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{{For|the television series|Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (TV series)}}

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* [[Musical film|Musical]]

* [[Surreal humorhumour]]

* [[Comedy horror]]

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'''''Don't Hug Me I'm Scared''''' is a British [[Surrealism|surrealist]] [[Adult puppeteering|adult puppet]] [[Musical film|musical]] [[comedy horror]] web series created by Becky Sloan and Joe Pelling that consists of six short episodes released on [[YouTube]] between 29 July 2011 and 19 June 2016.<ref name="Beckyandjoes">{{cite web |last1=Sloan |first1=Becky |last2=Pelling |first2=Joseph |work=Becky & Joe's Art |title=Awards. Festivals. Talks. |date=3 March 2014 |url=http://beckyandjoes.com/where/}}</ref> It is notable for blending surrealism and [[black comedy|dark comedy]] with [[psychological horror]] and musical elements. Its production is diverse, combining [[puppetry]] and [[live action]] with styles of animation including [[stop motion]], [[traditional animation]], [[flash animation]], [[claymation]], and [[computer animation]]. A [[Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (TV series)|follow-up television series]], also consisting of six episodes, was released on [[All 4]] and [[Channel 4]] on 23 September 2022.<ref>{{cite web |last=Guide |first=British Comedy |title=Don't Hug Me I'm Scared - C4 Sitcom |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/dont-hug-me-im-scared/ |access-date=2022-02-21 |website=British Comedy Guide |language=en}}</ref>

Each episode of the series starts like a typical [[Children's television series|children's programmenprogramme]], consisting of [[Anthropomorphism|anthropomorphic]] puppets skinakin to those featured in ''[[Sesame Street]]'' or ''[[The Muppets]]''. The series parodies and satirises these programmes by juxtaposing its inhabitants and their childlike, colourful environment against disturbing themes; each episode builds up to a [[plot twist]] that incorporates psychological horror, surreal imagery, dark comedy, extreme [[graphic violence]], and [[existentialism]], before returning the traumatised characters to their original situation with an altered outlook as a result of their experience.

The six episodes of the web series explore creativity, time, love, technology, food, and dreams; the television series touches on jobs, death, family, friendship, transport, and electricity. Both have received widespread critical acclaim for their story, production design, psychological horror, humour, hidden themes, lore, and characters.

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| Title = Dreams

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2016|6|19|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web|last=Don't Hug Me .I'm Scared|title=Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 6|via=[[YouTube]] |date=19 June 2016|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbL-NSkXnl8|access-date=25 June 2016}}</ref>

| ShortSummary = Yellow Guy is crying in bed, lamenting his missing friends. A talking lamp comes to sing about dreams and drags him into an animated sequence, ignoring his pleas to stop. The montage ends with him drowning in oil. The episode abruptly cuts to Red Guy in an office, with other workers who resemble him. He fantasises about a file coming alive and singing a song, which leaves his colleagues unimpressed. At a bar, he performs the "Creative" song from the first episode on stage, but is booed by the audience. Seeing Yellow Guy's father Roy in the back of the audience, Red Guy is suddenly transported to a dark and empty room., Hewhere he finds a control panel with monitors recording Yellow Guy being mentally tortured by the singing lamp. Using the panel, he frantically transforms the lamp into several of the "teacher" characters from previous episodes, as well as teachers that have not yet been seen. After Roy taps Red Guy on the shoulder from behind with a massively elongated arm, Red Guy notices and follows a cord from the machine to a giant plug and pulls it out. The episode then cuts to Red Guy, Yellow Guy, and Duck sitting at a table in a kitchen, with the colour of their "skin" changed to the colour each one named as their favourite in the first episode. The sketchbook from the first episode reappears, opens, and sings the opening line to the "Creative" song.

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==See also==

* [[Adult puppeteering]]

* ''[[Avenue Q]]''

* ''[[Wonder Showzen]]''

* ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]''

* ''[[Pib and Pog]]''

* ''[[SausageThe PartyItchy & Scratchy Show]]''

* ''[[Dumb Ways to Die]]''

* ''[[HowToBasic]]''

* ''[[Salad Fingers]]''

* ''[[The Amazing Digital Circus]]''

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