchbook telling the puppets, in a final line of the song, to "never be creative again".[2] The episode premiered on 29 July 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Hug_Me_I%27m_Scared

Raggamuffin wrote:I don't get it.

To me it seems to be saying what can be like to be an artist, in that it's all fun and games at first when you try to get creative, but the deeper into it you get, the more you can find yourself thinking some dark and disturbing things.

Just my take.

“As each song progresses, it becomes apparent that its moral or message is nonsensical or self-contradicting, and that the "teacher" character has ulterior or sinister motives”

That’s it. It’s about some/most TV brainwashing children.