40 Fun Facts About Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

The 2022 television series of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared was postponed by eleven days after whose death?

Elizabeth II died days before the planned 12 September launch, so the six new episodes were pushed back to 23 September.

In the Death episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, a newspaper says Duck died because he forgot to do what?

Drink water is the instruction Duck supposedly ignored, and once he reads the news his heart falls out and a talking coffin turns up to arrange his funeral.

Which cleaning tool is the shaggy head of Red Guy in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared most often compared to?

A mop is the usual comparison for Red Guy's stringy head, and the red puppet is voiced by co-creator Joe Pelling, who also wrote music for the series.

Which crowdfunding site raised over £100,000 in 2014 to pay for four more Don't Hug Me I'm Scared episodes?

Kickstarter backers pledged £104,935, though a £35,000 pledge was removed after a 12-year-old was caught making it with stolen credit card details.

In the first Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short, which object on the kitchen table opens up to sing about creativity?

A sketchbook leads the lesson, voiced by co-creator Becky Sloan, and the cheerful craft session builds to the puppets baking a cake out of internal organs.

Which household object named Tony comes alive to lecture the puppets in the second Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short?

A clock called Tony teaches the puppets about time, then speeds it up until all three rapidly age and decompose.

On which website did the six original Don't Hug Me I'm Scared shorts appear between 2011 and 2016?

YouTube hosted all six shorts, and the first was made in the creators' spare time with no budget before it spread widely online.

The cheerful lesson songs in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared imitate segments from which American children's series?

Sesame Street is the model for the upbeat songs, each led by a talking object whose lesson turns nonsensical and then sinister.

Which British broadcaster commissioned the second Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short and aired the 2022 series?

Channel 4 commissioned the second short for its late-night Random Acts strand, years before ordering the full series in 2020.

What colour is the hair of Yellow Guy, the childlike puppet in overalls from Don't Hug Me I'm Scared?

Blue hair tops Yellow Guy, the first of the three puppets that Becky Sloan built, though she had never made a puppet before.

Which item of clothing is worn by Duck, the green mallard among the three puppets of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared?

A tweed jacket marks out Duck, and a single performer supplies the voices of both Duck and Yellow Guy.

Which bedroom object sings to a weeping Yellow Guy about dreams in the sixth Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short?

A lamp drags Yellow Guy into an animated dream sequence despite his pleas to stop, in the short that closed the original run of six.

What kind of creature is Shrignold, who sings to Yellow Guy about love in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared?

A butterfly named Shrignold meets Yellow Guy in a tree and turns out to belong to a cult, soon after Duck kills another one at a picnic.

What is the name of the singing computer that drags the puppets into a digital world in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared?

Colin flies into a rage when Red Guy slams a hand on his keyboard, and he returns in the television series for the trio's yearly computer day.

What is the name of Yellow Guy's father, a silent background figure in the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared web shorts?

Roy does not speak in the shorts, but in the Family episode of the sitcom he arrives to eat the twins and their relatives, letting his son escape.

Which talking object teaches the puppets about jobs in the first television episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared?

A briefcase sends the trio to work in a factory, where Duck returns from a brainwashing to find everyone 40 years older.

What does Red Guy's head burst into when a clapperboard snaps shut in the fourth Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short?

Glitter sprays out just after Red Guy escapes the digital world and finds a human film crew shooting a crude copy of the puppets.

How were the puppets shown in the 2014 videos asking fans to fund more Don't Hug Me I'm Scared episodes?

Held hostage for ransom in grainy camera footage, the puppets fronted a campaign that beat its £96,000 target.

Which British online comedian became an executive producer of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared after pledging £5,000?

TomSka, creator of the asdfmovie cartoons, also has a voice cameo in the shorts as a magnet.

During the weekend shoot of the first Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short, what did a light do that brought firefighters?

A light melted the roof, and the firefighters who arrived were baffled to find a felt set strewn with raw meat.

In the last television episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, what does Duck swap that makes Yellow Guy suddenly clever?

His batteries are replaced with fresh ones taken from a robot teacher, and the sharper Yellow Guy heads upstairs to learn where the teachers come from.

What keeps interrupting the healthy eating song in the fifth Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short until Duck answers it?

A telephone rings again and again through the song, and the closing credits show the absent Red Guy walking away from a call box.

At which American film festival did an unaired Don't Hug Me I'm Scared television pilot premiere in 2019?

Sundance screened the 23-minute pilot, set in a town whose mayor vanishes, but the idea was scrapped and the creators later said they could not legally release it.

Which Banksy project in an English seaside town screened Don't Hug Me I'm Scared in its cinema programme?

Dismaland, a temporary art show in Weston-super-Mare described as a sinister twist on Disneyland, drew about 150,000 visitors in 2015.

Which performer voices both Yellow Guy and Duck in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared and co-created the television series?

Baker Terry met Becky Sloan and Joe Pelling as a student and began co-writing with them from the second short onward.

What kind of creature is Warren, who invades Yellow Guy's mind in the Friendship episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared?

A worm who styles himself Warren the Eagle, he drives off Yellow Guy's imaginary brain friends until Duck kills him with a needle through Yellow Guy's ear.

In the Family episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, what do the twins hope to gain by kidnapping Yellow Guy?

A meal discount is the whole plan: twins Lily and Todney dress Yellow Guy as their mother so the household qualifies for a deal on a food delivery.

How does Red Guy end Yellow Guy's torment in the sixth Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short?

He pulls a giant plug after following a cable from a control panel, and the three puppets reappear at a kitchen table in new colours.

What does the Family Tree take from Red Guy to trace his relatives in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared?

His blood is mostly drained by the tree, and the relatives it finds then turn Red Guy away for being too expressive.

In which category did Don't Hug Me I'm Scared win a BAFTA Television Craft Award in 2023?

Production Design went to Becky Sloan and Joe Pelling, who were also nominated that year for the costumes.

Where in London did the creators of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared meet while studying art and animation?

Kingston University is where the three met, and they later shared a studio where they made short films between day jobs.

Which American talk show host's company helped produce the scrapped 2018 pilot of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared?

Conan O'Brien owns Conaco, which made the pilot with Super Deluxe and Blink Industries before the concept was abandoned.

Which object named Gilbert springs to life in the fourth Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short, only to be interrupted?

A globe called Gilbert seems ready to answer a trivia question that stumps the puppets, but a singing computer cuts in and takes over the lesson.

What is the name of the live-action woman Yellow Guy meets upstairs in the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared television finale?

Lesley sits among props from earlier episodes beside a model of the puppets' house, and hands Yellow Guy a book said to hold the answers he wants.

In the Love episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, what does the cult feed to the statue it worships?

Gravel is fed to the cult's statue, and Yellow Guy is pressed to give up his identity before waking to find it was all a dream.

What does Red Guy feed the steering wheel to refuel the car in the Transport episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared?

Raisins go to Choo Choo, the elderly train teacher who wakes up as the car's steering wheel, because Red Guy is desperate not to go back home.

What is Yellow Guy drowning in when he wakes from the dream sequence in the sixth Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short?

Oil is what Yellow Guy wakes up drowning in, in a short that opens with him crying in bed over his two missing friends.

Which fashion label, founded by designer Gemma Shiel, released a Don't Hug Me I'm Scared clothing collection in 2016?

Lazy Oaf sold the 15-piece collection online and at its London shop, with outfits built around the themes of the early shorts.

Which English comedian voices the talking coffin in the Death episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared?

Kevin Eldon plays the coffin that arranges a funeral for Duck, who then pesters it with questions and requests from underground.

Which stand-up comedian voices a vending machine in the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared television series?

Phil Wang is one of many comedians voicing talking objects in the series, alongside Jamie Demetriou as a safe and Lolly Adefope as a lift.