Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (2011) on Netflix
Yellow Guy, Duck and Red Guy live in a childlike, colorful world. A notepad comes to life and begins a musical number about creativity.
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Plot summary
The three main characters are puppets: a yellow childlike figure with blue hair and overalls, a green mallard duck in a tweed jacket, and a red one whose head looks like a mop. They live in a childlike, colorful environment. Their names are never stated, and they never address one another by name. An episode begins as a children's program would, with the characters meeting an anthropomorphic visitor who leads them in a musical number about a basic concept of daily life. Here that visitor is a notepad, which comes to life and sings to them about creativity. The tune is upbeat.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (2011)
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- A 12-year-old American boy tried to use stolen credit card information to donate £35,000 to the show's crowdfunding campaign, but he was caught and those funds were removed.
- An executive producer credit on the series went to the YouTuber TomSka, who earned it after donating £5,000 to the show's Kickstarter campaign.
- The television version finished filming by September 2021 and was expected to be released streaming on All 4 on 12 September 2022, but the release was postponed because of the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
- Becky Sloan, Joseph Pelling and Baker Terry met while studying Fine Art and Animation at Kingston University, where they started the THIS IS IT Collective with some friends and made the first episode in their free time with no budget.
- The show attracted mainstream commissioners, but Sloan and Pelling turned the offers down because they "wanted to keep it fairly odd" and "have the freedom to do exactly what we wanted".
