Solving The Mystery Of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared - Inside A Mind

Red just casually grabbing Roy and aggressively honking the horn at him before throwing him out of the car absolutely killed me

Duck telling Red to do something and all he comes up with is "you're fired" kills me

I think Lesleys dialogue represents the more common type of media, telling what you should be thinking, discouraging yellow guy from thinking on his own by giving him the answers.

I really want a season 2, they’re too talented to just end with one season of a TV show. They need more.

I’ve always interpreted the car’s explanation of his drink as a description of petrol - or, to be more accurate, oil. “A liquid forged deep underground from the remains of ancient ones” is exactly how I could imagine someone explaining what oil is. It’s made from plant matter and animal remains from long ago, placed under extreme heat and pressure within the earth.

In Episode 5, I think the stange black liquid that the Car Man was drinking was supposed to be a joke about oil. The reason he says the gang can't make it because "it was forged under the Earth by the ancient ones" is because oil is literally made underground by the remains of ancient animals.

As someone with Adhd I find it difficult to sit down and watch a full something without skipping a part or just not watching all of it. But this video I sat down and watched the full 2 hours and 35 minutes without skipping. I was completely hyper fixated on what this guy was saying it made me have a new look on a few things. I can tell they put a lot of work into this one video with the music and the way they introduced a new part of the video with silence at first and then to ease into the next section of the video. All I'm saying is this is a masterpiece! : )

The "And Roy" at the end gave me goosebumps. What a spectacular video, charting the series history, development and asking some brilliant questions. I love your interpretation of the true "message" of the series as well. That the show is merely a vehicle for you to express our own creativity, and function as training wheels until we are ready to create our own worlds, characters and stories. Incredible video, mate, and a spectacular nod to the creators of this series. Ufffff, after 2 hours of that, I'm not gonna lie: I might need a hug, I'm scared.

For me the appeal of the episode with Warren the eagle, is that we ALL know someone who's just like Warren, he embodies the most relatable aspects of hanging out with an asshole who tries to be your friend for his own benefit or ego, which makes it more satisfying to see him getting roasted and every other character acknowledging how much he sucks

I do have to say I adore that the trio of DHMIS is canonically called a Clump, they’re just this strange little collection of toys who have to all be played with together to tell stories or make the lessons work.

I actually really liked the friendship episode… it portrays a deluded, narcissistic person claiming to be their friend when he only wants everything to be about him and for things to go only his way. There are other videos that go into this episode in detail. He is kind of gross looking and annoying but that is literally the point.

Nobody really talks about this but I love the detail of yellow guy laughing while shredding the book. It almost sounds like he’s crying behind a fake or controlled laugh.

You missed in the TV show ep II, when the duck is killed we see maggots coming from the corpse, much like the duck in the grave earlier in the episode, so it's very likely they wanted fans who watch closely to see that it is the original duck who was killed. Of course we see in episode 6 that duck is replaceable, interestingly there is only one drawer, so maybe only duck is replaceable?

The Image of Roy, mumbling "yum, yum" ominously,...walking out of frame,...then screaming "YUM YUM YUM"(vocal fry and all) while blood and sinew splatter against the still closing door...is hands down my favorite moment in DHMIS. Period.

I definitely think the 2nd making of the show and the one that actually came out captured the world and feeling of Don't hug me I'm scared PERFECTLY, even with the bigger budget they managed to give off that eerie hopelessness the original web series had

i’ll never forget watching the web series episode 5, during a free period at school in 7th grade. it disturbed me so deeply that i felt sick to my stomach and called my mom to bring me home.

DHMIS feels like it exists in a very similar artistic space to The Stanley Parable and Pathalogic. They're stories that tell you up front that there's no true meaning to find and no true lore to uncover, but do so in a way that invites you to look for one simply for the sake of looking.

I just realized the whole thing with Yellow Guy and the batteries is a lot like the book “Flowers For Algernon” (idk if I spelled that correctly). He learned enough to realize that he had been unaware of the world around him, then had it stripped away in front of his eyes leaving him feeling vaguely empty without being able to process why

Nothing I would rather spend 2 hours of my day doing - thank you for this!

I considered myself a pretty diehard fan of this series, and now even more so! This analysis has given me much more insight into the show as a whole and on the behind the scenes throughout the years as well. Thank you for posting this! Both this video and the series are super fun and inspiring to watch, especially as an aspiring online horror writer! 💛