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:Sure, most shows have them, but the problem here is that this show really does not have much of a plot at all, and the episode summaries reflect this in that they delve into needless listing of details and event-by-event retelling of the episodes, i.e text X appears, character Y says Z, if you look closely at X time, Y can be seen, etc. The more general plot section is the happy medium here that avoids all of these problems, while still conveying the overall theme in a much more appropriate way. [[User:Eik Corell|Eik Corell]] ([[User talk:Eik Corell|talk]]) 12:28, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
::The lack of linearity in the plot is a characteristic of the surreal genre. Doesn't make sense to ask the summaries to have something the episodes don't have. (see for example David Lynch's [[Eraserhead]]; Jodorowsky's [[The Holy Mountain (1973 film)]]). - <code>[[User:Daveout|'''Daveout''']]</code><small>[[User talk:Daveout|<span style="color:#333b40">(talk)</span>]]</small> 15:26, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
:::I don't know, those two plot sections, even if non-linear to some degree, still seem to describe something much more cohesive, or do so in a better way. At the risk of repeating myself a little, the sections here, drawing on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don%27t_Hug_Me_I%27m_Scared&oldid=1031676919#Episode_3:_Love Episode 3: Love] are mostly retellings, which, as I mentioned, makes sense in a way if you want to stretch out something that really is quite thin as far as plot or meaning goes. For example, that one puppet says "pesky bee", that the puppet repeats this later in the episode, or that another puppet says "father" before being crushed. A lot of these details listed, I would imagine, is simply fluff -- filler which may or may not have any real meaning or overall significance to the plot, so providing a concise plot summary is not really possible on such a per-episode basis because it can only be done through this scattershot, mention-everything kind of way, whereas the general plot section does so much more elegantly in a broader, more accessible way by looking at at all the episodes as a whole. The way I see it, the episodes exist on a continuum -- Given how short they are and how they exist almost separately from each other apart from the episodes progressive falling apart so to speak, when you describe them individually, and in the amount of detail done in the linked example, you actually end up conveying less. In a way, brevity is lost. [[User:Eik Corell|Eik Corell]] ([[User talk:Eik Corell|talk]]) 23:39, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
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