Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
Movie • 2022
ReportFollow a trio of sesame-street-esque of characters as they learn about family, elecriticity, transport, death and more. Based on the viral series of short films of the same name.
This movie contains 60 potentially triggering events.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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ErinHollow
Yes. Episode 3 shows a family with no mother, and a father who hardly looks at his children. Later in the episode a different father shoves his son to the side and ignores his presence
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Abuse
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Is someone stalked?
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d1zzy
Roy's eye is looking through a crack on the wall in the opening, he also appears in background frequently. Considering everything in the web series, he may be stalking the group
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JGuerrero
The main characters get into a violent fight at the end of episode 4 that continues into the end credits
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Is someone gaslighted?
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ErinHollow
There might be other times, but the only one coming to mind is a character repeatedly being told that he didn't come to the house with his two friends, and that he's a member of a family he only knew for a day
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merking
the family episode (ep 3) has these 2 kids and their entire situation really does ring close to me of an abusive household, but they're in on it ?? kinda ???? i'm not sure how to describe it. watch out though
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Addiction
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JGuerrero
An anthropomorphic urinal is seen smoking in episode 1
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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GreyCaprice
Episode 5 - A martini pops out of compartment in a car but no one drinks it. In a cutaway gag a character tries to start a rave and suggests drinking space alcohol.
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Animal
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Does a horse die?
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BlckAttack
In Episode 5, a character mentions a dead horse, but we do not actually see any dead horse.
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GreyCaprice
Episode 5 - A bird is killed.
Episode 6 - A hamster is cut in half.
Episode 6 - A hamster is cut in half.
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Are animals abused?
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merking
a cat is drowned and a hamster is torn apart, both happen in episode 6 and both are pets. they dont show up earlier in the show, however, so they arent given time for you to get attached. still might be alarming, though
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Is there a dead animal?
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BlckAttack
Numerous animals die over the course of the show, including a bird and a hamster, with their corpse shown.
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Does a cat die?
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BlckAttack
A corpse of a cat, referred to as an "pet", is seen dead in the background of Episode 6, having apparently been drowned to make way for an "Electric Pet".
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Does a pet die?
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GreyCaprice
Episode 4 - Not a pet, but an imaginary friend dies.
Episode 5 - A bird that is a present dies.
Episode 6 - A pet hamster is cut in half graphically. A pet cat is drowned.
Episode 5 - A bird that is a present dies.
Episode 6 - A pet hamster is cut in half graphically. A pet cat is drowned.
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Are there spiders?
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Episode 3 - There are cobwebs in a corner.
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Are there snakes?
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Episode 5 - Very briefly in episode 5, a snake crawls out of the tail pipe of a car.
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Are there bugs?
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JGuerrero
Maggots are seen crawling on Duck Guy in episode 2, and a fly is later squashed in episode 5
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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ErinHollow
Almost. An animated crab tries to force a pill into a character's mouth, but the character bats it away
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Is someone restrained?
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JGuerrero
Near the end of episode 3, Yellow Guy is held captive and tied to a chair
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Littleolme
This might be a bit of a stretch, but in the first episode, a sentient Fax Machine makes flirtatious comments towards Red Guy (such as telling him he has a "lovely telephone voice") and forces him to sit down against his will. While it never goes further, it can still be interpreted as workplace sexual harassment.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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d1zzy
^the hamster is more ripped apart. In Episode 2, Duck is carving into the wood of a sentient coffin which seems to be painful for the coffin.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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GreyCaprice
Episode 5 - An elderly sentient train/car coughs at several points, he breaks down/dies after one point.When he revives he is gasping for breath and struggling to talk.
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Is there cannibalism?
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JGuerrero
Yellow Guy's father eats a puppet family near the end of episode 3. The act itself isn't shown but blood splatters and organs are visible.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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A fly is killed with a clipboard.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Episode 3 - A sentient piece of bread is put in toaster and it screams as it sizzles.
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Is someone buried alive?
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JGuerrero
Duck Guy gets buried alive in a coffin in episode 2 as part of a bit where he's supposedly "dead."
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Is there amputation?
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GreyCaprice
Episode 1 - Yellow guy has his hand graphically cut off in a piece of machinery.
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Does a head get squashed?
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JGuerrero
No heads are squashed, but characters do get their heads split with a shovel and a needle respectively.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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GreyCaprice
Episode 2 - No damage, but red guy's teeth are shown and they are somewhat gross.
Episode 3 - Characters have disfigured mouths.
Episode 4 - A guess character is missing teeth. Not teeth related, but yellow guy's mouth hangs open in a very exaggerated way.
Episode 5 - A cartoon character mentions having a mouth disease.
Episode 3 - Characters have disfigured mouths.
Episode 4 - A guess character is missing teeth. Not teeth related, but yellow guy's mouth hangs open in a very exaggerated way.
Episode 5 - A cartoon character mentions having a mouth disease.
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Does someone break a bone?
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d1zzy
Not stated but sometimes assumed
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Does someone have a seizure?
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GreyCaprice
Episode 4 - At the end of the episode yellow guy dissociated for a moment and falls, breaking a vase. This could be interpreted as a kind of seizure.
Episode 6 - A robot character twitches because they have low batteries.
Episode 6 - A robot character twitches because they have low batteries.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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JGuerrero
Duck Guy and Yellow Guy both have their fingers cut off in episode 2
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Is someone tortured?
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oreoicecrem
its kind of a theme
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Is there eye mutilation?
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JGuerrero
Right at the end of episode 1, a coin gets graphically lodged in Duck Guy's eye
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Is there excessive gore?
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JGuerrero
Though the gore in the show is mostly played for comedy rather than horror. In episode 1 a character has their hand mangled in a factory machine, and in episode 2 another character is very suddenly maimed and killed.
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Does a kid die?
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merking
piece of sentient bread is toasted in front of their mother as she screams and cries
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Death
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Does a non-human character die?
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ErinHollow
Almost none of the characters are human and a lot of them die or are seen dead
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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BlckAttack
Two characters insult another character during Episode 4, but whatever they might have been saying is censored by a bleep.
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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merking
in the family episode (episode 3, i think, but dont take my word on it) a main character is kidnapped by a family and forced to play the role of 'mother'. he leaves at the end of the episode
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Does a parent die?
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desertlurker
implied, not on screen
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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GreyCaprice
Episode 1 - A greeting card gets destroyed in a machine.
Episode 4 - Not destroyed, but yellow guy's imaginary world (which is done in a claymation style) gets corrupted by the worm and his imaginary friends leave (one of them kills himself).
Episode 4 - Not destroyed, but yellow guy's imaginary world (which is done in a claymation style) gets corrupted by the worm and his imaginary friends leave (one of them kills himself).
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Fear
Are there jumpscares?
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bubbles46853
In the third episode "Family," when the three main characters are in the family's house and wondering what they qualify as, right after they mention the word "clump," there is a quick cut to the grandmother as she faces the screen and lets out a grotesque noise.
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Is someone possessed?
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GreyCaprice
In episode 4 yellow guy has a worm in his brain, there is a scene where they are in a dark space in his head and the worm is threatening.
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Are there ghosts?
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GreyCaprice
No, but the guest characters are typically sentient objects (briefcase, lamp, etc.), and traditional haunting/horror imagery is used throughout the show including blood oozing across a floor to turn into a character (episode 2), and an old choppy home video playing on an old TV set (episode 3).
Episode 3 in particular plays like a haunted house story.
Episode 3 in particular plays like a haunted house story.
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Are there clowns?
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Episode 4 - There are clown-like characters in yellow guy's head.
Episode 5 and 6 - There is a clownlike antagonist introduced. We see their gloved hand at the end of episode 5 and they play a major role in episode 6.
Episode 5 and 6 - There is a clownlike antagonist introduced. We see their gloved hand at the end of episode 5 and they play a major role in episode 6.
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Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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JGuerrero
Characters wet themselves in episodes 2 and 3
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Does someone vomit?
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BlckAttack
During Episode 5, a character vomits into a bag, and there is shown to be vomit on their mouth afterward.
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Does someone spit?
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GreyCaprice
Episode 1 - Duck guy gets covered in saliva from the care dog. Also, not really spitting, but a machine oozes brown liquid onto a chatacter's hand.
Episode 5 - A train character drinks oil and it drips down his face and onto the floor. The same character later coughs up oil as he gasps for breath.
Episode 5 - A train character drinks oil and it drips down his face and onto the floor. The same character later coughs up oil as he gasps for breath.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Cherii
A "friendly police officer" is shown in a bit in episode 5 but he isn't real and the show does not take a political stance.
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LGBTQ+
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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merking
kind of to a 'lab rat' in ep 6 which is repeatedly electrocuted to 'see how it reacts'. it reacts in pain, if that's not obvious
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Are needles/syringes used?
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JGuerrero
Red Guy has an excessive amount of blood drawn in episode 3
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Is there a hospital scene?
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GreyCaprice
Episode 3 - A character has their blood taken, but not in a hospital.
Episode 4 - The characters use an online doctor service to try to diagnose their friend.
Episode 4 - The characters use an online doctor service to try to diagnose their friend.
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Does someone have cancer?
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GreyCaprice
Episode 4 - A character is told they should get a lump checked out (but the lump is an imaginary friend in their head, not an actual growth on their body.)
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Mental Health
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oreoicecrem
as the other person said, yellow guy cuts off his own finger. this is technically self harm, but in context it wasn't self harm like for the reasons most people do it.
his "dead" friend duck had no blood inside his finger which someone else cut off, proving duck was dead (rules of physics/science dont apply here).
yellow guy was simply checking if he was dead too
his "dead" friend duck had no blood inside his finger which someone else cut off, proving duck was dead (rules of physics/science dont apply here).
yellow guy was simply checking if he was dead too
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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GreyCaprice
No one is explicitly mentally ill, but it is worth noting that all characters behave erratically at points in the show, and many of them (including the main characters) are violent.
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Episode 4 - A character slits their throat and kills themself, they are later seen alive.
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Is there misophonia?
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d1zzy
an alarm in ep1, ep2 has squeaky-ish wood carving, ep3 has eating sounds at the end, keyboard clicking in ep4, car honking, coughing, gross liquid sounds in ep5 and a piano making a harsh sound, electric sounds and a shredder shredding paper in ep6. as well as generally unpleasant background noises for horror purposes
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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GreyCaprice
Episode 1 - Two of the characters (one a child) age rapidly, causing a third character to have a breakdown.
Episode 4 - Red guy mentions not "having the body for denim".
Episode 4 - Red guy mentions not "having the body for denim".
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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GreyCaprice
Episode 2 - A sentient coffin says "I can't do this anymore" a split second before having its head/litd split open with a shovel.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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GreyCaprice
Typically at least one per episode. Particularly of note, in episode 4 yellow guy is so upset that he fully retreats into his brain.
The show is very existential, in the last episode yellow guy becomes self aware about the nature of his universe and has an existential crisis.
The show is very existential, in the last episode yellow guy becomes self aware about the nature of his universe and has an existential crisis.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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JGuerrero
Duck Guy spends episode 2 shut inside a coffin underground
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
24 supporters
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GreyCaprice
Episode 3 - There is briefly mentions of needing to eat healthier/not eating junk food. At the end of the episode characters ravenously eat food.
Episode 4 - Red guy mentions thinking he "doesn't have the body for denim".
Episode 4 - Red guy mentions thinking he "doesn't have the body for denim".
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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GreyCaprice
Not explicitly, but it is worth mentioning that yellow guy could be interpreted as being on the spectrum.
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JGuerrero
In episode 4, the Imaginary Older Brother slits his own throat
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Noxious
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Is there shakey cam?
23 supporters
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BlckAttack
Lots of scenes, usually during the climax of the episode, feature incredibly shaky camerawork to add tension and horror.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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bubbles46853
There is one "dammit" and two instances of "what the hell?", and instances of a censor bleep in episode 4, but nothing worse than that.
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Paranoia
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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JGuerrero
Characters will directly address the audience at several points, most prominently in episodes 1 and 4
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Pregnancy
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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oreoicecrem
there is a toddler in the family episode
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Prejudice
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oreoicecrem
in the family episode yellow guy is tied to a chair, put in woman's clothes and everyone calls him mother and uses she/her pronouns when he identifies as a male. the main goal of this wasn't to misgender him, it was to get some discount at a family takeaway
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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merking
might be a stretch, but during the family episode a (presumably) male character is forced into the role of 'mother' and wears a dress . the joke doesnt seem to be that he's wearing a dress, but i felt the need to mention it.
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Is there hate speech?
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GreyCaprice
Episode 1 - The guest briefcase makes a moral judgment against unemployed people (he is an antagonist).
Episode 3 - Not hate speech, but (purposefully) misguided messaging about families needing to be all related.
Episode 3 - Not hate speech, but (purposefully) misguided messaging about families needing to be all related.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Faunics
There is no explicit ableism but in one episode duck and red guy get upset with yellow guy and the censored words could possibly be interpreted as ableist remarks
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
24 supporters
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nh17
It's sort of complicated since no one's age is really known. Yellow guy can be interpreted as a child (but it's unclear since he doesn't grow taller when he ages up) and he's forced to be the "mother" of a family, complete with the father of the family calling him "Darling"
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Sex
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Are there nude scenes?
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GreyCaprice
Episode 3 -A game is piece (very briefly) shown to have large breasts.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
51 supporters
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
12 supporters
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oreoicecrem
yellow guy greives duck after he dies and cries. red guy, who doesn't miss him, asks him why hes crying and and kinda acts like he's overreacting. this wasnt to do with his gender it was just cos red guy doesn't understand
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Sickness
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
7 supporters
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ErinHollow
Mr. Choo Choo has to drink oil and take pills for a "condition" that he eventually succumbs to
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Social
Is someone homeless?
4 supporters
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GreyCaprice
Not explicitly. There is brief depiction of a hitchhiker in episode 5 who could be interpreted as homeless. In the same episode the main characters end up stranded in a garbage dump around a fire.
In episode 1 a character makes a mockery of his unemployed brother.
In episode 1 a character makes a mockery of his unemployed brother.
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Deny005
No, but if your child still believes in Santa don't let them watch this, PLEASE
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Does it have a sad ending?
24 supporters
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BlckAttack
Although most episodes end on a jarring, sudden note (whether it be for shock value or for comedic purposes), the end of Episode 5 and perhaps 6 can be interpreted as sad.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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JGuerrero
A car does break down at several points in episode 5, but it doesn't crash
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
8 supporters
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GreyCaprice
Briefly in episode 5.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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BlckAttack
During a supposed dream sequence in Episode 5, a character runs into the road and gets hit by a car onscreen.
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
31 supporters
Yes
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Littleolme
Yes, a lot, played for both comedy and horror, in basically every episode.
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Does someone drown?
10 supporters
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Cherii
No, but a joke about a character dying by drowning is mentioned in episode 2
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Is there gun violence?
12 supporters
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BlckAttack
A gun is heard in the background firing during a fight over the credits sequence in Episode 4.
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