American review of the NEW British horror/comedy puppet TV series, Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared!

Join me for a home vlog! I’m American and I’ll be reviewing the NEW to British TV series, Don’t Hug Me. I’m Scared. There will only be minimal spoilers in my review, with warning beforehand. This originally came out 11 years ago as a super popular YouTube web series that received over 70 million views! I absolutely love puppetry so this has been one of my favorite things to watch since I was little! I actually reviewed this on Jim Henson’s birthday!

If you live in Europe then you can watch Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, the NEW TV show on Channel 4. If you don’t live in Europe, you can still watch it but you’ll need to set your device’s VPN to a place in Europe and then watch it on Channel 4’s website. You can actually google a tutorial on how to change your VPN on your device. That’s what I did.
You could always watch the original YouTube series of Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared from 2011. Then you can see what it’s all about without hacking your device lol. There’s 6 original short episodes available on YouTube. The new British TV show has much longer, more in depth episodes. I highly recommend watching both!


The show combines live action, puppetry, traditional animation, flash animation, clay animation, and computer animation. The puppetry is impressive and the set is amazing and creative looking! My favorite part of the show is all the weird songs! They are catchy, sinister and hilarious!

The series parodies and satirizes other similar looking TV programs by contrasting this childlike environment against disturbing themes. The episodes have a surreal plot twist in the climax, including psychedelic content and imagery involving graphic violence, dark humor, existentialism, and psychological horror.

There are three main characters: a yellow childlike human with blue hair and overalls, an anthropomorphic green mallard duck with a plaid coat, and a red humanoid with a mop-like head. They have no names but are often referred to as Yellow Guy, Duck and Red Guy.

Genre:
Comedy horror
Musical
Surrealist

Created by:
Becky Sloan
Joe Pelling
Baker Terry