History NightmareFuel / ThisIsIt

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C_HReR_McQ Don't Hug Me I'm Scared]] and the creativity explosion. Cake full of body parts, anyone?
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtkGtXtDlQA The sequel]] has the scene where [[spoiler:the puppets start rotting alive.]]
** During that scene, there's a blink-and-you-miss-it shot of [[http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/time2-590x330.jpg Tony glaring ominously at them.]] And he appears to be [[PsychoticSmirk smirking a little]] too.
** The introduction of Roy is pretty creepy. His {{Gonk}} appearance, ThousandYardStare, heavy breathing and the atmosphere suddenly turning dark makes his scene SurpriseCreepy.
** "Meh! Meh! Meh! ''Meh! Meh! MEH! MEH! MEH! MEH'' '''''MEH!''''' ([[EarAche ears bleed]])
** The {{Foreshadowing}} of the dying tree and rotting apple.
** "Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be fine. But eventually, everyone runs out of time."
* The Kickstarter videos. First, there's the entire premise of the puppets being kidnapped and held hostage, which several people have criticized for [[DudeNotFunny crossing a line]] into legitimately traumatic territory. Then, in "HELP #2", there's Yellow Guy having a bag put on his head and yelling, "No, I don't want it!" It's very unsettling, especially since Yellow Guy is also [[TheWoobie crying]] while he's talking.
** There's also a split-second shot of Sketchbook's face on the floor. Just their face, not the rest of them. They could be dead... or alternatively, they could be still alive, but faceless.
*** Look closely at the room. They may have been nailed to the wall.
** "HELP #3" has the Money Man gathering a collection of body parts (which may or may not come from our heroes) into a bag and writing 'YOU' on the bag with what's probably the puppets' blood. All while distorted cheery music plays in the background.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruZcCgoe9tg The Puppets Need YOU]]... [[spoiler: OR DEAD?]]
* Episode 3, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXOdn6vLCuU "Love"]], starts with an animated butterfly getting crushed by Duck Guy (It landed on their chicken picnic), complete with realistic butterfly corpse and blood (Also on their chicken). Also, [[spoiler:Yellow Guy is forced to marry his 'special one' ''against his will''.]] Extra points goes to the strange maggot-like creature that pops out of the egg at the end of the video, which is also smashed by Duck Guy.
-->'''Maggot:''' ''Faa-'''''tha!'''
** Said strange maggot like creature? [[spoiler:If you look carefully, it's a ''caterpillar'', with the same colouring and hair as the Yellow Guy. Consider that the last moment of the "dream sequence" was Shrignold flying with a ring towards him and, [[RapeAsDrama well]]...]]
** Tony's and Sketchbook's cameos when the cult reveals its true face. [[spoiler:If you notice, Tony's eyes are blank and his trim is white instead of black, while Sketchbook's eyes are googly. [[FridgeHorror This seems to suggest that they were brainwashed]]...]]
** The aftermath of the raw chicken and bloody egg picnic, Duck Guy reminding everyone that they've finished it, and then staring intently into the camera for an uncomfortably long time. It's just so...''off.''
** Do not eat before or after this episode. The hatched caterpillar and bloody raw chicken are pure NauseaFuel.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9FGgwCQ22w Episode 4]] has the characters in the digital world. [[spoiler:The longer they stay in there, the more grotesque their avatars become, until they just cease to exist in the real world except as terrifying holograms. The best example of this is Duck Guy, who slowly gets more realistic textures and a human-like model that just screeches.]]
** "DON'T TOUCH MEE''EEEE'''''''EEEEE'''''!!!"
*** It also makes [[http://i.imgur.com/rtHTu5t.jpg this face]] while screeching at Red Guy with...''something'' dripping from his eyes and mouth. Not to mention his hands (usually mouse cursors) are now sinewy fingers of red wiring.
*** Immediately after this, Red Guy, Duck Guy, and Yellow Guy are transported into the digital world. Throughout the transition, a bizarre series of glitched, blurry 3D graphics representing the three are shown, and towards the end, screaming can be heard.
** At one point, the computer brags he can tell you the time, and Duck Guy immediately looks at the camera and says "Time?!" in a very surprised voice. It sounds like he's remembering the trauma of what happened to them in Episode 2.
** The clones are really, ''really'' scary. At one occasion, one of the clones JUMPSCARES AT YOU. It's especially bad when It gets faster. At the faster points, every thing becomes dark and scary, and Colin turns into a floating head.
** Its even worse when the noises turn on.
** During the scene where Red Guy's alone at the computer, [[http://i.imgur.com/oHfyM5b.png two TERRIFYING avatars of the other puppets pop up on screen for a split second]]. At closer inspection, they appear to have ''wires sprouting out of the tops of their heads''.
*** Those wires are actually [[CallBack the Computer hats from 2]].
*** Also, look to the far right during this scene. [[NothingIsScarier Roy can be seen sitting quietly in the shadows]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS_Xq7gSCBM Episode 5]] features such [[SarcasmMode delightful scenes]] as [[spoiler:a giant giggling yellow thing eating Duck Guy's organs, and Yellow Guy being force-fed organs until he's obese. Both characters are completely unaware of this and [[AndIMustScream helpless to stop it]].]]
** [[spoiler:The Yellow thing eating Duck Guy's Organs? ''It's a can!'' That's why duck guy's bits were in cans, and why his face was on them!]]
*** [[spoiler: If you look closely, Duck Guy's operating table has a blood transfusion apparatus. The teachers kept him alive as long as possible.]]
** Poor, poor Duck Guy. [[spoiler:By the end, he's reduced to nothing more than a bowl of blood, flesh, and feathers, with only his decaying beak still intact.]]
** The duck is starting to realize that something is very wrong. Both the duck and the yellow guy realize that something is missing, and that something is [[spoiler: the red guy.]]
** Episode 5 seems to veer into SurrealHorror, with [[spoiler:Duck Guy disappearing halfway all while Yellow Guy is tormented by the insane Health Band.]] Brr, reaching Creator/DavidLynch levels of nightmare fuel.
** [[StalkerWithoutACrush Roy returns, hiding above the set, and you can see him at one point.]] On top of that, several things are "Roy's", like "Roy's Sauce".
** "Stranger's Plate! Stranger's Plate. '''STRANGER'S PLATE. STRANGER'S PLATE!"'''
** Duck Guy seems well and truly terrified the entire video, never once feeling at ease or joining in unlike with Sketchbook, Tony and Colin. [[spoiler:Just before he gets his organs eaten,]] he seems so desperate to escape...
** The digestive model, which is apparently alive, getting crushed and mangled during the Health Band's demonstration. It also leaves a [[NauseaFuel gross looking liquid on the floor.]]
** In the beginning, Duck Guy and Yellow Guy try to realize what's missing. They look at a drawing of the original trio sitting in the living room, but when they look again, [[spoiler:Red Guy has left and is visible in the window. Also in the same drawing, Duck Guy has "X"s for eyes and Yellow Guy appears to have a SlasherSmile]].
** [[spoiler: Now there's only one puppet left. And it's guaranteed that something horrible is going to happen to him next time...]]
** It's a bit hard to tell because it moves very fast, but when Duck Guy pushes the camera down, it looks like the red thing that blurs across the screen isn't the steak, it's Red Guy.
** In that same scene, there's a split-second shot of the microwave...''[[MindScrew and Red Guy's head is inside]]''.
* [[FridgeHorror But if this is how strange, shocking and terrifying the DHMIS franchise is, then one shudders to imagine how gory and frightening the sixth and final episode will be...]]
** Fortunately it's [[AvertedTrope averted]] but, that doesn't make the last episode completely nightmare free.
* In a recent [[http://www.itsnicethat.com/features/dont-hug-me-im-scared-interview-030516 interview]], the focus is mostly on the three main characters, and the silly answers they have for the interview questions. But then, the last question is if Roy has anything to add. His response?
-->'''Roy:''' [[SuddenlyVoiced My silly boy]] [[MoodWhiplash has allowed his eyes]] [[SurpriseCreepy to grow arrogant and rude]], [[WhamLine for this I will take him on]] [[FridgeHorror a trip to punish land]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbL-NSkXnl8 Episode 6]] [[SurrealHorror Surrealism,]] ParanoiaFuel and enough [[MindScrew mindscrewing]] to cap the series off with a dark case of an AmbiguousEnding.
** The 6th one has been released and already the ''thumbnail alone'' is horrifying--[[spoiler: Tony is back.]]
*** And when that scene comes up, [[spoiler: much like Duck Guy, Yellow Guy remembers what happened. It explicitly confirms that they experienced their rotting alive experience in 2.]]
--> [[spoiler: "You made me die!"]]
** Yellow Guy's [[spoiler: immediate fear and distress upon being roped into another surreal song]] is pretty hard to watch.
** As Yellow Guy [[spoiler: drowns in oil]], we can hear him screaming and gurgling for help. It isn't pretty.
** [[spoiler: The animated lamp's last song lyric before being interrupted by turning into Tony- "And you can have a dream about burning your friends"- suggests that, had that song been allowed to continue as planned, things would have gotten... pretty brutal.]]
** While [[spoiler: Red Guy is messing with the machine, he briefly brings Duck Guy back to life. Duck Guy is understandably freaked out]].
-->'''Duck Guy:'''--fish on my tray? WHAT!? ''WHERE AM I!?''
** [[spoiler: Roy returns with all of his creepy mannerisms in tow, and now he has an unbelievably long arm to touch Red Guy with. And it's heavily, ''heavily'' implied that [[TheManBehindTheMan he was controlling all of the teachers the whole time]].]]
** There is one easily-missed detail near the end that has truly nightmarish implications: [[spoiler: Take a close look at the last couple of shots of Yellow Guy as he's having his breakdown. [[MadnessMakeover It's subtle, but he appears to have dark circles forming under his eyes and blemishes on his nose]]. But more alarmingly, ''[[WhamShot he's losing his hair, his eyes are bloodshot, and his nose is slightly crooked]]''. [[FridgeHorror Just like his "old man"]]...]]
*** A high quality photo of Yellow Guy's face during that sequence was later uploaded by one of the show's creators. [[FromBadToWorse He]] [[EyeScream does]] [[NightmareFace NOT]] [[BloodyHorror look]] [[https://i.redditmedia.com/uNncmLDTlJDZV1YGIFIopcG2ErV6R-uotK9dSVbd4PA.jpg?w=768&s=420a72d8e1cb99d03394c5d167717781 well.]]
** The ending to the very last episode:
-->[[spoiler: '''Notepad:''' [[HereWeGoAgain What's your]] [[GroundHogDayLoop favorite idea?]] ]]
** Everything about the credits, with [[NothingIsScarier the empty and dark background full of fog]] ([[spoiler: as if its still in the console room]]), how fast it is, the music (highly reminiscent of the first video's credit sequence), which midway begins to sound like [[LaughingMad a scrambled mess of crazed laughter]] ending finally [[HellIsThatNoise with a noise that sounds like a boat horn or a brass instrument]], and the fact that [[spoiler: you can see Roy standing in the darkness, ''still staring at you.'']]
** [[spoiler: During the animated sequence that represents Yellow Guy's dream, Roy is present in ''every. single. scene.'' Two in particular are highly unsettling: in the very first sequence, Roy is literally inside the theater in Yellow Guy's mind; when the camera zooms in, for a split second he turns around to look right at the viewer. And when his son is drowning in oil, he's in the window. Watching it happen. Without doing a thing to help.]]
*** [[spoiler: There's also a tiny Roy coming out of the clock on the wall. Take of that what you will]]
* Going frame by frame through [[spoiler: the set of teachers who pass by in rapid succession as Red Guy frantically presses buttons shortly before Roy grabs him reveals some real horrors: one is a floating version of Duck Guy's head, only disconcertingly square shaped in every detail. Another seems to be nothing more than a screaming cube of meat that looks like it had been recently flayed alive. Another is ''Red Guy himself.'']]
** Earlier highlights include the return of Shrignold, accompanied by some very jarring choir music; the Solar System, whose size, movements and clearly human limbs come across as really offputting; and a deranged-looking football surrounded by floating balls.
** A small detail: when [[spoiler: Tony and Colin]] reappear, Yellow Guy just gives a startled shout. When Shrignold reappears, he ''screams''.
** Counts as Fridge Horror once you remember the implications at the end of the third episode....
* Not in the series itself, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW_JYONe4kQ this]] Music/{{Vocaloid}} song made as a tribute to the series is pretty creepy, acting as a mutual VillainSong for Sketchbook and Tony. Especially creepy is the following line, which sums up the "media conditioning children" theme perfectly:
-->"Stop all of your thinking and start listening to me!"

* All the faces silently screaming in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hIKKYv_3Ic Bad Things That Could Happen]], including the wall that gets a nail through it, the mouth that loses two teeth from biting into a licorice candy, and the matchbox lit on fire.
** The mouse that gets caught in a trap - and its head gets ''split in two''. As in, half of its head just ''falls off''. Doesn't help that the actor's face represents the now torn in two brain, the skull of the mouse is more realistic looking than what it looks from the outside, and not soon after [[ConvulsiveSeizures it starts going into seizures.]]

-->"Stop all of your thinking and start listening to me!"
* A meta example. This troper's tablet crashed after [[spoiler: Red Guy pulled the plug in the sixth episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared]]...

-->"Stop all of your thinking and start listening to me!"

** Counts as [[Fridge Horror Fridge Horror]] once you remember the implications at the end of the third episode....

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbL-NSkXnl8 Episode 6]] [[SurrealHorror Surrealism,]] ParanoiaFuel and enough [[MindScrew mindscrewing]] to cap the series off with a dark case of a DownerEnding.

** [[spoiler: The animate lamp's last song lyric before being interrupted by turning into Tony- "And you can have a dream about burning your friends"- suggests that, had that song been allowed to continue as planned, things would have gotten... pretty brutal.]]

** "Meh! Meh! Meh! ''Meh! Meh! MEH! MEH! MH! MEH'' '''''MEH!''''' ([[EarAche ears bleed]])