Don't Hug Me I'm Scared Updates: Is The TV Show Still Coming?
Is the planned Don't Hug Me I'm Scared TV show still in the works? For a lot of people, children's shows like Sesame Street are among the very first shows they watched. In addition to its fun characters and colorful puppets — created in part by the legendary Jim Henson — they imparted useful lessons to young kids about spelling, mathematics and morality. In terms of horror, muppet Count von Count — a subtle parody of Bela Lugosi's iteration of Dracula — is about as creepy as the show ever got, though.
A very different kind of puppet series debuted online in 2011 dubbed Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, AKA DHMIS. Created by Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling, this has all the trappings of a fun children's educational show, with typical episodes focusing on themes like creativity. The show revolves around Red Guy, Duck Guy and Yellow Guy being taught lessons by various talking objects, such as a talking clock that teaches them the concept of time, but episodes always take a David Lynch-inspired turn into surrealism and horror. Don't Hug Me I'm Scared has rightfully earned a cult following for its great puppet work, catchy — if disturbing — music numbers, and unsettling tone.
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Don't Hug Me I'm Scared proved so popular it even had a crossover (of sorts) with The Amazing World Of Gumball during season 5 episode «The Puppets.» The most recent episode of DHMIS came in 2016, but is a long-rumored TV series ever happening?
Around two years after the release of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared's sixth episode, a trailer dubbed «Wakey Wakey» arrived teasing a potential Don't Hug Me I'm Scared TV show. It was later confirmed Sloan and Pelling had created a 20-minute
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