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''Don't Hug Me I'm Scared'' is a British series of shorts, created by Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling since 2011. It was originally released through the artists' website, later being uploaded on other platforms like YouTube.〔Sloan, Becky and Pelling, Joseph. Becky & Joe’s Art. "Awards." "Festivals." "Talks." beckyandjoes.com. Web. 3 March 2014. Each episode is made to appear like a typical children's television program, consisting of singing and talking puppets similar to those of ''Sesame Street'', but eventually takes a dark turn, usually involving gore. The series parody children's television shows by ironically juxtaposing puppetry and musical numbers against psychedelic content and disturbing imagery. Five episodes have so far been released on the subjects of creativity, time, love, technology and dietary health. A sixth episode is planned to be produced. In May 2014, Sloan and Pelling announced that they would start a Kickstarter campaign to make four more episodes, one every three months, starting in September 2014. They uploaded low-quality camera footage of the characters being taken hostage and held for ransom. Their Kickstarter goal of £96,000 was reached on 19 June 2014.〔 ==Plot== Each episode revolves around Yellow Guy, Red Guy, and Duck Guy meeting one or several anthropomorphic teacher characters, who begin a musical number related to a basic concept of day-to-day life with a happy upbeat melody similar to that of a nursery rhyme. As the song progresses, it becomes more and more apparent that the episode's "teacher" character is subtly trying to condition the main characters to share their own opinions and beliefs about the subject, to humorous effect. The climax of each episode usually involves a shock element with heavy use of gore imagery. The first episode features a sketchbook teaching the main characters about creativity. The sketchbook encourages the puppets to be creative by taking part in childlike creative activities, such as cloud-spotting, painting and making glitter models. This results in a violent and exaggerated depiction of creativity by the puppets, who begin dancing frantically and make cakes and collages out of organs. The video ends with everything seemingly restored to normal, as the sketchbook asking everyone to "never be creative again".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Don't Hug me I'm Scared )〕 The second video features Tony the Talking Clock who sings about the concept of time and how it relates to daily life. Tony explains how time is used to "measure the day" and how all things change over time. This message is exaggerated near the end of the episode with the rate of time increased dramatically while the puppets bodies are shown to degrade rapidly before their eyes. The events are revealed to be simply a television program being watched by the three friends.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2 - TIME )〕 The third episode features Shrignold, a butterfly that sings about the concept of love. He takes Yellow Guy to a cult that he belongs to, as the song lights upon who is an acceptable partner for love. He introduces him to Malcolm, the 'King of Love', as the leader of the cult. The video ends with the yellow puppet waking up, implying it was all a dream.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 3 )〕 The fourth episode features Colin, a singing computer who introduces the puppets to concepts around personal computing. The main characters are sucked into the 'Digital World' and while Duck Guy and Yellow Guy enjoy this world, Red Guy attempts to escape it. The climax of the episode results in grotesquely animated models of Duck Guy and Yellow Guy in a glitchy room. As Red Guy tries to escape by going into another room, both a camera and two film-makers in spandex suits are seen filming a poorly constructed version of the three friends' meetings, and then the confused Red Guy's head explodes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4 )〕 The fifth episode features four teachers, a can, a human sized Steak, a loaf of bread, and a refrigerator, all singing about the concept of healthy food. As the song progresses, typical knowledge of what constitutes a balanced diet is forgone as the song becomes increasingly nonsensical. Throughout the episode a telephone rings and Duck Guy answers the phone which serves as a transition from the song into an operating room in which Duck Guy is being operated on. Yellow Guy continuing with the song near the end becomes fat and bloated from eating cans of meat which are apparently from Duck Guy's body. The end credits show Red Guy dressed in a coat and scarf, walking away from a phone booth carrying a suitcase, implying that he was the one responsible for the series of phone calls. The number 07494795709 is seen in the video twice.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 5 )〕 It should also be noted that episode 5 breaks from the show's typical formula by having uncomfortable undertones from the moment the teachers appear, and only featuring 2 of the 3 main characters in the actual musical number, aside from a fraction-of-a-second cameo at about 4 minutes into the video. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Don't Hug Me I'm Scared」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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