Hidden Meanings Behind Don't Hug Me I'm Scared TV Episode 5 "Transportation" Explained
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Breaking down the fifth episode, titled "Transport", of the new Don't Hug Me I'm Scared TV Show, the show exclusively airing on Channel 4 based on the hit web series brought to us by Becky Joan and Joe Pelling.
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is a British surreal horror series created by Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling. The original web series consists of six episodes, released from 29 July 2011 to 19 June 2016 through the artists' website, UA-cam, and Vimeo. The series combines segments in live action, puppetry, traditional animation, flash animation, clay animation, and computer animation.
Each episode starts like a typical children's series, consisting of anthropomorphic puppets akin to those featured in Sesame Street and other popular children's television programmes. The series parodies and satirizes these TV programmes by contrasting this childlike, colourful environment and its inhabitants against disturbing themes; each episode features a surreal plot twist in the climax, including psychedelic content and imagery involving graphic violence, dark humour and existential and psychological horror. The six episodes explore and discuss the subjects of creativity, time, love, technology, diet, and dreams.
In 2020, it was announced that Don't Hug Me I'm Scared will be airing on Channel 4 as a television series on 23 September 2022.
episode review: 0/10 needed more time child
I’m in pain
Needs more space alcohol
Finally!
Someone who understands my pain!
T tim'e trialz!
HEY GUYS DRINK THIS SPACE ALCOHOL AND COME WITH ME TO THE SIXTH DIMENSION!!
Has anyone noticed that the teachers methods are different from the UA-cam series?
In the UA-cam series the teachers give contradictory and blatantly wrong advice.
Meanwhile the tv series teachers give the right advice but they either don't follow their own advice ( Twins, warren the eagle) or are unable to ( coffin, the train, the robot)
Great observation I never thought about it like that before
Film theory's theory on season 1 (web show) included that it was funded by Roy and that also meant they did advertisements.
Like how the Flintstones advertised cigarettes, dhmis's first season advertised things that weren't good. I can remember the food episode off the top of my head, where healthy food was suddenly bad for you but the specific brand of food was healthy and good for you. Wouldn't make your teeth go grey.
This season felt more like an actual kids' show, but that nothing was going right. Like they started learning the lesson of the episode but then got sidetracked by the reality of the lesson and couldn't accept it.
Episode 1 for instance, has the briefcase say they can have all sorts of jobs, but then they get stuck in a dead end job they never wanted to begin with for the rest of their "life".
Episode 2, they started to learn the concept of death but then backtracked and neither really accepted it, yellow guy literally bringing duck back while red forced someone else to fill the role for them.
Episode transport, they were all able to get excited about traveling, but ended up in a not great place because they didn't prep for it and kept ignoring the literal signs telling them to stop. If they had just sat through the lesson, they could have been satisfied, but they didn't and tried to apply their half knowledge to the "real" and later real world
@@catelynh1020 Now that you mention it, it does feel like a kid's show gone wrong, namely how reality isn't as clean as we presented them to children. Yeah, there's a whole world of potential jobs out there, but we don't exactly tell kids about actual work life aside from "I turn bits into parts". Family's nice and all, but, at least when I was growing up, we don't really talk about family outside of those by blood. There are less obvious ways in which someone can disrespect us, even if they are a friend. Death is a constant factor of life and we need to learn how to cope with it. Transportation is cool and all, but where are we going and why? Are we even prepared? So much gets left out when these concepts are explored in children's media, at least in my experience.
@@catelynh1020 I agree 100%
robot? (i didnt read the other replies before making this reply)
I noticed that in the yellow guy's dream/flashback everyone stayed in their homes besides the pastor who was kind enough to offer a gift. I don't know what this means for the later story but I did want to point this out
Yellow Guy seems very important to the true meaning of this series. His father was the one pulling the strings before, he is privileged to hear the narration and has that daydream that hints at things... I'm excited to hear what you make of the last episode.
He's suppose to be Leslie son
what if when yellow guy almost got hit by car Leslie gets terrified what if she's watching yellow guy's memory and she yells because she don't wanna see the accident again
@@Deadhead-kq4hr You're not my real son! [beat] Just kidding...
And the last episode, yellow guy's personality seems far too mature and learned. Did he learn all that through the endless repetition of the teachers here? Or was he mature in life? Perhaps maybe a little mentally r(censored), but otherwise a full grown adult who winds up getting bald. Still perhaps simple enough to chase a bird into the street and get run over, but not a child.
I actually thought that the part in which the yellow guy sang was actually about the episode related to friends but now I can see what it actually means! Thanks for clearing that up to me
I did too at first!
Everyone’s talking about yellow guy, but red guy still feels like there’s something more to him. He’s more aware than the other two.
In hindsight, Yellow singing about the "memories" of him going on a walk and finding the shovel, also hinted at the nature of the show.
How
@@kidjusttrynahavefun3402 that he did all that already some other time.
That when he sings about the memories of finding the shovel and such, he does mean memories of having done that before, and not what he's currently doing. Because current actions aren't memories yet.
I like to think Time Child really was a random event out of Lesley's control considering the 3 never learn of him even existing so he doesn't really work as a punishment for staying home, also he mentions a 6th dimension that I believe would be above Lesley even farther up then the stairs leading to the 5th floor. So if they just stayed Time Child would have taken them all to a plain higher than her's.
Oh, wow, I didn't even realize that the yellow guy singing in the beginning foreshadowed the next episode.
Yo I never realized that the into yellow guy says was relating to the very episode. Always thought it was a dream ramble. Thank you for editing it together like that!
My theory about the rooms of episode 6, and the episodes true “lesson”. Spoilers bellow & copied from my Reddit post.
Episode 6 in my opinion, while being titled “Electricity”, has very little to do with it. So if that’s the case, what could it be about? Well, in my opinion, the story of episode 6 is about Knowledge. Let me explain through the rooms.
The Ground Level - The ground level with our main trio is very basic. It represents the blind ignorance of learning that we are accustomed to. The trio are told what is and isn’t true and are forced to accept it as fact as they are “not as knowledgable” as their supposed “teachers”. I think that’s the most basic to explain since we are used to the concept of how the ground level trio learns.
The Big Boys Room - This is where we start to go into higher levels of “learning”, although they are extremely flawed. The Big Boys room is the Honors level class approach to learning, where they still learn the same information, they learn more at a quicker place. They are more knowledgeable by the nature of them learning more, but it doesn’t change how factually wrong their information is.
The Bigger Boys Room - The final level with another trio has the idea of study. Instead of being spoon fed information, they test it out themselves to learn. That is all it is though, learning. They spend the day testing trying to KNOW more, but they don’t UNDERSTAND any more than the levels bellow.
Lesley’s Room - The final room represents true understanding. Lesley contains all the information we wish to know, but just how yellow guy loses his batteries and shreds it, we are ignorant to true understanding, and ignorant to our own ignorance. He represents how we can never know if we don’t truly understand something.
I hope that all makes sense, I’m kind of just throwing this all together after thinking about the finale.
Don't forget, Lesley's hiding yet more stairs even higher than her.
i think the main thing about the bigger boys room was how they were torturing the blob
Hey also yellow guy has mentioned a "little baby pigeon.." before.
I've been following these day by day! Can't wait for the final one! Which one is your favourite if you have one? :)
thanks for sticking with it, can't wait to get the finale out for you guys. My favorite was 4, warren was just so damn annoying it was funny. what was yours?
@@pearlfountain It’s a toss-up between episode 4 (totally agree on Warren, he’s so perfectly annoying) and episode 3! The way they explored the concept of family was so interesting and layered. I’ll keep an eye out for that finale ;)!
What about the guy Yellow Guy found on the side of the road? I found that he bore a striking resemblance to Roy, and wondered if that had any significance.
If you look at 0:18 you can see Tony, which indicates that this is the prototype version of this episode
At first I thought the train teacher guy’s name was Lesley when I saw the license plate in the episode, lol
So if David got hit by the car from the 3 main characters, and the license plate says Leslie, doesn’t that mean that Leslie killed her own son with her car?
2:18 Duck: Well, don't spoil it!
Buddy, that ain't spoiling it, the first episodes are practically spoiling the next episodes if they don't do anything different. Lol
Tbh it really makes sense why Yellow guy used to be David lol
Like even he has the D on his overalls, which people always wondered about its meaning
I mean they live in a world that is seemingly being governed by a mad god who has endless back-ups for the trio and subjects them to absolute hell. So of course the Red Guy is in the right for not wanting to go back to that house.
The editing of the intro song you did was spot on man u should release a UA-cam short of it
I thought Yellow Guy's breakdown in the intro was a reference to Friendship.
He mentions another him and things he knew that he doesn’t know now
episode 5 is the best episode of the show. I love the train.
0:37 I fricking knew it (I told this to some others and they thought it was talking about episode 4)
may I point something out
in that episode we see that the train morphs a lot before he dies. but he also becomes this demon thingy, what if that's what he was supposed to do, he wasn't supossed to die he was supposed to torture the others, but he was too old a croaked giving them this chance to leave. its even further provend when we hear Choo Choo say, I am not supposed to be out this far, and why the gps wants them to go home. also in episode two your forgot to mention how ducks song predicts the other episodes
A video essay, more like a video paragraph
This had to be my favorite episode just because of the ending
I dunno if Lesley is the mastermind there were more stairs
Huh, I thought the intro monolog was yellow guy describing the imaginary friend sequence from episode 4. Buy yeah, it does kinda fit better with the 6th
I really don’t like the fact that you can see worn down buildings in the background if the “dump”.
Ok
1 more episode left
And its electrical and existential
There is so much social criticism in this episode as well. It is about how we treat the nature. The Train is extremely dirty and spills oil. Also the train is sick, because of the damaging oil. This little TV series about the man and the dog tells about global warming and the uneven distribution of water in the world.
Yellow gets gifted a baby bird and the voice calls the bird a rat or worthless animal. That should show how we see and treat animals.
"None of them can be apart from each other"
Wait, that doesn't make sense. There are various incidents in both this and the original web series where the trio is apart from each other.
My point was more that eventually, they all get reunited no matter what happens, i.e. the yellow guy digging the duck up. It seems that Leslie lets them go separate ways just for the sake of the lesson but they can't go beyond that, no matter how hard red guy tries during this episode
@@pearlfountain Oh. Yeah that makes a lot more sense.
Red guy yellow guy and duck are the id, ego and superego of the same person, perhaps fractured into different pieces.
I think this episode is also showing us how old people are treated in the society, i mean they are literaly using the corpse of the train to escape!
2:56 Wait, who is David?
Roy may have gotten fired when it became June 20th after all June 19th was Father’s Day the moment they got it to be June 20th Roy lost his control over the show so Lesley probably took over after Roy lost his control
3:02 look closely and you’ll see duck & a human version of roy
I thought the thing yellow guy said was referenceing episode 4 where there’s other ones (yellow guy’s dream friends) and the lumpy one (the lump) and the other ones (yellow guy’s dream dream land)
I know it might be nothing or I'm just dumb, but I think Roy is still more powerful..? Than the other 3, (SPOILERS FOR LAST EPISODE) Roy doesn't have a figure piece like Red, Yellow, And green guy have, Roy is also seen in the intro of every episode in the kitchen window, so what if lesly and Roy are connected? Maybe lesly was like "hey, make the teachers more tame" so Roy is still deploying these guys but the car fails bc of red guys motivations, and breaks the reality of Roy's authority.
I like this theory a lot. One thing, I think Roy, at least the original Roy, is dead. (We see him in the void in the last episode.) But maybe he has a way to transcend beyond that.
It would be funny if Lesley just threw them in a trash can and replaced them
Leslie isn’t the true maker though. There’s another door charged David didn’t see
i love how yellow guy just spoiled the final episode, what a spoiled pig he is.
Lesley isn't the mastermind. There are at least 2 levels above her and the actors in episode 6 seem to have more power than her
0:00 for me
I..
Not much to break down i guess, the dhmis TV show is much more straight forward than the UA-cam series
Damn I'm early as FUCK
I feel like Duck is Lesley’s like sleeper agent but he’s unaware of it to tie Red Guy and Yellow Guy back into whatever.
SPOILER!! There’s a scene in this episode where red guy truly acts like a “father figure” and tells “David” about the new place they are going to. He even proceeds the scream about how he’s not coming back to that house. As if it was a toxic place. My small theory is that Roy ended up taking custody of David and at their new home David got hit by a car which is why Leslie resents him so much. Maybe because of the resentment she feels for him she uses the puppet show to paint him as the bad guy.
Btw, I don't wanna spoil the final episode but at the end of the final episode it shows a door after leslys meaning theres something higher than her. I should propbably have waited for you to finish covering the final episode of the series but I was just pointing it out because you say she is the mastermind a lot in this video.
I was thinking the same! 😄 more stairs going up from her room!
Also, when yellow guy was singing in the intro he referred leslie to “the middle one”
This is just my theory but I think that red guy and duck never get transported home. Leslie says that she always keeps backups in case something happens to them. I think that this explains why red guy suddenly stops trying to get away in the next episode. I think that since the three have left Leslie’s world she only has the power to bring back yellow guy and she does so because he’s her favorite and Roy’s son. The only reals piece of evidence I have is when Leslie starts to sing duck can be heard in the background still counting stuff. That means that only yellow guy could hear Leslie because she’s only taking him home
this makes a lot of sense damn
Timestamp to when leslie sings? Can’t figure it out
I definitely had the same thought that the trio might’ve actually stayed there and been replaced, but seeing this makes a lot more sense. I bet over the course of the shows total running span we’ll see more and more replicants who learn the truth end up here at this dumpster village, as they’ll be the “neighbors” red guy said are running a little late. If this happens it could imply the finale would use this army of neighbors to storm the house, to save David, the only one unable to escape.
@@UnscaryGhosts YOOO! That’s exactly what I was thinking!
@@bughouse1521 hell yeah, great minds think alike!
Dude literally released an explination on episode 4 just five hours ago, this man is speed!, Also i thought lesley was just the name of the car? Where did people get the idea that lesley is her real name? Also this is a great analysis
She said in the episode that her name was Lesley.
it says her name on the door of her room in the finale! thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed
@@jeremyusreevu237 really? I dont remember that being in the episode?
@@pearlfountain oh, thanks
my personal theory on this series, spoilers ahead
it's actually the continuation that was shown at the end of episode 6 from the original youtube series, except they made a few changes to the reboot to better represent the original show, Lesley isn't the creator or mastermind of the series, but rather a new director put in charge of the reboot, as she grew up with the original series
that's why she says that yellow guy was "always" her favorite, cause she grew up watching him, it may also be why red guy seems more aware of the story he's in, cause he did get out in the original and lived in the outside world for a bit, it would also explain why he adapted so well into the "business management" role in the first episode
Each character plays a significant role in the plot, the red guy is the one who is logical, always pointing out the obvious and trying to get away until he gets reset in episode 6, the duck, is the one who stops all of the lessons from happening, (apart from episode 5 since that was mostly a red guy episode) He stopped the mess in episode by opening the suitcase, he killed the original duck in episode 2, putting it back to normal, he's the first one to get kicked out and realized what was wrong in the 3rd episode, He took the worm out of yellow guy's head in 4, killing it, he attempted to stop red guy from leaving in episode 5, (he failed tho), and he took out the batteries of yellow guy, causing him to shred all the answers he had, Yellow guy, is obviously as stated, leslies son in puppet form, when he puts his batteries in he switches with other him, going up into the rooms see the "other ones, and tiny little one" getting the book and then having his batteries taken out by the duck, causing him to shred it. Red guy doesn't do anything since as another commenter said, leslie can only bring yellow guy back, so he left the og red guy and the "og" duck, in the dump, which is why red guy just watches.
The youtube series was about red guy learning to let go of childhood obsessions and nostalgia.
This series seems to be yellow guy realising the nature of reality and control.
When duck says”I’ve seen a dead horse” it refers to the reference “kicking a dead horse”, in this case clayhill
I also think thay know this because when red guy want to get out Duck said it not allowed so I thing thay know for duck to say that
They were about to kill Yellow, when Lesley resets at the end of the episode (Duck's "visual inventory")... She did promise to help him. Maybe Clay Hill "shrivelled up", when the book went into the shredder, disappearing like the staircase to the higher floors.
And Yellow "finds this Roy in the road".... I think, Yellow has become the new jailor! He destroyed the book on purpose!
My personal theory for this episode is that Leslie saw that red guy was considering leaving so she quickly threw together a lesson about transport to show that they couldn’t leave, which is why it’s incredibly disorganized and just rambling about transport, and when the car died she expected red guy to just give up and move on with the intended lesson which was the time child, but due to red guy actually escaping they all escaped her grasp until she eventually caught up with them in the end and brought them back home
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wow did not realize good review’n
3:15
This episode may not have been my favorite but I still really liked it Honnestly it’s a good 5 out of 10 for me
My god this is refreshing, you just casually drop the connection that yellow remembers how David is dead in a four minute analysis comparing information through citation instead of pausing for five minutes yelling about the truth finally being revealed and then regressing into recapping everything we already know up to this point step by step. Like yeah, David is dead, let me think about that for a sec…
Ok I thought about it.
I'm early!
This is just my interpretation, but I don’t think Leslie took them home, I think she just replaced them with backups.
It all makes sense now Roy represents Davids dad and basically he left David and Leslie for TV commercials or branding because Leslie was struggling to provide for her kid when they were playing outside she wasn’t paying attention and David got hit by a car causing Leslie to go into a downward spiral and make dhmis as a way to cope with her insanity but some of that insanity leaks out into the show