While most projects begin with a script and expand from there, for Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, the script was one of the last things the trio considered.
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared - like Jan Svankmajer’s Alice, South Park, Wonder Showzen, and Moral Orel before it - uses mixed media to subvert colourful children’s imagery. Pelling, Terry, and Sloan all met while studying Fine Art & Animation at Kingston University, and they were quickly drawn to the aesthetic worlds of children’s television.
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The new series of ’Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ on Channel 4 (Picture: Courtesy of Channel 4/Blink Industries) L-R: Red Guy, Duck and Yellow Guy at school in the new series of ’Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ on Channel 4 (Picture: Courtesy of Channel 4/Blink Industries) Duck in the new series of ’Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ on Channel 4 (Picture: Courtesy of Channel 4/Blink Industries) Red Guy in the new series of ’Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ on Channel 4 (Picture: Courtesy of Channel 4/Blink Industries) Yellow Guy in the new series of ’Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ on Channel 4 (Picture: Courtesy of Channel 4/Blink Industries) From L-R: photos of Yellow Guy, Duck, and Red Guy in the new series of ’Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ on Channel 4 (Picture: Courtesy of Channel 4/Blink Industries) From L-R: a photo of Duck, Yellow Guy, and Red Guy on the wall in the new series of ’Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ on Channel 4 (Picture: Courtesy of Channel 4/Blink Industries) From L-R: photos of Red Guy, Yellow Guy, and Duck on the wall in the new series of ’Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ on Channel 4 (Picture: Courtesy of Channel 4/Blink Industries) Madonna breaks silence after hospitalisation: ‘I’m on the road to recovery’.Check out our exclusive photos of Self Esteem’s stunning Wembley Stadium show.“I think it was as simple as, ‘Oh we’ve got to do something with puppets,’” co-creator Joseph Pelling says of the show’s rather straightforward origin story, speaking over Zoom alongside fellow co-creator Baker Terry (the show’s third creator, Becky Sloan, was on maternity and unavailable for interview). It took a decade to get there, and along the way, its creators have faced compromising commission offers, extraordinary collaborations, and perhaps the most unusual superfan they could’ve ever imagined.
Starting life as a YouTube short in 2011, it’s now become a six-part, 30-minute television series for Channel 4. A demented take on Sesame Street, the show melds educational life lessons and a whimsical aesthetic (puppetry, animation, claymation, and so on) with a nihilistic philosophy and Carpenter-esque horror. If you’ve never seen the YouTube series Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared before, it’s best described as watching CBeebies while in the midst of a fever dream.
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