Fridge / Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

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Fridge Brilliance:

Web Series

• While it is confirmed that all the episodes took place on June 19th, it is also notable that each took place in chronological order during the day. Episode 1 was breakfast, episode 3 was lunchtime, episode 5 was dinner, and episode 6 was bedtime.
• When Tony is bathing the trio, he tells them to scrub until the water is "brown", but this doesn't rhyme with the previous lyric ("What do you mean? We're already clean!"). What would have rhymed? Green.
  • Combining the colors of the puppet trio together would create a brown-ish hue.
• In "Time", the puppets question if time is real and Duck says that time could be just a construct of human perception. When Tony rots the puppets alive, he shows them that time is indeed real.
• Shrignold being the only teacher that's an animal makes sense, given that he could (possibly) reproduce with the Yellow Guy.
• When the Spinach Can in "Health" asks if they're hungry, Yellow Guy says "No". This doesn't seem too weird, until you remember that Shrignold told him that he wasn't hungry, he was just lonely in "Love". Because of Shrignold, Yellow Guy now thinks that his hunger is just loneliness. At the end of the episode, once all the other puppets are gone, we see Yellow Guy sitting at the table with many open cans of Duck. Is it a coincidence that after all of his friends vanish, he feels the need to eat so gluttonously that he can't even get up to answer the phone?
• The Sketchbook dismisses green as "not a creative colour", which has plenty of reasons for the viewer to either agree or disagree with. On one hand, the puppets were told to "creatively" arrange sticks and leaves into their favorite color; the leaves are already green, so using them to spell out the word "Green" doesn't look like it requires a lot of creative thought. Furthermore, in traffic lights the colour green means "Go", but not so much "You can go" as "You have to go". No staying put, no going backwards, no creativity allowed. It may also be a subtle nod to the show's anti-corporate message against manipulative children's programming. Green is, after all, the color of money, which often stifles creativity over most of the entertainment industry. Finally, the other two colours mentioned are "Red" and "Blue". Both are primary colours. Green is considered a primary colour in science, but not in art.
  
  On the other hand, Edward de Bono would heartily disagree, as in his Six Thinking Hats the Green Hat symbolises creativity and new possibilities. Sketchbook refusing to classify green as a creative color also implies that despite there being endless possibilities in being creative, you can only be creative in the way they want you to.
• It becomes pretty blatant how Tony the Clock rhymes a word with itself, especially when he starts singing about time. But it's not its fault. After all, time likes to repeat itself...
  • That also brings to mind the quote, "Time doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes."
• Why does Colin sometimes take a minute to answer a question or pause without any noticeable reason? He's lagging.
  • Which makes sense, given that he's based on an older CRT monitor. The reason he comes off as unintelligent and often "lags" is because his hardware just isn't up to scratch by today's standards; heck, your phone probably has better hardware than a computer with Colin's design.
  • The fact that Colin is based on CRT monitor also shows Roy's greedy intentions, he either salvaged an old computer from a nearby scrap heap or bought an outdated computer so he can spend as little as possible.
• Sketchbook is listed on the main page as a Straw Hypocrite because they have green in their hair even though that's not a creative colour. However, they say they use their hair to express themselves, and at the end of DHMIS, they shun creativity. The green in Sketchbook's hair expresses the notion that even Sketchbook can't be creative all the time.
  • Of course, that could just bring up a different facet of their hypocrisy: they berated Yellow Guy for not "being creative", yet this theory implies that Sketchbook herself cannot be creative all the time.
• Some people have commented that Yellow Guy becomes less competent in DHMIS 2. In DHMIS 2, there is shot of Yellow Guy staring into space as Tony tells the puppets to watch time "go 'round like a merry-go-round/going so fast like a merry-go-round...". Tony brainwashed Yellow Guy, making him seem mindless. This could also explain Yellow Guy's ability to coherently question time before the decay scene — Tony's influence could have been wearing off at that point. Could also double as Fridge Horror.
• Word of God on Sketchbook's gender is "paper", which might seem like a Shrug of God but makes sense when you consider that, being a notepad, they probably don't have genitals.
  • Or, since paper's made from trees, the Sketchbook may theoretically be both a male and a female.
  • Which makes sense, 'cause all they care about is what they see as creativity.
• Things take a dark turn in the first episode because they follow Sketchbook's advice to "Listen to your heart, listen to the rain; Listen to the voices in your brain." A heart is shown as what Red Guy is using to craft, the rain soon turns into a storm and things get crazy.
  • Also, given how random objects keep coming to life through the series, what was Sketchbook's example of creativity? "I see a silly face, walking along and smiling at me"
• The Fan Nicknames for the puppets before their real names were revealed were "Harry" for Red Guy because he appears to be covered in hair (i.e, "hairy"), "Manny" for Yellow Guy because he's the most human-like of the trio (as in, "mankind"), and "Robin" for Duck because he's a bird and indeed has physical properties (dark feathers, long beak) similar to those of a robin. You could also say that he gets the red chest in "Health".
• There are (currently) two characters who have a lot of green in their color scheme; Duck has dark green feathers, which are much more defined in "Time", and appears to be the smartest of the puppet trio. The other character is the Money Man, who is a Torture Technician and a terrorist who's holding the puppets hostage for Euros, and is doing it pretty much the standard way realistic terrorists would do it, and he gets away with it. "Green is not a creative color", it's an intellectual color in DHMIS! Further proved by the fact that when they bring up a diagram of the brain, the temporal lobe is colored green. And what does the temporal lobe do? Well it helps you organize data... or think.
• Sketchbook's picture of the brain that appears right before the creativity trip has a green segment. Considering how horrific things went after that, they might have been saying that a lack of creativity is necessary to come back from whatever happened after that.
• Yellow Guy and Shrignold sitting in a tree...first comes LOVE, then comes MARRIAGE, then comes a...weird-bloody-maggot-baby in a baby carriage!
• Shrignold is called both a "little baby pigeon" and a "pesky bee". The two together would be the birds and the bees., considering the theme of the episode he appears in, it's only natural.
• The Yellow Guy wanted to paint a picture of a clown after seeing a picture of a clown. Copying something you see is not really that creative. Then again, the rest of the song is the Notepad telling the others what to do to be creative, which is also not creative.
• Gilbert the Globe was hyped up to be a major apart of the episode, but ended up only being a cameo. When was the episode released? April Fools!
• Why was Red Guy the only one able to leave the digital world? He's a guy in a suit, and everyone else is a puppet.
• The Healthy Band's house/food analogy is actually accurate to real life anatomy. The blood being in the first room is symbolic of its function: distributing vitamins and minerals to the organs. The catflap/party bit is accurate as well: the foods they list as "healthy" are mostly composed of sugars and starches, which turn into fat and don't leave the body (except through sweat).
• Rewatching DHMIS 2, I noticed that during the "My dad has a computer" scene, there is actually a naked woman in a painting near the Computer. Of course people wouldn't notice this, because this scene has Yellow Guy's Dad looking at what's supposed to be a Porn Site. Implied Smut is more appealing and compelling to look at and ponder then actual nudity!
• In regard to the teachers canon names, it's easy to figure out that they share the first letter with their titles: Tony the Talking Clock, Gilbert the Globe, Colin the Computer, and Sketchbook the... Sketchbook. Shrignold seems like an outlier (Shrignold the Butterfly? Shrignold the Love Bug?), until you rewatch the ending- he's a self-identified servant to Malcolm. He's Shrignold the Servant!
  • Additionally, it's stated that, in order to join the Love Cult, you have to change your name - it's likely that he was called something more fitting, but he chose to change his name, and chose to be a servant of Malcolm... So yes, he's Shrignold the Servant because he wants to be.
    • Yellow Guy's Malcomised name is Shrigis, and it sounds pretty similar to Shrignold so it makes some sense.
  • There's another case with Tony. At first, it seems arbitrary that he's the only one with "Talking" in his name. But there's another name that applies that still keeps the theme: Tony the Timekeeper! ^note Or timer, but timekeeper makes more sense.
  • Sketchbook's name being Sketchbook isn't very creative.
• In the early episodes, there are wanted posters for the trio, and then Yellow Guy. In "Health", it's revealed that Duck and Yellow Guy are stuck in a Lotus-Eater Machine that Red Guy escaped from, and that Duck dies in, leaving Yellow Guy alone.
• In DHMIS 3, the Love Cultists spend a lot of time complimenting Yellow Guy and doing nice things for him before overtly becoming creepy and demanding. While this does follow the pattern for the series, this is an actual technique used by cults to gain members. What is this strategy called? Love bombing.
  • Episode 3 in general can be read as a satire against religious indoctrination in kids shows, and the idea of heteronormativity in general. It pops up every so often, for example with Shrignold telling Yellow Guy that his idea of love is wrong, and that he should save his love "for your special one", but it's most clearly seen in this section of the song:
  He's made for her, and she's made for him!
  That's the way it's always been!
  And it's perfect! And it's pure!
  And it's protected with a ring
  That's the way that all love goes
  Like a flower, it grows and grows
  And it's forever, and forever
  And now we all worship our King
• The protagonists' actions in episode 5 correlate to their colors in relation to anti-authoritarian films. Red Guy is analogous to the Red Pill from The Matrix (he escaped into reality) and Duck is analogous to Soylent Green (he was fed to his friend).
  • Even better for Red Guy's case: The DHMIS Universe is actually a simulation inside a computer-like device.
• When cycling through the teachers, the only one not shown is Sketchbook. It makes sense when you remember that Red Guy was already singing her song in the previous scene, which was the catalyst for going back into the realm of fantasy.
  • Either that, or the reason she didn't appear again was because she was the only one to regret teaching them.
• In the scene where the characters change color when Red Guy pulls the plug, each of the characters turns into their respective color that they formed with sticks in "Creativity": Red Guy is blue, Duck is red, and Yellow Guy is green.
• To hammer it in even more that Episode 6 concerns Yellow Guy's father Roy, the episode came out on June 19th. What was so special about that date? In 2016, June 19th was Fathers' Day.
• Often, the teachers would continue singing without reacting to the puppets distress. If we go with the assumption that the teachers were just pre-recorded programs all along, a lot of their strange behaviour and subverted rhymes suddenly make some sense.
  • Maybe they weren't meant to be horrifying at all. They were just programmed by someone who really doesn't get people or what they'd find cute or endearing.
• The implication that someone (Roy or otherwise) was controlling the lessons the whole time actually explains why Red Guy and Duck were removed from the lessons, especially the timing. In "Computers", Red Guy immediately and repeatedly questions Colin. He's forced out of the lesson as a result. In "Health", Duck starts to feel more panicked and worried in the presence of the new teachers, immediately aware that something's not right. Whenever he tries to pick up the phone, Roy(?) immediately intercepts the call and forces him back into the lesson. When Duck just gives up and tries to escape, he's swiftly killed. Topping it all off, it's implied that the one calling them was Red Guy and he was trying to save them. Roy(?) doesn't want the students to become aware of the lessons and so, when they do, he gets rid of them so they won't interfere with it.
• The title of the series could be directed at Roy, a creepy parent who would only add more fear to an already sinister scenario.
• After Red Guy's boss says that his song idea "sounds really boring", the ambient piece that plays shortly after is in G major. Why is this important? The "Creative" song was in the same key signature.
• Listen carefully to the "Creative" song that Red covered. He skips over his "really boring" line, showing his character growth.
• The final episode briefly touches upon dreams, only to snap to a pastiche version of reality where everyone looks like Red and acts dull. Without any forewarning, it changes to a dark limbo with a control panel for manipulating the series, before switching to a Bizarro version of the first episode where everything looks familiar but with subtle differences. The whole episode could be interpreted as what happens when an individual loses their grip on reality, often induced by stress and lack of sleep, things that Yellow experiences that night.
• The main plot of the series involve the teachers trying to teach the main characters important lessons, but lose their way halfway through and give distorted inversed versions instead, including the Greater-Scope Villain Roy, who wanted to take his Yellow guy to "punish land" for being rude and arrogant but forced him into situations where he was primarily punished for his innocence and naivety, ultimately causing him to become similar to his old man before red guy ended it all with a reset, which Roy may or may not have wanted.
• The notion of teeth going grey if one eats too much of the wrong thing - as is constantly pointed out by the food teachers in 5 - seems rather silly... until you realise that one of the most common materials used in tooth fillings and root canals is silver amalgam, which can make the affected tooth or teeth appear grey.
• Our trio has a rather odd tone throughout the entire series. Maybe they have stage fright, considering that their rooms are all in a set....
• While the world reboots, a brief glimpse of a greenscreen can be seen on the window, furthering the idea that every room they have been on is in a set.
• Following the theory that DHMIS is a television show corrupted by advertising, combined with Roy's greedy intentions, there is an in-universe explanation for Colin's outdated technology and the overacting teachers who are uninformed about their episode lesson, and how the teachers only appear in one episode at a time: They are out-of-work actors who are desperate for exposure and they'll do anything to get a suitable income. Roy probably hired them to save money and didn't care if they went off-script since Roy sees DHMIS as a means to advertise his products. Sketchbook, Shrignold and the Love Cult, and The Lamp were probably just fresh out of acting school, Tony wanted a career in music, Colin was pulled out of the scrap heap, and The Healthy Band either wanted a cooking show of their own or they were just regular food-based workers brought in to advertise their products.
• The Food Band is very insistent in teaching Duck and Yellow Guy what foods are healthy or not — foods like bread, cream, and "white sauce" are considered healthy, while vegetables and protein are "fancy show-offy foods" that are to be avoided. The foods in the former category are generally fattening and full of carbs. The Food Band is trying to fatten up Duck for his slaughter.
• One can see "Health" in general as a commentary on how nutritional sciences can be very misleading. For example, that whole spiel about sugars and carbs being necessary for you in large amounts and fats being terrible for you was actually paid for in the 1960s by sugar companies to shift the blame towards fats for things like obesity and heart disease (putting more weight into the "corrupted by advertising" theory).
• The Health Band lists show-offy foods as being bad for you, such as cooked meat. The steak/lamb guy is the most show offy, and gutting your organs and feeding them to your friend is rather bad for your health.
• Even though he showed up as part of a Bait-and-Switch gag, the puppets did learn about the world from Colin. Namely, the corrupted nature of the program they're trapped in.
• Tony's infamous "Meh! Meh! Meh! MEH! MEH! MEH!" to snap the puppets out of their discussion makes use of Sensory Abuse to draw their attention to him. Much like alarm clocks, which he sounds like he's trying to imitate (at least, a digital one that goes "beep beep beep").
• The reason the song quality went down in episodes 5 and 6 was because Red Guy wasn't there. If you watch Film Theory's video, his theory supports the fact the whole show is a creation from Red Guy and Roy. Since Red Guy left in episode 4, Roy was forced to come up with the songs himself.

TV Series

• If Roy does, in fact, answer to Lesley, then it makes sense that she'd be an actual human while he's just a puppet. After all... what's a puppet without a puppeteer?
• Why does Red take so readily to being upper management in "Jobs"? It basically consists of what he wanted to do in the first place: sitting around doing nothing.
• A reason why Red Guy would be in upper management is because as we see in "Dreams" he used to work in a office job and is the most likely to qualify for the job, unlike the others who never had any work experience.
• Why does Duck consider Red Guy his best friend in "Death" when Yellow Guy is seemingly more attached to Duck and Red Guy is (slightly) more likely to express affection for/side with Yellow? Look at their favorite colors: Duck's is red, Yellow Guy's is green, and Red Guy's is blue (the color of Y.G.'s clothes and hair). Also, the two have an occasional case of not giving more than two damns about the other one in the TV series, Duck especially.
• "Death" opens and ends with Duck preceding a simple declaration with "Well," and his death following in short time. It starts with him declaring himself dead, and the episode ends with one of the two Ducks killing the other (and, ironically, the dead Duck is the same puppet as the original, whether or not that has any meaning).
• Duck's song in the credits for "Death"—where he lists people you can meet and shake by the hand—is nice foreshadowing, or a nifty Rewatch Bonus depending how you watch the series. Each person mentioned is, in fact, someone the puppets meet:
  • Of course the briefcase from "Work" would be the "businessman".
  • The "family man" could be Lilly and Todney's father, going by the traditional description of a family man; Todney, depending on one's definition of "man"; or even Roy, who is the only canon family member of a main puppet and shows up to save his son at the end.
  • The "choo-choo man" is definitely the old train from "Transport".
  • While a slight stretch, the "friendly fellow" could be Warren, since he's set up to be a teacher of friendship despite being too self centered to really make the lesson work.
  • And of course Electracey is the "plug-in man" from "Electricity".
• One of Yellow Guy's Brain Friends is an abomination called "Yumferdinker". While she's clearly a contrast to the other Brain Friends, who represent Yellow Guy's positive memories and a secret wish of his, it's also entirely possible that she's just an imaginary creature or friend Yellow Guy made up.
• In "Family", the reveal near the end that the biggest member is actually a little brother and the smallest is the dad is a bit of a surprise at first, but more obvious in a second viewing. The big guy dresses much simpler, just a pair of pants with suspenders and a white shirt while the smallest guy dresses more elaborately, wearing a vest and bowtie. The big guy gets angry very quickly and at one point excitedly jumps up and down like a child, while the smallest one is always calm and collected, like an adult.
• In "Transport", during the Old Train's song, he occasionally has the name LE5L3Y on him. Considering that it turns out that someone named Lesley is controlling the one controlling the characters, that could refer to how she owns/made the train.
• Originally, Yellow Guy's statement in "Time" of "My dad is a computer" seems like just a silly Non Sequitur slip of the tongue based on his stuttering, but after the events of "Electricity", it seems as though he was just stating a fact about Roy, as it's revealed in that episode that Yellow Guy literally runs on batteries.
• In "Family", the phrase "family-sized meal" has a double meaning due to Ambiguous Syntax. In most contexts, people would interpret it as "a meal that's big enough for an entire family to enjoy". But as Roy demonstrates, it can also be read as "an entire family that's a meal".
• The fact that most of the former teachers from the web series are much friendlier in this series can be explained by Roy no longer being in control of them, due to Leslie being in charge.
• Yellow Guy's name seemingly being random letters and numbers including a hyphen seems like just a gag until it's revealed that he's literally a robot.

Fridge Horror:

Web Series

• If the puppets were already clean when they were in the bath, what would have made the water turn brown?
  • Not blood, actually. It could either be excess dye, some kind of brown material that got stuck on them, dirt, along other things. The best part is that mixing the colors of the puppets would make a brown hue, so...
  • Possible Fridge Brilliance: Tony might've only said that the water would turn brown because a certain uncreative color would've rhymed with "clean". He probably wasn't actually referring to blood. It was probably just a little Continuity Nod to how green isn't a creative color from the first DHMIS.
    • The water does actually turn brown, though.
    • And let's face it, if scrubbing the Yellow Guy turned the water green, the song stops being about time and starts being about "Radiation Poisoning".
    • Maybe they pooped in the bath tub. Just saying.
    • Related to the above statement, it might be at least one of them shitting themselves in fear.
• Yellow Guy Took a Level in Dumbass between DHMIS 1 and 2. This might have been for comedic purposes, but another way to look at it is that the experience with the Sketchbook mentally traumatised Yellow Guy. (She did pick on him moreso than the other three), so by stunting his creativity, Sketchbook (perhaps inadvertently) stunted the rest of his mental growth, as well.
  • Alternatively, after the events of DHMIS, a combination of fear and dejection caused by Sketchbook led Yellow Guy to believe he was best off acting ignorant so he wouldn't suffer as badly if anything similar happened again. Then came Tony in DHMIS 2.... poor Yellow Guy.
• Tony's claim that the decay scene in "Time" is "out of [his] hands" is an example of Blatant Lies, as the main page shows. However, the blatancy of his lie becomes more literal during one shot of Duck rotting away, where Tony can be seen rocking Duck's chair. ^note [[DontExplainTheJoke It is literally in Tony's hands. (Well, hand...)◊]]
• In the Kickstarter videos, all the puppet characters from the first video make an appearance, with the promise that they'll be killed if enough money isn't raised. This is horrifying as it is. But the fact that it's only the characters from the first video suggests that two other DHMIS characters will survive: Tony and Roy (Yellow Guy's dad). If the Kickstarter isn't funded, these two could have to deal with the fact that the people closest to them have been killed. It's especially bad for Roy, since he will have lost someone who was canonically his son and friend — possibly his only friend, for all we know.
  • Given the end of the series, it's more likely that Roy masterminded the kidnapping in the first place.
• While the events in "Creativity" are kind of downplayed at the end, suggesting that maybe everything that happened towards the end was only in their mind and thus not too bad, "Time" suggests what happens towards the end really did happen. Look near Duck's rocking chair. You'll find his fallen-out eye there, even though both of his eyes are in his head. Now imagine how painful that must have been to all of them...
• In "Time", Tony says that "Eventually, everyone runs out of Time." Cue the Kickstarter video, where the three puppets are held hostage and unless their captor gets £96,000, he will kill them. The last line of the video is, "But remember, we're running out of ti—"
• "HELP #3" has the Big Bad MON£Y Man shoving bloodied body parts from the three puppets into an envelope and then writing "you" on said envelope with (what is presumably) the puppets' own blood. That's bad enough. The Fridge Horror kicks in when you realize that the surface Big Bad Money Man is using is remarkably similar to the one Yellow Guy used to "get creative" in "Creativity". "Now let's all agree to never be creative again" indeed.
• "Love" shows the dark side of cults, where any person who's feeling lost, sad, or confused can be easily swept up in crazy philosophical teachings and brainwashing as long as they can convince the sad/lost/confused person that their way leads to true happiness. Thank goodness it was (hopefully) all just a dream, or else Yellow Guy might have fallen for the Cult of Malcolm.
• Yellow Guy's treatment from the villains in all five episodes becomes all worse when you realize that from the way he acts and how short he is compared to the other characters, he is probably a young child.
• In the Kickstarter video, Yellow Guy mistakes the house he and his friends are tied up in for his dad's house. Now, Yellow Guy isn't exactly bright, but it still makes you wonder what his dad's house actually looks like, and what Yellow Guy saw in there that made him jump to his conclusion...
• "Computers" ends with Yellow Guy and Duck trapped inside the computer while Red Guy is forced to confront reality and his head bursts from the revelation. At least with the first three episodes, we were reassured that everything was all just a dream.
• Red Guy's line "Actually, we already have a computer" confirms that they've never seen Colin before. Not only is there a singing computer in their house, it isn't even theirs.
• Roy has a computer, and it looks quite similar to Colin. Considering what he does on his computer (he looks at porn), it would explain why Colin is slow, glitchy, repetitive, and prone to destruction when touched too hard. Doubles as Fridge Brilliance; porn sites are infamous for being hit with viruses that can infect computers simply by being visited. In short, Colin acts the way he does because he has a bunch of viruses from Roy's porn sites. In fact, when the room starts to glitch out, you can see what looks like Roy standing silently in the corner.
• "Dreams" begins with Yellow Guy weeping over the loss of his friends. Given how the previous episode implied that he doesn't know what happened to them, how badly would he take it if someone told him that he ate one of them?
• At the end of "Dreams", Red Guy pulls the plug on the machine that shows Yellow Guy the teachers. When he does this, the scene immediately shifts to a small room with recolors of the main cast, and the calendar shows that the date is now June 20. The notepad comes to life and starts singing the song from the first video... But then again, the room doesn't have the knives or the iron from the first one, which are all dangerous objects. There's even a door, so now they can leave the room when things get too crazy.
• Just before Red Guy pulls the plug, the trauma of what's happening makes Yellow Guy form dark circles around his eyes, his hair starts falling out and his nose starts to go crooked—just like his dad. Is it possible that Roy is the way he is now because he went through the same thing his son's going through?
• According to the Kickstarter videos, Roy was apparently a major donor for the cause. Episode 6 reveals (or at least implies) that he was the mastermind behind the teachers, and is thoroughly responsible for the trio's suffering. Can it be that he wanted to save them from the Money Monster as soon as possible because he wanted to keep them around for more torment?
• If we go by the interpretation that Shrignold raped Yellow Guy at the end of Episode 3 (hence the ring flying toward him at the end, followed by the "FATHER!" caterpillar), along with Yellow Guy's father Roy being confirmed to have been controlling the teachers and basically everything the puppets went through... does that mean Roy used his machine to create a being to rape his own son?
• Where is Yellow Guy's mother? Is her absence related to Roy in some way? Is she assisting Roy with the lessons? Did she even exist at all?
• Knowing that the lessons always end badly, you can only attempt to guess what could have happened if the teachers briefly introduced in episode six got to finish their songs.
  • Traffic Lights sings about the possibility of being crushed by a bus if you go when there's a red light. This speaks for itself.
  • The Cigarette can be used to harm in an obvious way.
  • Shovel Guy could bury Yellow Guy alive at the bottom of the garden.
  • Possibly the worst example is the Solar System. The ending of this song could end badly for the whole solar system.
• When Tony the Talking Clock sings that "the past is far behind us / the future doesn't exist", he means it literally — the story is stuck on June 19th until the final installment, and if the show had its way, there wouldn't be a next day to progress to.
• After Duck and Red Guy eat the chicken picnic the eggshells are covered in bloodstains, suggesting that there must have been raw meat inside. Were they eating unhatched chicks?

TV Series

• After Duck manages to free himself and his friends from the workplace where they had been trapped in, both Red and Yellow guy bemoan the loss of their lanyard and child respectively. While Duck may have been spared from a time skip, Red and Yellow were likely there for forty years forming bonds and building an odd life for themselves in that period. When Duck started the jobs song up again, all of that progress was outright deleted, which means that Red and Yellow just had four decades' worth of life experiences taken away from them but still retain the memories from them, of all the loved ones and close friends they'll never see again. Duck basically outright murdered Yellow Guy's child and anyone else he may have had an attachment to.
• In "Friendship", it's made abundantly clear that Warren the Eagle is telling the trio his own backstory, but the details make him even more of an Unreliable Narrator and demonstrate him as not just selfish and a bad friend, but downright creepy.
  • At one point, Warren mentions that he and his friends used to stay up all night "just for a laugh." However, in the slideshow, the only one awake is him while everyone else is asleep. Which means that he was watching his friends sleep and thought it was completely normal and funny.
  • Warren's definition of his friends "not treating him right" shows them not paying attention to him in favor of a cute bunny, showcasing his narcissism.
  • The fact that Warren mentions that he was having issues at work and that his friends disliked his "business idea", and scoffs that they don't have "business brains like him" likely means that the "friends" Warren mentions weren't even his friends, but coworkers that he was getting uncomfortably attached to. Considering his pushiness with Yellow Guy and trying to form friendships with the trio that simply aren't working, this wouldn't be out of character at all. Furthermore, the newspaper in "Death" has a headline about a worm being fired for harassment, which most fans believe refers to Warren. His coworkers probably finally got fed up with him and complained to management.
  • Also, in Warren's story, his friends all rush to apologize and beg for his forgiveness, with Warren telling them it's too late. However, in the slideshow, the tears of remorse on everyone's faces are clearly drawn on with marker, which likely means that Warren never received any apology and it's merely wishful thinking on his part that his old friends will come back one day and beg for forgiveness.

Fridge Logic:

Fridge Logic

• Red Guy never has any clothes on during any of the episodes, and we kind of went with that (after all, neither does Cookie Monster, for example). However, in episode 6 we see that he does indeed normally wear clothes, meaning he was completely naked in a children's show all along.
  • Actually, Red Guy might be a reference to "monster" characters in Sesame Street, so he might not be naked in the sense that we're thinking off but, rather, that Fur Is Clothing. Going along with that in a Sesame Street ref, Yellow Guy being humanoid, wears the most clothes, while Duck is partially clothed.
• Red Guy tells the other puppets to "quit mucking around" at the beginning of "Time", as though they were doing something that could interfere with their plans. The thing is, though, that the puppets weren't doing anything other than waiting for their show. This also raises the question of why Duck said five minutes wasn't "enough time" — they didn't seem to be doing anything, and they didn't seem to have any plans beyond watching their show.
• Why, no matter how many times the characters appear to be injured, do they always come back? Well, minus that fact that the world is actually a simulation, this likely applies to the real world as well as in one of their Kicktarter videos, their body parts have been cut off... Yet during their first episode, they're perfectly fine... Almost as if they're fictional characters in a world where there's a Reset Button.
  • The TV Series answers this. Lesley is ensuring that there are no lasting consequences of the episodes. This doesn't explain the original series, though, but the guys do remember the earlier episodes, at least enough for Yellow Guy to remember Tony killing him.

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