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Red Guy was getting sick of how Roy kept creating the teachers for him, Yellow Guy, and Duck Guy, and how they always ended up making the episode into NightmareFuel and NauseaFuel, so he decided that, for once, he would create his own teacher - namely, Gilbert. Gilbert was the only teacher that was promoted before the episode itself was uploaded, so maybe, in a meta way, that image of Gilbert was not uploaded by Becky or Joe but rather Red Guy. Of course, Roy saw this, was like "Well, I'm not having any of this", and [[spoiler:turned on the teacher machine just as Gilbert appeared]] to bring Colin in.

In the last episode, Yellow Guy now has the teachers undivided attention, and still doesn't know how to act in school. The teacher tries as hard as he can to teach him, but gets fed up with his misbehaviour and drowns him in oil - stifles his creativity. As this happens to Yellow Guy, Red Guy in the real world remember his schooling and tries to apply it to the real world, only to find that everyone else has already forgotten their schooldays, and comes to the realisation that everything he learned there was all completely useless. He gets drunk to hide his sadness and performs the creativity song, wishing that he could be in school again. Roy's teachings about how the outside world has nothing good have taken effect, and Roy lets Red Guy return. When Red Guy sees the machine, he finally realises how corrupt it is, as Yellow Guy cries, the teachers still trying to break him. When Roy offers to let Red Guy return, he refuses and pulls the plug on the whole thing. The school reopens with a whole new set of students, but Roy isn't in charge anymore, Red Guy is. And now that he's a responsible adult, it's his turn to educate the children.

By the time the next episode comes around, Duck Guy has realised that he'll have to leave soon, and that he doesn't have an abilities that could help him in the outside world. He sees the lesson for what a shambles it is, the teachers incoherent and rambling, the songs vague and dull, and is terrified by that this means for him. He constantly tries to get the teachers to teach something useful, or even find another teacher that can help him, but he keeps being pulled back inside the lesson as Red Guy tries to find a way of warning him about what he's going to find. Eventually, Duck Guy gets kicked out for causing too much trouble, and has no way to survive in the real world and is torn apart.

Colin is the next teacher, and he doesn't care at all. By this point, Red Guy is sick of it all and doesn't even try to go along with the lesson, and due to Colin's inability to teach, and Colin just has his students go on computers instead of teaching them. Duck Guy, who doesn't want to learn anymore because he can't learn what he wants to know, instead turns to social media, a never-ending stream of selfies, trying to look good and get noticed, eventually distorting how he views himself until all he can do is scream. Yellow Guy goes on educational sites and plays all the 'educational' games on them, eventually realising that they hold nothing for them. However, Colin refuses to let them go. Red Guy is alone, the teacher isn't paying any attention to him, and he sees what he never saw before - he can leave. He's old enough and he has enough knowledge to leave school and get a real job. He does so, and when he arrives in the real world, he sees that he knows nothing about the real world, his education is a joke, and his mind is blown.

Because Roy's lesson still hasn't gotten through to them, he hires Shrignold and his cult (who are his former students) to be the next set of teachers. Shrignold lures Yellow Guy away and promises him that he can be happy with Malcolm. However, Shrignold's lesson is teaching the good of Malcolm and how he is the only saviour, and that goes against what Roy wants, so he steps in and exposes the Cult for what it really is. Shrignold finally makes his move on Yellow Guy in an act of desperation, and Roy shuts the lesson down, leaving Yellow Guy with a maggot in an egg. If Yellow Guy chooses the maggot, he accepts Shrignold's offer and will join the Cult and if he doesn't, he stays with Roy. Duck Guy, believing the outside world to be a dangerous place, destroys the maggot, trapping Yellow Guy back in the with Roy.

Because Roy's lesson still hasn't gotten through to them, he hires Shrignold and his cult (who are his former students) to be the next set of teachers. Shrignold lures Yellow Guy away and promises him that he can be happy with Malcolm. However, Shrignold's lesson is teaching the good of Malcolm and how he is the only saviour, and that goes against what Roy wants, so he steps in and exposes the Cult for what it realy is. Shrignold finally makes his move in Yellow Guy in an act of desperation, and Roy shuts the lesson down, leaving Yellow Guy with a maggot in an egg. If Yellow Guy chooses the maggot, he accepts Shrignold's offer and will join the Cult and if he doesn't, he stays with Roy. Duck Guy, believing the outside world to be a dangerous place, destroys the maggot, trapping Yellow Guy back in the with Roy.

My theory is that, had Colin not upstaged him at the last second, Gilbert would have actually been a good teacher. He would've sung an EarWorm-y song about the world, nothing would have gone terribly wrong, and nobody would have died. In the end, he would have come to the conclusion that the biggest thing in the world was [[spoiler: [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming the puppet's love for one another]]]], and then returned to being a lifeless globe.

[[WMG: DHMIS is a kid's show airing in the same universe as Series/TooManyCooks.]]

The portrait of the ancient mayor kind of look like him and the bird in the sinister machine seems to be him, maybe he will pretend to be him and/or brainwatch the Clayhillians?

There are a lot of references to the events of the original videos after all, the puppets are just portrayed with their original colors out of familarity and aesthetic reasons.

At least if it wasn't for Red Guy. At the end of Episode 4, Red Guy's [[YourHeadASplode head explodes]]. This might be an interpretation of getting his mind blown, where he realizes that doesn't ''need'' Roy to produce his show and that he can make his show on a low budget and publish it online (e.g. {{YouTube}}), while Roy believes what one can do in the computer is all superficial consumerism things. In Episode 5, imagery of Red Guy from outside looking in seen throughout the episode represents him seeing the show from an outsider's POV. The phone calls for Duck are him telling his friends that they don't need to sell their souls to Roy. Duck answers and tries to escape, but is captured, canned, and consumed, which can be an allegory of being fired.

[[WMG: The show literally takes place in NineteenEightyFour.]]

* Malcom represents how love is depicted, where guys are expected to shower their love with gifts (Gravel), in hopes of pleasing their girlfriends. They're expected to change their name (Getting married), clean their brain (Start conforming to what they want), and forget about anything they ever knew (Forsake former relations for their lovelife)

Because Roy's lesson still hasn't gotten through to them, he hires Shrignold and his cult (who are his former students) to be the next set of teachers. Shrignold lures Yellow Guy away and promises him that he can be happy with Malcom. However, Shrignold's lesson is teaching the good of Malcom and how he is the only saviour, and that goes against what Roy wants, so he steps in and exposes the Cult for what it realy is. Shrignold finally makes his move in Yellow Guy in an act of desperation, and Roy shuts the lesson down, leaving Yellow Guy with a maggot in an egg. If Yellow Guy chooses the maggot, he accepts Shrignold's offer and will join the Cult and if he doesn't, he stays with Roy. Duck Guy, believing the outside world to be a dangerous place, destroys the maggot, trapping Yellow Guy back in the with Roy.

* The Story of Micheal is basically a parody of biblical stories that, while still retold and held up to have a moral, simply aren't applicable to modern sensibilities. Compare to the Book of Job, where Job is continuously tortured and humiliated by God, only to keep his faith, all just because God and Satan had a bet.

* Micheal's special one is himself, AKA masturbation

* The third instalment also has the puppets (or rather just Manny) grow up wrong, as his loneliness and feeling unloved makes him susceptible to the brainwashing of The Love Cultists.

** Round 6 could be Psychology, due to the concept of "Dreams", [[spoiler: Red Guy being an social outcast for not thinking like the other Red Guys, and the emotional scarring of Manny]].

[[WMG: Alternative to the above: if the kickstarter is successful, Manny's dad will save them.]]

[[WMG: Red and Manny are siblings kidnapped]]

# For Sketchbook, Harry said that expressing herself with her hair was "boring". Notice that A) after he says it, Sketchbook repeats herself with a hint of anger in her voice, and B) this occurs ''before'' she starts putting down Manny's attempts at being "creative" (of course, this does bring up the question of why she's taking her anger out on Manny instead of Harry).
# For Tony the Talking Clock, there's Harry saying that he and his friends don't want to go on a journey through time and miss the show they were going to watch (Tony outright says "Don't be stupid"), Robin ignoring the song and making a card pyramid (which Tony perceives as "mucking around"), and then all three puppets questioning time (which Tony responds to with his ear-piercing "Meh, meh, MEH" chant).

Manny said he loved the tree, but Shrignold said he shouldn't love the tree and that isn't how it works, even though the tree is not diry and can talk. He's also a member of the cult. Considering he tells him that you can't love anyone else unless that is your wife, he might think that his friends don't even exist.

* The third instalment also represents an internal fear, as it's about Manny's desire for love leading him to join a ReligionOfEvil.

* The fourth one lends some credence to this, as the teacher in it is a Computer and after [[spoiler:Harry escapes the digital world]] Manny says "I am the stupid one. [[CallBack I am going to paint a picture of a clown. My dad is a computer.]], possibly implying that Roy will be a future teacher. Also, Manny asks "why are we at my dad's house?" when trapped in the BIG BAD MON$Y MAN's house, so there is clearly ''something'' disturbing about him.

*** Manny is the most gullible and easily manipulated of the 3: Whereas Harry outright calls Notepad's ideas boring, and Robin questions whether or not time is real, Manny accepts the ideas of every teacher so far. In episode 3, this enables The Love Cultists to easily convince him that his friends hate him and that their home is where he truly belongs.
*** Harry tends to cause problems through his apathy; Paige starts to get angry with the puppets after he says expressing yourself through your hair sounds really boring, and Tony does the same after he says he doesn't want to journey through time because he's going to miss a TV show. In his episode, the teacher will be genuinely well-intentioned, but allow him to leave when he wants to. This will cause trouble for him that could have been avoided if he had listened to the teacher.
*** Semi-Confirmed, Semi-Jossed: The Teacher (A Computer) is sort of Well-Intentioned and Harry does leave which causes him problems, but the Teacher also gets angry, doesn't focus on the subject at hand, manipulates the other two, and Harry just wants to leave to not be stuck in an infinite loop that is deteriorating.

*** Robin is a little bit harder to pin down in terms of his flaws, but the closest thing might be his inability to keep his thoughts to himself: he, like, Harry, tells Notepad outright that her ideas are boring (although she didn't seem to get mad at him), Tony becomes violent after he questions the reality of time, and the first thing we see the BIG BAD MON$Y MAN do is tape his mouth shut. In his own episode, the teacher will initially intend to give his lesson to all 3 puppets, but an offhand remark by Robin will cause him to single out Robin for special punishment.

* Harry died for real in 4 and will not return for the last 2 instalments.
* The fourth instalment is quite similar to the first instalment, with the teacher being a jerk but never confirmed to have intentionally caused the Bad Stuff, and the Bad Stuff being more reminiscent of a DisneyAcidSequence like in 1 than more concrete horrors like the rotting alive in 2 or the cult scene in 3. Furthermore, Harry was the one who dismissed all of Sketchbook's ideas in 1, and he is the one who is killed by the computer in 4. Furthermore, both the first and fourth teachers are also both negatively effected by the Bad Stuff along with the puppets: just like Notepad was seemingly also horrified by the CREATIVITY EXPLOSION, the Computer also got trapped in the time loop.
* The fifth episode's teacher will be much more clearly evil and sadistic than the Computer, just as Tony was much more clearly evil than Sketchbook. He will unambiguously be responsible for and unaffected by the Bad Stuff, and he will kill Robin since Robin was the one who suggested that time wasn't real in 2.
* The sixth instalment, much like the third, will focus on Manny, though this time due to the other puppets being dead rather than him leaving them. The teacher here will be a more personal and downplayed kind of evil, using emotional manipulation similar to The Love Cultists rather than reality warping, and will take Manny into a CrapsaccharineWorld (more than the normal DHMIS world) before killing him when he does something that he/she/it deems sinful, or alternatively manipulating [[DrivenToSuicide Yellow Guy into killing himself.]]

Green Bird, on the other hand, escaped by violently rebelling. As early as the Time Lesson, he pointed out things that were wrong or introduced contradicting concepts (like "Maybe time's just a construct of human perception...") From the very beginning of the Hungry Lesson, he knew something was wrong and resisted the teachers through the whole lesson. He told the Steak to "Get off of me!" and complained that the part about the body being like a house didn't make any sense. Finally, he screamed "I don't want to do this anymore!" and ran away. His version of the Dark Room, unlike Red Guy's, involved him being eaten by a monstrosity as punishment for rebelling. Since he defied the creators and escaped on purpose, they tricked Yellow Guy/Manny into killing and eating Green Bird. His eyes being shown with X marks in the psychedelic sequence shows that he, unlike Red Guy, is dead.

[[spoiler: The Story of Michael comes out of no where, and basically says "Michael, the Ugliest boy in town, went underground forever." It isn't helpful at all and doesn't really tie into the story, but is used as justification for the Cult's definition of Love. Shortly afterward, the Cult shows their god, Malcolm, who's really just a Stone Head that eats Gravel. I have a feeling that Malcolm is really Michael. Anyone who lived underground for all of his life would develop unhealthy habits (Eating Rocks, for example), and since we don't know what Michael's hobbies where before hand, he could have been a puppet maker for all we know. He's also a very lonely child, so wouldn't it make sense that he'd want to use his Puppetry skills to make friends? He can't show himself because he's so ungodly ugly, but if he could build a large puppet head that acted like a God, he could very easily make friends that way! Loyal friends that would believe every word he said, including his unhelpful, unfinished story. Basically, Michael is pulling TheWizardOfOz on his cult friends!]]

%% [[WMG:The episodes are a show directed by Roy and Red Guy.]]
%% Straight from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w45Vc3uv1Yk Film Theory]]. First, let's assume that the RealLife segment in Episode 6 is actually a flashback set before the series chronologically.

%% Red Guy worked at a boring desk job and had dreams of making a Children's TV show, but feels like they're getting drowned with such negative opinions, as seen when he tried to sing on an open mic night. Only one patron wasn't booing him; Roy. Roy then makes a deal with Red Guy to sponsor his show (proved by his name in the end credits of every episode). But Roy has greedy motives, and the show gets out of hand once Red Guy leaves in Episode 4. As seen in Episode 5, as well as [[http://www.itsnicethat.com/features/dont-hug-me-im-scared-interview-030516 in their interview at It's Nice That]], Roy sells grain-based food products ([[AndZoidberg and aspic]]), which he wastes no time invoking ProductPlacement on once Red Guy leaves the show.

%% As for Yellow Guy's relationship with Roy, they really are son and father. As sponsor, Roy is able to get Yellow Guy on stage, though he's no StageMom; on the contrary, Yellow Guy being on the show is his "punish land" for his eyes becoming arrogant and rude (probably for catching Roy watching porn or something), explaining his ButtMonkey status in-universe. Plenty of Yellow Guy's fears are also implemented throughout the show, like horses, eggs, wasps, crabs, meat, and trees. It also explains the calendar's "June 19", which is Father's Day in 2011 (when this show started IRL), 2016 (when the Episode 6 was released); Roy is constantly punishing Yellow Guy and forcing him to respect his authority with a constant reminder of who's in charge.

%% At least if it wasn't for Red Guy. At the end of Episode 4, Red Guy's [[YourHeadASplode head explodes]]. This might be an interpretation of getting his mind blown, where he realizes that doesn't ''need'' Roy to produce his show and that he can make his show on a low budget and publish it online (e.g. {{YouTube}}), while Roy believes what one can do in the computer is all superficial consumerism things. In Episode 5, imagery of Red Guy from outside looking in seen throughout the episode represents him seeing the show from an outsider's POV. The phone calls for Duck are him telling his friends that they don't need to sell their souls to Roy.

%% At least if it wasn't for Red Guy.

%% [[WMG:]]

%% Straight from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w45Vc3uv1Yk Film Theory]].

%% [[http://www.itsnicethat.com/features/dont-hug-me-im-scared-interview-030516 It's Nice That]]

The Healthy Band encourages the puppets to only eat around 4 different foods (5 if you count Duck Guy's organs) and cut out every other food from their diet. Anorexic people will typically limit themselves to small portions and cut out many different foods from their diet in order to lose weight. And the end when Yellow Guy is force-fed Duck Guy's organs and is left sitting in the kitchen looking somber is similar to Binge Eating Disorder, where a person will binge on large amounts of food and spend long periods of time in a state of sadness and guilt.