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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even Sketcbook is horrified about the puppets' creativity going too far.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even Sketcbook Sketchbook is horrified about the puppets' creativity going too far.
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Solar System, who claims that "planets live inside the Moon".
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Solar System, who claims that "planets "[[CriticalResearchFailure planets live inside the Moon".Moon]]".
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even Sketcbook is horrified about the puppets' creativity going too far.
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* StrawHypocrite: They say that green is not a creative colour, but there's green in their hair. To say nothing of the fact that they claim to be making the kids "creative", when they're actually stunting their creativity.
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* StrawHypocrite: They say that green is not a creative colour, but there's green in their hair. To say nothing of the fact that they claim to be making the kids "creative", when they're actually stunting their creativity.creativity by telling them what to think.
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* TakeThat: A thinly-veiled parody of art school teachers.
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* NiceGuy: Comes across as innocent and friendly like Duck Guy.
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* HairTriggerTemper: He obviously doesn't like people asking questions that contradict [[ItsAllAboutMe 'his']] schedule.
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* Jerkass: NOT a good person.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Pretends to be friendly and helpful, but has no intentions of actually helping anybody. After Red Guy touches his keyboard, he fulfills the "evil" part of the trope by [[spoiler:trapping the puppets inside a virtual world where they can do nothing but open doors over and over again and possibly murdering Red Guy.]]
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Pretends to be friendly and helpful, but has no intentions of actually helping anybody. After Red Guy touches his keyboard, he fulfills the "evil" part of the trope by [[spoiler:trapping the puppets inside a boring virtual world where they can do nothing but open doors over and over again and possibly murdering Red Guy.]]
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Tends to do this, usually just as a gag. Usually shrugging at the camera, or asking the audience a question. Done more seriously [[spoiler: at the end of episode 4. He leaves the weird digital dancing rave, and finds a crude reconstruction of the first episode. A man in a black jumpsuit comes out, closes an action board, and then [[YourHeadAsplode Red Guy's head blows up in a glittery pop.]]]]
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Implied, since their song has strong homophobic undertones, like saying that heterosexual marriage is "perfect", "pure" and "the way it's always been".
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* SmurfettePrinciple: The only girls in the cult are the Flower and Yellow Guy's "Special One". Though, as seen in AmbiguousGender above, Shrignold ''may'' qualify.
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* SmurfettePrinciple: The only girls in the cult are the Flower and Yellow Guy's "Special One". Though, as seen in AmbiguousGender above, Shrignold ''may'' qualify.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Implied, since their song has strong homophobic undertones, like saying that heterosexual marriage is "perfect", "pure" and "the way it's always been".
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** See PoliticallyIncorrectVillain above.
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A Globe that wants to tell the puppets about the World.
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A Globe that wants to tell the puppets about the World. Presumably.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Even ''he'' seems confused by how suddenly Colin appeared in the show.
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-->'''Furry Boy''': Hehe, ''(angrily)'' harder.
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-->'''Furry Boy''': Hehe, ''(angrily)'' harder.''harder''!
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Below are the characters featured in the six episode web series ''Don't Hug Me I'm Scared''. Since these videos rely on shock value, expect spoilers for all the episodes, though the spoilers for the last three episodes will be marked.
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Below are the characters featured in the six episode web series ''Don't Hug Me I'm Scared''. Since these videos rely on shock value, expect spoilers for all the episodes, though although the plot-related spoilers for the last three episodes will be marked.
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* ButtMonkey: Besides getting upstaged by Colin, he doesn't even show up during [[spoiler: the overload of teachers]] in 6, save for a background cameo... in which he's turned around, anyway.
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* ButtMonkey: Besides getting upstaged by Colin, he doesn't even show up during [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the overload of teachers]] in 6, save for a background cameo... in which he's turned around, anyway.
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* EldritchAbomination: All of the teachers are bizarre, can manipulate reality, have confusing motivations, and are extremely dangerous.
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* StepfordSmiler: Each teacher is nearly-constantly cheerfully smiling. Naturally, they're all deranged and unstable, which only makes them more terrifying...
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* HeroKiller: They eat Duck guy's guts, killing him in the process. They also bake a cake out of his face. Considering the Red Guy managed to grow his head back, whether the Duck guy stays dead is unclear.
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* HeroKiller: They eat Duck guy's guts, killing him in the process. They also guts and then bake a cake out of his face. Considering the Red Guy managed to grow his head back, whether the face.
* ImAHumanitarian: They eat Duckguy stays dead is unclear.guy's guts with audible glee.
* ImAHumanitarian: They eat Duck
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* ImAHumanitarian: They eat Duck guy's guts with audible glee.
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Craig doesn't make a direct appearence in the series, and as such I don't think he sould be listed here.
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!!Craig
The unfortunate star of ''Craig's Big Day'' who enjoys playing computer games and eats birthday meals.
* CoolShades: Dons some after transforming from a nerd into one who is "big and strong".
* IncrediblyLameFun: The game he plays: ''Wacky Pig-Worm!''.
* InstantSedation: What appears to be the show's creators pull this on him.
* InterruptedSuicide: He sings about wanting to kill himself after getting a birthday present of poison. It's not really clear why he decides not to follow through with his act, though he does attribute it to his sudden transformation.
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: His reflection spits at him in his first appearance.
* NerdGlasses: Wears them at first.
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: He celebrates his 31st birthday by playing a video game and eating a strange TV meal.
* SpikyHair: Boasts about getting hair like this.
* TookALevelInBadass: "I was a nerd, but now I'm big and strong and I've got cool spikes in my hair."
The unfortunate star of ''Craig's Big Day'' who enjoys playing computer games and eats birthday meals.
* CoolShades: Dons some after transforming from a nerd into one who is "big and strong".
* IncrediblyLameFun: The game he plays: ''Wacky Pig-Worm!''.
* InstantSedation: What appears to be the show's creators pull this on him.
* InterruptedSuicide: He sings about wanting to kill himself after getting a birthday present of poison. It's not really clear why he decides not to follow through with his act, though he does attribute it to his sudden transformation.
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: His reflection spits at him in his first appearance.
* NerdGlasses: Wears them at first.
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: He celebrates his 31st birthday by playing a video game and eating a strange TV meal.
* SpikyHair: Boasts about getting hair like this.
* TookALevelInBadass: "I was a nerd, but now I'm big and strong and I've got cool spikes in my hair."
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-->'''Lamp:''' How can you sleep when you don't know how to have DREAMS?\\
'''Yellow Guy:''' No, I don't want to know! I DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW TO HAVE DREAMS!
'''Yellow Guy:''' No, I don't want to know! I DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW TO HAVE DREAMS!
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-->'''Lamp:''' How can you sleep be sleepy when you don't know how to have DREAMS?\\
'''Yellow Guy:''' No, I don't want to know!I I-I DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW TO HAVE DREAMS!DREAMS! NO! ''NOOOOO!''
'''Yellow Guy:''' No, I don't want to know!
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* CanonName: Referred to as "Red Guy", "Duck Guy" and "Yellow Guy" in various blog posts by the staff. Cemented in the sixth episode, where their beds have "R", "D" and "Y" on each of their respective head rests.
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* PaletteSwap: [[spoiler: At the end of the finale, we get a blue Red Guy, a green Yellow Guy, and a red Duck; which also happen to be [[CallBack their favourite colours]]]].
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* PaletteSwap: [[spoiler: At the end of the finale, we get a blue Red Guy, a green Yellow Guy, and a red Duck; which also happen to be [[CallBack be their favourite colours]]]].colours, as described in episode one]].
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Was the only one who wanted a relatively normal life. When he got it in episode 6, he found it to be extremely boring.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w45Vc3uv1Yk Another interpretation also fits this]]: [[spoiler: He was an office worker who wanted to make a children's show. Roy gave him the opportunity, but because of the corporate sponsorship the show was ruined.]]
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** Was the only one who wanted a relatively normal life.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w45Vc3uv1Yk Another spoiler-ful interpretation also fits this]]: [[spoiler: He was an office worker who wanted to make a children's show. Roy gave him the opportunity, but because of the corporate sponsorship the show was ruined.]]
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** Becky indicated that Red Guy is a personification of spaghetti on her [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BHM4v6OBmUY/?taken-by=becky.sloan Instagram]].
* ChromaticArrangement: Played with. While he is red, he doesn't get a lot of focus in the videos, instead being second fiddle to the main antagonists, and he has more in common with the green character type than the red one.
* ChromaticArrangement: Played with. While he is red, he doesn't get a lot of focus in the videos, instead being second fiddle to the main antagonists, and he has more in common with the green character type than the red one.
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** Becky [[WordOfGod Becky]] indicated that Red Guy is a personification of spaghetti on her [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BHM4v6OBmUY/?taken-by=becky.sloan Instagram]].
* ChromaticArrangement: Played with. While he is red, he doesn't get a lot of focus in the videos, instead being second fiddle to the main antagonists, and he has more in common with the green character type than the red one.Instagram]].
* ChromaticArrangement: Played with. While he is red, he doesn't get a lot of focus in the videos, instead being second fiddle to the main antagonists, and he has more in common with the green character type than the red one.
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* DullSurprise: He has almost no inflection in his voice, even when he's supposed to be singing.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first line in the series is saying "That sounds really boring" after Sketchbook says that they use their hair to express themselves.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first line in the series is saying "That sounds really boring" after Sketchbook says that they use their hair to express themselves.
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* DullSurprise: He has almost no inflection in his voice, even when he's supposed to be singing.
singing, creating a humorous contrast to the more excitable teachers like the time-obsessed Clock.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first line in the series issaying "That sounds really boring" after Sketchbook says that they use their hair to express themselves.themselves. This sets up his general lack of enthusiasm and inflection throughout the next six episodes.
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: He just wants to be left alone with his friends.
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: He The Red Guy just wants to be left alone with his friends.friends, rather than having to be taught by a time-traveling clock or a magical sketchbook.
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** [[spoiler:It's implied in the fifth that he was calling Duck Guy and making him realize what was going on, causing Duck Guy to rebel against the the Healthy Band's lesson. Had he not tried to help his friends, Duck Guy might still be alive and Yellow Guy wouldn't be completely alone.]]
** [[spoiler: And third time's the charm; in Episode 6, Red Guy makes two blunders. First he starts pushing random buttons in an attempt to get rid of the teachers before they can hurt Yellow Guy, but all he does is cause the system to start randomly switching out teachers, which only frightens his friend. Then when he tries unplugging the machine, it seems like he somehow reset/restarted the universe, leading to the puppets starting it all over again (maybe)... though at the very least he saved Yellow Guy.]]
** [[spoiler: And third time's the charm; in Episode 6, Red Guy makes two blunders. First he starts pushing random buttons in an attempt to get rid of the teachers before they can hurt Yellow Guy, but all he does is cause the system to start randomly switching out teachers, which only frightens his friend. Then when he tries unplugging the machine, it seems like he somehow reset/restarted the universe, leading to the puppets starting it all over again (maybe)... though at the very least he saved Yellow Guy.]]
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** [[spoiler:It's It's implied in the fifth that [[spoiler:that he was calling Duck Guy and making him realize what was going on, causing Duck Guy to rebel against the the Healthy Band's lesson. Had he not tried to help his friends, Duck Guy might still be alive and Yellow Guy wouldn't be completely alone.]]
**[[spoiler: And third time's the charm; in charm, come Episode 6, Red 6; [[spoiler:Red Guy makes two blunders. First he starts pushing random buttons in an attempt to get rid of the teachers before they can hurt Yellow Guy, but all he does is cause the system to start randomly switching out teachers, which only frightens his friend. Then when he tries unplugging the machine, it seems like he somehow reset/restarted the universe, leading to the puppets starting it all over again (maybe)... though at the very least he saved Yellow Guy.]]
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Briefly in the sixth installment, when Red Guy is messing with the {{Lotus Eater Machine}}'s controls]].
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Briefly in the sixth installment, when Red Guy is messing with the {{Lotus Lotus Eater Machine}}'s Machine's controls]].
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:In 5 his organs are removed and eaten [[EatenAlive while he is conscious]]. These organs are then served to Yellow Guy.]]
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** In the second video, he and Yellow Guy questioning time is what causes Tony to [[spoiler:rot him and his friends alive.]]
** In the third, his swatting a butterfly leads to Yellow Guy running away and [[spoiler:join a cult.]]
** In the third, his swatting a butterfly leads to Yellow Guy running away and [[spoiler:join a cult.]]
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** In the second video, he and Yellow Guy questioning time is what causes Tony to [[spoiler:rot rot him and his friends alive.]]
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** In the third, his swatting a butterfly leads to Yellow Guy running away and[[spoiler:join join a cult.]]
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* OutOfFocus: Barely appears at all in episode 6 [[spoiler:on account of being KilledOffForReal.]]
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* OutOfFocus: Barely appears at all in episode 6 [[spoiler:on account of being KilledOffForReal.killed off.]]
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* ToothyBird: When [[spoiler:Tony uses time to decay the puppets]], Duck Guy gets teeth for some reason.
** In 5 he again gets teeth when he's being operated on the table.
** In 5 he again gets teeth when he's being operated on the table.
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* ToothyBird: When [[spoiler:Tony Tony uses time to decay the puppets]], puppets, Duck Guy gets teeth for some reason.
**In 5 he His teeth appear again gets teeth in episode five when he's being operated distressed and lying down on the a table.
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* ButtMonkey: Even more than the other two; almost all of the bad things in the series happen solely to him, to him first before extending to the others, or he simply gets the worst of it. Heck, in the third video "Love," nothing bad happens to the other two. They just enjoy a lovely chicken picnic. [[spoiler:Considering that [[AbusiveParents his]] [[GreaterScopeVillain father]] was the one controlling everything, it actually makes sense that Yellow Guy would get targeted the most.]]
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* ButtMonkey: Even more than the other two; almost all of the bad things in the series happen solely to him, to him first before extending to the others, or he simply gets the worst of it. Heck, in the third video "Love," nothing bad happens to the other two. They just enjoy a lovely chicken picnic. [[spoiler:Considering that [[AbusiveParents his]] [[GreaterScopeVillain father]] his father was the one controlling everything, it actually makes sense that Yellow Guy would get targeted the most.]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: He's prominently displayed in the series's poster art, [[spoiler: he's the last one in the LotusEaterMachine, and the BigBad is his father]]. That said, [[spoiler: the one to resolve things in the final episode is Red Guy. [[GainaxEnding Maybe]]]].
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* DecoyProtagonist: He's prominently displayed in the series's poster art, [[spoiler: he's the last one in the LotusEaterMachine, Lotus Eater Machine, and the BigBad Big Bad is his father]]. That said, [[spoiler: the one to resolve things in the final episode is Red Guy. [[GainaxEnding Maybe]]]].Maybe]].
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** And lastly, they appear in the finale, when the lamp is singing about dreams on one of the pictures on the wall and right at the end. [[spoiler:Or should I say, beginning?]] [[HereWeGoAgain "What's your favorite idea?"]]
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** And lastly, they appear in the finale, when the lamp is singing about dreams on one of the pictures on the wall and [[spoiler:and right at the end. [[spoiler:Or Or should I say, beginning?]] beginning]]? [[HereWeGoAgain "What's your favorite idea?"]]
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Good is a relative term, but they're the only teacher that doesn't leave any of the protagonists horribly maimed in any way (in fact, the darker aspects of the episode were the protagonists letting their imaginations go too far, and Sketchbook has a severe case of "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" in the end). The other teachers only get worse from here on out. [[spoiler:Aside from Gilbert, they're also the only teacher that has no clear connection to [[GreaterScopeVillain Roy]] and also, oddly, does not appear in [[the parade of teachers near the end of Episode 6]].
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Good is a relative term, but they're the only teacher that doesn't leave any of the protagonists horribly maimed in any way (in fact, the darker aspects of the episode were the protagonists letting their imaginations go too far, and Sketchbook has a severe case of "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" in the end). The other teachers only get worse from here on out. [[spoiler:Aside from Gilbert, they're also the only teacher that has no clear connection to [[GreaterScopeVillain Roy]] Roy and also, oddly, does not appear in [[the the parade of teachers near the end of Episode 6]].
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* [[invoked]]WordOfGod: They're named "Sketchbook" at the creators' website.
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* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Caretaker]]: To the puppets. He yells "don't be stupid" at Red Guy when he tries to resist the whole "going on a journey through time" thing, and later yells at Duck Guy for "mucking around".
* AnimateInanimateObject: He's a clock.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Rots the puppets alive]] for questioning time.
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Before the infamous "[[spoiler:rotting alive]]" scene, Tony comes off as unsettling but incredibly goofy, especially his theatrical singing and ''strange'' dancing.
* CameBackWrong: In "Love", [[spoiler:Tony is in the Cultist's crowd, but looks completely dead with white eyes and a greenish complexion. His outer rim is also now white instead of black.]]
** In the sixth video [[spoiler: he's mostly the same besides his FishEyes.]]
* CameBackWrong: In "Love", [[spoiler:Tony is in the Cultist's crowd, but looks completely dead with white eyes and a greenish complexion. His outer rim is also now white instead of black.]]
** In the sixth video [[spoiler: he's mostly the same besides his FishEyes.]]
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Before the infamous "[[spoiler:rotting alive]]" "rotting alive" scene, Tony comes off as unsettling but incredibly goofy, especially his theatrical singing and ''strange'' dancing.
* CameBackWrong: In "Love",[[spoiler:Tony Tony is in the Cultist's crowd, but looks completely dead with white eyes and a greenish complexion. His outer rim is also now white instead of black.]]
** In the sixth video [[spoiler: he's mostly the same besides his FishEyes.]]
* CameBackWrong: In "Love",
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* KnightOfCerebus: He's shown as being undeniably evil compared to Sketchbook, when he [[spoiler:used time to speed up the other puppets' aging and rotting as a means to teach them that their time in life would eventually be up.]]
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* KnightOfCerebus: He's shown as being undeniably evil compared to Sketchbook, when he [[spoiler:used used time to speed up the other puppets' aging and rotting as a means to teach them that their time in life would eventually be up.]]
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* MakeThemRot: He is very heavily implied to be the reason for [[spoiler:the RapidAging and eventually rotting that the puppets go through at the end of his debut.]]
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* MakeThemRot: He is very heavily implied to be the reason for [[spoiler:the the RapidAging and eventually rotting that the puppets go through at the end of his debut.]]
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!!Shrignold and Friends
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* KnightTemplar: They want to end hatred and make everyone feel loved... by [[spoiler:zealously worshiping an idol and brainwashing people.]]
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* ReligionOfEvil: [[spoiler:They worship the king of love, Malcolm, a giant stone head that they feed gravel into, otherwise it gets angry. To join them, one must change their name and clean out their brain.]]
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* StrawHypocrite: The cultists first promote love towards friends and pets. [[spoiler:Then, they claim that the Yellow Guy must save all of his love solely for his "special one".]]
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* StrawHypocrite: The cultists first promote love towards friends and pets. [[spoiler:Then, Then, they claim that the Yellow Guy must save all of his love solely for his "special one".]]
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! Gilbert the Globe
A Globe that wants to tell the puppets about the World.
* ButtMonkey: Besides getting upstaged by Colin, he doesn't even show up during [[spoiler: the overload of teachers]] in 6, save for a background cameo... in which he's turned around, anyway.
* EarlyBirdCameo - Can be seen on top of the shelf at the start of ''"Don't Hug Me I'm Scared II - TIME."''
* RedHerring: Was announced as being the teacher for the fourth episode, but he ends up upstaged by Colin the Computer.
* TheUnreveal: Because Colin the Computer steals his thunder, we'll never know what lesson he would have taught the puppet trio or how his lesson would have gone wrong.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The only teacher not to unleash some terror upon the protagonists. While it's true he didn't exactly have much of a chance to do so, he is also the only teacher apart from Sketchbook not [[spoiler: summoned in part six, implying that he isn't a part of the LotusEaterMachine.]]
! Craig
The unfortunate star of ''Craig's Big Day'' who enjoys playing computer games and eats birthday meals.
* CoolShades: Dons some after transforming from a nerd into one who is "big and strong".
* IncrediblyLameFun: The game he plays: ''Wacky Pig-Worm!''.
* InstantSedation: What appears to be the show's creators pull this on him.
* InterruptedSuicide: He sings about wanting to kill himself after getting a birthday present of poison. It's not really clear why he decides not to follow through with his act, though he does attribute it to his sudden transformation.
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: His reflection spits at him in his first appearance.
* NerdGlasses: Wears them at first.
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: He celebrates his 31st birthday by playing a video game and eating a strange TV meal.
* SpikyHair: Boasts about getting hair like this.
* TookALevelInBadass: "I was a nerd, but now I'm big and strong and I've got cool spikes in my hair."
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A Globe that wants to tell the puppets about the World.
* ButtMonkey: Besides getting upstaged by Colin, he doesn't even show up during [[spoiler: the overload of teachers]] in 6, save for a background cameo... in which he's turned around, anyway.
* EarlyBirdCameo - Can be seen on top of the shelf at the start of ''"Don't Hug Me I'm Scared II - TIME."''
* RedHerring: Was announced as being the teacher for the fourth episode, but he ends up upstaged by Colin the Computer.
* TheUnreveal: Because Colin the Computer steals his thunder, we'll never know what lesson he would have taught the puppet trio or how his lesson would have gone wrong.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The only teacher not to unleash some terror upon the protagonists. While it's true he didn't exactly have much of a chance to do so, he is also the only teacher apart from Sketchbook not [[spoiler: summoned in part six, implying that he isn't a part of the LotusEaterMachine.]]
! Craig
The unfortunate star of ''Craig's Big Day'' who enjoys playing computer games and eats birthday meals.
* CoolShades: Dons some after transforming from a nerd into one who is "big and strong".
* IncrediblyLameFun: The game he plays: ''Wacky Pig-Worm!''.
* InstantSedation: What appears to be the show's creators pull this on him.
* InterruptedSuicide: He sings about wanting to kill himself after getting a birthday present of poison. It's not really clear why he decides not to follow through with his act, though he does attribute it to his sudden transformation.
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: His reflection spits at him in his first appearance.
* NerdGlasses: Wears them at first.
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: He celebrates his 31st birthday by playing a video game and eating a strange TV meal.
* SpikyHair: Boasts about getting hair like this.
* TookALevelInBadass: "I was a nerd, but now I'm big and strong and I've got cool spikes in my hair."
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* EasterEgg: In the fourth video, a much smaller version of Malcom's head (with hair burned to ash) can be seen on the fireplace mantle.
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A Globe that wants to tell the puppets about the World.
* ButtMonkey: Besides getting upstaged by Colin, he doesn't even show up during [[spoiler: the overload of teachers]] in 6, save for a background cameo... in which he's turned around, anyway.
* EarlyBirdCameo - Can be seen on top of the shelf at the start of ''"Don't Hug Me I'm Scared II - TIME."''
* RedHerring: Was announced as being the teacher for the fourth episode, but he ends up upstaged by Colin the Computer.
* TheUnreveal: Because Colin the Computer steals his thunder, we'll never know what lesson he would have taught the puppet trio or how his lesson would have gone wrong.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The only teacher not to unleash some terror upon the protagonists. While it's true he didn't exactly have much of a chance to do so, he is also the only teacher apart from Sketchbook not [[spoiler: summoned in part six, implying that he isn't a part of the LotusEaterMachine.]]
!!Craig
The unfortunate star of ''Craig's Big Day'' who enjoys playing computer games and eats birthday meals.
* CoolShades: Dons some after transforming from a nerd into one who is "big and strong".
* IncrediblyLameFun: The game he plays: ''Wacky Pig-Worm!''.
* InstantSedation: What appears to be the show's creators pull this on him.
* InterruptedSuicide: He sings about wanting to kill himself after getting a birthday present of poison. It's not really clear why he decides not to follow through with his act, though he does attribute it to his sudden transformation.
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: His reflection spits at him in his first appearance.
* NerdGlasses: Wears them at first.
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: He celebrates his 31st birthday by playing a video game and eating a strange TV meal.
* SpikyHair: Boasts about getting hair like this.
* TookALevelInBadass: "I was a nerd, but now I'm big and strong and I've got cool spikes in my hair."
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* LoveGoddesss: He is the God (And King) of Love, according to The Love Cultists.
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* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler: The first five teachers appear in the final video when Red Guy meddles with the machine controlling Yellow Guy's reality. The only exception is the Sketchbook, who appears at the end to imply the entire series is going to repeat itself.]]
* TheCameo:
** The Sketchbook appears in the second video behind the Red Guy's radio.
** The Sketchbook and Tony the Talking Clock both appear in crowd shots of the third video.
** Colin reappears in the fifth episode as a sticker on the Guys' fridge.
** The Sketchbook appears in the second video behind the Red Guy's radio.
** The Sketchbook and Tony the Talking Clock both appear in crowd shots of the third video.
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!!Other Teachers
In the sixth episode, Red Guy winds up tampering with a console, summoning some of the old teachers and a variety of random teachers based on inanimate objects. This includes a model of the solar system, a football, a magnet, a shovel, a saxophone, a file, a stoplight, a gel jar, a cigarette, and a boom box.
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: They grow increasingly bizarre and random with every iteration.
* BrickJoke: One of the teachers to appear is a File, who sings the same song Red Guy proposed earlier in the episode.
* TheCameo: A lot of the previous teachers appear, and even some of the previous characters who weren't teachers (like the clapperboard) appear as such.
* CaptainObvious: Again, the File, who's song is self-descriptive and nothing else.
-->"I am a file and you put documents in me..."
* CoolShades: The Saxophone sports a pair.
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: As the Teachers rapidly switch back and forth, they always switch on a word shared between their songs.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Solar System, who claims that "planets live inside the Moon".
* NonSequitur: Many of them spout off songs or ideas related to their "theme", but the saxophone apparently wants to teach Yellow Guy how to buy a canoe.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: While all of the other teachers are puppets, the solar system is a person in a costume, with only the face being a puppet.
* SimpletonVoice: The Shovel. Who also happens to possibly be the only American in the whole thing.
* StylisticSuck: Whether or not what they sing can even be counted as songs is arguable.
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!!Other Teachers
In the sixth episode, Red Guy winds up tampering with a console, summoning some of the old teachers and a variety of random teachers based on inanimate objects. This includes a model of the solar system, a football, a magnet, a shovel, a saxophone, a file, a stoplight, a gel jar, a cigarette, and a boom box.
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: They grow increasingly bizarre and random with every iteration.
* BrickJoke: One of the teachers to appear is a File, who sings the same song Red Guy proposed earlier in the episode.
* TheCameo: A lot of the previous teachers appear, and even some of the previous characters who weren't teachers (like the clapperboard) appear as such.
* CaptainObvious: Again, the File, who's song is self-descriptive and nothing else.
-->"I am a file and you put documents in me..."
* CoolShades: The Saxophone sports a pair.
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: As the Teachers rapidly switch back and forth, they always switch on a word shared between their songs.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Solar System, who claims that "planets live inside the Moon".
* NonSequitur: Many of them spout off songs or ideas related to their "theme", but the saxophone apparently wants to teach Yellow Guy how to buy a canoe.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: While all of the other teachers are puppets, the solar system is a person in a costume, with only the face being a puppet.
* SimpletonVoice: The Shovel. Who also happens to possibly be the only American in the whole thing.
* StylisticSuck: Whether or not what they sing can even be counted as songs is arguable.
In the sixth episode, Red Guy winds up tampering with a console, summoning some of the old teachers and a variety of random teachers based on inanimate objects. This includes a model of the solar system, a football, a magnet, a shovel, a saxophone, a file, a stoplight, a gel jar, a cigarette, and a boom box.
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: They grow increasingly bizarre and random with every iteration.
* BrickJoke: One of the teachers to appear is a File, who sings the same song Red Guy proposed earlier in the episode.
* TheCameo: A lot of the previous teachers appear, and even some of the previous characters who weren't teachers (like the clapperboard) appear as such.
* CaptainObvious: Again, the File, who's song is self-descriptive and nothing else.
-->"I am a file and you put documents in me..."
* CoolShades: The Saxophone sports a pair.
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: As the Teachers rapidly switch back and forth, they always switch on a word shared between their songs.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Solar System, who claims that "planets live inside the Moon".
* NonSequitur: Many of them spout off songs or ideas related to their "theme", but the saxophone apparently wants to teach Yellow Guy how to buy a canoe.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: While all of the other teachers are puppets, the solar system is a person in a costume, with only the face being a puppet.
* SimpletonVoice: The Shovel. Who also happens to possibly be the only American in the whole thing.
* StylisticSuck: Whether or not what they sing can even be counted as songs is arguable.
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** {{Cthulhumanoid}}: What he resembles most.
* {{Cthulhumanoid}}: Red Guy's strange hair resembles the type of tentacle-beard typical of a Cthulhumanoid, which also fits with the horrific absurdity of the setting.
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* KindheartedSimpleton/NiceGuy: He sees his father Roy as a good friend despite how creepy he is, when Duck Guy kills the "pesky bee", he runs away crying, he really appreciates and repays "love" Shrignold and his friends give to him and 6th video shows that [[spoiler: disappearance of his friends]] really broke him. While Roy may say that he is arrogant and rude, [[InformedFlaw we don't have enough evidence to assume that he is telling the truth.]]
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* KindheartedSimpleton/NiceGuy: KindheartedSimpleton: He sees his father Roy as a good friend despite how creepy he is, when Duck Guy kills the "pesky bee", he runs away crying, he really appreciates and repays "love" Shrignold and his friends give to him and 6th video shows that [[spoiler: disappearance of his friends]] really broke him. While Roy may say that he is arrogant and rude, [[InformedFlaw we don't have enough evidence to assume that he is telling the truth.]]
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Colin continues the trend of sociopathic, unhelpful teachers, despite being explicitly programmed to assist people like the three students.
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Giant Cans with yellow faces and open mouths. [[spoiler:They appear in Episode 5, where they are eating the guts of the Duck Guy.]]
* TheButcher: [[spoiler:The giant meat can that rips out Duck Guy's organs and cans them so that they can be forced upon Yellow Guy.]]
* TheDragon: To the food band, who [[spoiler:feed the cans to Yellow Guy after the cans eat his guts]].
* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler:The giant meat can constantly giggles as he rips out Duck Guy's organs.]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:They eat Duck guy's guts, killing him in the process. They also bake a cake out of his face. Considering the Red Guy managed to grow his head back, whether the Duck guy stays dead is unclear.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: They're the only villains in the series so far to be explicitly shown hurting a puppet (unless you count Tony making Yellow Guy's ears bleed). The scene where they [[spoiler:eat Duck Guy's organs while he's still alive]] is so gory it makes the first four instalments look like actual ''Series/SesameStreet'' by comparison. Duck Guy seems terrified throughout the fifth, in stark contrast to the puppets' reactions to Sketchbook, Tony, the Money Man, Shrignold, and Colin, where no-one realized their malice until it was too late. Given that [[spoiler:Red Guy survived having his head exploded]], they're also the only villains so far to [[spoiler:kill a puppet.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:They eat Duck guy's guts.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: For [[spoiler:Duck Guy's death.]]
* TheButcher: [[spoiler:The giant meat can that rips out Duck Guy's organs and cans them so that they can be forced upon Yellow Guy.]]
* TheDragon: To the food band, who [[spoiler:feed the cans to Yellow Guy after the cans eat his guts]].
* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler:The giant meat can constantly giggles as he rips out Duck Guy's organs.]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:They eat Duck guy's guts, killing him in the process. They also bake a cake out of his face. Considering the Red Guy managed to grow his head back, whether the Duck guy stays dead is unclear.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: They're the only villains in the series so far to be explicitly shown hurting a puppet (unless you count Tony making Yellow Guy's ears bleed). The scene where they [[spoiler:eat Duck Guy's organs while he's still alive]] is so gory it makes the first four instalments look like actual ''Series/SesameStreet'' by comparison. Duck Guy seems terrified throughout the fifth, in stark contrast to the puppets' reactions to Sketchbook, Tony, the Money Man, Shrignold, and Colin, where no-one realized their malice until it was too late. Given that [[spoiler:Red Guy survived having his head exploded]], they're also the only villains so far to [[spoiler:kill a puppet.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:They eat Duck guy's guts.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: For [[spoiler:Duck Guy's death.]]
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* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Far less characterized than any of the previous teachers. They don't suffer from delusions of helping people like Shrignold and Sketchbook seem to, they don't show much sign of having a HairTriggerTemper like Tony and Colin, and they don't even seem to enjoy making people suffer like the Lamp; their only real motivation for [[spoiler:forcing Yellow Guy to eat Duck Guy]] is because they're evil and it's an evil thing to do.
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* GeniusDitz: Shown to be knowledgeable of complex philosophical ideas and is generally an eloquent speaker, but is usually just as willing to go along with whatever inane lesson the current teacher is singing as Yellow Guy is, suggesting that he doesn't have much common sense.
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* GeniusDitz: Shown to be knowledgeable of complex philosophical ideas and is generally an eloquent speaker, but is usually just as willing to go along with whatever inane lesson the current teacher is singing as Yellow Guy is, suggesting that he doesn't have much common sense.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:In 5 his organs are removed and eaten while he is conscious. These organs are then served to Yellow Guy.]]
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Implied, since their song has strong homophobic undertones, like saying that heterosexual marriage is "perfect", "pure" and "the way it's always been".
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* PlantPerson: The Talking Flowers.
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!!The students in general
The three main characters of the series.
* AndIMustScream: It is revealed in episode 5 that the students are growing aware of their surroundings. [[spoiler:Red Guy has escaped, and Duck Guy resists, to no avail.]]
* ButtMonkey: Their only purpose in existing seems to be to be tortured over and over again by demented psychopaths.
* CanonName: Referred to as "Red Guy", "Duck Guy" and "Yellow Guy" in various blog posts by the staff. Cemented in the sixth episode, where their beds have "R", "D" and "Y" on each of their respective head rests.
* GenreSavvy: As of the 4th installment, they're able to tell when an object is about to come to life, though they get which object wrong, as the real teacher comes out of nowhere.
* PaletteSwap: [[spoiler: At the end of the finale, we get a blue Red Guy, a green Yellow Guy, and a red Duck; which also happen to be [[CallBack their favourite colours]]]].
* TrueCompanions: The three are always together, and despite the surreal nature of the series, they clearly care about each other a lot. [[spoiler:Red Guy's absence and Duck Guy's death in episode 6 leaves Yellow Guy emotionally broken]].
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: They're all very indifferent to the weirdness around them.
* VagueAge: The antagonists treat them like children, but the photo of them on the wall reads 19/06/55. The sixth episode shows a picture of Red Guy in a cap and gown with a diploma and has him working in an office building in the "real" world, suggesting that he is at least a young adult.
!!Red Guy
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[[caption-width-right:288:''"I wonder what will happen."'']]
The only one of the main characters played by someone in a costume. He speaks in a dry monotone, never sounding surprised by any of the crazy, horrifying things that happen to him or his friends. Still, he does voice the most concern.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Was the only one who wanted a relatively normal life. When he got it in episode 6, he found it to be extremely boring.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w45Vc3uv1Yk Another interpretation also fits this]]: [[spoiler: He was an office worker who wanted to make a children's show. Roy gave him the opportunity, but because of the corporate sponsorship the show was ruined.]]
* BerserkButton: Well, as berserk as Red Guy can get, anyway. The only thing that seems to frustrate him is when his questions are deliberately not answered, as seen in Episode 4.
* CartoonCreature: Sketchbook is a notepad, Duck Guy's a bird, Yellow Guy's a human, and Tony is a clock, but... what is Red Guy supposed to be again?
** {{Cthulhumanoid}}: What he resembles most.
** Becky indicated that Red Guy is a personification of spaghetti on her [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BHM4v6OBmUY/?taken-by=becky.sloan Instagram]].
* ChromaticArrangement: Played with. While he is red, he doesn't get a lot of focus in the videos, instead being second fiddle to the main antagonists, and he has more in common with the green character type than the red one.
* DullSurprise: He has almost no inflection in his voice, even when he's supposed to be singing.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first line in the series is saying "That sounds really boring" after Sketchbook says that they use their hair to express themselves.
* HandPuppet: Wears hand puppets of his friends as part of his bar singing act.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: He just wants to be left alone with his friends.
* {{Irony}}: Is the only character who isn't a puppet, yet his voice and actions are fairly wooden.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Can be sarcastic and condescending, but none the less cares for his friends.
* MesACrowd: He ends up in a world populated by copies of himself by the sixth installment. However, rather than fitting in, he's an outcast due to his outlook changing because of everything he's been through with the puppets and the teachers.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The sixth installment implies that he hasn't been wearing clothes but his species (whatever the heck it is) normally would. Humorously, rather than being laughed at or seen as a pervert for removing his clothes in the middle of a public place, the piano guy just thinks he's rude--and later they are more preoccupied with how bad he is at singing.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero[=/=]UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom:
** In the fourth video, his smacking Colin is what pisses Colin off enough to [[spoiler:trap the puppets in a deteriorating digital world.]]
** [[spoiler:It's implied in the fifth that he was calling Duck Guy and making him realize what was going on, causing Duck Guy to rebel against the the Healthy Band's lesson. Had he not tried to help his friends, Duck Guy might still be alive and Yellow Guy wouldn't be completely alone.]]
** [[spoiler: And third time's the charm; in Episode 6, Red Guy makes two blunders. First he starts pushing random buttons in an attempt to get rid of the teachers before they can hurt Yellow Guy, but all he does is cause the system to start randomly switching out teachers, which only frightens his friend. Then when he tries unplugging the machine, it seems like he somehow reset/restarted the universe, leading to the puppets starting it all over again (maybe)... though at the very least he saved Yellow Guy.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: In episode 6 when one of his fellow office workers asks him to file a file he remarks how funny it would be if the file came alive, which is dismissed by his coworker as "[[IronicEcho Boring]]".
* NotSoStoic: In the 4th video, he tells Colin to "Shut Up" in a more annoyed and serious tone compared to the previous videos. In fact, he seems to be more vocally expressive throughout the whole video.
** He also gets frustrated when Colin doesn't answer him when he asks what there is to actually ''do'' in the virtual world.
* OnlySaneMan: He's really the only one who rejects the ideas presented to him by Sketchbook and Tony from the start, and is the only one to question the presence of a dancing clock in his living room.
--> '''Red Guy:''' [pointing at Tony] Who is that?
** In the case of Colin, he actually tells it to shut up when he realizes his questions aren't going anywhere. He's also the only one who doesn't get sucked into Colin's insane digital world.
** Inverted in the 6th episode; he soon gets bored of office life and thinks things would be more interesting if objects started singing.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: In the fourth video, he repeatedly tries to cut the song short. By the end, [[spoiler:he is the only one not in the computer, and his attempt to get his friends out fails, leading him to follow the cord to... reality, apparently?]]
** It's also implied that [[spoiler:he left the house to get away from it all in the fifth video, with his appearance in the credits at the very end.]]
* SeenItAll: We don't find out what made him this way, but he's completely deadpan when a dancing clock makes time go backwards, and he sounds downright ''bored'' to find that he's been kidnapped and tied up in someone else's basement.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Whoever controlled the machine, his unplugging it probably wasn't part of their plan.]]
* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler:His head explodes at the end of the fourth video. The fifth shows that he somehow survived and fully recovered, but is no longer part of the lessons.]]
* TheUnreveal: In episode four, he almost says his name.
* TranquilFury: When he gets angry, he raises his voice only a little bit and actually gets inflection in his voice.
* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler: At the end of the fourth video.]]
!!Duck Guy
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[[caption-width-right:288:''"Maybe time's just a construct of human perception!"'']]
A well-dressed dark-green bird. He's a generally chipper fellow, and seems to be mostly oblivious to the dangers that he and his friends face.
* AndIMustScream: "I DON'T WANNA DO THIS ANYMORE!!!"
* AutoTune: His voice is made through this. In the third and fourth episodes, though, he speaks without it.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Briefly in the sixth installment, when Red Guy is messing with the {{Lotus Eater Machine}}'s controls]].
-->'''Duck Guy:''' --there's fish on my tray! (''panicked'') WHAT!? WHERE AM I!?
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Wears a jacket and shorts, but no shoes.
* CaptainOblivious: In the Kickstarter video, he and his friends are all tied to chairs in a creepy basement, and his first concern is that whoever lives there needs to tidy things up. And when their captor walks menacingly towards them, he tries to strike up a casual conversation with him.
** He seems to have wised up by the fifth video. He not only knows there's something wrong with the Healthy Band, but he actually tries to get away.
* ChromaticArrangement: He's the green puppet between a red and a blue/yellow puppet.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Oddly enough. In addition to being TheSmartGuy, he also has a tendency to give bizarre, almost nonsensical answers to any of the questions he's asked, such as replying "my house" when asked where he lives and remarking in an interview that he finds yogurt exciting. That said, he borders on being the OnlySaneMan in certain situations, implying he may just follow his own sort of logic.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:In 5 his organs are removed and eaten while he is conscious. These organs are then served to Yellow Guy.]]
* TheDandy: Based on the way he poses, he seems to really enjoy changing clothes in the digital world, at least until things go terribly wrong. Most of the time in the series proper, he wears what appears to be a trench coat or a suit.
* FeatheredFiend: When he goes insane during the "let's get creative" scene. The glitched digital model of him in episode 4 also looks the part, glaring into the camera and letting out a loud, crow-like squawk.
* FeatherFingers: Taken to the logical extreme in "Time". Yes, his feather fingers actually have ''bones'' in them.
* KilledOffForReal: In the fifth video, [[spoiler:he's gutted and served to Yellow Guy by a giant talking can of meat. Considering Red Guy is implied to have somehow survived episode 4, whether Duck Guy stays dead is uncertain. However, the {{Foreshadowing}} drawing in the beginning shows Red Guy watching from the window and Duck Guy with two X's over his eyes, implying that Duck Guy is actually dead, unlike Red Guy who was just sent to some other place.]]
* GeniusDitz: Shown to be knowledgeable of complex philosophical ideas and is generally an eloquent speaker, but is usually just as willing to go along with whatever inane lesson the current teacher is singing as Yellow Guy is, suggesting that he doesn't have much common sense.
* MotorMouth: In the HELP video, he talks the most out of the three characters, and the Money Man puts duct-tape on his mouth to make him shut up.
* NiceGuy: Always outgoing and friendly even after every thing he has been through.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** In the second video, he and Yellow Guy questioning time is what causes Tony to [[spoiler:rot him and his friends alive.]]
** In the third, his swatting a butterfly leads to Yellow Guy running away and [[spoiler:join a cult.]]
* OddNameOut: Unlike Yellow Guy and Red Guy's colorful names, his name [[ADogNamedDog reflects his species]].
** FridgeBrilliance: Green is not a creative color.
* OhCrap: In episode 4, he's gets somewhat nervous when Colin [[CallBack brags about being able to tell time]].
* OnlySaneMan: In episode 5, he very quickly becomes uncomfortable with The Healthy Band and at one point tries to just ''leave'' instead of being passive like in the first four shorts. [[spoiler:It doesn't end well for him.]]
* OutOfFocus: Barely appears at all in episode 6 [[spoiler:on account of being KilledOffForReal.]]
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: In the fifth video, he finally snaps after the Healthy Band's nonsensical song goes on for too long.
-->'''Refrigerator:''' Everything tastes great! But maybe we should wait!
-->'''Duck Guy:''' No!
-->'''Refrigerator:''' Before we put it on the plate!
-->'''Duck Guy:''' Enough!
-->'''Refrigerator:''' Or it could be too late!
-->'''Duck Guy:''' [[WhamLine I don't want to do this anymore!]] ''(Runs off, knocking over the camera in the process)''
* TheSmartGuy: He's got the highest vocabulary of the other puppets, and is aware that time is an illusion, but he gets stopped immediately by Tony screaming.
* ToothyBird: When [[spoiler:Tony uses time to decay the puppets]], Duck Guy gets teeth for some reason.
** In 5 he again gets teeth when he's being operated on the table.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He's set up a Chicken Picnic and refuses to do anything else until it's finished.
!!Yellow Guy
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[[caption-width-right:288:''"I might paint a picture of a clown!"'']]
A yellow-skinned puppet with overalls and blue hair. He's the dimmest of the three, and gets into the most trouble, whether by his own fault or not.
* BreakTheCutie: In the final episode, he's severely traumatized to the point where his hair starts falling out.
* ButtMonkey: Even more than the other two; almost all of the bad things in the series happen solely to him, to him first before extending to the others, or he simply gets the worst of it. Heck, in the third video "Love," nothing bad happens to the other two. They just enjoy a lovely chicken picnic. [[spoiler:Considering that [[AbusiveParents his]] [[GreaterScopeVillain father]] was the one controlling everything, it actually makes sense that Yellow Guy would get targeted the most.]]
* CaptainObvious: In the fifth video, after about a minute after the song starts, it finally occurs to him to say "Food is talking!"
* ChromaticArrangement: He's both yellow and blue to contrast the red and green of his friends.
* DecoyProtagonist: He's prominently displayed in the series's poster art, [[spoiler: he's the last one in the LotusEaterMachine, and the BigBad is his father]]. That said, [[spoiler: the one to resolve things in the final episode is Red Guy. [[GainaxEnding Maybe]]]].
* EightiesHair: His hair is supposed to be styled as a mullet, though its length wildly varies depending on the episode and [[ArtShift the current medium he's being portrayed in]]. Sometimes it's more like a small blue tuft, but other times it goes all the way down his back.
* InformedFlaw: In interview with puppets, Roy says that he is "arrogant and rude". However, we never see him act like that, he is usually pretty innocent in the series
* GenreSavvy: In episode six, his first instinct upon seeing a lamp trying to sing to him is to turn it off and tell it "NO!"
* HeroicBSOD: Appears to have gone into this state by the start of the 6th episode. Unfortunately for him, the Lamp comes along soon after to subject him to further torture.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With his Dad, apparently.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:He's tricked into eating his only remaining friend alive, Duck Guy, at the end of episode 5. He seems to realize this at the end of the video.]]
* KindheartedSimpleton/NiceGuy: He sees his father Roy as a good friend despite how creepy he is, when Duck Guy kills the "pesky bee", he runs away crying, he really appreciates and repays "love" Shrignold and his friends give to him and 6th video shows that [[spoiler: disappearance of his friends]] really broke him. While Roy may say that he is arrogant and rude, [[InformedFlaw we don't have enough evidence to assume that he is telling the truth.]]
* NervousWreck: Becomes one by episode 6, which is pretty understandable considering everything he's gone through.
* OhCrap: Understandably reacts this way in episode 6 when the Lamp ropes him into another lesson.
-->'''Lamp:''' How can you sleep when you don't know how to have DREAMS?\\
'''Yellow Guy:''' No, I don't want to know! I DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW TO HAVE DREAMS!
** When the Yellow guy sees the previous teachers appear unexpectedly, he's immediately terrified.
* ThePigPen: Assuming it ''was'' dirt, when Tony makes the puppets take a bath, he scrubs Yellow Guy and the water turns brown. (Duck Guy complained they were ''already'' clean, but he might have just meant himself and Red Guy.)
** [[BloodIsSquickerInWater And if it wasn't dirt...]] or poo.
* ShutUpHannibal: Actively denies the Lamp's lesson, first by turning it off, and then by yelling at it to stop singing.
%%* SimpletonVoice
* SuperStrength: He somehow manages to pick up a tree in "Time".
* TookALevelInBadass: In the final installment, he immediately realizes that something is wrong and demands that the Lamp character singing to him stop trying to teach him about dreams.
* TookALevelInDumbass: In the first short, he has hints of a SimpletonVoice but is otherwise on-par with the other characters in terms of capability. In the second short he has trouble speaking at all, let alone coherently, and may have not even realized that he was in a musical number.
** Noticeably, he seems to sound MORE dumb in the presence of his father.
** In the subsequent videos, he's reduced to being very dim, but still slightly aware.
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in the final video, when he's well aware that horrible things happen during the lessons and does everything he can to get out of one. [[YouCantFightFate Unfortunately...]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Shouted "Spaghetti!" when asked his favorite food.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Teachers]]
!!The Teachers in general
The antagonists of the series.
* AffablyEvil: Each teacher is some shade of this. Sketchbook seems to be a straight example, whilst Tony, Colin, and the Healthy Band are [[FauxAffablyEvil Faux]]. Shrignold is debatable, and the lamp [[WeHardlyKnewYe hardly gets any screen time]], so it could be either or.
* AnimateInanimateObject: Barring Shrignold, all of the teachers are anthropomorphized household objects. The puppets get used to this, and anticipate the Teachers' appearance by the fourth episode.
* ArcVillain: Of their respective installments.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: They seem nice when they first start their lesson, but always later turn out to have very dark agendas.
* FlatCharacter: They don't really have many personality traits beyond [[BitchInSheepsClothing pretending to be helpful and then becoming disturbing]], along with turning out to be [[StrawHypocrite hypocritical]]. [[spoiler: Episode 6 reveals that they're all the products of a machine, and thus [[JustifiedTrope most likely programmed without much else in mind]].]]
* StrawHypocrite: They tend to start out preaching a message, but then do a full 180 on it by the end. If they don't, their lesson is completely incorrect and inconsistent.
* WouldHurtAChild: Assuming that the puppets are children, all of them except possibly Sketchbook have been perfectly willing to torment them in horrific ways.
!!Sketchbook
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[[caption-width-right:288:''"What's your favorite idea? Mine is being creative!"'']]
A talking sketchbook with the voice of a young woman (Or maybe a little boy). They teach the trio about creativity, only for things to spiral out of control.
* AffablyEvil: They're pretty polite and kind, and even when they mad they don't raise their voice. However, they're also a jerk and hypocrite.
* AlasPoorVillain: They're the bad guy, but it's still quite horrific when [[spoiler:the Money Man tears their face off]] in "HELP #3".
* AmbiguousGender: Due to the voice sounding somewhat between a mix of a grown woman's and a 12 year old boy's, there is still, albeit a little debate on what they really are in canon.
** [[ShrugOfGod Amusingly, one of the makers was directly asked this question via Twitter,]] [[https://twitter.com/japelling/status/434274094855753728 and he simply responded "paper."]]
* AmbiguouslyEvil: They're definitely a {{Jerkass}}, but it's unclear if they were actually evil and intentionally drove the puppets insane or if things just got out of their control.
* AnimateInanimateObject: They're just a sketchpad that suddenly came to life.
* TheCameo: Makes a brief appearance in "TIME", but you have to look really closely. They also appear in the first "HELP" video for a split second; the monster holding the puppets hostage appears to have nailed them to the wall. And they're [[DissonantSerenity still smiling]].
** They also appear in "Love" for a few seconds as part of the crowd near the end, [[spoiler:but they merely stand still while staring at the Yellow Guy with a neutral expression on their "face". They also look slightly different from their first appearance - their eyes are now three-dimensional (and not flat like the rest of her face) and their covers are striped black and white instead of just plain black.]]
** And lastly, they appear in the finale, when the lamp is singing about dreams on one of the pictures on the wall and right at the end. [[spoiler:Or should I say, beginning?]] [[HereWeGoAgain "What's your favorite idea?"]]
* DissonantSerenity: They're surprisingly calm when they were watching all the other puppets go insane during the "CREATIVE EXPLOSION." However, they were the first one to state that they should never be creative again after said explosion was over, and said this with wide eyes, thus implying that [[EvenEvilHasStandards they too were horrified about all that had happened]].
* HarmfulToMinors: Based on whether or not you consider any of the puppets minors (Yellow Guy might be one), their effect on them was not pretty.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Apparently, you can only be creative in ways they want.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After the '''CREATIVE EXPLOSION''', Sketchbook looks genuinely horrified, but keeps their calm tone of voice. Notably, Sketchbook is the only teacher to reject what they taught in their debut episode.
---->'''Sketchbook''': "Now let's all agree, to never be creative again".
* PerpetualSmiler: Unlike Tony, they don't change their expression, even when annoyed.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the creativity explosion ends, they just flop over and the episode ends.
* SmurfettePrinciple: If interpreted as female, they are the only non-male character with a relevant role seen so far.
* StrawCritic: To the Yellow Guy; everything the guy makes or likes is shot down by them (Or destroyed). And they only allow the Puppet trio to make art that they like (Until the '''CREATIVITY EXPLOSION''' where it doesn't seem like they have control over their artistic decisions).
* StrawHypocrite: They say that green is not a creative colour, but there's green in their hair. To say nothing of the fact that they claim to be making the kids "creative", when they're actually stunting their creativity.
** They also admonish poor Yellow Guy for saying that green's his favorite colour, but says nothing to the Duck Guy, who actually ''is'' green.
* TakeThat: A thinly-veiled parody of art school teachers.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Good is a relative term, but they're the only teacher that doesn't leave any of the protagonists horribly maimed in any way (in fact, the darker aspects of the episode were the protagonists letting their imaginations go too far, and Sketchbook has a severe case of "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" in the end). The other teachers only get worse from here on out. [[spoiler:Aside from Gilbert, they're also the only teacher that has no clear connection to [[GreaterScopeVillain Roy]] and also, oddly, does not appear in [[the parade of teachers near the end of Episode 6]].
* TranquilFury:
-->'''Sketchbook:''' Now take a look at my hair! I use my hair to express myself!
-->'''Red Guy:''' That sounds really boring.
-->(''beat'')
-->'''Sketchbook:''' (''with a hint of anger in their voice'') I use my hair to express myself.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: They seem to genuinely want the puppets to have a good time. At least until they begin to get creative in ways they don't like, like using green.
* [[invoked]]WordOfGod: They're named "Sketchbook" at the creators' website.
!!Tony The Talking Clock
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[[caption-width-right:288:''"There's always time for a song."'']]
A clock that teaches the trio about the concept and importance of time, and he does this rather forcefully.
* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Caretaker]]: To the puppets. He yells "don't be stupid" at Red Guy when he tries to resist the whole "going on a journey through time" thing, and later yells at Duck Guy for "mucking around".
* AnimateInanimateObject: He's a clock.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Rots the puppets alive]] for questioning time.
* BerserkButton: Suggesting that time is just a construct of human perception.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Before the infamous "[[spoiler:rotting alive]]" scene, Tony comes off as unsettling but incredibly goofy, especially his theatrical singing and ''strange'' dancing.
* CameBackWrong: In "Love", [[spoiler:Tony is in the Cultist's crowd, but looks completely dead with white eyes and a greenish complexion. His outer rim is also now white instead of black.]]
** In the sixth video [[spoiler: he's mostly the same besides his FishEyes.]]
* TheCameo: In the sixth installment, [[spoiler:when Red Guy is messing with the machine's controls]].
* CanonName: His name, Tony The Talking Clock, was confirmed in an [[http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/18301/1/beckyjoe-are-this-weeks-dazed-visionaries interview for Dazed Magazine.]]
* CaptainObvious: When asked when time started and when it will stop, he responds with [[NonAnswer "Time is important and I am a clock!"]]
* CloudCuckoolander: Even for an AxCrazy [[TheSociopath sociopath]], Tony is insanely weird.
* ControlFreak: Goes with being a personification of the daily routine.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Tony has a remarkably low, proper-sounding voice for a clock creature.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Affable yes, but much more menacing than his counterpart from the previous installment.
* HellIsThatNoise: He can scream really, ''really'' loudly.
* ItsAllAboutMe: When Duck Guy tries to talk about the philosophical aspects of time, Tony starts beeping loudly in a petulant manner.
* KnightOfCerebus: He's shown as being undeniably evil compared to Sketchbook, when he [[spoiler:used time to speed up the other puppets' aging and rotting as a means to teach them that their time in life would eventually be up.]]
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: It is pretty clear Tony has no idea what he's talking about, especially in regards to history and ''actual time signatures on an analogue clock''.
* LackOfEmpathy:
-->'''Yellow Guy:''' An old man died.
-->'''Tony:''' But look, a computer!
* LargeHam: Especially when he sings.
* LeanAndMean: When he begins his song, he suddenly acquires long legs. Fanart tends to depict him as tall.
* MakeThemRot: He is very heavily implied to be the reason for [[spoiler:the RapidAging and eventually rotting that the puppets go through at the end of his debut.]]
* MoodSwinger: He goes from calm to cheery to annoyed and back again very quickly.
* NonAnswer:
-->'''Duck Guy:''' But when did [time] start?
-->'''Yellow Guy:''' And when will it stop?
-->'''Tony:''' Time is important and I am a clock.
* RealityWarper: He is much more overt about it than Sketchbook, sending the three main characters throughout time and into a strange space-like limbo on a giant ruler. It's also made clear that he is the one causing the creepiness in the ending.
* RhymingWithItself: He isn't too good at rhyming.
--> '''Tony:''' [singing] ''Let's go on a journey / a journey through all time / a time that's changing all the time / it's time to go to '''time'''!''
* TheSociopath: The sadistic smile on his face as he rots the puppets says it all.
* StrawHypocrite: He starts the whole journey because the puppets are concerned with time, as means to make them understand that "there will always be enough time". But in the latter parts of the song he makes them worry about time running out, culminating in the [[spoiler:horrific decay scene]].
* StylisticSuck: Unlike the other characters, he's absolutely ''terrible'' when it comes to [[RhymesOnADime thinking up song lyrics as he goes]]. [[FunnyMoments And his voice cracks]].
* SuddenlyShouting: Meh! Meh! Meh! MEH! MEH! MEH! ''MEH!! MEH!! MEH!!''
* TimeMaster: Can transport objects back and forth through time at will, as well as speeding up how fast a given object moves through time.
* TomTheDarkLord: Tony is a fairly bland name for an AxCrazy psychopath with control over the flow of time.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: It's a common joke in the fandom that Tony loves pizza, because he specifically brought it up in his song.
%%* WhiteGloves
!!Shrignold and [[spoiler:The Love Cultists]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:''"It makes you sad, doesn't it? That there's so much hatred in the world."'']]
A group of puppets, mostly woodland creatures, led by a talking butterfly, who teach the Yellow Guy about love. They include Shrignold the butterfly, Rabbit Boy, a unicorn, a tree, Frog Boy, some flowers, and a gopher.
* AffablyEvil: Bordering on FauxAffablyEvil, but they really do want to teach Yellow Guy their idea of what love is.
* AmbiguousGender: Depending on how you view the ending, Shrignold may in fact be female despite having a soft yet distinctly masculine voice.
* AntiVillain: They genuinely want peace and love for all. Unfortunately, they're also extremely hypocritical [[spoiler:cultists.]]
* TheCameo: In the sixth installment, [[spoiler:when Red Guy is messing with the machine's controls]].
* [[spoiler:{{Cult}}]]
* FourLeggedInsect: Shrignold only has two arms and two legs.
* HighPriest: The butterfly, Shrignold, appears to be the leader of the Cult.
* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: Yellow Guy does this when he pets the gopher.
-->'''Yellow Guy''': I love you too, furry boy!
-->'''Furry Boy''': Hehe, ''(angrily)'' harder.
* InformedSpecies: Frog Boy looks more like a generic human puppet than a frog, and has human features such as ears, a nose, and hair. The only indication that he's a frog was [[WordOfGod a description on the Instagram image]], as seen [[http://instagram.com/p/vQbQD5oGpb here]].
** Regarding comments about him being a frog, Becky Sloan replied "He's not a frog he's a Frog BOY".
* KarmaHoudini: So far, they have escaped punishment for attempting to brainwash Yellow Guy and presumably doing the same to numerous others, nor in Shrignold's case for [[spoiler:possibly raping Yellow Guy.]]
* KnightTemplar: They want to end hatred and make everyone feel loved... by [[spoiler:zealously worshiping an idol and brainwashing people.]]
* LoveFreak: They start out sounding like this until they begin to show their very narrow definition of what "love" is. Yellow Guy even seems okay with this at first.
* TheNameless: None of them are named in the video (except maybe "Furry Boy"), but WordOfGod has confirmed [[https://twitter.com/BeckyBocka/status/528846334296879104 Shrignold]], [[http://instagram.com/p/vQbQD5oGpb Frog Boy and Rabbit Boy]].
* PlantPerson: The Talking Flowers.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Implied, since their song has strong homophobic undertones, like saying that heterosexual marriage is "perfect", "pure" and "the way it's always been".
* ReligionOfEvil: [[spoiler:They worship the king of love, Malcolm, a giant stone head that they feed gravel into, otherwise it gets angry. To join them, one must change their name and clean out their brain.]]
* RuleOfSymbolism: '''All''' members of the Love Cultists are heavily symbolic animals and creatures:
** Butterflies represent [[ButterflyOfTransformation transformation and beauty]], sometimes [[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth death and rebirth]]. They also, fittingly, represent [[ButterflyOfDoom chaos]].
** Rabbits are a popular symbol for [[ExplosiveBreeder fertility, life and birth]]. They are also sometimes tricksters.
** Unicorns [[UnicornsAreSacred symbolize purity, virginity and innocence]].
** Frogs represent nobility, true love and the [[Literature/TheFrogPrince frog prince]] trope.
** Trees represent [[GreenThumb growth]].
** Flowers usually represent [[FlowerMotif peace and love]], though they could mean damn near anything.
** Gophers represent ties with the [[DishingOutDirt land and nature]]. Also, blindness.
* SmurfettePrinciple: The only girls in the cult are the Flower and Yellow Guy's "Special One".
* StrawHypocrite: The cultists first promote love towards friends and pets. [[spoiler:Then, they claim that the Yellow Guy must save all of his love solely for his "special one".]]
** See PoliticallyIncorrectVillain above.
* SunnySunflowerDisposition: They all have this.
* TakeThat: Towards organised religion and cults regarding their manipulation of impressionable minds.
%%* TalkingAnimal
* TalkingToPlants: They can talk back, though.
%%* TheTheocracy
%%* WhiteGloves
!!Colin
[[quoteright:306:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3c8dc352e1a92b1146dc8bd568173ef3.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:306:''"I'm a computer! I'm a computer-y guy! Everything made out of buttons and wires!"'']]
A talking computer that is supposed to teach the puppet trio about the world.
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: His virtual world has a line of broken code at the top of the screen. The Virtual World also has a problem with repeating itself.
* AutoTune: His voice, but that's to be expected.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:He successfully keeps Yellow Guy and Duck Guy trapped in the digital world and, possibly unintentionally, kills Red Guy.]]
* BeepingComputers: He deliberately resembles a clunky, mid-90's PC. Red Thing draws attention to the fact that they already have a computer (a much more contemporary anthropomorphic laptop), although Colin ignores this.
* BerserkButton: '''DON'T TOUCH [=MEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-=]!'''
* BigBad: Of the fourth episode. He's also the most serious threat the group faced, due to the fact that [[spoiler:he still had Yellow Guy and Duck Guy trapped in an endless loop by the end of the video, whereas with previous teachers everything was undone by the end.]]
* TheCameo: In the sixth installment, [[spoiler:when Red Guy is messing with the machine's controls]].
* CanonName: Revealed a week after his episode's release, [[https://twitter.com/BeckyBocka/status/585549670811836416 on Twitter]]
* ComputersAreFast: Inverted; he's a little slow and glitchy. Played Straight at the end though.
* {{Cyberspace}}: [[spoiler:Traps the trio inside his digital world, where the only three things to do are look at graphs, check out digital styles, and do digital dances.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Pretends to be friendly and helpful, but has no intentions of actually helping anybody. After Red Guy touches his keyboard, he fulfills the "evil" part of the trope by [[spoiler:trapping the puppets inside a virtual world where they can do nothing but open doors over and over again and possibly murdering Red Guy.]]
* GroundhogDayLoop: [[spoiler:Traps the trio in one when they're in his digital world, and only Red Guy is able to break free from it. It gets faster and faster as it goes on.]]
-->'''Yellow Guy:''' Wow, look, a ''(insert chart type or 'nothing' here)''!
-->'''Duck Guy:''' Digital style!
-->'''Colin:''' Do a digital dancing! Hey, this is fun!
* GoodAllAlong: [[AmbiguouslyEvil Maybe.]] [[spoiler:If he ''did'' cause Red Guy's head to explode, then episode five's implication that Red Guy is finally free means that he might actually be responsible for freeing him. ]]
* HatesBeingTouched: When Red Guy tells him to shut up and bangs on his keyboard, he ''screeches'' not to be touched before making everything glitchy and horrifying.
-->'''Colin:''' DON'T TOUCH MEEEEEE''eee''EEEEEEE-
* HeroKiller: This is so far the only time where the puppet trio appears to remain in a bad situation at the end of the video, but [[spoiler:Red Guy actually ends up with his head exploding. Subverted in the fifth, which shows that Red Guy is not dead, but has been transported to an unknown location.]]
* HolodeckMalfunction: The Virtual Reality within him has a problem of repeating itself. This becomes apparent at the end.
* InsideAComputerSystem: The Virtual World inside Colin.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Steals Gilbert the Globe's thunder, does quite a bit of CharacterShilling on his own behalf, ignores any questions or observations that has nothing to do with his abilities, and screeches at Red Guy when the latter gets annoyed with him.
* {{Jerkass}}: Doesn't answer the students' questions at all, brags about his capabilities without ever showing them, barrages the students with pointless questions that he doesn't want answers to, and [[spoiler:traps them in a deteriorating digital world. ]]
* KnightOfCerebus: A mild example; he's the first Teacher whose evil acts aren't at least implied to be in the puppets' imagination. [[spoiler:He seems to also be the first Teacher to kill a puppet, but the end credits of the fifth video show this isn't true.]]
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Goes on and on about how clever he is, but never says or does anything clever.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Got trapped in his own deteriorating virtual world along with Duck Guy and Yellow Guy]].
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:Trapped the puppets in his digital world for one of them hitting him.]]
* MagicalComputer: It's a living computer that can speak, react, create a virtual world for the main trio, and [[RealityWarper cause Reality to alter, either intentionally or unintentionally]].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:The fifth video reveals that not only did he not kill Red Guy, but he may actually have freed Red Guy from the lessons.]]
* NonAnswer: Comes to life when the trio questions what the biggest thing on the Earth is. He never, at any point, answers this.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: At first he simply sings his song and asks a lot of questions while completely ignoring everyone around him. The first time he ever acknowledges any of the puppets is when the Red Guy slams his key board in frustration. This makes him very angry, and that's when things get scary...
* RealityWarper: Not only can he alter the Virtual Reality world within him, he seems to have the ability to warp reality as well. Whether this is intentional or unintentional is unknown.
* TheSociopath: Narcissistic, violent, and completely indeferent to the suffering of others.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: The puppet trio wanted to know what the biggest thing on the Earth was. They all look towards a globe that turns around and shows its face. Before Gilbert the Globe can get a single word in, Colin starts singing.
* TomTheDarkLord
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Oats, which appears to be a cereal composed of... [[ShapedLikeItself Oats]]... At least based on the abundance of it in Episode 4.
!!The Healthy Band
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Doo doo doo doo doo! Doo doo doo doo doo! Do it healthy!"'']]
A group of talking food that sings about being healthy. The members include a human-sized lamb chop made to resemble a chef, a can of spinach, and a loaf of bread who drums. Later on, a refrigerator also joins.
* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: The way Lamb Chop pronounces or''gans''.
* AllDrummersAreAnimals: The Bread certainly goes crazy banging on the Peanut Butter and Jelly Jars. He's also barely able to speak, as he just mumbles the names of various foods.
* AmbiguousGender: Like Sketchpad, the spinach can has a somewhat feminine-sounding (and very [[SimpletonVoice dumb-sounding]]) voice.
* AnthropomorphicFood: And anthropomorphic food containers.
* BigBad: Of DHMIS 5, where they have [[spoiler:their [[TheDragon cans]] kill Duck Guy and then proceed to feed Yellow Guy Duck Guy's '''''organs''''']] Also literally, since Lamb Chop and Fridge are the largest teachers yet.
* TheCameo: In the sixth installment, [[spoiler:when Red Guy is messing with the machine's controls]].
* TheDividual: They mostly act as one teacher, and there's not much distinction between them aside appearance. They do frequently contradict each other, but then they contradict ''themselves'' as well, and no-one in-universe comments on it.
* DreadfulMusician: Compared to the other teachers, not only are they bad singers, but their song hardly even qualifies as one. What's worse is that they're a band!
* EvilPhone: When they're around, answering the phone causes a transition between their song and a dark and creepy operating table. However, this might not be connected to them, since they seem just as confused about the phone ringing as the main puppets.
* FauxAffablyEvil: They put on a friendly, playful demeanour, but ignore everything the main characters say and it's heavily implied that they [[spoiler:tricked Yellow Guy into eating his only remaining friend alive.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: They end up condemning cooked meat as a "fancy, show-offy food," even though one of the singers is a big, dancing lamb chop.
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:They force feed Duck guy to Yellow guy, all while condemning him for eating various foods.]]
* InsaneTrollLogic: They seem to believe that plain foods are healthier than "show-offy" foods, regardless of the fact that all the plain foods they listed were heavily processed and low in nutrition while all the unhealthy foods they described were organic and nutritious.
* KarmaHoudini: They have received no punishment for [[spoiler:force-feeding Duck Guy to Yellow Guy]].
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Lamb Chop does this with a model of the human body to emphasize how unhealthy foods make the body "all broken and on the floor".
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Their ideas of what are considered healthy and unhealthy foods are really inconsistent. They state that healthy foods include anything that is plain looking, like bread and cream. However, since fruits and vegetable are so colorful, they consider them unhealthy. Their food pyramid really doesn't help, or as they call it, a "health shape."
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Their comparison of the digestive system to a house.
-->'''Lamb Chop:''' You see, the body is like a special house! With blood, hair, and or''gans'' in the different rooms. Oh look! There's Mr. Bladder in the basement! Ha ha!
-->'''Duck Guy:''' [[FlatWhat ...What?]]
-->'''Lamb Chop:''' Now food comes in through the chimney, mouth, and goes from room to room greeting all the different organs.
-->'''Yellow Guy:''' Hello!
-->'''Lamb Chop:''' Now, the good healthy food is very nice and polite to the organs, and so is invited to stay! For a party! Yay! But the bad, not healthy foods are very rude, and must leave through the cat flap!
-->'''Spinach Can:''' Rude!
-->'''Duck Guy:''' [[OnlySaneMan ...That doesn't make sense.]]
* NiceHat: Possibly. Lamb Chop has what looks like a bone shaped chef's hat on his hair. Then again, he is a walking piece of meat, so that could easily be part of his body.
* OopNorth: Lamb Chop's accent, strangely.
* OpenHeartDentistry: One of their reasons for not eating unhealthy foods (or any foods at all) is that it'll make your teeth or gums "go grey."
* SimpletonVoice: The Spinach.
* SkewedPriorities: Their main idea of what qualifies as healthy food is if it's plain looking with no colour. This includes bread, cream, "white sauce" and aspic, and end up calling cooked meat, fruit salad, vegetables and eggs unhealthy. Eventually, they even contradict their own eating guidelines.
* [[TheSociopath Sociopaths]]: [[spoiler: They see no problem with [[ImAHumanitarian force feeding Duck guy to Yellow guy.]] ]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The bread loaf disappears after the first phone call.
* WhiteGloves: They all have them.
!!The Lamp
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Oh! Looks like somebody's having a bad dream!"'']]
Appears briefly in the sixth installment to teach Yellow Guy about dreams. This time, Yellow Guy [[GenreSavvy refuses to listen.]]
* BadDreams: Constantly talks about them, and makes them happen.
* BrokenRecord: From what we see of his song, it's mostly him just listing different bad dreams that Yellow Guy can have.
* CelestialBody: His pattern invokes this, tying into his night and dream themes.
* DreadfulMusician: Oh, ''yes''. For starters his singing voice is even more grating to listen to than the whole Healthy Band.
* DreamWeaver: And it evidently wanted Yellow Guy to have a nightmare.
* FishEyes: Explicit in the [[ArtShift animated sequence]], not as apparent on his puppet.
* {{Jerkass}}: One line in his song is about losing one's friends, which is not the most tactful thing to be so cheery about given the episode's context.
* KickTheDog: "And you could have a dream about [[spoiler: losing your friends!"]]
* {{Leitmotif}} When he's not singing, a sparkly electronic tune plays.
* {{Sadist}}: When Yellow Guy protests too much, he suddenly starts drowning in oil, while the lamp mockingly says he's having a bad dream.
* SimpletonVoice: His voice combined with his FishEyes makes him seem drunk.
* StrawHypocrite: Probably the simplest example in the series--he talks about how the Yellow Guy can't sleep because he doesn't know how to dream, but his attempts to teach Yellow Guy only make him more awake.
* StylisticSuck: From what we hear of his song, it seems to be very slapdash and makes little effort to rhyme.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Only got to sing some of its song before [[spoiler: getting interrupted by Red Guy]].
!!Other Teachers
In the sixth episode, Red Guy winds up tampering with a console, summoning some of the old teachers and a variety of random teachers based on inanimate objects. This includes a model of the solar system, a football, a magnet, a shovel, a saxophone, a file, a stoplight, a gel jar, a cigarette, and a boom box.
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: They grow increasingly bizarre and random with every iteration.
* BrickJoke: The File.
* TheCameo: A lot of the previous teachers appear, and even some of the previous characters who weren't teachers (like the clapperboard) appear as such.
* CaptainObvious: Again, the File.
-->"I am a file and you put documents in me..."
* CoolShades: The Saxophone sports a pair.
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: This especially applies to the beginning of their musical number.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Solar System, who claims that "planets live inside the Moon".
* NonSequitur: Many of them spout off songs or ideas related to their "theme", but the saxophone apparently wants to teach Yellow Guy how to buy a canoe.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: While all of the other teachers are puppets, the solar system is a person in a costume, with only the face being a puppet.
* SimpletonVoice: The Shovel. Who also happens to possibly be the only American in the whole thing.
* StylisticSuck: Whether or not what they sing can even be counted as songs is arguable.
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[[folder:Other characters]]
!!Roy
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[[caption-width-right:288:''"..."'']]
Yellow Guy's father, an incredibly sketchy man who does not speak. He only breathes loudly.
* AbusiveParents: The finale heavily implies that [[spoiler:the whole series was a simulation he set up to torture Yellow Guy.]]
* AmbiguouslyEvil: See GreaterScopeVillain. He can also be seen [[StalkerWithoutACrush stalking the puppets in the background of the fifth video]], and Yellow Guy initially couldn't tell the difference between Roy's house and the base where he and his friends were kidnapped, tied up, and held hostage by the Money Man.
** Even his ominous appearances in episode 6 lead to speculation. Were his glares and gestures toward Red Guy meant to be threatening, or was he trying to get him to [[spoiler:save his son]]? However, it's more likely [[spoiler: the former, given his interview quote about wanting to "send his son to "punish land".]]
* BigBad: Possibly, if the finale means that [[spoiler: he is the one controlling the lessons]].
* TheCameo:
** Appears in episode 3 as part of the crowd near the end.
** And in episode 4 in the corner of the darkened room after Yellow Guy and Duck Guy have been trapped in the digital world.
** And in episode 5 he is above the set, looking down at Duck Guy and the Fridge when Duck Guy is freaking out.
** And again in episode 6 where he appears several times across the brief animated sequence during Yellow Guy's dream, including sitting in the movie theatre of his mind, standing in a phone booth while he rides a horse, and simultaneously peeking out through a back window and from a cuckoo clock while he drowns in oil.
* CreepilyLongArms: Given one in episode 6.
* DeathGlare: That never leaves his face.
* DirtyOldMan: He blatantly looks up porn on the computer ''in front of his own son'' during the journey through time.
%%* FishEyes
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: The finale implies that he suffered through similar trauma as Yellow Guy at some point in the past, as Yellow Guy begins to look more and more like him as he crosses the DespairEventHorizon.]]
* {{Gonk}}: His nose is crooked, he has bloodshot eyes and tends to be staring [[DeathGlare menacingly]], and overall just looks less polished than the main cast, which makes him look creepy.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Heavily, ''Heavily'', implied that he is the cause of the puppets situation. [[spoiler: The finale only makes it more ambiguous.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: The way his arms stretch beyond their natural length, along with his ability to slip into random scenes without drawing attention to himself, the way the music changes whenever he appears as well as the fact that Red Guy was teleported right after making eye contact with him make him seem far too abnormal for such a crudely made puppet.
* PetTheDog: Sorta- he never actually does anything ''evil'' ([[OffstageVillainy that we see...]]), but his apparent friendship with his son is kinda sweet, even if he's still very creepy.
** [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted if the official interview and finale are of any indication.]]
* TheSpeechless: He never says anything throughout the video, he only gives that expressionless stare throughout the video.
** That and the heavy breathing if you listen closely.
** He finally says something in an [[http://www.itsnicethat.com/features/dont-hug-me-im-scared-interview-030516 interview]] , and oh boy...
--->'''Roy:''' [[AbusiveParents My silly boy has allowed his eyes to grow arrogant and rude]], [[{{Foreshadowing}} for this I will take him on a trip to punish land.]]
* ThousandYardStare: His only expression is a vacant, terrifying stare.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: One possible interpretation as mentioned in FreudianExcuse above--basically, it's possible that he's the way he is and [[spoiler:set up the lessons]] because [[spoiler:he's been through the same thing his son has been through]] and was DrivenToMadness because of it.
!!Money Man
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[[caption-width-right:265:"MONEY! MONEY MONEY MONEY!"]]
"'''The big bad MON£Y man'''", he is the captor of the puppets in the Kickstarter promo campaign. He's the most actively aggressive character the puppets face, outright threatening them with violence with no buildup to it.
* AllThereInTheScript: He's only named in a [[https://www.facebook.com/DHMIS/posts/496809607087966 couple]] [[https://www.facebook.com/DHMIS/posts/505055149596745 of]] Facebook posts.
* BigBad: Of "HELP", the Kickstarter video for a DHMIS series.
** Also, when compared to most of the villains above (Sketchbook, Tony, Shrignold, and Colin), who try to act more like teachers and less like Psychopaths. This man has immediately kidnapped them, tied them to chairs in his basement, taped the Duck Guy's mouth shut, forced the Red Guy to read a message demanding money, and has apparently stolen appendages from all three of them and put them in a bloody envelope, obviously to show he's serious about hurting them. It's obvious that this man is the absolute worst person the three puppets have met so far, as they aren't even aware they're kidnapped until he starts torturing them! (It's heavily implied he is)
*** While the Money Man is still a more direct threat to the main trio, and is more villainous than the Healthy Band, the Money Man never killed any of the puppets. [[spoiler:The Healthy Band killed Duck Guy either directly or indirectly]].
* EvilSoundsDeep: He speaks in a deeply distorted bass voice.
* {{Greed}}: His motivation, given the fact that the only decipherable word he says is "money".
* KarmaHoudini: Has yet to receive any punishment for kidnapping and horrifically torturing the puppets and [[spoiler:ripping Sketchbook's face off.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He has only been addressed twice. [[https://www.facebook.com/DHMIS/posts/505055149596745 Once]] as "the money man", and [[https://www.facebook.com/DHMIS/posts/496809607087966 once]] as "the big bad MON£Y man".
%%* NoIndoorVoice
* PuttingOnTheReich: He wears a dark-green uniform with a red armband above his elbow.
* TortureTechnician: It is heavily implied by "HELP #2" that he is at least torturing the Yellow Guy, who, with a bag over his head, is crying and saying "I don't want this." In "HELP #3", he is mailing bloody pieces of the three puppets to an unknown location, and wrote "YOU" in their blood.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: His monstrous appearance, coupled with his uncomfortably realistic crimes make him stand out from the otherwise fantastic antagonists in the series, especially since this he appeared before the puppets were put in any real harm.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Money Man never shows up again after the Kickstarter for the series.
* WouldHurtAChild: Assuming that the Yellow Guy at least is a child, he's most certainly willing to do this.
* WouldHitAGirl: Again, assuming that the Sketchbook is a girl, then he certainly would, given that he seems to have nailed them to a wall.
!!Michael
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[[caption-width-right:300:The Ugliest Boy in Town]]
The main character of a story told to Yellow Guy in order to convince him that everybody has a special one. Problem is, his life goes completely against that message.
* DesignatedVictim
* DidNotGetTheGirl: He doesn't even interact with a girl in his story. The only interaction he has in his story is a woman calling him a freak as he walks by.
* TheGrotesque: He is described as being the ugliest boy in town.
* InformedFlaw: He's called "The Ugliest Boy in Town", but he never interacts with any other boys or girls, meaning that we don't get any sort of comparison between him and a child who would be considered at least average-looking.
** We're also informed that he's weak... even though he managed to move a huge boulder blocking a cave all by himself.
* LostAesop: Michael's story was supposed to prove to Yellow Puppet that everyone has a "Special Someone". However, the Story clearly does not have that:
-->''This is the story of Michael, the ugliest boy in town''
-->''Ugly and weak, they called him a freak''
-->''So he lived on his own underground''
-->''He lived on his own underground'' (x2)
-->'''Shrignold:''' You see? Everyone has a special one.
-->''(Beat)''
-->'''Rabbit Boy:''' Even Michael!
* RunAwayHideAway: Type 2: pretty much what he did because he was so ugly and hated by everyone.
* SingleTear: He sheds a single tear at the end of his segment.
* StepfordSmiler: He's constantly smiling throughout his story, even as he sheds a tear after going to live in a hole underground.
! Gilbert the Globe
A Globe that wants to tell the puppets about the World.
* ButtMonkey: Besides getting upstaged by Colin, he doesn't even show up during [[spoiler: the overload of teachers]] in 6, save for a background cameo... in which he's turned around, anyway.
* EarlyBirdCameo - Can be seen on top of the shelf at the start of ''"Don't Hug Me I'm Scared II - TIME."''
* RedHerring: Was announced as being the teacher for the fourth episode, but he ends up upstaged by Colin the Computer.
* TheUnreveal: Because Colin the Computer steals his thunder, we'll never know what lesson he would have taught the puppet trio or how his lesson would have gone wrong.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The only teacher not to unleash some terror upon the protagonists. While it's true he didn't exactly have much of a chance to do so, he is also the only teacher apart from Sketchbook not [[spoiler: summoned in part six, implying that he isn't a part of the LotusEaterMachine.]]
! Craig
The unfortunate star of ''Craig's Big Day'' who enjoys playing computer games and eats birthday meals.
* CoolShades: Dons some after transforming from a nerd into one who is "big and strong".
* IncrediblyLameFun: The game he plays: ''Wacky Pig-Worm!''.
* InstantSedation: What appears to be the show's creators pull this on him.
* InterruptedSuicide: He sings about wanting to kill himself after getting a birthday present of poison. It's not really clear why he decides not to follow through with his act, though he does attribute it to his sudden transformation.
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: His reflection spits at him in his first appearance.
* NerdGlasses: Wears them at first.
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: He celebrates his 31st birthday by playing a video game and eating a strange TV meal.
* SpikyHair: Boasts about getting hair like this.
* TookALevelInBadass: "I was a nerd, but now I'm big and strong and I've got cool spikes in my hair."
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[[folder:'''Spoiler Characters''']]
!! Malcolm
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[[caption-width-right:300:''We must feed him. We must feed him gravel! Or he becomes angry...'']]
Malcolm is the God of the Love Cult. He is a giant stone head who can only move his jaw.
* TheCameo: Appears in "4" as a statue in the background.
* CompanionCube: He shows no sign of sentience, but the Love Cultists fear his wrath if they don't feed him.
* EatDirtCheap: He eats Gravel.
* EasterEgg: In the fourth video, a much smaller version of Malcom's head (with hair burned to ash) can be seen on the fireplace mantle.
* GodEmperor: He is the Love Cult's God and King.
* AGodIsYou: What the Love Cult claims Malcolm is.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of the third, as [[BigBad Shrignold]] is his servant.
* KillItWithFire: During the Credits, he is burned to the ground by a mysterious figure who has a Gas Canteen similar to the Money Man from the Kickstarter Videos. The Cult is nowhere to be seen, however...
%%* LivingStatue
%%* LosingYourHead
* [[LoveGoddess Love God]]: He is the God (And King) of Love, according to The Love Cultists.
* MeaningfulName: "Malcolm" is suspiciously similar to Milcom, the name of a Canaanite god who also had huge statues in which things were burned. [[NightmareFuel Including human children.]]
* PhysicalGod: He is the god of the love cult after all.
%%* RockMonster
* TameHisAnger: Feeding him is the only thing to keep him from getting Angry, according to The Love Cultists.
* TomTheDarkLord: Malcolm seems like an ordinary name for a God of the Love Cult.
* WalkingSpoiler: His existence spoils the nature of the Love Cult.
! Camera Crew and Puppeteers
The googly-eyed studio crew that make brief appearances throughout the series. Later accompanied by two puppeteers, one in a white body-suit and one in a black body-suit.
* AuthorAvatar: Very likely represent Becky and Joe, the show's actual creators.
* GooglyEyes: The camera and clipboard sport some.
* OutsideContextProblem:
** Just what are they, and what do they want with the puppets?
** The camera is apparently connected to Colin the Computer through the cord that the Red Guy follows.
* StylisticSuck: The Red Guy stumbles upon them filming a crude re-enactment of the original video... exactly ''why'' they're doing this is anyone's guess.
* WalkingSpoiler: The fact that they appear spoils the ending to Episode 4.
! Cans
Giant Cans with yellow faces and open mouths. [[spoiler:They appear in Episode 5, where they are eating the guts of the Duck Guy.]]
* TheButcher: [[spoiler:The giant meat can that rips out Duck Guy's organs and cans them so that they can be forced upon Yellow Guy.]]
* TheDragon: To the food band, who [[spoiler:feed the cans to Yellow Guy after the cans eat his guts]].
* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler:The giant meat can constantly giggles as he rips out Duck Guy's organs.]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:They eat Duck guy's guts, killing him in the process. They also bake a cake out of his face. Considering the Red Guy managed to grow his head back, whether the Duck guy stays dead is unclear.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: They're the only villains in the series so far to be explicitly shown hurting a puppet (unless you count Tony making Yellow Guy's ears bleed). The scene where they [[spoiler:eat Duck Guy's organs while he's still alive]] is so gory it makes the first four instalments look like actual ''Series/SesameStreet'' by comparison. Duck Guy seems terrified throughout the fifth, in stark contrast to the puppets' reactions to Sketchbook, Tony, the Money Man, Shrignold, and Colin, where no-one realized their malice until it was too late. Given that [[spoiler:Red Guy survived having his head exploded]], they're also the only villains so far to [[spoiler:kill a puppet.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:They eat Duck guy's guts.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: For [[spoiler:Duck Guy's death.]]
! The Red Guys
After leaving the fuzzy felt "world" of the other puppets, Red Guy takes up residence in a society of identical Red Guys. He finds, however, that he doesn't quite fit in with his kin.
* ArtShift: Whereas the main DHMIS world is entirely made out of felt and follows the simple aesthetic of children's shows, the scenes with the Red Guys are filmed in live-action environments, further emphasizing the distinct shift between these two worlds.
* DittoAliens: Not only do they all look exactly the same, but have the same voice, personality, and general mannerisms. Given the weirdness of the series, though, it's unclear whether they're an example of this or if they're [[MesACrowd just copies of Red Guy]].
* DreadfulMusician: The red piano guy just bangs on the piano, though it's not clear if this is considered "good" music in this world.
* DullSurprise: It seems Red Guys in general are simply incapable of getting worked up or expressing strong emotions about anything.
* GrowingUpSucks: It's not hard to view their life- working all day in a monotonous office where they "file files", then traipsing to a mediocre nightclub- as some kind of commentary on adulthood.
* IronicEcho: After our Red Guy suggests that it would be funny for a file to come to life and sing to them, his boss responds with "That sounds really boring." The same words Red Guy said to Sketchbook when it said it uses its hair to express itself.
* TheStoic: Even when they're booing a singing nudist off the stage, their criticisms don't get much harsher than "it's not very good at all!"
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The students]]
!!The students in general
The three main characters of the series.
* AndIMustScream: It is revealed in episode 5 that the students are growing aware of their surroundings. [[spoiler:Red Guy has escaped, and Duck Guy resists, to no avail.]]
* ButtMonkey: Their only purpose in existing seems to be to be tortured over and over again by demented psychopaths.
* CanonName: Referred to as "Red Guy", "Duck Guy" and "Yellow Guy" in various blog posts by the staff. Cemented in the sixth episode, where their beds have "R", "D" and "Y" on each of their respective head rests.
* GenreSavvy: As of the 4th installment, they're able to tell when an object is about to come to life, though they get which object wrong, as the real teacher comes out of nowhere.
* PaletteSwap: [[spoiler: At the end of the finale, we get a blue Red Guy, a green Yellow Guy, and a red Duck; which also happen to be [[CallBack their favourite colours]]]].
* TrueCompanions: The three are always together, and despite the surreal nature of the series, they clearly care about each other a lot. [[spoiler:Red Guy's absence and Duck Guy's death in episode 6 leaves Yellow Guy emotionally broken]].
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: They're all very indifferent to the weirdness around them.
* VagueAge: The antagonists treat them like children, but the photo of them on the wall reads 19/06/55. The sixth episode shows a picture of Red Guy in a cap and gown with a diploma and has him working in an office building in the "real" world, suggesting that he is at least a young adult.
!!Red Guy
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[[caption-width-right:288:''"I wonder what will happen."'']]
The only one of the main characters played by someone in a costume. He speaks in a dry monotone, never sounding surprised by any of the crazy, horrifying things that happen to him or his friends. Still, he does voice the most concern.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Was the only one who wanted a relatively normal life. When he got it in episode 6, he found it to be extremely boring.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w45Vc3uv1Yk Another interpretation also fits this]]: [[spoiler: He was an office worker who wanted to make a children's show. Roy gave him the opportunity, but because of the corporate sponsorship the show was ruined.]]
* BerserkButton: Well, as berserk as Red Guy can get, anyway. The only thing that seems to frustrate him is when his questions are deliberately not answered, as seen in Episode 4.
* CartoonCreature: Sketchbook is a notepad, Duck Guy's a bird, Yellow Guy's a human, and Tony is a clock, but... what is Red Guy supposed to be again?
** {{Cthulhumanoid}}: What he resembles most.
** Becky indicated that Red Guy is a personification of spaghetti on her [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BHM4v6OBmUY/?taken-by=becky.sloan Instagram]].
* ChromaticArrangement: Played with. While he is red, he doesn't get a lot of focus in the videos, instead being second fiddle to the main antagonists, and he has more in common with the green character type than the red one.
* DullSurprise: He has almost no inflection in his voice, even when he's supposed to be singing.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first line in the series is saying "That sounds really boring" after Sketchbook says that they use their hair to express themselves.
* HandPuppet: Wears hand puppets of his friends as part of his bar singing act.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: He just wants to be left alone with his friends.
* {{Irony}}: Is the only character who isn't a puppet, yet his voice and actions are fairly wooden.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Can be sarcastic and condescending, but none the less cares for his friends.
* MesACrowd: He ends up in a world populated by copies of himself by the sixth installment. However, rather than fitting in, he's an outcast due to his outlook changing because of everything he's been through with the puppets and the teachers.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The sixth installment implies that he hasn't been wearing clothes but his species (whatever the heck it is) normally would. Humorously, rather than being laughed at or seen as a pervert for removing his clothes in the middle of a public place, the piano guy just thinks he's rude--and later they are more preoccupied with how bad he is at singing.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero[=/=]UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom:
** In the fourth video, his smacking Colin is what pisses Colin off enough to [[spoiler:trap the puppets in a deteriorating digital world.]]
** [[spoiler:It's implied in the fifth that he was calling Duck Guy and making him realize what was going on, causing Duck Guy to rebel against the the Healthy Band's lesson. Had he not tried to help his friends, Duck Guy might still be alive and Yellow Guy wouldn't be completely alone.]]
** [[spoiler: And third time's the charm; in Episode 6, Red Guy makes two blunders. First he starts pushing random buttons in an attempt to get rid of the teachers before they can hurt Yellow Guy, but all he does is cause the system to start randomly switching out teachers, which only frightens his friend. Then when he tries unplugging the machine, it seems like he somehow reset/restarted the universe, leading to the puppets starting it all over again (maybe)... though at the very least he saved Yellow Guy.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: In episode 6 when one of his fellow office workers asks him to file a file he remarks how funny it would be if the file came alive, which is dismissed by his coworker as "[[IronicEcho Boring]]".
* NotSoStoic: In the 4th video, he tells Colin to "Shut Up" in a more annoyed and serious tone compared to the previous videos. In fact, he seems to be more vocally expressive throughout the whole video.
** He also gets frustrated when Colin doesn't answer him when he asks what there is to actually ''do'' in the virtual world.
* OnlySaneMan: He's really the only one who rejects the ideas presented to him by Sketchbook and Tony from the start, and is the only one to question the presence of a dancing clock in his living room.
--> '''Red Guy:''' [pointing at Tony] Who is that?
** In the case of Colin, he actually tells it to shut up when he realizes his questions aren't going anywhere. He's also the only one who doesn't get sucked into Colin's insane digital world.
** Inverted in the 6th episode; he soon gets bored of office life and thinks things would be more interesting if objects started singing.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: In the fourth video, he repeatedly tries to cut the song short. By the end, [[spoiler:he is the only one not in the computer, and his attempt to get his friends out fails, leading him to follow the cord to... reality, apparently?]]
** It's also implied that [[spoiler:he left the house to get away from it all in the fifth video, with his appearance in the credits at the very end.]]
* SeenItAll: We don't find out what made him this way, but he's completely deadpan when a dancing clock makes time go backwards, and he sounds downright ''bored'' to find that he's been kidnapped and tied up in someone else's basement.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Whoever controlled the machine, his unplugging it probably wasn't part of their plan.]]
* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler:His head explodes at the end of the fourth video. The fifth shows that he somehow survived and fully recovered, but is no longer part of the lessons.]]
* TheUnreveal: In episode four, he almost says his name.
* TranquilFury: When he gets angry, he raises his voice only a little bit and actually gets inflection in his voice.
* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler: At the end of the fourth video.]]
!!Duck Guy
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[[caption-width-right:288:''"Maybe time's just a construct of human perception!"'']]
A well-dressed dark-green bird. He's a generally chipper fellow, and seems to be mostly oblivious to the dangers that he and his friends face.
* AndIMustScream: "I DON'T WANNA DO THIS ANYMORE!!!"
* AutoTune: His voice is made through this. In the third and fourth episodes, though, he speaks without it.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Briefly in the sixth installment, when Red Guy is messing with the {{Lotus Eater Machine}}'s controls]].
-->'''Duck Guy:''' --there's fish on my tray! (''panicked'') WHAT!? WHERE AM I!?
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Wears a jacket and shorts, but no shoes.
* CaptainOblivious: In the Kickstarter video, he and his friends are all tied to chairs in a creepy basement, and his first concern is that whoever lives there needs to tidy things up. And when their captor walks menacingly towards them, he tries to strike up a casual conversation with him.
** He seems to have wised up by the fifth video. He not only knows there's something wrong with the Healthy Band, but he actually tries to get away.
* ChromaticArrangement: He's the green puppet between a red and a blue/yellow puppet.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Oddly enough. In addition to being TheSmartGuy, he also has a tendency to give bizarre, almost nonsensical answers to any of the questions he's asked, such as replying "my house" when asked where he lives and remarking in an interview that he finds yogurt exciting. That said, he borders on being the OnlySaneMan in certain situations, implying he may just follow his own sort of logic.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:In 5 his organs are removed and eaten while he is conscious. These organs are then served to Yellow Guy.]]
* TheDandy: Based on the way he poses, he seems to really enjoy changing clothes in the digital world, at least until things go terribly wrong. Most of the time in the series proper, he wears what appears to be a trench coat or a suit.
* FeatheredFiend: When he goes insane during the "let's get creative" scene. The glitched digital model of him in episode 4 also looks the part, glaring into the camera and letting out a loud, crow-like squawk.
* FeatherFingers: Taken to the logical extreme in "Time". Yes, his feather fingers actually have ''bones'' in them.
* KilledOffForReal: In the fifth video, [[spoiler:he's gutted and served to Yellow Guy by a giant talking can of meat. Considering Red Guy is implied to have somehow survived episode 4, whether Duck Guy stays dead is uncertain. However, the {{Foreshadowing}} drawing in the beginning shows Red Guy watching from the window and Duck Guy with two X's over his eyes, implying that Duck Guy is actually dead, unlike Red Guy who was just sent to some other place.]]
* GeniusDitz: Shown to be knowledgeable of complex philosophical ideas and is generally an eloquent speaker, but is usually just as willing to go along with whatever inane lesson the current teacher is singing as Yellow Guy is, suggesting that he doesn't have much common sense.
* MotorMouth: In the HELP video, he talks the most out of the three characters, and the Money Man puts duct-tape on his mouth to make him shut up.
* NiceGuy: Always outgoing and friendly even after every thing he has been through.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** In the second video, he and Yellow Guy questioning time is what causes Tony to [[spoiler:rot him and his friends alive.]]
** In the third, his swatting a butterfly leads to Yellow Guy running away and [[spoiler:join a cult.]]
* OddNameOut: Unlike Yellow Guy and Red Guy's colorful names, his name [[ADogNamedDog reflects his species]].
** FridgeBrilliance: Green is not a creative color.
* OhCrap: In episode 4, he's gets somewhat nervous when Colin [[CallBack brags about being able to tell time]].
* OnlySaneMan: In episode 5, he very quickly becomes uncomfortable with The Healthy Band and at one point tries to just ''leave'' instead of being passive like in the first four shorts. [[spoiler:It doesn't end well for him.]]
* OutOfFocus: Barely appears at all in episode 6 [[spoiler:on account of being KilledOffForReal.]]
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: In the fifth video, he finally snaps after the Healthy Band's nonsensical song goes on for too long.
-->'''Refrigerator:''' Everything tastes great! But maybe we should wait!
-->'''Duck Guy:''' No!
-->'''Refrigerator:''' Before we put it on the plate!
-->'''Duck Guy:''' Enough!
-->'''Refrigerator:''' Or it could be too late!
-->'''Duck Guy:''' [[WhamLine I don't want to do this anymore!]] ''(Runs off, knocking over the camera in the process)''
* TheSmartGuy: He's got the highest vocabulary of the other puppets, and is aware that time is an illusion, but he gets stopped immediately by Tony screaming.
* ToothyBird: When [[spoiler:Tony uses time to decay the puppets]], Duck Guy gets teeth for some reason.
** In 5 he again gets teeth when he's being operated on the table.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He's set up a Chicken Picnic and refuses to do anything else until it's finished.
!!Yellow Guy
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[[caption-width-right:288:''"I might paint a picture of a clown!"'']]
A yellow-skinned puppet with overalls and blue hair. He's the dimmest of the three, and gets into the most trouble, whether by his own fault or not.
* BreakTheCutie: In the final episode, he's severely traumatized to the point where his hair starts falling out.
* ButtMonkey: Even more than the other two; almost all of the bad things in the series happen solely to him, to him first before extending to the others, or he simply gets the worst of it. Heck, in the third video "Love," nothing bad happens to the other two. They just enjoy a lovely chicken picnic. [[spoiler:Considering that [[AbusiveParents his]] [[GreaterScopeVillain father]] was the one controlling everything, it actually makes sense that Yellow Guy would get targeted the most.]]
* CaptainObvious: In the fifth video, after about a minute after the song starts, it finally occurs to him to say "Food is talking!"
* ChromaticArrangement: He's both yellow and blue to contrast the red and green of his friends.
* DecoyProtagonist: He's prominently displayed in the series's poster art, [[spoiler: he's the last one in the LotusEaterMachine, and the BigBad is his father]]. That said, [[spoiler: the one to resolve things in the final episode is Red Guy. [[GainaxEnding Maybe]]]].
* EightiesHair: His hair is supposed to be styled as a mullet, though its length wildly varies depending on the episode and [[ArtShift the current medium he's being portrayed in]]. Sometimes it's more like a small blue tuft, but other times it goes all the way down his back.
* InformedFlaw: In interview with puppets, Roy says that he is "arrogant and rude". However, we never see him act like that, he is usually pretty innocent in the series
* GenreSavvy: In episode six, his first instinct upon seeing a lamp trying to sing to him is to turn it off and tell it "NO!"
* HeroicBSOD: Appears to have gone into this state by the start of the 6th episode. Unfortunately for him, the Lamp comes along soon after to subject him to further torture.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With his Dad, apparently.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:He's tricked into eating his only remaining friend alive, Duck Guy, at the end of episode 5. He seems to realize this at the end of the video.]]
* KindheartedSimpleton/NiceGuy: He sees his father Roy as a good friend despite how creepy he is, when Duck Guy kills the "pesky bee", he runs away crying, he really appreciates and repays "love" Shrignold and his friends give to him and 6th video shows that [[spoiler: disappearance of his friends]] really broke him. While Roy may say that he is arrogant and rude, [[InformedFlaw we don't have enough evidence to assume that he is telling the truth.]]
* NervousWreck: Becomes one by episode 6, which is pretty understandable considering everything he's gone through.
* OhCrap: Understandably reacts this way in episode 6 when the Lamp ropes him into another lesson.
-->'''Lamp:''' How can you sleep when you don't know how to have DREAMS?\\
'''Yellow Guy:''' No, I don't want to know! I DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW TO HAVE DREAMS!
** When the Yellow guy sees the previous teachers appear unexpectedly, he's immediately terrified.
* ThePigPen: Assuming it ''was'' dirt, when Tony makes the puppets take a bath, he scrubs Yellow Guy and the water turns brown. (Duck Guy complained they were ''already'' clean, but he might have just meant himself and Red Guy.)
** [[BloodIsSquickerInWater And if it wasn't dirt...]] or poo.
* ShutUpHannibal: Actively denies the Lamp's lesson, first by turning it off, and then by yelling at it to stop singing.
%%* SimpletonVoice
* SuperStrength: He somehow manages to pick up a tree in "Time".
* TookALevelInBadass: In the final installment, he immediately realizes that something is wrong and demands that the Lamp character singing to him stop trying to teach him about dreams.
* TookALevelInDumbass: In the first short, he has hints of a SimpletonVoice but is otherwise on-par with the other characters in terms of capability. In the second short he has trouble speaking at all, let alone coherently, and may have not even realized that he was in a musical number.
** Noticeably, he seems to sound MORE dumb in the presence of his father.
** In the subsequent videos, he's reduced to being very dim, but still slightly aware.
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in the final video, when he's well aware that horrible things happen during the lessons and does everything he can to get out of one. [[YouCantFightFate Unfortunately...]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Shouted "Spaghetti!" when asked his favorite food.
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[[folder:The Teachers]]
!!The Teachers in general
The antagonists of the series.
* AffablyEvil: Each teacher is some shade of this. Sketchbook seems to be a straight example, whilst Tony, Colin, and the Healthy Band are [[FauxAffablyEvil Faux]]. Shrignold is debatable, and the lamp [[WeHardlyKnewYe hardly gets any screen time]], so it could be either or.
* AnimateInanimateObject: Barring Shrignold, all of the teachers are anthropomorphized household objects. The puppets get used to this, and anticipate the Teachers' appearance by the fourth episode.
* ArcVillain: Of their respective installments.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: They seem nice when they first start their lesson, but always later turn out to have very dark agendas.
* FlatCharacter: They don't really have many personality traits beyond [[BitchInSheepsClothing pretending to be helpful and then becoming disturbing]], along with turning out to be [[StrawHypocrite hypocritical]]. [[spoiler: Episode 6 reveals that they're all the products of a machine, and thus [[JustifiedTrope most likely programmed without much else in mind]].]]
* StrawHypocrite: They tend to start out preaching a message, but then do a full 180 on it by the end. If they don't, their lesson is completely incorrect and inconsistent.
* WouldHurtAChild: Assuming that the puppets are children, all of them except possibly Sketchbook have been perfectly willing to torment them in horrific ways.
!!Sketchbook
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[[caption-width-right:288:''"What's your favorite idea? Mine is being creative!"'']]
A talking sketchbook with the voice of a young woman (Or maybe a little boy). They teach the trio about creativity, only for things to spiral out of control.
* AffablyEvil: They're pretty polite and kind, and even when they mad they don't raise their voice. However, they're also a jerk and hypocrite.
* AlasPoorVillain: They're the bad guy, but it's still quite horrific when [[spoiler:the Money Man tears their face off]] in "HELP #3".
* AmbiguousGender: Due to the voice sounding somewhat between a mix of a grown woman's and a 12 year old boy's, there is still, albeit a little debate on what they really are in canon.
** [[ShrugOfGod Amusingly, one of the makers was directly asked this question via Twitter,]] [[https://twitter.com/japelling/status/434274094855753728 and he simply responded "paper."]]
* AmbiguouslyEvil: They're definitely a {{Jerkass}}, but it's unclear if they were actually evil and intentionally drove the puppets insane or if things just got out of their control.
* AnimateInanimateObject: They're just a sketchpad that suddenly came to life.
* TheCameo: Makes a brief appearance in "TIME", but you have to look really closely. They also appear in the first "HELP" video for a split second; the monster holding the puppets hostage appears to have nailed them to the wall. And they're [[DissonantSerenity still smiling]].
** They also appear in "Love" for a few seconds as part of the crowd near the end, [[spoiler:but they merely stand still while staring at the Yellow Guy with a neutral expression on their "face". They also look slightly different from their first appearance - their eyes are now three-dimensional (and not flat like the rest of her face) and their covers are striped black and white instead of just plain black.]]
** And lastly, they appear in the finale, when the lamp is singing about dreams on one of the pictures on the wall and right at the end. [[spoiler:Or should I say, beginning?]] [[HereWeGoAgain "What's your favorite idea?"]]
* DissonantSerenity: They're surprisingly calm when they were watching all the other puppets go insane during the "CREATIVE EXPLOSION." However, they were the first one to state that they should never be creative again after said explosion was over, and said this with wide eyes, thus implying that [[EvenEvilHasStandards they too were horrified about all that had happened]].
* HarmfulToMinors: Based on whether or not you consider any of the puppets minors (Yellow Guy might be one), their effect on them was not pretty.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Apparently, you can only be creative in ways they want.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After the '''CREATIVE EXPLOSION''', Sketchbook looks genuinely horrified, but keeps their calm tone of voice. Notably, Sketchbook is the only teacher to reject what they taught in their debut episode.
---->'''Sketchbook''': "Now let's all agree, to never be creative again".
* PerpetualSmiler: Unlike Tony, they don't change their expression, even when annoyed.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the creativity explosion ends, they just flop over and the episode ends.
* SmurfettePrinciple: If interpreted as female, they are the only non-male character with a relevant role seen so far.
* StrawCritic: To the Yellow Guy; everything the guy makes or likes is shot down by them (Or destroyed). And they only allow the Puppet trio to make art that they like (Until the '''CREATIVITY EXPLOSION''' where it doesn't seem like they have control over their artistic decisions).
* StrawHypocrite: They say that green is not a creative colour, but there's green in their hair. To say nothing of the fact that they claim to be making the kids "creative", when they're actually stunting their creativity.
** They also admonish poor Yellow Guy for saying that green's his favorite colour, but says nothing to the Duck Guy, who actually ''is'' green.
* TakeThat: A thinly-veiled parody of art school teachers.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Good is a relative term, but they're the only teacher that doesn't leave any of the protagonists horribly maimed in any way (in fact, the darker aspects of the episode were the protagonists letting their imaginations go too far, and Sketchbook has a severe case of "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" in the end). The other teachers only get worse from here on out. [[spoiler:Aside from Gilbert, they're also the only teacher that has no clear connection to [[GreaterScopeVillain Roy]] and also, oddly, does not appear in [[the parade of teachers near the end of Episode 6]].
* TranquilFury:
-->'''Sketchbook:''' Now take a look at my hair! I use my hair to express myself!
-->'''Red Guy:''' That sounds really boring.
-->(''beat'')
-->'''Sketchbook:''' (''with a hint of anger in their voice'') I use my hair to express myself.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: They seem to genuinely want the puppets to have a good time. At least until they begin to get creative in ways they don't like, like using green.
* [[invoked]]WordOfGod: They're named "Sketchbook" at the creators' website.
!!Tony The Talking Clock
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[[caption-width-right:288:''"There's always time for a song."'']]
A clock that teaches the trio about the concept and importance of time, and he does this rather forcefully.
* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Caretaker]]: To the puppets. He yells "don't be stupid" at Red Guy when he tries to resist the whole "going on a journey through time" thing, and later yells at Duck Guy for "mucking around".
* AnimateInanimateObject: He's a clock.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Rots the puppets alive]] for questioning time.
* BerserkButton: Suggesting that time is just a construct of human perception.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Before the infamous "[[spoiler:rotting alive]]" scene, Tony comes off as unsettling but incredibly goofy, especially his theatrical singing and ''strange'' dancing.
* CameBackWrong: In "Love", [[spoiler:Tony is in the Cultist's crowd, but looks completely dead with white eyes and a greenish complexion. His outer rim is also now white instead of black.]]
** In the sixth video [[spoiler: he's mostly the same besides his FishEyes.]]
* TheCameo: In the sixth installment, [[spoiler:when Red Guy is messing with the machine's controls]].
* CanonName: His name, Tony The Talking Clock, was confirmed in an [[http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/18301/1/beckyjoe-are-this-weeks-dazed-visionaries interview for Dazed Magazine.]]
* CaptainObvious: When asked when time started and when it will stop, he responds with [[NonAnswer "Time is important and I am a clock!"]]
* CloudCuckoolander: Even for an AxCrazy [[TheSociopath sociopath]], Tony is insanely weird.
* ControlFreak: Goes with being a personification of the daily routine.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Tony has a remarkably low, proper-sounding voice for a clock creature.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Affable yes, but much more menacing than his counterpart from the previous installment.
* HellIsThatNoise: He can scream really, ''really'' loudly.
* ItsAllAboutMe: When Duck Guy tries to talk about the philosophical aspects of time, Tony starts beeping loudly in a petulant manner.
* KnightOfCerebus: He's shown as being undeniably evil compared to Sketchbook, when he [[spoiler:used time to speed up the other puppets' aging and rotting as a means to teach them that their time in life would eventually be up.]]
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: It is pretty clear Tony has no idea what he's talking about, especially in regards to history and ''actual time signatures on an analogue clock''.
* LackOfEmpathy:
-->'''Yellow Guy:''' An old man died.
-->'''Tony:''' But look, a computer!
* LargeHam: Especially when he sings.
* LeanAndMean: When he begins his song, he suddenly acquires long legs. Fanart tends to depict him as tall.
* MakeThemRot: He is very heavily implied to be the reason for [[spoiler:the RapidAging and eventually rotting that the puppets go through at the end of his debut.]]
* MoodSwinger: He goes from calm to cheery to annoyed and back again very quickly.
* NonAnswer:
-->'''Duck Guy:''' But when did [time] start?
-->'''Yellow Guy:''' And when will it stop?
-->'''Tony:''' Time is important and I am a clock.
* RealityWarper: He is much more overt about it than Sketchbook, sending the three main characters throughout time and into a strange space-like limbo on a giant ruler. It's also made clear that he is the one causing the creepiness in the ending.
* RhymingWithItself: He isn't too good at rhyming.
--> '''Tony:''' [singing] ''Let's go on a journey / a journey through all time / a time that's changing all the time / it's time to go to '''time'''!''
* TheSociopath: The sadistic smile on his face as he rots the puppets says it all.
* StrawHypocrite: He starts the whole journey because the puppets are concerned with time, as means to make them understand that "there will always be enough time". But in the latter parts of the song he makes them worry about time running out, culminating in the [[spoiler:horrific decay scene]].
* StylisticSuck: Unlike the other characters, he's absolutely ''terrible'' when it comes to [[RhymesOnADime thinking up song lyrics as he goes]]. [[FunnyMoments And his voice cracks]].
* SuddenlyShouting: Meh! Meh! Meh! MEH! MEH! MEH! ''MEH!! MEH!! MEH!!''
* TimeMaster: Can transport objects back and forth through time at will, as well as speeding up how fast a given object moves through time.
* TomTheDarkLord: Tony is a fairly bland name for an AxCrazy psychopath with control over the flow of time.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: It's a common joke in the fandom that Tony loves pizza, because he specifically brought it up in his song.
%%* WhiteGloves
!!Shrignold and [[spoiler:The Love Cultists]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:''"It makes you sad, doesn't it? That there's so much hatred in the world."'']]
A group of puppets, mostly woodland creatures, led by a talking butterfly, who teach the Yellow Guy about love. They include Shrignold the butterfly, Rabbit Boy, a unicorn, a tree, Frog Boy, some flowers, and a gopher.
* AffablyEvil: Bordering on FauxAffablyEvil, but they really do want to teach Yellow Guy their idea of what love is.
* AmbiguousGender: Depending on how you view the ending, Shrignold may in fact be female despite having a soft yet distinctly masculine voice.
* AntiVillain: They genuinely want peace and love for all. Unfortunately, they're also extremely hypocritical [[spoiler:cultists.]]
* TheCameo: In the sixth installment, [[spoiler:when Red Guy is messing with the machine's controls]].
* [[spoiler:{{Cult}}]]
* FourLeggedInsect: Shrignold only has two arms and two legs.
* HighPriest: The butterfly, Shrignold, appears to be the leader of the Cult.
* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: Yellow Guy does this when he pets the gopher.
-->'''Yellow Guy''': I love you too, furry boy!
-->'''Furry Boy''': Hehe, ''(angrily)'' harder.
* InformedSpecies: Frog Boy looks more like a generic human puppet than a frog, and has human features such as ears, a nose, and hair. The only indication that he's a frog was [[WordOfGod a description on the Instagram image]], as seen [[http://instagram.com/p/vQbQD5oGpb here]].
** Regarding comments about him being a frog, Becky Sloan replied "He's not a frog he's a Frog BOY".
* KarmaHoudini: So far, they have escaped punishment for attempting to brainwash Yellow Guy and presumably doing the same to numerous others, nor in Shrignold's case for [[spoiler:possibly raping Yellow Guy.]]
* KnightTemplar: They want to end hatred and make everyone feel loved... by [[spoiler:zealously worshiping an idol and brainwashing people.]]
* LoveFreak: They start out sounding like this until they begin to show their very narrow definition of what "love" is. Yellow Guy even seems okay with this at first.
* TheNameless: None of them are named in the video (except maybe "Furry Boy"), but WordOfGod has confirmed [[https://twitter.com/BeckyBocka/status/528846334296879104 Shrignold]], [[http://instagram.com/p/vQbQD5oGpb Frog Boy and Rabbit Boy]].
* PlantPerson: The Talking Flowers.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Implied, since their song has strong homophobic undertones, like saying that heterosexual marriage is "perfect", "pure" and "the way it's always been".
* ReligionOfEvil: [[spoiler:They worship the king of love, Malcolm, a giant stone head that they feed gravel into, otherwise it gets angry. To join them, one must change their name and clean out their brain.]]
* RuleOfSymbolism: '''All''' members of the Love Cultists are heavily symbolic animals and creatures:
** Butterflies represent [[ButterflyOfTransformation transformation and beauty]], sometimes [[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth death and rebirth]]. They also, fittingly, represent [[ButterflyOfDoom chaos]].
** Rabbits are a popular symbol for [[ExplosiveBreeder fertility, life and birth]]. They are also sometimes tricksters.
** Unicorns [[UnicornsAreSacred symbolize purity, virginity and innocence]].
** Frogs represent nobility, true love and the [[Literature/TheFrogPrince frog prince]] trope.
** Trees represent [[GreenThumb growth]].
** Flowers usually represent [[FlowerMotif peace and love]], though they could mean damn near anything.
** Gophers represent ties with the [[DishingOutDirt land and nature]]. Also, blindness.
* SmurfettePrinciple: The only girls in the cult are the Flower and Yellow Guy's "Special One".
* StrawHypocrite: The cultists first promote love towards friends and pets. [[spoiler:Then, they claim that the Yellow Guy must save all of his love solely for his "special one".]]
** See PoliticallyIncorrectVillain above.
* SunnySunflowerDisposition: They all have this.
* TakeThat: Towards organised religion and cults regarding their manipulation of impressionable minds.
%%* TalkingAnimal
* TalkingToPlants: They can talk back, though.
%%* TheTheocracy
%%* WhiteGloves
!!Colin
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[[caption-width-right:306:''"I'm a computer! I'm a computer-y guy! Everything made out of buttons and wires!"'']]
A talking computer that is supposed to teach the puppet trio about the world.
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: His virtual world has a line of broken code at the top of the screen. The Virtual World also has a problem with repeating itself.
* AutoTune: His voice, but that's to be expected.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:He successfully keeps Yellow Guy and Duck Guy trapped in the digital world and, possibly unintentionally, kills Red Guy.]]
* BeepingComputers: He deliberately resembles a clunky, mid-90's PC. Red Thing draws attention to the fact that they already have a computer (a much more contemporary anthropomorphic laptop), although Colin ignores this.
* BerserkButton: '''DON'T TOUCH [=MEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-=]!'''
* BigBad: Of the fourth episode. He's also the most serious threat the group faced, due to the fact that [[spoiler:he still had Yellow Guy and Duck Guy trapped in an endless loop by the end of the video, whereas with previous teachers everything was undone by the end.]]
* TheCameo: In the sixth installment, [[spoiler:when Red Guy is messing with the machine's controls]].
* CanonName: Revealed a week after his episode's release, [[https://twitter.com/BeckyBocka/status/585549670811836416 on Twitter]]
* ComputersAreFast: Inverted; he's a little slow and glitchy. Played Straight at the end though.
* {{Cyberspace}}: [[spoiler:Traps the trio inside his digital world, where the only three things to do are look at graphs, check out digital styles, and do digital dances.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Pretends to be friendly and helpful, but has no intentions of actually helping anybody. After Red Guy touches his keyboard, he fulfills the "evil" part of the trope by [[spoiler:trapping the puppets inside a virtual world where they can do nothing but open doors over and over again and possibly murdering Red Guy.]]
* GroundhogDayLoop: [[spoiler:Traps the trio in one when they're in his digital world, and only Red Guy is able to break free from it. It gets faster and faster as it goes on.]]
-->'''Yellow Guy:''' Wow, look, a ''(insert chart type or 'nothing' here)''!
-->'''Duck Guy:''' Digital style!
-->'''Colin:''' Do a digital dancing! Hey, this is fun!
* GoodAllAlong: [[AmbiguouslyEvil Maybe.]] [[spoiler:If he ''did'' cause Red Guy's head to explode, then episode five's implication that Red Guy is finally free means that he might actually be responsible for freeing him. ]]
* HatesBeingTouched: When Red Guy tells him to shut up and bangs on his keyboard, he ''screeches'' not to be touched before making everything glitchy and horrifying.
-->'''Colin:''' DON'T TOUCH MEEEEEE''eee''EEEEEEE-
* HeroKiller: This is so far the only time where the puppet trio appears to remain in a bad situation at the end of the video, but [[spoiler:Red Guy actually ends up with his head exploding. Subverted in the fifth, which shows that Red Guy is not dead, but has been transported to an unknown location.]]
* HolodeckMalfunction: The Virtual Reality within him has a problem of repeating itself. This becomes apparent at the end.
* InsideAComputerSystem: The Virtual World inside Colin.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Steals Gilbert the Globe's thunder, does quite a bit of CharacterShilling on his own behalf, ignores any questions or observations that has nothing to do with his abilities, and screeches at Red Guy when the latter gets annoyed with him.
* {{Jerkass}}: Doesn't answer the students' questions at all, brags about his capabilities without ever showing them, barrages the students with pointless questions that he doesn't want answers to, and [[spoiler:traps them in a deteriorating digital world. ]]
* KnightOfCerebus: A mild example; he's the first Teacher whose evil acts aren't at least implied to be in the puppets' imagination. [[spoiler:He seems to also be the first Teacher to kill a puppet, but the end credits of the fifth video show this isn't true.]]
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Goes on and on about how clever he is, but never says or does anything clever.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Got trapped in his own deteriorating virtual world along with Duck Guy and Yellow Guy]].
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:Trapped the puppets in his digital world for one of them hitting him.]]
* MagicalComputer: It's a living computer that can speak, react, create a virtual world for the main trio, and [[RealityWarper cause Reality to alter, either intentionally or unintentionally]].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:The fifth video reveals that not only did he not kill Red Guy, but he may actually have freed Red Guy from the lessons.]]
* NonAnswer: Comes to life when the trio questions what the biggest thing on the Earth is. He never, at any point, answers this.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: At first he simply sings his song and asks a lot of questions while completely ignoring everyone around him. The first time he ever acknowledges any of the puppets is when the Red Guy slams his key board in frustration. This makes him very angry, and that's when things get scary...
* RealityWarper: Not only can he alter the Virtual Reality world within him, he seems to have the ability to warp reality as well. Whether this is intentional or unintentional is unknown.
* TheSociopath: Narcissistic, violent, and completely indeferent to the suffering of others.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: The puppet trio wanted to know what the biggest thing on the Earth was. They all look towards a globe that turns around and shows its face. Before Gilbert the Globe can get a single word in, Colin starts singing.
* TomTheDarkLord
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Oats, which appears to be a cereal composed of... [[ShapedLikeItself Oats]]... At least based on the abundance of it in Episode 4.
!!The Healthy Band
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Doo doo doo doo doo! Doo doo doo doo doo! Do it healthy!"'']]
A group of talking food that sings about being healthy. The members include a human-sized lamb chop made to resemble a chef, a can of spinach, and a loaf of bread who drums. Later on, a refrigerator also joins.
* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: The way Lamb Chop pronounces or''gans''.
* AllDrummersAreAnimals: The Bread certainly goes crazy banging on the Peanut Butter and Jelly Jars. He's also barely able to speak, as he just mumbles the names of various foods.
* AmbiguousGender: Like Sketchpad, the spinach can has a somewhat feminine-sounding (and very [[SimpletonVoice dumb-sounding]]) voice.
* AnthropomorphicFood: And anthropomorphic food containers.
* BigBad: Of DHMIS 5, where they have [[spoiler:their [[TheDragon cans]] kill Duck Guy and then proceed to feed Yellow Guy Duck Guy's '''''organs''''']] Also literally, since Lamb Chop and Fridge are the largest teachers yet.
* TheCameo: In the sixth installment, [[spoiler:when Red Guy is messing with the machine's controls]].
* TheDividual: They mostly act as one teacher, and there's not much distinction between them aside appearance. They do frequently contradict each other, but then they contradict ''themselves'' as well, and no-one in-universe comments on it.
* DreadfulMusician: Compared to the other teachers, not only are they bad singers, but their song hardly even qualifies as one. What's worse is that they're a band!
* EvilPhone: When they're around, answering the phone causes a transition between their song and a dark and creepy operating table. However, this might not be connected to them, since they seem just as confused about the phone ringing as the main puppets.
* FauxAffablyEvil: They put on a friendly, playful demeanour, but ignore everything the main characters say and it's heavily implied that they [[spoiler:tricked Yellow Guy into eating his only remaining friend alive.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: They end up condemning cooked meat as a "fancy, show-offy food," even though one of the singers is a big, dancing lamb chop.
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:They force feed Duck guy to Yellow guy, all while condemning him for eating various foods.]]
* InsaneTrollLogic: They seem to believe that plain foods are healthier than "show-offy" foods, regardless of the fact that all the plain foods they listed were heavily processed and low in nutrition while all the unhealthy foods they described were organic and nutritious.
* KarmaHoudini: They have received no punishment for [[spoiler:force-feeding Duck Guy to Yellow Guy]].
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Lamb Chop does this with a model of the human body to emphasize how unhealthy foods make the body "all broken and on the floor".
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Their ideas of what are considered healthy and unhealthy foods are really inconsistent. They state that healthy foods include anything that is plain looking, like bread and cream. However, since fruits and vegetable are so colorful, they consider them unhealthy. Their food pyramid really doesn't help, or as they call it, a "health shape."
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Their comparison of the digestive system to a house.
-->'''Lamb Chop:''' You see, the body is like a special house! With blood, hair, and or''gans'' in the different rooms. Oh look! There's Mr. Bladder in the basement! Ha ha!
-->'''Duck Guy:''' [[FlatWhat ...What?]]
-->'''Lamb Chop:''' Now food comes in through the chimney, mouth, and goes from room to room greeting all the different organs.
-->'''Yellow Guy:''' Hello!
-->'''Lamb Chop:''' Now, the good healthy food is very nice and polite to the organs, and so is invited to stay! For a party! Yay! But the bad, not healthy foods are very rude, and must leave through the cat flap!
-->'''Spinach Can:''' Rude!
-->'''Duck Guy:''' [[OnlySaneMan ...That doesn't make sense.]]
* NiceHat: Possibly. Lamb Chop has what looks like a bone shaped chef's hat on his hair. Then again, he is a walking piece of meat, so that could easily be part of his body.
* OopNorth: Lamb Chop's accent, strangely.
* OpenHeartDentistry: One of their reasons for not eating unhealthy foods (or any foods at all) is that it'll make your teeth or gums "go grey."
* SimpletonVoice: The Spinach.
* SkewedPriorities: Their main idea of what qualifies as healthy food is if it's plain looking with no colour. This includes bread, cream, "white sauce" and aspic, and end up calling cooked meat, fruit salad, vegetables and eggs unhealthy. Eventually, they even contradict their own eating guidelines.
* [[TheSociopath Sociopaths]]: [[spoiler: They see no problem with [[ImAHumanitarian force feeding Duck guy to Yellow guy.]] ]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The bread loaf disappears after the first phone call.
* WhiteGloves: They all have them.
!!The Lamp
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Oh! Looks like somebody's having a bad dream!"'']]
Appears briefly in the sixth installment to teach Yellow Guy about dreams. This time, Yellow Guy [[GenreSavvy refuses to listen.]]
* BadDreams: Constantly talks about them, and makes them happen.
* BrokenRecord: From what we see of his song, it's mostly him just listing different bad dreams that Yellow Guy can have.
* CelestialBody: His pattern invokes this, tying into his night and dream themes.
* DreadfulMusician: Oh, ''yes''. For starters his singing voice is even more grating to listen to than the whole Healthy Band.
* DreamWeaver: And it evidently wanted Yellow Guy to have a nightmare.
* FishEyes: Explicit in the [[ArtShift animated sequence]], not as apparent on his puppet.
* {{Jerkass}}: One line in his song is about losing one's friends, which is not the most tactful thing to be so cheery about given the episode's context.
* KickTheDog: "And you could have a dream about [[spoiler: losing your friends!"]]
* {{Leitmotif}} When he's not singing, a sparkly electronic tune plays.
* {{Sadist}}: When Yellow Guy protests too much, he suddenly starts drowning in oil, while the lamp mockingly says he's having a bad dream.
* SimpletonVoice: His voice combined with his FishEyes makes him seem drunk.
* StrawHypocrite: Probably the simplest example in the series--he talks about how the Yellow Guy can't sleep because he doesn't know how to dream, but his attempts to teach Yellow Guy only make him more awake.
* StylisticSuck: From what we hear of his song, it seems to be very slapdash and makes little effort to rhyme.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Only got to sing some of its song before [[spoiler: getting interrupted by Red Guy]].
!!Other Teachers
In the sixth episode, Red Guy winds up tampering with a console, summoning some of the old teachers and a variety of random teachers based on inanimate objects. This includes a model of the solar system, a football, a magnet, a shovel, a saxophone, a file, a stoplight, a gel jar, a cigarette, and a boom box.
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: They grow increasingly bizarre and random with every iteration.
* BrickJoke: The File.
* TheCameo: A lot of the previous teachers appear, and even some of the previous characters who weren't teachers (like the clapperboard) appear as such.
* CaptainObvious: Again, the File.
-->"I am a file and you put documents in me..."
* CoolShades: The Saxophone sports a pair.
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: This especially applies to the beginning of their musical number.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Solar System, who claims that "planets live inside the Moon".
* NonSequitur: Many of them spout off songs or ideas related to their "theme", but the saxophone apparently wants to teach Yellow Guy how to buy a canoe.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: While all of the other teachers are puppets, the solar system is a person in a costume, with only the face being a puppet.
* SimpletonVoice: The Shovel. Who also happens to possibly be the only American in the whole thing.
* StylisticSuck: Whether or not what they sing can even be counted as songs is arguable.
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[[folder:Other characters]]
!!Roy
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[[caption-width-right:288:''"..."'']]
Yellow Guy's father, an incredibly sketchy man who does not speak. He only breathes loudly.
* AbusiveParents: The finale heavily implies that [[spoiler:the whole series was a simulation he set up to torture Yellow Guy.]]
* AmbiguouslyEvil: See GreaterScopeVillain. He can also be seen [[StalkerWithoutACrush stalking the puppets in the background of the fifth video]], and Yellow Guy initially couldn't tell the difference between Roy's house and the base where he and his friends were kidnapped, tied up, and held hostage by the Money Man.
** Even his ominous appearances in episode 6 lead to speculation. Were his glares and gestures toward Red Guy meant to be threatening, or was he trying to get him to [[spoiler:save his son]]? However, it's more likely [[spoiler: the former, given his interview quote about wanting to "send his son to "punish land".]]
* BigBad: Possibly, if the finale means that [[spoiler: he is the one controlling the lessons]].
* TheCameo:
** Appears in episode 3 as part of the crowd near the end.
** And in episode 4 in the corner of the darkened room after Yellow Guy and Duck Guy have been trapped in the digital world.
** And in episode 5 he is above the set, looking down at Duck Guy and the Fridge when Duck Guy is freaking out.
** And again in episode 6 where he appears several times across the brief animated sequence during Yellow Guy's dream, including sitting in the movie theatre of his mind, standing in a phone booth while he rides a horse, and simultaneously peeking out through a back window and from a cuckoo clock while he drowns in oil.
* CreepilyLongArms: Given one in episode 6.
* DeathGlare: That never leaves his face.
* DirtyOldMan: He blatantly looks up porn on the computer ''in front of his own son'' during the journey through time.
%%* FishEyes
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: The finale implies that he suffered through similar trauma as Yellow Guy at some point in the past, as Yellow Guy begins to look more and more like him as he crosses the DespairEventHorizon.]]
* {{Gonk}}: His nose is crooked, he has bloodshot eyes and tends to be staring [[DeathGlare menacingly]], and overall just looks less polished than the main cast, which makes him look creepy.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Heavily, ''Heavily'', implied that he is the cause of the puppets situation. [[spoiler: The finale only makes it more ambiguous.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: The way his arms stretch beyond their natural length, along with his ability to slip into random scenes without drawing attention to himself, the way the music changes whenever he appears as well as the fact that Red Guy was teleported right after making eye contact with him make him seem far too abnormal for such a crudely made puppet.
* PetTheDog: Sorta- he never actually does anything ''evil'' ([[OffstageVillainy that we see...]]), but his apparent friendship with his son is kinda sweet, even if he's still very creepy.
** [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted if the official interview and finale are of any indication.]]
* TheSpeechless: He never says anything throughout the video, he only gives that expressionless stare throughout the video.
** That and the heavy breathing if you listen closely.
** He finally says something in an [[http://www.itsnicethat.com/features/dont-hug-me-im-scared-interview-030516 interview]] , and oh boy...
--->'''Roy:''' [[AbusiveParents My silly boy has allowed his eyes to grow arrogant and rude]], [[{{Foreshadowing}} for this I will take him on a trip to punish land.]]
* ThousandYardStare: His only expression is a vacant, terrifying stare.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: One possible interpretation as mentioned in FreudianExcuse above--basically, it's possible that he's the way he is and [[spoiler:set up the lessons]] because [[spoiler:he's been through the same thing his son has been through]] and was DrivenToMadness because of it.
!!Money Man
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[[caption-width-right:265:"MONEY! MONEY MONEY MONEY!"]]
"'''The big bad MON£Y man'''", he is the captor of the puppets in the Kickstarter promo campaign. He's the most actively aggressive character the puppets face, outright threatening them with violence with no buildup to it.
* AllThereInTheScript: He's only named in a [[https://www.facebook.com/DHMIS/posts/496809607087966 couple]] [[https://www.facebook.com/DHMIS/posts/505055149596745 of]] Facebook posts.
* BigBad: Of "HELP", the Kickstarter video for a DHMIS series.
** Also, when compared to most of the villains above (Sketchbook, Tony, Shrignold, and Colin), who try to act more like teachers and less like Psychopaths. This man has immediately kidnapped them, tied them to chairs in his basement, taped the Duck Guy's mouth shut, forced the Red Guy to read a message demanding money, and has apparently stolen appendages from all three of them and put them in a bloody envelope, obviously to show he's serious about hurting them. It's obvious that this man is the absolute worst person the three puppets have met so far, as they aren't even aware they're kidnapped until he starts torturing them! (It's heavily implied he is)
*** While the Money Man is still a more direct threat to the main trio, and is more villainous than the Healthy Band, the Money Man never killed any of the puppets. [[spoiler:The Healthy Band killed Duck Guy either directly or indirectly]].
* EvilSoundsDeep: He speaks in a deeply distorted bass voice.
* {{Greed}}: His motivation, given the fact that the only decipherable word he says is "money".
* KarmaHoudini: Has yet to receive any punishment for kidnapping and horrifically torturing the puppets and [[spoiler:ripping Sketchbook's face off.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He has only been addressed twice. [[https://www.facebook.com/DHMIS/posts/505055149596745 Once]] as "the money man", and [[https://www.facebook.com/DHMIS/posts/496809607087966 once]] as "the big bad MON£Y man".
%%* NoIndoorVoice
* PuttingOnTheReich: He wears a dark-green uniform with a red armband above his elbow.
* TortureTechnician: It is heavily implied by "HELP #2" that he is at least torturing the Yellow Guy, who, with a bag over his head, is crying and saying "I don't want this." In "HELP #3", he is mailing bloody pieces of the three puppets to an unknown location, and wrote "YOU" in their blood.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: His monstrous appearance, coupled with his uncomfortably realistic crimes make him stand out from the otherwise fantastic antagonists in the series, especially since this he appeared before the puppets were put in any real harm.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Money Man never shows up again after the Kickstarter for the series.
* WouldHurtAChild: Assuming that the Yellow Guy at least is a child, he's most certainly willing to do this.
* WouldHitAGirl: Again, assuming that the Sketchbook is a girl, then he certainly would, given that he seems to have nailed them to a wall.
!!Michael
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[[caption-width-right:300:The Ugliest Boy in Town]]
The main character of a story told to Yellow Guy in order to convince him that everybody has a special one. Problem is, his life goes completely against that message.
* DesignatedVictim
* DidNotGetTheGirl: He doesn't even interact with a girl in his story. The only interaction he has in his story is a woman calling him a freak as he walks by.
* TheGrotesque: He is described as being the ugliest boy in town.
* InformedFlaw: He's called "The Ugliest Boy in Town", but he never interacts with any other boys or girls, meaning that we don't get any sort of comparison between him and a child who would be considered at least average-looking.
** We're also informed that he's weak... even though he managed to move a huge boulder blocking a cave all by himself.
* LostAesop: Michael's story was supposed to prove to Yellow Puppet that everyone has a "Special Someone". However, the Story clearly does not have that:
-->''This is the story of Michael, the ugliest boy in town''
-->''Ugly and weak, they called him a freak''
-->''So he lived on his own underground''
-->''He lived on his own underground'' (x2)
-->'''Shrignold:''' You see? Everyone has a special one.
-->''(Beat)''
-->'''Rabbit Boy:''' Even Michael!
* RunAwayHideAway: Type 2: pretty much what he did because he was so ugly and hated by everyone.
* SingleTear: He sheds a single tear at the end of his segment.
* StepfordSmiler: He's constantly smiling throughout his story, even as he sheds a tear after going to live in a hole underground.
! Gilbert the Globe
A Globe that wants to tell the puppets about the World.
* ButtMonkey: Besides getting upstaged by Colin, he doesn't even show up during [[spoiler: the overload of teachers]] in 6, save for a background cameo... in which he's turned around, anyway.
* EarlyBirdCameo - Can be seen on top of the shelf at the start of ''"Don't Hug Me I'm Scared II - TIME."''
* RedHerring: Was announced as being the teacher for the fourth episode, but he ends up upstaged by Colin the Computer.
* TheUnreveal: Because Colin the Computer steals his thunder, we'll never know what lesson he would have taught the puppet trio or how his lesson would have gone wrong.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The only teacher not to unleash some terror upon the protagonists. While it's true he didn't exactly have much of a chance to do so, he is also the only teacher apart from Sketchbook not [[spoiler: summoned in part six, implying that he isn't a part of the LotusEaterMachine.]]
! Craig
The unfortunate star of ''Craig's Big Day'' who enjoys playing computer games and eats birthday meals.
* CoolShades: Dons some after transforming from a nerd into one who is "big and strong".
* IncrediblyLameFun: The game he plays: ''Wacky Pig-Worm!''.
* InstantSedation: What appears to be the show's creators pull this on him.
* InterruptedSuicide: He sings about wanting to kill himself after getting a birthday present of poison. It's not really clear why he decides not to follow through with his act, though he does attribute it to his sudden transformation.
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: His reflection spits at him in his first appearance.
* NerdGlasses: Wears them at first.
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: He celebrates his 31st birthday by playing a video game and eating a strange TV meal.
* SpikyHair: Boasts about getting hair like this.
* TookALevelInBadass: "I was a nerd, but now I'm big and strong and I've got cool spikes in my hair."
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[[folder:'''Spoiler Characters''']]
!! Malcolm
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[[caption-width-right:300:''We must feed him. We must feed him gravel! Or he becomes angry...'']]
Malcolm is the God of the Love Cult. He is a giant stone head who can only move his jaw.
* TheCameo: Appears in "4" as a statue in the background.
* CompanionCube: He shows no sign of sentience, but the Love Cultists fear his wrath if they don't feed him.
* EatDirtCheap: He eats Gravel.
* EasterEgg: In the fourth video, a much smaller version of Malcom's head (with hair burned to ash) can be seen on the fireplace mantle.
* GodEmperor: He is the Love Cult's God and King.
* AGodIsYou: What the Love Cult claims Malcolm is.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of the third, as [[BigBad Shrignold]] is his servant.
* KillItWithFire: During the Credits, he is burned to the ground by a mysterious figure who has a Gas Canteen similar to the Money Man from the Kickstarter Videos. The Cult is nowhere to be seen, however...
%%* LivingStatue
%%* LosingYourHead
* [[LoveGoddess Love God]]: He is the God (And King) of Love, according to The Love Cultists.
* MeaningfulName: "Malcolm" is suspiciously similar to Milcom, the name of a Canaanite god who also had huge statues in which things were burned. [[NightmareFuel Including human children.]]
* PhysicalGod: He is the god of the love cult after all.
%%* RockMonster
* TameHisAnger: Feeding him is the only thing to keep him from getting Angry, according to The Love Cultists.
* TomTheDarkLord: Malcolm seems like an ordinary name for a God of the Love Cult.
* WalkingSpoiler: His existence spoils the nature of the Love Cult.
! Camera Crew and Puppeteers
The googly-eyed studio crew that make brief appearances throughout the series. Later accompanied by two puppeteers, one in a white body-suit and one in a black body-suit.
* AuthorAvatar: Very likely represent Becky and Joe, the show's actual creators.
* GooglyEyes: The camera and clipboard sport some.
* OutsideContextProblem:
** Just what are they, and what do they want with the puppets?
** The camera is apparently connected to Colin the Computer through the cord that the Red Guy follows.
* StylisticSuck: The Red Guy stumbles upon them filming a crude re-enactment of the original video... exactly ''why'' they're doing this is anyone's guess.
* WalkingSpoiler: The fact that they appear spoils the ending to Episode 4.
! Cans
Giant Cans with yellow faces and open mouths. [[spoiler:They appear in Episode 5, where they are eating the guts of the Duck Guy.]]
* TheButcher: [[spoiler:The giant meat can that rips out Duck Guy's organs and cans them so that they can be forced upon Yellow Guy.]]
* TheDragon: To the food band, who [[spoiler:feed the cans to Yellow Guy after the cans eat his guts]].
* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler:The giant meat can constantly giggles as he rips out Duck Guy's organs.]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:They eat Duck guy's guts, killing him in the process. They also bake a cake out of his face. Considering the Red Guy managed to grow his head back, whether the Duck guy stays dead is unclear.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: They're the only villains in the series so far to be explicitly shown hurting a puppet (unless you count Tony making Yellow Guy's ears bleed). The scene where they [[spoiler:eat Duck Guy's organs while he's still alive]] is so gory it makes the first four instalments look like actual ''Series/SesameStreet'' by comparison. Duck Guy seems terrified throughout the fifth, in stark contrast to the puppets' reactions to Sketchbook, Tony, the Money Man, Shrignold, and Colin, where no-one realized their malice until it was too late. Given that [[spoiler:Red Guy survived having his head exploded]], they're also the only villains so far to [[spoiler:kill a puppet.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:They eat Duck guy's guts.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: For [[spoiler:Duck Guy's death.]]
! The Red Guys
After leaving the fuzzy felt "world" of the other puppets, Red Guy takes up residence in a society of identical Red Guys. He finds, however, that he doesn't quite fit in with his kin.
* ArtShift: Whereas the main DHMIS world is entirely made out of felt and follows the simple aesthetic of children's shows, the scenes with the Red Guys are filmed in live-action environments, further emphasizing the distinct shift between these two worlds.
* DittoAliens: Not only do they all look exactly the same, but have the same voice, personality, and general mannerisms. Given the weirdness of the series, though, it's unclear whether they're an example of this or if they're [[MesACrowd just copies of Red Guy]].
* DreadfulMusician: The red piano guy just bangs on the piano, though it's not clear if this is considered "good" music in this world.
* DullSurprise: It seems Red Guys in general are simply incapable of getting worked up or expressing strong emotions about anything.
* GrowingUpSucks: It's not hard to view their life- working all day in a monotonous office where they "file files", then traipsing to a mediocre nightclub- as some kind of commentary on adulthood.
* IronicEcho: After our Red Guy suggests that it would be funny for a file to come to life and sing to them, his boss responds with "That sounds really boring." The same words Red Guy said to Sketchbook when it said it uses its hair to express itself.
* TheStoic: Even when they're booing a singing nudist off the stage, their criticisms don't get much harsher than "it's not very good at all!"
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