However, these names aren’t necessarily official - Pelling and Terry believed that keeping the trio as mysterious as possible was the best approach. ![]() Terry, on the other hand, describes them simply as: “Kindly moron, fussy asshole, and the avatar of the audience.”Īll three creators lend their voices to the show, with Pelling voicing Red Guy, Terry voicing both Yellow and Duck guy, and Sloan across several characters. ![]() Pelling and Terry both have their own ways of describing th characters’ personalities: “Yellow Guy is quite optimistic and idiotic, Duck is cynical and fussy, and Red Guy is just sort of thinking ‘What am I even doing here?’ He’s the middleman,” says Pelling. Originally, the plan was to begin with generic stereotypes of children’s TV characters and find their individuality from there. The show follows an unusual trio, known unofficially as Yellow Guy, Duck Guy, and Red Guy. The shoot for their next video - the first short in their web series - was “mental”, according to Pelling, shot under a railway arch posing as a studio and ending with a visit from the fire brigade, who burst in to discover a questionable amount of raw meat and blood splattered across a children’s TV show set. The mock educational format continued from there. The original 2011 Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared short film featured a talking sketchbook’s lessons on how to be creative (examples include glittering a human heart, and making a cake out of human organs), and was inspired by the friends’ own playful commentary on how art schools teach individuals on how to be creative. “It was a strange way of creating something to just start by making loads of visuals without a script - pretty much the opposite of how things are done in show business,” says Pelling. While most projects begin with a script and expand from there, for Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, the script was one of the last things the trio considered. Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared - like Jan Svankmajer’s Alice, South Park, Wonder Showzen, and Moral Orel before it - uses mixed media to subvert colourful children’s imagery. Pelling, Terry, and Sloan all met while studying Fine Art & Animation at Kingston University, and they were quickly drawn to the aesthetic worlds of children’s television. The new series of ’Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ on Channel 4 (Picture: Courtesy of Channel 4/Blink Industries) L-R: Red Guy, Duck and Yellow Guy at school in the new series of ’Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ on Channel 4 (Picture: Courtesy of Channel 4/Blink Industries) Duck in the new series of ’Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ on Channel 4 (Picture: Courtesy of Channel 4/Blink Industries) Red Guy in the new series of ’Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ on Channel 4 (Picture: Courtesy of Channel 4/Blink Industries) Yellow Guy in the new series of ’Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ on Channel 4 (Picture: Courtesy of Channel 4/Blink Industries) From L-R: photos of Yellow Guy, Duck, and Red Guy in the new series of ’Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ on Channel 4 (Picture: Courtesy of Channel 4/Blink Industries) From L-R: a photo of Duck, Yellow Guy, and Red Guy on the wall in the new series of ’Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ on Channel 4 (Picture: Courtesy of Channel 4/Blink Industries) From L-R: photos of Red Guy, Yellow Guy, and Duck on the wall in the new series of ’Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ on Channel 4 (Picture: Courtesy of Channel 4/Blink Industries) The 1975’s Matty Healy delivers on-stage speech about Malaysia LGBTQ+ controversy.Meet Chrissi, the Essex singer-songwriter with stunning emotional depth. ![]() “I think it was as simple as, ‘Oh we’ve got to do something with puppets,’” co-creator Joseph Pelling says of the show’s rather straightforward origin story, speaking over Zoom alongside fellow co-creator Baker Terry (the show’s third creator, Becky Sloan, was on maternity and unavailable for interview). It took a decade to get there, and along the way, its creators have faced compromising commission offers, extraordinary collaborations, and perhaps the most unusual superfan they could’ve ever imagined. Starting life as a YouTube short in 2011, it’s now become a six-part, 30-minute television series for Channel 4. A demented take on Sesame Street, the show melds educational life lessons and a whimsical aesthetic (puppetry, animation, claymation, and so on) with a nihilistic philosophy and Carpenter-esque horror. If you’ve never seen the YouTube series Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared before, it’s best described as watching CBeebies while in the midst of a fever dream.
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