

The key tells Duck that nothing is safe, but Duck notices that it was a puppy inside. He smacks it into a bowl of acid, revealing it was a puppy who had just been killed. The key seems excited, but detects a "security alert" in the present. Yellow is happy that the town is safe, and is excited to open his birthday present. Red leaves, while Duck is now in the mayor's office after locking the town. While Duck is appointed mayor, Red finds the mayor's footsteps leading into the forest. Duck agrees, and the townspeople decide he should become the new mayor. The key sings a song about keeping the town secure from strangers. Duck suddenly hears a voice saying that the town needs to be secure. Duck looks inside and discovers a key on the floor, and the title "DON'T HUG ME I'M SCARED" appears.Īt the house, Yellow wonders who will sing his part of the song, Duck wonders who's gonna look after the town and Red wonders who's going to find the mayor.

All the townspeople go and greet the mayor but only discover that he's missing. Mrs Grenald gives Yellow a pie filled with organs, but Red stops Yellow before he can eat it. Duck and Red enter saying that they sing the song every morning in their funny house. The door opens and Yellow Guy greets the audience singing that today is his birthday and he's wearing a ribbon that says "38 TODAY". The episode opens with the door to the house with a colorful background and the all the YouTube episodes playing at high speed. The pilot has never been officially released, but clips have turned up online over the years. Ultimately, the creators decided not to pursue the concept, and the pilot was scrapped.
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the episode's focus on government surveillance) was not in line with what they were trying to do, and ran the risk of dating the series when compared to the timelessness of the original shorts.

They also found that its focus on "current affairs" (i.e.
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The pilot features the same core cast of Red Guy, Duck, and Yellow Guy plus a larger cast of characters living in a town called Clayhill.Īlthough this pilot helped sell the show, delays in production caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led series creators Becky Sloan, Joe Pelling, and Baker Terry to rethink the concept: they found that the Clayhill setting, which drew some comparisons to South Park, came at the cost of the claustrophobia of the original shorts (a re-evaluation prompted by the pandemic's lockdown). It was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019. A teaser for the pilot, titled " Wakey Wakey" was released on 13 September 2018. To help sell a televised version of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, a pilot episode was produced in 2018 as a co-production between Blink Industries and American-based companies Conaco and Super Deluxe.
