Pilot (TV series)

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Pilot is the first episode of the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared television series. It was completed in 2018. A teaser for the pilot was released on September 13, 2018. It was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019. The official release date on TV is unknown.

Plot

The episode opens with the door to the house with a colorful background and the all the Youtube episodes playing at high speed. The door opens and Yellow Guy greets the audience singing that today is his birthday. Yellow is wearing a ribbon that says "38 TODAY". Duck and Red enter saying that they sing the song every morning in their funny house. They go greet the neighbors Mrs Grenald and Big Ian. Mrs Grenald gives Yellow a pie filled with organs, but Red stops Yellow before he can eat it. All the townspeople go and greet the mayor but only discover that he's missing. Duck looks on the desk and discovers a key, and the title "DON'T HUG ME I'M SCARED" appears.

At the house, Yellow wonders who will sing his part of the song, Duck wonders who's gonna look after the town and play with his precious bowling ball, and Red wonders who's going to find the mayor. Duck suddenly hears a voice saying that the town needs to be secure. He takes the key and it comes alive. The key says he's the key to the city. The key sings a song about keeping the town secure from strangers. Duck agrees, and the townspeople decide he should become the new mayor. While Duck is appointed mayor, Red finds the mayor's footsteps leading into the forest.

Red leaves, while Duck is now in the mayor's office after locking the town. Yellow is happy that the town is safe, and is excited to open his birthday present. The key seems excited, but detects a "security alert" in the present. He smacks it into a bowl of acid and Yellow runs away crying. The key tells Duck that nothing is safe, but Duck notices that it was a puppy inside. The key lies saying that's what the strangers want Duck to think. He tricks duck into believing that Pauline the Postbox is a stranger in disguise. Duck is surprised and decides to take action.

We cut to Red, looking for the Mayor in the woods. He comes across a fancy leather driving glove on a branch and mentions that it must belong to the mayor. Instead, a pile of mud, leaves, and sticks that the glove was on mentions that it is the owner. It calls itself a tree, and starts to sing. Red interrupts it several times and asks where the mayor went. It directs him and he goes on his way. Meanwhile, Yellow is in an alleyway crying, sad about his birthday present. Suddenly, a milk jug approaches Yellow Guy protesting against Duck's new rules. The milk vapes, and Yellow exclaims that he wants to be as cool as the milk jug. The milk jug give him a bottle of Fizzy milk, and Yellow turns into punk. He defaces a poster of Duck promoting security with “THE MAYOR IS RUDE”. The Milk jug then worries about vandalism and says he would rather be punk by drinking fizzy milk.

Red Guy finds the mayor in the woods, and he is singing about how he now lives there. He has made logs with faces on them which he calls his "friends" Red Guy asks what the mayor is doing. Red argues this and mentions that none of the mayor's things are even real. After saying so, the camera cuts to a shot of Red in a real forest, nothing is made of felted objects. He looks around and makes a brief exclamation of confusion. There’s someone standing in the distance with what looked like a paper mâché head looking at him. This shot ends quickly. Red looks around as Mayor Pigface continues to describe his life in the woods. Red ends up convincing him to go back to town by mentioning the Key that Duck found. Mayor Pigface says that that key is not the key to the city, and instead produces a golden key out of his pocket. This, he says, is the true key to the city.

Duck implements a surveillance system in the homes of the residents It is introduced via informercial, and the townspeople seem apprehensive. After being plugged into the surveillance network via cables running into his hat/head, Duck sees Yellow’s graffiti and is very upset that he was called rude. The Key also fabricates accounts of the townspeople saying mean things along the lines of “the mayor’s voice smells bad” and “the mayor should not touch the bowling ball” which infuriate Duck. The surveillance system then extends a drill that bores into the head of townspeople. They then become brainwashed to repeat what Duck says.

Red and Mayor Pigface then rush back to town, and are met with the town taken over by Duck. The tower in town has been covered in screens and cameras, the gates to the town are closed with an angry looking lock. Mayor Pigface laments that they are too late, and are attempted to be brainwashed by a surveillance camera via drills. The two try to fight back. The shot cuts to Yellow, who has entered the Mayor’s office. It is packed with a lot of surveillance equipment/computers/miscellaneous technology. The Key has grown quite large and towers above Duck. His face is covered in circuit board motifs.

Yellow is approached by the Milk Jar who tries to dissuade him from attempting to disrupt duck’s brainwashing. Yellow does not listen and pushes the Milk Jug into some of the machinery. This causes some milk to spill and disrupts Duck’s brainwashing. There is a montage of milk destroying his surveillance equipment and townspeople being freed. The montage ends with Red and Mayor Pigface at the front gate, watching as the surveillance equipment breaks, and the key holding the gate closed breaks in two.

We then cut to a shot back at the house. Duck is just waking up and is a bit disoriented. He apologizes for what happened when he was mayor and Mayor Pigface responds by showing him the true key to the town. It also grows a face and briefly mentions the importance of free thought. The key that Duck found is actually named Mean Steve, as mentioned by the Mayor. The townspeople are also at the house, celebrating Yellow’s birthday. His ribbon now says “48 TODAY”. He opens his present, which is a bottle of Fizzy Milk. The townspeople mention how much they love Fizzy Milk and reference several other ridiculous boiled flavors. Red, Yellow, and Duck do not seem to understand the craze. The final shot of the short is Duck watching a bottle of Fizzy Milk roll off the coffee table. It falls to the floor, and breaks into tiny shards of green glass.

Transcript

Yellow Guy: Wakey wakey, To the new day, and today is my birthday. The yellow balloon's up in the sky, which means it's time to go outside, it's my birthday! Hello! Yay!

Duck Guy: Now I'm here, and I'm another one, and I live with him in this funny house. And everyday when the sun comes out, we go outside and walk about in our town! I've lived here my whole life! Why, it feels as though it was only yesterda-

Red Guy: And it's me now, I'm another one, and I live with them in the funny house too, and every morning we sing this song. (annoyed) Every morning.

Duck Guy: Yes, we do!

Yellow Guy: And it's my birthday! Yay!

Duck Guy: That's not really part of the song...

All three: We just can't wait to see what's going to happen to us three. Everyday's an opportunity

Duck & Red For a new adven-

Yellow Guy (interrupting Duck & Red): A birthday picnic surprise meal!

Duck Guy: Will you stop it!?!

Yellow Guy: Wakey wakey! Big Ian!

Duck Guy: Who lives next door to our funny house!

Red Guy: And everyday when we wake you up you come outside and say, "Hello, I'm Big Ian."

Big Ian: Hello, I'm Big Ian.

Duck Guy: Look! There he is!

Yellow Guy: Wakey wakey! Mrs. Grenald!

Duck Guy: You live next door to Big Ian.

Mrs Grenald: And everyday I come outside, and give you lots of cakes and pies. Good mornin'!

Yellow Guy: Oh! Birthday cake!

Red Guy: No, don't eat that.

Townspeople: We just can't wait to see what's going to happen to you three We're like a weird family but you're the main ones.

Duck Guy: Yes, we are!

Yellow Guy: And it's my birthday...

Duck Guy: Now, onto the mayor's house.

Townspeople: Wakey wakey! Mayor Pigface! We love you, you're our mayor. And everyday you come outside and tell us everything's all right in our town.

Duck Guy: Looks like someone's being a bit of a sleepyhead!

Yellow Guy: Mayor Pigface!

Red Guy: What's going on? Where's the mayor?

Yellow Guy: Mayor Pigface!

Duck Guy: Wakey Wakey!

Yellow Guy: Wakey!

Duck Guy (entering the Mayor's house): Wakey Wakey?

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