History WMG / DontHugMeImScared

At the end of "Death", Stain Edwards turns into Duck while the original Duck is dead(ish), and Yellow Guy digs the original Duck up. The group carries on with two Ducks until one of the Ducks is decapitated by the other. It's hard to determine which Duck was killed, but if you look at the pool of blood that spills out of the dead Duck's neck, you'll see some maggots writhing around. Earlier in the episode, the original Duck is shown to have maggots writhing in cuts on his body while chilling inside the Coffin. The presence of maggots shows that the original Duck has been killed, and that Stain Edwards is now the Duck in the later episodes.

[[WMG: Actually, Episode 3 is about Yellow Guy's internal romantic struggle]]
The entire thing is AllJustADream, so it's extremely likely that the episode is about some form of internal struggle or turmoil. He doesn't understand the existence of Platonic Love, and the Love Cultists (his mind) are telling him that that's not how love works (even though it is) and that he has to only love this odd personification of what he thinks his romantic partner has to be. He worries about things like having to change his name or change himself to please his partner, he also gets anxious about the prospects of marriage and might think that a relationship has to go that way immediately. The Story of Michael might represent how people tell him he'll find a special one soon, but he doesn't believe them (by the fact that Shrignold and crew act like Michael got a happy ending even though he didn't). Red guy and Duck coming back to him and apologizing might symbolize that his friends will support him and whatever decision he chooses to make, and will always be by his side no matter what happens.

[[WMG: Episode 5 is about eating disorders]]
The Healthy Band encourages the puppets to only eat around 4 different foods (5 if you count [[spoiler:Duck'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 [[spoiler:is force-fed Duck'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.

In the first lesson, Sketchbook was just an honest teacher trying to help the trio discover their creativity, but the "creativity explosion" was so disturbing and the puppets clearly too unstable that Sketchbook went to Roy for help in dulling the puppet's minds in fear of them causing more havoc, hence the themes of not thinking for yourself and conforming to other's standards. This could explain why the teachers always irritably shoot down any idea the puppets have, they're trying to keep them on course. In the fourth lesson, Red Guy [[spoiler: discovers the plan and manages to escape, but is inserted into a world as monotone as he is, a form of punishment]]. In the fifth lesson, Duck, after becoming enraged [[spoiler: because he's finally had enough, is captured and fed to the Cans, who are eaten by Yellow Guy, again as punishment for not conforming]]. Yellow Guy, the most innocent of the trio, obviously trusts his father, whether it be out of naivete or because he's family, but in the sixth and final lesson he's naturally become weakened by the lessons, [[spoiler: the assault by the multiple teachers towards the end fully breaking him.]] When Red Guy [[spoiler: escapes his prison and finds the teacher machine, Roy tries to stop him from abusing it, as he feels he's saving the trio. This culminates when Red Guy finally unplugs the machine and we see the trio, together again, as their favorite colors. It leaves the ending to interpretation as to whether they've been fully broken and dulled, or still as psychopathic as ever, perhaps more so now that they've realized what Roy has done, and this interpretation continues when Sketchbook returns Has the therapy begun anew? Or are the trio planning something darker...]]

Roy is an adult who run the school system. He doesn't care about helping the children learn and only wants to make a profit and for the students to do what he says. Red Guy is a young adult, frustrated with school and uninterested because he has nothing left to be taught and only wants to get out. Duck is a teenager. He tries to go along with what the teachers say, but he wants to learn more and asks questions that don't get answered. Yellow Guy is a child who is doesn't understand how school works and often makes mistakes. Because his father isn't around he never learns proper social etiquette and the teachers only tell him off instead of helping him.
In the first episode, Sketchbook is trying to teach them about creativity. Red Guy has already been taught this before and Duck tries to get her to explain everything clearer, but she keeps going. When Yellow Guy tries to do something himself, she shuts him down and takes control, showing them that she's in-charge and stifling their creativity. However, her students don't take kindly to this and rebel against her completely, causing the lesson to take a wild turn and leaving her completely powerless and unable to stop them. Unused to being able to do what they want, the trio go completely overboard and destroy the art she was making them do, showing Sketchbook they wouldn't let her stifle their creativity. When the class is finished, Sketchbook is disturbed by the realisation that she is powerless and can't force her pupils to do what she wants anymore, and because she doesn't retaliate harshly against her students, she has no other options but to leave them alone.

Tony is next, and he isn't messing around. Roy doesn't want the students having any freedom, and so Tony is much more assertive, acting joking at first to make the students think he's their friend, and then the lesson begins. He forces them to clean up and follow Roy's rules and then he teaches them, showing the outside world as a dangerous place where you can grow old and rot away, showing them that Roy and his false happiness is the best way to go, that they should stay away from the outside world and listen to HIM. He gives them chocolates and even tries to brainwash them, but it doesn't work. Duck brings up a theory about time, hoping to hear what Tony thinks about it. However, Tony starts screaming in anger and zones in on Yellow Guy, who doesn't realise that he should cover his ears to avoid getting hurt. Tony rots them to death, showing them what happens when they disobey Roy - they get punished.

In the kidnapping videos, Roy is behind them all. He lets his students leave and explore the real world and kidnaps them, hoping to get the message that the outside world is dangerous and that only he can save them through their heads. He also decides that he can make a profit from it, to get better teachers in. The money is made and the trio are released back into Roy's care, Red Guy still uncaring, Duck a bit more cautious and Yellow Guy grateful to see his father again.

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, believing the outside world to be a dangerous place, destroys the maggot, trapping Yellow Guy back in Roy's world.

Colin is the next teacher, and he doesn't care at all. Rather than trying to teach, Colin just has his students go on computers. By this point, Red Guy is sick of it all and doesn't even try to go along with the lesson. Duck, 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 realizing 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.

By the time the next episode comes around, Duck 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 realizes how disorderly the lessons are, 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 gets kicked out for causing too much trouble, and has no way to survive in the real world and is torn apart.

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 remembers 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.

They actually go through this at the end of DHMIS 6, but this time their blue red and green (Red Guy, Duck and Yellow guy's favourite colour respectively) and the date is now June 20th, implying that things may go out better for them.

** Confirmed, one of the staff members referred to him as "Duck".

* Of course, one question remains: if [[spoiler:Red Guy left]], then why can he be seen in the microwave, in the food, and in the shot where Duck [[spoiler:knocks over the camera]]? While the latter is yet to be explained, there may be a solid reason for the former. At the very beginning, Duck and Yellow realize that something is missing (that something being Red Guy), then idiotically assume that its the talking slice of bread. However, it is possible that the plate of spaghetti reminds Yellow of Red, and thus, he ''imagines'' seeing his face on it (either that, or he does indeed remember Red partway through the song, [[TearJerker then imagines seeing his face everywhere because he misses him]]).

** Red guy making a quick appearance in the show is probably some sort of his projection, trying to warn his friends and help them escape. Look closely, he only appear whenever duck answers the phone. After duck [[spoiler:is dead]]. He doesn't appear anymore, and the last phone call is not answered. Conclusion, red guy is dead in the "show" but not in real life, [[TrueCompanions he's still out there somewhere trying to help his friends.]]

The Red Guy's head was shown to explode at the end of ''4'', but he's free and apparently trying to help in ''5''. Perhaps the Duck will be alive and well in ''6'', despite seemingly being eaten by Yellow Guy. Being dismembered and eaten was the final trial.

When [[spoiler: Duck is being eaten and microwaved, we see a red gas]]; the spaghetti-like food is [[spoiler: Red Guy's hair; we see his legs in the kitchen briefly; and during the credits, he is walking away from a phone booth, presumably after calling his friends to try to convince them to escape.]] Add to that his blatant insults toward Sketchpad, his refusal to go along with Tony's lesson about time, his genuine concern for Yellow Guy, his refusal to enter the digital world, and [[spoiler: his escape from ''the universe itself,'']] and it's pretty safe to say that he just might be some sort of God.

In the first episode, none of the puppets question that [[DullSurprise anything out of the ordinary is happening]]. Part of the simulation is the puppets being unaware that they're even ''in'' a simulation, and each "lesson" is an attempt to condition them into doing something that we're not quite aware of yet, leading up to some important, climactic end result. Whenever one of the puppets gives their own opinion, instead of just going along with [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem whatever nonsense the teachers try to drill into them]], the teacher reacts violently. This is to make the puppets stop thinking for themselves and resign themselves to fall deeper into the simulation's conditioning. However, the simulation fails to strip the puppets completely of their free will. This starts to come to a head in Episode 4, when Red Guy doesn't get sucked into Colin's digital world. Instead, he wanders off into another room full of {{Stylistic Suck}}. In other words, he's finally seeing the holes in the simulation, but now {{He Knows Too Much}}. Before the Red Guy's head explodes, a voice says "You're not invited to the party"; he's not dead, but instead was ejected from the simulation and somehow escaped being disposed of. He then tries to contact Duck and Yellow Guy from the real world, resulting in Duck also beginning to see through the simulation in Episode 5. He is also ejected from the simulation, albeit in a much grislier way than Red Guy was; this leaves just the Yellow Guy, and even he's noticed at least slightly that something's up. Meanwhile the reason Roy keeps appearing in the background is because he's one of the people in charge of the simulation. He's making sure everything goes smoothly, and when they don't, he makes sure any troublemakers are removed (notice how he's in the room with Red Guy when he resists Colin's digital world, and how he's looming over the "set" when Duck knocks over the camera).

[[spoiler: The fact that the tons of teachers at the end of the sixth video starts to make Yellow Guy look like Roy has already been established, and several aspects of the final episode indicate some kind of loop. Roy is the first Yellow Guy to experience the events, and when he did Red Guy didn't notice the plug, or at least didn't until it was too late and one of the teachers killed the now insane Yellow Guy. In this universe, dying sends you to some other dimension; like Red Guy was sent to the world of Red Guys, Yellow Guy was sent to the world with the computer, which is clearly a very powerful computer. The fact that it was able to remake Duck for a moment shows its ability to create the puppets themselves if the one using it so desires. ]]

Basically, this theory is similar to theory above, except Duck was actually a program created by Roy made to torture his son, just like rest of the teachers. However, [[AiIsACrapshoot something happened and Duck decided to disobey him]], unlike rest of the teachers. So, Roy turned Duck into one of the students, as a revenge for disobeying him. I am assuming that Duck was meant to teach about animals or something ( he IS the only animal puppet in the entire series, unless you count Shrignold and some members of Love Cult of Malcolm ). That could explain why he is TheSmartGuy and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - he still has instincts of a teacher. That would also explain his painful death - Roy wanted to punish him for betraying him and HARD.

Red Guy was getting sick of how Roy kept creating the teachers for him, Yellow Guy, and Duck, 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. After all, Gilbert is the only teacher that the characters themselves cue up, with Red Guy saying 'If only there were more to learn about this...'. Also, 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.

Sketchbook, along with Gilbert, were shown to have no connection with Roy. Notice how Sketchbook never gets overtly malicious with the puppets, the worst thing she does is ruin Yellow Guy's painting (the creative explosion was all them). Sketchbook knew about Roy and her lesson was actually her way of trying to warn them without completely freaking them out (after all, Yellow Guy thinks Roy is his friend, so Sketchbook didn't want to piss him off). Like when she teaches them to take a closer look at things, what she's really saying is "don't trust your eyes, there may be a deeper meaning behind things", the part with the orange is all-but saying "one of you will be food", the "man with a baseball bat" could be the money man, the oddly realistic brain with "using your mind to have a good time" is most likely related to Tony's uncoming lesson, or just in general not to automatically go along with the lessons. "Green is not a creative color" was telling Yellow Guy that Duck (Green) was being targeted for elimination (warning him in advance so he can prepare). And so on. Money Man targeted her because [[HeKnowsTooMuch she knew too much]]. And in episode 6, Red Guy singing her creativity song wasn't just a CallBack, he was subconsciously remembering the deeper meaning (notice how he's sucked back into the fantasy world).

*** Yellow Guy is the most gullible and easily manipulated of the 3: Whereas Red Guy outright calls Notepad's ideas boring, and Duck questions whether or not time is real, Yellow Guy 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.

*** Duck 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, Red Guy, 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 Duck will cause him to single out Duck for special punishment.
*** Confirmed; [[spoiler:Duck knocking over the camera in the fifth video causes the Healthy Band to get Yellow Guy and the Cans to eat him alive.]] However, with [[spoiler:Red Guy now in an unknown location outside of where the lessons are and Duck apparently dead]], it looks like they won't be all back together for the finale.

* 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 Duck since Duck was the one who suggested that time wasn't real in 2.

* Red guy didn't appear in Episode five (bar a single cameo and the end credits) and by the looks of things Duck is dead as well. Looking to be confirmed so far.

* The fates of the puppets are foreshadowed on a refrigerator drawing at 0:27 in DHMIS 5 (https://youtu.be/tS_Xq7gSCBM?t=27s). Red Guy is outside, Duck is drawn with cartoonish "X"'s over his eyes, and the Yellow Guy is drawn with an evil grin. By the end of DHMIS 4, Red Guy has escaped "the set". All he can merely do now is watch helplessly as his friends continue to suffer inside. By the end of the video, Duck is slaughtered and presumably fed to Yellow Guy, who, for the majority of the series, has always been the most willing to listen and learn from what the Teachers have taught. This is the final test before his enlightenment. In the final episode, we will see what the culmination of five years of unnecessary pain and gratuitous suffering has done to our innocent friend.

The simulation machine was Yellow Guy's true father all along. Instead of birthing Yellow Guy, it adopted him - the machine transported Yellow Guy inside it to teach him lessons and "raise" him. It roped in Red Guy to be a friend to Yellow Guy during lessons, and digitally created Duck to "make an example of him" later on in case Yellow Guy started needing intimidation to listen to the lessons. The Love Lesson was the simulation machine trying to explain to Yellow Guy that it loved him, but since it is a computer it doesn't really know how to express love. The Computer Lesson was supposed to make Yellow Guy think that computers are good and caring things. In the Time Lesson, Tony points out "look, a computer!" when Yellow Guy mentions the dead man, which was meant to show that a certain computer can distract and comfort him when sad things happen. The whole goal of the Food Lesson was to end in punishment for the rebelling Duck, but it went very badly, and the simulation machine got distracted from its goal of parenting Yellow Guy and malfunctioned. That's why the Food Band and all the teachers in 6 sang off-key and were not as well-developed as the previous teachers.
Roy was also a digital creation of the machine, so he could be a physical representation of a father and an avatar who makes sure things are going okay. Yellow Guy himself says "My dad is a computer!" Roy is also shown looking at super-pixellated porn. Why would a computer want to look at real human bodies when it could see some well-constructed pixels? (that's kind of silly, I know.) When the simulation machine malfunctioned by getting too concerned with punishing Duck, Roy was able to recognize the malfunction and therefore brought Red Guy - the only other truly living being besides Yellow Guy - back to the machine to unplug and reset it. Having been reset, the machine can now teach happier and better lessons to them all.

Did you ever notice that, excluding episode 3 and 6, the teachers do something either directly or indirectly to pick on Duck? Sketchbook insulted him by claiming green, which is the color of his fur, is not a creative color, Tony made his RapidAging the worst by making him rot and decay almost instantly, Colin made him temporarily transform into some kind of CGI monstrosity during his "Digital Style!" bit, and the events of episode 5 speak for themselves. Why? Because
he was rebelling from the start. He couldn't see the smiling face on the orange, outright said time might not be real at all, decided to eat a chicken picnic instead of go after Yellow Guy when Shrignold took him on a lesson and gave a nonhelpful, almost sarcastic answer when asked where he lives, as opposed to Yellow Guy's enthusiastic "Spaghetti!" and Red Guy trying to say his name. From the start, Roy or whoever was running the show saw him as a potential threat and programmed the teachers to single him out. Obviously, the lamp didn't do anything to him because he was dead by that point.

[[WMG: DHMIS Episodes 5 and 6 are based on Seasonal Rot]]

The Red Guy is gone in episode 5. Most shows that are said to have gone through seasonal rot usually get rid of at least one main character, and Duck is [[spoiler: killed during the same episode]], which follows the same trend. Not to mention both episodes have teachers worse at singing than the other episodes, meaning it could be a take on how shows get worse as they go on. It's not exactly uncommon for DHMIS to criticize children's TV.

** Confirmed, somewhat. Duck indeed becomes a crazy dictator as mayor, however this is mainly due to [[TheCorruptor The Key of the City's]] manipulation.

[[WMG: Duck will be subjected to UnwillingRoboticisation]]

[[WMG: Stain Edwards killed the original Duck in Episode 2.]]
At the end of Episode 2, Stain Edwards turns into the Duck while the original Duck is dead(ish), and Yellow Guy digs the original Duck up. The group carries on with two Ducks until one of the Ducks is decapitated by the other. It's hard to determine which Duck was killed, but if you look at the pool of blood that spills out of the dead Duck's neck, you'll see some maggots writhing around. Earlier in the episode, the original Duck is shown to have maggots writhing in cuts on his body while chilling inside the Coffin. The presence of maggots shows that the original Duck has been killed, and that Stain Edwards is now the Duck in the later episodes.

[[WMG: The Bigger Red and Ducks from "Electricity" are the true masterminds.]]

Sure, he did just wander off and leave them there, but aside from Duck Guy they had a good time. Red Guy got to do what he wanted to do, i.e. nothing, and Yellow Guy even started a family. Even Duck Guy started to enjoy himself after the carehound incident. Perhaps he managed to break free of his programming and led them somewhere with little influence from those two. But of course, Duck Guy had to ruin it, so he had to cut the lesson short.

Lesley doesn't seem so certain that she created the show and its universe, and there's another set of stairs above her, indicating an even higher power. In "Death", the Lamp mentions how after you die, you end up having to relive your life as a show for a superspecies known as the Council. Considering the old universe of the web series had effectively been erased by Red Guy in DHMIS 6, this could indicate that the characters are now living a new life after their old universe had been killed off, the Council are the creators behind this new life, with Lesley acting as their performance artist. Additionally, the Lamp mentions that, "Every time you get it right, you get a pound." This part may potentially be seen at the end of "Jobs" when Briefcase gives Duck a single pound that lands in his eye, which could be an indicator that the three ended up pulling off their performance for the Council that episode perfectly, whereas in every other episode, they've done something incorrectly to not earn a pound.

The entire thing is AllJustADream, so it's extremely likely that the episode is about some form of internal struggle or turmoil. He doesn't understand the existence of Platonic Love, and the Love Cultists (his mind) are telling him that that's not how love works (even though it is) and that he has to only love this odd personification of what he thinks his romantic partner has to be. He worries about things like having to change his name or change himself to please his partner, he also gets anxious about the prospects of marriage and might think that a relationship has to go that way immediately. The Story of Michael might represent how people tell him he'll find a special one soon, but he doesn't believe them (by the fact that Shrignold and crew act like Michael got a happy ending even though he didn't). Red guy and Duck guy coming back to him and apologizing might symbolize that his friends will support him and whatever decision he chooses to make, and will always be by his side no matter what happens.

The Healthy Band encourages the puppets to only eat around 4 different foods (5 if you count [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler: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.

In the first lesson, Sketchbook was just an honest teacher trying to help the trio discover their creativity, but the "creativity explosion" was so disturbing and the puppets clearly too unstable that Sketchbook went to Roy for help in dulling the puppet's minds in fear of them causing more havoc, hence the themes of not thinking for yourself and conforming to other's standards. This could explain why the teachers always irritably shoot down any idea the puppets have, they're trying to keep them on course. In the fourth lesson, Red Guy [[spoiler: discovers the plan and manages to escape, but is inserted into a world as monotone as he is, a form of punishment]]. In the fifth lesson, Duck Guy, after becoming enraged [[spoiler: because he's finally had enough, is captured and fed to the Cans, who are eaten by Yellow Guy, again as punishment for not conforming]]. Yellow Guy, the most innocent of the trio, obviously trusts his father, whether it be out of naivete or because he's family, but in the sixth and final lesson he's naturally become weakened by the lessons, [[spoiler: the assault by the multiple teachers towards the end fully breaking him.]] When Red Guy [[spoiler: escapes his prison and finds the teacher machine, Roy tries to stop him from abusing it, as he feels he's saving the trio. This culminates when Red Guy finally unplugs the machine and we see the trio, together again, as their favorite colors. It leaves the ending to interpretation as to whether they've been fully broken and dulled, or still as psychopathic as ever, perhaps more so now that they've realized what Roy has done, and this interpretation continues when Sketchbook returns Has the therapy begun anew? Or are the trio planning something darker...]]

Roy is an adult who run the school system. He doesn't care about helping the children learn and only wants to make a profit and for the students to do what he says. Red Guy is a young adult, frustrated with school and uninterested because he has nothing left to be taught and only wants to get out. Duck Guy is a teenager. He tries to go along with what the teachers say, but he wants to learn more and asks questions that don't get answered. Yellow Guy is a child who is doesn't understand how school works and often makes mistakes. Because his father isn't around he never learns proper social etiquette and the teachers only tell him off instead of helping him.
In the first episode, Sketchbook is trying to teach them about creativity. Red Guy has already been taught this before and Duck Guy tries to get her to explain everything clearer, but she keeps going. When Yellow Guy tries to do something himself, she shuts him down and takes control, showing them that she's in-charge and stifling their creativity. However, her students don't take kindly to this and rebel against her completely, causing the lesson to take a wild turn and leaving her completely powerless and unable to stop them. Unused to being able to do what they want, the trio go completely overboard and destroy the art she was making them do, showing Sketchbook they wouldn't let her stifle their creativity. When the class is finished, Sketchbook is disturbed by the realisation that she is powerless and can't force her pupils to do what she wants anymore, and because she doesn't retaliate harshly against her students, she has no other options but to leave them alone.

Tony is next, and he isn't messing around. Roy doesn't want the students having any freedom, and so Tony is much more assertive, acting joking at first to make the students think he's their friend, and then the lesson begins. He forces them to clean up and follow Roy's rules and then he teaches them, showing the outside world as a dangerous place where you can grow old and rot away, showing them that Roy and his false happiness is the best way to go, that they should stay away from the outside world and listen to HIM. He gives them chocolates and even tries to brainwash them, but it doesn't work. Duck Guy brings up a theory about time, hoping to hear what Tony thinks about it. However, Tony starts screaming in anger and zones in on Yellow Guy, who doesn't realise that he should cover his ears to avoid getting hurt. Tony rots them to death, showing them what happens when they disobey Roy - they get punished.

In the kidnapping videos, Roy is behind them all. He lets his students leave and explore the real world and kidnaps them, hoping to get the message that the outside world is dangerous and that only he can save them through their heads. He also decides that he can make a profit from it, to get better teachers in. The money is made and the trio are released back into Roy's care, Red Guy still uncaring, Duck Guy a bit more cautious and Yellow Guy grateful to see his father again.

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 Roy's world.

Colin is the next teacher, and he doesn't care at all. Rather than trying to teach, Colin just has his students go on computers. By this point, Red Guy is sick of it all and doesn't even try to go along with the lesson. 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 realizing 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.

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 realizes how disorderly the lessons are, 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.

[[folder:Yellow Guy, Red Guy, Duck Guy]]

They actually go through this at the end of DHMIS 6, but this time their blue red and green (Red Guy, Duck Guy and Yellow guy's favourite colour respectively) and the date is now June 20th, implying that things may go out better for them.

** Confirmed, one of the staff members referred to him as "Duck Guy".

* Of course, one question remains: if [[spoiler:Red Guy left]], then why can he be seen in the microwave, in the food, and in the shot where Duck Guy [[spoiler:knocks over the camera]]? While the latter is yet to be explained, there may be a solid reason for the former. At the very beginning, Duck and Yellow realize that something is missing (that something being Red Guy), then idiotically assume that its the talking slice of bread. However, it is possible that the plate of spaghetti reminds Yellow of Red, and thus, he ''imagines'' seeing his face on it (either that, or he does indeed remember Red partway through the song, [[TearJerker then imagines seeing his face everywhere because he misses him]]).

** Red guy making a quick appearance in the show is probably some sort of his projection, trying to warn his friends and help them escape. Look closely, he only appear whenever duck guy answers the phone. After duck guy [[spoiler:is dead]]. He doesn't appear anymore, and the last phone call is not answered. Conclusion, red guy is dead in the "show" but not in real life, [[TrueCompanions he's still out there somewhere trying to help his friends.]]

The Red Guy's head was shown to explode at the end of ''4'', but he's free and apparently trying to help in ''5''. Perhaps the Duck Guy will be alive and well in ''6'', despite seemingly being eaten by Yellow Guy. Being dismembered and eaten was the final trial.

When [[spoiler: Duck Guy is being eaten and microwaved, we see a red gas]]; the spaghetti-like food is [[spoiler: Red Guy's hair; we see his legs in the kitchen briefly; and during the credits, he is walking away from a phone booth, presumably after calling his friends to try to convince them to escape.]] Add to that his blatant insults toward Sketchpad, his refusal to go along with Tony's lesson about time, his genuine concern for Yellow Guy, his refusal to enter the digital world, and [[spoiler: his escape from ''the universe itself,'']] and it's pretty safe to say that he just might be some sort of God.

* 3. It doesn't fit with the pattern of the game. Duck Guy seems to be immediately terrified of the Healthy Band, in contrast to the reactions of the puppets to Sketchbook, Tony, Shrignold, and Collin, where nobody realized they were evil until it was too late. This could be because the first four teachers are their friends in real life, but they actually did not know the Healthy Band. It's also the only installment to have more than one BigBad.
* My thought is that the fifth is a nightmare that "Duck Guy" and/or "Yellow Guy" had that was loosely based on the game, hence why it's so bizarre even by the standards of the series.

[[WMG: Yellow Guy, Duck Guy, and Red Guy have been in a simulation controlled by Roy the whole time.]]
In the first episode, none of the puppets question that [[DullSurprise anything out of the ordinary is happening]]. Part of the simulation is the puppets being unaware that they're even ''in'' a simulation, and each "lesson" is an attempt to condition them into doing something that we're not quite aware of yet, leading up to some important, climactic end result. Whenever one of the puppets gives their own opinion, instead of just going along with [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem whatever nonsense the teachers try to drill into them]], the teacher reacts violently. This is to make the puppets stop thinking for themselves and resign themselves to fall deeper into the simulation's conditioning. However, the simulation fails to strip the puppets completely of their free will. This starts to come to a head in Episode 4, when Red Guy doesn't get sucked into Colin's digital world. Instead, he wanders off into another room full of {{Stylistic Suck}}. In other words, he's finally seeing the holes in the simulation, but now {{He Knows Too Much}}. Before the Red Guy's head explodes, a voice says "You're not invited to the party"; he's not dead, but instead was ejected from the simulation and somehow escaped being disposed of. He then tries to contact Duck Guy and Yellow Guy from the real world, resulting in Duck Guy also beginning to see through the simulation in Episode 5. He is also ejected from the simulation, albeit in a much grislier way than Red Guy was; this leaves just the Yellow Guy, and even he's noticed at least slightly that something's up. Meanwhile the reason Roy keeps appearing in the background is because he's one of the people in charge of the simulation. He's making sure everything goes smoothly, and when they don't, he makes sure any troublemakers are removed (notice how he's in the room with Red Guy when he resists Colin's digital world, and how he's looming over the "set" when Duck Guy knocks over the camera).

[[spoiler: The fact that the tons of teachers at the end of the sixth video starts to make Yellow Guy look like Roy has already been established, and several aspects of the final episode indicate some kind of loop. Roy is the first Yellow Guy to experience the events, and when he did Red Guy didn't notice the plug, or at least didn't until it was too late and one of the teachers killed the now insane Yellow Guy. In this universe, dying sends you to some other dimension; like Red Guy was sent to the world of Red Guys, Yellow Guy was sent to the world with the computer, which is clearly a very powerful computer. The fact that it was able to remake Duck Guy for a moment shows its ability to create the puppets themselves if the one using it so desires. ]]

The difference is that the Yellow Guys are {{Legacy Character}}s--one Yellow Guy is always in charge of the "lessons" and has to force another to be in charge after him. In order to do that, one Yellow Guy has to torture the other with lessons until the other Yellow Guy is so completely broken that he'll be either willing to inflict the same torture on others or just stop caring. Roy was the previous victim, tortured to madness by his own father. He then tried to do the same to our Yellow Guy, but he started to become more aware thanks to Red Guy and Duck Guy, hence why Roy tried to get those two out of the picture.

[[WMG: Duck Guy was a part of the lessons all along]]
Notice how he appears among the teachers in the simulation while Yellow Guy is actually real and Red Guy has escaped into the real world. Duck Guy is himself a simulation, just of a student and not a teacher, and was created for the lessons presumably as a counterpoint to Red Guy and Yellow Guy. However, Duck Guy started to become more aware of things and eventually decided that he wanted the madness to stop. When he said "I don't want to do this anymore!", what he really meant was that he no longer wanted to be a part of the simulation and contribute to Yellow Guy's torture. Roy decided to punish him by destroying him completely, in a torturous manner.

[[WMG: Alternatively, Duck Guy was supposed to be a teacher.]]
Basically, this theory is similar to theory above, except Duck Guy was actually a program created by Roy made to torture his son, just like rest of the teachers. However, [[AiIsACrapshoot something happened and Duck Guy decided to disobey him]], unlike rest of the teachers. So, Roy turned Duck Guy into one of the students, as a revenge for disobeying him. I am assuming that Duck Guy was meant to teach about animals or something ( he IS the only animal puppet in the entire series, unless you count Shrignold and some members of Love Cult of Malcolm ). That could explain why he is TheSmartGuy and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - he still has instincts of a teacher. That would also explain his painful death - Roy wanted to punish him for betraying him and HARD.

[[WMG: Duck Guy has schizophrenia]]

Being another British web series that relies on tons of BlackComedy, it could be possible that the favorite colors of the characters are meant to connect them with ''Eddsworld'' characters associated with those colors and the personalities that match them. Red Guy's favorite color being blue connects him with Creator/{{Tom|Ska}}, being a DeadpanSnarker who barely raises his voice. Duck Guy's favorite color being red connects him with Tord, being loudmouthed and having violent tendencies. Yellow Guy's favorite color being green connects him with Creator/{{Edd|Gould}}, being a KindheartedSimpleton. There's also potential validation for this with Tom being a SpecialGuest on ''Don't Hug Me I'm Scared'', voicing the Magnet in the final episode of the web series. Admittedly, the lack of a parallel to Matt is a bit puzzling, but it can be easily overlooked.

# For Tony the Talking Clock, there's Red Guy 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"), Duck Guy 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).

* Roy can be seen [[StalkerWithoutACrush lurking above the set, watching over the puppets as though waiting for something to happen]] in "Health". Perhaps he was planning [[spoiler:Duck Guy's death]] and wanted to watch it happen to make sure?

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. After all, Gilbert is the only teacher that the characters themselves cue up, with Red Guy saying 'If only there were more to learn about this...'. Also, 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.

Sketchbook, along with Gilbert, were shown to have no connection with Roy. Notice how Sketchbook never gets overtly malicious with the puppets, the worst thing she does is ruin Yellow Guy's painting (the creative explosion was all them). Sketchbook knew about Roy and her lesson was actually her way of trying to warn them without completely freaking them out (after all, Yellow Guy thinks Roy is his friend, so Sketchbook didn't want to piss him off). Like when she teaches them to take a closer look at things, what she's really saying is "don't trust your eyes, there may be a deeper meaning behind things", the part with the orange is all-but saying "one of you will be food", the "man with a baseball bat" could be the money man, the oddly realistic brain with "using your mind to have a good time" is most likely related to Tony's uncoming lesson, or just in general not to automatically go along with the lessons. "Green is not a creative color" was telling Yellow Guy that Duck Guy (Green) was being targeted for elimination (warning him in advance so he can prepare). And so on. Money Man targeted her because [[HeKnowsTooMuch she knew too much]]. And in episode 6, Red Guy singing her creativity song wasn't just a CallBack, he was subconsciously remembering the deeper meaning (notice how he's sucked back into the fantasy world).

*** Yellow Guy is the most gullible and easily manipulated of the 3: Whereas Red Guy outright calls Notepad's ideas boring, and Duck Guy questions whether or not time is real, Yellow Guy 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.

*** Duck Guy 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, Red Guy, 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 Duck Guy will cause him to single out Duck Guy for special punishment.
*** Confirmed; [[spoiler:Duck Guy knocking over the camera in the fifth video causes the Healthy Band to get Yellow Guy and the Cans to eat him alive.]] However, with [[spoiler:Red Guy now in an unknown location outside of where the lessons are and Duck Guy apparently dead]], it looks like they won't be all back together for the finale.

* 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 Duck Guy since Duck Guy was the one who suggested that time wasn't real in 2.

* Red guy didn't appear in Episode five (bar a single cameo and the end credits) and by the looks of things Duck Guy is dead as well. Looking to be confirmed so far.

* The fates of the puppets are foreshadowed on a refrigerator drawing at 0:27 in DHMIS 5 (https://youtu.be/tS_Xq7gSCBM?t=27s). Red Guy is outside, Duck Guy is drawn with cartoonish "X"'s over his eyes, and the Yellow Guy is drawn with an evil grin. By the end of DHMIS 4, Red Guy has escaped "the set". All he can merely do now is watch helplessly as his friends continue to suffer inside. By the end of the video, Duck Guy is slaughtered and presumably fed to Yellow Guy, who, for the majority of the series, has always been the most willing to listen and learn from what the Teachers have taught. This is the final test before his enlightenment. In the final episode, we will see what the culmination of five years of unnecessary pain and gratuitous suffering has done to our innocent friend.

The simulation machine was Yellow Guy's true father all along. Instead of birthing Yellow Guy, it adopted him - the machine transported Yellow Guy inside it to teach him lessons and "raise" him. It roped in Red Guy to be a friend to Yellow Guy during lessons, and digitally created Duck Guy to "make an example of him" later on in case Yellow Guy started needing intimidation to listen to the lessons. The Love Lesson was the simulation machine trying to explain to Yellow Guy that it loved him, but since it is a computer it doesn't really know how to express love. The Computer Lesson was supposed to make Yellow Guy think that computers are good and caring things. In the Time Lesson, Tony points out "look, a computer!" when Yellow Guy mentions the dead man, which was meant to show that a certain computer can distract and comfort him when sad things happen. The whole goal of the Food Lesson was to end in punishment for the rebelling Duck Guy, but it went very badly, and the simulation machine got distracted from its goal of parenting Yellow Guy and malfunctioned. That's why the Food Band and all the teachers in 6 sang off-key and were not as well-developed as the previous teachers.
Roy was also a digital creation of the machine, so he could be a physical representation of a father and an avatar who makes sure things are going okay. Yellow Guy himself says "My dad is a computer!" Roy is also shown looking at super-pixellated porn. Why would a computer want to look at real human bodies when it could see some well-constructed pixels? (that's kind of silly, I know.) When the simulation machine malfunctioned by getting too concerned with punishing Duck Guy, Roy was able to recognize the malfunction and therefore brought Red Guy - the only other truly living being besides Yellow Guy - back to the machine to unplug and reset it. Having been reset, the machine can now teach happier and better lessons to them all.

[[WMG: The teachers hate Duck Guy]]
Did you ever notice that, excluding episode 3 and 6, the teachers do something either directly or indirectly to pick on Duck Guy? Sketchbook insulted him by claiming green, which is the color of his fur, is not a creative color, Tony made his RapidAging the worst by making him rot and decay almost instantly, Colin made him temporarily transform into some kind of CGI monstrosity during his "Digital Style!" bit, and the events of episode 5 speak for themselves. Why? Because

The Red Guy is gone in episode 5. Most shows that are said to have gone through seasonal rot usually get rid of at least one main character, and Duck Guy is [[spoiler: killed during the same episode]], which follows the same trend. Not to mention both episodes have teachers worse at singing than the other episodes, meaning it could be a take on how shows get worse as they go on. It's not exactly uncommon for DHMIS to criticize children's TV.

** Confirmed, somewhat. Duck Guy indeed becomes a crazy dictator as mayor, however this is mainly due to [[TheCorruptor The Key of the City's]] manipulation.

[[WMG: Duck Guy will be subjected to UnwillingRoboticisation]]

** Zig-zagged. Duck Guy does become one in his own volition but is mainly manipulated by [[BigBad The Key of the City]] into doing it.

The fact that Duck Guy's grave has the name "David" over it is not a simple one-off joke. If you watch back on the episode, you'll notice that Yellow Guy was originally the first person the Coffin thought had died, rather than Duck Guy. Additionally, him having a "D" on his overalls is an indicator that his name begins with D, and Roy, his father, wears overalls that have the letter R on them. The last piece of evidence for this is Yellow Guy having batteries inside of him in "Electricity" that power him, much like how Frankenstein's Monster is powered by electricity. His overall childish mentality could also be explained as a reference to the pop culture interpretation of the Monster as an idiot.\\\

[[WMG: Stain Edwards killed the original Duck Guy in Episode 2.]]
At the end of Episode 2, Stain Edwards turns into the Duck Guy while the original Duck Guy is dead(ish), and Yellow Guy digs the original Duck Guy up. The group carries on with two Duck Guys until one of the Duck Guys is decapitated by the other. It's hard to determine which Duck Guy was killed, but if you look at the pool of blood that spills out of the dead Duck Guy's neck, you'll see some maggots writhing around. Earlier in the episode, the original Duck Guy is shown to have maggots writhing in cuts on his body while chilling inside the Coffin. The presence of maggots shows that the original Duck Guy has been killed, and that Stain Edwards is now the Duck Guy in the later episodes.

[[WMG: The Bigger Red and Duck Guys from "Electricity" are the true masterminds.]]

In Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2, Yellow Guy's hair is longer, showing the passing of time. His face and his voice also have differences. In the teaser for Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 3, Yellow Guy looks different again. He has a shorter (almost non-existent) mullet, and looks skinnier. My theory (or WMG) is that the videos leading up to the final will show Yellow Guy growing up or aging, at least what we've seen so far.
* Seems to be inverted. Yellow Guy is more childish in DHMIS3 than in 2 or 1.

Except instead of how many bad movies can a person take before they go insane, its how much messed up children's television can they take before they go insane. And just like Joel, they may have escaped, but others have taken their place.

[[WMG: Lesley is ObliviouslyEvil]]

[[WMG: The Bigger Red and Duck Guys from episode 6 are the true masterminds]]

[[WMG: Yellow Guy was ObfuscatingStupidity in the end]]

[[WMG: Episode 5 takes place after Episode 6]]
The couch gag of Episode 5 of Yellow Guy's dream could easily describe what happens in episode 6, smart Yellow Guy appears in his reflection in the car window, and in Episode 4 they mention that invoice day is tomorrow - but they only get an invoice for their power bill in episode 6.
* There's actually some evidence that the entire series might be told BackToFront. For instance, the apple that Todney bites in Episode 3 is in one piece (and in the living room) in Episode 4.

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

Being another British web series that relies on tons of BlackComedy, it could be possible that the favorite colors of the characters are meant to connect them with ''Eddsworld'' characters associated with those colors and the personalities that match them. Red Guy's favorite color being blue connects him with Creator/{{Tom|Ska}}, being a DeadpanSnarker who barely raises his voice. Duck Guy's favorite color being red connects him with Tord, being loudmouthed and having violent tendencies. Yellow Guy's favorite color being green connects him with Creator/{{Edd|Gould}}, being a KindheartedSimpleton. There's also potential validation for this with Tom being a SpecialGuest on ''Don't Huh Me I'm Scared'', voicing the Magnet in the final episode of the web series. Admittedly, the lack of a parallel to Matt is a bit puzzling, but it can be easily overlooked.

** Seems to be inverted. Yellow Guy is more childish in DHMIS3 than in 2 or 1.

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[[WMG: Malcolm is Zardoz ]]

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Lesley and Roy are creepy, but out of everyone these two seem the most likely to want to put three random people through hell just FortheEvulz

As an adult, one might want to recapture that wonder they had as a little kid watching Sesame Street or what have you, but that innocence is gone and you can’t get it back. The first episode represents all the “rules” about creation that adults can’t unlearn, unlike a child who truly draws or crafts whatever they fancy. The second episode is about how an innocuous lesson about something like time could be very distressing once you’re old enough to comprehend just how scary your limited time is. And so on.

The mysterious woman living in the attic is implied to be the creator of the world and responsible for everything the guys go through. When Yellow Guy asks to talk with her a little longer, she suddenly shouts “You’re not my real son!”. Lesley was sane once but lost family in an accident. She’s now imagining her own world trying to recreate her family but she’s so unhinged with such disjointed thoughts that the guys can become self aware.

[[WMG: Red guy will die in a future episode by drowning. ]]
The part where Red Guy's id card tells him he dies in the lake is foreshadowing for a future episode.

[[WMG: Lesley is Roy's GoodCounterpart]]

The fact that Duck Guy's grave has the name "David" over it is not a simple one-off joke. If you watch back on the episode, you'll notice that Yellow Guy was originally the first person the Coffin thought had died, rather than Duck Guy. Additionally, him having a "D" on his overalls is an indicator that his name begins with D, and Roy, his father, wears overalls that have the letter R on them. The last piece of evidence for this is Yellow Guy having batteries inside of him in the sixth episode that power him, much like how Frankenstein's Monster is powered by electricity. His overall childish mentality could also be explained as a reference to the pop culture interpretation of the Monster as an idiot.
* Further, David was Lesley's son. Who died in the car accident portrayed in Transport's Trumpton segment, which Lesley narrates. Yellow Guy is her traumatized 'replacement', and thus "not [her] real son."

The group in Transport are still stuck at the dump being attacked by whatever. Yes we see at the end of the episode Lesley bringing the group back in a car, but as we see, they 'always have spares' of all the characters (especially Duck), so it's entirely possible that she just brought out spares of the 3 and they were brought into the house for Electricity, leaving the 'original' group in Transport to rot and die.

[[WMG: The Youtube series is what happens when Roy is in control, and the TV series is when Lesley is in control...]]
The title. The TV series is lighter and more humoreous because Lesley is not as messed up and evil as Roy. She's more of a trickster if anything, and she's 'playing' with the trio rather than 'punishing' them.

[[WMG: Roy was KilledOffscreen by Lesley after episode 3]]
Essentially, all of episode 3 was Roy's attempt at a HostileShowTakeover. Somehow, after the Web Series wrapped up, Lesley managed to usurp Roy as whoever's in charge of the show and retooled it. But somehow Roy managed to takeover for the Family lesson, hence why the episode is more in line with what'd you see in the Web Series with. But unfortunately for Roy, Lesley found out and made sure he got his Just Desserts, hence why this was his first and only appearance. The Roy who eats the family was a copy Lesley sent to tie up loose ends.

[[WMG: The Time Child was supposed to teach a DrugsAreBad lesson]]
He would've gotten the three to drink the Space Alcohol and then they'd go on a nightmarish adventure to The 6th Adventure which would be like Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared's version of WesternAnimation/TheDAREReportTheLandOfDecisionsAndChoices and WesternAnimation/CartoonAllStarsToTheRescue

[[WMG: Stain Edwards killed the original Duck Guy in Episode 2]]
At the end of Episode 2, Stain Edwards turns into the Duck Guy while the original Duck Guy was dead(ish), and Yellow Guy digs the original Duck Guy up. The group carries on with two Duck Guys until one of the Duck Guys is decapitated by the other. It’s hard to determine which Duck Guy was killed, but if you look at the pool of blood that spills out of the dead Duck Guy’s neck, you’ll see some maggots writhing around. Earlier in the episode, the original Duck Guy was shown to have maggots writhing in cuts on his body while chilling inside the Coffin. The presence of maggots shows that the original Duck Guy had been killed, and that Stain Edwards is now the Duck Guy in the later episodes.

[[WMG: Leslie wants her dead son back.]]
The mysterious woman living in the attic is implied to be the creator of the world and responsible for everything the guys go through. When Yellow Guy asks to talk with her a little longer, she suddenly shouts “You’re not my real son!”. Leslie was sane once but lost family in an accident. She’s now imagining her own world trying to recreate her family but she’s so unhinged with such disjointed thoughts that the guys can become self aware.

[[WMG: Leslie is Roy's GoodCounterpart]]

[[WMG: Yellow Guy is David, and a sort of FrankensteinsMonster revived by Roy and/or Leslie.]]

The group in Transport are still stuck at the dump being attacked by whatever. Yes we see at the end of the episode Leslie bringing the group back in a car, but as we see, they 'always have spares' of all the characters (especially Duck), so it's entirely possible that she just brought out spares of the 3 and they were brought into the house for Electricity, leaving the 'original' group in Transport to rot and die.

[[WMG: Roy was killedOffscreen by Lesley after episode 3]]

Before they are first introduced, an apple is talking to the gang in an attempt to teach them about healthy eating, only for Lilly to take a bite out of him and throw him on the floor, taking over the episode immediately after. Also notable is that unlike the other teachers from the TV series, these two are much more malicious, planning to kidnap Yellow Guy to get a "family-sized" meal for them and their family, while the others were either genuinely nice or at least willing to teach the trio the lesson of the day.

* Further, David was Lesley's son. Who died in the car accident portrayed in Transport's Trumpton segment, which Lesley narrates. Yellow Guy is her traumatised 'replacement', and thus "not [her] real son."