Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
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40 free Don't Hug Me I'm Scared trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared began as a no-budget puppet short made by a group of art school friends and grew into one of the internet's best-loved pieces of surreal horror comedy. Each episode starts like a bright, friendly children's programme, then lets a singing teacher lead three puppets somewhere very dark. This quiz covers both halves of DHMIS: the original web shorts and the later television series. Expect questions on Red Guy, Yellow Guy and Duck, the talking objects who teach them, the strangest plot turns, and the people and events behind the cameras. It is written for fans who have rewatched every episode hunting for clues, and for newer viewers who want to see how much of the lore has stuck. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01The 2022 television series of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared was postponed by eleven days after whose death?
Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II died days before the planned 12 September launch, so the six new episodes were pushed back to 23 September.
Q 02In the Death episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, a newspaper says Duck died because he forgot to do what?
Drink water
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.
Q 03Which cleaning tool is the shaggy head of Red Guy in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared most often compared to?
A mop
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.
Q 04Which crowdfunding site raised over £100,000 in 2014 to pay for four more Don't Hug Me I'm Scared episodes?
Kickstarter
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.
Q 05In the first Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short, which object on the kitchen table opens up to sing about creativity?
A sketchbook
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.
Q 06Which household object named Tony comes alive to lecture the puppets in the second Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short?
A clock
A clock called Tony teaches the puppets about time, then speeds it up until all three rapidly age and decompose.
Q 07On which website did the six original Don't Hug Me I'm Scared shorts appear between 2011 and 2016?
YouTube
YouTube hosted all six shorts, and the first was made in the creators' spare time with no budget before it spread widely online.
Q 08The cheerful lesson songs in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared imitate segments from which American children's series?
Sesame Street
Sesame Street is the model for the upbeat songs, each led by a talking object whose lesson turns nonsensical and then sinister.
Q 09Which British broadcaster commissioned the second Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short and aired the 2022 series?
Channel 4
Channel 4 commissioned the second short for its late-night Random Acts strand, years before ordering the full series in 2020.
Q 10What colour is the hair of Yellow Guy, the childlike puppet in overalls from Don't Hug Me I'm Scared?
Blue
Blue hair tops Yellow Guy, the first of the three puppets that Becky Sloan built, though she had never made a puppet before.
Q 11Which 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
A tweed jacket marks out Duck, and a single performer supplies the voices of both Duck and Yellow Guy.
Q 12Which bedroom object sings to a weeping Yellow Guy about dreams in the sixth Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short?
A lamp
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.
Q 13What kind of creature is Shrignold, who sings to Yellow Guy about love in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared?
A butterfly
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.
Q 21In the last television episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, what does Duck swap that makes Yellow Guy suddenly clever?
His batteries
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.
Q 22What keeps interrupting the healthy eating song in the fifth Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short until Duck answers it?
A telephone
A telephone rings again and again through the song, and the closing credits show the absent Red Guy walking away from a call box.
Q 23At which American film festival did an unaired Don't Hug Me I'm Scared television pilot premiere in 2019?
Sundance
Q 14What is the name of the singing computer that drags the puppets into a digital world in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared?
Colin
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.
Q 15What is the name of Yellow Guy's father, a silent background figure in the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared web shorts?
Roy
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.
Q 16Which talking object teaches the puppets about jobs in the first television episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared?
A briefcase
A briefcase sends the trio to work in a factory, where Duck returns from a brainwashing to find everyone 40 years older.
Q 17What does Red Guy's head burst into when a clapperboard snaps shut in the fourth Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short?
Glitter
Glitter sprays out just after Red Guy escapes the digital world and finds a human film crew shooting a crude copy of the puppets.
Q 18How 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
Held hostage for ransom in grainy camera footage, the puppets fronted a campaign that beat its £96,000 target.
Q 19Which British online comedian became an executive producer of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared after pledging £5,000?
TomSka
TomSka, creator of the asdfmovie cartoons, also has a voice cameo in the shorts as a magnet.
Q 20During the weekend shoot of the first Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short, what did a light do that brought firefighters?
Melted the roof
A light melted the roof, and the firefighters who arrived were baffled to find a felt set strewn with raw meat.
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.
Q 24Which Banksy project in an English seaside town screened Don't Hug Me I'm Scared in its cinema programme?
Dismaland
Dismaland, a temporary art show in Weston-super-Mare described as a sinister twist on Disneyland, drew about 150,000 visitors in 2015.
Q 25Which performer voices both Yellow Guy and Duck in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared and co-created the television series?
Baker Terry
Baker Terry met Becky Sloan and Joe Pelling as a student and began co-writing with them from the second short onward.
Q 26What 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
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.
Q 27In 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
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.
Q 28How does Red Guy end Yellow Guy's torment in the sixth Don't Hug Me I'm Scared short?
He pulls a giant plug
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.
Q 29What does the Family Tree take from Red Guy to trace his relatives in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared?
His blood
His blood is mostly drained by the tree, and the relatives it finds then turn Red Guy away for being too expressive.
Q 30In which category did Don't Hug Me I'm Scared win a BAFTA Television Craft Award in 2023?
Production Design
Production Design went to Becky Sloan and Joe Pelling, who were also nominated that year for the costumes.