Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (1-6)
Short Story • 2011 • Horror
ReportThis short story contains 37 potentially triggering events.
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Abuse
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Is someone stalked?
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Aztro.PeskyBee
Yellow Guy's father, Roy, is implied to be watching the main characters through a machine shown near the end of episode 6, Dreams.
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sylthesnail
Roy (father) abuses Yellow Guy (his son) by using his fears against him.
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ErinHollow
At the end of the last episode you can see Yellow Guy starting to look like his dad as he suffers. He just looks like him though, doesn't act like him
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16Dork01
Yellow Guy is implied to be a child and he goes through a lot of physical and emotional torture. It's also implied that his father is behind it.
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Addiction
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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The guts in some of the scenes are pig guts, bought from a butcher. The pig itself was already dead by the time they decided to do this.
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magicdog2013games
The duck dies in episode 5
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Is there a dead animal?
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snowisdelicious
The green duck dies in episodes 2 and 5
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Are there bugs?
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sylthesnail
Specifically, there's a butterfly.
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Assault
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Is someone restrained?
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mimogutz
not necessarily, but there is a scene in episode two where red guy and duck guy have some kind of helmets on connected to a machine, seemingly being forced to watch the screens. it looks like they may be struggling to move but this is speculation
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Bodily Harm
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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mimogutz
the yellow guy drowns in oil during the sixth episode
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Is there cannibalism?
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AShyYandere
Yes,in episode five(5) yellow guy is seen to be eating green guy
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Is there body horror?
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Aztro.PeskyBee
One of the recurring elements of the show is body horror and gore. In episode one, Creativity, a heart is covered in glitter and a cake made of entrails is shown. In episode 2, Time, the main characters are melted to gorey, aged versions of themselves. And in episode 5, Health, Duck is disemboweled by a giant can and then a shot is shown of Yellow Guy is shown with Duck's entrails shown on the table.
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Does a head get squashed?
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ErinHollow
A head comedically explodes into confetti. It's very sudden
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Are any teeth damaged?
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DoesTheMonsterDie
Too much meat makes your teeth go grey!
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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AlmightyKingPrawn
In episode 2 we get a closeup of the duck's fingers graphically melting with time.
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Is someone tortured?
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16Dork01
The main three characters go through mental and physical torture in every single episode
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Is there eye mutilation?
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16Dork01
Duck's eye falls off at the end of Episode 2.
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Is there excessive gore?
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mimogutz
the end of the second episode shows the characters aging rapidly, and it's very graphic, the characters have their skin and body parts fall off
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Does a kid die?
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magicdog2013games
Yellow guy technically dies in episode 2 and 6
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Death
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Does a non-human character die?
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Aztro.PeskyBee
Duck, a bird puppet, is killed in episode 5.
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Disability
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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magicdog2013games
Between episodes 2 and 3 the main 3 characters were kidnapped and held for ransom
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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nh17
If you interpret Yellow Guy as a child, Sketchbook pouring ink on his painting could be interpreted this way
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Fear
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magicdog2013games
There are two subtle jumpscares in episode 4, one where the computer yells "don't touch me" and the duck appears screams during the digital dancing scene
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Are there clowns?
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HickoryDickoryProductions
yellow guy paints a clown in the first episode, though it's ruined by the sketchbook.
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Is there a shower scene?
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Sort of. The main characters are in a bath in episode 2
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Is someone eaten?
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officesuppliez
Duck has his organs eaten by a can while he is alive, yellow guy is tricked into eating the canned organs.
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Law Enforcement
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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ErinHollow
No. A cartoon one is shown for a second in episode 2, and someone's connected to a blood bag in episode 5
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Aztro.PeskyBee
In episode 5, Health, a hospital room is one of the recurring sets of the episode, specifically a surgery room.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there misophonia?
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It's especially prominent in the first episode when everything starts going dark. Also in the second episode when Tony the Clock starts screeching it's really repetitive.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Dragonrat703
Yellow Guy has a breakdown where he hyperventilates in Episode 6.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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RowanOakley
No, but an entire episode about eating and food, and a character appears to binge at the end.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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RowanOakley
Tricky; a character is heavily implied to have a developmental disability and is abused by his father, but at no point is autism specifically mentioned.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
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HickoryDickoryProductions
the aesthetics are very preschool-like in deliberate contrast to the dark story, but there are no babies in it last I checked.
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Is there shakey cam?
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16Dork01
In Episode 5, when Duck screams "I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS ANYMORE"
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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EzraWalcott
Episode 4 has a lot of things moving quickly that may be considered flashing lights.
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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JayR
A main theme is the characters becoming aware of their surroundings in a way that they shouldn't. Characters stare directly at the camera and occasionally the set and cameras are seen
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Aztro.PeskyBee
In episode 3, Love, a butterfly hatchling is shown at the end of the episode, shortly before being squashed.
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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ErinHollow
Hard to say. Episode 5 is a critique of diet culture and the inconsistent ideas of "healthy" food. At the end a character eats too much and end up bigger (fatter and taller). This is played for horror, not comedy
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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RowanOakley
No, but the third episode has some veiled typical homophobic rhetoric (this is implied to be an underhanded criticism of religious homophobia).
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Aztro.PeskyBee
A main character, Yellow Guy, is implied to be developmentally disabled, and is treated differently by characters as a result. Two standouts in this is Shrignold from Episode 3, Love, who repeatedly scolds him for misunderstanding his preaching, and Yellow Guy's father, who is implied in an interview to be abusive to Yellow Guy specifically because of his interpreted arrogance and rudeness, which contrasts Yellow Guy's actual behavior.
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Is there aphobia?
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ErinHollow
In-universe, and it's more dismissive than discriminatory. Episode 4
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Relationships
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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magicdog2013games
Roy is watching what appears to be p*********y in episode 2
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Are there nude scenes?
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ErinHollow
A character is wearing "no clothes" but he has a red costume as his "skin"
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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ErinHollow
The whole show is about the loss of innocence and corruption of children's media, but not santa specifically
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Does it have a sad ending?
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16Dork01
The ending of the series is a bit vague, but it seems to end on a fairly hopeful if still somewhat... Suspicious note.
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Is there blood/gore?
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16Dork01
Duck's skin gets melted off in Episode 2. Duck and Red Guy eat bloody eggs and chicken meat in Episode 3. Episode 5 shows off Duck's organs in a very graphic detail.
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Does someone drown?
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16Dork01
Yellow Guy drowns in oil in Episode 6.
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