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I might paint a picture of a clown!
—Yellow Guy, "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared"

Yellow Guy is one of the main protagonists of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared along with Red Guy and Duck. He is voiced by Baker Terry.

Appearance

In Episode 1, Yellow Guy is shown with yellow skin and a round, orange nose with short, blue spiky hair. He has a small, almost childlike body, with thin limbs and a wrinkly neck. He wears dark purplish blue overalls with a "D" stitched over the front pocket, and no shoes.

When he begins to “get creative”, He is much bigger, his nose is smaller, he has white shoes, more hair, and has an eerie smile on his face.

In Episode 2, Yellow Guy's puppet is greatly improved. He is much taller and his hair is now long in the back, giving him somewhat of a mullet. His overalls are now greyish blue and his shoes are black.

In Episode 3, his puppet is changed entirely again. He is much skinnier, his pupils are now centered and his hair is short again. His buttons have changed from a dark blue to a lighter blue, and his shoes are now white.

In Episode 4, his hair has changed back to a mullet and he has black shoes, judging by his 3D animated design.

In Episode 6, he wears a white and pale cerulean striped pajamas.

In the unreleased TV series pilot, his puppet is changed entirely again. He is even skinner, and his colors are more vibrant. His overalls are now a slightly purplish blue and his buttons are brown. He wears a badge that reads "38 TODAY" (changes to "48 TODAY" at the end of the episode).

In the TV series, his puppet is changed yet again. He is now much fatter and wider and his jaw is different. His overalls are regular blue again, and he gained a wrist watch. (Most likely the one he received in Episode 2 of the web series.)

Personality

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Yellow Guy cutting off his finger with scissors in Death.

He has a childlike personality and he enjoys the sight of nature. He is also very sensitive, which is shown when he becomes incredibly upset when Duck killed a butterfly. He doesn't seem to be intelligent when compared to his two friends. Instead, he is someone goofy, clumsy, stubborn, and gaunt, as he called Shrignold a "little baby pigeon", called his father a computer, and cut his finger with scissors in Death to see if smoke would emerge like Duck did. He also sometimes questions the obvious and doesn't know the obvious.

However, in the 6th episode, he realizes something is wrong and constantly tells the lamp to stop singing. He knows everything that happened in all previous episodes and even recognizes the past teachers. This is shown when Tony appears with Yellow Guy even mentioning how he “made him die” (relating to Tony rapidly aging him, Red Guy and Duck). Meanwhile, he is shown to very afraid when Colin, Shrignold, Meat Man and Spinach Can all appear, while being outright confused, yet still scared of all the new teachers.

It is revealed in Friendship, that Yellow Guy is an escapist. This is demonstrated when he becomes extremely upset over not getting an email on Colin. Resulting in him retreating to his brain. Which, according to Warren, is “the only place where he’ll have real best friends”.

It’s later revealed in Electricity, that his lack of intelligence stems from his low batteries. With the new batteries, Yellow Guy becomes intelligent to the point of proving to be one step ahead of the others. This is shown when he finishes the crossword puzzle before Red and Duck. His intelligence makes him mature and aware of what is happening around him to the point of realizing that he has never been close to his friends. Unlike the old Yellow Guy, who lets himself be carried away by the teachers, the intelligent one does not seem to care and even ignores them to the point where he’ll just explain whatever the teacher was going to teach the three.

Story

In Episode 1, Yellow Guy is surprised when Sketchbook becomes alive and asks it how you get an idea. Along with Duck he starts to look at the clouds, through the window, and sees things in their shapes. He also paints a picture of a clown, but Sketchbook disagrees with this and pours oil or ink on it. He arranges leaves and sticks into his favorite color "green" which Sketchbook says is not a creative color and appears disappointed about this. When Sketchbook says, "Come on guys, let's get creative!" he starts to make some kind of handy work and during the hallucinations he grows to human size and covers his work with random things and then starts to dance, joined by Duck and Red Guy. We can see him shaking wildly in his puppet form while Sketchbook watches him while smiling. Back hallucinating, he applauds while Duck is cutting the "get creative" cake along with Red Guy and then they all hug each other although some things seem out of order. He is again seen shaking wild and when the hallucinations are over, he appears to be confused and/or scared.

Inside the kitchen in Episode 5, Yellow Guy is first seen sitting at a table with Duck. They both notice that Red Guy is strangely missing but are soon interrupted by The Healthy Band. Yellow Guy at first is amazed by the talking food characters and seems to become confused later on, but he eventually succumbs to their brainwashing. At the end of the episode, he is shown obese, due to eating Duck. A phone rings, but it's not known whether Yellow Guy answers it or not.

In Episode 6, Yellow Guy acknowledges that his friends are gone, and goes to sleep afterwards. A Lamp comes to life and tries to teach him about dreams, even though Yellow Guy shows a big disliking to it. Afterwards, he awakes from a "bad dream" and is shown drowning in oil, just like the lamp said in his dreams. After Red Guy discovers the control center, Yellow Guy is still shown being tortured by the Lamp. Red Guy hits multiple buttons in an attempt to get Yellow Guy out. Instead, however, multiple teachers (including ones never seen before), are one by one placed into Yellow Guy's reality continuously torturing him to the point where he ends up becoming gaunt. After Red Guy pulls the plug, the timeline is altered, and it shows the first scene in the first episode, except now new versions of the protagonists were created (who are in their favorite color). What ends up becoming of the real Yellow Guy on the other hand is currently unknown.

Quotes

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (Web series)

Episode 1

  • "How do you get the idea?"
  • "I might paint a picture of a clown!"

Episode 2

  • "I'm friends with my Dad."
  • "My dad is a com-computer."
  • "It's twenty past day, there's fish on my tray!"
  • "Is time even real? Does anyone know?"
  • "AAAAAGH!!!! MAKE IT STOOOP!!!!"

Episode 3

  • "A little baby pigeon!"
  • "What is love, is it in the sky?"
  • "I love you too, furry boy!"
  • "I love this tree, and I love this stick, and I love this—"

Episode 4

  • "Wow, I'd like to be as smart as a computer!"
  • "I don't get it! How can it be? If I'm sitting at home, but I'm inside the screen?"
  • "Wow look, nothing!"

Episode 5

  • "Hmm... something's different!"
  • "Food is talking!"
  • "I choose a pizza slice! Bread and cheese and tastes of nice!"

Episode 6

  • "Goodnight, guys. I miss you..."
  • "No, I don't want to know! I don't—I don't want to know how to have dreams! No! NO!"
  • "No, no, no more songs!"
  • "You made me die!"
  • "Make it stop!"

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (TV series)

Pilot

  • "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!"
  • "I've had enough of that BAD mean mayor and his rude metal uncle!"

Jobs

  • "Look, he's one of those guys who has one of himself."
  • "I've got a job. On my shoulder."
  • "He eats breakfast! He's one of those guys with one of himself!"
  • "What do you think it means to have a job? Some people think it's just something you do between breakfast and dinner, but not me."

Death

  • "And I'm a yellow pig!"
  • "We gotta get things ready for the Shepherd's pie! Wait, what are we doing?"
  • "You're not supposed to say that kind of stuff. You're supposed to say that the floors are too loud or the window is disrespecting you."
  • "I dug the old one back!"

Family

  • "Wow! What a twist!"
  • "I don't know what that was. Probably not a family."
  • "And die on the same day in the same style of accident but in different locations!"
  • "FATHER?!?! THAT ONE'S THE DAD?!?!?"

Friendship

  • "When you're learning with us guys!"
  • "Oh, why can't I remember the password? Stupid brain! I know it's in there! Stupid, stupid!"
  • "Rat eyes!"
  • "Let's do gambling!"
  • "Your podcast made this place go sad!"
  • "What? Don't say that to me!"
  • "I HATE YOU!!!"
  • "GET BACK FROM ME!!! *starts shooting with gun*"
  • "I'LL KILL YOU!!!"

Transport

  • "I'm the one who had a dream where there was stuff like there was another me, and everything was lots of fun and I went and saw the other ones, and there was a little lumpy one, and another whiny middle one, and there were things that they heard about, I knew what they were but I don't know now, and then it went away."
  • "I don't like my window. When I look out through it, it looks back in through me."

Electricity

  • "No. I am have batteries. See?"
  • "Have we gone wrong?"
  • "Something... SHREDDABLE!"

Gallery

Appearance Gallery

Trivia

  • Yellow Guy receives a complete redesign in two episodes of the series.
  • In Episode 3, his name is supposedly changed to Shrigis by The Love Cult.
    • Shrigis is a name with Aramaic origin, and was thought to mean "follower", which reflects what happens to Yellow Guy in the episode.
  • In an exclusive interview with It's Nice That, it was confirmed that:
    • Yellow Guy likes to eat spaghetti. (Although this was something that was revealed in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4)
    • Yellow Guy is allergic to eggs, wasps, crabs, bats, meat, trees, jets, walnuts, stairs, horses, and carpet.
    • Yellow Guy is afraid of his allergies, the moon, and the sky.
    • Yellow Guy loves crisps, a fountain, and some wizards.
    • Yellow Guy has dreams that his "middle is haunted."
  • His bed has the letter "Y" on it for yellow, just like Red Guy's bed has a "R" on it for red and Duck has a "D" for duck.
  • He is the only one of the protagonists to have a family member introduced, in this case his father Roy.
  • Yellow Guy's last name is likely Gribbleston, as it was confirmed to be his father Roy's last name.
  • In the leaked TV Show Pilot, his birthday ribbon says, "38 Today", possibly confirming his age.
    • However, according to descriptions of the Pilot's ending, his ribbon changes to "48 Today" when everyone arrives to celebrate his birthday.
  • He has special buckles he wears on his shoes for his birthday.
  • He calls himself a "yellow pig" in the intro song to Death.
  • Yellow Guy is shown to be extremely good at playing the trumpet, as shown in the episode Death.
  • There are a pair of red overalls on Yellow Guy's bed in the episode Death. They are the same color as the overalls worn by Green Guy.
  • According to Duck in Friendship, Yellow Guy's maiden name is "Rat Eyes."
    • It is unknown how Yellow Guy can have a maiden name as maiden names are generally reserved for previously unmarried women in the real-world. This implies that Yellow Guy was born female and married an unknown man at some point in his life and took that man's surname. If his father Roy's last name is Gribbleston, this implies that he took the surname of his mother at birth. This was likely a misnomer on Duck's part and he likely intended to mean "birth surname".
  • It's currently unknown what the letter 'D' on his overalls stands for.
    • It's been speculated it could stand for 'Doi', 'David' or 'D batteries'
      • Doi and David could be incorrect due to the very long name typed on computer in "Friendship", while "D batteries" would be inconsistent if the 'R' on Roy's overalls stands for "Roy".
    • In Family, this is the first time he grows eyelids when he tries to sleep.

Theories

  • Yellow Guy is antagonized the most out of the teachers, in both the web series and the TV series. This is speculated to be because in the web series, Roy runs the show, and is using it to "take him on a trip to punish land."[4] To list all of the things that happened to him: Sketchbook covers his clown painting in black paint and tells him green isn't a "creative" colour in episode 1, Tony makes his ears bleed in episode 2, Shrignold and his friends subject him into their cult in episode 3, The Healthy Band cause him to eat Duck in episode 5, and in episode 6, Yellow Guy is drowned in oil by The Lamp and tortured by all the previous teachers and new ones. The only web series teacher who doesn’t antagonize him specifically in any way is Colin who instead antagonizes Red Guy.
  • It is unknown why there is a letter "D" on Yellow Guy's overalls. Fans have theorized that this is because his real name was intended to be Doi (as vaguely hinted at in one of Becky Sloan's Instagram posts). However, with the release of the TV Series, some fans now speculate that the D on his shirt, stands for “David”.
    • The theory is that Yellow Guy was originally the son, of Lesley, named David. This could be supplemented by how she tells Yellow Guy how he’s “not her real son”. The theory starts one day when the two move to a new town, where “David” was fatally hit by a car. This is supplemented by the Mulhoven segment in Transport, which shows the exact same thing happening. Not only that, but Lesley and the Mulhoven narrator are played by the same person (Vivienne Soan), so people believe this to be Lesley narrating David’s death. As a result of his death, Lesley created Yellow Guy, Red Guy and Duck, with Yellow Guy being a replacement of sort for David, and Red Guy and Duck seemingly being friends so he isn’t lonely. However despite this, Lesley always seemingly ends up making bad things happen to Yellow Guy. As shown by how he’s always the main one of the three whose targeted by the teachers. (With the exception of Transport Man, and Colin depending on wether or not the web series is canon to the TV series.)
    • As a result, it’s speculated that it could be possible that in “Death”, everyone was referring to Duck as “David” due to Lesley not wanting the character she based David off of (Yellow Guy) to be deceased as well. Therefore, she had Duck take the place of David instead, and changed his death from being a car accident, to forgetting to drink water. It’s also important to note how when Coffin first appears, he refers to Yellow Guy as his “first guess”, when attempting to figure out which one of the three is dead, which could potentially be because of all the reasons explained here.
  • Despite the creation of the new universe in Episode 6 of the web series, fans believe it could still be possible that the original universe is still remaining, meaning that the original Yellow Guy is still being tortured by all of the teachers, six years after the plug was pulled.

References

Characters
Main Characters Yellow GuyDuckRed Guy
Teachers Webseries PrimariesSketchbookTony the Talking ClockShrignoldColin the ComputerSpinach CanSteakLamp
SecondariesRabbit BoyFrog BoyFurry BoyUnicornTreeFlowersCloudsMalcolmGilbert the GlobeBread BoyFridgeFootballMagnetGelSaxophoneUniverse GuyCigaretteSammy the SpadeTraffic LightBoomboxClapperboardFilePlug
TV Series PrimariesMean SteveBriefcaseCoffinLily and TodneyWarren the EagleChoo ChooElectracey
SecondariesUnemployed BrendonAndyClaireDuncanSallyFax MachineThe Mr LunchElevator SpeakerRed Guy's ID CardTissue BoxGreen AppleGPSTime ChildInsurance SafeMirrorBoundaries GuyRock Teacher
Antagonists Roy GribblestonMoney ManLesley
Protagonists Mayor PigfaceMilk JugStain Edwards
Minor Characters Animated Segment CharactersMegaphone HolderBoom Mic HolderGiant Eye CameramanShop OwnerChimney SweeperMan Covered in Green SlimeMichaelSpringPie ChartBar GraphLine GraphBlue CameraStrangersGrey Triangle WorkerStress IllusionsGrolton & HovrisFirst ToothBubble Bath MemorySaturdavidShy Imaginary Older BrotherYumpherdinkerThe Lump
AnimalsRattyPicnic ButterflyCrabHoofcreepPuppyBlue BirdScrunty
Creatures and MonstersCaterpillarMonster CanWeltFaulty ThingCarehoundFatherBrotherGrandmaExperiment
Mechanisms and AIBoring MeterSecurity ThingFree Lunch MachineMarket ManDr. Bushman M.D
Non-Teacher Sentient ObjectsBody ModelClapperboardStumpRed AppleDead TreeLaptopPrinterOatsCameraMeat CubeMicrophoneBowling BallMudpileBinUrinalJanetFamily TreeBread MotherBread ChildrenToilet
Residents of ClayhillMrs. GrenaldLight Blue GuyBig IanPolice OfficerPaula the PostboxLadderBlue Octagon GuySpringhead Boy
Duplicates and VariantsTony LookalikeThe Red GuysPianistBlue GuyRed DuckGreen GuyRed Guy DuplicateDuck DuplicateNew SketchbookPhotographerRed Guy's RelativesSmart Yellow GuyBig BoysBigger Boys
Mentioned-Only CharactersSkemMrs. GrelchPaul SaladLucky MoUncle Terry
MiscellaneousSpecial OneWhite Morph Suit PersonBlack Morph Suit PersonMorganStrange Guy in the WoodsMourners
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