Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

23min

Animation

Comedy

Follow Red Guy, Yellow Guy and Duck, who live in the town of Clayhill. In each episode they encounter a song which teaches them about an aspect of life. Whilst the episodes start wholesome and sunny, each episode invariably ends in a dark and disturbing place.

Production Companies

Blink Industries

Conaco

Super Deluxe

Episodes

Cast

Creativity

1. Creativity

3min

25th Jun 2011

A singing notebook tells 3 puppets to be creative. They sing along but they're not creative as they should be. The notebook has crazy feelings about organs.

Time

2. Time

4min

8th Jan 2014

The puppets, Harry, Robin, and Manny are watching TV waiting for their show to start but when a clock comes out to sing a song about the time then when they get there to what they know about the time they get more obsessed and the clock makes the puppets go completely wrong.

Love

3. Love

6min

31st Oct 2014

The third in the series about the perception of children's media. In this one, the yellow puppet encounters a butterfly who tells him about the joys of love. But his views may not be to the yellow puppets understanding or liking.

Computers

4. Computers

5min

31st Mar 2015

In this 4th installment, the puppets encounter a crazed computer named Colin, who uses singing and dancing to teach the puppets about technology and the Internet, although things soon turn to digital

Health

5. Health

6min

15th Oct 2015

Two of the original puppets return in this 5th installment, where a can, a steak, a refrigerator, and a loaf of bread attempt to teach them about health as it applies to food, but faulty teachings cause one of the puppets to lose all faith and attempts to escape, with dire consequences. The third puppet simultaneously tries to send them phone calls to tell them what will happen, but it's too late.

Dreams

6. Dreams

7min

19th Jun 2016

All alone, Yellow Guy tries to stop a lamp from teaching him about dreams. While Red Guy finds out the truth about the puppet's existence.

First air date

25th Jun 2011

Last air date

19th Jun 2016

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks