Don't Hug Me. I'm Scared

[SalmanBH]

A British 'children's television show' aired on YouTube series made by Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling.

Has anyone else watched the series? If so, what do you guys think? Any opinions or theories as to what is happening?

I've personally delved way too deep into this show.

Here are the videos for anyone who hasn't watched them yet.











Edit: I forgot to add a video

 

[ItGivesYouWings]

I really like this "show". The first one always get me.

 

[The Bman]

All I know is that green is not a creative color.

 

[JKgo]

.....Well, that was...something.

Holy cow. That WAS unsettling.

 

[Carlos]

Reminds me of Happy Tree Friends. Same weird humor..

 

[AOS-]

They always insert something mentally disturbing towards the end.

Don't know why I'm drawn to media where writers throw in whack stuff to trip people up.

 

[SalmanBH]

The story itself is actually much deeper than what any of you guys think. Any ideas?

 

[FoRiZon]

Dont touch me, im British.

Dont kiss me, im French.

 

[sems4arsenal]

What the?

 

[Bo]

'children's television show'

I think we need to stress the inverted commas here.

This is in no way a kid's show. It's slightly dark, complex oddball humour made in the style of a kid's TV programme.

Personally, and I've always seen it this way, they're a reference to creativity being lost through enforcing a set mentality when it comes to educating children. This is where it goes off slightly; the "creativity" could literally mean we're told specifically about what defines creativity in arts, or that what is deemed socially acceptable is only prohibiting the true human nature of creativity to be explored. I feel the latter has a better reach with its broader meaning, and it also makes some other points make sense.

The "twist endings" are a bit hard to decipher, the only real possibility I've thought about are creativity in the extreme being viewed as extremely bizarre (needless to say the endings are), but maybe it's just a grossly exaggerated example to prove the point of the videos and show how our social upbringing has impacted upon what we view as weird instead of creative?

The title... social standards again? Hugging? Or maybe the videos are just a bunch of random that make examples of people who try and look deeply to find hidden meanings in things.

 

[Com Fox]

I'm confused on how its humourous, I was sitting through all of them and nothing really got me... Sure there was a heart in the first one but none of this really stepped the boundries, its pretty simplistic IMO.

 

[SalmanBH]

I'm confused on how its humourous, I was sitting through all of them and nothing really got me... Sure there was a heart in the first one but none of this really stepped the boundries, its pretty simplistic IMO.

It goes much deeper than that. I think @hsv explained the first one in good detail.

The second one talks about how time is finite and how people should waste their time on better things instead of 'mucking around'. The clock does this through showing them how cool gadgets and computers are and how they should fill the void of time with pointless material things.

The third and fourth took a different route to explain their meanings compared to the the first and second videos in the series.

 

[Com Fox]

It goes much deeper than that. I think @hsv explained the first one in good detail.

The second one talks about how time is finite and how people should waste their time on better things instead of 'mucking around'. The clock does this through showing them how cool gadgets and computers are and how they should fill the void of time with pointless material things.

The third and fourth took a different route to explain their meanings compared to the the first and second videos in the series.

I just don't get the reactions people make, it ain't pushing anything new and I sit there waiting for something.

 

[AOS-]

By the same channel, still just as unconventional and surface-level disturbing.

Personally, I was amused what they did to illustrate the disaster... like the hand shaking flame, and the pencil ripping the tape.

 

[FoRiZon]

Looks like Adventure Time but with more Elmo.

 

[FoRiZon]

Ayyy guys. The last episode here!


It does explain everything whats happened. Enjoy the cameos. Say a farewell.

 

[Ken]

I'm strangely hooked.

 

[Brend]

Mega-bump, but I've got right back into this series since jumping ship after Time since I didn't think could top that episode. A fairly satisfying conclusion, some of the theories going around are insane yet seem to make sense. Time is still the best episode in my opinion. 6 was hilarious though.

'Rude...no clothes!'