| 1 | Below are the characters featured in the [[WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared six-episode web series]], as well as the original TV pilot, and the [[Series/DontHugMeImScared TV series]] itself. |
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| 3 | '''WARNING''': Since these videos rely on shock value, expect spoilers for all the episodes, although the plot-related spoilers for the last three episodes (of the web series and TV series) will be marked. |
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| 7 | !The Students |
| 8 | [[folder:In General]] |
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| 12 | The three main characters of the series. In the TV series, they're collectively referred to as "The Guys". |
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| 14 | * AdaptationalBadass: Downplayed. In the original web series, they were merely prisoners who were often tortured by their teachers. In the TV Series, the trio actually manage to kill or outsmart their teachers (albeit accidentally). Yellow Guy manages to kill Coffin while digging up Duck, [[spoiler:Duck kills Warren the Eagle with tweezers, Red Guy manages to get the three out of the house while Yellow Guy accidentally kills Choo Choo by drinking his "special drink", and Duck steals the batteries from Electracey the Meter]]. The downplayed part is because the teachers weren't particularly intimidating; Coffin was made of wood, [[spoiler:Warren was just a small worm when Duck killed him, Choo Choo died of old age because the flask was the only thing keeping him alive, and Electracey was just caught off-guard and not really a threat to begin with]]. |
| 15 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: In the original web series, the puppets were, for the most part, passive observers who were dragged into whatever craziness was unfolding around them. In the television series, the three are much more self-aware; as "Friendship" and "Transport" demonstrate, they're even willing to fight back whenever the lesson of the day inevitably goes off the rails. |
| 16 | * AdaptationalJerkass: In the television series, all three of the puppets are ruder and more argumentative, and more likely to insult each other or swear. The ending of the 4th episode even has them break out to a full-on fight with glass bottles being smashed on each other's heads. |
| 17 | * AndIMustScream: It is revealed in episode 5 that the students are growing aware of their surroundings. [[spoiler:Red Guy has escaped, and Duck resists, to no avail.]] |
| 18 | * BizarreTasteInFood: In Episode 3, they pack a picnic basket consisting entirely of raw chicken. |
| 19 | * ButtMonkey: Their only purpose in existing seems to be to be tortured over and over again by demented psychopaths. Yellow Guy tends to get the most verbal and physical abuse, Duck tends [[TheyKilledKennyAgain to suffer from all forms of death]] and has died the most out of any character, and Red Guy (while not as much as the previous two) is often fed up with the insanity going around him and is generally the most unhappy of the three. |
| 20 | * ChromaticArrangement: The trio is color-coded in red (Red Guy), yellow (Yellow Guy), and green (Duck). |
| 21 | * ComicTrio: Duck is TheSmartGuy, Red Guy is the OnlySaneMan, and Yellow Guy is the KindheartedSimpleton. |
| 22 | %%ZCE; as what? * FamilyOfChoice: The ending of "Family" has the trio firmly cementing themselves as this. |
| 23 | * 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. This becomes a bit more pronounced in the TV series where they are more aware of how their days usually go. |
| 24 | * GrievousBottleyHarm: In the ending of "Friendship" when Yellow Guy accidentally breaks their new computer, the argument that happens between them gets so heated that they start hitting each other with glass bottles and it escalates from there. |
| 25 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: It is implied in the last few episodes of the TV series that [[spoiler:Lesley is erasing their memories at the end of every episode. Most notably in the case of "Transport" where the episode ends with them escaping reality and camping in the middle of the apocalyptic wasteland. Come to the next episode they recollect nothing of it, with Red Guy no longer angsting about being trapped in the house. In the finale, none of them appear to remember any of the previous teachers they have met]]. |
| 26 | * MadArtist: They all become this during the "creativity explosion" in the original video: the best example may be the ''organ cake'' Duck cooked for his friends. |
| 27 | * NiceMeanAndInbetween: Always present, but becomes more pronounced in the television series: Yellow Guy (Nice) is a classic GoodIsDumb; Duck (Mean) is rude and demeaning, and even ''murders'' multiple characters; Red Guy (In-Between) is apathetic and abrasive, but is rarely if ever as directly cruel as Duck. |
| 28 | * NoNameGiven: The students aren't named throughout the entire series, although Red Guy almost says his real name in Episode 4, before being interrupted. Whenever one of them speaks about another, they tend to use terms such as "the Other Guy(s)". In episode 4 of the TV series, when the puppets try to log onto their computer and they don't remember the password, Yellow Guy suggests using his name, which Red Guy then [[OverlyLongName spends a full 15 seconds typing it out]], and Yellow Guy tells him to not forget the hyphen, while Duck's takes only a single character to type. All we know is that Duck's real name isn't David and that "Rat-Eyes" is apparently Yellow Guy's maiden name... somehow. |
| 29 | * 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 their favourite colours, as described in episode one]]. |
| 30 | * SanityBall: The ball is juggled between the three of them. In episodes "Jobs" and "Family" it is Duck who is sane and willing to question the insanity. In "Death" and "Transport" Red Guy is the one that is more lucid than the rest of them. While Yellow Guy became the OnlySaneMan and MetaGuy after becoming smart in "Electricity". |
| 31 | * 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's death in episode 6 leave Yellow Guy emotionally broken.]] |
| 32 | ** This is downplayed ''considerably'' in the TV series, likely for the sake of [[PlayedForLaughs comedy]], but they still share a few moments of genuine kindness to each other. |
| 33 | * UnusuallyUninterestingSight: They're all very indifferent to the weirdness around them. [[spoiler:At first.]] |
| 34 | * 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. |
| 35 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: Not noticeable during the web series, but in the TV series the trio don't seem to like each other very much. While they have their moments that show they ''are'' friends, there are more scenes of them bickering and arguing. In "Death" Red Guy doesn't seem to care at all about Duck's death and is moreso annoyed that ''he'' [[GreenEyedMonster didn't get to be dead]], while both "Friendship" and "Electricity" show that both Red Guy and Duck seem to have a very low opinion of Yellow Guy, particularly in the former. |
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| 38 | [[folder:Red Guy]] |
| 39 | !!Red Guy |
| 40 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Joe Pelling |
| 41 | [[quoteright:288:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvtropesharry_8650.png]] |
| 42 | [[caption-width-right:288:''"I wonder what will happen."'']] |
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| 44 | 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. |
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| 46 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: His self-awareness and annoyances towards all the strange things that are happening to the trio is shown more in the TV series. Particularly in "Transport", he seems to be much more bothered and even depressed by the trio's constant torment by teachers and the fact that they go nowhere. [[spoiler:Up to the point that he drags the two along and they seemingly escape their reality -- [[YankTheDogsChain only for Lesley to send them back home with no memory]].]] |
| 47 | * AdaptationalDumbass: While he was the OnlySaneMan in the webseries, he's a lot more gullible and susceptible to the mentors' antics in the TV series. |
| 48 | * AdaptationalJerkass: In the web series, for all his stoicism, he was the TeamDad and frequently showed concern for his friends. In the TV series, he's much more apathetic and dismissive of them, at times mocking and insulting them to their faces, and his LackOfEmpathy is on display more to the point of being his defining trait. |
| 49 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: At first he's depicted as having stilted dialogue and mundane interests, however, when he's surrounded by other red guys, ''[[BadButt he's the most exciting and creative]]''. |
| 50 | * AmbiguouslyGay: During the [[spoiler: blackout]] in "Electricity", [[spoiler: he quietly admits to Duck that, with the power out, he'll miss looking at the house... and Duck himself. Duck then admits he also likes looking at him too. However, Yellow returns with Lesley's book before more can happen.]] It's worth noting that both Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling are a fan of the ship and want to see more of it. |
| 51 | * AmbiguousSituation: In "Transport", it's not clear if Red Guy is fully aware of the nightmarish situation he's found himself in or if he's just tired of the stagnation and repetition of his life by staying in the house all the time. |
| 52 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: |
| 53 | ** He's the least willing of the three to participate in the teachers' lessons, and generally seems to just want to lead a (relatively) normal life. In episode 6, [[spoiler:he gets an office job in a more normal world and finds it to be extremely boring]]. |
| 54 | ** In episode 5 of the TV series, he shows extreme frustration with their current way of life and wants to escape, in the near end of the episode he gets his wish, by the trio somehow managing to escape ''out of their reality'' and into a wasteland. |
| 55 | * 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. |
| 56 | * BlessedWithSuck: It's implied multiple times that he's fully aware that something isn't right because he doesn't know Yellow Guy or Duck and tries to escape with them by using the teacher as an escape vehicle. However, because Red Guy is the only one aware of what's going on and nobody else remembers what happens to them, he grows increasingly frustrated with his roommates for their lack of awareness. |
| 57 | * 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]]]]. |
| 58 | * BritishTeeth: Throughout almost all the series, Red Guy's mouth is never shown, but during a brief segment in the first song number from "Death", he's seen brushing his teeth, from which it's shown his teeth are rather jagged and spread apart. |
| 59 | * CartoonCreature: |
| 60 | ** Sketchbook is a notepad, Duck's a bird, Yellow Guy's a human, and Tony is a clock, but... what is Red Guy supposed to be again? |
| 61 | ** [[WordOfGod Becky]] indicated that Red Guy is a talking pile of spaghetti on her [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BHM4v6OBmUY/?taken-by=becky.sloan Instagram]]. |
| 62 | * CatchPhrase: As of the TV series, his seems to have become "You alright?" |
| 63 | * TheComicallySerious: Red Guy's calm, [[TheStoic stoic]] attitude combined with the ridiculous yet [[BlackComedy darkly entertaining]] situations he goes through often leads to this. Especially when he [[DeadpanSnarker snarks about it]] or it leads to him proving that he's NotSoStoic (or even when he just ''[[FlatJoy tries]]'' [[FlatJoy to show emotion, but fails]]). |
| 64 | * {{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. |
| 65 | * CultDefector: Left the set after the events of "Computers", and came back only to try and save his friends. He was unable to function in the real world afterwards. |
| 66 | * DeadpanSnarker: Red Guy is the most cyncial and sarcastic of the puppets. |
| 67 | ** In Help 3: "I don't think this [[spoiler:is your dad's house."]] |
| 68 | ** Also in the interview, when he was asked if he has brown hair: "I pride myself in being fully bald, under all this." |
| 69 | * DeathSeeker: PlayedForLaughs; in "Death," Red Guy seems incredulous that Duck died instead of him; he denies being envious, but insists that it'd make more sense for him to be the dead one, even fruitlessly trying to prove that he's dead. |
| 70 | * DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:In the end of "Transport", when he discovers that outside of their reality is nothing but a derelict wasteland with no living thing in sight. His dreams of him and his friends running away to start a new life in a normal community have been broken. He claims to Yellow that "things will turn up" but you can audibly [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness hear him crying afterwards]].]] |
| 71 | * DidntWantAnAdventure: Red Guy is always the first to notice when things are going off-script and to get back to the original plan. He quietly says "What? Who's that?" when they first meet Tony and tries to shut down Colin when he randomly turns up and starts singing. He also tries to point out to Tony that they are waiting for a show and tries to prompt the globe into speaking before being interrupted by Colin. |
| 72 | * DreadfulMusician: He sings with a flat voice in "Dreams". Subverted in the TV show where he sings with more inflection and melody, especially during the memories song in "Death". |
| 73 | * DrearyHalfLiddedEyes: An interesting case: The actual live-action costume has his eyes fully or near-fully open, but when the trio are shown in animation, he tends to be given these, befitting his deadpan, disinterested personality. |
| 74 | * DullSurprise: He has almost no inflection in his voice, even when he's supposed to be singing, creating a humorous contrast to the more excitable teachers like the time-obsessed Clock. |
| 75 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first line in the series is "That sounds really boring" after Sketchbook says that they use their hair to express themselves. This sets up his general lack of enthusiasm and inflection throughout the next six episodes. |
| 76 | * GenreSavvy: Briefly played for drama - Red Guy seems to view his life as not dissimilar to Grolton and Hovris, referring to how [[StatusQuoIsGod Grolton always makes his appointment and things always go back to normal by the end.]] It's something he very, ''very'' much does not want to happen to him. |
| 77 | * GivenNameReveal: Subverted. Like his two friends, he is not given a name within the show and is usually referred to as "Red Guy" outside of it, but when asked "What is your name?" by Colin, Red Guy says "Well, my name is--", but he is cut off by Colin right as he begins to say the first syllable. |
| 78 | * HandPuppet: Wears hand puppets of his friends as part of his bar singing act. |
| 79 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: The Red Guy just wants to be left alone with his friends, rather than having to be taught by a time-travelling clock or a magical sketchbook. |
| 80 | ** PlayedForDrama in "Transport". [[spoiler:It becomes increasingly clear that Red Guy's newfound obsession with going on a journey is a mask for something more personal. He wants to escape with his friends to a new town with normal people -- away from all the insane horror they are constantly subjected to back home. When it becomes clear that their world is trying to stop him, he becomes more emotional and desperate to escape]]. |
| 81 | * {{Irony}}: Is the only character who isn't a puppet, yet his voice and actions are fairly wooden. |
| 82 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Can be sarcastic and condescending, but nonetheless cares for his friends. |
| 83 | * LetsGetDangerous: In episode 6, before [[spoiler:pulling the plug]], he taunts [[spoiler:Roy]]: |
| 84 | -->'''Red Guy:''' [[CallBack I wonder what will happen.]] |
| 85 | * {{Manchild}}: He grows up to be an adult towards the end of the series, graduating and getting an office job, but still loves imagining inanimate objects coming to life and singing songs to teach a lesson, which the rest of his species find either boring or dumb. |
| 86 | * 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. |
| 87 | * 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 pianist just thinks he's rude--and later they are more preoccupied with how bad he is at singing. |
| 88 | -->'''Pianist:''' That's rude. No clothes... |
| 89 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: |
| 90 | ** In "Computers", his smacking Colin is what pisses Colin off enough to [[spoiler:trap Yellow Guy, Duck, and Colin in a deteriorating digital world of Colin's creation and presumably separate Red Guy from them]]. |
| 91 | ** It's implied in the fifth [[spoiler:that he was calling Duck and making him realize what was going on, causing Duck to rebel against the Healthy Band's lesson. Had he not tried to help his friends, Duck might still be alive and Yellow Guy wouldn't be completely alone]]. |
| 92 | ** And third time's the charm; come Episode 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 and resurrected Duck]]. |
| 93 | * NightmareFace: In the second episode of the TV series, he pulls his hair out of his face to brush his teeth, revealing a rather disturbing and jagged set of misplaced, lipless dentures underneath. |
| 94 | * NotSoAboveItAll: |
| 95 | ** 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]]". |
| 96 | ** In "Death," when Duck is announced dead in the paper, he actually gets rather jealous and barely manages to hide it, complaining that it'd make more sense if he were dead instead. |
| 97 | ** In "Family", Duck asks if the trio aren't a family in and of themselves: |
| 98 | --->'''Duck:''' I'm the dad, ''(gestures to Yellow Guy)'' he's the pet, and you're the--\ |
| 99 | '''Red Guy:''' ''(scoffs) You'', "the dad"? No, come on! If anyone's the father figure it's me. |
| 100 | ** In the "Family" episode in general, Red Guy gets so utterly taken in by the Twin's whole family spiel -- especially the part where he is told that he might too have a family full of other people like him -- that he goes along with their strange suggestions without offering any of his usual protests or questions, effectively leaving the role of OnlySaneMan to Duck instead for most of the episode. |
| 101 | ** Despite the resentment he feels over his circumstances, Yellow Guy's newfound intelligence in "Electricity" deeply disturbs him to the point that he helps Duck restore Yellow Guy to "normal" and thus undoes his efforts to understand the nature of their world. |
| 102 | * 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. |
| 103 | ** He also gets frustrated when Colin doesn't answer him when he asks what there is to actually ''do'' in the virtual world. |
| 104 | ** In the TV series, Red Guy's calm demeanor slips more often, with the normally calm character SuddenlyShouting not being uncommon throughout. |
| 105 | * 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. |
| 106 | -->'''Red Guy:''' ''(pointing at Tony)'' What? Who is that? |
| 107 | ** 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. |
| 108 | ** Inverted in the 6th episode; he soon gets bored of office life and thinks things would be more interesting if objects started singing. |
| 109 | * PresentAbsence: Barely appears in the 5th video, but his presence is still heavily felt through a combination of abstract cameos and how noticeable his absence is. |
| 110 | * ScrewThisImOutOfHere: |
| 111 | ** 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?]] |
| 112 | ** 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.]] |
| 113 | * 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. |
| 114 | * TheSlacker: In "Jobs", he tells Briefcase that he'd rather just sit around at home than have any job, and he enjoys being the manager because he gets to do nothing in his office while everyone else works. |
| 115 | * SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Whoever controlled the machine, him unplugging it probably wasn't part of their plan.]] |
| 116 | * TheStoic: Outside of Episode 4, he doesn't ever raise his voice to complain about the situations going on, even with him objecting to it all. Episode 6 reveals that ''everyone'' of his species is like this, and he's the one who shows the most creativity among them. |
| 117 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: In "Family", his family looks ''exactly'' like him aside from their clothing and height. |
| 118 | * SuddenlyShouting: In the TV series, he's noticeably more emotive and easily annoyed by the bizarre things happening to him, oftentimes bursting into a rage after no one listens to him. |
| 119 | -->'''Red Guy:''' I can't help you. I don't work here. Okay. Fine. BYE! |
| 120 | * TeamDad: He was one in the original web videos, as he was the [[OnlySaneMan most reasonable and down-to-earth]] of the three main characters and eventually tried finding some way to rescue them from the torture they go through in every episode. In the TV show, however, his [[AdaptationalJerkass callousness was played up]], [[AdaptationalDumbass while his ability to see that the teachers are manipulating them went down and he became more gullible]]. That said, he still considers himself to be one, as shown in "Family", where he claims to be the father figure of the group. |
| 121 | * 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.]] |
| 122 | * TheUnReveal: In episode four, he almost says his name. |
| 123 | * TranquilFury: When he gets angry, he raises his voice only a little bit and actually gets inflection in his voice. This stops being the case in the TV series, in which there are a couple of scenes where he actually screams at the top of his lungs. |
| 124 | * YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:At the end of the fourth video.]] |
| 125 | [[/folder]] |
| 126 | |
| 127 | [[folder:Duck]] |
| 128 | !!Duck |
| 129 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Baker Terry |
| 130 | [[quoteright:288:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvtropesrobin_4026.png]] |
| 131 | [[caption-width-right:288:''"Pesky bee!"'']] |
| 132 | |
| 133 | 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. |
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| 135 | * AccidentalHero: [[spoiler:He pulled Warren the Eagle out of Yellow Guy's brain, not realizing that Warren was about to kill or abduct Yellow Guy and leave him permanently brain dead.]] |
| 136 | * AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed, as he is not a full-on {{Jerkass}}. While it was shown lightly in the original shorts, the TV series prominently displays his more rude and uptight nature. |
| 137 | * AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: A dark green duck. That said, as shown by the mallards that accompany his frame in the TV series intro, he's probably based off the male's color scheme (black with green iridescence). |
| 138 | * AmbiguouslyGay: During the [[spoiler: blackout]] in "Electricity", [[spoiler: Red Guy admits to him that, because of the power outage, he'll miss looking at the house as well as Duck himself. Duck appears to be very surprised by this, before quietly admitting that he likes looking at him too. However, Yellow returns with Lesley's book, leaving him to be more pre-occupied with taking Yellow's batteries from him than doing anything more with Red.]] |
| 139 | * AmbiguousGenderIdentity: In Episode 2 of the TV series, Yellow guy reacts to Duck “laying an egg” as if it’s a completely normal occurrence, implying that Duck has done so before. Male ducks cannot lay eggs. In the "It's Nice That" interview, Duck also responds very negatively when asked if he has brown hair. In nature, brown mallards are usually the female ones. [[https://www.tumblr.com/meerlichtz/700380154369818624/in-episode-two-of-the-tv-show-yellow-guy-reacts-to?source=share]] |
| 140 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: More like ambiguously ''organic being''; [[spoiler:in the sixth instalment, he's summoned by the machine, much to his panicked confusion]]. |
| 141 | * AnimalSweetOnObject: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, as he's less of a downright animal and more of an animal ''archetype'', but in the TV series, he has a bizarre fixation for inanimate objects, from treating Red Guy insulting the clipboard as if he insulted Duck's girlfriend, to planning some "[[NoodleImplements private business]]" with a rock he randomly finds, to singing a verse about his personal home shredder before cuddling it whilst shivering. |
| 142 | ** In the pilot, he gets turned on by the mere thought of handling Mayor Pigface's prized bowling ball. |
| 143 | * AscendedExtra: Much more prominent in the TV series than in the original videos, where he was largely OutOfFocus save for the fifth. |
| 144 | * AutoTune: His voice sounds like Dumbledore's from ''WebVideo/PotterPuppetPals'' coupled with autotune. In the third and fourth episodes, though, he speaks without it, and doesn't even sing with it in the latter (which is pretty ironic considering the episode's theme is computers). In the tv series he also usually speaks without autotune, but he does in the "Wakey Wakey" pilot, suggesting that the staff tried to rescue this feature one last time. |
| 145 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Briefly in the sixth instalment, when Red Guy is messing with the LotusEaterMachine's controls]]. |
| 146 | -->'''Duck:''' --there's fish on my tray! (''panicked'') WHAT!? WHERE AM I!? |
| 147 | * BarefootCartoonAnimal: Wears a jacket and shorts, but no shoes. |
| 148 | * BondOneLiner: "Pesky bee!" It's much more badass when he [[spoiler: says it after plucking Warren out of Yellow Guy's head, though.]] |
| 149 | * 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 toward them, he tries to strike up a casual conversation with him. |
| 150 | ** 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. |
| 151 | ** It hardly gets better in the TV series, as he's blissfully unaware in most of "Death" that he's buried alive, and even tries to strike up conversation with the Coffin, much to his grief. |
| 152 | * CarnivoreConfusion: Actually seems aware of this, despite being an edible bird; he gives the camera a pointed stare after announcing that he's eaten an entire basket of raw chicken. |
| 153 | * CharacterDevelopment: During the first four episodes of the web series, he's the "[[DitzyGenius cultured but eccentric]] character", but he becomes aware of the connection between the teachers in the fourth video and ends up being the OnlySaneMan in the fifth episode due to the exasperation caused by the Healthy Band's stupidity. |
| 154 | ** CharacterizationMarchesOn: Being allowed to shine more in the TV series allowed him to grasp more of a personality, becoming brash, rude, and uptight. |
| 155 | * ChromaticArrangement: He's the (dark) green puppet between a red and a blue/yellow puppet. |
| 156 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Oddly enough. In addition to being TheSmartGuy, he also seems to enjoy having ''cold, raw chicken and eggs'' for picnics, and has a tendency to give bizarre, almost nonsensical answers to any of the questions he's asked, such as remarking in an interview that he finds yogurt exciting and saying that he lives in "[his] house" when asked where he lives. That said, he borders on being the OnlySaneMan when Red Guy isn't around, implying that he may just follow his own sort of logic, rely on his more down-to-earth friend, or simply becomes more aware over time. |
| 157 | * ComedicSociopathy: Zigzagged in the TV series. While he clearly does care for his friends to some extent, he's incredibly callous about the lives and wellbeing of anybody else, up to and including [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext murdering a piece of bread because its mother didn't want him to be a part of her family]]]], as well as cheerfully uttering this gem: |
| 158 | -->'''Duck:''' ''[after witnessing [[spoiler:the old train]] die]'' [[BlackComedy Well, he's dead!]] |
| 159 | * ControlFreak: One of his defining traits, apart from his {{Pride}} and haughtiness, is his constant need to be in control of the situation. He is shown to be ''very'' attached to a [[ObsessivelyOrganized tidy life with a rigid routine]], often being the most reluctant to attempt new adventures, reminding the trio of the schedules they adhere to, and if "Transport" is anything to go by, mainly spending his own free time making "visual inventories" of the objects around him, to make sure "everything's here". Additionally, he does not like it when events diverge from his internal sense of logic and coherence; he'll most often be the one to verbally complain about whatever madness is happening, portraying it as some inconvenience or disturbance to his sense of peace ("Pesky bee!"), and if [[OnlySaneMan Red Guy]] isn't around, or able, to question the things happening, he'll generally be the one to take on that role, readily reacting to the [[InsaneTrollLogic nonsensical explanations]] given during the lessons. Special mention to "Jobs", showcasing him as the only one able to keep a level head during their stint at [[LotusEaterMachine "Peterson's and Sons and Friends Bits & Parts Limited"]]. This being a cross between a parodical StandardOfficeSetting and a fairly inoffensive NightmarishFactory, routines and schedules (albeit [[MindScrew somewhat bizarre ones]]) are pretty much the ''only'' events that occur within it. |
| 160 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:In "Health", his organs are removed and eaten while he is conscious. These organs are then served to Yellow Guy.]] |
| 161 | * TheDandy: He wears what appears to be a trench coat or a suit. He also seems to really enjoy changing clothes in the digital world, at least until things go terribly wrong. |
| 162 | * DeadpanSnarker: He's especially snarky in the TV adaptation especially when trash talking Warren the Eagle's behaviour and appearance, "He looks like an insane person". |
| 163 | * DeathSeeker: PlayedForLaughs; in "Death", Duck is downright chipper to learn that he's dead, and treats the whole affair with a mix of blasé curiosity and accomplishment as if he'd just won an award. |
| 164 | -->''"As far back as I could remember, I always knew I deserved to be dead!"'' |
| 165 | * DitzyGenius: 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 or is too curious for his own good. |
| 166 | * ExoticEquipment: Thanks to the "Wakey Wakey" pilot we know he has a "[[ICallHimMisterHappy Morgan]]" that consists of a pink cylinder with an eyeball at the end. |
| 167 | * FallOfTheHouseOfCards: His attempt to build a house of cards is squandered by Tony. |
| 168 | * 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. |
| 169 | ** The "Wakey Wakey" trailer seems to depict him [[TheUsurper taking over Clayhill]] after the mayor's disappearance. |
| 170 | ** In the Channel 4 series, he's much more greedy and antisocial in general, and at one point casually toasts a child slice of bread to death purely because their mother [[DisproportionateRetribution didn't let him join their family as the "dad"]]. It's also implied he forged documents leading to "many deaths". |
| 171 | * FeatherFingers: Taken to the logical extreme in "Time". Yes, his feather fingers actually have ''bones'' in them. |
| 172 | * FoulWaterfowl: A mallard who is very self-centered and at times sociopathic. |
| 173 | * GoMadFromTheRevelation: When he realizes that he's been at Peterson's for 40 years, he breaks out of his brainwashed state and starts to go on a destructive rampage, only snapping out of his rage when she sees that he accidentally caused Yellow Guy to get his hand shredded. |
| 174 | * HairColorDissonance: Has a very deep shade of green that sometimes looks black. |
| 175 | * ICallHimMisterHappy: The pilot reveals that he calls his penis Morgan. |
| 176 | * InformedSpecies: |
| 177 | ** His beak doesn't look very duck-like, though it can be argued that its a stylised [[https://www.bird.bot/post/duck-bill nail]]. He nonetheless has webbed feet and quacks in the Trumpton-esque dream Yellow Guy has. |
| 178 | ** He's also called himself a "crow-like thing" in one of the show's {{Couch Gag}}s, but that still has problems since crows don't have yellow beaks or webbed feet. Although that could just be a nod to the fact that in the early days of the fandom, some people did legitimately confuse him for a crow due to how dark the shade of his feathers are. |
| 179 | * {{Irony}}: In the TV series, Duck often claims to be the cleverest and wisest of the main trio--but he's the only one who doesn't try to achieve enlightenment. He's perfectly content staying at home and having things stay exactly as they are. [[spoiler: "Transport" shows that Red Guy desperately wants more out of life, while "Electricity" features Yellow Guy becoming smart and almost realizing the truth of the group's situation, with the implication that he's had that experience many times before. It's Duck who rips out Yellow Guy's fresh batteries and renders him too dimwitted to share what he's learned--meaning that the supposedly [[TheSmartGuy smart guy]] is actually the stupidest of the lot.]] |
| 180 | * ItsAllAboutMe: In the TV series, he picks up this trait. In "Jobs" alone, he says the group needs to do something, "especially me", thinks the co-workers in Peterson's ignoring him is "pretending they don't respect him", and he tries to take Duncan's helmet because he claims he has the most valuable brain. |
| 181 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the TV series. Duck is quite mean, snarky, and shockingly ''cold'' at times towards people and his own friends -- but every now and then he shows a nicer side. In "Friendship" he assures Yellow Guy that they are friends in spite of mocking him. In "Electricity" he shares a brief FriendshipMoment with Red Guy during the blackout. In "Jobs" he shows genuine concern for Yellow Guy's safety when his arm gets torn apart. Notably in "Family", he already saw the trio as a FamilyOfChoice before Red Guy and Yellow Guy came to the same conclusion in the end. |
| 182 | * 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 stays dead is uncertain. However, the {{Foreshadowing}} drawing in the beginning shows Red Guy watching from the window and Duck with two X's over his eyes, implying that Duck is actually dead, unlike Red Guy who was just sent to some other place.]] |
| 183 | * KillingYourAlternateSelf: In the second TV episode, Red Guy convinced Stain Edwards to take on the form of Duck after the latter buried himself alive. When the two ducks meet, they think they can make it work... until one of the Ducks decapitates the other with a shovel. Worst part is that [[AmbiguousCloneEnding we don't know which duck was the original]]. |
| 184 | -->'''Duck(?):''' Actually, no. Four doesn't work. There's three of us. |
| 185 | * MathematiciansAnswer: When asked where he lives, Duck simply replies "My house!". |
| 186 | * 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. |
| 187 | * {{Narcissist}}: In the TV series, Duck has a very noticeable ego that he loves to inflate whenever he gets the chance. He even sings a song in "Family" about how the only family he needs [[ItsAllAboutMe is himself]]. |
| 188 | -->'''Duck:''' What? I'm not dull. I'm the best one!\ |
| 189 | '''Duck:''' How strange. They're pretending they don't respect me!\ |
| 190 | '''Duck:''' What about me? ''I'' should get the helmet. I've got the most valuable brain!\ |
| 191 | '''Duck:''' Ahh, somebody's jealous! Jealous of me being dead! |
| 192 | * NiceGuy: Always outgoing and friendly even after everything he has been through. [[JerkAss Subverted in the TV series.]] |
| 193 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: |
| 194 | ** Him questioning when time started convinced the others to do the same, leading them to their [[RapidAging gruesome]] demise. |
| 195 | ** In "Love", his swatting a butterfly leads to Yellow Guy running away and joining a cult. |
| 196 | ** In "Electricity", [[spoiler:after Yellow Guy meets Lesley and learns about the whole purpose of the world they're living and receives a book containing all of the information, he comes back to tell the other guys... only for Duck to snatch his fully charged batteries and put them back in Electracey, rendering the Yellow Guy back to his usual dumb self. When Duck asks Yellow Guy what the book is, Yellow Guy just shreds it.]] |
| 197 | * NightmareFetishist: In "Friendship", he wants to go on the dark web to "look at a picture of a skeleton". |
| 198 | * OddNameOut: Unlike Yellow Guy and Red Guy's colorful names, his name [[ADogNamedDog reflects his species]], because [[BrickJoke green is not a creative color]]. |
| 199 | * OhCrap: In "Computers", he gets somewhat nervous when Colin [[ContinuityNod brags about being able to tell time]]. |
| 200 | * OneLetterName: Played with in "Friendship". According to the keyboard, his name is a single symbol that looks vaguely alchemical or occult, though its meaning or pronunciation, if any, is currently unknown. |
| 201 | * OnlySaneMan: In "Health", 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.]] Played with in the series. He's the most likely to catch onto the strangeness around them, but that's typically due to how the teachers tend to smart his ego. When he's being flattered or enjoying himself, he's ''more'' likely to fall under the sway of the strangeness. |
| 202 | * OutOfFocus: Barely appears at all in "Dreams" [[spoiler:on account of being killed off]]. |
| 203 | * PhonyVeteran: Implied and done accidentally. Duck is a military enthusiast, and in his memorial video during his funeral, it shows that he flew a Royal Air Force fighter jet, something Yellow Guy claims Duck never did. Duck wasn't the one who made the memorial video, and they even named him "David" by accident. |
| 204 | * RightWingMilitiaFanatic: It's not entirely made clear if he ''is'' a conservative (although "Creativity" {{implie|d trope}}s it with his fiscal newspaper being named "[[{{Pun}} The Right Wing]]"), but he's shown in the TV series to be obsessed with the military, with a drill sergeant being one of his proposed job choices in "Jobs", and one of Yellow Guy's memories of him in "Death" being of Duck explaining the military to him. |
| 205 | -->'''Duck:''' They're ''invincible''! |
| 206 | * SanityBall: In the TV series, anyway -- despite his increased selfishness and antisocial tendencies, he's ''much'' more likely to point out how little sense an episode makes. |
| 207 | * ScrewThisImOutOfHere: In "Health", he finally snaps after the Healthy Band's nonsensical song goes on for too long. |
| 208 | -->'''Refrigerator:''' Everything tastes great! But maybe we should wait!\ |
| 209 | '''Duck:''' No!\ |
| 210 | '''Refrigerator:''' Before we put it on the plate!\ |
| 211 | '''Duck:''' Enough!\ |
| 212 | '''Refrigerator:''' Or it could be too late!\ |
| 213 | '''Duck:''' [[WhamLine I don't want to do this anymore!]] ''[runs off, knocking over the camera in the process]'' |
| 214 | * ShorterMeansSmarter: Duck clearly is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} far from the sanest]], but he's the most eloquent and knowledgeable on philosophical concepts, and "Death" has Red Guy confirm that Duck is "the smallest one" during his eulogy at Duck's funeral. |
| 215 | * ShutUpHannibal: He (rightfully) denies all of the Elevator Robot's phony methods of dealing with stress from his job. Unfortunately, the Carehound ''devours'' and effectively brainwashes Duck into becoming a "good" worker. |
| 216 | * TheSmartGuy: He's got the highest vocabulary of the puppets [[spoiler:(except when Yellow Guy has fully working batteries in him)]], and posits that time is an illusion, but he gets stopped immediately by Tony screaming. |
| 217 | * TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Is this to the Coffin in "Death". Fully expecting him to accept his eternal slumber, Coffin is proven wrong when Duck begins to bother him ''constantly''. And Coffin can't do anything about it, due to being dug six feet under, with the annoying avian trapped inside of him. |
| 218 | * TheUnpronounceable: Apparently his name is spelled "⪽|⬝̲̅". |
| 219 | * TheyKilledKennyAgain: Tends to die the most of the characters, (he's died at least three times, compared to one each for Red and Yellow) with one episode of the TV show focusing on his "death", and ending with him killing a copy of himself or vice versa. [[spoiler:Lesley notes that she always keeps "backups" of him.]] |
| 220 | * TooDumbToLive: In the second episode of the TV series, he apparently died because he forgot to drink water. Even he gets a rise out of the ridiculous way he passed away. |
| 221 | * ToothyBird: When Tony uses time to decay the puppets, Duck gets teeth for some reason. |
| 222 | ** His teeth appear again in episode five when he's distressed and lying down on a table. Lamb Chop also shows him a picture of what he would look like with tooth decay. |
| 223 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: He's set up a Chicken Picnic and refuses to do anything else until it's finished. |
| 224 | * VocalEvolution: His voice is deeper and not as auto-tuned in the TV series as it is in the web series and pilot. |
| 225 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He apparently hates butterflies [[spoiler:and caterpillars]], not hesitating to crush them while yelling "Pesky bee!" at them. |
| 226 | [[/folder]] |
| 227 | |
| 228 | [[folder:Yellow Guy]] |
| 229 | !!Yellow Guy |
| 230 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Baker Terry |
| 231 | [[quoteright:288:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvtropesmanny_9560.png]] |
| 232 | [[caption-width-right:288:''"I might paint a picture of a clown!"'']] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | 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. |
| 235 | ---- |
| 236 | * 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. [[spoiler:His intelligent self has much more smoothed-out and relaxed hair overall.]] |
| 237 | * AmbiguouslyRelated: To [[spoiler:Lesley]], as she shouts out that he's not her real son. It could either be nonsensical rambling or a hint to something deeper about the context of Yellow Guy's existence. |
| 238 | * AmbiguousRobot: [[spoiler:"Electricity" reveals that Yellow Guy runs on batteries. Whether this means he's actually a cyborg or robot has yet to be seen, though he does have blood. Also in "Friendship", during the panning shot into Yellow Guy's ear, you can briefly see wires embedded in his flesh]]. |
| 239 | * AmnesiaLoop: It's implied in "Transport" that [[spoiler:he's gone upstairs and nearly discovered the truth of the actual nightmare of their existence before, maybe even multiple times]]. |
| 240 | * AudienceSurrogate: [[InUniverse In-Universe]]; in the series, he's portrayed as the simpleton who learns the lesson of the episode with the audience. [[spoiler:In ''Dreams'', he's the last of the puppets and the one Red Guy tries to save from Roy's machine.]] |
| 241 | * BalloonBelly: A non-comedic example at the end of "Health", where he [[spoiler:gets fattened up after being fed Duck's organs]]. Then at the beginning of "Dreams", he's skinny again. |
| 242 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Yellow Guy is genuinely the kindest and the most innocent member of the main trio, but he isn't afraid to ''pull out a gun'' at Duck at the end of "Friendship". |
| 243 | * BreakTheCutie: He is the most innocent and childlike of the main trio, and is also most frequently the ButtMonkey of them. In the final episode, he's severely traumatized to the point where his hair starts falling out. |
| 244 | * BuffySpeak: To put it bluntly, he sucks at describing things. |
| 245 | ** When he and the others are looking for Briefcase after the latter goes missing, Yellow Guy does a poor job describing him, neglecting to mention that the missing teacher is a sentient briefcase at all; instead, he offers descriptors that are [[SuspectIsHatless uselessly vague]] at best ("He eats breakfast") and incomprehensible at worst ("He's one of those ones with one of himself," referring to how Briefcase carries a smaller, non-sentient briefcase of his own.) |
| 246 | ** His attempt at describing a dream he had must be heard to be believed. |
| 247 | --->''I'm the one who had a dream where there was stuff like there was another me, and everything was lots of fun, and I went and saw the other ones, and there was a little lumpy one, and another whiny middle one, and there were things that they heard about, I knew what they were, but I don't know now, and then they went away.'' |
| 248 | * 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 his father was the one controlling everything, it actually makes sense that Yellow Guy would get targeted the most.]] |
| 249 | * CaptainObvious: In the fifth video, after about a minute after the song starts, it finally occurs to him to say "Food is talking!" |
| 250 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: He seems decently intelligent in the first episode, even drawing a well-made clown picture. However, throughout most of the series he's more a KindheartedSimpleton. |
| 251 | * ChromaticArrangement: He's both yellow and blue to contrast the red and green of his friends. |
| 252 | * DecoyProtagonist: |
| 253 | ** He's prominently displayed in the web series' 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. Maybe]]. |
| 254 | ** This is largely [[AvertedTrope averted]] in the TV series. In the season finale, "Electricity," [[spoiler:he is the focal character and comes closer than any of the other protagonists to find out the truth of their reality]]. |
| 255 | * DraggedIntoDrag: PlayedForHorror. [[spoiler:The Twins force him into the role of "Mummy", pigtails, dress, and all. All for a family-sized fast food dinner.]] |
| 256 | * DumbassNoMore: In "Electricity", once Yellow Guy gets new batteries, he becomes quite intelligent, [[spoiler:to the point where he begins to notice how little sense his world makes and comes dangerously close to figuring out the truth behind it.]] |
| 257 | * DumbIsGood: Is the dumbest and nicest character. [[spoiler:Subverted, as once he has new batteries, his intelligence increases, but is still a patient NiceGuy.]] |
| 258 | * EyeColorChange: One visual sign that he's gotten new batteries is his eyes [[SuddenEyeColor gaining a bright green iris]]. |
| 259 | * FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: In "Electricity", he's given new batteries, making him much more intelligent [[spoiler:and leading him to get dangerously close to finding the truth about his reality. However, his friends hate his new-found intelligence and give him back his old batteries by the episode's end, reverting him back into a dumbass. To add insult to injury, he then shreds the book Lesley gave him that would supposedly give him all the answers to all the questions he was asking]]. In a key difference from the TropeNamer, [[spoiler:gaining sudden immense intellect does ''not'' fundamentally change his personality; he remains unfailingly kind, polite, and compassionate even to his original self. If anything, the trope seems to be [[InverseTrope turned on its head]], with Red and Duck beginning to treat him with disdain simply because they cannot handle suddenly having to think of him like an equal]]. |
| 260 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: |
| 261 | ** Subverted in episode 3. At first, it seems like Red and Duck don't really care about Yellow Guy's feelings and they don't do anything to cheer him up. However, by the end, they seem to realize the error of their mistakes and cheer him up with a hard-boiled egg. Red Guy even proclaims their love for each other. |
| 262 | ** Exaggerated in the television series: In "Family", Red Guy and Duck consider him to be some kind of pet [[note]]Though Yellow Guy nods towards Duck saying that, seemingly in agreement[[/note]], in "Death", Duck refuses to let him give a speech at his funeral, and "Friendship" shows the pair repeatedly cursing Yellow out after he forgets their login password. They still save him from Warren, still include him in their activities, and consider him part of their family. Red at one point calls him "brother." |
| 263 | * 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!" |
| 264 | * 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. |
| 265 | * HiddenDepths: "Death" reveals that he is a skilled trumpet player. Additionally, despite Sketchbook dismissing him, "Creativity" shows him to be a capable artist. [[spoiler:Perhaps his genius side was briefly able to shine through]]. |
| 266 | * InformedFlaw: In an 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. It could mean that only Roy sees him as such. |
| 267 | * InformedSpecies: As per the theme song for episode two of the television series, he calls himself a "yellow pig", though it's unclear if he really is telling the truth, or if it's Yellow Guy being [[TheDitz Yellow Guy]]. |
| 268 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: With his Dad, apparently. |
| 269 | * KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:He's tricked into eating his only remaining friend alive, Duck, at the end of episode 5. He seems to realize this at the end of the video.]] |
| 270 | * KindheartedSimpleton: He seems to love his father despite his [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant creepiness]], says hello to the organs in the "house" like they were real people, runs away crying when Duck kills the butterfly he was delighted by, genuinely appreciates the "love" Shrignold and his friends give to him, and tries to return it to them. He also considers Red Guy and Duck to be his true companions, and in Episode 6, he is deeply saddened by the [[spoiler:loss and disappearance of his only two friends.]] |
| 271 | * TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: His [[spoiler:intelligent and normal selves can converse in mirrors. His normal self is actually aware of this, and more than a little bit afraid, because he can't quite understand what's happening.]] |
| 272 | * MissingMom: His mom has never been mentioned or seen. [[spoiler:The TV series implies that Lesley may be involved in this, as she says that he's not her real son.]] |
| 273 | * NervousWreck: Becomes one by episode 6, which is pretty understandable considering [[TraumaCongaLine everything he's gone through.]] |
| 274 | * NiceGuy: While he can be a bit of a dope, he's generally friendly to just about everyone the trio meets and comes across as an innocent fellow. |
| 275 | * NonSequitur: Answered questions in this kind of manner during his interview. |
| 276 | -->'''Interviewer:''' Do you like cows or goats?\ |
| 277 | '''Yellow Guy:''' They will bite me on my mouth?\ |
| 278 | '''Interviewer:''' What happened after the olden days?\ |
| 279 | '''Yellow Guy:''' I'm as long as a train? |
| 280 | * NotSoAboveItAll: He joins in Red Guy and Duck Guy's trash talking of Warren The Eagle. |
| 281 | * OhCrap: Understandably reacts this way in episode 6 when the Lamp ropes him into another lesson. |
| 282 | -->'''Lamp:''' How can you be sleepy when you don't know how to have DREAMS?\ |
| 283 | '''Yellow Guy:''' No, I don't want to know! I-I DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW TO HAVE DREAMS! NO! ''NOOOOO!'' |
| 284 | ** When the Yellow Guy sees the previous teachers appear unexpectedly, he's immediately terrified. |
| 285 | * OverlyLongName: Whatever his real name is, it takes Red Guy a good fifteen seconds of rapid typing to spell out. It also apparently has a hyphen ''and several arrow keys'' at some point. |
| 286 | * ThePigPen: Assuming it ''was'' dirt, when Tony makes the puppets take a bath, he scrubs Yellow Guy and the water turns brown (Duck complained they were ''already'' clean, but he might have just meant himself and Red Guy). |
| 287 | * ProneToTears: Most prominently shown in the third episode, where he quickly grows attached to a butterfly, and cries his heart out when Duck swats it, thinking it was a bee. |
| 288 | * RoboticReveal: Downplayed. In "Electricity" [[spoiler:he is revealed to be powered by batteries]]. |
| 289 | * ShutUpHannibal: Actively denies the Lamp's lesson, first by turning it off, and then by yelling at it to stop singing. |
| 290 | * SimpletonVoice: Yellow Guy uses this voice, only emphasized by his short stature, noticeable slowness and status as a ButtMonkey. |
| 291 | * SplitPersonality: His [[spoiler:more intelligent self with fully-charged batteries is functionally this, right down to them being able to converse with one another, despite generally actually having very similar personalities. It's heavily implied that Yellow Guy is able to dimly remember his more intelligent self's experiences as dreams he can't fully understand or articulate, although his more intelligent self does ''not'' remember them in turn.]] |
| 292 | * SuddenIntelligence: [[spoiler:After having his old batteries replaced]], Yellow Guy turns into a smart MetaGuy who is much more knowledgeable and willing to question and explore the mysterious nature of the world. Notably unlike in most cases, Yellow Guy does not turn into an InsufferableGenius, he keeps much of his niceness but is willing to call out people on their flaws. |
| 293 | * SuperStrength: He somehow manages to pick up a tree in "Time". |
| 294 | * TookALevelInBadass: In the final installment of the web series, he immediately realizes that something is wrong and demands that the Lamp character singing to him stop trying to teach him about dreams. When he first meets The Lamp, he immediately turns it off and tries to go back to bed. When he is reunited with Tony, he is as angry as he is deeply confused. He similarly gets very intelligent in "Electricity" when his batteries are switched out, [[spoiler:and gets dangerously close to uncovering the secrets and meaning of existence as a whole.]] |
| 295 | * 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. He is, however, still able to follow Duck's line of logic about time being an illusion, asking if anyone truly knows if time is real. |
| 296 | ** Noticeably, he seems to sound MORE dumb in the presence of his father. |
| 297 | ** In the subsequent videos, he's reduced to being very dim, but still slightly aware. |
| 298 | ** {{Inverted|Trope}} 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...]] |
| 299 | ** Also inverted in the final episode of the TV Series, as he has his batteries switched out and becomes quite keen. |
| 300 | * TookTheWifesName: Possibly implied given the reveal in "Friendship" that his "maiden name" is Rateyes. Whether this means his marriage to Claire during the TimeSkip in "Jobs" happened at this point, or this is from the time he was forced to be Todney and Lilly's mother, or it means something else entirely is unclear. |
| 301 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Shouted "Spaghetti!" when asked his favorite food. |
| 302 | * VagueAge: Although many viewers see him as a child, the teaser for the series pilot indicates that he may be ''[[OlderThanTheyLook 38]]''. [[spoiler:At the end of the series pilot he has [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext apparently turned 48]].]] The TV series reveals that after a 40-year TimeSkip, he'd be an old man. |
| 303 | * VocalDissonance: Possibly. It's somewhat implied that Yellow Guy is meant to be a kid, but his voice sounds like that of an old man. Most likely intentional. |
| 304 | * WeWantOurIdiotBack: In episode 6 of the TV series, [[spoiler:he gets his worn-out batteries switch out and receives fully charged and clean ones, causing him to become a lot more intelligent, which unfortunately annoys the other two Guys. The end of the episode has him get his batteries switched again and he goes back to his usual dumb self.]] |
| 305 | * WhatAreYouAfraidOf: He has a case of equinophobia, or fear of horses. The Lamp uses this on him by suggesting he could have a dream about riding one. |
| 306 | [[/folder]] |
| 307 | |
| 308 | !Staff |
| 309 | [[folder:Roy]] |
| 310 | !!Roy |
| 311 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Baker Terry |
| 312 | [[quoteright:288:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvtropesrod_2631.png]] |
| 313 | [[caption-width-right:288:''"Yum yum yum."'']] |
| 314 | |
| 315 | Yellow Guy's father, an incredibly sketchy man who does not speak. He only breathes loudly. |
| 316 | ---- |
| 317 | * AbusiveDad: "Dreams" heavily implies that [[spoiler:the whole original web series was a simulation he set up to torture Yellow Guy]]. |
| 318 | * AlmightyJanitor: If you believe in the theory where he's the antagonist, you may also believe that Roy used his cameo role to ensure everything goes according to his mysterious plan. He can even appear in the Red Guy's world. |
| 319 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: May be [[spoiler:{{the man behind|TheMan}} the teachers]]. 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. |
| 320 | ** 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".]] |
| 321 | ** In the TV series, it's shown that [[spoiler:he ''is'' capable of doing good for his son even if he still shows him no affection, but he is also a deranged cannibal who is very gleeful in being so. Whether he ate the family to save his son or just to get the Grolton's Family Meal also isn't explained.]] |
| 322 | * BigBad: The finale means that [[spoiler:he is the one controlling the lessons]]. Plus his name appears on multiple products in the background, as if he's connected to everything, and he is seen hovering in the background during episodes and never intervenes as the teachers repeatedly torture his son and friends. |
| 323 | * TheCameo: |
| 324 | ** Appears in episode 3 as part of the crowd near the end. |
| 325 | ** And in episode 4 in the corner of the darkened room after Yellow Guy and Duck have been trapped in the digital world. |
| 326 | ** And in episode 5 he is above the set, looking down at Duck and the Fridge when Duck is freaking out. |
| 327 | ** 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. |
| 328 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: {{Implied|Trope}}. His name apparently doubles as a brand or a company of sorts, seeing how it appears on several products throughout the series. |
| 329 | * CreepilyLongArms: Given one in episode 6. |
| 330 | * DeathGlare: That never leaves his face. |
| 331 | * DemotedToExtra: [[spoiler:Possibly due to Lesley being more powerful than him]], Roy only makes one prominent appearance in the TV series [[spoiler:when he performs a VillainousRescue to save his son from the Twins' family]]. |
| 332 | * DirtyOldMan: He blatantly looks up porn on the computer ''in front of his own son'' during the journey through time. |
| 333 | * EatsBabies: [[spoiler:The family he devoured had a baby, although he looked like a [[YoungerThanTheyLook forty year old man]], though they also had a dad who [[OlderThanTheyLook looked like a baby]]. Regardless of if he was aware of this or not, he definitely had no qualms about eating a baby.]] |
| 334 | * EvilerThanThou: Maybe. [[spoiler:He gleefully devours the "Family" from episode 3 of the TV series, but it's unclear if it was this or him trying to actually do something nice for Yellow Guy -- or a combination of both.]] |
| 335 | * ExBigBad: [[spoiler:His role as the controller of the puppets world has been taken by Lesley in the TV series. He still has a presence in the series, but it's [[HiddenAgendaVillain unclear what]] as he's only made two small cameo's thus far. He [[PaperThinDisguise disguised himself]] as a hitchhiker in "Transport" and got in the car with the main trio, implying he's also being tortured by Lesley and wanted to escape with them but he put up very little fight when Red Guy threw him out the car.]] |
| 336 | * 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.]] |
| 337 | * {{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. |
| 338 | * 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. |
| 339 | * ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:He devours the "family" in episode 3 of the TV series. Disturbingly, Yellow Guy's reaction implies that his father has eaten people before.]] |
| 340 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Sure Red Guy pulled the plug of the machine, which possibly means the show was cancelled as well, but he didn't receive any known comeuppance for putting his son through hell and indirectly killing Duck.]] |
| 341 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: Kicks in during the TV series, where he has seemingly all lost control of the simulation to Lesley. "Electricity" also raises the implication that the original version of him was either killed off-screen or left for dead after the events of "Dreams".]] |
| 342 | * TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Heavily, ''heavily'', implied that he is the cause of the puppets' situation and the one behind each of the Teachers. The finale only makes it more ambiguous.]] Although in the TV series, [[spoiler:his role as the grand controller of the world has seemed to be usurped by Lesley]]. |
| 343 | * NightmareFuelStationAttendant: He is '''by far''', [[KnightOfCerebus the most mysterious and creepiest of puppets]]. He's responsible for controlling the lessons and having the trio trapped in a simulation. And for the worse, his name appears in most of the products, he has a {{Gonk}} stare and just breathes heavily. He even has [[BreakTheCutie Yellow Guy]] punished for having his eyes growing arrogant and rude according to the interview in ''Is Nice That''. |
| 344 | * PapaWolf: In a sense, as shown by the TV series: [[spoiler:''He'' can torture his son as means of "discipline", but if ''anyone else'' tortures his son for other reasons, he will brutally murder them.]] |
| 345 | * PaperThinDisguise: [[spoiler:In "Transport", he disguises as a hitchhiker in order to keep an eye on his son as he and his friends travel beyond their house. This backfires as despite the obviousness of his disguise, none of the Guys recognize him and just toss him out of the car immediately.]] |
| 346 | * PetTheDog: [[spoiler:In "Family", he performs perhaps his first and only act of kindness towards his son, Yellow Guy, by attacking and devouring the family of creepy puppets that kidnapped him, allowing him to escape. Of course, even then he still pushes his son aside with a growl in the process, showing that he still isn't much for displays of paternal affection even at his best.]] |
| 347 | * RedRightHand: When reaching out to Red Guy at the end of "Dreams", he appears to have two right hands, as his long, left arm has a right hand on the end, possibly as an indicator of how inhuman he is. |
| 348 | * RubberHoseLimbs: PlayedForHorror. [[spoiler:When Red Guy is messing with the lesson machine and is trying to figure out how to turn it off. Roy then extends one of his arms to an unnaturally long length as a way of telling him to GetOut.]] |
| 349 | * SilentAntagonist: He never says anything throughout the videos, adding to his ominous character alongside his heavy breathing and piercing stare. He only says something in a [[http://www.itsnicethat.com/features/dont-hug-me-im-scared-interview-030516 text-only interview]], and oh boy... |
| 350 | -->'''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]]. |
| 351 | ** He ''does'' get a line in the TV series... specifically he [[spoiler:derangedly chants "YUM YUM YUM!" as he prepares to devour the Twins and their family alive]]. |
| 352 | * ThousandYardStare: His only expression is a vacant, terrifying stare. |
| 353 | * TookALevelInKindness: In his appearance in the TV series, [[spoiler:the most he does to Yellow Guy is gruffly shove him out of the way before eating the "family" that kidnapped him. Compared to the last time he interacted with his son...]] |
| 354 | * TomTheDarkLord: [[spoiler:The BigBad of the entire web series.]] |
| 355 | * UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: Appears in "Electricity" lying on the floor among all the dead teachers. However, given as it doesn't appear that his eyes have x's on them, it's unknown if he's actually dead or not - in fact, he may simply be unconscious.]] |
| 356 | * VaderBreath: Every time he appears on screen, you can hear him breathing deeply and eerily. |
| 357 | * VillainousRescue: [[spoiler:Saves his son from being assimilated into the creepy family in episode 3, by eating them alive. It's ambiguous whether he wanted to save his son or just eat some people.]] |
| 358 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Isn't seen again after Red Guy pulls the plug of the machine beyond the end credits and it's unknown if he received any karmic punishment for his actions.]] |
| 359 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Due to his burning hatred of his son Yellow Guy, Roy has him and his friends, Red Guy and Duck, in his personal hell of a simulation and to carry out his tortures, he used a machine to create teachers to put the puppets in harm's way.]] |
| 360 | [[/folder]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | [[folder:The Person in the Attic ('''SPOILERS''')]] |
| 363 | !!Lesley |
| 364 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Vivienne Soan |
| 365 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ac4716d36f268dc23e1bc6a31429508f.jpg]] |
| 366 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Batteries can be replaced, but some things stay the same. No matter how we twist and turn, we're just still dancing in chains..."'']] |
| 367 | |
| 368 | A live-action human, and the presumed controller of the entire TV series. She presumably lives in the attic of the house. |
| 369 | ---- |
| 370 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: While she does not do anything directly antagonistic, it is implied that she is the reason why the trio is seemingly trapped in the show and why random objects keep coming to life and teaching them about various topics. There is also the fact that she deliberately leads Yellow Guy away from the stairs that presumably lead to a place even ''higher'' than hers, suggesting that even she may not be the one who's really in control. Then there's a strange book she gives Yellow Guy which seems important but gets shredded. |
| 371 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: While she's mostly a live-action human, she also has patches of fabric and stitches on her face. |
| 372 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Unlike Roy, who is a puppet with an off-putting demeanor and is Yellow Guy's father, Lesley is a live-action human with a kindly personality and seems to position herself as a mother figure to Yellow Guy. She also appears to be genuinely interested in ''teaching'' Yellow Guy, as opposed to Roy, who only wanted to punish him. |
| 373 | * DemiurgeArchetype: She clearly does have considerable power over the world, but there are stairs leading higher than her and she seems amused/enraged at the idea that she created everything. |
| 374 | * DepravedKidsShowHost: She could ''almost'' pass for a normal kids' show host with her colorful clothes and sweet demeanor, but there's clearly something off about her. |
| 375 | * EarlyBirdCameo: She was the voice/narrator that Yellow Guy heard in his ImagineSpot where he moved to the community of Mulhoven in "Transport". |
| 376 | * EvilOldFolks: She's an old lady and so far comes off as rather sinister. |
| 377 | * GreaterScopeVillain: She is possibly the only character who is ''above'' the villainous Roy. Additionally, the end of season one of the TV series implies there's a power even greater than her when the camera focus on a hidden set of stairs in her room. |
| 378 | * HumanoidAbomination: She is by no means an ordinary human being. In fact, it isn't even clear if she is even ''a'' human being. |
| 379 | * HumansAreCthulhu: While she appears to be just a normal elderly lady, there is just something ''off'' about her, considering she's the only live-action human with a major role and doesn't bother to hide away. |
| 380 | * ManipulativeBitch: Possibly. She noticeably keeps Yellow Guy from investigating further into the house's reality. If she knew in advance that returning to the first floor would risk Yellow Guy losing his batteries, then she also deliberately played on his friendship with his roommates to trick him into heading back downstairs. |
| 381 | * MoodSwinger: She goes from a gentle, (grand)motherly demeanor to extreme rage almost completely randomly. |
| 382 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: She's the only onscreen character who's not explicitly a puppet, looking more like a human in clownish makeup. |
| 383 | * NotSoStoic: In most of her screen time, she speaks in a generally sweet and calm tone, with a few instances where she [[SuddenlyShouting abruptly raises her voice]] to scare Yellow Guy. However, at the end of Yellow Guy's dream in "Transport", she lets out a genuine, devastated blood-curdling scream, when he's about to get hit by a car. |
| 384 | * OutlivingOnesOffspring: It's very heavily implied that Lesley once had a son (who possibly died via getting hit by a car, should Yellow Guy's dream be any indication) and that Yellow Guy may even be a copy of him--when Yellow Guy offers to stay with her, Lesley declines him in a sudden surge of anger because [[SuddenlyShouting "You're not my real son!"]] She very quickly switches tracks and says that she's "kidding" to prevent Yellow Guy from delving deeper, but her deep and consistent fixation on him imply her words may be more genuine than she lets on. [[MindScrew True to form]], the series never lets us know either way. |
| 385 | * SuddenlyShouting: She switches from speaking sweetly to screaming furiously on a dime. |
| 386 | -->'''Yellow Guy:''' Why are you [[EvilLaugh laughing?]]\ |
| 387 | '''Lesley:''' Because it's so '''''FUNNY!''''' |
| 388 | * WeHaveReserves: {{Implied|Trope}}. When Yellow Guy accidentally destroys her figurine of Duck, she opens up a cabinet containing a bunch of copy figurines of the characters and quickly switches him out. Considering that she can seemingly control where the characters go through the figurines, and one version of Duck had been killed in Episode 2, this seems to indicate that she can easily switch the characters out for duplicates when the situation calls for it. |
| 389 | [[/folder]] |
| 390 | |
| 391 | !Web Series |
| 392 | !!Teachers |
| 393 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 394 | The antagonists of the original web series. |
| 395 | ---- |
| 396 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: When they appear in the TV Series, they're genuine friends of the guys, Colin acting as their computer for the one day every year they can use the computer and the Lamp attempting to give Yellow Guy some advice about Duck's death. Tony is still a bit surly, judging by his interaction with the Time Child. |
| 397 | * AffablyEvil: Each teacher is bright and cheery, at least a first. Sketchbook's attitude seems to be genuine, whilst for Tony, Colin and the Healthy Band [[FauxAffablyEvil it's just a thin façade]]. Shrignold is debatable, and the Lamp [[WeHardlyKnewYe hardly gets any screen time]], so it could be either or. |
| 398 | * 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 (of both the web series and the television series). |
| 399 | * ArcVillain: Of their respective installments. |
| 400 | * ArtificialHuman: Or rather ''Artificial Inanimate Object''. The final episode shows (except maybe [[spoiler:Sketchbook and Gilbert]]) that they are summoned by a machine that projects them into the world. This confirms that, unlike the students, the teachers aren't actual inhabitants of their world. |
| 401 | * 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.]] |
| 402 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: They seem nice when they first start their lesson, but always later turn out to have very dark agendas. |
| 403 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: Implied. Many of them pretend to be nice when they are actually quite hostile. This is shown by how Colin shrieks at Red Guy for touching him and traps the trio in a never-ending loop inside cyberspace, and how the Lamp forces Yellow Guy to participate in his lesson even though he doesn't want to, and taunts him while making him drown in oil. But after Red Guy pulls the plug on the machine and everything goes back to normal in the TV series (that is if we assume it and the webseries are truly connected), they seem quite friendly, as Colin allows the trio to use him to surf the web and gives them their own personal computer as a token of gratitude, while the Lamp gives Yellow Guy some advice about the different ideas of what happens after death. |
| 404 | * TheCameo: |
| 405 | ** The Sketchbook appears in the second video behind Red Guy's radio. |
| 406 | ** The Sketchbook and Tony the Talking Clock both appear in crowd shots of the third video. |
| 407 | ** Colin reappears in the fifth episode as a sticker on the Guys' fridge. |
| 408 | * EldritchAbomination: All of the teachers are bizarre, can manipulate reality, have confusing motivations, and are extremely dangerous. |
| 409 | ** DigitalAbomination: [[spoiler:Every one of them appear to be reality warping AI with the sole purpose of torturing the students, assuming Roy didn't [[HijackingCthulhu hijack them]].]] |
| 410 | * {{Flanderization}}: While the Sketchbook was a hypocritical jerkass like the rest, they were at least somewhat polite and shocked when things got out of hand. The following teachers become only worse with each episode. |
| 411 | * KarmaHoudini: All of them impose twisted lessons on the puppets and, outside of sometimes being called out and insulted for it, don’t get any sort of punishment. |
| 412 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:Their warranty runs out in the final episode of the TV show, where we see their decaying corpses after they were all mysteriously KilledOffscreen]]. |
| 413 | * KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:The season finale of the TV series implies that all the original teachers have been replaced with the kinder ones we see now. While their original incarnations are left to rot. We already see Tony, Sketchbook, and some of the Healthy Gang members dead in the sixth episode of the TV show]]. |
| 414 | * KnowNothingKnowItAll: ''All of them'' try to teach subjects they don't know anything about or they have an extremely distorted opinion on their topics of choice. |
| 415 | * LaughablyEvil: Oh yeah. [[BewareTheSillyOnes It doesn't mean they're not terrifying]]. |
| 416 | * OffscreenTeleportation: The inanimate object teachers seem to have this as an inbuilt feature. |
| 417 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: The teachers are very uninformed about the subjects they teach, having either not bothered to read the script, being only interested in exposure for their future prospects, or they were only interested in making money for their part in the video. They go off-script, have bad acting skills, and they torture anyone who tries to question them. |
| 418 | * StepfordSmiler: Most teachers keep a cheerful smile nearly constantly. Naturally, they're all deranged and unstable, which only makes them more terrifying... |
| 419 | * StrawHypocrite: Most of them tend to start out preaching a message, gradually start undercutting, and then do a full 180 on it by the end. If they don't, their lesson is completely incorrect and inconsistent, or pure NightmareFuel seemingly designed to torment the main characters. Or all of the above. |
| 420 | * TomTheDarkLord: Some of the teachers wear simple names like Tony, Colin or [[AerithAndBob Shrignold]], but their goal still is to teach hypocritical lessons to the protagonists in the most gruesome way possible. |
| 421 | * WhiteGloves: Except for Sketchbook, they all wear white gloves to enforce their cartoon creature looks. Colin is a strange example considering his hands are mouse pointers. |
| 422 | * WouldHurtAChild: Assuming that the students are children, all of them in the web series barring possibly Sketchbook have been perfectly willing to torment them in horrific ways. |
| 423 | [[/folder]] |
| 424 | |
| 425 | [[folder:Sketchbook]] |
| 426 | !!Sketchbook |
| 427 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Becky Sloan |
| 428 | [[quoteright:288:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvtropespaige_1164.png]] |
| 429 | [[caption-width-right:288:''"What's your favorite idea? Mine is being creative!"'']] |
| 430 | |
| 431 | A talking sketchbook with the voice of a young woman (or maybe a little boy). In "Creativity", they teach the main trio about creativity, only for things to spiral out of control. |
| 432 | ---- |
| 433 | * AffablyEvil: They're pretty polite and kind, and even when they're mad they don't raise their voice. However, they're also a jerk and a hypocrite. |
| 434 | * AlasPoorVillain: They're the bad guy, but it's still quite horrific when the Money Man tears their face off in "HELP #3". |
| 435 | * 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. |
| 436 | ** [[ShrugOfGod Amusingly, one of the makers was directly asked this question via Twitter,]] [[https://twitter.com/japelling/status/434274094855753728 and he simply responded "paper."]] |
| 437 | * 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. |
| 438 | * AnimateInanimateObject: They're just a sketchpad that suddenly came to life. |
| 439 | * TheCameo: Sketchbook makes a lot of cameos over the episodes. |
| 440 | ** 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]]. |
| 441 | ** They also appear in "Love" for a few seconds as part of the crowd near the end, 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. |
| 442 | ** And lastly, they appear in the finale, when the lamp is singing about dreams on one of the pictures on the wall [[spoiler:and right at the end. Or should we say, beginning]]? [[HereWeGoAgain "What's your favorite idea?"]] |
| 443 | * 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]]. |
| 444 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Even Sketchbook is horrified about the puppets' creativity going too far. |
| 445 | * 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. |
| 446 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Apparently, you can only be creative in ways they want. It should also be noted that their first line — and the first line of the series — is to ask the students what their favorite idea is, only to deny them a chance to say it. |
| 447 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Unlike the other teachers, they at least have the decency to feel bad about the dangers of their hypocritical lessons. |
| 448 | * KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler: Appears in "Electricity" lying dead on the floor during the blackout.]] |
| 449 | * MadArtist: Not the Sketchbook per se, but what it ends up influencing others to be. |
| 450 | * ManicPixieDreamGirl: Manages to be both a parody and a straight example. Sketchbook, on the surface, acts like a quirky, high-on-life teacher dedicated to bringing imagination to the puppets' dull lives (and the much-memed "I use my hair to express myself" is a hallmark of manic pixies in general), but in practice, their lesson puts a lot of constraints on the students' ability to actually express themselves and they take it all back after things go awry. However, it still leaves a profound impact on Red Guy, to the point he actually sings the creativity song to try to spice up his crushingly boring life and community outside. |
| 451 | * 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. |
| 452 | -->'''Sketchbook:''' Now let's all agree, to never be creative again. |
| 453 | * NunTooHoly: The way the pages and cover are folded over their head resembles a nun's habit, and they're certainly not holy at all. |
| 454 | * NonHumanNonBinary: An AnimateInanimateObject whose gender is paper. |
| 455 | * PerpetualSmiler: Unlike Tony, they don't change their expression, even when annoyed. |
| 456 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the creativity explosion ends, they just flop over and the episode ends. |
| 457 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: If interpreted as female or "paper", they are the only non-male character with a relevant role in the web series. However, more female and seemingly non-binary characters appear in the tv series. |
| 458 | * StarterVillain: They're the first teacher encountered and pose a low threat level compared to those that will follow. |
| 459 | * 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). |
| 460 | * SuppressedRage: |
| 461 | -->'''Sketchbook:''' Now take a look at my hair! I use my hair to express myself!\ |
| 462 | '''Red Guy:''' That sounds really boring.\ |
| 463 | ''({{beat}})''\ |
| 464 | '''Sketchbook:''' ''([[TranquilFury with a hint of anger in their voice]])'' '''I use my hair to ''express myself''.''' |
| 465 | * TakeThat: A thinly-veiled parody of by-the-book art school teachers. |
| 466 | * 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 Roy and also, oddly, does not appear in the parade of teachers near the end of Episode 6. Their regrets after the lesson actually may be the reason behind the use of artificial teachers.]] |
| 467 | * 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. |
| 468 | [[/folder]] |
| 469 | |
| 470 | [[folder:Tony the Talking Clock]] |
| 471 | !!Tony the Talking Clock |
| 472 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Baker Terry |
| 473 | [[quoteright:288:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvtropestony_1711.png]] |
| 474 | [[caption-width-right:288:''"It's out of my hands, I'm only a clock! Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be fine."'']] |
| 475 | |
| 476 | A sentient clock who first appears in "Time". He teaches the main trio about the concept and importance of time, and he does this rather forcefully. |
| 477 | ---- |
| 478 | * AnimateInanimateObject: He's a clock, but still suddenly sprouts legs and arms to sing and dance about the nature of time. |
| 479 | * AxCrazy: He rots the puppets alive for questioning time and leaves them with the memory of their death. |
| 480 | * BerserkButton: Don't you ever dare ignore him in favour of rambling with your friends about the nature of time, or he'll make your ears bleed, then accelerate the passage of time, causing you to prematurely age and decay ''whilst still alive.'' |
| 481 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Before the infamous "rotting alive" scene, Tony comes off as unsettling but incredibly goofy, especially his theatrical singing and ''strange'' dancing. He'll stay that way as long as someone doesn't push his BerserkButton... |
| 482 | * CameBackWrong: In "Love", 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. |
| 483 | * TheCameo: |
| 484 | ** A similar clock can be seen alongside the Love Cult. |
| 485 | ** In the sixth instalment, [[spoiler:when Red Guy is messing with the machine's controls. Yellow Guy even calls him out for having made him ''rot alive'']]. |
| 486 | * CanonName: His name was confirmed in an [[http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/18301/1/beckyjoe-are-this-weeks-dazed-visionaries interview of the series' creators for Dazed Magazine.]] |
| 487 | * CaptainObvious: When asked when time started and when it will stop, he dodges the question by responding with [[NonAnswer "Time is important and I am a clock!"]] |
| 488 | * ClocksOfControl: Tony puts on a front of being a polite gentleman that starts to erode whenever he's not getting his way. He is ''insistent'' that the students listen to his song teaching them about how time works, even though some of the things he teaches hardly make sense. Out of all of DHMIS' "teachers", he is the closest to being a SternTeacher, but without any reason or fairness. |
| 489 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Even for an AxCrazy [[TheSociopath sociopath]], Tony is insanely weird. |
| 490 | * ControlFreak: Goes with being a personification of the daily routine. |
| 491 | * DeadpanSnarker: In the TV series when the time-child is rambling he just says, "They're not here.". |
| 492 | * DemotedToExtra: He only gets one line in the TV series. |
| 493 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Tony has a remarkably low, proper-sounding voice for a clock creature. |
| 494 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He puts on a proper British gentlemanly front, but is much more menacing and [[{{Jerkass}} petty]] than his counterpart from the previous installment. |
| 495 | * HairTriggerTemper: He obviously doesn't like people asking questions that contradict [[ItsAllAboutMe his]] schedule. |
| 496 | * HellIsThatNoise: He can scream really, really loudly. |
| 497 | * InadvertentEntranceCue: |
| 498 | -->'''Duck:''' That's not enough time!\ |
| 499 | '''Tony:''' There's always ''time''...for a song! |
| 500 | * ItsAllAboutMe: When Duck tries to talk about the philosophical aspects of time, Tony starts beeping loudly in a petulant manner to drown him out. |
| 501 | * {{Jerkass}}: He destroys Duck's [[FallOfTheHouseOfCards House of Cards]], immediately changes subjects after Yellow Guy sees an old man dying, beeps loudly when they question the pertinence of time, and makes them [[RapidAging age rapidly]] as a punishment. |
| 502 | * KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler: In "Electricity", what may be the webseries version of him appears dead on the floor with crosses on both eyes during the blackout.]] |
| 503 | * 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. |
| 504 | * LackOfEmpathy: |
| 505 | -->'''Yellow Guy:''' An old man died.\ |
| 506 | '''Tony:''' But look, a computer! |
| 507 | * LargeHam: Especially when he sings. |
| 508 | * LeanAndMean: When he begins his song, he suddenly acquires long legs. Fanart tends to depict him as tall. |
| 509 | * LookADistraction: "But look, a computer!" |
| 510 | * MakeThemRot: He is very heavily implied to be the reason for the RapidAging and eventually rotting that the puppets go through at the end of his debut. |
| 511 | * MechanicalAbomination: He's a clock who can warp reality and [[FateWorseThanDeath make people grow old without killing them.]] |
| 512 | * MoodSwinger: He goes from calm to cheery to annoyed and back again very quickly. |
| 513 | * NonAnswer: |
| 514 | -->'''Duck:''' But when did [time] start?\ |
| 515 | '''Yellow Guy:''' And when will it stop?\ |
| 516 | '''Tony:''' Time is important and I am a clock. |
| 517 | * OhCrapSmile: When the trio start asking him deeper questions about the concept of time, Tony is visually confused and looks like he's trying to improvise an answer. When the trio keeps pestering him, he opts to punish them instead so they stop asking. |
| 518 | * 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. |
| 519 | * RhymingWithItself: He isn't too good at rhyming. |
| 520 | -->'''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'''!'' |
| 521 | * SmugSnake: A sadistic, self-important knobhead. |
| 522 | * TheSociopath: The PsychoticSmirk on his face as he rots the puppets says it all. |
| 523 | * 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 horrific decay scene. |
| 524 | * StylisticSuck: Unlike the other characters, he's absolutely ''terrible'' when it comes to [[RhymesOnADime thinking up song lyrics as he goes]]. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments And his voice cracks]]. |
| 525 | * SuddenlyShouting: Meh! Meh! Meh! MEH! MEH! MEH! ''MEH!! MEH!! MEH!!'' |
| 526 | * TakeThat: Given how he's always obsessing over what time it is and dictating what the others can or cannot do, he's a mockery of people who [[ScheduleFanatic let schedules and routines control their lives]]. |
| 527 | * TimeMaster: Can transport objects back and forth through time at will, as well as speeding up how fast a given object moves through time. |
| 528 | * TomTheDarkLord: Tony is a fairly bland name for an AxCrazy sociopath with control over the flow of time. |
| 529 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: It's a common joke in the fandom that Tony loves pizza, because he specifically brought it up in his song. |
| 530 | * VillainHasAPoint: He does have a point that we should make the most of our time on earth before it runs out, even if he demonstrates it by angrily accelerating the passage of time and gorily rotting the puppets to rub it in. |
| 531 | [[/folder]] |
| 532 | |
| 533 | [[folder:Shrignold and the Love Cult]] |
| 534 | !!The Love Cult |
| 535 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Baker Terry (Shrignold and Frog Boy), Becky Sloan (Rabbit Boy, the Flowers and Special One) |
| 536 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/love_cult_3.jpg]] |
| 537 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"So here we are with all my friends, and they love you, all of them."'']] |
| 538 | |
| 539 | A group of puppets, mostly woodland creatures, led by a talking butterfly named Shrignold, who teaches Yellow Guy about the concept of love in "Love". Aside from Shrignold, they include Rabbit Boy, a unicorn, a tree, Frog Boy, some flowers and a gopher. |
| 540 | ---- |
| 541 | * AffablyEvil: Straddles between this and FauxAffablyEvil once they reveal to be the leader of a cult [[spoiler:and if you believe in the rape theory]], but it seems that they really do want to teach Yellow Guy their (twisted) idea of what love is and are persuaded that he will understand if he joins the Love Cult. |
| 542 | * AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: A lot of the members are animals that come in some rather bizarre colors. For instance, the Rabbit has mint-green fur, while the Frog's skin is purple. |
| 543 | * AmbiguousGender: Depending on how you view the ending, Shrignold may in fact be female despite having a soft yet distinctly masculine voice. |
| 544 | * AnimalisticAbomination: Shrignold is a butterfly who can transform the world around them into a SugarBowl [[spoiler:and reproduce with puppets]]. |
| 545 | * AntiVillain: They genuinely want peace and love for all. Unfortunately, they're also extremely hypocritical cultists. |
| 546 | * BigOlUnibrow: Once it becomes clear what the nature of the cult is, a large, glowering unibrow appears on Shrignold's face, giving him a notably more sinister aura. |
| 547 | * TheCameo: In the sixth installment, [[spoiler:when Red Guy is messing with the machine's controls. Yellow Guy is even more traumatized by them than Tony, who made him ''rot alive'']]. |
| 548 | * CreepyBlueEyes: The Gopher has these. |
| 549 | * {{Cult}}: They worship an idol named Malcolm and indoctrinate Yellow Guy into joining them. |
| 550 | * TheDragon: Shrignold themself is this to Malcolm, being the HighPriest and bringing new victims to his love cult. |
| 551 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Their first verse is "Have you ever wondered why we're here?", a sentence commonly used by cultists to attract people in their religion. |
| 552 | * FourLeggedInsect: Shrignold only has two arms and two legs. |
| 553 | * HeteronormativeCrusader: At least {{Implied| Trope}} (a bit more like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amatonormativity?wprov=sfla1 amatonormative]] crusader, if you want to get technical about it). All their talk of love and everyone having a special someone only references it as being a monogamous, life-long relationship between a man and woman, and platonic relationships don't matter, claiming that's "perfect", "pure", and "the way it's always been." |
| 554 | * HighPriest: The butterfly, Shrignold, appears to be the leader of the Cult. |
| 555 | * IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: Yellow Guy does this when he pets the gopher. |
| 556 | -->'''Yellow Guy:''' I love you too, furry boy!\ |
| 557 | '''Furry Boy:''' Hehe, ''(angrily)'' ''harder''! |
| 558 | * 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]]. |
| 559 | ** Regarding comments about him being a frog, Becky Sloan replied "He's not a frog he's a Frog BOY". |
| 560 | * 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 possibly raping Yellow Guy. Although, one could interpret Duck killing the caterpillar child of Shrignold and the burning of the giant Malcolm Statue in the credits as a form of comeuppance. |
| 561 | * KnightTemplar: They want to end hatred and make everyone feel loved... by zealously worshipping an idol and brainwashing people. |
| 562 | * LoveFreak: An entire cult of them! They start out sounding like this until they begin to show their very narrow amatonormative definition of what "love" is. Yellow Guy even seems okay with this at first. |
| 563 | * NoNameGiven: 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]]. |
| 564 | * PlantPerson: The Flowers. |
| 565 | * PointyEars: Shrignold themself has a pair despite being a butterfly. |
| 566 | * RascallyRabbit: Rabbit Boy definitely qualifies as he just goes along with the cult's hypocrisy. |
| 567 | * ReligionOfEvil: 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, clean out their brain and forget about everything they ever knew. |
| 568 | * RuleOfSymbolism: '''All''' members of the Love Cultists are heavily symbolic animals and creatures: |
| 569 | ** Butterflies represent [[ButterflyOfTransformation transformation and beauty]], sometimes [[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth death and rebirth]]. They also, fittingly, represent [[ButterflyOfDoom chaos]]. |
| 570 | ** Rabbits are a popular symbol for [[ExplosiveBreeder fertility, life, and birth]]. They are also sometimes [[RascallyRabbit tricksters]]. |
| 571 | ** Unicorns [[UnicornsAreSacred symbolize purity, virginity and innocence]]. |
| 572 | ** Frogs represent nobility, true love, and the [[Literature/TheFrogPrince frog prince]] trope. |
| 573 | ** Trees represent [[GreenThumb growth]]. |
| 574 | ** Flowers usually represent [[FlowerMotif peace and love]], though they could mean damn near anything. |
| 575 | ** Gophers represent ties with the [[DishingOutDirt land and nature]]. Also, blindness. |
| 576 | * StrawHypocrite: The cultists first promote love towards friends and pets. Then, they claim that the Yellow Guy must save all of his love solely for his "special one". |
| 577 | * SunnySunflowerDisposition: They all have this. |
| 578 | * TakeThat: Toward organized religions and cults that attempt to manipulate those with impressionable minds. |
| 579 | * TalkingAnimal: Shrignold, obviously, the rabbit boy, the unicorn, the frog boy, and the gopher are this. |
| 580 | * TalkingToPlants: They can talk back, though, and even sing. |
| 581 | * TheTheocracy: This is what they truly are if you look beyond their sugar-coated surface. |
| 582 | * TwoGirlsToATeam: The only girls in the cult are two Flowers. If you believe Yellow Guy's "Special One" is real, she counts too. |
| 583 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: They want to spread their concept of love to everybody... by brainwashing them and making them the slaves to their horrific god. |
| 584 | * WhamLine: Worked into the song so suddenly it almost feels like a NonSequitur |
| 585 | -->'''Tree''' "That's the way that all love goes" |
| 586 | -->'''Unicorn''' "Like a flower it grows and grows!" |
| 587 | -->'''Frogboy''' "And its forever.." |
| 588 | -->'''Flower''' "And forever!" |
| 589 | -->'''All in unison''' "And we all worship our king!" |
| 590 | * WickedHeartSymbol: Shrignold has hearts on their wings, and leads the Love Cult. |
| 591 | [[/folder]] |
| 592 | |
| 593 | [[folder:Colin the Computer]] |
| 594 | !!Colin the Computer |
| 595 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Joe Pelling |
| 596 | [[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3c8dc352e1a92b1146dc8bd568173ef3.jpg]] |
| 597 | [[caption-width-right:306:''"I'm a computer! I'm a computer-y guy! Everything made out of buttons and wires!"'']] |
| 598 | |
| 599 | A talking computer that teaches the puppet trio about technology and the digital world in "Computers". |
| 600 | ---- |
| 601 | * AIIsACrapshoot: Colin continues the trend of sociopathic, unhelpful teachers, despite being explicitly programmed to assist people like the three students. |
| 602 | * AndIMustScream: Due to a broken line of code making the song repeat itself faster and faster, he trapped himself in his own digital world. |
| 603 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: He is surprisingly a lot nicer in the tv series, acting more as a worker in the house and helping Red Guy and Duck get rid of the Eagle. |
| 604 | * AutoTune: His voice is created with autotune, which is particularly noticeable when he gets upset and it is used to create an incredibly sharp screech. It’s even more pronounced in the TV show. |
| 605 | * BadNewsInAGoodWay: In the TV show he says in a cheerful tone, "Congratulation, your account is now blocked", when the trio dont know the password. |
| 606 | * TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:He successfully keeps Yellow Guy and Duck trapped in the digital world, and seemingly kills Red Guy before it's revealed that he's alive in "Health".]] |
| 607 | * BeepingComputers: He deliberately resembles a clunky, mid-90s PC. Red Guy draws attention to the fact that they already have a computer (a much more contemporary anthropomorphic laptop), although Colin ignores this. |
| 608 | * BerserkButton: See HatesBeingTouched. |
| 609 | * BigBad: Of the fourth episode. He's also the most serious threat the group had faced thus far, due to the fact that [[spoiler:he still had Yellow Guy and Duck trapped in an endless loop by the end of the video, whereas with previous teachers everything was undone by the end.]] |
| 610 | * BrokenRecord: "Do a Digital Dancing, hey this is fun!", which quickly turns into "Digital Dancing! Digital Dancing! Digital Dancing!" |
| 611 | * TheCameo: In the sixth instalment, [[spoiler:when Red Guy is messing with the machine's controls. He appears in [[BrickJoke digital style]] and changes Yellow Guy into his digital world equivalent]]. |
| 612 | * CanonName: Revealed a week after his episode's release, [[https://twitter.com/BeckyBocka/status/585549670811836416 on Twitter]]. |
| 613 | * CatchPhrase: "Great news!" |
| 614 | * ComputersAreFast: Inverted; he's a little slow and glitchy. Played Straight at the end though. |
| 615 | * {{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.]] |
| 616 | * DigitalAbomination: His "digital world" can mindtrap people in, and even make them disappear from reality if they stay in for too long. |
| 617 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Pretends to be friendly and helpful, but has no intentions of actually helping anybody. After Red Guy touches his keyboard, he fulfils 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.]] |
| 618 | * 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. |
| 619 | * 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.]] |
| 620 | -->'''Yellow Guy:''' Wow, look, a ''(insert chart type or 'nothing' here)''!\ |
| 621 | '''Duck:''' Digital style!\ |
| 622 | '''Colin:''' Do a digital dancing! Hey, this is fun! |
| 623 | * HairTriggerTemper: Like Tony, he gets enraged far too easily in the Web series. |
| 624 | * 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. Not so much in the TV series where he even compliment's Duck's nice grip. |
| 625 | -->'''Colin:''' DON'T TOUCH MEEEEEE''eee''EEEEEEE- |
| 626 | * HeelFaceTurn: Colin returns in "Friendship" and shows no malice towards the puppet trio. He even gives them a computer so they can access the internet more than once a year and tells them [[PlatonicDeclarationOfLove he loves them]]. |
| 627 | * 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.]] |
| 628 | * HolodeckMalfunction: The Virtual Reality within him has a problem of repeating itself. This becomes apparent at the end. |
| 629 | * IAmSong: Unlike the other teachers, who sing about the subjects associated with them, he sings about himself. Could also be read as a subtler VillainSong than usual. |
| 630 | -->''I'd like to show ya inside my digital life\ |
| 631 | Inside my mind there is a digital mind'' |
| 632 | * InsideAComputerSystem: The Virtual World inside Colin. |
| 633 | * InsaneTrollLogic: He proudly proclaims that there are "'''over''' three things to do!" in the digital world but has [[SarcasmMode helpfully]] boiled the possibilities into only three things, [[MindScrew then proceeds to repeat the three things endlessly to explain how many different things there are to do.]] |
| 634 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Steals Gilbert the Globe's thunder, does quite a bit of CharacterShilling on his own behalf, ignores any questions or observations that have nothing to do with his abilities, and screeches at Red Guy when the latter gets annoyed with him. Humorously, the same thing happens to him when Warren the Eagle, an even more narcissistic teacher, takes away his focus in "Friendship" from computer day to friendship. |
| 635 | * {{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.]] |
| 636 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In "Friendship", he has no problem trolling Duck or Warren the Eagle but otherwise drops the SmugSnake act and is so touched by the puppet's friendship that he hands them over a laptop gift so they can access the internet whenever they want. |
| 637 | * KnowNothingKnowItAll: Goes on and on about how clever he is, but never says or does anything clever. Counting to fifty, printing pictures, telling people the time, and finding things for them are things anyone can do. |
| 638 | * LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Got trapped in his own deteriorating virtual world along with Duck and Yellow Guy]]. |
| 639 | * LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:Trapped the puppets in his digital world for one of them hitting him.]] |
| 640 | * MagicalComputer: He’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]]. |
| 641 | * MechanicalAbomination: He's a computer who can teleport how he wants and trap people in his "digital world". |
| 642 | * 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.]] |
| 643 | * NonAnswer: Comes to life when the trio questions what the biggest thing on the Earth is. He never, at any point, answers this. |
| 644 | * 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 keyboard in frustration. This makes him very angry, and that's when things get scary... |
| 645 | * PetTheDog: At the end of episode 4 of the TV series, he is genuinely touched by the friendship of the trio and invents a computer for them to use, and tells them [[PlatonicDeclarationOfLove he loves them]] before heading out. |
| 646 | * RageBreakingPoint: After trying to ignore Red Guy repeatedly trying to get him to stop talking by talking over him instead, Colin flips his lid when Red Guy abruptly tells him to [[BigShutUp SHUT UP!]] and slams his keyboard, resulting in him gaining [[RedEyesTakeWarning bloodshot eyes]] and an incredibly loud voice. Things only return to normal once the glitch sequence ends and everyone's inside the Digital World. |
| 647 | -->'''Colin: DON'T TOUCH ''MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!''-''' |
| 648 | * RealityWarper: Not only can he alter the Virtual Reality world within him, but he also seems to have the ability to warp reality as well. Whether this is intentional or unintentional is unknown. |
| 649 | * SicklyGreenGlow: When he makes a NightmareFace after [[HatesBeingTouched Red Guy touches him]], his screen glows bright green. |
| 650 | * SmugSnake: Very arrogant about how clever he thinks he is. Subverted in the TV show, instead he knocks other SmugSnake Warren down a peg. |
| 651 | * TheSociopath: Narcissistic, violent, and completely indifferent to the suffering of others. |
| 652 | * 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. Unlike Tony, he wasn’t even there before. |
| 653 | * TakeThat: |
| 654 | ** On the futile and addictive part of the internet (like social media) considering how he traps the puppets inside a very repetitive "virtual world" while saying that it is fun. In digital. |
| 655 | ** He also thinks that freelancers deserve to die. |
| 656 | * TookALevelInKindness: He's dropped whatever animosity he had with the guys in the TV series. The trio actually look forward to his visit, he joins in on the groups roasting of Warren the Eagle, and he even gifts them a computer and says that [[PlatonicDeclarationOfLove he loves them]]. |
| 657 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Oats, which appears to be a cereal composed of... [[ShapedLikeItself Oats]]... At least based on the abundance of it in Episode 4. |
| 658 | * {{Troll}}: While other teachers may have a habit of being needlessly annoying, Colin ''will'' take any opportunity to piss off everyone he interacts with, including other teachers! |
| 659 | * WetwareCPU: He has a real-life brain inside of him... it's disturbing. |
| 660 | [[/folder]] |
| 661 | |
| 662 | [[folder:The Healthy Band]] |
| 663 | !!The Healthy Band |
| 664 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Baker Terry (Lamb Chop and Bread Boy), Becky Sloan (Spinach Can) |
| 665 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/photogrid_1444893669296.jpg]] |
| 666 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Doo doo doo doo doo! Doo doo doo doo doo! Do it healthy!"'']] |
| 667 | |
| 668 | A group of talking food that sings about being healthy in "Health". 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. |
| 669 | ---- |
| 670 | * AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: The way Lamb Chop pronounces or''gans''. |
| 671 | * AllDrummersAreAnimals: Bread Boy certainly goes crazy banging on the peanut butter and jelly jars, to the point of breaking one of his spoons. He's also barely able to speak, as he just mumbles the names of various foods. |
| 672 | * AmbiguousGender: Like Sketchpad, the spinach can has a somewhat feminine-sounding (and very [[SimpletonVoice dumb-sounding]]) voice. |
| 673 | * AnthropomorphicFood: And anthropomorphic food containers. |
| 674 | * ArcVillain: Of "Health", where they have [[spoiler:their cans kill Duck and then proceed to feed Yellow Guy Duck's ''organs'']]. |
| 675 | * BigBadDuumvirate: Of the group, the lamb chop and spinach can appear to be the ones in charge, with the lamb chop having the most say over what they teach. Tellingly, they’re the only two [[spoiler:to reappear with the other teachers in the final episode.]] |
| 676 | * TheCameo: In "Dreams", [[spoiler:when Red Guy is messing with the machine's controls. Loyal to their reputation as [[DreadfulMusician terrible musicians]], they break what was an almost flawless chain [[FinishingEachOthersSentences where a teacher who stops singing relays to another]].]] |
| 677 | * {{Catchphrase}}: The Lamb Chop is fond of saying "[Food Item] makes your teeth go grey!" |
| 678 | * TheDividual: They mostly act as one teacher, and there's not much distinction between them aside from appearance and accent. They do frequently contradict each other, but then they contradict ''themselves'' as well, and no-one in-universe comments on it. |
| 679 | * DissonantSerenity: The Fridge seems to be happy all the time, unlike the Lamb Chop who uses a lot more intonation when upset. |
| 680 | * 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 and the Fridge talks, in what sounds like a failed attempt at rapping, rather than sings! |
| 681 | * 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. |
| 682 | * {{Expy}}: A rather interesting case, as the band members collectively copy characters from three different works, and some act as representations of ''groups'' rather than individual characters. Specifically: |
| 683 | ** All four of them borrow elements from [[WebAnimation/FizzysLunchLab Freezer Burn]] |
| 684 | ** The lamb chop has similarities to Mr. Hamm of the ''Ride/KitchenKabaret'' |
| 685 | ** The can of spinach is a representation of the Kitchen Krackpots (also from ''Kabaret''). |
| 686 | ** The loaf of bread is based upon the Boogie Woogie Bakery Boy [[RuleOfThree from Kitchen Kabaret]] |
| 687 | ** The fridge is a particularly odd case; while neither ''Kitchen Kabaret'' nor its successor ''Food Rocks'' have any refrigerator characters, ''Rocks'' does have a band of cooking implements (called "The U-Tensils"), and both shows have food bands (dairy, specifically) who emerge from a refrigerator to sing their song; thus, the fridge can be thought of a representation of "Mr. Dairy Goodz And His Stars Of The Milky Way" and "The Refrigerator Poilce". |
| 688 | * 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.]] |
| 689 | * 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. |
| 690 | * IgnoringBySinging: When Duck calls them out because their "lesson" doesn't make any sense, the Spinach Can quickly applies this trope: |
| 691 | -->'''Duck:''' That doesn't make sense!\ |
| 692 | '''Spinach Can:''' ''(who doesn't hide their anger well)'' Doo doo doo doo! |
| 693 | * ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:They force feed Duck to Yellow Guy, all while condemning him for eating various foods.]] Also, the lamb chop lists kidney spleens as food, symbolically saying it [[spoiler:just as Duck begins to get canned.]] |
| 694 | * 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. Later, they end up contradicting themselves anyway, by stating that plain-looking food like white sauce or yeast also makes your teeth go gray. |
| 695 | * InUniverseFactoidFailure: They know absolutely nothing about food. They classify food as healthy or unhealthy based on whether it's plain or "show-offy", meaning that they class cream as healthy and "soil foods", aka vegetables, as unhealthy, and their "food shape" contains cigarettes and gel as food groups.\ |
| 696 | They also constantly contradict themselves about what's healthy and what isn't. In the house section, pizza is a healthy food, but it's later rejected in favour of plain white sauce, which is then itself said to make your teeth go grey. They show a sandwich containing ham and lettuce as an example of healthy food, right before rejecting meat and vegetables as too fancy. They claim that fancy foods are bad for you despite them making up a larger portion of the food shape than plain foods. And then at the end of the song, they give up and say that your teeth will go grey no matter what you eat. |
| 697 | * KarmaHoudini: They have received no punishment for [[spoiler:force-feeding Duck to Yellow Guy]]. |
| 698 | ** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:But come the TV series, it's implied most of the band was KilledOffscreen, and Lamb Chop was reduced to a [[BreakTheHaughty mortified mess running around]] [[MadnessMantra calling for help over and over again]].]] |
| 699 | * 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". |
| 700 | * 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 vegetables are so colorful, they consider them unhealthy. Their food pyramid really doesn't help, or as they call it, a "health shape." |
| 701 | * LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:They see no problem with force-feeding Duck to Yellow guy.]] |
| 702 | * {{Metaphorgotten}}: Their comparison of the digestive system to a house. |
| 703 | -->'''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!\ |
| 704 | '''Duck:''' [[FlatWhat ...What?]]\ |
| 705 | '''Lamb Chop:''' Now food comes in through the chimney, mouth, and goes from room to room greeting all the different organs.\ |
| 706 | '''Yellow Guy:''' Hello!\ |
| 707 | '''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!\ |
| 708 | '''Spinach Can:''' Rude!\ |
| 709 | '''Duck:''' [[OnlySaneMan ...That doesn't make sense]]! |
| 710 | * NeverBareheaded: 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. |
| 711 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Lamb Chop is very hands-on with Duck, and ignores his protests about it. |
| 712 | %%ZCE; how exactly do they react? * OhCrap: They all make these faces every time the phone rings. |
| 713 | * OopNorth: Lamb Chop's accent, strangely, not a true one otherwise he would say "Stranger's Plaaaate". |
| 714 | %%ZCE * PerpetualSmiler: The fridge. |
| 715 | * PlainPalate: They think that only plain, bland foods like bread and cream are good for you. |
| 716 | * ReusedCharacterDesign: The Bread's puppet ended up being reused in "Family" as the body for the bread mother who has three children, even though the mother has a more rich, effeminate voice compared to the Bread's soft, nerdy, male voice. |
| 717 | * SimpletonVoice: The Spinach Can has one, which emphasizes the low quality of their song and helps invalidate their flimsy health advice. |
| 718 | * SkewedPriorities: |
| 719 | ** 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 they end up calling cooked meat, fruit salad, vegetables, and eggs unhealthy. Eventually, they even contradict their own eating guidelines. |
| 720 | ** They seem to be more concerned about unhealthy food making one's teeth go gray than anything else it could do to the body. |
| 721 | * StupidEvil: Ultimately what they are. The previous Teachers all seemed to teach the Students what they ''believe'' to be fact, and while cruel and often warped by their own biases, at the very least remain internally consistent with what they teach. The Healthy Band has no such convictions and can't seem to keep their story straight: they seem to merely parrot stock phrases from each other, and state "facts" that were contradicted mere seconds before or after. This is even demonstrated with their song being not only poorly sung and shambly, but having lyrics that are repetitive and nonsensical. Not to mention that when the song is interrupted, rather than smoothly distracting the puppets like the previous Teachers, they join the Students in staring awkwardly. |
| 722 | * TakeThat: Their existence is a satire on [[KnowNothingKnowItAll educators and officials who blindly adhere to outdated, discredited, and wildly contradictory assumptions about food and nutrition]]. |
| 723 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The bread loaf disappears after the first phone call. A female bread loaf appears in the TV series along with her children, and mentions it's their dad's birthday, who may or may not be the same bread from the Healthy Band. |
| 724 | [[/folder]] |
| 725 | |
| 726 | [[folder:Lamp]] |
| 727 | !!Lamp |
| 728 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Baker Terry (web series), George Fouracres (TV series) |
| 729 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2016_06_20_11_53_53.png]] |
| 730 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Oh! Looks like somebody's having a bad dream!"'']] |
| 731 | |
| 732 | A sentient lamp who appears at the beginning of "Dreams" to teach Yellow Guy about dreams. This time, Yellow Guy [[GenreSavvy refuses to listen.]] He reappears in the TV series and [[TookALevelInKindness is subsequently much kinder there]]. |
| 733 | ---- |
| 734 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: He is far more soft-spoken and calm in the TV series, and besides giving his own NonSequitur take on the afterlife, has none of the malicious intent present in the web series. |
| 735 | * BrokenRecord: From what we see of his song, it's mostly him just listing different bad dreams that Yellow Guy can have. |
| 736 | * DreadfulMusician: Oh, ''yes''. For starters, his singing voice is even more grating to listen to than the whole Healthy Band. |
| 737 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Averted explicitly for the first time in the series. He's not even making an effort to appear as a helpful teacher and just goes straight into tormenting Yellow Guy. Averted in the TV series where he has a conversation with Yellow Guy and any maliciousness he had in the prior series has vanished. |
| 738 | * FishEyes: Explicit in the [[ArtShift animated sequence]], not as apparent on his puppet. |
| 739 | * HateSink: The previous teachers, while almost all terrible people, usually had some degree of entertainment value or affability. Lamp lacks any of this and goes straight into torturing Yellow Guy with a discordant song and mocking him for his friend's death. He gets better in the TV series. |
| 740 | * ItWontTurnOff: Yellow Guy switches him off, but he lights up again without explanation (and also teleports to the night stand on the opposite side of the bed). |
| 741 | * {{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. |
| 742 | * KickTheDog: Right before Red Guy begins messing with the machine, Lamp has just enough time to sing two particularly cruel lines: |
| 743 | -->"And you could have a dream about [[spoiler:losing your friends]]! Or you could have a dream about [[spoiler:''burning'' your friends]]!" |
| 744 | * LampshadeWearing: Albeit he ''is'' a ''lamp,'' the trope may well have inspired his tipsy characterization. |
| 745 | * {{Leitmotif}}: When he's not singing, a sparkly electronic tune plays. |
| 746 | * LightIsNotGood: He is a lamp, after all. He's also a sadist mocking a child and inducing nightmares. |
| 747 | * NightmareWeaver: Very much so. It wants Yellow Guy to have nightmares. |
| 748 | * PlayingWithFire: His last line suggests he was planning to burn Yellow Guy alive but is replaced by Tony before anything can be done. |
| 749 | * {{Sadist}}: When Yellow Guy protests too much, he suddenly starts drowning in oil, while the lamp mockingly says he's having a bad dream. |
| 750 | * SimpletonVoice: His voice combined with his FishEyes makes him seem drunk and immediately demonstrate his incompetence, at least in the web series. The TV series removes this aspect of his voice and has him having TookALevelInKindness toward Yellow Guy, to the point he seems like a different character entirely. |
| 751 | * StarSpangledSpandex: His star patterned body invokes this, tying into his night and dream themes. |
| 752 | * 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. |
| 753 | * StylisticSuck: From what we hear of his song, it seems to be very slapdash and makes little effort to rhyme. |
| 754 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Only got to sing some of its song before [[spoiler:getting interrupted by Red Guy]]. |
| 755 | [[/folder]] |
| 756 | |
| 757 | !!Others |
| 758 | [[folder:Money Man]] |
| 759 | [[quoteright:265:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2014-06-02_at_6_11_29_pm_2724.png]] |
| 760 | [[caption-width-right:265:''"MONEY! MONEY MONEY MONEY!"'']] |
| 761 | |
| 762 | "'''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 build-up to it. |
| 763 | ---- |
| 764 | * 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. |
| 765 | * BigBad: Of "HELP", the Kickstarter video for a DHMIS series. |
| 766 | * EvilSoundsDeep: He speaks in a deeply distorted bass voice. |
| 767 | * {{Greed}}: Presumably his motivation, given the fact that the only decipherable word he says is "money". |
| 768 | * KarmaHoudini: Never did receive any punishment for kidnapping and horrifically torturing the puppets and ripping Sketchbook's face off. |
| 769 | * 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". |
| 770 | * PuttingOnTheReich: He wears a dark-green uniform with a red armband above his elbow. |
| 771 | * PokemonSpeak: Of a sort. His only clearly audible lines, the ones that don't consist of grunting or snarling at any rate, are "Money!" |
| 772 | * 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. |
| 773 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Money Man never shows up again after the Kickstarter videos. |
| 774 | * WouldHurtAChild: Assuming that the Yellow Guy at least is a child, he's most certainly willing to do this. |
| 775 | * WouldHitAGirl: Again, assuming that the Sketchbook is a girl, then he certainly would, given that he seems to have nailed them to a wall. |
| 776 | [[/folder]] |
| 777 | |
| 778 | [[folder:Michael]] |
| 779 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2014-11-02_at_5_49_34_pm_4262.png]] |
| 780 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"The Ugliest Boy in Town"'']] |
| 781 | |
| 782 | The main character of a story told by Shrignold to Yellow Guy in order to convince him that everybody has a special one in "Love". Problem is, his life goes completely against that message. |
| 783 | ---- |
| 784 | * 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. |
| 785 | * TheGrotesque: He is described as being the ugliest boy in town. |
| 786 | * InformedFlaw: |
| 787 | ** 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. |
| 788 | ** We're also informed that he's weak... even though he managed to move a huge boulder blocking a cave all by himself. |
| 789 | * 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: |
| 790 | -->''This is the story of Michael, the ugliest boy in town\ |
| 791 | Ugly and weak, they called him a freak\ |
| 792 | So he lived on his own underground\ |
| 793 | He lived on his own underground'' (x2)\ |
| 794 | '''Shrignold:''' You see? Everyone has a special one.\ |
| 795 | ''(Beat)''\ |
| 796 | '''Rabbit Boy:''' [[BlatantLies Even Michael!]] |
| 797 | * RunAwayHideAway: A "nowhere to go" example, running away because he was so ugly and hated by everyone, and having only a small cave to live in. |
| 798 | * SingleTear: He sheds a single tear at the end of his segment. |
| 799 | * StepfordSmiler: He's constantly smiling throughout his story, even as he sheds a tear after going to live in a hole underground. |
| 800 | [[/folder]] |
| 801 | |
| 802 | [[folder:Malcolm]] |
| 803 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2014-11-02_at_5_49_09_pm_6041.png]] |
| 804 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"FEED ME GRAVEL!"'']] |
| 805 | |
| 806 | Malcolm is the God of the Love Cult in "Love". He is a giant stone head who can only move his jaw. |
| 807 | ---- |
| 808 | * TheCameo: Appears in "4" as a statue in the background. |
| 809 | * CompanionCube: He shows no sign of sentience, but the Love Cultists fear his wrath if they don't feed him. |
| 810 | * EatDirtCheap: He eats Gravel. |
| 811 | * EasterEgg: In the fourth video, a much smaller version of Malcolm's head (with hair burned to ash) can be seen on the fireplace mantle. |
| 812 | * GodEmperor: He is the Love Cult's God and King. |
| 813 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Of episode 3, as [[HighPriest Shrignold]] is his [[TheDragon servant]]. |
| 814 | * 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... |
| 815 | * LivingStatue: A living statue ''head'' to be more precise, although he can only move his jaw. |
| 816 | * LoveGoddess: He is the God (And King) of Love, according to The Love Cultists. |
| 817 | * 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.]] |
| 818 | * PhysicalGod: He is the god of the love cult after all. |
| 819 | * TameHisAnger: Feeding him is the only thing to keep him from getting angry, according to The Love Cultists. |
| 820 | * TomTheDarkLord: Malcolm seems like an ordinary name for a God of the Love Cult. |
| 821 | [[/folder]] |
| 822 | |
| 823 | [[folder:Gilbert the Globe]] |
| 824 | [[quoteright:82:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gilbert_0_3.png]] |
| 825 | [[caption-width-right:82:''"Hey!"'']] |
| 826 | |
| 827 | A Globe that wants to tell the puppets about the World in "Computers". Presumably. Colin interrupts him before he gets a chance. |
| 828 | ---- |
| 829 | * ButtMonkey: Besides getting upstaged by [[SmallNameBigEgo 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. |
| 830 | * EarlyBirdCameo He can be seen on top of the living room's shelf at the start of "Time." |
| 831 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Even ''he'' seems confused by how suddenly Colin appeared in the show. |
| 832 | * RedHerring: Was announced as being the teacher for the fourth episode, but he ends up upstaged by Colin the Computer. |
| 833 | * 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. |
| 834 | * 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 [[AbusiveParents Roy]]'s LotusEaterMachine.]] |
| 835 | [[/folder]] |
| 836 | |
| 837 | [[folder:Episode 4 Ending Characters]] |
| 838 | !!Camera Crew and Puppeteers |
| 839 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230612_171546_youtube.jpg]] |
| 840 | [[caption-width-right:350:]] |
| 841 | The googly-eyed studio crew that makes brief appearances throughout the series. They're later accompanied by two puppeteers, one in a white body suit and one in a black body suit. |
| 842 | ---- |
| 843 | * AuthorAvatar: Very likely represent Becky and Joe, the show's actual creators. |
| 844 | * GooglyEyes: The camera and clipboard sport some. |
| 845 | * OutsideContextProblem: |
| 846 | ** Just what are they, and what do they want with the puppets? |
| 847 | ** The camera is apparently connected to Colin the Computer through the cord that the Red Guy follows. |
| 848 | * 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. |
| 849 | * WalkingSpoiler: The fact that they appear spoils the ending to Episode 4. |
| 850 | [[/folder]] |
| 851 | |
| 852 | [[folder:Episode 5 Side Antagonists]] |
| 853 | !!Monster Can |
| 854 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230612_171716_youtube.jpg]] |
| 855 | [[caption-width-right:350:]] |
| 856 | A giant meat can with a yellow face and an open mouth. They appear in "Health", where they're sent by the Healthy Band to devour Duck's guts so they can be later given to Yellow Guy. |
| 857 | ---- |
| 858 | * TheButcher: They rip out Duck's organs and can them in themselves so that they can be forced upon Yellow Guy. It's last seen trundling away, full of organs, as a similar can takes its place. |
| 859 | * TheDragon: To the Healthy Band, who take Duck's guts from them and bring the guts in smaller cans for Yellow Guy to eat. |
| 860 | * EvilLaugh: The can constantly giggles as they rip out Duck's organs. |
| 861 | * HeroKiller: They eat Duck alive, then bake a cake out of his guts and face. |
| 862 | * ImAHumanitarian: They eat Duck's guts with audible glee. |
| 863 | * SlasherSmile: They have a disgusting smile while eating Duck. |
| 864 | * WalkingSpoiler: For Duck's death. |
| 865 | [[/folder]] |
| 866 | |
| 867 | [[folder:Episode 6 Reveal Characters]] |
| 868 | !!The Red Guys |
| 869 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Joe Pelling |
| 870 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230612_172448_youtube.jpg]] |
| 871 | [[caption-width-right:350:]] |
| 872 | 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. |
| 873 | ---- |
| 874 | * 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. |
| 875 | * DittoAliens: Not only do they all look exactly the same, but have the same voice, [[PlanetOfCopyhats personality, and general mannerisms]]. Given the weirdness of the series, though, it's unclear whether they're an actual species or if they're [[MesACrowd just copies of Red Guy]]. |
| 876 | * DreadfulMusician: The red piano guy just bangs on the piano, though it's not clear if this is considered "good" music in this world. |
| 877 | * DullSurprise: It seems Red Guys in general are simply incapable of getting worked up or expressing strong emotions about anything. |
| 878 | * 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. |
| 879 | * 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. |
| 880 | * PlanetOfHats: They are all {{Cthulhumanoid}}s with the same dull voices and apparently are all corporate workers. |
| 881 | * 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!" |
| 882 | |
| 883 | !!Other Teachers |
| 884 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Hugo Donkin (Universe Guy), Joe Pelling (Football, File), [[Creator/TomSka Thomas Ridgewell]] (Magnet), Creator/KellenGoff (Sammy the Spade), Baker Terry (Saxophone, Gel) |
| 885 | |
| 886 | 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. |
| 887 | ---- |
| 888 | * AGlitchInTheMatrix: They grow increasingly bizarre and random with every iteration. |
| 889 | * BrickJoke: One of the teachers to appear is a File, who sings the same song Red Guy proposed earlier in the episode. |
| 890 | * 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. |
| 891 | * CaptainObvious: Again, the File, whose song is self-descriptive and nothing else. |
| 892 | -->"I am a file and you put documents in me..." |
| 893 | * CoolShades: The Saxophone sports a pair. |
| 894 | * DreadfulMusician: Their songs are only heard briefly, but they are noticeably as bad as the ones from The Healthy Band and The Lamp. |
| 895 | * FinishingEachOthersSentences: As the Teachers rapidly switch back and forth, they always switch on a word shared between their songs. |
| 896 | -->'''Duck:''' - Some fish on my tray! [[BigWhat WHAT?!]] WHERE AM I?!?\ |
| 897 | '''Universe Guy:''' We are in the universe! Planets live inside the moon! |
| 898 | * GretzkyHasTheBall: One of the teachers is a talking American football whose knowledge of sports leaves much to be desired. |
| 899 | -->"Sports! Ball! Let's play sports! Cricket ball! Red card!" |
| 900 | * KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Universe guy, who claims that "[[InUniverseFactoidFailure planets live inside the Moon]]". |
| 901 | * 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. |
| 902 | * 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. |
| 903 | * SimpletonVoice: [[Creator/KellenGoff The Shovel.]] Who also happens to possibly be the only American in the whole thing. |
| 904 | * StylisticSuck: Whether or not what they sing can even be counted as songs is arguable. |
| 905 | [[/folder]] |
| 906 | |
| 907 | !TV Series |
| 908 | !!Main Teachers |
| 909 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 910 | The antagonists of the television series. |
| 911 | ---- |
| 912 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: While the original teachers tended to be KnowNothingKnowItAll puppets with a hefty dose of StylisticSuck, the television series teachers tend to make statements that, while still vaguely distorted, are usually factually correct or at least more accurate. |
| 913 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: Unlike the web series, the teachers here generally don't mean the trio any lasting harm, and most of the damage seems to be done out of their own incompetence and issues. Even the ones with more sinister motivations such as the Twins, ultimately have the deranged but relatively harmless HumbleGoal of [[spoiler:having a large enough family to qualify for a family-sized bucket of fried chicken]]. |
| 914 | * AdaptationalWimp: To the idea of teachers in general. While the teachers in the web series [[TheBadGuyWins almost all uniformly got away with tormenting the main trio]], the teachers in this series have a much rougher time of it. Granted, unlike the original teachers, they usually do not have an ulterior motive in mind and are just generally more inept. [[spoiler:This is probably due to them not being directly affiliated with the abusive father Roy, but with Lesley, who is more AmbiguouslyEvil]]. |
| 915 | * ButtMonkey: To much greater degrees than the original Teachers, particularly as a result of the trio being far less passive and the TV series overall being DenserAndWackier. The Coffin, Elec-Tracey and ''especially'' Choo-Choo and Warren spend giant durations of their screentime suffering, but even the Briefcase and the Twins are subject to humiliation and over-the-top [[KarmicDeath karmic deaths]]. |
| 916 | * GoodCounterpart: To the original teachers of the web series. Most of them have no sinister motives in mind and the ones who do (such as The Twins and Warren) get a hefty case of KarmicDeath. Even in their case, they mistreat the protagonists due to greed and neediness respectively, rather than the pure ForTheEvulz of the original teachers. |
| 917 | * OutOfFocus: Other than the Twins and Warren the Eagle, most of the teachers have a much more diminished role compared to their predecessors of the web series. This is probably due to them not nearly having as much power as them and not being as malicious. |
| 918 | [[/folder]] |
| 919 | |
| 920 | [[folder:Briefcase]] |
| 921 | !!Briefcase |
| 922 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Baker Terry |
| 923 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/suitcase_3.png]] |
| 924 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"If you've found the right job, it won't even feel like working at all!"'']] |
| 925 | |
| 926 | A talking briefcase and the teacher of "Jobs", who teaches the main trio the wonders of finding a job. |
| 927 | ---- |
| 928 | * AmbiguousSituation: Duck questions him why he forced the trio into spending forty years at Peterson's and Sons and Friends Bits & Parts Limited. He offers no explanation. |
| 929 | * BigBrotherBully: Inverted; his brother, Brendon, claims to be older than Briefcase, and Briefcase treats him poorly for being unemployed. |
| 930 | * BigLittleBrother: He's about twice the size of his older brother, Brendon, and also has a much deeper voice than him. |
| 931 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: He seems nicer when compared to most other teachers, but he also abandoned the main trio to their fates in the factory, and clearly doesn't treat his own brother so well. |
| 932 | * FurryConfusion: A variation. As with standard suburban workers, he carries around a briefcase, despite being a sentient briefcase himself. While the trio are looking for Briefcase following his sudden disappearance, Yellow Guy describes him to other people as "one of those guys who has one of himself." |
| 933 | * {{Hypocrite}}: His song is about how you can follow any career you want, yet he sends the puppets to a place where they have no choice but to slave away in an office job their entire lives, and looks down on Brendon for having no success with his own dreams. |
| 934 | * JabbaTableManners: The way he eats breakfast. He jabs his fork and knife indiscriminately at his plate, tossing the food on it all over the place, and then pours what's left on the plate inside of himself. |
| 935 | * KarmaHoudini: He traps the puppets in a bizarre factory world for 40 years before traumatically pulling them back, is a condescending jerk to his brother, and [[spoiler:flips a coin into Duck's eye]], yet just leaves without a care. [[spoiler:Seemingly subverted by "Electricity", though.]] |
| 936 | * KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:In "Electricity", his corpse is seen in the house during the blackout.]] |
| 937 | * OffscreenTeleportation: Half way through his song, he walks into a supply closet and disappears, trapping the trio in PASAFB&PL. Apparently, he disguised himself as a first-aid kit and waited ''over forty years'', then continued the song as if nothing happened when Duck opened him. |
| 938 | * PunchClockVillain: For a given mileage of [[SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat "villain."]] Applies even more so than most of the other teachers (who are generally just doing their job within the context of the series), in light of his particular theme and nature. |
| 939 | * SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Implied. Brendon aspires to be a writer, something Briefcase disproves. Briefcase also tricks the trio into working a stable, yet passionless job for 40 years. |
| 940 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Implied. Briefcase champions himself as a respectable and working man and uses Brendon, his older brother, to feed his ego by stating how pathetic Brendon is for being unemployed. |
| 941 | * StealthInsult: He compliments Brendon for his performance, but it's littered with passive aggression, as the performance in question is about how pathetic Brendon is for being unemployed, and Briefcase {{insist|ent appellation}}s on referring to him as Unemployed Brendon, which Brendon does not take kindly to. |
| 942 | * UnreliableExpositor: In his song, he says that you can pick whatever job you desire and poses himself as being compliant for Brendon, despite the fact that he not only derides Brendon for being unemployed, but also because of his aspiring goal of becoming a writer. Given how Brendon ends up raging during his part in the song, it seems that Briefcase forces him to sing the same song over and over again, and Brendon is sick of belittling himself to stroke Briefcase's ego. The fact that Briefcase traps the main trio in a job for over 40 years also shows that he's more sinister than he lets on. |
| 943 | * YearInsideHourOutside: The trio (aside from Duck) appear to spend over ''forty years'' working their job. But once Briefcase comes out of nowhere to finish his song [[note]]It was abruptly cut off when he entered the supply closet[[/note]], and the trio are sent back to the kitchen in the morning, as if no time was spent at all. |
| 944 | [[/folder]] |
| 945 | |
| 946 | [[folder:Coffin]] |
| 947 | !!Coffin |
| 948 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KevinEldon |
| 949 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/coffin.png]] |
| 950 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"If anyone knows any reason why this person should not be dead, say now or he will forever be dead."'']] |
| 951 | |
| 952 | A talking wooden coffin and the teacher of "Death". He's the one who prepares Duck for his eternal rest. |
| 953 | ---- |
| 954 | * AntiVillain: In stark contrast to all of the other teachers, Coffin does not induce any intentional or unintentional physical or mental pain to the trio. He simply acts as Duck's guide to being dead and, apart from helping [[BuriedAlive bury Duck alive]] (which never bothers Duck in the slightest), poses no threat whatsoever. Even when he is fed up with Duck's antics, he does no harm to him, unlike any of the other teachers who get mad at the trio. |
| 955 | * BigEntrance: While most teachers just pop out of the blue, he on the other hand takes his time with his arrival. First, a heart falls out of Duck's anus and then starts to roll toward the corner. Next, it melts into a puddle of blood and from it, two gangly arms emerge from it and pull some of the floor boards out of the ground. Then the wooden planks are glued together by the blood until they combine and become the coffin. |
| 956 | * BreakingOldTrends: He's the only main teacher in the entire series who does not get his own dedicated song number. He transitions into "We Gotta Get Things Ready" and "Memories", but he does not sing himself. |
| 957 | * BreakThemByTalking: He tries to leave Duck be and fill out some paperwork. However, Duck keeps calling him [[FrivolousSummoning just to repeatedly talk to him]], and he does so for so long that the Coffin can't deal with him any longer. |
| 958 | * ButtMonkey: He is forced to deal with Duck's annoying antics while dead to the point that he screams and claims he can't take it anymore, which is then followed by getting split through the face by Yellow Guy. |
| 959 | * CharacterDeath: Yellow Guy breaks him open with a shovel in a manic, desperate ploy to bring Duck back home. Notably, this is the first time one of the main three kills a teacher. |
| 960 | * NiceGuy: Weirdly enough, yes. Despite being associated with death, he's generally pretty friendly (passive aggressive moments aside) and doesn't try to force any wonky beliefs onto the other characters. |
| 961 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: He begins the trend of the TV show's teachers being much friendlier, as he genuinely wants to guide the trio through Duck's death with no ulterior motives, and never once harms them in any way. For his troubles, he's rewarded with Duck completely running him up the wall, and Yellow Guy outright ''killing'' him just as he's about to lose his composure. |
| 962 | * ScaryTeeth: Greatly downplayed, but he does have some large splinters in his mouth that act like fangs. |
| 963 | * VillainousBreakdown: Justified, as he was supposed to contain what was supposed to be a lifeless corpse. However, because Duck is very much alive, and keeps pestering him purely out of boredom, he becomes more and more agitated before finally snapping and declaring he can no longer deal with the bird's idiocy. |
| 964 | [[/folder]] |
| 965 | |
| 966 | [[folder:The Twins]] |
| 967 | !!Todney and Lilly |
| 968 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' James Stevenson Bretton |
| 969 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_twins_6.png]] |
| 970 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Family is just something that means a great deal to us!"'']] |
| 971 | |
| 972 | A pair of human-like twins who try to educate the trio about what a real family is in "Family", though they may have ulterior motives. |
| 973 | ---- |
| 974 | * AerithAndBob: Lilly is a different spelling of a fairly common name... and Todney seems to be just the name "Rodney" with a "T" instead of an "R". |
| 975 | * AssholeVictim: No-one watching will be sad to see these creepy, condescending and controlling kidnappers [[spoiler:get eaten alive by [[VillainousRescue Roy]]]]. |
| 976 | * BerserkButton: Mostly cheerful to a creepy degree, unless someone denounces family as "just a word" or goes against a family tradition. Todney gets so upset at the former he starts ''levitating'' and pissing his pants. |
| 977 | * BrattyFoodDemand: Down to the banging on the table part. |
| 978 | * BringMyBrownPants: A variation. When Duck suggests that "family" is really "just a word" when it comes down to it, Todney gets so upset that he throws a brief tantrum and even pisses himself ''in anger'', before his sister calms him down. |
| 979 | * BrotherSisterTeam: It quickly becomes apparent the two do everything together. If they have at least one redeeming quality, they do seem to genuinely love each other. |
| 980 | * CaptainErsatz: The twins are basically Sarah and James from ''WesternAnimation/FiremanSam'' with the personalities of the alien children in ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos'' and [[Film/VillageOfTheDamned1960 its]] [[Film/VillageOfTheDamned1995 adaptations]]. |
| 981 | * CreepyTwins: The twins are one of the few teachers who don't even look friendly in the first place and look off from the get-go. |
| 982 | * DreadfulMusician: In the twin's song about family, Todney attempts to play the flute, recorder, and tambourine during the chorus. He is phenomenally awful and it's clear he has no idea what he's doing. |
| 983 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Both try to be friendly and hospitable, but they're quick to anger if you don't follow their ways, will randomly harm small creatures, and [[spoiler:are plannning to assimilate their guests into the family by ''force'']]. |
| 984 | * FishEyes: Their eyes are rarely, if ever, pointing in the same direction. |
| 985 | * HalfIdenticalTwins: Other than their different hairstyles, having their first letter of their names on their clothes, and their difference in legwear they look like they came out of the same mold. Their voices are even the same! |
| 986 | * HungryMenace: Much of their motivation can be summed up by: [[spoiler:[[HumbleGoal "wanted a cheap discount meal"]]]]. |
| 987 | * InsaneTrollLogic: They utilize their song, and its butchered spelling of "family" into "Faulbchdt", to try and segue the point that family is more than just a word. Also, in their song itself, they claim that "you're not a real family unless you have a landline." |
| 988 | * KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Eaten by Roy for trying to kidnap and force Yellow Guy to join their family just to exploit a family deal. Lilly also literally bites the face off a sentient apple in their introduction.]] |
| 989 | * KickTheDog: Lilly is introduced casually taking a bite of a talking apple and throwing him aside, just to get the trio's attention. |
| 990 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: Where most of the characters are Muppet-like creatures with googly eyes, these two are strange human doll children with detailed blue eyes and small mouths. Just their picture looks off compared to the rest of this page. |
| 991 | * OutdatedOutfit: The series is set-roughly-in the modern day, yet the twins' clothes-and especially Todney's hairstyle-look like they dress like its still the [[TheSeventies early 70s]]. |
| 992 | * PottyFailure: In addition to the above pissing incident, the "B is for Bunkbeds" portray ''both'' of them pissing in their respective beds. |
| 993 | * ScaryTeeth: They spot these in the climax during the family dinner scene. |
| 994 | * StylisticSuck: They move around like badly operated marionettes. It defintely helps them in making them come across as threatening, as their stiff and sudden movements makes them even more off-putting and scary. |
| 995 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Out of all the teachers in the TV series, they are the most directly evil ones the trio face. |
| 996 | * TokenHuman: They are the only teachers (or puppets) to be humans rather than a CartoonCreature or AnimateInanimateObject. Although judging by their family and what they do at dinner time, [[HumanoidAbomination human is probably too generous]]. |
| 997 | %%ZCE * TooHungryToBePolite: '''And how.''' |
| 998 | * UncannyValley: Even for a pair of puppets, the twins just seem off in general. To begin with is the fact that they have a more "realistic" human appearance and move like marionettes, which clashes somewhat with the more abstract style of "muppet-like" puppet that the main trio represent. The manner they move in also constantly shifts between being weirdly stiff one moment and messy and haphazard the next, as if they are operated by pair of incompetent and/or drunk puppeteers, and their animatronic eyes don't ever look in the same direction and actually appear to be broken. Finally, there is their voice-over, which not only blatantly sounds like an adult man doing a bad child impression, but it is also somewhat wavy and wobbly and has small constant shifts in pitch, as if the sound files for their voices are corrupted. |
| 999 | * VillainousGlutton: Their ultimate plan is to capture some poor sap to be the final family member they need... [[spoiler:to qualify for a "family-sized" fast food meal]]. |
| 1000 | * VocalDissonance: Their voices sounds like a grown man sloppily trying to imitate a child, adding to their unsettling nature. |
| 1001 | [[/folder]] |
| 1002 | |
| 1003 | [[folder:Warren the Eagle]] |
| 1004 | !!Warren the Eagle |
| 1005 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Baker Terry |
| 1006 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/warren_the_eagle.png]] |
| 1007 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"There was a time in my life when even I had trouble making and keeping friends."'']] |
| 1008 | |
| 1009 | A totally real eagle (and not a worm) who tries to help improve the trio's friendship in "Friendship". However, his own insecurities and general annoying personality gets in the way. |
| 1010 | ---- |
| 1011 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: He's an anthropomorphic worm (no matter how much he denies it) who only wears WhiteGloves, a headset, and a cap and badge branded with the "OK Stop" logo. |
| 1012 | * ADogNamedCat: He claims that he's an eagle, [[BlatantLies despite being a worm]]. |
| 1013 | * AllegoricalCharacter: He's the embodiment of intrusive thoughts and insecurities. Warren feeds Yellow Guy's fears that Red Guy and Duck hate him and he literally crawls into Yellow Guy's brain and ruins his happy place. [[spoiler:After removing him from Yellow Guy's head, Red Guy and Duck sing about how everyone has a worm in their brain that tells them negative and upsetting things (such as how Red Guy can't wear denim and that Duck is responsible for many deaths after forging documents) and they should be ignored.]] |
| 1014 | * AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]]. He tries to pull this off at the end of his story, but it falls flat since everyone could already tell he was talking about himself. When even ''[[TheDitz Yellow Guy]]'' can look right through your bullshit, you know you have made things beyond blatant. |
| 1015 | * AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: [[spoiler:When he's killed by Duck, everyone (including Yellow Guy's brain friends) sings about how they are better off without him.]] |
| 1016 | * AnimalStereotypes: Is a worm and is gross both physically and spiritually. |
| 1017 | * AnnoyingLaugh: Has a breathy, weasely laugh that he peppers throughout his speech. It gets worse when he transparently forces it in an attempt to laugh off the trio's roasting of him, causing them to understandably wonder if he's in pain and/or dying. |
| 1018 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He really is a very bad person, and you won’t feel sorry for him when Duck kills him off.]] |
| 1019 | * AttentionWhore: His idea of his friends "not treating him right" is them paying attention to anyone or anything other than him. |
| 1020 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: Despite his claims, he is actually a very big worm. And as the episode progresses, he becomes creepier and creepier. |
| 1021 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: He ''tries'' to seem like he's just a friendly and energetic guy there to teach the trio about how to be a good friend, but it quickly becomes apparent that he's highly selfish and neurotic, responds very poorly to any criticism to his ideas, and is only using the OK Stop program (which he is not supposed to technically be affiliated with anyways) to try and rope others into listening to his podcast, and he immediately starts acting pushy and overbearing towards Imaginary Shy Older Brother the moment he realizes that he can get away with it. |
| 1022 | * BlatantLies: Despite all his claims, he is not an eagle. He also claims to have confidence, when he's extremely reactive to criticism and gives in easily to flattery. |
| 1023 | * BritishTeeth: The first we see of him is his mouth, and it's clear he hasn't been taking good care of it; he's missing all but one of his top teeth, as well as one tooth on the bottom row. |
| 1024 | * ButtMonkey: He stands out as the only teacher whose song is deliberately interrupted by the puppets, who mostly ignore his lesson and casually insult him every chance they get. [[spoiler:Duck even rather casually kills him.]] |
| 1025 | * CatchPhrase: "OK, stop!" It's pilfered from an organization he used to be a part of. |
| 1026 | * ClippedWingAngel: For the most part, he looks like a giant, anthropomorphic worm who's about as tall as Red Guy's chest. Then, he goes OneWingedAngel and becomes a giant, sloppy, deformed monster that towers over Yellow Guy. However, once Duck [[spoiler:stabs him with a needle and kills him]], he's reduced to the size of a baby earthworm that isn't even as big as Duck's fingers. |
| 1027 | * DarkReprise: He creates his own fucked-up rendition of the Brain Friends theme song about how he's Yellow Guy's best friend while chasing Yellow Guy through the darkest recesses of his mind. |
| 1028 | * DesecratingTheDead: Duck casually throws his corpse into the bin, along with a half-eaten sentient apple and Brendon's novel. |
| 1029 | * ADogNamedCat: Despite clearly being a worm, he [[InsistentTerminology tries to state that he is an eagle]]. |
| 1030 | * EarlyBirdCameo: The newspaper in "Death" mentions a worm who got fired for harassment. |
| 1031 | * EvilIsVisceral: After Red Guy says that Warren looks "lumpy and red-raw," the other puppets take turns comparing his appearance to grotesquely visceral things like a tumor, an anal infection, and "a bit of a bigger animal that fell off or was removed and then came to life." [[spoiler: His final form elevates this to BodyHorror, looking like a Cronenbergian mound of slimy flesh folds]]. |
| 1032 | * EvilMakesYouUgly: He is one of the most loathsome teachers featured on the show and, as the other puppets express through [[FloweryInsults a very creative roasting session]], definitely the ugliest. |
| 1033 | * EvilSmellsBad: According to Duck, Warren stinks. |
| 1034 | * FallenHero: Sorting through his bullshit, we can infer that Warren was part of an anti-bullying organization called OK Stop, but got fired because he got upset when his coworkers didn't pay him enough attention or listened to his business ideas and started harassing them. He went on to steal some equipment from the place, claiming that he still had the legal right to continue using it, and continued being an unofficial "Friendship Expert" for his own self-serving ends. |
| 1035 | * FourthWallObserver: Unlike all the other teachers, Warren seems to be aware he’s in a show, as he speaks to the audience via stopping the episode with the OK Stop equipment and commenting on events. |
| 1036 | * FreudianExcuse: While his repulsive personality hardly helps matters, the three protagonists and Colin all point out (with absolutely zero sympathy) that a big reason he struggles to make friends is that he's simply hideous to look at. |
| 1037 | * {{Gonk}}: Warren is quite an ugly "eagle" and said ugliness is pointed out by the other puppets. The worst part? [[spoiler:His default appearance is ''not'' [[OneWingedAngel as hideous as he gets]].]] |
| 1038 | -->'''Colin:''' He looks like a tumor. |
| 1039 | * HatedByAll: He's just so annoying that all it takes is a few minutes with him to already want him gone. Red Guy thinks he's just generally unlikeable. |
| 1040 | * HateSink: He's designed to be as obnoxious and detestable of a character as possible so that whenever he's brutally made fun of, it feels immensely satisfying. Red Guy even {{lampshade|hanging}}s how much Warren fits the bill. |
| 1041 | -->'''Red Guy:''' Or you're just generally unlikeable in a way that's hard to pin down? |
| 1042 | * HerCodeNameWasMarySue: To illustrate the effects of bullying within friend groups, he launches into a song/slideshow about a "[[BlatantLies guy that I knew]]", which is apparently a human child who was bullied by his friends. It's basically spelt out that this is an analogy of Warren getting kicked out of the OK Stop Organization: His business ideas weren't taken seriously and he had a breakdown that led to him getting axed for harassment. The puppets, despite how oblivious they usually are, immediately see through it and point out that it's his backstory, and while he's singing, he slips in multiple [[FreudianSlip "me's" and "I's"]]. |
| 1043 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Warren is capable of giving decent advice about friendship, but seemingly incapable of following any of it. To wit: He constantly says friends need to take each other into consideration, but he makes everything about himself and it's up for debate whether or not he just made the situation between Red, Duck, and Yellow worse. It's most clear when, after his attempt to make everybody listen to his podcast is shut down, he immediately declares that friendships are about doing what everybody wants to do and not just doing your own thing, before resuming his attempt to put on his podcast. |
| 1044 | * HypocriteHasAPoint: He's just as guilty of being rude to others as Duck and Red Guy are, but he's still correct in calling them out on their bullying. |
| 1045 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: His main motivation, having been rejected for being annoying and making people listen to his podcast. |
| 1046 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Impaled by a needle.]] |
| 1047 | * IncrediblyLameFun: His equivalent to listening to music is listening to his own podcast on market efficiency, to the point of considering normal dialogue in it "good parts". |
| 1048 | * InformedDeformity: Yellow Guy apparently thinks Warren has "beady eyes, like a rat", but the eyes on the puppet are fairly bulbous (even specifically getting more so ''as he is accused of having beady eyes'') and are mostly sclera. |
| 1049 | * InformedSpecies: PlayedForLaughs; he claims to be an eagle despite not resembling one in the least. The three main puppets are too baffled by this claim to contradict it, while the Brain Friends pretend not to notice out of politeness. |
| 1050 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: He does not understand how inconsiderate he is being to the people he's trying to make friends with. |
| 1051 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Unpleasantly selfish and self-centered. It's telling that the example he uses of his former friends neglecting him is just them paying attention to something ''other'' than him. |
| 1052 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Tries to "help" the trio with their friendship issues but quickly backslides when they don't want to do everything he says and he once again backstabs them when he sees that Yellow Guy's mind friends will do whatever he says. And he manages to alienate ''the imaginary friends'' without caring one bit. |
| 1053 | * JerkassToOne: Not that he's usually pleasant, but at least he bothers to hide his selfishness under a veneer of politeness or self-righteousness to most of the people he interacts with. Not so with Shy Imaginary Older Brother, whom he shouts at and berates for no reason. |
| 1054 | * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: At first he's just rather pushy and obnoxious, but he is trying to show Red and Duck how they're mistreating Yellow Guy. He doesn't become a full-on menace until Red convinces him to extract Yellow from his own mind, at which point he turns into a controlling, toxic parasite and tries to keep Yellow with him forever. |
| 1055 | * KnightTemplar: He's genuinely trying to give advice on how to treat your friends but is so controlling, insecure, and needy that he can't heed his own advice or let Yellow Guy maintain his personal space. |
| 1056 | * {{Leitmotif}}: A preppy upbeat tune plays whenever he stops to deliver one of his OK Stop segments. |
| 1057 | * ManipulativeBastard: It doesn't help that he has access to the OK Stop Organization's technology, which allows him to hack equipment and outright [[TimeMaster control time]], but he does everything in his power to pull the strings on a situation to make himself the focal point, and pretends when people are calling him out for it that they're talking about something else unaffiliated with him. |
| 1058 | * MotiveDecay: He did ''attempt'' to make Yellow Guy leave his brain friends and go back to the waking world but eventually stays with him after the friends convince him. His motives decay even further when he drives away all of Yellow Guy's brain friends and then tries to maliciously trap him inside his brain; just so Warren can be Yellow Guy's best and only friend. |
| 1059 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: He's mostly pathetic but when in the darkest corner of Yellow Guy's mind he turns into a threatening, monstrous beast that has to be put down by Duck Guy. |
| 1060 | * ObliviouslyEvil: He's not actively malicious, just annoying, clingy, depressing, and selfish. Subverted when his PowerMakeOver turns him into a slimy, ginormous monstrosity that could seriously hurt Yellow Guy. |
| 1061 | * OneWingedAngel: When inside of Yellow Guy's head, he eventually transforms into a large, bloated form that towers over Yellow Guy's mental self. |
| 1062 | * OutsideGenreFoe: Warren behaves differently than the other teachers do when trying to give the trio a lesson. Instead of whisking them away on a song, he instead attempts to teach them via situations similar to a workplace training video. |
| 1063 | * RiseOfZitboy: As one of the many visual telltales marking him as a dorky, unappealing loser, Warren's torso is covered with acne that looks ready to pop at any moment. |
| 1064 | * ScareEmStraight: In a desperate attempt to make sure Yellow Guy doesn't leave him, he transforms into a gargantuan and grotesque version of himself while stalking him through the depths of his mind. |
| 1065 | * SelfServingMemory: While it's pretty clear that Warren shouldn't be taken at his word, the image he presents of his friends begging for his forgiveness is noticeably messier than his previous images. In fact, their TearsOfRemorse are drawn the same way as an earlier image where he scrawled out their faces in anger. However things went down in reality, Warren's former friends did ''not'' come crawling back to him. |
| 1066 | * SimpletonVoice: His character is exemplified by his voice, which manages to sound both exaggeratedly whiny (alluding to his delusional self-pity) and trying-too-hard-to-sound-enthusiastic (reflecting his obsession with looking confident and his pathological need for attention) at the same time. Red Guy even calls out Warren's annoying voice as one of the many things people would dislike about him |
| 1067 | * {{Sizeshifter}}: Implied since he is huge in Yellow Guy's subconscious, but is tiny after he is forcefully removed. |
| 1068 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Heavily implied from his claim of being a "friendship expert" and how "''even''" he "had trouble making and keeping friends". |
| 1069 | * SpeciesSurname: Parodied. It's painfully obvious that Warren the Eagle is actually Warren ''the Worm''. The latter is even in his business card, albeit lazily crossed off with a marker. |
| 1070 | * StealthPun: [[spoiler:Warren gets extracted by Duck. A bird catching a worm...]] |
| 1071 | * SmugSnake: So much more smug than Colin, he pretends that his former friends grovelled to him after booting him out of the OK! Stop! organisation when the reality is that they never crawled back to him. |
| 1072 | * TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Although he originally entered Yellow Guy's brain solely to snap him back to the real world, the Brain Friends unintentionally encourage him to stay in Yellow Guy's mind, oblivious to the fact that his selfish behaviour has driven everyone away. |
| 1073 | * TimeMaster: Using his resources from his former ties to the OK Stop Organization, he can freeze and rewind time to control the people around him. |
| 1074 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: He loves "restaurant style meals". |
| 1075 | * TragicVillain: Warren's main motivation of just wanting to have some friends so he can share "restaurant-style meals" with them makes him at least pitiable, maybe even a bit sympathetic, but his annoying and toxic demeanor, most prominently his proclivity towards being extremely possessive, overbearing, [[ControlFreak bossy]], vindictive, and [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] makes it all too obvious why he always ends up driving people away. |
| 1076 | * TransNature: Claims to be an eagle despite clearly being a worm. It isn't clear if he truly ''believes'' himself to be an eagle, or is just trying to cover for his own neurotic insecurities. |
| 1077 | * TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside: Subverted. Warren looks replusive, but the fact that he has some sympathetic elements to his personality and his talk about how "some eagle's wings taking longer to sprout" it intially appears like his character might be supposed to setting up this kind of Aesop, but as it turns out, [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk he really is every bit as ugly and pathetic on the inside as he is on the outside]]. |
| 1078 | * {{Yandere}}: Becomes obsessed with being the Yellow Guy's "friend". |
| 1079 | * YourSizeMayVary: [[spoiler:He goes from a life-ish size puppet worm to a plus-size deformed beast and then shown to be the size of an actual worm when he's killed by Duck Guy.]] |
| 1080 | [[/folder]] |
| 1081 | |
| 1082 | [[folder:Choo Choo]] |
| 1083 | !!The Transport Man |
| 1084 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Baker Terry |
| 1085 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/snip_it_1664568766712.jpg]] |
| 1086 | [[caption-width-right:350: ''"Now, how about we take a trip?"'']] |
| 1087 | An elderly locomotive who teaches the trio about the many ways one can be transported in "Transport". He has the ability to change his body. Unfortunately, he dies early, leaving the trio to continue the lesson on their own. |
| 1088 | ---- |
| 1089 | * AntiVillain: While somewhat rude (though maybe it's him losing his mind), he seems to have wanted to teach his lesson, really only ending it via him dying early. And most of the episode's events weren't caused by him directly, rather, it's Red Guy and his insistence on leaving the house and going somewhere else that gets the plot moving. |
| 1090 | * BaitAndSwitchBoss: Inverted. After Red Guy mentions he wants to go somewhere, the whole house shakes with the force implying a huge locomotive about to barrel through, only to have The Old Train anticlimactically come out of the wall as a tiny toy train. And on a meta level, this teacher is ''not'' the source of the episode's true horror. |
| 1091 | * BodyHorror: As a result of being elderly and apparently falling apart, he's constantly hacking up and/or leaking oil from his eyes and mouth. It goes even further at one point when he turns into some kind of car-shaped demon for a couple of moments. |
| 1092 | * CaneFu: Downplayed, but part of his interaction with Red Guy is giving him a pointed whack with his walking cane. |
| 1093 | * CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Once outside reality and in the middle of a mysterious wasteland, the Students dismantle and turn his body into a campfire]]. |
| 1094 | * ExpospeakGag: He claims that his "special drink" is "forged far beneath the earth with the last remnants of the ancient ones". Obviously, he's just talking about oil. |
| 1095 | * GrumpyOldMan: He is the oldest teacher met and is in a constant grumpy mood. |
| 1096 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In a sense; he's a GrumpyOldMan who doesn't appear to even ''want'' to be teaching the trio and he has no hesitation thwacking them around with his cane, but he sticks out among the teachers in that he never once attempts to genuinely harm or kill them. There's even moments where he seems to be ''trying'' for enthusiasm (if in response [[ICantHearYou to all the wrong things]]). |
| 1097 | -->"''We're all having such fun, for transport!''" (''arm falls off'') "''[[OhCrap Oh-]]''" |
| 1098 | * {{Leitmotif}}: A little old timey toon plays whenever he appears onscreen. It is best heard during his Transport song. |
| 1099 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: His left arm simply falls clean off during his covered wagon form and he merely mutters "It doesn't matter" with the same concern a person might have if they drop a penny down a sewer hole. Justified, as he can simply regrow a new arm by morphing into a different shape. |
| 1100 | * NoYou: When the puppets tell him to stop morphing, as it's clearly making him unwell, he claims he isn't, and accuses ''them'' of morphing. |
| 1101 | * OhCrap: He is scared and enraged when he [[spoiler:wakes up to see Red Guy has been driving him further than he can handle]]. |
| 1102 | * OutOfFocus: He ''seemingly'' dies during his song, and the majority of the episode is spent with the trio on their own. |
| 1103 | * PowerIncontinence: Over the course of his song, he transforms increasingly erratically, eventually shapeshifting into [[BodyHorror weird amalgamations of methods of transport]] until his old body can't take the strain anymore, and he dies. [[spoiler:[[NotQuiteDead Or at least seems to.]]]] |
| 1104 | * ScatterbrainedSenior: Very hard of hearing, frequently loses his train of thought, and in general seems like he'd rather be doing something else. At one point, he hacks up oil on a "ticket to anywhere" which he gives to Duck. Not ten seconds later when he takes it back, he accuses ''Duck'' of leaving the oily residue. |
| 1105 | * ScrewballSerum: Stops to take his "very special very warm drink", implied to be some sort of medication that smells like poison and is stated to be made deep within the bowels of the earth. The jury's out on whether or not taking it ultimately caused the trio to [[spoiler:end up in the wasteland]]. Unrefined oil is also, generally, pretty bad for a fair number of the vehicles he transformed into... |
| 1106 | * ShapeshifterSwanSong: Played with. As he's dying from exertion, his body flips through various states but seemingly stops on [[https://i.imgur.com/o6A1Fyy.pnga form]] that looks less like a car and more like a ''dying, black-eyed and long-tongued blue demon trying to take on the shape of a car, with giant sharp and exposed ribs forming the frame''. However, a moment later he manages to fully become his car form and dies, his eyes rolling back to reveal "Xs". It could double as a WhamShot in explaining just exactly what the Teachers ''are''... |
| 1107 | * ShoutOut: He has a face where his smokebox should be, similar to [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends Thomas the Tank Engine]]. |
| 1108 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Downplayed. He can turn into anything as long as it's a form of transportation, and he quickly loses control of this ability as the song goes on and he gets closer to death. |
| 1109 | [[/folder]] |
| 1110 | |
| 1111 | [[folder:Electracey the Meter]] |
| 1112 | !!Electracey the Meter |
| 1113 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Becky Sloan |
| 1114 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/electracey.png]] |
| 1115 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"It's time your brains all learn about electricity!"'']] |
| 1116 | |
| 1117 | An electric-powered robot that tells the trio about the true value of electricity in "Electricity". |
| 1118 | ---- |
| 1119 | * ButtMonkey: The poor robot spends a large majority of the episode in a drunk state after having her batteries replaced with Yellow Guy's degraded ones. |
| 1120 | * ElectronicSpeechImpediment: She actually averts this trope when she has fresh batteries, but during the time she spends with old, worn-out ones, her speech randomly slows and speeds up, making it hard to understand her. Once she gets her fresh batteries back, her speech becomes clear again. |
| 1121 | * KarmicJackpot: Unlike the other teachers, she remains consistently nice and positive towards the students and does not inflict any harm or danger on them--aside from Yellow Guy's electric chair. As such, she is the only teacher who does not die in the series. |
| 1122 | * NiceGirl: Probably the nicest and most amiable teacher in the whole show. She teaches the trio about the importance of electricity, does not belittle or mock them, does no major or direct harm to them, and leaves once she believes they have learned their lesson. That said, she ''does'' put Yellow Guy in an electric chair and kills the trio's pet by splitting it in half, but both are done in a non-malicious manner. |
| 1123 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: The other teachers are standard sentient objects with faces and limbs (excepting Sketchbook, who lacks the latter, the Twins, who are flat out human in appearance, and Warren, who is a worm with human characteristics), but Electracey is a robot whose body is made up of electric bits and parts. |
| 1124 | * OnlySaneWoman: The single most reasonable and non-malicious of the teachers, even more so than Sketchbook. She is also the only one to give a competent lesson on her subject rather than being a KnowNothingKnowItAll and, while it's usually the trio (especially Red and Duck) who voice their perplexion with the teachers' nonsense, with Electracey it's the other way around, as she is clearly weirded out by Duck's fixation for his shredder and, even in her malfunctioning state later in the episode, tries to warn Red and Duck that it's a bad idea to make everything in their house electric. |
| 1125 | * OutOfFocus: Once her song ends and she has her batteries replaced with Yellow Guy's, she spends the rest of the episode lingering in the background on low power until she is recharged. |
| 1126 | * PunnyName: Her full name resembles "electricity meter". |
| 1127 | * ShockAndAwe: [[MeaningfulName And her name is very meaningful.]] She not only demonstrates all sorts of electrical devices through channeling power through the plugs on the ends of her limbs, she eventually uses electricity to play a lightning-bolt-shaped electric guitar. |
| 1128 | * SoleSurvivor: The only teacher not to meet a horrible end during the TV show. |
| 1129 | * ThrowTheDogABone: Duck eventually restores her to normal power -- at the cost of Yellow Guy's newfound intelligence and self-awareness. |
| 1130 | [[/folder]] |
| 1131 | |
| 1132 | !!Others |
| 1133 | |
| 1134 | [[folder:Grolton and Hovris]] |
| 1135 | !!Grolton and Hovris |
| 1136 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' George Fouracres |
| 1137 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fe7fa364_7025_4bbd_959b_c2e66db50920.png]] |
| 1138 | [[caption-width-right:350:Grolton's the dog; Hovris is the man.[[note]]It's actually the [[IAmNotShazam other way around]], but [[TheDitz Yellow Guy]] doesn't think so.[[/note]]]] |
| 1139 | |
| 1140 | A claymation duo that the main trio watch on occasion. |
| 1141 | ---- |
| 1142 | * AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: Grolton has a rather... ''strange'' pattern of speech. |
| 1143 | -->'''Grolton:''' Nnnnoooo! That is my bot-TLED wa-TER, hovRIS! |
| 1144 | * BritishTeeth: Grolton's quite British and has ugly-looking teeth, due to having a gum disease. |
| 1145 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Grolton rambles on quite a bit to his dog, and will set the table for a visit that's occurring next month. |
| 1146 | * {{Expy}}: Of the famous duo ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit''. |
| 1147 | * IAmNotShazam: InUniverse. Yellow Guy repeatedly insists that Grolton is the dog and Hovris is the man, despite Grolton directly referring to his dog as Hovris, with Red Guy and Duck constantly having to correct him. |
| 1148 | * MoodSwinger: After setting the table in preparation for his brother's visit, Grolton remembers that his brother isn't visiting until next month. He shouts angrily while throwing a plate on the floor. |
| 1149 | * NoSympathy: Grolton denies Hovris bottled water (which he had a full picnic basket full of) on a hot day simply because Grolton brought the water for him and Hovris should have brought his own water. |
| 1150 | * PerpetualPoverty: Grolton is implied to be in some dire financial straits; the most exotic thing he can afford to consume is ''water'' (and even that is apparently in such short supply he refuses to share), and he considers it a cause for celebration when he inherits ''40 pounds'' from his mother. |
| 1151 | * ShowWithinAShow: Yellow Guy and Duck are big fans of their show, despite being characters in a show themselves. Red Guy is also seen watching it, although he considers the show predictable. |
| 1152 | * SilentPartner: Hovris does not appear to be able to speak, instead making growling noises like a normal dog, therefore playing the role of the Silent Partner to Grolton, who is a normal human and can therefore speak. |
| 1153 | * SkewedPriorities: When Grolton gets a letter telling him his mother died and left him 40 pounds in her will, he declares it "a cause for celebration". |
| 1154 | * TrademarkFavoriteDrink: Grolton has this strange infatuation with drinking water. He packs a massive amount of water bottles and nothing else to a picnic, and adamantly refuses to share with Hovris. When he receives the good news of his inheritance, his immediate reaction is to celebrate by “heating up some water”. |
| 1155 | [[/folder]] |
| 1156 | |
| 1157 | [[folder:Unemployed Brendon]] |
| 1158 | !!Unemployed Brendon |
| 1159 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Becky Sloan |
| 1160 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/unemployed_brendon.png]] |
| 1161 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Are you gonna publish my novel?!"'']] |
| 1162 | |
| 1163 | Briefcase's unemployed older brother, who he often drags along to sing about the perils of being unemployed, much to Brendon's dismay. He claims to be an aspiring writer. |
| 1164 | ---- |
| 1165 | * BrattyHalfPint: He soon devolves into this as he abruptly stops going along with using himself as an AntiRoleModel for being unsuccessful in his brother's play. He petulantly states he doesn't want to do the shows anymore and insists that Briefcase call him just Brendon, punches a wall after he states how unfair his state of affairs is, gets cross with Red Guy when he asks if his hand is alright, then screeches at the top of his lungs for Red Guy to leave him alone when he says he won't publish his novel. As [[RageBreakingPoint this was the result of building frustration with his brother and lack of success]], it's unknown if this is his normal personality. |
| 1166 | * DontYouDarePityMe: To the point that he gets angry when Red Guy simply asks him if he's okay after he hurts his hand. Given that his brother is very condescending towards him, this is understandable. |
| 1167 | * TheDragAlong: He's often dragged along by Briefcase to sing about why you shouldn't be unemployed like him, something he clearly hates doing. |
| 1168 | * DreadfulMusician: When Brendon has to sing his part about how pathetic he is being unemployed, he clearly doesn't want to do it, sings out of tune, and gives up before giving a rant about having to praise his better-received brother for being employed. |
| 1169 | * HatesBeingNicknamed: He's not fond of being called "Unemployed Brendon". |
| 1170 | -->'''Briefcase:''' Keep going, Unemployed Brendon!\ |
| 1171 | '''Brendon:''' Why can't you just call me Brendon?! My name is Brendon! |
| 1172 | * LittleBigBrother: Even though he's supposed to be older than Briefcase, Brendon is about half his size, not helped by his voice and behavior being childish. |
| 1173 | * {{Manchild}}: He's unemployed, talks and acts like a child, and is apparently Briefcase's older brother. What else would he be? |
| 1174 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Although he looks and sounds like a child, he's actually older than Briefcase. |
| 1175 | * PunchAWall: As a means of venting his frustrations with his brother's condescencion and being more successful than him. All that it accomplishes is him hurting his hand (you can even hear his bones breaking). |
| 1176 | * SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: He's very much not happy about how successful his younger brother is compared to him, especially since Briefcase ''constantly'' rubs it in at every oppertunity. |
| 1177 | * StarvingArtist: He's an aspiring writer without much success. |
| 1178 | * WritersSuck: His novel, "The Ultimate Forgiveness," remains unpublished, and you can spot it in the bin in the fourth episode. The fact he's unemployed doesn't help matters. |
| 1179 | [[/folder]] |
| 1180 | |
| 1181 | [[folder:Peterson's and Sons and Friends Bits & Parts Limited Employees]] |
| 1182 | !!Peterson's and Sons and Friends Bits & Parts Limited Employees |
| 1183 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Leila Navabi (Claire), Baker Terry (Andy, Duncan) |
| 1184 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/petersons_ltd.png]] |
| 1185 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Sometimes, I feel a bit like the parts are making me!"'']] |
| 1186 | |
| 1187 | A team of talking commonplace work objects that love their jobs. |
| 1188 | ---- |
| 1189 | * AntiVillain: Upper management is encouraged to be callous, HappinessIsMandatory (although you can be miserable on your own time like the urinal) under threat of Carehound mauling, and upward mobility appears impossible. But the work environment is stable and pleasant (however forced), which is why Yellow Guy takes to it so well. |
| 1190 | * ClothingConcealedInjury: More like Clothing-Concealed ''Deformity'', but Duncan has a fleshy, screaming head hidden underneath his hard hat. |
| 1191 | * TheCuckoolanderWasRight: When the trio realize that they're stuck in Peterson's, they ask where the Briefcase went, with Duncan pointing towards a green first-aid kit. Seems like he's just mistaking the Briefcase with the kit, but near the end of the episode, when Duck tries to open the kit to help out the Yellow Guy, who's currently bleeding out, the Briefcase was indeed inside of the first-aid kit. |
| 1192 | * ConditionedToAcceptHorror: The employees have not only accepted PASAFB&PL's NoOSHACompliance, they ''celebrate'' accidents because it reminds them of how good it is when accidents aren't happening. |
| 1193 | * IncompetenceInc: The company is something straight out of Kafka's nightmares: |
| 1194 | ** Yellow is quickly employed at the assembly line, where his job is apparently moulding clay blobs into random parts, which are immediately turned back into clay blobs. |
| 1195 | ** Red's new job in upper management consists of telling people not to bother him and occasionally firing people (although this isn't permanent apparently so he doesn't really even do that). |
| 1196 | ** Duck's job is... [[WhatExactlyIsHisJob something around the factory]], although nobody exactly knows and he gets "fired" before ever figuring it out. [[spoiler:He does apparently get rehired 40 years later, but even then it isn't shown what he does.]] |
| 1197 | * InterspeciesRomance: In the 40 years the trio is trapped there, Yellow Guy ends up marrying Claire, one of the wrench workers, and having a child with her. |
| 1198 | * KindheartedSimpleton: Duncan, the website creator, is really bad at his job and has notably low intelligence, but he's always in a good mood, and everyone (besides [[SitcomArchNemesis Duck]]) finds him charming. |
| 1199 | * NiceGuy: At least, the workers on the assembly line fit this trope. They're friendly and supportive to new members and have no ulterior motive other than working an honest day's work. [[spoiler:Even if they are overjoyed with Yellow Guy ending up in a horrific accident, it's clear that it's out of BlueAndOrangeMorality rather than genuine malice.]] |
| 1200 | * NoNameGiven: Aside from Andy[[note]]which is given through his name tag[[/note]], Claire, and Duncan, none of them are given names on-screen. |
| 1201 | * NoOSHACompliance: They actively look forward to horrific freak accidents happening since it helps them appreciate when accidents aren't happening, but ultimately subverted as they are referred to as "freak" accidents (accidents that are so unlikely that companies cannot account for them) and they have apparently gone [[spoiler:at least 40 years without a single occurrence]]. |
| 1202 | * SoUnfunnyItsFunny: A lot of them like to crack dad jokes in conversations. |
| 1203 | -->'''The Mr. Lunch:''' How are you? How is your child?\ |
| 1204 | '''Andy:''' Good, thanks! I like my child, but not as much as I like... lasagna! |
| 1205 | * StandardOfficeSetting: Factory version and parodied. All the tools sit around doing the same thing and making meaningless but common workplace quotes and statements. |
| 1206 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: It's more because the vending machine ''only'' offers it (besides coffee, oil, and a cigarette), but the employees are always seen eating toasted lasagna at lunch. |
| 1207 | [[/folder]] |
| 1208 | |
| 1209 | [[folder:Sally and the Urinal]] |
| 1210 | A wet floor sign and a Urinal |
| 1211 | ---- |
| 1212 | * AllThereInTheManual: According to Becky's IG, the Wet Floor signed is named "Sally". |
| 1213 | * AmbiguousGender: If Urinal is supposed to be gendered, that is. |
| 1214 | * NoNameGiven: "Urinal" is just called "Urinal" and nothin' else. |
| 1215 | * NiceGuy: Sally, who helps a retired Yellow Guy get his hand out of the shredder, and she warns people not to get in accident (as a wet floor sign should). |
| 1216 | [[/folder]] |
| 1217 | |
| 1218 | [[folder:The Mr. Lunch and the Free Vending Machine]] |
| 1219 | A pair of vending machines who provide refreshments to the employees of Peterson's and Sons and Friends Bits & Parts Limited. |
| 1220 | !!The Mr. Lunch |
| 1221 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Phil Wang |
| 1222 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6508c23f_8b9b_4736_8c76_58d6d4bc90c9.png]] |
| 1223 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"How are you? How is your child?"'']] |
| 1224 | |
| 1225 | * JerkassToOne: He's generally pretty friendly, but is immediately hostile to Duck Guy for no apparent reason. He refuses to give Duck Guy lunch because he doesn't have the correct tokens, even though none of the other customers he served had tokens either, and insists that Duck get from the disgusting "free" vending machine instead. |
| 1226 | * NiceGuy: Friendly, courteous, and always takes a moment to ask the line workers how they're doing when they come for lunch. He even treats new employees to free coffee. |
| 1227 | ---- |
| 1228 | !!Free Vending Machine |
| 1229 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Jen Ives |
| 1230 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4ad27f7c_72c5_4593_a2e9_37fb10d48743.jpeg]] |
| 1231 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Actually, that's too much. Put some back."''']] |
| 1232 | * ThePigPen: It's derelict and disgusting, only able to dispense a thick brown liquid as "food" (which goes directly in one's hand, instead of on a plate, and mostly spills on the floor). |
| 1233 | * ShoutOut: His croaky voice sounds eerily similar to WebAnimation/SaladFingers, to the point where fans of both shows thought Creator/DavidFirth was voicing it. |
| 1234 | [[/folder]] |
| 1235 | |
| 1236 | [[folder:The Fax Machine]] |
| 1237 | !!The Fax Machine |
| 1238 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Kath Hughes |
| 1239 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/snip_it_1665610831972.jpg]] |
| 1240 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"He can't do that! Quick, show him who's boss!"'']] |
| 1241 | |
| 1242 | A fax machine in the manager's office who's very insistent that Red Guy is good for the job. |
| 1243 | ---- |
| 1244 | * CaptainObvious: When complimenting Red's [[SuddenlyShouting out of nowhere shouting]] down the phone; she says she likes it since "It's your voice but.... more of it!" |
| 1245 | * TheCorrupter: Spends her screentime trying to entice Red Guy to the idea of a cozy upper management position, and even not-so-subtly encourages him to fire and/or ''kill'' the trash can. |
| 1246 | * LackOfEmpathy: She doesn't hesitate to call one of her fellow coworkers pathetic and completely refuses to let Red Guy acknowledge Duck's concerns. |
| 1247 | * TheTease: Red Guy [[ObliviousToLove doesn't seem to catch on]], but she consistently flirts with him, even referring to his telephone voice as "lovely". |
| 1248 | [[/folder]] |
| 1249 | |
| 1250 | [[folder:The Bin]] |
| 1251 | !!The Bin |
| 1252 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/snip_it_1666218050449.jpg]] |
| 1253 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Yes, sir! I'm pathetic!"'']] |
| 1254 | |
| 1255 | A trash bin that lives in Red Guy's office and acts like his personal janitor. |
| 1256 | ---- |
| 1257 | * AxCrazy: Not physically, but definitely mentally. |
| 1258 | * SelfDeprecation: They are not only fine with being called pathetic, but they completely encourage it as well. |
| 1259 | * SycophanticServant: It seems to take pleasure in being demeaned, and gets especially enthusiastic at the prospect of getting fired for trivial reasons. |
| 1260 | -->'''Bin:''' Fire somebody. Fire me! [[AxCrazy Fire the whole world!]] |
| 1261 | [[/folder]] |
| 1262 | |
| 1263 | [[folder:Elevator Robot]] |
| 1264 | !!Elevator Robot |
| 1265 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LollyAdefope |
| 1266 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/361d47a3_c856_4fbf_bf8c_d163e10bb48f.png]] |
| 1267 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Perhaps there's still a place for you here after all. We just need to deal with your attitude."'']] |
| 1268 | |
| 1269 | An AI built into an elevator who does negotiations with employees of Peterson's and Sons and Friends Bits & Parts Limited who are either feeling overwhelmed or have been fired. |
| 1270 | ---- |
| 1271 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: She appears to be a pleasant AI who's willing to help those who have problems, but she really just wants them to conform to company policies and believes their downer attitudes are inherently problematic. |
| 1272 | * ComplexityAddiction: She doesn't answer to Duck's complaints directly, instead telling him to select one of four emotions, and her coping metaphor is needlessly complicated. |
| 1273 | * CozyVoiceForCatastrophes: Even as the Carehound is showing itself to maul Duck, she maintains her soothing, welcoming voice. |
| 1274 | * DisneyAcidSequence: When singing to Duck about dealing with stress, she drags him into her programming, turning him into a vector drawing with minimalist details. |
| 1275 | * {{Metaphorgotten}}: Her coping metaphor makes little to no sense, which Duck ends up [[LampshadeHanging pointing out]]. |
| 1276 | -->'''Elevator Robot:''' Try to imagine all your thoughts are squeezed inside a cube, and the cube is in a garden, but the garden isn't real, and the cube is made of ''nothing''. Now, let's imagine we're in a library, and there's loads and loads of books, and they represent the cube, and the cube is actually ''[[TomatoSurprise you]]''.\ |
| 1277 | '''Duck:''' [[FlatWhat What?]] That's it. I'm not a cube. Turn it off. |
| 1278 | * TherapyBackfire: She doesn't realize that stress isn't Duck's current problem, and her attempts at getting him to relax are all dismissed by him as a result. |
| 1279 | [[/folder]] |
| 1280 | |
| 1281 | [[folder:The Carehound]] |
| 1282 | !!The Carehound |
| 1283 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/carehound.png]] |
| 1284 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Just whisper your complaints very quietly into the mouth of the Carehound."'']] |
| 1285 | |
| 1286 | A bizarre dog being that does ''something'' to you should you be fired from your job at Peterson's and Sons and Friends Bits & Parts Limited. |
| 1287 | ---- |
| 1288 | * AnimalisticAbomination: A sinister dog-like creature that appears to swallow Duck whole. When it spits him out, he suddenly forgets about the problems of the workplace. |
| 1289 | * BewareOfViciousDog: They are the last dog you would want to act as your emotional support animal. |
| 1290 | * CheatedAngle: Played with. At first, we see images of the Carehound with two eyes on the side of the head, typical of a cartoon character. Then it turns out the actual Carehound really ''does'' have two eyes on both sides of his head, for a total of four eyes. |
| 1291 | * ExtraEyes: Dogs should not have four eyes. |
| 1292 | * {{Leitmotif}}: Whenever they are mentioned or appear, a therapeutic and almost airport-like melody will play. |
| 1293 | * MindRape: If you're not a willing worker, its SwallowedWhole method will ''make'' you one. |
| 1294 | * YearOutsideHourInside: After being SwallowedWhole by the Carehound, by the time Duck is spit back out, there's apparently been a 40-year TimeSkip, but Duck looks like he hasn't aged a day. |
| 1295 | [[/folder]] |
| 1296 | |
| 1297 | [[folder:Janet]] |
| 1298 | She shows up in the episode, ''Jobs'' and she's Yellow Guy's kid with Claire. |
| 1299 | ---- |
| 1300 | * CreepyChild: What kid enjoys people getting into accidents? Janet the wrench kid, that's who, though like the people that work at Bits & Parts Limited, she doesn't enjoy it out of meanness. |
| 1301 | * MixAndMatchCritters: A mixture of a wrench and... whatever Yellow Guy is. |
| 1302 | [[/folder]] |
| 1303 | |
| 1304 | [[folder:Tissue Box (and the Mourners)]] |
| 1305 | !!Tissue Box |
| 1306 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Katy Wix |
| 1307 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tissue_box.png]] |
| 1308 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"So quiet here without David..."'']] |
| 1309 | |
| 1310 | An enigmatic talking tissue box who is grieving Duck's apparent death, along with several mourners. |
| 1311 | ---- |
| 1312 | * DueToTheDead: She speaks fondly of Duck, though she refers to him as "David". |
| 1313 | * InsaneTrollLogic: When Yellow Guy points out that Tissue Box didn't even know Duck, her response is "Who really did?" |
| 1314 | * PretentiousPronunciation: Pronounces the S's in "tissue" like the ones in "missile". |
| 1315 | |
| 1316 | !!The Mourners |
| 1317 | Other mourners that show up in ''Death'' |
| 1318 | ---- |
| 1319 | * CartoonCreature: Well, we know they're humanoid |
| 1320 | * ColorMotif: They are gray, which matches with being melancholic. |
| 1321 | * UnknownCharacter: One, who is "David"? And, two, who are these guys? They like sandwiches, which is all we know. |
| 1322 | * VagueAge: Apparently, they're aged, with gray hair and wrinkles, though, to be mourning Duck (or "David"), they can't be much older than Red Guy. |
| 1323 | [[/folder]] |
| 1324 | |
| 1325 | [[folder:Stain Edwards, the Forever Boy]] |
| 1326 | !!Stain Edwards, the Forever Boy |
| 1327 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Becky Sloan (Normal), Baker Terry (Duck), Beattie Hartley (Experiment) |
| 1328 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stain.png]] |
| 1329 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Us three on a crazy adventure! Who knows what might happen?"'']] |
| 1330 | |
| 1331 | A bizarre amalgamation of clay given sentience that Red Guy uses as a replacement for Duck. It doesn't end well... |
| 1332 | ---- |
| 1333 | * AmbiguousCloneEnding: Did they kill Duck in the end and replace him? Or did Duck kill them before ''he'' was replaced? It's hinted to be the former, since the dead Duck had maggots in its blood just like he did while he was in the coffin. [[spoiler:Of course, given revelations in the sixth episode, it's a moot point anyway.]] |
| 1334 | * BreakTheCutie: Starts out overly curious and eager for adventure, but the awkwardness of Duck's death and the sedentary life of the friends leave them increasingly uncomfortable. Their attempts to fit in either result in their death at Duck's hands ''or'' in becoming indistinguishable from Duck. |
| 1335 | ** [[spoiler:It gets worse as while he does manage to survive, he is abducted off-screen by the Bigger versions of Duck and Red Guy who proceed to experiment on him like a lab rat.]] |
| 1336 | * ConstantlyCurious: He's always asking questions or observing the world around him. |
| 1337 | * GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: After being knocked off the table before being properly assembled, he goes from a lump of gibbering clay to being self-aware and eager to live life to the fullest and learn about the world. Unfortunately for him, Yellow Guy wanted nothing to do with him while Red Guy, while initially open to getting to know him, eventually forced him to become a new Duck. |
| 1338 | * KillAndReplace: It's alluded to that Stain is the one who killed Duck Guy and took his place from the third episode onward. |
| 1339 | * LineOfSightName: Upon Red Guy pointing out the stain in the room, he quickly adopts the name Stain, or more specifically, "Stain Edwards, the Forever Boy". |
| 1340 | * MediumBlending: They're animated entirely in claymation, which Yellow Guy even {{lampshade|hanging}}s and is disgusted by. |
| 1341 | * NiceGuy: Despite their unsettling initial impression, they're genuinely friendly and even gently try to tell Red Guy that he might have unresolved issues. Unfortunately, if they survive the episode, they eventually lose this trait as they become the new Duck. |
| 1342 | * OffWithHisHead: Duck slices their head off with a shovel. ''[[AmbiguousCloneEnding Maybe…]]'' |
| 1343 | * PetTheDog: His concern for Yellow Guy, despite the hate received from him. |
| 1344 | * ReplacementGoldfish: Red Guy, not wanting to accept that Duck is gone for good, slowly attaches more and more of Duck's pieces until they look like an exact replica of him. [[spoiler:It's implied to be the ''entire point'' of him being in the mourners' goodie bag. Lesley made a story about death to have him replaced for becoming aware and making trouble the previous episode, and once he's seemingly been gotten rid of, the mourners leave a speculative new friend for the clay to take the shape of. Apparently, the only thing she didn't count on was the remaining students freeing Duck and/or just recreating him out of repressed grief.]] |
| 1345 | * ShapeShifter: A lump of pink clay that can morph into any shape. |
| 1346 | * UnwittingTestSubject: [[spoiler:Becomes one of the Bigger Boys.]] |
| 1347 | * VoiceChangeling: Not only can Stain look like an exact replica of Duck, but he can change their voice to sound exactly like his! Although, it is implied they are forced by Red to talk like this. |
| 1348 | * WrongGenreSavvy: A cheerful blob of clay who wants to have adventures and explore wouldn't be out of place on the unironic preschool shows that ''Don't Hug Me I'm Scared'' viciously parodies. |
| 1349 | [[/folder]] |
| 1350 | |
| 1351 | [[folder:Green Apple]] |
| 1352 | A talking apple that ''would have'' taught the trio about eating healthy meals -- until Lilly eats his face off and hijacks the plot. |
| 1353 | ---- |
| 1354 | * FacialHorror: Their face gets eaten off by Lilly. |
| 1355 | * NotQuiteDead: It's shown trying to talk about the importance of a family of its episode from its place on the floor, despite, you know, missing a chunk of their face. |
| 1356 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: One second he hops on to the window and tries to teach the trio the importance of nutrition. And in the next, he is partially consumed and thrown on the floor. |
| 1357 | [[/folder]] |
| 1358 | |
| 1359 | [[folder:The Twins' Family]] |
| 1360 | !!The Twins' Family |
| 1361 | |
| 1362 | The unnerving family of The Twins. |
| 1363 | ---- |
| 1364 | * TheBrute: The Twin's older brother is a grunting grey headed giant who towers over even Red Guy and when physical force is required by the family, he is the one to carry it out. |
| 1365 | * BrattyFoodDemand: Much like the Twins themselves. |
| 1366 | * CreepyFamily: All of them are as unnerving as the twins are. |
| 1367 | * EvilOldFolks: The grandma doesn't do much but scream at people, and is completely on board with the plan to assimilate Yellow Guy. |
| 1368 | * FauxHorrific: The family kidnaps Yellow Guy and forces him to dress up as their mother... [[spoiler:in order to order a "family-sized" fast food combo meal.]] |
| 1369 | * HungryMenace: Less so than the Twins above as they seem content to let them do the dirty work, but still apply. |
| 1370 | * KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:They, along with the twins, are consumed by Roy]]. |
| 1371 | * MalevolentMaskedMen: When the chicken bucket arrives, the father dons a chicken mask to go with the rest of the family's ScaryTeeth. |
| 1372 | * ManChild: Two literal examples when it comes to "Brother" and "Father", though in completely opposite directions, Brother is a few decades YoungerThanTheyLook and behaves while Father is a few decades OlderThanTheyLook and behaves. |
| 1373 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: Much more realistic and less colorful than the other puppets. |
| 1374 | * OlderThanTheyLook: What looks like the baby of the family is actually the ''father'', much to Yellow Guy's shock. |
| 1375 | -->'''Yellow Guy:''' FATHER?! ''THAT ONE'S'' THE DAD?! |
| 1376 | * ReusedCharacterDesign: The "father" (who turns out to actually be the "brother") has a clear resemblance to the mourners from the 'death' episode. |
| 1377 | * ScaryTeeth: All of their mouths are pretty creepy when preparing to finally feast. |
| 1378 | * SmallParentHugeChild: When the brother and father are introduced, it's initially assumed that the smaller figure is the brother and the larger figure is the father, but it's later revealed to be the opposite. |
| 1379 | %%* TooHungryToBePolite |
| 1380 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: What can easily be mistaken for the father is actually the Twins' older brother. |
| 1381 | [[/folder]] |
| 1382 | |
| 1383 | [[folder:The Family Tree]] |
| 1384 | A living family tree |
| 1385 | ---- |
| 1386 | * AllegoricalCharacter: Possibly one for genealogical websites, such as the UK version of Ancesty or 23andMe |
| 1387 | * RecurringElement: A tree in their series' third episode that assists the "teachers" in their lesson. |
| 1388 | * HorrorHunger: It asks for a drop of blood from Red Guy to find his family, and then promptly sucks out so much that poor Red Guy passes out. |
| 1389 | [[/folder]] |
| 1390 | |
| 1391 | [[folder:Red Guy's Family]] |
| 1392 | Red Guy's relatives that show up in the episode ''Family'' |
| 1393 | ---- |
| 1394 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: Just like Red himself, they're played by costumed people, instead of animated puppets. |
| 1395 | [[/folder]] |
| 1396 | |
| 1397 | [[folder:Brain Friends]] |
| 1398 | !!Brain Friends |
| 1399 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Becky Sloan (First Tooth and The Lump), Emma Sidi (Bubble Bath Memory), Kiell Smith-Bynoe (Saturdavid), Johnny White (Shy Imaginary Older Brother), and Baker Terry (Yumpherdinker) |
| 1400 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brain_friends.png]] |
| 1401 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"It's the Brain Friends and you!"''[[note]]Names from left to right: Your First Tooth, Saturdavid, Bubble Bath Memory, Shy Imaginary Older Brother, Yumpherdinker.[[/note]]]] |
| 1402 | |
| 1403 | Yellow Guy's imaginary friends that he plays with when Red Guy and Duck are too mean to him. |
| 1404 | ---- |
| 1405 | * BathsAreFun: Bubble Bath Memory is just that: a positive memory of taking a bubble bath. |
| 1406 | * BigFun: Saturdavid is a husky, jolly fellow. |
| 1407 | * CartoonCreature: The closest thing we could call Yumpherdinker is a cat. But we honestly aren't sure if she is even that at all. |
| 1408 | * CreepyGood: They look rather uncanny and strange, but they are genuinely friendly to Yellow Guy and Warren; sodding off once they can no longer stand the latter. |
| 1409 | * DrivenToSuicide: Yellow Guy's imaginary shy older brother would rather ''slice his neck open with a glass shard'' than continue to hang out with Warren the Eagle. Thankfully, since he is imaginary, he comes back to life in the end. |
| 1410 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Shy Imaginary Older Brother can be seen in the pilot's opening song as one of the residents of Clay Hill, and goes by the name of Spring Boy. |
| 1411 | * EyesDoNotBelongThere: Yumpherdinker has several eyes all over her body. The only place she doesn't have excess eyes is her head. |
| 1412 | * EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: Despite their best effort, even they couldn't stand to be around Warren. Most of them simply left while Shy Imaginary Older Brother kills himself. Since they literally exist to be supportive, friendly and wholesome, it speaks volumes on how unpleasant Warren really is. |
| 1413 | * NiceGuy: They're based on positive memories or concepts that Yellow Guy likes. Their sole reason to exist is to be friends with Yellow Guy and anyone else who happens to enter his brain. They do make an effort to be friendly with Warren but his personality drives them off. |
| 1414 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Their accepting and kind nature end up causing Warren to stay a bit longer in Yellow Guy's brain because they intially go along with his eagle delusions and take some interest in his teachings. They end up regretting this decision, as he ends up completely ruining their party to the point they decide it is just for the best to completely ditch him. |
| 1415 | * NonHumanHead: Saturdavid has a kite for a head. In the Brain Friends "intro", it's seen that letting go of the kite's string makes his "head" fly away. |
| 1416 | * ReusedCharacterDesign: Shy Imaginary Older Brother actually has an unnamed predecessor in the pilot. This is particularly odd as that was a puppet while he is CGI. |
| 1417 | * SamusIsAGirl: Despite their odd appearance and deep voice, Yumpherdinker is the only one of the Brain Friends who's confirmed to be a girl.[[note]]Saturdavid and Shy Imaginary Older Brother are obviously male, and First Tooth and Bubble Bath Memory have non-indicative designs, and androgynous voices, and aren't referred to with any pronouns.[[/note]] |
| 1418 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: They leave Yellow Guy because Warren kept ruining the fun. They explicitly tell Yellow Guy that it isn't him they're avoiding, it's Warren. |
| 1419 | * SheepInSheepsClothing: In a series where all cuteness is usually [[SubvertedKidsShow subverted horrifically]] and most cute and "friendly" characters turn out to be dangerous, evil people, the Brain Friends stand out as possibly the only cute, colorful characters to be just as nice, accepting, and kind as they seem, with no hidden, nasty true colors whatsoever. |
| 1420 | * ShrinkingViolet: Shy Imaginary Older Brother's entire schtick; to the point where he can't raise his voice at Warren even if he wanted to. Warren uses this against him, as he quickly picks up on the fact that he is the one least likely to protest or talk back, and starts being especially bossy and demanding towards him. In the end, he finds Warren utterly intolerable to be around, but his shyness prevents him from being assertive enough to just walk out on Warren like the other Brain Friends did, so he ends up slitting his own throat on a piece of glass instead. |
| 1421 | [[/folder]] |
| 1422 | |
| 1423 | [[folder:Dr. Bushman]] |
| 1424 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Baker Terry |
| 1425 | An online doctor that Duck and Red Guy consult to help Yellow Guy's... [[BodyHorror issues]] in "Friendship". |
| 1426 | ---- |
| 1427 | * BackAlleyDoctor: Whatever this guy's credentials are, being a doctor who diagnoses people in a website does raise a few red flags. |
| 1428 | * CaptainObvious: Most of his answers are rather illogical, with the last one being a question about if Yellow Guy has a worm in his brain. Upon this being answered with a "yes", his diagnosis is that Yellow Guy indeed has a worm in his brain. |
| 1429 | * ElectronicSpeechImpediment: His voice is fine for the most part, but it pauses and glitches constantly, sometimes even interrupting his questions. |
| 1430 | * LabCoatOfScienceAndMedicine: Wears one, for obvious reasons. |
| 1431 | [[/folder]] |
| 1432 | |
| 1433 | [[folder:Time Child]] |
| 1434 | !!Time Child |
| 1435 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Jimmy Slim |
| 1436 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_2022_09_28_225348604.png]] |
| 1437 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"HEY GUYS DRINK THIS SPACE ALCOHOL AND COME WITH ME TO THE 6TH DIMENSION!!!"'']] |
| 1438 | |
| 1439 | A techno party-themed teacher who appears during a CutawayGag in "Transport". |
| 1440 | ---- |
| 1441 | * AmbiguouslyRelated: The fact that he is called "Time ''Child''", has a belt with a clock that strongly resembles Tony, and Tony is the one to inform him that everyone else had already left might mean he is somehow related to Tony. |
| 1442 | * MakingASpectacleOfYourself: Wears 80s Pizza Hut sunglasses with lightning bolts drawn in them. |
| 1443 | * RuleOfCool: To a pretty much parodic degree. He is a cybernetic, caped being from the 6th Dimension who drinks Space alcohol and has disco lights following him wherever he goes. |
| 1444 | * SingingVoiceDissonance: PlayedForLaughs. The moment he stops singing, his voice goes from cool and synthetized to completely unremarkable. |
| 1445 | * TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: {{Invoked|Trope}}. The whole point of his character is that he's a ridiculously cool teacher that the trio missed out on by going on their car trip. |
| 1446 | * VagueAge: He is called the Time ''Child'', has a head shape and hairdo reminiscent of a cartoon toddler and his singing voice seems to be the voices of an adult and a child overlapped, yet is the size of a grown man, his non-singing voice is very much that of an adult and he apparently is of legal age to drink "Space Alcohol". It's likely that his ambiguous age was done intentionally to make him even more otherworldly, due to him being a temporal being. |
| 1447 | [[/folder]] |
| 1448 | |
| 1449 | [[folder:Insurance Safe]] |
| 1450 | !!Insurance Safe |
| 1451 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Jamie Demetriou |
| 1452 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_2022_10_01_090406278.png]] |
| 1453 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"It's almost like you're teaching me!"'']] |
| 1454 | |
| 1455 | A talking safe that teaches the trio about insurance. |
| 1456 | ---- |
| 1457 | * ButtMonkey: Thanks to Yellow Guy's newfound intelligence allowing him to know ''exactly'' what insurance is and how it works, he's able to completely school Insurance Safe on how inaccurate his song is. After that, the teacher doesn't even get a chance at a dignified exit, since he's too short to grab the door handle. |
| 1458 | * KnowNothingKnowItAll: As the now intelligent Yellow Guy points out, his lesson about insurance is simplistic and wildly misleading. In fact, Yellow Guy ends up pretty much teaching ''him'', much to his obvious dismay. |
| 1459 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: His sudden and abrupt appearance is what causes the now newly intelligent Yellow Guy to question the true nature of their world. |
| 1460 | [[/folder]] |
| 1461 | |
| 1462 | [[folder:Mirror]] |
| 1463 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Michael Stranney |
| 1464 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_2022_10_01_090645834.png]] |
| 1465 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Hey, I noticed you're trying to look at your reflection! That's a bit of fun, huh? Maybe I can help!"'']] |
| 1466 | |
| 1467 | A mirror who wants to teach Yellow Guy about reflections. |
| 1468 | ---- |
| 1469 | * OneShotCharacter: Only appears in a single scene where he comes to life for a few seconds and tries to talk to Yellow Guy, who ignores him and instead goes up the stairs. |
| 1470 | * YouHaveResearchedBreathing: Apparently had an entire song planned for teaching the "tricky" skill of looking at your own reflection in a mirror. |
| 1471 | [[/folder]] |
| 1472 | |
| 1473 | [[folder:Big & Bigger Red Guys and Ducks]] |
| 1474 | !!Big & Bigger Red Guys and Ducks |
| 1475 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Joe Pelling (Red Guys), Baker Terry (Ducks) |
| 1476 | |
| 1477 | In the upper floors of the house are "larger" and "smarter" versions of Red Guy and Duck who represent higher levels of thinking. The second floor has big-headed, long-armed versions of Red Guy and Duck sitting in a room surrounded with blackboards covered with complex equations, and the third floor has more sci-fi versions in a blank white room. |
| 1478 | ---- |
| 1479 | * {{Catchphrase}}: "Try and keep up, mate." for Big Red Guy. |
| 1480 | * CreepyLongArms: The Big ones have freakishly long arms, to the point where they are splayed about and barely move. |
| 1481 | * {{Cyborg}}: Bigger Duck's body is mostly robotic, save for his [[BrainInAJar exposed brain]]. |
| 1482 | * {{Jerkass}}: Big Red and Duck keep acting smug about their apparent smartness while Bigger Red and Duck perform cruel, pointless experiments on a poor sludgey blob monster. |
| 1483 | * LightIsNotGood: Unlike the normal Duck the Bigger Duck has white feathers, realistic wings (giving him a slight angelic vibe) and a golden beak. Doesn't stop him from being a sadist. |
| 1484 | * MadScientist: Bigger Red and Duck qualify, given what they consider experiments. |
| 1485 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: Big Red Guy and Duck have the single most realistic eyes out of any character in the series, and it just looks ''wrong''. |
| 1486 | * ObliviouslyEvil: Bigger Red Guy and Duck seem taken aback by Yellow Guy's condemnation of their cruel experiments, and when he angrily tells them to go experiment on each other, Bigger Duck seems bang up for it. |
| 1487 | * SerialEscalation: The higher the floors go, the more complex and surreal the iterations become. |
| 1488 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Big Red and Duck act like they're intellectuals because, unlike the main cast, they learn ''two'' things at a time instead of one... that's it. |
| 1489 | * VillainHasAPoint: The Bigger pair isn't wrong that the next step after learning is experimenting and applying the knowledge gained in a practical way... not that their pointless experiments serve any practical purpose. And while ''theoretically'' it's possible that, as Bigger Red Guy suggests, the subject of their experiments might not feel pain or express hurt the same way as them, in context it's pretty obvious what's going on. |
| 1490 | * WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:If one were to believe that the creature the Bigger Duck and Red Guy are experimenting on is actually Stain Edwards, then this trope would also apply to them.]] |
| 1491 | [[/folder]] |
| 1492 | |
| 1493 | [[folder:Boundaries Guy and Rock Teacher]] |
| 1494 | !!Boundaries Guy and Rock Teacher |
| 1495 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Jason Forbes (Boundaries Guy), Natasha Hodgson (Rock Teacher) |
| 1496 | |
| 1497 | The teachers who teach their lessons to the Big Red Guy and the Big Duck. Speak over each other somewhat. |
| 1498 | ---- |
| 1499 | * AmbiguousGender: While Boundaries Guy's voice is more masculine and Rock Teacher's more feminine, neither's gender has been confirmed yet. |
| 1500 | * BuffySpeak: Rock Teacher devolves into this a bit. |
| 1501 | -->''Igneous, metamorphic, and all kinds of grey rocks!'' |
| 1502 | * {{Hypocrite}}: For someone who teaches about consent in relationships, Boundaries Guy is rather touchy with Yellow Guy. |
| 1503 | * KnowNothingKnowItAll: Rock Teacher, who claims that "the Sun was actually the first-ever rock". |
| 1504 | [[/folder]] |
| 1505 | |
| 1506 | !Pilot Characters |
| 1507 | [[folder:The Key to the City]] |
| 1508 | !!The Key to the City]] |
| 1509 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Baker Terry |
| 1510 | |
| 1511 | The supposed "Key to the City". He guides Duck into becoming the new mayor of Clay Hill. |
| 1512 | ---- |
| 1513 | * AnimateInanimateObject: A giant key. |
| 1514 | * BeardOfEvil: He sports a sinister-looking pencil moustache. |
| 1515 | * TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Subverted! Unlike the web series, the main trio is able to stop his rule over Clay Hill]]. |
| 1516 | * BigBad: Of the pilot episode, [[spoiler:he brainwashes Duck into becoming a cruel dictator and he's not '' even the real key to the city'']]. |
| 1517 | * ConsummateLiar: He's really good at lying. He uses this to his advantage by lying to Duck that everyone in town hates him. |
| 1518 | * TheCorrupter: He is the sole reason for [[spoiler:Duck's FaceHeelTurn as mayor]]. |
| 1519 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Seems to be nice to Duck, [[spoiler:but it's only because he wants to gain his trust and brainwash him]]. |
| 1520 | * TheStarscream: [[spoiler:He manipulates Duck into becoming a [[BodyHorror mindless monstrosity hooked up to the surveillance system just so he can be the new ruler]].]] |
| 1521 | [[/folder]] |
| 1522 | |
| 1523 | [[folder:Mayor Pigface]] |
| 1524 | !!Mayor Pigface |
| 1525 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Baker Terry |
| 1526 | |
| 1527 | The original mayor of Clay Hill, who is mysteriously missing from the town. |
| 1528 | ---- |
| 1529 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: His name is Pigface and he has a pig-like face. |
| 1530 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The ''real reason'' why he's missing. [[spoiler:Pigface much prefers living in the woods with his tree stump "friends" rather than facing his duties as mayor.]] |
| 1531 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Decides to come back to Clay Hill after realizing how quickly the town turned into a dystopian hellhole in his absence. |
| 1532 | [[/folder]] |
| 1533 | |
| 1534 | [[folder:The Fizzy Milk Jug]] |
| 1535 | !!The Fizzy Milk Jug |
| 1536 | |
| 1537 | A supposed cool, punk rebel that Yellow Guy begins to follow. |
| 1538 | ---- |
| 1539 | * AnimateInanimateObject: He's a giant milk bottle. |
| 1540 | * BrokenPedestal: At first, Yellow Guy admires how rebellious he is and wants to become just like him. Then, when Yellow Guy revolts against the new mayor (Duck), Fizzy Milk Jug immediately backs away from Yellow Guy, to the latter's annoyance. |
| 1541 | * CoolShades: Sports these for the entire pilot. |
| 1542 | * DirtyCoward: In truth, he's actually ''terrified'' of Duck as the mayor. |
| 1543 | * FaceHeelTurn: He seems to be allied with Yellow Guy but during the climax, he tries to stop him from usurping The Key to the City and a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] Duck. |
| 1544 | * RuleAbidingRebel: Subverted. At first, he seems like the typical rebel-without-a-cause bad boy, but in reality, he wants nothing to do with breaking the rules and only wants to drink fizzy milk. |
| 1545 | [[/folder]] |
| 1546 | |
| 1547 | [[folder:Big Ian]] |
| 1548 | !!Big Ian |
| 1549 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Baker Terry |
| 1550 | |
| 1551 | One of the trio's neighbors. |
| 1552 | ---- |
| 1553 | * TheBigGuy: Is supposed to take this role. [[IronicName Ironically, Red Guy is actually taller than him.]] |
| 1554 | * MeaningfulName: He's ''Big'' Ian, and one of the tallest characters in town. |
| 1555 | [[/folder]] |
| 1556 | |
| 1557 | [[folder:Mrs. Grenald]] |
| 1558 | !!Mrs. Grenald |
| 1559 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Becky Sloan |
| 1560 | |
| 1561 | Another citizen of Clay Hill. She seems to like baking cakes and pies. |
| 1562 | ---- |
| 1563 | * TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: Her cakes seem to be made out of ''real flesh''. Something only [[GenreSavvy Red Guy]] takes notice of. |
| 1564 | [[/folder]] |
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