

The Channel 4 series contains examples of: Stepford Suburbia: Judging by the teaser for the TV series pilot, Clayhill seems to have this going on.Implying that they may be in another Lotus-Eater Machine. However, the final shot has everyone spontaneously gushing out their mindless love for fizzy milk, to the confusion of the main trio. The Key to the City is stopped by Yellow Guy and Red Guy, Duck apologizes for his Control Freak nature, and the town is restored back to normal. Bittersweet Ending: The pilot's ending edges between this and a Happy Ending.The end of the pilot ends with Yellow Guy's apparent 48th birthday party. However, Yellow Guy spends most of his party being upset, because everyone is too distracted by the mayor's disappearance and Duck slowly turning into a Control Freak. Birthday Episode: The pilot takes place on Yellow Guy's 38th birthday.Art Shift: Much of the Security Song, sung by a key-shaped teacher is animated in the style of a rubberhose cartoon.As the series goes on, some of them even begin to question just how real the world they're living in is. But things inevitably take a turn for the worse and weirder, and they often find themselves trapped in a living nightmare. Every episode features a new edutainment character, usually a talking object, that arrives to teach them a valuable life lesson about an important topic. Much like the web series, the story follows three nameless puppets, referred to as Red Guy, Yellow Guy, and Duck. However, the creators felt that it was too much of a thematic departure and contained topical references that could make it an Unintentional Period Piece when the series was picked up by Channel 4, Becky, Joe, and Baker scrapped the pilot and went for a setting and storyline more in line with the original. The scope was expanded to an entire town called Clayhill, with a larger cast of supporting characters to match, which Becky analogized to South Park. A pilot episode was produced from 2016 to 2018, titled "Wakey Wakey", and it premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Originally, the series was to be produced by Super Deluxe, Conaco, and Blink Industries. Its first series aired on Channel 4's streaming service All 4 on September 23rd, 2022, and aired on Channel 4 from September 30th to October 14th. Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is a British Horror Comedy TV series by Becky Sloan, Joe Pelling, and Baker Terry, adapted from the 2011 web series of the same name.
