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Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4, also referred to by its episode name Computers, is the fourth episode of the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared web series. It was filmed on 21 February, and it aired on YouTube on 31 March 2015. The teacher of this episode is a computer.

This episode was dedicated to Julie Crosbie.

Plot[]

The episode opens with the characters sitting around the table playing a card game and Red Guy gets a question that requires knowledge about the world. Yellow Guy proposes a few answers until Duck rudely shouts at him. Then Red Guy, and later Duck, try to set up the reveal of Gilbert the Globe who is standing at the side of the room. However, just as he was about to start the lesson, Colin the Computer interrupted him and started the lesson instead, singing about himself.

Computer

Colin explaining what he's made of

Red Guy attempts to get Colin to answer the question regarding their card game but is ignored. Colin then proceeds to discuss how useful and clever he is and asks many questions about the puppets' personal information such as "What's your name?", "Where do you live?" and "What do you like to eat?". Duck and Yellow Guy answer the latter two questions respectively, and when Red Guy is about to answer the first question, he gets interrupted by Colin before he could reveal his name. Red Guy gets annoyed by Colin and tries to quiet him by first telling him that they already have a computer, then asks him to stop talking, and finally, smashing his keyboard. Colin gets enraged by Red Guy touching him and shouts at Red Guy, and the entire screen becomes filled with static and glitches out for a couple of seconds. Gilbert makes a cameo during this, as well as possibly reveals his voice.

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The digital style

The puppets are then "sucked into" Colin's "Digital World" that is made out of numbers and code. Colin proceeds to teach the puppets about avatars inside of it that are controlled by a real person. Red Guy finds this amazing and interesting and asks the computer what you can do in the digital world. After a long pause Colin says that there are about three things to do in the digital world: look at graphs, flaunt one's digital style, and partake in digital dancing.

Yellow Guy and Duck are excited about this but Red Guy appears to be bored. As time goes on, the lesson starts to become repetitive and extremely glitchy and the camera starts to zoom in on Red Guy as if coming from the computer screen. When Red Guy looks away from the screen, he sees that his friends are missing and realizes that they have been sucked inside the digital world, he starts to hit buttons to try to get them out while Duck and Yellow Guy "virtually appear" with their brains exposed.

DIGITAL DANCING

The digital world getting corrupted

Red Guy then notices a red wire coming from the computer and starts to follows it to the door. Meanwhile in the virtual world the "digital dancing" continues and a virtual Red Guy is standing in the virtual world next to a door. Suddenly the scene breaks to what appears to be a low-budget recreation of the first episode and Red Guy opens the door and wears a motion tracking suit and is surprised both about what he sees in the room and by the fact that he suddenly is wearing a motion tracking suit.

The low budget remake contains a balloon man with a tape recorder strapped to it as the Yellow Guy counterpart, a red mop with eyes as the counterpart of Red Guy, an actual duck as the counterpart of Duck Guy, and a box of oats as the counterpart of Sketchbook all while being filmed by a camera with googly eyes, (somewhat similar to the one from the first episode) which is connected to the computer through the red wire. The red mop and oats are both operated by a person in a white suite and the tape recorder is heard saying phrases from previous episodes before uttering "You are not invited to the party". Then a person in a black suit appears and closes a clapperboard in front of the camera while Red Guy let's out a surprised "Wait what?" and his head explodes in glitter.

The credits roll over what appears to be Colin's computer screen.

Characters[]

Primary Characters[]

Secondary Characters[]

Tertiary Characters[]

Transcript[]

Below is a transcript of the episode.

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Red Guy: Oh, I guess it's my turn to choose a card. Let's see. Hmm, what is the biggest thing in the world?

Duck: Hmm, that's a tricky one.

Yellow Guy: A mountains? A sky? A windmill—?

Duck: No!

[A beat.]

Red Guy: If only there was a way to learn more about the world...

[Music cue, camera pans to a globe.]

Duck: Yes, if only there was some way to learn more information about this...

[Music cue, camera cuts to the globe again, who spins around this time.]

Yellow Guy: Wow, look!

Colin the Computer: I'm a computer! I'm a computer-y guy! Everything made out of buttons and wires. I'd like to show ya! - Inside my digital life. Inside my mind, there is a digital mind...

Red Guy:(To the viewer) Oh. Maybe you could help us answer this question: what is the biggest thi—

Colin: Clever! I'm very clever-y guy.

Yellow Guy: Wow.

Colin: Count to a fifty in the blink of my eye, and print a picture, and then I tell you the time.

Duck: Time?

Colin: Help you to find something you're wanting to find. Now it's easy to be a clever smart boy like me, if you can do it all digitally!

Yellow Guy: Wow, I'd like to be as smart as a computer.

Red Guy: Actually, we already have a computer.

Colin: Great! Great news! Now, before we begin our journey, I just need to get some information from you! What's your name? Where do you live? What do you like to eat?

Duck: I live in my house!

Yellow Guy: Spaghetti!

Red Guy: Well, my name is—

Colin: Great news! Now just a few more questions and we'll be on our way.

Red Guy: Wait a second.

Colin: What's your favorite colour?

Red Guy: Stop talking.

Colin: Do you like cow's or goat's milk?

Red Guy: Be quiet.

Colin: Do you have brown hair? What is your blood type? Are you allergic to—

Red Guy: SHUT UP!

Colin: DON'T TOUCH MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Red Guy: What?

[The scene glitches out for several seconds.]

Colin: Welcome to my digital home. Everything made out of numbers and code.

Duck: Wow! We're all computer-y!

Red Guy: Oh, yeah. Wow, wow, wow. 'Cause of the computer.

Yellow Guy: I don't get it, how can it be? If I'm sitting at home, but I'm inside the screen?

Colin: But you're not you, you're your digital you, virtually real but controlled by real you.

Duck: But if he's not quite real, then I'm not real, too! And your not-real you is inside your real you!

Red Guy: Wow, how amazing, and interesting too, but in this digital world, what can we do? [A beat.] What can we d—?

Colin: Hey, good question, well it's up to you! In the digital world, there's over three things to do!

Yellow Guy: Wow, look a pie chart!

Duck: Digital style!

Colin: Do a digital dancing! Hey, this is fun!

Yellow Guy: Wow, look a bar graph!

Duck: Digital style!

Colin: Do a digital dancing! Hey, this is fun!

Yellow Guy: Wow, look a line graph!

Duck: Digital style!

Colin: Do a digital dancing! Hey, this is fun!

Yellow Guy: Wow, look an oblong!

Duck: Digital style!

Colin: Do a digital dancing! Hey, this is fun!

Yellow Guy: Wow, look nothing!

Duck: Digital style!

Colin: Do a digital dancing! Hey, this is fun!

Yellow Guy: Nothing.

Duck: Digital style!

Colin: Do a digital dancing! Hey, this is fun!

Yellow Guy: Nothing.

Duck: Digital style!

Colin: Do a digital dancing! Hey, this is fun! Do a digital dancing! Hey, this is fun! Do a digital dancing... Do a digital dancing... Do a digit—

Voice Machine: I am a stupid one... I am going to paint a picture of a clown... My dad has a computer... You are not invited to the party...

Red Guy: Wait, what?

Video[]

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Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4

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Behind the Scenes[]

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Trivia[]

Episode[]

  • Due to Becky Sloan saying "we are having to push our shoot date back until mid February" it made a lot of people believe that was when it was going to be released.
  • Unlike the previous episodes, there was no indication that the events in this episode were a hallucination, TV-show, or a dream.
  • Many boxes of oats appear throughout the episode, possibly as a reference to subliminal advertising on the internet.
  • Towards the end of the puppets being taken into the digital world, you can hear what resembles the 3D music from Episode 1 when the puppets were changing.
  • This is the third time that the puppets were computer-animated.

Characters[]

  • The grid on Colin's screen is the same as the grid of the speakers at 2:07 in Episode 2.
  • This is the second time Yellow Guy looks into a mirror although this time it's his digital self.
  • After Colin mentions time, Duck shockingly replies "Time!?", implying he remembers the events of Episode 2.
  • Duck's digital style of the fifth iteration can barely be seen through Red Guy's door, and he appears to be wearing a blue coat and has pink spiky hair.
    Roy in creepy corner

    Roy in the corner

  • When things start to glitch, Red Guy appears in the digital world both as himself and as a red wig on the floor.
  • Red Guy is represented as a red Triangle, Yellow Guy as a yellow circle and Duck as a green square on the computer.
    • This looks somewhat similar to an other project by Becky Sloan called Selfridges Window Display where in a red triangle and a yellow circle appeared.[1]
  • When the room goes dark, Roy can be seen standing in the corner of the room.
  • The printer also appears to be a character.

Objects[]

  • The squares on the corners of the board game are similar to Colin's eyes but with a red outline.
  • The teapot from Episode 1 appears in the digital world.
  • The Clown Painting from Episode 1 appears twice in the digital world.
  • A statue of Malcolm can be seen in this episode.
  • The three puppets can be seen on the milk carton with the word "MISSING" on it, possibly referring to the HELP video's.
  • The number "7" is the only number that doesn't smile in the digital world.
    • Coincidentally, 7 is also referred to as "the funnest number" in The Puppets.

Other[]

  • Colin's screen is used as the background for the ending credits.
  • The newspaper has the date 19 June and when Colin says "and then I tell you the time." he displays a clock with 19:06 on his screen.
  • When Colin asks "What is your favorite color" he shows them the colors "red", "blue" and "yellow". Before this the printer is seen with buttons in the same three colors and later, in the digital world, there are three doors with the same colors and, during the "digital dancing", three music notes have the same colors.
    • Note that he also doesn't give them a "green" option.
  • At 3:30 there are at least two other doors behind Red Guy with another Red Guy and Colin dancing.
  • During Duck's fourth iteration of "things to do in the digital world" (the cowboy outfit) a horse appears in the background.
  • There is a red wire in the real world that is coming from the computer and goes trough the keyhole of the door and one in the digital world coming from Colin going to a virtual door.
  • As both the real and virtual Red Guy open the door, it is unsure whether which of them (or both) were the one to walk into the low-budget recreation of the first episode.
    • The low-budget recreation also contains the images of a clock that has the same clock face as Tony the Talking Clock and a painting from Episode 2 that also contains a horse. The oats on the table probably refer to the current episode.
    • When Red Guy's head explodes, gold glitter, amongst other things, come out of his head.
  • The song used in this video "The Computer Song" can be purchased on iTunes.[1]

Reception[]

As of July 2023, the episode has 35 million views and 572K likes.

Contributions[]

Directors[]

Creators[]

Writers[]

Executive Producers[]

Producers[]

Composers[]

Cinematographers[]

Art Directors[]

Art Department[]

  • Richard Henley
  • Katie Millner
  • Jack Needell
  • Jen Newman
  • Rose Popham
  • Becky Sloan
  • Antonia Trister
  • Stephanie Unger
  • Becky Weston

Sound Department[]

Camera Asistant[]

  • Tom Bolwell

Gaffer[]

Electrician[]

  • Junior Agyeman Owusu

Projections[]

Animators[]

Animation Design[]

  • Jack Sachs

Animation Director[]

  • Theo Nunn

CGI Animators[]

Special Thanks[]

  • Leonie Ellis
  • Daniel Haddock
  • Christine Hooper
  • Robert Bryce Milburn
  • Margaux Soland
  • Tom Stuart
  • Bart Yates
  • Royngtt

Dedicated To[]

References[]

Episodes
Web Series Don't Hug Me I'm ScaredDon't Hug Me I'm Scared 2 - TIMEDon't Hug Me I'm Scared 3Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 5Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 6
TV Series PilotJobsDeathFamilyFriendshipTransportElectricity
Promotional/Miscellaneous Shorts HELPHELP 2HELP 3'Behind the Magic'Yellow Guy's DreamWakey WakeyFLYLATE SEPTEMBER! (EGG)
Becky and Joe's Other Projects The ColouringBad Things That Could HappenCraig's Big DayBaby CPR (St. John Ambulance)The PuppetsTrolliSwim and Sleep (Like a Shark)
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