| “ | Time is important, and I am a clock. | ” |
| —Tony the Talking Clock, "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2 - TIME" | ||
Tony the Talking Clock[1] (or simply Tony) is the main antagonist in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2 - TIME in which he teaches the puppets about the importance of time and is also a minor antagonist in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 6. He is voiced by Baker Terry
In the pilot and TV series he also often makes a minor appearance hanging on the main character's wall and even has a small speaking role in the TV series episode Transport, where he told Time Child that the main trio was away, and was found dead in the last episode Electricity.
Appearance[]
Tony in the Victorian time.
He is a wall clock with a navy-blue face, two scarlet red arrows (possibly in the style of a moustache) and four yellow marks resembling the lines clocks usually adorn. His facial rim, arms, and legs are a darker shade of blue. He wears a yellow bowtie with red stripes, white gloves, and yellow and red shoes. He also has very long, slim legs and arms. He wears a top hat and carries a brown cane while in the Victorian era.
In the 6th episode his appearance is slightly altered. His "moustache" is thicker and shorter, and his eyebrows are a bit longer.
Personality[]
He enjoys explaining time and telling the characters how he believes their time should be spent. He often interrupts or insults the puppets when they try to argue with him. For example, when he gets offended after they question the existence of time and, in the process, makes the Yellow Guy's ears bleed with extremely loud beeping.
He is also very enthusiastic about the future and technology, despite paradoxically spouting that "the future doesn't exist" earlier on in the song, often telling the main characters all the conceivably amazing things they could do and how "cool" the future is. As an aside, he also explains that "there is always a time and a place for mucking around".
Tony exhibits traits of narcissism and egotism, as he shows to care about significantly more himself than others and doesn't actually respect his students. He reveals his true sadistic side at the end of the second episode, chuckling whilst saying that "he is only a clock", and that "eventually everyone runs out of time" while the puppets decay as a result of extreme aging.
Villainous Acts[]
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2[]
- Interrupting the puppets' upcoming show, which could have resulted in them missing it.
- Forcing the trio to take a bath against their will.
- Demolishing Duck's House of Cards.
- Teaching the puppets contradicting things about time.
- Ignoring the puppets questions about time.
- Not letting the puppets ponder about time.
- Emitting extremely high-pitched beeping and screaming, causing the puppets pain and causing Yellow Guy's ears to bleed.
- Making the three puppets die by rapidly accelerating their age.
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 6[]
- Torturing Yellow Guy along with the future teachers.
Appearances[]
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (Web series)[]
- Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2 - TIME
- Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 3 - [Cameo]
- Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4 - [Reference]
- Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 6 - [Cameo and reference]
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (TV series)[]
- Wakey Wakey & Pilot - [Silent Cameo]
- Jobs - [Cameo - referenced with an image of him on one of the books in Mr. Peterson's office]
- Death - [Silent Cameo and "bone" version of him when Duck is lying in his coffin underground]
- Friendship - [Silent Cameo]
- Transport - [Silent Cameo inside Choo Choo/Talked to Time Child at home]
- Electricity - [Dead]
Other[]
- Craig's Big Day - [Represented by a clock with a face]
Non-canon cameos in other series[]
- Kurzgesagt - In A Nutshell web series - Tony makes a cameo appearance in an episode on the subject of time. The narrator quotes directly from DHMIS 2: TIME "The past is far behind us, the future doesn't exist". An animated version of Tony then appears. Near the end he appears again at 9:31. Duck's line "time's just a construct of human perception, an illusion created by..." is paraphrased, and Tony's face becomes melted and disfigured in DHMIS 2 style, his assertions about the nature of time having been challenged by the theory of general relativity.
- TheOdd1sOut - Tony appears As a Cameo In A animation In a Timestamp of 0:27 as The Clock above " 5+ hr. "
Gallery[]
Web series[]
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2 - TIME[]
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 3[]
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4[]
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 6[]
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (Web series)[]
"Transport"[]
TBA
"Electricity"[]
Merchandise[]
Trivia[]
- It Appears throughout the web series that he has some ability of controlling the various aspects of time, being able to rapidly increase the pace at which one or a group of individuals age, which he has used to lay out various villainous acts over time. This is seen in DHMIS 2: TIME when he makes a tree grow old and die quickly, and he causes the main trio to grow old at the end before revealing he is merely a clock, and setting them back to normal again
- It is unknown whether this is related to his time ability, but he also has a mysterious way of taking over or hacking the screen of any computer he so pleases, as he does on several futuristic computers in DHMIS 2: TIME and takes over the computer of Roy Grbbleston, as well as the TV in the living room at the end.
- He is an object just like Sketchbook, Colin the Computer, Spinach Can, and Lamp.
- The name "Tony the Talking Clock" was confirmed by Becky Sloan in an interview with Dazed[1].
- His bow tie often disappears.
- He seemed to dislike Duck the most.
- He or a doppleganger like him can be seen in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 3 while Shrignold is brainwashing Yellow Guy into joining The Love Cult. Sketchbook, Roy Gribbleston, Red Guy, and Duck also appear.
- In the 6th episode, the machine that controls the teachers has a clock on it resembling Tony.
- In "Transport", a small version of Tony can be seen on the dashboard of Choo Choo, and also on Time Child's necklace/belt.
- In "Electricity", Tony can also be seen on Lesley's coat.
- Tony pronouncing "pizza" as "Pizzer" has become a meme among fans.