tfw you finally understand DHMISVideo analysis of the first lesson in process now
video 6 is out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbL-NSkXnl8
Whats your favorite idea?
>>83927006
Bird is an ascended simulation. His original purpose was to further the lessons, but he gained self awareness and realized the lessons were insane and attempted to leave (i dont want to do this anymore)
Examples: killing the butterfly (cold and disconnected) causing yellow guy to cry, shitting on all of his answers to the quiz game in DHMIS 4, attempting to further the lesson on time in DHMIS 2 with actual logic only to be yelled at by at by Tony.
Red created the show. It was his idea, but his peers all thought him stupid and irreverant (you could say that making this show was his "dream"). When he pitched it to the producers, only one tool interest. Roy. He agreed to help, but as a result caused red to lose creative control. Evidence of Red attempting to take this show back is peppered in DHMIS 4. Gilbert the Globe was Red's idea, but it wasnt what Roy thought the lesson should be about hence the abrupt interruption by the computer. Its sad really. Yellow seemed to he excited to see Gilbert, and im sure that Red had a fun song in store. Red becomes fed up and quit the project, which is why DHMIS 5 seems so hackneyed and uninspired.
Yellow. Not much to say about him. He's Roy's son. He's Roy's motivation. Roy wishes to teach his son the basics of life through Red's show, but the message becomes warped by his own experiences and opinions. It could be a metaphor for homeschooled children, and how while parents might mean the best for their children, they certainly aren't always qualified. Thats why teachers are trained to do it. I think Roy realizes this at the end. That his lessons are doing more harm than good and that its tearing his child apart.
>>83927439
Huh..
This is cartoon? No.
This is a comic? No.
So please use >>>/tv/
>>83927439
your perceptions of homeschooled people seems to come from pop culture, and the value you place in teachers also seems to come from somewhere other than reality.
your material analysis seems pretty good desu.
idk why you decided to muck it up by trying to extrapolate meaning from it tho
>>83929335
Puppets are animation.
You know this.
Fuck off.
>>83927268
Anyone else feel like this episode was made in response to how obsessed their audience became with story analysis? I feel like we lost out on another sick track.
>>83927439
Out of all the stupidest theories I've heard this oneis pretty good honestly..
>>83929335
But it's puppets, so it belongs here, you backseat mod
>>83929335
It counts as puppets tho
It's also animated for moments
>>83929335
ummmmm
>>83929335
F A G G O T
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>>83927439
Most fetish your theory is build in the idea that:
>duck is simulation
>red is real
The thing is: there was an option on the machine to make a Red Guy, in the same way that there was an option to make Duck.
>>83929335
Yes, yes, well done anon, well done...
HOWEVER
>People analyzing the story so hard.
Everyone needs to just breathe and enjoy the experience. It takes the magic away is everyone's like "Roy's Satan and the puppets are lost angels!!!!" It's just a dark play on children's shows.
WOW LOOK A PIE CHART
>>83929335
You're a fucking asshole
PART 2 IS OUT
>>83929335
Low bait.
Simple question, assuming the tiled floor area is part of the simulation (weird stuff still happening) then what good does it do pulling a plug within a simulation?
I feel it represents the process of creativity and how that can lead to:
> unintended consequences
> the material becoming an influence
> the eventual repetition that is inevitable in the arts
Red Guy is the artist, the person that may seem similar to everyone else around him, but wishes to put out something different. He, despite receiving criticism from both his peers and Roy (more on him in a sec), attempts to escape the boundaries of reality by creating a sort of fantastic world where everyone is happy and everyone learns basic life lessons, e.g. Sesame Street.
Green Bird is the product of Red Guy's imagination, a sort of character meant to stay in the realms of Red Guy's created world. You could put him in the same sense as, say, Big Bird, or Gumby; his existence, initially, is meant to just react to the setting around him. However, he begins to take on a life of his own, graying the areas between reality and being someone else's creation. It represents how characters manifest themselves as near realities in people's minds, due to their popularity and/or relatibility. (Cont.)
>>83930175
Red escaped during episode 4. He was already on the outside.
>>83930312
Yellow Guy is, in essence, the audience, and is portrayed as a child due to the setting of DHMIS. His role is much the same as Green Bird's, except that he bears more witness to the crushing themes of reality that undercut a majority of the episodes supposedly sunny subjects. He sees what love is according to the show in episode 3, but also realizes another, darker reality that clashes with what he viewed originally. This results in an existential crisis within Yellow Guy.
And finally, there is Roy. Roy, put simply, is the symbol for any hindering force that goes against art, whether that is the producer, concerned parents, general disinterested audiences, etc. He is reacrionary in the fact that he is very conservative, wanting everything to be simple and traditionally fun. In the end, he wins against Red Guy's vision, forcing him to revert back into what the show was before the artistic license grew way out of hand, essentially the beginning of the first episode.
Did anyone else hear when Red dropped a 'fuck me' when his boss was watching?
>>83930421
File me
The ending to me represents rehashing shows.
Same shit with a different coat of paint.
>>83930026
Link it then
>>83930692
DHMIS GO!
Your new favorite show
>>83929700
Why do you want people to stop having fun?
Analyzing is fun. Faggot.
Personally, I'm not sure there is meant to be a cohesive story/metaphor, but I love reading people's different interpretations.
I see it as a warning not to hide yourself from reality with false comforts. The world is horrifying and complicated and things aren't always what they seem. It's tempting to try and ignore this by seeing the world through platitudes and easy narratives (like a children's show) but you have to confront the reality of it.
Episode 6 was kind of a piece of shit.
>>83931018
>analysis is fun
Analysis is fucking anti-fun. If you think analysis, especially analysis of pop culture detritus is fun you probably have a degree in folklore.
>>83931097
I like this idea a lot anon. How i learned to stop worrying and love the horror.
>>83930482
It's at 2:09. It's clearly fuck me.
>>83927006
>Make random shit
>People assign meaning to random shit
>Since it has no meaning, people can never agree on it
>Your random shit spreads through memetic action as people try to find meaning where there is none.
It worked for Evangelion, it worked for this.
>>83931165
I'm glad I'm not you
>>83931144
It wasn't a traditional episode
In those we see the surreal contrast between what the media wants us to see and what is real
In this episode that was happening but we viewed it from the outside, from reality so the slow realization wasn't there
This was more about red trying to destroy it all because he realized it was getting insane
>>83931173
So would you say this is your favorite idea?
Was red a plant in the system?
I think he was collaborating with Roy and was just as much a part of creating the program.
Once Roy starts to change things against Red's wishes in 4, he tells 'the computer' to stop interjecting bullshit over what red had already planned (an episode about the globe). Realizing it's no longer any use, he quits.
Red was the one writing the songs, which is why they get incredibly bad starting with 5. 5 is just Roy projecting his anger towards red for leaving. Red was a bad food, rude to the organs of the body, so he wasn't invited to the party.
@83931285
Not even giving a (you)
The past is far behind us, the future doesn't exist.
Time went new and got old like history, stuff from the past became a mystery!
[You made me die!]
But lookI'm a computer, I'm a computery guy. Everything made out of buttons and wires, I'd like to show youWhy were here what's it all about you've no idea, and very where you look, all you see is hatred, and darkness, death andHigh string beef!? High string beef makes your teeth grow gray! Doesn't matter, just throw it away! Why not try someFISH ON MY TRAY
WHAT
WHERE AM I
I know this is autistic, but fuck me I thought of a stupid idea for a teacher.
A piggy bank that starts teaching the 3 about saving money, and why it's important.
As the song keeps going on, the piggy bank begins to get distended before it rips it's own organs out to get the coins out screaming how saving isn't smart. You need to spend. All while the oats flash in the background.
>>83931285
You did it anon well done
Look at all those (you)s
You can probably redeem them for a soda or something
Oh the glorious benefits of "pretending" to be retarded
>>83931380
its not shitposting its called funposting, know when to have fun you cuck
meme this instead of shitposting it shall now be called funposting. cause we do things for fun
>>83931339
Throw in a way to subtly imply that the banks are bleeding us dry and im in
LOOKS LIKE SOMEONES HAVING A BAD DREAM
>>83931192
Its strange. I rewhatched EVA again, this time with my brother, and the story and meanings were super easy to get.
Its even less complicated than FLCL, if you know the backstory of Adam and Lilith.
>>83931425
I don't know cookie looks like he's having fun but he's still shitposting
>>83931262
My favorite idea is green!
>>83931285
What bait you little fucker?
Puppets dont are animation, deal with it.
>>83931452
There is no meaning in evangelion other than what you assign it. There is a story though, but it is what it is and there is no depth behind it.
>>83931470
Green is not a creative color
>>83930175
I feel as if there are different planes. Like the "real world" was one.
So the stage seems to be one not virtually but meta plane like the virtual scenes. But its still not a full digital but with real props.
Maybe its not the same as virtual plane but flashback like use of design showingbits a neta plane like virtual.
>>83931528
do you not animate puppets?
>>83930322
Like your theory.
Only the ending seems more like it starts anew with the show, but cheaper or uncomplicared.
>>83931890
>>83929373
>>83929387
>>83929410
>our bodies are animated by our bones and muscles, therefore live action is animation
wow, rude... no clothes on
>>83932031
>>83927006
Religion is evil, entire moral of the series. Each episode represents a different facet of it.
>>83932034
That explains why he's a suit
>>83932185
>the youngest religion has the biggest impact on socialogical repression
Errr okay
>>83932137
How do Reds reproduce?
>>83927439That's why his voice is autotuned
>>83932559
It's really boring
>>83931285
this post needs to leave through the cat-flap
STICKY MOUTH
>>83931165
AAAE AAAEEE AAAAAAEEE AAAAE AAAEE AAAAAAEEEEH AAAAAAAAAAEEEEHHH AAAAAAAEEEH
>>83927439
But Red's reaction to everything is the same as the reactions of his coworkers to his song in DHMIS 6. I don't think he had a hand in doing all of this. I think it's more that he was trying to take something good out of it at the end. Like what happened did change him for the best despite everything.
>>83929378
>I feel like we lost out on another sick track.
I am a file and you put documents in me.mp3
>>83932185
>"If the Aryan race hadn't abandoned the ways of Odin in favor of a kike on a stick, our glorious empire would stretch across the earth and beyond. Thankfully, the lesser races are incapable of creating technology, and so even in weakness the white man is supreme."
>Seth "The White Death" McFarlane
I don't think the lessons were evil for the whole time.
If the world the characters inhabit is based off, in part, their imaginations, then the slow decline of the "show" represents their own experiences.
That's why creativity is seemingly outlawed, and why it's so important that Yellow go along with Roy's plan: Because without the stars the show is nothing.
Problem is, as they start questioning their environments more and more, they start to poke holes in their ideologies, and things start spiraling out of control (the standard "what the hell" nightmare sequence).
So when Yellow, who is absolutely idiotic, is the only one left, naturally the teacher he gets is dumb and moronic, seemingly half-assed as the show starts to go under.
>>83931339
>>83931434
Fund it, also remember to include how money and possessions blind us to the fact that we're voluntarily enslaving ourselves.
>>83931285
What did red guy say before pulling the plug?
"I want my ____ back"? or something.
>>83933151
"I wonder what will happen."
>>83927439
I like this except the explanation for the green guy.
I need a gif or webm of Red spilling his spaghetti at work.
So the premise of this series was that this was a kids show and that Red didn't like how it was being handled so he left? Same with Duck?
>And I was like, 'Yeah, that's not even the same bucket.'
>>83933540
No one can answer that question certainly at all.
>>83933260
The bird is quite clearly just a part of the computer. He even has the line in DHMIS 4 "But if hes not quite real, then i'm not real too. And you're not real you, he's inside your real you!"
I think this line really solidified the theory that he's a part of the computer simulation theory for me.
M-my dad is a computer!
>>83933612
>And you're not real you, he's inside your real you!
I always figured he was talking to the computer, and saying
>And your not real you, is inside the real you!
I kind of want to fuck the clock.
>>83933612
Bird is an old man.
Red guy is an adult.
Yellow guy is a kid.
It's all a metaphor about the media and how the internet has changed and warped things. The 'TV show' has gone on too long and the lessons they're teaching aren't genuine and the creators are twisted.
>>83932185
I want to say that Family Guy is a fedoracore cartoon but it doesn't even rise to that level.
>>83933691
19/06/55 represents the ages of the puppets
19 = Red Guy
06 = Yellow Guy
55 = Bird
>>83933691
I hate the media metaphor bullshit. That's so cheesy and not even solidified in anything concrete. No context.
>>83933645
having it be "And you're not real you, he's inside your real you!" still makes sense if hes talking to the computer. When he says "he" hes talking about the computer guy within the real computer guy.
>>83933860
>That's so cheesy and not even solidified in anything concrete
What about all the televisions and the fact the show is modelled after kid's fucking TV shows?
>>83933918
Wow then I guess every cartoon ever made must be a metaphor for childrens media propaganda.
http://www.itsnicethat.com/features/dont-hug-me-im-scared-interview-030516>Roy: My silly boy has allowed his eyes to grow arrogant and rude, for this I will take him on a trip to punish land.
>>83933918
The media metaphor bullshit theory is about as shallow was all those dumbass theories like "WHAT IF ALL THE KIDS IN ED EDD AND EDDY WERE ACTUALLY IN A COMAAAA OOOOOO"
"WHAT IF ALL THE KIDS IN RUGRATS WERE GHOOOOOSTTSS!!! WOOOO OOOOOooOOO"
>>83933943
Have you ever thought that maybe they chose a certain style for a reason or do you just pick and choose what you want to be significant?
Man, the fourth episode pretty much completely tells you what's going on. They're all inside a not real world and when Red is trying to shut down the PC and follows the cable outside he gets out of it.
>>83933983
Highly ironic you used nanalan as the reaction image for what your argument is.
>>83934055
I did it on purpose. Do you understand?
>>83934095
So nanalan chose the certain style of puppetry to express a metaphor for media propaganda in childrens shows?
>>83932374
Islam is younger than Christianity iirc
>>83934137
Islam is the first and only true religion.
Delete your post.
>yfw Roy is the hero of the series
>>83931328
i appreciate your comment even if no one else does
>>83930322
i dont think the ending was a reset and them living the same thing again, instead it seems like its going to be the way red wanted, and actually good for them
thats based on the fact that the skin of each of them is changed to their favorite colors from the first one.
>>83934216
He literally isn't though. He is like architect in Matrix.
>>83934166
Heres my drawing of Mohammad
>>83934125
No, because puppets and animation styles appeal more to children. This is why most adult-targeting movies are about real life actors and children's movies often involve animation.
Please stop pretending to be ignorant.
>>83933964
I can't comprehend what "allowed his eyes to grow arrogant and rude" means. Is that a British thing?
>>83933983
BREFFAST
>>83929426
Oh hey, Roy's in the Cuckoo Clock too.
>>83934482
BREKFAST.The parallels man.
>>83934605
BIG HUG
What if Red Guy's "real world" (the office) isn't the real world at all?
I mean, when he pulls the plug on the computer, he's back in puppet-land. Why are we so keen to believe the office is the real world? Yellow guy had a dream within a dream (drowning in oil), who's to say Red didn't dream he was an office worker?
>>83934232
>>83930322
>>83930312
These are very good. I like these.
>>83933009
>So when Yellow, who is absolutely idiotic, is the only one left, naturally the teacher he gets is dumb and moronic, seemingly half-assed as the show starts to go under.
Like how in episode three, the Can addresses Yellow, while the Steak speaks to Crow, and the Can is the dumber of the two. Also,
>I am a stupid one.
>>83934166
WHAT IS HINDUISM
>>83934863
Sounds interesting.
Only its hard to incorporate how and where he vanishes after episode 4.
>>83935210
Well, if it's the "real world", how and why is Roy there? Why does the microphone turn into a puppet? Unless Roy creates little rifts in reality wherever he goes. So where does Roy come from? Is he a figment of Red's imagination, too? Maybe a prototype who Red abandoned and forgot about?
What did that butterfly do?
>>83935814
The last thing we see him do is fly into a yellow ring....
What did he say?
>>83936850
I'll teach ya how to buy a canoooooooe
Found this in /a/'s Jojo thread.
Part 6 spoilers.
If red guy us in on it from the get go as a creator why is he shown on the 'missing' poster/milk carton etc.?
Why the 'escape'?
Why did he react with the same criticism he received from his co workers during the early part of the creativity song?
Doesnt sit right with me
>>83927439
>Thats why teachers are trained to do it.
kek
Teachers are pathetic losers who failed post-secondary and didn't get the job of their dreams. They then proceed to take out their frustrations on children. The most toxic profession on the planet.
>>83936850
Stuff your face in my hole and listen to my sound.
>>83937419
show me where the teacher touched you
I don't get why people think the characters at the end were new people. They clearly looking around in a "what the hell just happened" way instead of staring into blank space like the first episode
>>83933982
> WOOooooOOOOooooo
Kek
>>83937918
>Sketch pops up
>R Y and D immediately run out of the house to escape
>>83935814
>FAATHER
>>83927439
People keep trying to discern between simulation and reality. What if it's fractal? What if they're projections from other levels? What if the three people represent 3 parts of a person, or even that Roy represents a 4th? Notice how we're talking about who's controlling who, like an ego or a subconscious.
If god is trying to teach us, why has he made a situation in which we do not know? Is it malicious as he hides the truth and sustains himself off our suffering? Is there a purpose to it?
>>83931339
> DHMIS OCs
kill me now
>>83937419
>toxic
>>>/tumblr/
>>83934599
And peeking in from the window.
>>83937419
This is an 18+ site anon. I know school just got out but no need to make it so obvious.
Am i the only one who wanted to hear the rest of his song.
>>83934434
Gibberish for him turning into a shit kid.
>>83939271
>his
xir/they never defined their gender shitlord. Check your privilege.
>>83931165
Shit, they do degrees in folklore? I'd get a folklore degree, just learn stories and then wax philosophical about their tropes all day long at the bar.
Met a folklorist once. Irish guy. He was endlessly fascinating to talk to, because he could tell you every tale about the fair folk (or "good people") and then tell you why people believed them.
>>83931425
>you cuck
get the fuck off this board
>>83940288
I'm gunning on being a medievalist, which is kind of similar
>>83933964
>What is your favourite colour?
>Yellow Guy: No!
I laugh every time I see that line
>>83932707
underrated post
>>83937383
Because he is the creator, but not the leader.
He tries to make art or a show, but others interfer or use it for their advantage.
He realise it and flees from this.
Because the others are artist like him. And if we think the company is more like a flashback, he adopted their limiting mindset.
If it plays after his "escape", its some common reaction from artists towars other artists. This he realize what he did before and exploded on stage to differ from the other reds.
>>83927268
>planets live inside the moon!
What?
>>83941114
don't you know anything about the unyverse?
>>83941114
>He doesn't know our moon is the beginning and end, a stable loop through the entire universe.
>>83939271
No, I hope they release a soundtrack with all the songs soon.
>>83931192
it is called "abstract art"
>>83941584
You mean surreal, not abstract
I like the fact that it just tarted over at the end.
It shows that ultimately, it was all pointless.
The entire series is pointless and has no higher meaning.
>>83932034
>tfw your husbando isn't even real in the story he's in
>>83939271
Oh hey, it's Malcom under the TV.
>>83933964
>http://www.itsnicethat.com/features/dont-hug-me-im-scared-interview-030516
I made a thing that I think you'd all find some use for.
>>83933640
*has
people were throwing such a fit about the fact that British people have British accents that they had to literally spell out the fact that yellow slurs his "H" sounds in the fourth episode. (the recording clearly says "has" not "is")
>>83941610
i guess.
isn't it both?
>>83941744
And the clown he painted.
And I'm almost certain that's the keyboard in the bottom right hand corner.
>>83941989
Abstract art is termed such because its images are abstracted, i.e. cubism
That definition doesn't really apply to these videos
Surrealist art takes everyday or known images and uses them in unusual ways
I've been rewatching the videos and I've noticed at the end of 2 that there is a bit of either slowed-down or pitched-down dialogue.
Does anybody know that that is?
>>83931191
I'm thinking he's saying 'funny', as right afterwards he says 'silly'
It's like he's saying "hahaha, it's singing... something something funny... something something silly"
>>83937419
This tb h
Didn't have a single good teacher until collage.
>>83940415
fuck off and kill yourself, cuck
They represent the ways to deal with subjugation and control.
Yellow accepted subjugation
Green confronted and questioned authority
Red fled and escaped control
Teachers are forms of authority or controlling forces.
Education
Fundamental Forces of the Universe
Religion
Technology
Your Health
Ones Dreams
>>83933658
I kind of want to fuck the lamp.
>trying to analyze surrealism
Next you idiots will be trying to tell me the monkey at the end of Fire Walk with Me is a symbol, too.
>>83942686
Continuing, the computer in 4 seems to fit the media theory (nebulous as it is). It obsoletes the globe, yet never answers the question that was originally posed to it. Also notice how it holds the magnifying glass over the paper to reveal the oats advertisement
In 5, Green's 'death' by being turned into some kind of canned food could represent some kind of product placement
There are no facts. People don't "understand" for sure. Any "theory" people posit as fact is just that, a theory. Only the writer/s know for sure, and they're not saying.
What ever happened to this guy?
DOOT DOODOO DOOT DOO
Roy wanted to teach his son life lessons so he put him in the machine. The problem is that Roy doesn't see the world clearly and is borderline insane.
Being creative is a bad idea
Time will kill you
Love is a social construct used to enslave you
Technology is clever but flawed
Everything you once ate was once alive, and anyone who tells you what's healthy and what isn't is a contradictory liar
Dreams are fun until they turn into nightmares
>>83943757
That doesn't make sense
>>83937419
Isn't it past your bedtime?
>>83943871
DOOT DOOT DOODOO DOO!
>>83927268
>that Stone Ocean tier ending
>>83943741
I was wondering about this too
Best case scenario it'll appear on the next video if they make one.
It will be about the old characters discovering the new ones and the teacher telling them they're boring.
>>83942788
*college
Did we ever figure out what was with thay weird phone number people called?
>>83943871
>>83943946
>>83930421
I thought he did at first but I think it's more likely he said fu-nny in his monotone singing rhythm. It fits more with the context "do do do funny, silly file"
>>83940288
>>83940571
I wish I could have creative freedom like you guys, I'm so scared of not having money, yet I'm waist deep in student debt and gunning for a degree in computer engineering I won't enjoy.
WHATS THAT? A TASTY SNACK!
>>83944390
>this happens
>Duck guy is baked into a cake in ep 5
God puppetry needs to have a second renaissance, I really hope these guys do another series or something because the talent on just the puppets alone is amazing,
>>83944390
One of my earlier theories was that Roy was the ghost of another character who was killed before episode 1. He got turned into the Pie in episode 1.
Just one of many wild theories...
>>83944457
>>83944390
Wait, or was it a cake?
>>83944413
every other puppetry video these guys make have less than 10,000 views.
No wonder they went to Kickstarter, it allows them completecreativecontrol instead of chafing under others.
4>2>6>5>1>3
Episode 1, 1/3 or 4
When we try to understand the series, we are posed with a number of questions.
Some of the most important ones I can come up with on top of my head at 5am are
Who are Red Guy, Yellow Guy, and Duck, and what do they represent?
Where does the story take place?
Is it real, is it a dream, is it a show?
I think it makes sense to look at some meta-shit before.
It's safe to assume that when Becky and Joseph (creators of the series) made the first episode, they didn't mean to make a series out of it, but it was instead concieved as a standalone.
We can deduce this mainly from 2 facts: firstly, the channel's original name was "thisisitcollective", and was only later renamed to "Don't Hug Me. I'm Scared". Secondly, the first episode was made and uploaded to youtube 4 years ago. All other 5 episoded were uploaded in the past 2 years. There is a time span between the first and second episodes of 2 years. Plus I think they even confirmed it at some point but I can't be assed to check.
Now we can also gather information from the kickstarter based videos, the creators' twitter, and the interview. But let's save that for later.
Episode 1 can be analyised by itself, for the reaons mentioned before.
The video starts with a party background. The party theme will reoccur many times in the series and in some key moments too.
2/3-4
We are given a look at the starting room. To notice is the calender and the date it is showing. 19 June. 19/06. Many times in the series the numbers 19/06/55 will reoccur. In '55 (1955), Father's Day was on the 19th of June. In all episodes except the first we encounter a figure that goes by the name of Roy, a mildly creepy puppet that resembles Yellow Guy, and is said in the series to be his father. He is also one of the most enigmatic characters, maybe on pair with Duck, at least to me, and certainly one of the main characters on pair with Red Guy.
The floor of the kitchen where the puppets are sitting is a black and white checkered one. Remember this.
On the wall we can see a painting of a boat on the sea...a black sea. Like oil.
Other elements shown in the room serve as easter eggs for later episodes, but this is not truly important to understand anything.
What will be important will be to compare the room as it is show at the start of this episode, with the room shown at the end of the last episode.
The notepad suddenly opens itself, alive, and starts singing, breaking the awkward silence permeating the first 26 seconds of video.
The reaction to the Notepad inciting the three to be creative diverge. Duck at first believes that the orange is "just a boring old orange", and that he "doesn't see what you mean".
Yellow Guy is fascinated from the get go, whilst Red Guy says "That sounds really boring". This will come handy when analyzing episode 6.
3/4
As notepad keeps singing some of the text appearing on the screen to emphasise what he's saying ("creative", "creatively") all have a party theme.
The notepad then points at its coloured hair and tells us how he expresses his creativity with it. Personally I think this is a critique at teenagers that literally do that, colour their hair in order to express their uniqueness and creativity, when in reality it's just an alternative form of omologation. As we will see in all episodes, the so called teachers, or teaching figures, tend to distort their message as the song progresses. But again this can be looked at as a standalone video, so it doesn't have to be like that, and such an early distortion of values on a song is legitimised further. Red Guy one again comments "That sounds really boring".
The notepad makes the puppets look out the window and find figures in the clouds. Nothing much to be deduced from this. He then congratulates them for succeeding, saying "Think you're getting the hang of it now, using your minds to have a good time" and we are show a drawing of a clock forming the letter "I" of "TIME" with its watch hands. This probably inspired the second episode about time, rather than be a call forward.
What happens now is very peculiar. The puppets have so far been following the notepad's instructions. But Yellow Guy prompts out and shows a painting of a clown he's done. The notepad's reaction is to scold him for going "too fast" ("(YG)I might paint a picture of a clown, (notepad) whoa here friend, you might need to slow down"), and Yellow Guy's painting gets covered in oil, the music abruptly stopping.
They then continue singing. Notepad instructs them go collect sticks to form the name of their favourite colours with them. Red Guy picks blue, Duck picks red, Yellow Guy picks green. Notepad once again scolds Yellow Guy, this time on the basis that "green is not a creative colour", and placing a big cross over Yellow Guy's sticks-composed word."
4/5
They then continue singing. Notepad instructs them go collect sticks to form the name of their favourite colours with them. Red Guy picks blue, Duck picks red, Yellow Guy picks green. Notepad once again scolds Yellow Guy, this time on the basis that "green is not a creative colour", and placing a big cross over Yellow Guy's sticks-composed word.
The song and video approach end, with notepad saying "Listen to your heart, listen to the rain, listen to the voices in your brain".
The video rapidly devolves, the song becomes a noise, the puppets handle pieces of meat and the video gets gore-ish, it transitions from the animated puppet show to 3D models of it to men in costumes spasticly dancing. It is clearly seen during this part that the room is nothing but the a cinematographic set, surrounded by microphones, clapperboards, lights and chairs, aswell as the area all around the set having the same party theme as the title screen. It is also important to note that the window, that had been closed but not covered from the start, from which they saw the clouds, is now covered by curtains or showing a heavy storm outside. Under notepad's instruction to "get creative", Red Guy play with a real heart and covers it in gold glitters, Yellow Guy sprouts colour on a paper-model, and Duck starts composing a word, placing the word D, which as the video gets to the end is discovered to stand for "death".
All seemingly gets back to normality, and the notepad ends the song and video by saying "Now let's all agree to never be creative again".
5/5
What can we conclude from just this video?
The main symbolic points are the green colour, the role of creativity, the role of teachers and teaching, oil, and arguably the letter D and Death.
The creators of the series have confirmed that the first video was also mostly about how not to teach thing. This corroborates the theory that the teaching figures are to be seen in a negative light
Why is green not a creative colour, and what does it entail?
Green is the colour of a greenscrain, which is in a cinematographic set what a blank canvas is to an artist. Green is a mean to express creativity. You have to add to the green to make it creative, because alone it is nothing.
Yellow Guy, Red Guy and Duck are official names used by the creators of the series in the interview they made with the 3 characters. Why does Duck's name stand out? Because he's coloured green, which is not a creative colour.
What is the role of oil? As we see in this case, and as it occurs again in episode 6, oil is the way the environment the puppets live is has to ostracise them. It soffocates their creativity, ruining and covering Yellow Guy's painting here, and it suffucates him literally in episode 6.
There is not much more to be said about the role of the cinematographic/TV set, and the letter D is not only the initial of "death", but also the initial of "duck". Duck, the first character to die (episode 5), and the only one really confirmed to have died (Red Guy escaped the house, and Yellow Guy, althought having allegedly died in episode 2, has never "permanently died").
I don't really see it as some secret hidden story or narrative. Just some moral messages or allegory about variation aspects of society.
>>83943741
I noticed that he sort of looks like Roy's machine.
Extra
The room in which the video takes place has no door. No way of exiting the reality in which all of this is happening. They are trapped there.
A theory speculates that 19/06/55 are also the ages of, respectively, Red Guy, Yellow Guy, and Duck. I personally like this theory and it does make sense for a couple of reasons. The only fallacy here is that I yet have to find any concrete proof that Duck is, as many fanbase theory like to claim, the representation of the elderly, the older generation.
In this first episode there is no mention of Roy anywhere. This can be explained by the fact that at the time they probably did not think of adding this character to the mix. But if so, how come the strong recurring theme of Parents (Roy himself, 19/06/55). Was the date, 19/06, choosen randomly for the first video? Was it picked having something else in mind? This is a tricky one, I don't have any answer or idea.
Now, fanbase theories like to think of Yellow Guy as the younger generation, Red Guy as the Teenager/Young adult generation, and Duck as the old generation. Supporting this is the 19/06/55 theory, in which the numbers would represent their respective age. Which alone is kind of far fetched. To add to this, Yellow Guy's attitude is indeed usually very childish and naive throughout the whole series, whilst Red Guy is more of a cynical person, who later escapes that reality and gets a job. For Duck, it's not as easy. He doesn't seem to show, to me, any particularly "elderly" behaviour. It is true however that this character is importantly linked to death, because of the reaons seen before (death and duck starting by the same letter, he being the first and possibly only character dying). There's some other reference in episode 2 but I can't be assed rn
This theory conflicts (does it?) with the theory of Duck being only a computer simulation put there to react to the puppet world
Taking episode 1 alone, it would be highly suggested that it does take place in a TV set
I'm very suprised that after all the analysis of 6 I've seen, not one has been mentioning that Red's world full of red people could very well have been a metaphor that either everyone is like him or he finds everyone dull and lifeless while also seeing himself as dull and lifeless.
I think he left the videos because he thought they were too silly and childish, and wanted a more mature life. He saw himself as a dull indavidual and thought the videos werent for him. When he gets the life hw desired however, he finds that it is so bland and dull he desires to rebel. It's just like the episode of SpongeBob where Squidward moves into that Squid community. When he's on stage, he realizes that he didn't want that boring life after all, and then that's when everything starts going back to getting him in the world of the videos.
>>83944937
>>83943741
It's worth noting that machines appeared in some other episodes as well, most notably episode 2, when Red and Duck were strapped into chairs and being forced to observe a machine which seemed to be outputting data based on some kind of input, possibly related to the helmets the two were wearing.
>>83933658
>>83943190
>current year
>not wanting to fuck best waifu notepad
ablsolute pleb
>>83933964
damn, this article has some pretty GOAT reaction image material
>>83940288
I had a friend in college who specifically studied Russian fairy tales and folklore.
>>83944385
Computer engineering makes a lot of money, but if you don't enjoy it then you're going to hate your life regardless of the paycheck you draw.
>>83943968
It's truly beena wonderful world
>>83945436
It just doesn't feel like things I enjoy are things I'll be able to make decent money off of
"Hi, I'm anon and my hobbies include shitposting on 4chan and making deepest lores"
>>83944995
She's okay.
But she's not a lamp.
>>83944972
i think that, if you go by the age number theory, the world of reds shows that "red cthulhu spaghetti guy" is shorthand for "adult"
this could lead to the interpretation that roy is a stunted manchild or something
I think what I take away is this-The story is just simply several people experience the wonders of growing up/ exploring concepts getting older. But every time they get into these concepts they become muddled in the harshness of adult ideas.
>Learn about creativity while actively being lied to and conform to standard
>Learn about time but start to feel the depressing idea of death
>Learn to love but become caught up by peoples specific understanding and rules on it
>Learn about technology but begin to see its absolute grip on people in their lives and the world around us especially when the episode starts with them just wanting information
>Understand healthy eating except virtually everyone has different opinions and 'proof' on whats right or wrong to eat and it just sorta feels like you cant get it right
As this all goes down the characters start to transform into different versions of understanding these things, Red guy gets freed from it all and becomes a normal office worker, who never has to understand or think about it because life gets in the way. The bird is desolved by the conflicts, and Yellow Guy stays with it all, constantly being subjected to the understanding and 'learning' everyone forces on him. When Red experience these (much like getting older) he hates it and wishes it would end. But then we find him looking back on his experiences like they were fun and wonderful wanting to recreate them. From the computers look to the future of the songs, it becomes more apparent to me because the songs and ideas become less important, less grand scheme, and less well made. Like the lessons are becoming more of the opinion, and less of the presentation. I could probably process these a bit more but I don't like /co/ pseudo blog posts like anyone gives a shit about my babby ideas anyways.
>>83946073
Way better than the go to Media idea. Not too deep and full of itself. I like this one.
>>83933964
Why does it say the article was May 03 and "the video is released this week"?
>>83945588
Different guy, I'd argue you just have to not hate your job and have hobbies you really enjoy. Nothing wrong with working for the weekend, but if you wake up dreading Monday it isn't worth it.
>>83927439
a-ama-a--amazing analysis!
anons, is that normal to feel on acids after marathoning all six episodes?
>>83946474
ive never been on "acids" before but I imagine its a lot more traumatizing than this
if you are being traumatized then man up pussy
>>83946073
>>83946180
This is my general view on the show. I think this is what it is trying to leave as general sense. Which doesn't mean the creators could not have wanted to hint at other things, other subjects too. The media one is undeniably part of the mix, with the TV set being visible every other episode around the video. But more interestingly, in episode 6, in the controlling machine chamber, you hear a song. Guess what it is? The Mickey Mouse clubhouse song. Quite clearly telling us how the teaching figures in all videos mimick those in cartoons for small kids
Episode 2
Episode 2 opens by showing us the living room. We don't have the checkered floor this time, and we also have a door
There is a calender, showing it is June 19, and above it a clock it's the afternoon (3:40pm). We see a TV with a snowy screen. Below it in the little table there's a black and white picture of Duck. This, combined with the walking stick and cylinder hat at the clothes hanger by the door, which we can assume are owned by Duck, and combined with him wearing and old fashioned tweed jacket, and having an old fashioned pocket watch, whilst sitting on a rocking chair, are all hints that he's an old man (potentially representative of the elder as a whole).
Yellow Guy is sitting on a colourful, childish looking plastic chair, and Red Guy is sitting on an armchair. A green armchair at that.
Red Guy informs us that their show is gonna air on the TV in 5 minutes. As Duck complains that it is "not enough time", the clock on the wall comes to life replying "there's always time for a song". Red Guy is mildly confused and seems to almost sigh asking himself "who's that".
1/???
The song starts, and it becomes bizarre soon enough. The clock says "the past is far behind us", showing a picture of the 3 puppets embraching each other friendly, dated 19.06.55, picture in which they are shown outside; "the future doesn't exist", showing a painting with the word "nothing" in it, and a label underneath saying "forever".
The first part could hint at the fact that the happy period of playing outside is long gone and can't be returned to, the second part obviously refers to the time never progressing, in fact it is the 19/06 throughout the whole series. It could also mean that the current status the puppet live in is not meant to ever cease.
Yellow Guy asks the time, which according to the clock "is quarter to nine" (we see the hands moving backwards to actually show that), and it is "time to have a bath", thus the 3 are moved into a bubbly bathtub. The bathroom has a bland and white checkered floor. Duck complains saying they're already clean, clock seems to ignore him as he scrubs Yellow Guy "until the water is brown".
Clock then says "Time is a ruler to measure the day, it doesn't go backwards, only one way", probably simply hinting at the cruelty of time. It might also refer to how we quantify time minutely, how we are taught to do so.
Red Guy tries to debate clock, who wants to take them on a journey, as they would miss their show, to which clock impels him not to be stupid.
"Time is old like Victorian times", in which clock takes them for a journey.
We can spot a wanted dead or alive sign on a wall, with a picture of Yellow Guy, the reward being 1906 pounds.
The characters then see a tree and an apple deteriorate because of time.
Duck is enjoying building a card castle, but clock hits it with a stick: "There's a time and a place for mucking around!"
Duck says "like birthdays" and we see a party balloon flying through the screen
3/???
Red Guy says "and camping", whilst in a red tent. A miniature red tent could be seen in both episode 1 and 2 in the house
Yellow Guy says "I'm friends with my dad", whilst olding hands with the crooked yellow figure we are introduce to for the first time. He doesn't say anything, but as soon as his face is shown on camera the sky gets grey and cloudy.
The 3 puppets are taken by clock into a sort of space-astronomical time exploring thingy.
Red Guy asks "what happened after the olden days?" Clock replies "Time went new and got old like history. Stuff from the past went into a mystery." once again trying to put shadows on the past, distance them from it.
When Yellow Guy brings attention to an old man that dies, which is likely to be a foreshadowing of Duck's death. Clock captures their attention again saying "But, look, a computer! Everything's cool, IT'S THE FUTURE! Time is now, the future anew, and look at all of the wonderful things you can do! With gadgets and gizmos and email addresses!", this as the scene slides to Red Guy and Duck being strapped to a machine with several eyes, connected to it by metallic headgears. The Clock redirecting the focus on the cool things the future brought us serves the purpose of distracting us from the depressing idea of impending death that comes with learning the true nature of time, and the tecnological gagdets, symbolised by the machine the 2 puppets are strapped to, symbolise how today's technology can be mentally suffocating and overwhelming, the eyes possibly referencing the people behind the media, that uses technological tools to get a grip on people, invading our privacy and keeping us close to its sight.
4/???
Yellow Guy is show with a strange pot-like object on his head. I can't quite tell if it's supposed to be a metallic headger connected to the machine like the others, because quite honestly it doesn't looks like it. He sais "My dad is a computer", even tho some people claim he actually says "my dad has a computer" with a very strong british accent. Now, the thing gets really tricky here.
Dad is watching a pornographic website, while wearing one of the metallic headgears. Is he subject to the "brainwashing" Red Guy and Duck are subject to themselves? Is he just a victim of this reality like others? Popular fanbase theories want it not to be so. This can be supported by his headger visibly not being attached to the machine, or anything at all for that matter. I personally like to think of Roy as a victim figure in the series and I wouldn't dismiss the theory so quickly just yet, but they do have a point. Once again Roy is shown as a negative figure, misusing technology. Is he doing so because he is evil and perverted, or because he's fallen victim to porn addiction?
A not so known theory links this scene, Roy's behaviour, and the brain infograph of episode 1 together. In episode 1 Notepade shows us a brain divided in its many areas. On of which coloured green, the temporal lobe, which has the functions of: communication (Roy never ever speaks) and Sexual drive (which would be linked to his use of the computer to look up porn). I find this theory as interesting as weak, given how Roy allegedly did answer a question in the interview. But again, I have reason to think that meta-material, like the interview, is to be taken more light-heartedly and not really directly connected with the story itself, even tho there are strong hints saying otherwise, especially regarding the kickstarter videos. It's really complicated, and I haven't come to a conclusion on this particular subject.
5/6
The song goes on, with clock appearing on Roy's computer screen, getting the porn site off, exclaiming "look at the time!". We then get a sequence about...fish everywhere. I just have no idea. Unless someone can back a theory up, this is just comic relief to me. The 3 puppets start questioning the very essence of time even after Clock's initial refusal to aknowledge it ("(clock) Now you can see the importance of time. It helps us make pizza, it keeps things in line. (duck)But when did it start? (YG)And when will it stop? (clock)Time is important and I am a clock."
They keep questioning time, and Duck shows an image of a human brain, once again showing the temporal lobe in green (this can't be a coincidence), suggesting time is a "construct of human perception". Clock interrupts them and MEEPs them to the point of making Yellow Guy's ears bleed.
Clock asks "Look at your hair grow, isn't it strange? How time makes your appearance change." and the characters start getting old at an incredibly fast pace, skin retracting from the bones, hair growing, causing pain in them. The video gets near the end as Yellow Guy asks clock to make it stop, with Duck's eye falling off his head and the three about to die. He replies "It's out of my hands, I'm only a clock. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be fine, but eventually everyone runs out of time.", and we see him saying so in the TV, with the 3 normal aged and perfectly fine puppets watching it.
Now on the wall there is no more the picture of the 3 friends and the date 19.06.55, instead it is replaced by the "nothing forever" picture, suggesting that even if it seems to us to have gone full cycle and back to the beginning, something has indeed changed.
The credits show vermins fasting on what is supposed to be the rotting corpse of some strange purple creature.
6/6
Connecting the dots with the 2 videos, there is a clear pattern. We have a teaching figure who tries to teach the 3 puppets an important aspect of life, through a song. The teaching figure seems to be slightly off, a bit deranged from the start, but not worringly so. But as soon as the the 3 stop following the path they are supposed to, the one laid down by the teaching figure, the latter scolds them and generally forces them to undergo extremely unpleasant situations and experiences, whilst also lying on the true nature of the subject that's being treated when the answer, the truth, is too crude. It is a protective environment, an overprotecting one, with a somewhat sadistic side to it.
Another theory about Roy that is worth mentioning is that, given he is Yellow Guy's father, he's an absent one at that. He's not directly teaching his son how to live, he leaves this task to remplacement teachers
>>83934434
its psychopath talk
>>83946798
not traumatized to be honest, but this series will be in my dream, forever......Because it is too awesome.
>>83927006
I think that... there are very little metaphors in the show.
From the beginning they've talked about the boy's dad and how he used a computer for weird stuff. At first it was just a joke about porn but we then see that he had been controlling his son's world in some simulation. If it's any assumption it's that this simulation was a way that he tries to teach his son lessons about life. He even included his friends.
However because his father is messed up any lesson he tries to instill degrades into insanity. His friends start resisting so he ejects or eliminates them. Red existed in an alternate simulation full of banality to placate him.
Somehow red finds the father's computer and unplugs it and they are free. Their world is different the next day to shows that they are free of his influence.
June 19th is father's day. I think that's a big hint.
>>83939271
He is my new Sonic
All these theories...they're not very good at all
jesus fucking christ i wish to all the djinns and pray to all the gods every night that the infantile retards coming up with these pathetic theories and analyses just kill themselves already
Ok I got it!
Each teacher is a Seven Deadly Sin!
Steak-Gluttony
Bee-Lust
Computer-Sloth
Notepad-Envy
Clock-Wrath
And Roy is Pride.
And they are all in hell.
>tfw I just wanted everyone to have escaped and had a good time like all their photos depict
why cant good endings happen anymore
>>83927439
I'd take Roy over your average public school teacher.
Beats dealing with common core.
Another theory!
It's an insane asylum and each teacher is a doctor trying to teach the Yellow kid patient. Red and Duck are his imaginary friends.
Notepad is the art therapy.
Clock is that draw a clock one I saw in Hannibal once.
Steak is a friendly lunch staff.
Bee is the priest for the asylum chapel.
Computer is the machine for shock therapy.
Lamp is dream psycho analysis.
>>83948092
Red Guy leaving represent Yellow slowly letting go of his fantasy and getting better. But then the friendly lunch staff fucks up. He isn't trained, why the song is bad, and thus Yellow gets rid of his other imaginary friend in a less therapeutic and harsh way forcing a relapse and return of Red Guy.
>>83931452
Far fetched idea here, but what if red brought duck back from the dead? He sounded incredibly fucking terrified and wondering where he was. He was holding the fish he had in Time, which also blends in with how he is "brought back" and the way red allows the teachers songs to be played to form a semi coherent message shows that he's doing this for some reason. Maybe both the "tv simulation" and "real world" are both the actual real world, and you have to be alive in both to actual live to the next "cycle". The only way you can die permanently is if you get written off the show and never show up again. Red plans the songs to naturally have to include a line that duck says, forcing the machine to bring him back. After this red may be trying to tell yellow something? I believe that he tried to cram two messages into one but fucked up and overloaded the knowledge yellow was gaining. Roy disturbs him from this stupor and doesn't really do much except extend his hand and inch forward and stop. Red see the switch, and using what he gained from Computers, goes to unplug the switch. The next shot is a much simpler recreation of episode one. The most noticeable difference is that they are all what they claimed their uncreative color and that the date finally moves forward.
Of side note:
>yellow is now the "uncreative color" instead of bird
>June 20 can be the day of the summer solstice
I believe it's yellows turn to experience what duck went through. I believe red is saving them from the simulation one at a time. Well, bringing them into whatever comes next, which is what he's stuck in.
>Sorry for wall of text
>>83947895
I haven't seen theories that bad though.
Ok so what I'm thinking is Roy probably raped Yellow and the videos following are Yellow's distorted view of his growing up and mind falling apart. The rape damaged his psyche bad and his two friends bare witness to it firsthand. Red is driven away and Green is overwhelmed and dies, leaving Yellow to fester alone with his Rapemagination. Red can't continue on forgetting about Yellow as they were probably gay lovers and he returns to truly see how fucked in the head Yellow has become. Roy, full of regret over what he has done tries to reach out to Red who is the only person capable of putting Yellow out of his misery by pulling the plug, metaphorical for a double murder suicide. They are then all reincarnated along with Green into a different world.
>>83948383
This is one of the dumbest fucking things I've ever heard
>>83947895
>swearing to a fantasy creature to unironically make strangers laugh on one of the worst boards on one the worst British puppet show discussion websites
>unironically doing it to hopefully insult anyone else
Fuckin normies I swear
>>83948451
This. Obviously the rape shocked Yellow into a coma and the whole thing, RedGuy duck and teachers are all part of the coma dream.
This series jsut makes me want to make a kids TV show with puppets.
all the sets and props look rad as hell.
>>83927006
i think this last is showing how the first one was new and creative, but the episodes that followed became formulaic and the essentially the same. new song characters appear showing that they could continue, but they decided to pull the plug.
>>83931277
But anon, calling a good song bad makes your teeth go gray.
>>83948543
>sketchpad didn't ever appear on the simulation with yellow
DEEPESTLORE
>>83927439
That's pretty consistent with what's presented in the episodes. But the homeschooling thing is reaching a bit. I give you an A-.
>>83948543
reminds me of llamas with hats or whatever it was called
Why was the bird so obsessed with the Chicken Picnic?
>>83927439
lame as fuck
>>83949512
Obsessed?
He just wanted to follow through with their afternoon plans, and he didn't seem to care enough about yellow to let that get in the way. After all, from his perspective Yellow is just being a whiny douche about the bee dying
Where does this fit into all that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sL9-4fm1kg
>>83949541
this
>>83949567
The dad needed funding, VR systems are expensive. The troll things are his underlings.
How braindead do u need to be to analyze something like this just to understand it?
Y'all niggas are bullshit
>>83948543
Jesus fuck it's not complicated.
The series has always been about how hollow and fake edutainment has become, from trying to teach children the "right" way to be creative while paradoxically restricting their thinking, to just outright flashing the new shiny object of technology to distract the young audience. Eventually the show throws so much shit at the wall that there really isn't a lesson to be learned, just colorful puppets and catchy songs with some vague theme like "health" or "dreams".
It grows so chaotic that Red, the one guy who actually gave a shit about teaching children, pulls the plug on the show after realizing that children aren't learning anything at this point, they're just hopelessly confused by the meaningless noise.
So he pulls the plug and the show ends. On a new day, another show comes on the air. The puppets are different colors, but it's still the same meaningless noise driven more by profit than any kind of actual educational value.
Surprised no one pointed out how each teacher is styled after a different class teacher stereotype.
Art class
Math Class
Science Class
Computer Class
Health Class
>>83949702
I fail to see the love cult being science class, and the clock being math is a bit of a stretch
