SOLVING THE SYMBOLS! | Don't Hug Me I'm Scared TV Show Theory
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- We've solved the Symbols in the new DHMIS TV Show in this part 1 video!
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The new show hasn't been out for too long yet, but me and my theory partners have been hunkered down trying to solve everything for a long while now, and I think we finally have it!
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This is still just a theory, so it might be disproven later with more information, but still, don't be hesitant to comment below about any other information I may have missed that would disprove my theory, or even solidify this one!
Just to tell you in the book scene the very bottom is not the clock I’m pretty sure it’s the steering wheel guy
@@boiboy2328 bruh your trolling, that's a clock with 2 hands, not a car handle
Im just a bit confused with how you tried to prove the symbol for yellow guy... When you showed the doctor paper with the worm and batteries, it didn't show Yellow Guys' sign at the bottom of it, it showed the "trait" that corresponds with it on the book...
@@MickeyMouse-672 Pretty sure yellow guy's name is David
@@Lnoucti could be, just as a response to this video, there wasnt any evidence showing the yellow guy's symbol that he was talking abt... just the one he said was a trait
i dont doubt that there will be a season 2, but the youtube short of duck's voice actor was a joke. he talks about finding a pirate king in the video, which is a running gag becky and joe have used for a long time. when asked about what the plot of the original webseries was, they said it was about "three best friends who go on an adventure to find a magic pirate ship". i think they said this before the series was finished, but either way it was just something they said to mess with people lmao
Ah ok. I’ll put this in comment in the next video to specify what that meant. Thanks for the info!
@@RemGames no prob, you make great stuff!
@@RemGames look at the souls spys ;)
I think he was referencing bohemian rhapsody as a joke
Also since we just have the date of when the video was uploaded and not when it was filmed, it could've been a line from the pilot. Especially since Duck's voice was 99 percent auto tune in the pilot and the part where he said "Me" for an extended period of time it's probably a line that would've been used if they went with the pilot route.
I love this theory! However there seems to be a problem. In episode 6 when yellow guy walks up the stairs you can hear a kinda muted out conversation between duck and red guy where red guy mentions “A blob thing…” and duck states “Oh the one who turned into me, yes.” So the three guys seem to remember the past episodes, even if they do get replaced.
In the same episode they see the teachers they met before (both in the youtube series as well as in season 1) and they seem to not recognize them. Their memories could be episode dependant where they only remember what they are allowed to remember during the episode.
I’m really bad at wording things forgive me but In episode 6’s intro the house starts up and circles as Lesley turns her handle, just like you would to start up a music box. With her doll house, she can manipulate the state of each room and what exactly is in it proven when pulling on the light string in her house doesn’t bring the light back, she says “oh, I have to fix that” (If only duck never messed around with electracy). These two scenes strongly imply that each day is started by her setting up the doll house and turning the handle to start the show.
and ducks song in the end credits
Even more obvious is the beginning of the transport episode where yellow guy clearly remembers his traumatic experience with Warren
I love that this was brought up, and this will be a big part of what I talk about in part 2! (Which will be up very soon)
red guy being symbolised by a shovel might be indicative of his attempts to escape the show? metaphorically trying to dig for freedom
That's a pretty good idea, especially with what we know about Red Guy
it’s the same shovel that buried duck
@@RemGames yea im pretty sure it was red guy who dug ducks grave in the like the 3rd or 4th episode. we only saw him use it for a second as he finished the grave at the funeral so its odd they chose that but then I realised each side has items that pertain to the characters like ducks side of the book has his heart (which you called a roy coin and I don't think it looks like a coin at all) and the shovel while yellow guy has batteries and his hand. back to red guy so he is in the center with the text and the clock im sure we can ignore the text for red guy implications and only look at the clock which could represent all of them but Im thinking it represents red guys obsession with what day it is like computer day and another thing i forgot or the loop he's in because every day its the same basic premise over and over again like a time loop.
Or that he was the one to yknow, bury duck
And red guy wanted to be dead
Counterpoint, Yellow Guy's name is shown to be an entire paragraph long moments before we learn Duck's name
Also a good point. I think I might have an explanation which I’ll go over in the next video. That is a very good point that I’ll have to consider again
Edit:
It seems that a solution has been found. The person who found it will make an appearance in the Symbols Part 2 video where they will go over exactly how Yellow Guy’s name is so long (and where the hyphen is lol)
What if the name they use is the name of the real son?
Don’t forget the hyphen
Rat-eyes
However, there's no handy key for that name, so maybe they have to spell it out piece by piece on the keys they do have.
Saying Leslie is a “friendly fellow” is the most hilarious thing I’ve heard from this fandom
When you meet the friendly fellow, you must shake him by the hand
@@yokaiwatcher8500 🧀
@@yokaiwatcher8500 wait wasn’t that abt warren the eagle tho (i have literally no knowledge of this correct me if i’m wrong)
@@comicsanslover yes the song was about each of the different teachers, friendly fellow being warren the eagle. But since the video called Leslie a “friendly fellow” and that was the song lyric, it just seemed appropriate
Leslie is definitely not a friend
Something to note: Ducks name is on a red button, which is his favourite colour
Also yellow guys name is made up of green button symbols which is his favourite colour
Green is not a creative colour
Actually in the creative episode I belive they confirmed that green is yellow guys color
So maybe the colors in the windows don't necessarily mean their skin color! Maybe it's their favorite color!
My thought for the three items in the windows might be what are needed by each to escape. The yellow guy needs his batteries to be smart, red guy needs a shovel to either... dig something up (maybe duck again?) Or dig his way out of something? Could be symbolic of just making the other two escape with him like in the transport episode. In that sense, the batteries could also represent yellow guy helping the other two become smarter / understand what's happening. Finally duck's could be that having Chuddy Dollops are needed in some obscure way to break out(maybe Leslie is allergic to them, they look kind of like peanuts), or it represents duck becoming more willing to share / less self centered. That's my theory anyway!
I really like that idea. It makes sense. I'm DEFINITELY going to look in more!
duck wants both
I think that makes a lot of sense and Explains why they’re locked away in such an out-of-the-way place for the 3
along with the "yellow guy is childhood, red guy is adulthood, green duck is elderly" take, maybe the children need to utilize technology for understanding, the middle aged should acknowledge the past/elderly/history and the elderly need to share/open up
also noting that the chuddle dollops has the red guy symbol, the shovel "belongs" to duck and the batteries are red themed, so maybe it just means that they all need each other, i dunno.
Or maybe the shovel means friendship and passion? Idk but seems like red guy didn’t give a damn when duck died, but yellow guy was grieving hard cuz he thinks duck as friend….leading him to eventually dig duck out of his grave. Therefore the shovel might be representing passion and friendship? Which red guy lacks…?
Six symbols, six episodes. Is there a chance that book could have represented a script for the show?
And as for the shovel in the window for red guy, my mind goes to when he says “well I’m more the kind of guy who would be dead” when talking to duck about his death.
That was one of my first thoughts too, about the shovel's connection to Red Guy being that he seemed weirdly certain he was the dead one of the three. Which seems like it might be significant,as he seems to have been the first character to die(? or at least disappear) in the web series, just before Duck got eaten in the food episode. Not that death seems to matter much to these characters - LE5L3Y seems to have plenty of spares! If the Table Lamp's weird monologue in the Death episode is to be taken seriously, it seems that these characters are all already dead, and being forced to relive their lives for the amusement of a "new race of super-beings known as The Council", and get 'a pound" every time they "get it right"... whatever any of that means!
I think Red Guy being called by his surname makes sense. Don't people refer to Baker Terry as Terry? I don't think Terry voices Red but maybe they kept that dynamic consistent.
Oh damn! That's a VERY good point!!
@@RemGames Red guy is Korean. It's like Kim Jong-Un.
@@Sonny_McMacsson is he? Did you look at that one frame where he was unmasked?
@@Eqha67 Yes, and? I assume it's the toothbrush scene you're referencing? Then again, you said "one frame" so maybe not.
@@Sonny_McMacsson not that one
Just thinking out loud
When it comes to Duck''s Name
Rotate it clockwise 90° and it kinda looks like a duck. The dot being the eye, the curve being the head, and the stick being the beak
Similarly, rotate Red's symbol 90°, you see his iconic floating eyes above his head, 2 arms, 2 legs, and PERHAPS the strands of hair off his arm and leg, but not entirely sure on that one.
As for the symbol next to Duck's name, after being rotated, it kinda looks like a gate to me, the imagery makes me think of the locked Clayhill gate in Wakey Wakey, though it looked nought like this.
Anyway, just a couple thoughts, I could be ENTIRELY wrong. Good luck deciphering
All of us could be very wrong, but you make some pretty good points!
and the one for yellow has a drill, probably a reference to episode 2 where he digs out duck (though it isn’t rotated 90 degrees)
@@RemGames yellows symbol also kinda looks like a battery with a wire
@@SpiritofPoison and the eyes and round nose
@@RemGames Also I think the red guy symbol resembles him as well, sort of hunched over and waving his arms about maybe even with an open screaming mouth. The two circles at the top would be the eyes and the reason the arm and leg sprout extra limbs is supposed to look like a figure running.
Oh, and I feel strongly that you mixed up Yellow Guy's name. The fact that the circle symbol with the m shape underneath is on the scan of his brain makes me think that's his actual name. it also somewhat looks like him too in a way. The circle at the center looks like his big round nose and the M shape could be his arms.
7:23 Wait, the symbol that showed up on his brain diagram is the little zigzag monster symbol you put next to his name. When did we decide the symbol with the downward triangle attached was his name?
I meant to say it was his *partnered symbol* (the secondary one), but I accidentally said it was his name
@@RemGames you should probably put that in a pinned comment just so people don’t question it anymore and there isn’t confusion. Great video though
@@RemGames I think that symbol is supposed to be Yellow Guy's name actually
My thoughts are it's about Leslie's fantasy world after a horrific accident.
Peter and Leslie were married and had a son called David. Peter had a workplace accident that either maimed him or killed him. He was loyal to his workplace for decades yet they didn't seem to care. Later on in the timeline there was a horrific car crash that killed David and maimed Leslie leaving her alone. To cope with her past she has made her own fantasy world with her Brain Friends, the main characters.
She has made a doll house where she enacts stories to try and cope with her loss. The last episode shows that she is totally lost in her fantasy with no way out.
Matpat!
Honestly I'd hate that. DHMIS feels too complex and anomalous to reduce to a trauma story that's been told a million times. Even so, I know if they did it I'd love it - they'd get it right.
I'm pretty sure the leaked audio recording session was the creators being cheeky. In the behind the scenes featurette for the original youtube series, Becky and Joe say the show is about 3 best friends (red, yellow, and duck) going on an adventure to find a magic pirate ship and save the day(even though it clearly wasn't). And that sounds very similar to the dialog being recorded in the leaked recording session. It probably was them who leaked it, and the pirate dialogue is a cheeky joke to hide what the show would really be about and a fun call back.
All this said I hope we do get another season.
If I don't get at least another don't hug me im scared season, we're all cyborgs living in a simulation.
I think Red guy’s object is the shovel because each of their objects complete or achieve whatever the characters want, for example in the Family episode when there’s 2 puffs instead of 3, Duck Guy says he WANTS both. In the Death episode all that Red Guy WANTS is to be dead. In the Electricity episode, while Yellow Guy didn’t really ever say he wanted to have his batteries out in, it did make him COMPLETE.
The books cover ACTUALLY says don't hug me I'm scared
All the letters are amalgamated together but it's easily enough separated with enough patience
Could be... my first thought was that it was a sigil, the symbols kind of remind me of Jimmy Page's "Zoso" and alchemy :p
I don't see it at all
I think you can see anything in anything 'with enough patience'
What drugs are you on?
It feels like a bit of a stretch to assume that because the symbol you claim to be yellow guy's name is his name because it appears in the same row in the book's title. It feels a lot more likely that the symbol that directly shows up (that being the weird 'circle with a dot with legs') is his name.
Also I feel like we ought to consider the fact that all the 'names' somewhat look like the character's appearances except for the one you propose for Yellow Guy's (If you turn the duck guy's one sideways it looks like a duck, and red guy's has two dots and a series of 'stands' off-shooting from a central circle). While the other symbol doesn't resemble the yellow guy a lot, if you turn it upside down it kind of looks like him with his eyes closed, so it's a bit closer imho.
You can also see other 'symbols' that resemble some of the teachers potentially. You can literally see a briefcase in one of the symbols
I also think it makes more sense that the shovel is supposed to represent the duck guy since literally everythign else on that side of the cover represents him, and everything on the other side represents the yellow guy. He was the one who was literally 'buried in the ground'
This is honestly a better explanation than given. Also, I knew I wasn’t alone to find the yellow guy’s name theory to be fallible.
I agree with your theory much more quite honestly so i hope he sees this
I honestly thought the same thing.
If red guy's symbol looks like him and duck's looks like him then it'd make better sense for yellow guy's symbol to likewise follow that same pattern.
The one that is said in this video to be his trait would certainly follow that pattern if you view the circle as his head with the dot for his nose and the M for the straps on his dungarees.
Tied with the fact it's that symbol we see on the diagnosis sheet, not the other more complicated looking symbol.
I'd be more inclined to believe it's actually the simpler symbol that represents the yellow guy, not the bigger one.
I think that yellow guy's symbol looks like a battery, which we know he runs off of. I almost wonder if it's different than the other two because he's some sort of different species (ex: running off batteries, has Roy who is some sort of omnipresent figure as a father)
I wish I could upvote this 100x
random shot in the dark about the shovel, maybe it represents Red Guy wanting to escape, could be symbolic of him "digging" either his own grave, like when it was reference he dies via drowning, or representing digging a tunnel to escape the cycle they're in
The timeline of this show is definitly weird. Episode 5 seems to take place after episode 6 due to yellow guy remembering the stuff above them (ignoring the idea that he's gotten close to figuring it out several times before). Episode 3 also seems to be after 6 because of duck guy's name. Episode 2 seems to be after all the other episodes as duck guy's outro song references all the other episodes. also, its interesting that he puts the choo choo man before the friendly fellow, while all the other ones are listed in order.
However, i forget which episode, but there's a shot of the trashcan, which shows items from previous episodes (in order)
they reference episode 2 in Episode 6, though, we we see the dead duck copy on the floor. It's obviously all happened at least once before, though it's likely the episodes are additionally out of order.
I like the idea that the symbols represent the names. However, I do find an issue with yellow guy's name. In the same episode (Episode 4) on an earlier print, the same symbol was shown when the computer prints information about eagles to question the Identity of Warren the eagle. I was thinking that this symbol rather stands for information or knowledge, since it is seen on books and prints from the Internet. This would fit with your suggestion that these symbols show a trait of the characters since information/knowledge is the theme for yellow in the new season.
Actually (and this could be a stretch), the symbol representing family and being thrown in the trash at work aren't mutually exclusive. It could represent the 40 hour work week's critique of isolating workers from their families at home
I honestly think the things in the trios respective windows (the batteries, shovel, dollops) are sort of core pieces of the character, or even their fatal flaws? Like, in the Death episode, Red Guy was shown to be in heavy denial, which he seems to use as a defence system quite often. (e.g. in the transport episode, when the car is running out of fuel he tries to say it was always like that.)
And with the chuddle dollops with the Duck, in that episode when the duck gets kicked out of the family home, it's shown he thinks of himself as his 'family', and he only has himself to rely on, and it might even be implied that he lost his own family. But this has made himself very self centred as a result.
And finally the most obvious one, the Yellow Guy and the batteries. It is said that while the yellow guy has the expired batteries, it 'hurts to think', and his lack of thinking is usually what gets him mocked and belittled so much. And at the end of the final episode, it is even shown that these faulty batteries make him lose most of his memory, given he shreds the book.
idk that was my thoughts, given this seems to be a cycle where the trio are doomed to repeat their same mistakes over and over again i thought the fatal flaw thing seemed fitting. Sorry if this is a bit incoherent it is 3 am where i am currently.
Maybe not so much "fatal flaws", so much as the roles they are supposed to play - I think that the weird monologue by the Table Lamp in the "Death" episode wasn't just being played for laughs or random weirdness - the speech where the Table Lamp gives a couple ordinary theories about what happens when we die - ascending to paradise or a sort of fetishistic reincarnation as a favorite object - before suggesting that when we die, we descend to the core of the earth, or near the core, and relive our lives over and over for the amusement of a "new super-race known as The Council", where we are given a "pound" every time we "get it right".
The Table Lamp then immediately says "good night' and shuts itself off, without the usual song-and-dance routine that the other objects give. Someone else in the comments suggests the idea that the book that LE5L3Y gives Yellow Guy is a script, which seems to be an interesting theory that dovetails with what the Table Lamp suggests about the afterlife.
And, perhaps interestingly, the "center of the earth" thing does seem to mirror the layout of LE5L3Y's model house, with the stairs leading up from a ground floor to the higher levels where L35L3Y seems to provide the stages and scripts for the characters' little performances, setting the formula for the way their lives will work: going around and around in circles, making their appointments and always ending up where they started....
Also, curiously, at the end of the "Jobs" episode, the Briefcase tosses a coin at Duck, hitting him in the eye, saying he earned it - that certainly seems like a Duck-oriented episode, with Duck questioning just before getting his "pound", "what was [this story] - what was it all for?" We might conclude that Duck got SOMETHING right in that performance of his life, but it couldn't have been much - notably, he only got paid at the end of the story, after he realizes just how futile and senseless it was for him to try to "do something", filling his life with a bizarre, hollow failure of a career, bringing Duck the "million things" he wanted to do or have, but none of them having any real meaning or significance or sense in the end.
Perhaps it's a bit of a stretch, but Duck describes himself in a later intro song as a "talking crow-like thing", which is interesting considering the way that the god Odin is connected to crows as psychopomps - creatures capable of bringing wisdom from beyond the grave - with one of Odin's notable characteristics being that the price he paid for wisdom was to be hung upside-down and blinded in one eye, reminiscent of the way that Duck seems to have been blinded to pay the price of the wisdom gained from his strange dream-journey through the "Jobs" episode. Duck alone seems to have come back from that experience with any understanding of what happened and what was really lost by all three characters - Yellow Guy could remember only losing his family, Red Guy could only remember losing his authority and luxury, but Duck knew that they lost lifetimes to senseless distractions from understanding reality. He certainly seems to have earned something the other characters didn't!
Anyway, those are just some random thoughts... who knows whether the show's creators were really thinking along those strange tangents, and if so, where they are going with the series as a whole!
I think, though, that if that is close to what the show's creators have in mind, we might see some hints in future series/seasons of the show that there are real lessons for the characters to learn, but absolutely not the ones that the little animated characters they interact with are supposedly trying to teach them to fill their lives with meaningless nonsense and distractions, but deeper lessons that require them to ignore their "teachers" and see their scripts for what they really are. We might also catch more glimpses of that mysterious, unsettling "race of super-beings known as The Council" mentioned by the Table Lamp: presumably, LE5L3Y is a representative of some sort for them, or a go-between, and perhaps Roy is, too, and we do seem to catch other disturbing glimpses of them throughout the series, such as the eye peeking through a hole in the wall during the intro song (blink and you miss it, just after "Look closely and you will see! There's three of us...")
The only thing i can think for red guy being represented by a shovel is that the episode with the shovel is actually very red guy focused.
In the episode duck died he was mostly hanging out in a coffin realizing death is kind of boring. Yellow guy develops crippling grief and calls for a return to normalcy.
Red guy on the other hand tries to keep the group going, tries to replace the duck with a new friend, and winds up molding said friend into duck. Theres something to this.
8:54 it’s actually a joke with the crew that the show is about three friends trying to find a magic pirate ship. So I don’t think this is that important
Yellow guy's name being what you said is also proven by episode 6 where he says "remember the hyphon" and the yellow guy name's has a ~ looking thing.
Don't forget to mention that Roy is still in this show and he's still mentioned as a 'special thanks' right at the end. Litterally it's the last thing you will see
9:15 that picture is from episode 4 when Duck says “you won’t get away from me this time!” To the mouse. But I’m sure someone already told you
Maybe the shovel is more symbolic than literal, Red Guy was the one who's been digging for answers or an escape. That seems most likely to me, but maybe there will be a literal answer in season 2 :)
In my opinion, i think the three symbols represent the teachers, rather than the main 3. The yellow guy symbol looks a lot like the briefcase from episode 1 with a weird arrow pointing downward. The duck symbol looks like the worm from episode 4 (because they’re wearing a cap with a stamp on it just like the worm) except sideways for some reason. And the red guy symbol might reference either a family tree because of all the branches OR it could be wires, referencing the electricity teacher.
This is just the way i see it though. I’m looking forward to seeing your next few videos on the show!
Hmm
Box with two dots = Employed Brandon (briefcase teacher)
Top & bottom borders with three dots = Connor (coffin teacher)
Vines with what looks to be an set of eyes = Lily & Todney
Duck's name (curve with a slash & square) = Warren
Eye on top of an M = Choo Choo Charles (vehicle teacher)
Antenna thing with a dot on the left of it = Electracey
I think you're right about 3 of the symbols representing the main characters, but I think the others may represent various elements of season 1 - specifically, the top left is for episodes 1 & 2, the middle right is 3 & 4, and the bottom left is 5 & 6. The top left bares a striking resemblance to a briefcase with eyes, much like the teacher in Jobs. The curvy line ending at a triangle below it may be the shovel from Death. The middle right looks like a number 2 mirrored and rotated sideways, which may represent the twins in Family, while the lines going through them is reminiscent of the skewering of the worm in Friendship. The bottom left could be interpreted as a lightning bolt for Electracy, or (sideways) as the landscape seen from the car in Transport.
...but I also never thought about the symbols before watching this video, so I may be off base!
each symbol has some sort of resemblance to the teachers. "duck's name" looks like a train, the one on the top-left of the book looks like the suitcase man, the one on the middle-right of the book is like two number "two"s (which represents the twins), the other ones are a bit abstract but i think bottom-left is warren the eagle, bottom-right is the robot, and top-right is the coffin
The symbol you use as Yellow Guy's name at 7:49 is _not at all_ the same symbol you find at 6:41 and 7:17. The first is a briefcase connecting to a triangle. The second is a W connecting to an eye-like symbol.
I thought I was the only one who caught that!! If anything the 7:17 and 6:41 symbol looks like the ‘second’ yellow guy symbol upside down.
1:30 I had to smile real hard there. Thank you.
I feel like the items in the window tie into their internal desires somehow. Like red guys item was the shovel because he wanted to die, bird guys was chuddle dollops because in family he yelled "I WANT THOSE" and yellow guys is the batteries because of his desire for knowledge or answers. Maybe that helps answer something or fill in some blanks.
5:00 yellow guy does have a wife and kid at the end of the actual job portion of the episode and I think old red guy refers to them as his “family”
4:20
Its because it was supposed to red guy to use the shovel, not yellow guy, the battery is yellow, and who used the battery was yellow guy, and he got the book, duck was supposed to open the chips and if this 3 thing happens, maybe something will happens
It true
I think the evidence of the symbols floating around the house points to Yellow guy having had an “enlightenment” before. The proof is that he already wrote the book that the lady gave back to him.
So the first question is what happened the first time that made Yellow guy “dumbify” himself? I think it’s an easy inference that the last time he was “enlightened”, he made these symbols and left clues for himself and wrote a book for himself to remember, then something happened and he gave the book to the lady for safe keeping until the time came. (It would seem like she wasn’t as trustworthy as he thought, though)
-> could the answer be super meta and refer to the scrapped first season that took place in Clayhill? 😮
I think it probably does make sense that they are first name, last names. Red guy probably is referred to by his surname by people. (Maybe his name is “Roy Red Guy” so they can’t call him Roy…) I guess the way to confirm it would be if we ever see Roy’s symbols in the future.
I don’t think we are dealing with alternate versions of all the characters. I mean, it’s true that the lady has plenty of replacements, but at least one of the three would have to be the only one. My guess is Yellow Guy, since the first series seemed to focus on him being the focus of the show.
I guess the second question I have is What’s Roy’s place in all this? If he was the show runner in the first series, was he trapped in this series somehow? He makes physical appearances but he doesn’t seem to be part of the show.
It’s almost like in universe, Roy’s show was bought out and they went in a new direction with the lady but he was screwed in the deal and also trapped in the show itself. OR in a twist, Roy regrets selling the show and went inside himself to protect his son! Take the Yum Yum scene for instance!
Loved your vid. Looking forward to a part 2!
I think what we see in DHMIS episode 1 one of the web series, retroactively, when things start glitching and the characters start having fits is Roy turning on the machine and wrestling control from Lesley. After all, the notepad is the only teacher that the machine can't create. When the machine is turned off - it resets, so they're still trapped in some way, but Roy's control is gone. Not sure when their colours got returned though.
I agree with the fact that red guy regrets selling the show and I think that Leslie is taking control of the show which is why duck is being replaced and red guy breaks character more often and is so desperate to escape. Roy feels that his son has been punished enough, comes to counteract Leslie and save his son from Leslie's show.
There’s only 1 drawer
And it was filled with ducks only
It makes sense we see red guys surname in the family episode though, as he's trying to find his family, so we're really seeing his family name to represent him then
They have been joking about The Pirate King for years. I wonder if they will actually make it happen in season two or if that "leak" was just another fine internet troll.
Another theorist here to say Fluffernutter. About to binge this playlist. So happy to find a new theory style channel. Definitely subscribing and ringing that bell.
Same!
Well, one of the most common theories is that Lesley is the big boss here and controls everything (and we can see it in the end of episode 5 I think when she send all three of them back home) and she has said to Yellow guy that she has back-ups of them as little dolls just in case one break.
Maybe, everytime she breaks one and gets replaced, they lost a bit of their memory.
I can't exactly explain it, it's just like if you break something, it can be fixed or replaced, but it will never be as it was bf again.
love this I'm sick of the sludge of terrible theories being pumped out that require no thinking at all "oh the point is there is no point" or "they're dead"
Yeah like, they wouldn't put that much effort into it if there wasn't a point
i feel like red guy is the shovel because he was considered ducks best friend in the second episode. hes also the only one who hasent touched the shovel at all. when you look at the other items, the bag of doodles (what ever thier called) duck never actually touched the bag. same with yellow guy and the batteries. theyre inside him but he never physically touched them with his own hands.
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Perhaps the reason the shovel represents red guy is from the jobs episode. When the briefcase guy leaves, you can hear him singing “you could be the one that digs the hole for the funeral”. If the song continued, maybe red guy would have been the one doing so.
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The colours of the windows don't represent the character colours and their items, the colour represents what the items themselves. Green for envy for the Chuddle Dollops to express the jealousy about wanting a family in the episode, the red window represents death because the shovel was used to murder the copied Duck (the shovel has blood on the tip and a puddle of blood under it) and the yellow window represents power/energy because the batteries are electricity. The batteries also represent knowledge as power in the episode becauseafter Yellow Guy has his batteries replaced, hes immediately smart. As far as the writings on the book, they strongly resemble magic sigils. Maybe that implies that there's magic involved in the characters existence.
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Someone else commented this but I'd like to go more in-depth into why I believe the episodes are out of order. In "Transport" you can see Smart Yellow Guy in the window a bit before 13 and a half minutes along. Yellow guy claims to be scared of this which would make sense if he betrayed this version of himself with the shredder. Also, Yellow Guy's monologue at the beginning explains the plot of "Electricity". Although I somewhat see a hole in this as Yellow Guy also explains there being "bigger ones" higher up at the beginning of "Electricity. In the same episode, they question whether they know the brief-case which could either support your theory that they are replaced or that it is out of order and the dead brief case was later revived. Near the end of "Electricity", Smart Yellow Guy drops duck his head comes off which later happens in "Death". In "Death" Duck plays his music while in the coffin. At the end of the episode we hear what is likely the whole song. The whole song mentions a "business man", a "family man", the "choo-choo man", the "friendly fellow", and the "plug-in man". All of these names correspond to characters in the show meaning that Duck would have had to have met them. Duck also mentions that he made the song via the computer which was destroyed at the end of "Friendship" so Duck must have somehow made this song after meeting Warren the Eagle but before the computer is destroyed. If I had to put them in an order I would most likely put it with "Transport" after "Electricity" and "Death" after them all with "Friendship" being right before that. In "Friendship" the computer claims that it needs to ask questions to "make sure you're really you, to which Duck replies, "'course we're us, aren't we" and Red Guy replies to that, "Yeah, I reckon." This does to seem to support your theory. Thank you for reading.
It did feel like it was out of order. Though I put "Electricity" then "Friendship" followed by "death" because of Duck saying that he made the song on the computer.
@@pillowfluf5412 Definitely something along those lines.
Here is my conjecture as to the significance of the three items within the windows.
Hark back to the moment of the last episode. Ask yourselves “Why would Leslie give the book to Yellow Guy?”. The reason is she knew she’d win in the end, through what? Having Duck remove the batteries that could’ve given him, she knew it would happen. We can tell due to the paintings prior to the scene of depictions of yellow guy looking at himself.
What I want to bring to the discussion is that the three items serve as a kind of “Trophy Case”, the clipped wings of prized butterflies hung on her wall. I believe these items have significance of being the key items required for them to be so close to figuring out the mystery, to being enlightened, but ultimately they are taken away. These items are kept under watch in case they fall out of line.
I believe later on, the Shovel and Chuddle Dollops will play an even bigger role in them uncovering the secrets of their prison that will ultimately be taken from them, and forced to reset.
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the symbol in the intro and on the diagnosis print is completely different from the symbol you said was Yellow Guy's name, it does contain a 180° rotated version of the symbol you associate with him, but it also contains additional parts.
Rotations and other bits being part of it as well could totally change the meaning.
Ah I figured the clock is Red Guy's symbol because Red Guy is the only one that is acknowledging that the three are stuck in a time loop (June 19th) "and we live in an actual NIGHTMARE!"
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I think the episodes might be out of chronological order, based on yellow guy's speech in the intro to i think episode 5. Also him seeing smart yellow guy in his reflection.
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Ok, I was thinking about the shapes and objects in Leslie's room, and I think I have a really interesting theory.
The shapes and objects represent things that each character needs to learn in order to escape. I will explain each one in order of my confidence in the theory.
Yellow guy has a circle and some batteries.
Circles represent being friendly and harmless, both traits that yellow guy has expressed. Circles also represent adaptability, which could be expressed when yellow gets the batteries and suddenly has an interest in learning new things.
The batteries represent intelligence and memory. When yellow gains new batteries, his intelligence drastically improves, but it seems like he still can't recall memories from other times he's gone upstairs.
Yellow guy has come the closest to escaping out of the three characters, but it seems like he always falls short.
Duck has a square and some Chuddle Dollops.
Squares represent being stubborn, supportive, and reliable. Duck is already stubborn, but he has frequently shown that he is very self centered, and he doesn't seem to care about the consequences of his actions. He is certainly not very supportive of the other two, but he does seem to view himself as a father figure.
The Chuddle Dollops could represent teamwork and selflessness. In the Family episode, the three guys were only able to open the bag after they viewed each other as a "family" (or team). But, when there were only two dollops, duck immediately wanted both of them.
Duck does not seem to want to escape at all. He prefers comfort and letting things happen (when they go his way). Although he's often the one who notices when things start to go wrong.
Now, red guy is the most confusing out of the three. He has a diamond and a shovel.
Diamonds don't traditionally represent anything in character design, but I believe it could mean similar things as a triangle. Triangles represent power and progress. Red guy is likely the most powerful out of the three, being a large humanoid. He is also very motivated to escape, and he tends to act as the leader of the group.
The shovel is strange for reasons explained in the video. Red guy hasn't really interacted with a shovel at all, but maybe that isn't what's important. The shovel could represent tools and experience. As I said, red is very motivated to escape, and the moment he had access to a tool (the car in Transport), he tried escaping with it. However, he lacked the knowledge and experience to use it properly, stranding the three in the wasteland (I have a different theory about the wasteland, but that's for later haha). Red is likely the most capable to use tools, being a humanoid with hands.
It's also possible that the shovel represents "digging deeper", or finding the secrets that are hidden in their world.
Yellow guy needs to learn to be more adaptable, intelligent, and to be able to remember what he has learned. Maybe he's read the book before, and remembering what was in it will be very useful.
Duck needs to learn to care for and be supportive of the other two, and he needs to learn to be less selfish and to bring everyone together as a team.
Red guy needs to learn how to use tools to escape, and he needs to learn how to use them properly. I don't know what tool he needs to find, but I bet he'll be able to find something (maybe a shovel!)
I apologize for the long comment, and it might be messy in some places. Please let me know what you think about this theory! I doubt it's all foolproof, and I may have missed a few important details, so feel free to start a discussion!
I love how you broke this down! It makes a lot of sense 😮
@@starraesky Thank you!! I put a lot of thought into it haha. Red guy is the only one I'm not sure about, but hopefully it will make more sense as the series continues!
i really hope there’s gonna be a season 2. in the Behind the scene CD of the original series kickstarter in 2016 they had a running joke that the series was actually about a pirate adventure. it’ll all come full circle
Red guy could be "the guy who digs a hole for a funeral" as the briefcase says. This is why the shovel is red guy's.
A small idea I have about why the shovel is what represents Red Guy in the window is because of how he dealt with grief in the death episode-
Yellow and Duck are the only ones who use the shovel in that episode, but Red Guy instead just denies his grief until he forced Stain Edwards to mimic Duck instead of just expressing his feelings.
Duck expresses his sadness in a similar way in the Family episode after being sent home all alone; ignoring his pain until the others return- sure he DID try to do something about it in the start but he gave up on that eventually. Which is why I think his item is the Chuddle Dollups from that episode.
Yellow Guy is the only one who doesn’t really have a moment where he ignores his pain like those two, but the batteries are still very important to his character so I’m not sure what else to say about that.
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3:19 there's also a -worm- eagle behind the battery but idk how important that is lol
Red Guy said it himself “being dead is more of my thing”
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Hi!! I’m ATTATCHED to these videos. Dhmis is my favorite show of all time and I love what they did with the language here!!
Also I’ve had the background music stuck in my head for a couple days. Does anybody know what it’s called?? Thank you!!
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Okay. Maybe this is better covered in later vids? Maybe I'm just a fluffer-nutter? But for a lore-examination of the symbols that are the character names, you're missing an important aspect of DHMIS: the creativity that disguises deeper meaning. Yes, I agree with you about these symbols being their names. And forgive me for cramming a whole second part of this video into an abbreviated comment here, but you're missing a part of this that is just as big, if not bigger. These are symbols of their identity, which prove you right when you break them down! In Duck's symbol you see a duck bill making a head. You see wings. You see a big loud horn. (He never shuts up, does he? Quiet, Duck is not.) In Red Guy's symbol you see a hairy monster and an aspect of chaos with a pretty funky mouth. In Yellow Guy's symbol you see a battery, a sine wave, and an electrical ground. And these three symbols all look "alive". They have eyes and faces and life. You tie the symbols to the characters, but you completely neglected that these symbols incorporate their defining characteristics, used to draw cartoonish life forms. They are their names, in the truest sense. They are representations of them as living beings. I just have to point it out because it's a pretty nifty bit of work by the DHMIS team. And because it's confirmation that you got it right that these are their names, because their names here literally define key character aspects, they would not fit anyone else. It's pretty neat! And I suspect, at some point, we're going to see (or maybe already have seen?) corrupted versions of their names used to define alternates.
I think the objects in the windows represent the times they insisted they don't need each other. Duck said he is his own family (chuddle dollops), Red immediately tried to replace Duck when he died (shovel), Yellow's "maybe they're not in charge of us anymore" line and wanting to stay in the attic with Lesley (batteries)
Theory before I finish the video: I think the other symbol on the "eat together" screen being Red could also be backed by the original DHMIS3, referencing the chicken picnic which the two of them essentially ate as a family.
When they type Yellow Guys name onto the keyboard it's like 500 letters long so how could his name be just as short as Duck Guys?
I like the theory, there just seems to be a few holes in it.
Hence the need for a third subset of symbols
Red Guy wanted nothing more than to escape the house through any means possible. The shovel represents death - look how much Red Guy wanted to be the one dead in the second episode. But it also can represent resurrection - Yellow Guy basically resurrected duck using it. I think the shovel represents the endless cycle of death and resurrection. They are all trapped in it, of course, but the Red Guy seems to be the most affected by it. That's why the shovel is his insignia.
i personally think the objects in leslies room don't represent the characters but just the episodes there's 3 other windows on the other side of the room possibly containing objects from the other 3 episodes
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Subscibing, this was awesome. Definetly looking forward to your next theories, this is great! Was going to write something about the symbols kinda looking like simplified main things about their character design, but the thought fell apart in my hands like a sancastle getting too dry and blowing away in the wind.
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They’re sigils! Artistically rendered symbols based on the letters composing the words. Duck’s symbol is a sigilized rendering of “DAVID” - you can see every letter in the symbol. Red guy’s def has a C, maybe Charles? Yellow guy’s looks to me like the alchemical symbols for Saturn and Earth mixed w a robot. His complementary character reminds me of John Dee’s monad as well
I'm pretty sure the shovel represents Red Guy because while Yellow Guy uses it to unbury Duck, and Duck uses it to kill the "new" Duck, Red avoided touching the shovel and was content to just move on from Duck and then when he reappeared was content to move on with 2 ducks.
I think the reason red didn’t recognise ducks name was because he might of not seen it as his thumb was half over it
I'm confused about something you said. At 7:06 you talk about the symbol on the x-ray diagram (the 'OM Line' type thing, or is it 'Line WO'?) as being the yellow guy's name, and how things significant to the characters have their name on it (like Green's plane). Wouldn't that make the OMLine symbol the yellow guy's name instead of the 'briefcase downarrow'. I don't see where you connect the dots from "Look at OMLine for the yellow guy, thus Briefcase Downarrow is his name; and we still don't know what OMLine means."
The symbols also look like who they represent as well, to further solidify the theory. If you turn Duck's symbol clockwise, you can see the shape of his head, his eye, and a beak. Red guy's symbol has his eyes, and his loose noodly shape. Yellow guy's symbol looks like a little robot, which he is.
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Just finished the series and noticed that the bottom parte of the cover of the book, where you said it was the clock in the middle it looks more like the "sleeping" steering wheel of the car the drive on episode 5, since the shovel, hand, Roy coin and batteries represent the major themes of each episode. Loving your content.
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"It's kind of wierd that Red Guy's surname is before his first name," Except that there are quite a few contries in our real world where that exact thing happens, where the surname is put before the given name.
I personally think the circle symbol with arms represents yellow guy himself as it also physically resembles him like the other two character symbols, and it was on his chart. The other symbols clearly have some relationship with the teachers, for instance the symbol associated with duck resembles the two twins from the family episode, but also potentially references Duck's clone , the associated symbol with Yellow guy resembles the briefcase teacher, and the ZAA symbol associated with Red possibly references the double AA batteries of Electracy/Yellow Guy, or his repeated screaming throughout the series. As for why the objects were associated with them, to me it symbolises their character flaws, the chuddle dollops representing Duck's greed, The shovel representing Red's lack of ability to recognise his attachments and emotional absence, and the batteries are associated with Yellow's intelligence and lack thereof. I think the overall symbolism behind the symbols is just representing the wider lore of the show, but in and of themselves I doubt they much meaning in and of themselves.
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Red guy doesn't recognize the "Duck" symbol when Yellow guy writes it, even though he's seen it before on the computer lol
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I do think that the left symbol in the first row that looks like virus (the one in the book in the intro and the diagnosis) is yellow guys name and not the other one.
The shovel is consistently in proximity to death (Being used to dig up Ducks grave, and being used as a murder weapon to kill the second Duck) so I think it's possible that it relates to Red Guy because he wants to be dead. He spent an awful lot of time jealous of Duck being dead, even straight up saying he thinks he's more the type to be dead and getting frustrated when his ID told him he won't die for a long time.
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I’m pretty sure the secondary symbols are actually their surnames because in the computer episode of the original series when the red guy is saying his name before he is cut of he says “ my name is d- “ so his name could be something like Derek red guy or something
I think it's a diagram of the possible time loops in this universe, with circles representing red guy, triangles representing duck guy and the line representing yellow guy's path trough it all.
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I think people are focusing on the death/david aspect too much, yes death is a theme but it really seems to me that this series is about Control.
Being told what jobs to do, where to go, what a family is and whether your even alive.
Lesley is just the top most layer of the house, a constructed thing controling the world under it at the behest of even greater powers.
The yellow guy was distracted by the promise of possible answers in a holy book, then sent back to the people who would keep him dumb for their own benifit before he could see that this "god" was just another puppet
The symbol next to Yellow also resembles the light on the worker's helmet from Episode 1. Also, the shovel that appears often appears in the song part of episode 1 and when digging the soil in episode 2.
The symbol next to Duck is also depicted on the walls of the cave in the cartoon part of Episode 5's Song of Transport. There are three characters, a mammoth, and a symbol on the walls of the cave, as well as damages similar to the Duck made on the coffin in Episode 2. Considering these comprehensively, it seems that the symbol next to the Yellow and Duck means "Job""death"and...maybe...Red means"Road"or "Drive"
A book with symbols representing the themes of each character. The contents of the book may have been the contents of all the episodes of Season 2.