I think something that not enough people notice is that when Yellow is saying the hilariously long crossword answer, duck is genuinely trying to fit it into the 2-letter space
I love yellow guy and understand him. Whenever he says something, he knows what he is trying to say but it comes out in a way that makes no sense. It also hurts to think and if he thinks too much he ends up upsetting himself.
Fun Fact. This is actually very similar to a fluent Aphasia. Also known as a Wernick's Aphasia. Here's an example. czcams.com/video/3oef68YabD0/video.html It's like not being able to put your finger on the right word to use so you wind up using analogues in your brain to fake it.
actually i can fully agree with this since in the youtube series when all of them die they just come back next episode and when they’re in a bad situation they just go back to where they started and this happens in the tv series too, i do think it’s a loop of events that have happened and will happen again, a lot of the show’s lore leads to that, i have worked out most of this lore, and indeed that is what could be happening
Samee I feel rlly bad now for laughing at him but hes the second best character. Duck is just freaky Red guy on top but still yellow guy seems like a toddler trying to remember what they had for dinner or smth
During the character interview from itsnicethat, Roy's quote "My silly boy has allowed his eyes to grow arrogant and rude, and for this I will take him on a trip to punish land." has so much more meaning now
@@slightlyexpiredyoghurt literally had her son die in front of her in a car crash, stuck in isolation in her own room, created a (quite frankly) twisted and demented world as a coping mechanism, giant scar or tissue graft on her face that we have yet to learn the origin of (but could be self harm)
I don't think we appreciate the actual puppetry in this series enough. The darkening lighting helps, of course, but without any visible change in expression Yellow manages to go from happy and excited to existentially frightened in just seconds.
Background music, lighting, puppet character design, and voice-acting helps a lot, but the puppetry absolutely deserves kudos for helping to portray it! The existential fright isn't just recognizable, I think the audience generally feels the same thing, and sympathizes - that's surely hard to do with a puppet's limited range of expressions!
I think his dream in the transportation episode should go on this list, because when he wakes up he clearly remembers getting a bird as a gift, I think before the original version of him died.
Throughout the season, whenever yellow guy was allowed to have a reflection, the awoken version would be in the reflections instead of the normal version… I wonder if it meant anything?
@@EthanStrongiscool I’m sorry, you’re right There were only 2 instances… I thought there were more. There was the car, and there was the mirror in the following episode.
He's not stupid. His batteries have just always been a little bit low, and there was nobody around to explain to him how to fix it, let alone that he needed to. Ain't that a mood.
Which is either something a random character told him, like when the lamp describes a possible afterlife, or that that episode wasn't the first time he became smarter and explored the upper levels. The other versions of his friends did seem to recognize him. Either that or when one leaves, they all leave.
@@samiamtheman7379 I think your second theory is right. It seems like the upper floor people got use to him coming up, leaving for a while and then going back up again constantly. A constant cycle.
The fact that yellow guy so frequently talks about this mysterious occurrence without knowing the weight of it shows he's not only been to those "other" places before, but those many other times resulted in him having that knowledge stripped away from him right after he found it as well. It's like at every waking moment his smarter self is leaving breadcrumbs that would result in his brain being enlightened again. Why does yellow guy not just immediately remember the "other" ones when he gets his batteries back? Because they're in a time loop, and for some reason nobody in this little house remembers much of what keeps happening, that they're stuck there. Apart from Red Guy who clearly had his brain wiped after Episode 5 when he became too aware himself and the loop reset. It's almost like Leslie only gave Yellow guy the book to humor herself, she knows that he will forget it again at the end of the loop and that him escaping means nothing, even if he read the truth he'd never be able to escape.
When you think about it, the staircase he sees is the embodiment of 4th wall, the one part of the room that the audience, and presumably the cast, could never see.
A bit unrelated, but a post on r/DHMIS pointed out that in the scene where Duck is accessing all of his slick car features, LESLIE'S ARMS COME OUT FROM BEHIND THE SEAT.
Were they LE5L3Y's arms, or the Train's? They seem to have similar white gloves over black sleeves? And, what can we make of the fact that the Train (in most of his morphing forms) is stamped with LE5L3Y's name, and then appears in front of her doll house, clearly being operated by her, in much the same way that our heroes' duplicate puppets are?
@@pietrayday9915 I've heard a theory that the car with Leslie's name as a vanity license plate is the same car that Leslie herself ran over her son with
I like the idea that he has read the book, but whether he did it or not, that doesn't change anything. I think when the batteries are taken out he just can't remember anything anymore, It's like a phone with a battery, when it breaks and the battery goes out, the phone is practically dead, and when you put the battery back, all the information you had open before the phone "died" is suddenly gone. It's still there in some place, but not where you can see it, or worse, the information was not saved, it reboots. I think that's how Yellow Guy works. I don't know if he will be able to have self consciousness without a battery, just imagine if he had no batteries at all, maybe it's like he will be killed, it's like...a puppet, after all. Or on the contrary, maybe he can live without batteries, if he had a soul or something like that, but all that has nothing to do with this. So when Duck puts the old batteries back into Yellow guy, he can't remember or has a hard time processing the information, let's remember that yellow guy with old batteries hurts when he thinks, and also having pressure from his friends, he does the first thing that comes to his mind: shred the book. But anyway, I would like to hear more of the theory of your comment, I'm not going to lie, it sounds interesting.
@@cuch4ra_1rlandess what if the info is still stored in the batteries? Perhaps elec-tracey (the electric teacher yes that's her canon name) knows all this and may come back at some point in season 2 with all this new info
@@animationidot Holy fuck- I hadn't thought of that, but I don't think it's possible. Since when Yellow has his batteries changed in theory for the first time in chapter 6 and he becomes intelligent he doesn't forget anything. He even keeps reminding Duck and Red when the batteries are changed Edit: Oh wait, forget it, I thought more about that and maybe the batteries can work as a pendrive, now you got me confused
There's a theory that suggests that Yellow Guy didn't need to read the book to know what's inside, both because the title is revealing - it's apparently a constructed language that actually means something - and because Yellow Guy has seen the book before, probably because he wrote it himself, and already knows what's inside. There are hints that this might be the case: the "letters" of the book's title are the same characters that appear in Yellow Guy's "spatial distribution puzzle" written in a "third subset" of characters that are neither letters nor numbers, which Yellow Guy claims to have come up with... these characters appear all over the house and have appeared there since the first TV episode, and the Yellow Guy can apparently both read and write them when his batteries are working properly, so it's not a reach to think that he was able to read and write these things before, and left the characters on post-its and book covers and such for his future reference. Further, LE5L3Y's interaction with Yellow Guy seems to suggest that Yellow Guy has been there before, that she he came there for help, and that the help he needed was in the book, which hadn't been touched in a long time, but which Yellow guy didn't seem especially surprised to be given. LE5L3Y's amusement at certain things Yellow Guy says, and remarks about Yellow Guy still not seeing the funny side of things and Yellow Guy being her favorite suggest that she knows Yellow Guy pretty well, has talked to him before, and has had the same conversation with him before. The dust on the book could be taken to suggest that LE5L3Y at least has not read the book recently, if ever, and she doesn't seem very curious about its contents, which seem to be more for Yellow Guy's benefit - and that of his friends - than her own. There are pretty good indications that Yellow Guy has been upstairs before and dimly remembers it: this video shows at least two instances of Yellow Guy remembering it, at least like a half-remembered dream, and not fully understanding the experience. As for why Yellow Guy would shred the book once returning to his friends? His batteries were switched back to the old,, corroded, dead batteries, and he seems to have forgotten what the book was, where he got it, and what it was for. As LE5L3Y's voice-over at the end of the "Transportation" episode and in this episode suggest, the characters may twist and turn but still dance in chains, and at the end of the episode the always make their appointments and return right back where they started... the book might have been helpful, but the characters are doomed to return where they started, and were unlikely to ever escape their chains... the book was always going to be lost, destroyed, or whatever, and there was little that Yellow Guy could do to change that. We might suppose that he tried to leave the book in LE5L3Y's care on a previous, mostly-forgotten trip up stairs for the express purpose of protecting it from being shredded! If so, it doesn't seem to have helped much....
I have a theory: What if Yellow symbolizes the idea of being neglected by family and forced to avoid the abuse by watching the whimsical worlds of cartoons? Always being put down by "teachers", his father watches pornography in front of him on the computer, he is treated like he doesn't understand anything but he's very naive so when he does say something he knows it could be him disassociating to the past. It makes me think of the LOVE episode where everyone was telling him what, who and how to love. Or in the first series in 6 where he's back in his bedroom confused and scared without his friends. Lonely kids make up their own friends. I know I did and I had lots of imaginary friends. In the very first episode of CREATIVE Yellow is the first to point at the window to describe the cloud shapes. He is the one who painted the clown only for it to be doused in paint or tar. He was the one who said green was his favorite color only for it to be told that it wasn't a creative color. Then the CREATIVE episode goes into this weird disturbing manic episode like a kid or an adult having a full psychotic meltdown. Seemingly saying that Yellow may be forced to grow up too fast while still trying to hold onto his innocence. When people force someone to believe what and how to think that person may have an identity crisis.
My theory is that the yellow guy is David. he is the Leslie's attempt at possibly bringing her son back to life? with the D on his chest, the gravestone, and how jarring the scream was when he was hit by a car in his dreams. there is also the bit where he says the maybe family is just dying in the same way. perhaps the others are more of a family than they thought if that's the case
THAT EXPLAINS WHY DUCK SAID “that’s his name. he’s david.” WHILE LOOKING AT YELLOW GUY AND WHEN HE ASKED “what’s his name, then?” HE POINTED AT THE STONE BUT NOT UNTIL AFTER THE COFFIN SAID IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HIS NAME AND THATS WHY THE COFFIN ASSUMED YELLOW WAS DEAD AT FIRST OMG AND THAT EXPLAINS WHY YELLOW IS THE ONLY ONE WITH BATTERIES AND THE FACT THAT LESLIE ONLY SPOKE TO HIM AND NOT THE OTHERS AND WHEN SHE SAID “you’re not my real son.” OMFG
I have no idea why the YT series and the TV series are not considered connected when they line up so well the only disconnect is the character realizing they are in a simulation. In the YT series Red awakens to it, in the TV series, yellow awakens to it. From YT to TV, Yellow from the 1ST episode was shown to be smart and gifted but everytime that slipped out, the "teachers" would shut him down the TV show doesnt shut him down as much until the last episode. I feel like the next set of DHMIS will get Duck to awaken... i hope
The use of body language in that moment is great. He starts of so animated and lively and the by the end of it he’s hunched over and barely moving his mouth.
my theory: these characters are literally stuck in a nightmare like red guy says lol. the reason yellow guy can somehow remember events thst haven’t happened yet… is because they have happened (in the shows time line) that’s why in episode 6, before he gets to the leslie, the lady upstairs, there’s a picture on the wall of a picture of yellow guy of a picture of yellow guy of a picture of yellow guy - as well as being a matrix reference i believe, this is the show telling us what’s happening. this exact event we’re watching has already happened. more proof: - leslie says to him, u still can’t see the funny side can you. then when yellow guy is shredding the book of info, he’s laughing. - ending of ep 5 where red guy says grolton and hovris always make their way back home (this is exactly what happens in this show) lmk what you think if u read this. a lot of people i think read into the wrong things and think that the yellow guy somehow symbolises family or something and this explores abusive parents n shit but i don’t agree at all. the characters may help push themes of abandonment etc but this show is fundamentally dealing with the existential crisis of which these characters live in. they don’t even know what they are to eachother for most of the show, when they talk about their home it’s mentioned as “this place”. it’s not like their being kept, or abducted or some shit this is *literally* their universe - an insane nightmare of deranged teachers
Given that the "Big Boys" upstairs seem to recognize him, it implies that he's met them before. Either that or when one Yellow Guy leaves, they all do. And it's likely that he's been smart before considering his batteries had to have been new at some point, the fact that he's gotten visions of the smart version of him in the previous episode, and his lines remembering going upstairs are not only in another episode's intro, but also the same episode.
@@samiamtheman7379 another thing to which i’d love to hear ur thoughts on are how i believe the final episode really is to show they’re trapped. i’ll be honest i’m not quite sure the proper significance of leslie just yet bc i really don’t think we can but the way i see the house is each level is basically an iteration of the one previous. so that’s why it goes from big boys to bigger boys right but i think leslie’s room is technically just the “next” bigger room. each level though is designed to try and keep them “happy/sustained” on that level, which is why they’re trying to appeal to his new found intelligence so bad bc it thinks that’s what he wants, but bc it’s all the exact same thing just iterated in different levels, he’s able to see through them but not past leslie. at the end we see there’s another set of stairs, both IN the room and in the doll house version of the room, so leslie is the level in a way that yellow guy hasn’t been able to get past i think. on top of that, in the youtube show when red guy leaves through the door, he goes to a very low production cheap version of the show where he then explodes. obv in this show now thst room is their living room but i think it’s the same concept where red guy has basically found the lower version of his exact show.
i fully agree. i'm not a fan of the "trauma" interpretation, the show doesnt need secret subtext. i think there's plenty there already and it's more interesting to consider the show on its own terms
All the episodes take place both before and after all the other ones, perhaps because a TV show is something you can watch over and over again. Each time it is watched, it happens again.
You can tell because of the railing that Yellow Guy has tried to go up the stairs multiple times but hasn't always succeeded, because the railing is super worn down but only to a certain point, like he went up part way over and over but came back down, and only a few times has he made it past the ground floor. I also love that when he's talking about the big things being above them, and then there are bigger things above those, and a small thing above them all, he's talking about the Big Boy Room, the Bigger Boy Room, and Lesley. All of those are 'UP', the word he was trying to think of for the crossword puzzle.
Another interesting thing about that crossword puzzle scene: when Duck asks the other guys what the answer to a two-letter word that is opposite of 'down', that's the point where in any other episode, a "teacher" puppet -an animated thesaurus or vegetable or whatever - would step in from thin air and sing them a ludicrous but catchy song full of Blatant Lies. Instead, nothing happens, and Red Guy gives a good guess with "above", while Yellow Guy gives a remarkably lucid description of what "up" means in the context of their house. Red and Yellow, at least, seem to know the answer, with Yellow in particular knowing a really good answer, but Green seems to have no clue at all - Green is also the guy who has (so far) not really transcended the show's base reality the way Red and Yellow have (Red stepping outside the reality by the end of the web series, and Yellow stepping outside the reality of the first TV series....) The next time the crossword puzzle turns up, Yellow solves it pretty quickly, and moves on to creating a "spatial distribution puzzle" using a "third symbolic subset" of his own creation. There's pretty strong evidence that the symbols in this puzzle refer to the three main characters... and what is a "spatial distribution puzzle"? It seems to be a puzzle designed around how objects are connected relative to each other in space... sort of like their relative positions within a level of a house, or on different floors of the house. I think that ties the crossword puzzle (and its question about "up") thematically to Yellow Guy's "spatial distribution puzzle" and to the puzzle involving the different floors of the house, and the bigger puzzle of what the show is about and where it's going. Yellow Guy seems to have subconsciously worked out an answer to his "spatial distribution" puzzle, which was also "up", when he realized there was a staircase in the house. I wonder what the answers to the other puzzles would be?
Sad to see how he has so much potential and knowledge, but is held back by the world around him. Even when he might try to make sense of things, he’ll never fully understand everything as he should.
0:35 so this basically describes everything he sees later in the same episode but apparently he's seen it before and forgotten it? so does it all happen on a loop or something like the YT series? crazy stuff either way 🤯
I just realized that Leslie gives the book to yellow guy and says something like "I know why you are here" while Yellow guy is confused by what Shem could mean, maybe it's not the first time yellow guy becomes smarter
“Maybe they’re not in charge of us anymore” “Maybe they never were” I’ve not watched the new series but this seems like a line in the show that just ties it together, it seems so deep and it actually has quite a lot of emotional impact, it’s like he’s finally realising, I love yellow guy, all the characters in the show are just so loveable (I might just be going on about nonsense right now lol)
What I think is the scariest part of these is the fact that in the beginning it almost sounding like the final episode of the YT DHMiS series, "DREAM", what he describes almost matches up with the episode exactly, if everything is loop like what he implied in the second clip afterwards, does that mean that the CZcams series is somehow canon to the TV series?!
I think we can absolutely take the web series as canon for the TV series, and vice-versa, and I don't think what we are seeing is a loop, per se: the Table Lamp in "Death" seems to describe the situation pretty well by describing the afterlife as something like "descending to the center of the earth to relive your life over and over as a performance for a new super-race known as The Council, and getting a pound every time you get it right...." (The Table Lamp also mentions just before that that the afterlife could be reincarnation into a familiar object, which seems like as good an explanation as any for what is going on with all those weird "teachers" that keep popping up and giving absurd advice and guidance....)
The 2nd one makes so much more sense now “over the top of it there are bigger ones.” Which are probs referring to the big boys. Saying that yellows met Lesley before
Saw a theory on reddit saying his name might be David on the gravestone. How he has a D on his shirt, and Leslie saying he isn't her real son. I think Duck wasn't suppose to go in, it was Yellow Guy. Probably more to it but I forgot rn.
I agree, I came to this conclusion myself. I’d say another piece of evidence is when the coffin guesses which one of them has died- and he says he’s really good at guessing- he guesses Yellow
@@Kat-PM 👆 Yes! And I think Yellow Guys dream about going into the new neighborhood is showing how he really died. The scream 'Careful!' sounded so real.
Someone on CZcams has done a really nice job of going over the theory that the characters have all died - I don't remember where I saw the video, but most of the above was mentioned (though the reference to the Coffin's guesses is new to me - good catch!) The CZcamsr's theory on this is that all of the characters are actually dead, and the more I think of it, the more I have to agree. Yellow Guy in particular though was given a lot of evidence in the TV series' first six episodes - it seems that the voice that describes Mulhoven New Town in the voice-over, and which screams "Careful!", is LE5L3Y - and she does say that Yellow Guy is her favorite, in addition to that line about Yellow Guy not being her real son - the theory is that Lesley is/was David's mother, with Roy as a neglectful/abusive father. The Table Lamp in the "Death" episode seems to hint at what's going on in a surprisingly direct and muted response to Yellow Guy's question about what happens after we die: We descend to a place near the center of the earth to relive our lives over and over as a performance for "a new super-race called The Council" who will give us "a pound" ever time we "get it right": this seems to describe rather eloquently the 'loop" that some viewers see the characters going through. The lamp also says something about characters being reincarnated as objects (which sounds like a very direct explanation for who/what the "teachers" are, who pop up out of thin air in every episode. To paraphrase the Briefcase, "If you find the right job, you'll even feel like an ANGEL!" The Table Lamp also give a very brief reference to the fairly routine afterlife theory of a paradise, which is possibly the only one of the Table Lamp's three theories that doesn't seem to stand out... but then again, the house where the main characters live doesn't see like a bad place to live, really, until they start trying to escape from it or argue with their "teachers"... really, they seem to have a safe place to live, death is only temporary, they don't seem to experience much pain or suffering until the "lessons" go haywire, and they can have pretty much anything they ask for, after a fashion (do they want something to do? Briefcase shows up to get them a job! Does Red Guy just want to sit around doing nothing? His job is in upper management, where he sits at a desk doing nothing! Does Green Guy want something special to do? He gets a 40-year adventure in the belly of the Care Hound....) It's a weird and unsettling sort of 'Paradise", but obviously the characters could do much worse! Anyway. I kind of question how literally we can take Yellow Guy's understanding of Roy being his father, and whether Lesley is literally Yellow Guy's mother - it's something to watch out for when re-watching the show and the web episodes, and when we see the second season. But, I think the evidence for the characters being dead and reliving their lives as described by the Table Lamp seems pretty strong.
I just realized that the second example is litteraly a foreshadowing of the last episode. What are you doing with your puppet son Leslie ?? God I love the hidden story of this show
@@webbglauner3141 there was stuff like there was another me" smart yellow guy is very different from regular, and is somewhat foreshadowed in the transport episode Everything was not so fun- the lights went out, the teachers died, and neither the stuff from red/duck nor what Yellow was experiencing with the stairs would be what I would call "fun And I went and saw the other ones- pretty simple, he saw the big boys and bigger boys. Then I went and saw the lumpy one- might be referring to the experiment from the bigger boys room, it looker rather lumpy and If I remember right is supposed to be Stain Edwards. The whiny little one- could be a reference to all the figures, this one I'm the most unclear on, but it could be how red and duck were kind of cowering/complaining, or how they were complaining about the non-electric stuff, almost whining I used to know but I don't know now-he forgets when his batteries were taken out, maybe his dreams are where some of the power is going, but it could just be foreshadowing to that
If it helps, it sounds like development of the first season got hung up when the the Clay Hill pilot teased by the "Wakey-Wakey" teaser didn't really gel with the show's creators or the test audience, resulting in the original concept getting scrapped and these episodes being produced instead. And I'm glad they went the direction they did: I've seen bootleg copies of the Clay Hill pilot, and I think that what they ultimately went with instead turned out to be a much deeper, much richer, much more ambitious and creepy show than the Clay Hill product would have given us. By the looks of things, the DHMIS writers really found their stride with the six aired episodes, and I suspect they have a good idea of where to go next: the six web episodes seem to have resulted in the Red Guy getting a big "wham" episode finale, followed by this first TV season which gives the Yellow Guy a big "wham" episode for a finale, so a hypothetical second season would give us similar content to the first one and the web episodes, but could be expected to deliver a finale focused on Duck. I think that there are plenty of hints in the first TV season of where the show will be heading, as well, so I think the writing team have a stack of ideas to work with as an outline, and subsequent seasons will largely be a matter of fleshing those ideas out successfully, while trying to keep on the air by maintaining an audience and the support and funding of the network (the hardest part, I think, for any show!) So, I think that the date for when the next season will drop might not be all that far away, and depends a lot on how well the writing team can keep up with the production schedule, and how much support the production gets from the network and audience. Here's hoping that doesn't add up to 12 years, but I have a feeling it won't take them quite as long to get the second season out as it did the first :)
Im 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 windy middle one and there were things that they heard around that i knew what they were but i don't know now and then it went away
It might be a bit of a stretch but also the “we’re already in loads of debt” from episode two could be a reference to him reading the electric bill in episode six
huh, that's interesting! do you think the timeline of DHMIS is different from how it's presented? that theory would definitely make sense considering that reveal that the characters are constantly being replaced from the final episode
In the transportation episode, yellow guy said he didn’t like his window in the car because “when i look into the reflection it looks back into me.” The reflection showed what yellow guy would look like with better batteries, and it’s the opposite in this episode.
In the last episode he goes to the room upstairs, and there were bigger versions of themselves living there. At the top of the building where the woman was playing the piano, there was a model house with small dolls of all the characters in it. He's referring to the rooms above them that have the bigger versions of themselves, and 'the smaller one on top of that' is the dollhouse at the top
"over the top of you there's bigger ones that are bigger [the first floor], and bigger [the second floor], and then over the top it there's a smaller one of all of it at the top of that [the doll house]".
I like the change in design between normal yellow guy and smart yellow guy. I thought it was just his hairstyle but smart yellow guy also has green irises instead of just pupils. This way normal yellow guy looks depicted as a cartoon, but smart yellow guy is an actual person
I hadn't consciously noticed that! I just sort of thought at a certain point "I never noticed how green and striking his eyes were before!" Now that you mention it, his eyes don't normally have irises, and it gives him a dazed, vaguely confused look normally, especially with the way his mouth normally hangs open vacantly....
In the second episode when bird guy dies, the newspaper hes reading has a headline that says something about a power outage/black out. Which happens in a later episode.
Roy is one creepy character. There's a popular theory that says that Roy is an abusive/neglectful father or even a stranger who has kidnapped and abused the three main guys, but I'm not quite sure it's as simple as that... the theory rests partly on the really strange answer to an interview question which was given in-character as Roy: "My silly boy has allowed his eyes to grow arrogant and rude, for this I will take him on a trip to punish land." Roy doesn't seem to have actually ever HURT Yellow Guy on screen, but he is a creepy character, very stern and emotionless, and kind of pushes Yellow Guy out of the house, closing the door, to eat that creepy family that was tormenting Yellow Guy ("yum yum YUM!!!!") It's hard to say what to make of that... Roy isn't exactly protective of Yellow Guy in that scene or anywhere else, and the "Punish Land" quote certainly sounds ominous, but Roy doesn't seem to be trying to actively hurt any of the three main characters at all, even though he's clearly had many chances to. It's a very strange relationship!
There's another scene in the Transportation episode during the car trip where Yellow Guy says "my window is looking back in at me" or something and the smarter version of him is in the window.
this means that it's on a cycle where the episodes loop with the same plot line but always ends with yellow guys oppiffany and the then discovery of alll the top floors
there was a cameo about his other look in the car episode when he talked about how when he looks at his window, it looks back at him, but it's him when he's smart. I clearly did not pay attention to this show the first time I watched it.
"Hey, I know... it's when you can't remember that over top of you there's bigger ones, there are bigger, and bigger. And over the top of it, there's a smaller one of all of it at the top of that" -- He's referring to the doll house at the attic? God I love this show.
if you look closely in yellow guys shirt it has a D and in the episode 2 the ducks tombstone is writing David maybe yellow guy is named David and not the duck and yellow guy supposed to be dead because maybe yellow guy is Leslies dead son named David
it really is when you cant remember that over the top of you theres bigger ones that are bigger and bigger and over the top of it theres a smaller one of all of it at the top of that
over the top of you- the other floors of the house bigger ones- the 2nd duck and red guy that are bigger and bigger- the 3rd floor duck and red guy over the top of it- lesley floor smaller one on top of it all- the house that controls it all just explaining for those who dont know :>
“It’s when you can’t remember that”: Him forgetting there are stairs upstairs “Over top of you, there’s bigger ones”: the floors above them “That are bigger and bigger,”: The floors above being smarter and more advanced versions of duck and red “And then overtop of it there’s a smaller one with all of it at the top of that.”: the final room with Lesley and the mini doll house version of that house that controls it all.
When he's talking about bigger things being above him, he could be referring to the bigger boys who live upstairs. And he smaller one at the top could be Lesley or whatever is above her as show in the last moments of episode 6. (He could remember this because he had walked up those stairs before the sixth episode. Also, the paintings on the wall show him walking up the stairs making it seem like this wasn't the first time.)
On the 2nd one , it was explaining the electricity episode bigger ones “the big boys” and bigger “the bigger boys” and bigger “the biggest boys” and on the top there is a small one on the top of it all “the doll house”
Depending on the show time. It’s been there for 10 years. Whenever he looks back into a reflection. It becomes real because it is real. And looks back through him.
Could be a reach, but also from the worm episode his only task on the board is “REMEMBER IT!”
Holy shit, I think you're right dude !!
I think thats supposed to be about the computer password
@@golem778 that could be also about his memories
Definitely about the password. The main plot is how he couldn't remember it
obviously it’s about the password in the episode, but the phrasing is non-specific enough that it could have a double meaning
There was also that moment in the car when he looks out of the window and see’s his smarter self as his reflection
I JUST WENT BACK TO DOUBLE CHECK THIS- HOW COME I NEVER NOTICED!?!??!
@@shanechandler3261 Sir this is a Wendy’s
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I don't like my window, whenever I look through it it looks back at me
And the license plate of the car says LESLIE, the woman upstairs' name.
I think something that not enough people notice is that when Yellow is saying the hilariously long crossword answer, duck is genuinely trying to fit it into the 2-letter space
Ya!! I noticed that too!!
Duck even tried fitting in Red's suggested "above?" "A, B, ...OVE..." (looks genuinely confused when it doesn't fit in a two-letter space....)
LMAO I DIDN'T NOTICE THAT BEFORE
I love yellow guy and understand him. Whenever he says something, he knows what he is trying to say but it comes out in a way that makes no sense. It also hurts to think and if he thinks too much he ends up upsetting himself.
Fun Fact. This is actually very similar to a fluent Aphasia. Also known as a Wernick's Aphasia. Here's an example. czcams.com/video/3oef68YabD0/video.html It's like not being able to put your finger on the right word to use so you wind up using analogues in your brain to fake it.
@@Destinystrike that's not fun :(
god he just like me,, he just like me fr
@@jitterbuggs same 🥲
Shout out to yellow guy
Gotta be one of my favorite genders fr
Damn I never realised his nonsensical guess for the crossword puzzle was actually a spoiler for the last episode!
that's called foreshadowing
it's actually the same episode
Considering it's the same episode, it implies that this might not be the first time this has happened.
Woah it was a spoiler for what was gonna happen in the episode
Omg I literally realized this just now holy shit
I think that this implies that this show exists on a cyclical loop where every event that has happened before will happen again
actually i can fully agree with this since in the youtube series when all of them die they just come back next episode and when they’re in a bad situation they just go back to where they started and this happens in the tv series too, i do think it’s a loop of events that have happened and will happen again, a lot of the show’s lore leads to that, i have worked out most of this lore, and indeed that is what could be happening
@@notusingthisaccanymore. they get replaced every new episode
This is my take too
I believe that.
I feel like watching it again
But with some changes
I feel so bad for him, he is trying so hard.
Samee
I feel rlly bad now for laughing at him but hes the second best character. Duck is just freaky
Red guy on top but still yellow guy seems like a toddler trying to remember what they had for dinner or smth
@@Laous223 Duck's the best one, he told us himself
@@zemonito right? Duck is obviously the best one
Yes its so crazy
During the character interview from itsnicethat, Roy's quote "My silly boy has allowed his eyes to grow arrogant and rude, and for this I will take him on a trip to punish land." has so much more meaning now
The original web series lore is completely separate from the tv show
@@50Steaks68 Even then, the previous lore seeps out in one way or another. Its a fake out as far as I see it.
@@youknowwhoelselikesthisvid8040 yellow guy isn't really "punished" here though. If anything, Leslie was "punished" by whatever being is above her.
@@50Steaks68 Leslie was punished? How so?
@@slightlyexpiredyoghurt literally had her son die in front of her in a car crash, stuck in isolation in her own room, created a (quite frankly) twisted and demented world as a coping mechanism, giant scar or tissue graft on her face that we have yet to learn the origin of (but could be self harm)
0:39 gotta love how Duck genuinely tries to fit everything yellow was saying onto the space
Also the way he does it so naturally and looks so serious lmao
I don't think we appreciate the actual puppetry in this series enough. The darkening lighting helps, of course, but without any visible change in expression Yellow manages to go from happy and excited to existentially frightened in just seconds.
Background music, lighting, puppet character design, and voice-acting helps a lot, but the puppetry absolutely deserves kudos for helping to portray it! The existential fright isn't just recognizable, I think the audience generally feels the same thing, and sympathizes - that's surely hard to do with a puppet's limited range of expressions!
I think his dream in the transportation episode should go on this list, because when he wakes up he clearly remembers getting a bird as a gift, I think before the original version of him died.
Don’t forget him remembering he had a child.
@@sizzlingwall716 omg what?
Throughout the season, whenever yellow guy was allowed to have a reflection, the awoken version would be in the reflections instead of the normal version… I wonder if it meant anything?
is that real?
did that happen aside from in the car in e5?
@@EthanStrongiscool I’m sorry, you’re right There were only 2 instances… I thought there were more. There was the car, and there was the mirror in the following episode.
@@DemiTrusdale3 i thought it also happened in the family episode, i might misremembered
_Oh man, that's deep._
“Well..maybe..they’re not in charge of us anymore”
“Maybe they never *were* “
That hits hard and I don’t know why
Considering how they acted this EP..
He's not stupid. His batteries have just always been a little bit low, and there was nobody around to explain to him how to fix it, let alone that he needed to.
Ain't that a mood.
0:36 I just realised Yellow talks about the events that will transpire in this very episode. He discovers upper floors that have the big boys
Which is either something a random character told him, like when the lamp describes a possible afterlife, or that that episode wasn't the first time he became smarter and explored the upper levels. The other versions of his friends did seem to recognize him. Either that or when one leaves, they all leave.
@@samiamtheman7379 I think your second theory is right. It seems like the upper floor people got use to him coming up, leaving for a while and then going back up again constantly. A constant cycle.
We're big boys
try and keep up, mate
I was also thinking that when he described his dream in the intro
The fact that yellow guy so frequently talks about this mysterious occurrence without knowing the weight of it shows he's not only been to those "other" places before, but those many other times resulted in him having that knowledge stripped away from him right after he found it as well. It's like at every waking moment his smarter self is leaving breadcrumbs that would result in his brain being enlightened again. Why does yellow guy not just immediately remember the "other" ones when he gets his batteries back? Because they're in a time loop, and for some reason nobody in this little house remembers much of what keeps happening, that they're stuck there. Apart from Red Guy who clearly had his brain wiped after Episode 5 when he became too aware himself and the loop reset. It's almost like Leslie only gave Yellow guy the book to humor herself, she knows that he will forget it again at the end of the loop and that him escaping means nothing, even if he read the truth he'd never be able to escape.
I don’t think that of Leslie. There’s probably much much more to her than ‘she gave the book because its funny’
When you think about it, the staircase he sees is the embodiment of 4th wall, the one part of the room that the audience, and presumably the cast, could never see.
WAIT IT IS THAT'S SO INTERESTING
why did it take yellow guy literally saying "they're telling us how to think..." for me to realize that dhmis is just really good social commentary
At this point it's your standard social commentary
A bit unrelated, but a post on r/DHMIS pointed out that in the scene where Duck is accessing all of his slick car features, LESLIE'S ARMS COME OUT FROM BEHIND THE SEAT.
Yea I think Leslie’s arms were the one to give Duck the headphones! Very subtle but the details in this show are so interesting
The car has a Leslie number plate I thought that was obvious?
Were they LE5L3Y's arms, or the Train's? They seem to have similar white gloves over black sleeves?
And, what can we make of the fact that the Train (in most of his morphing forms) is stamped with LE5L3Y's name, and then appears in front of her doll house, clearly being operated by her, in much the same way that our heroes' duplicate puppets are?
@@pietrayday9915 I've heard a theory that the car with Leslie's name as a vanity license plate is the same car that Leslie herself ran over her son with
At the beginning of the first episode when he said “Probably…not? I don’t know.” He sounded like the other version, like he’d just ended a cycle.
I think he reads the book before he goes all the way downstairs, understands it, then shreds it to protect his friends in a state of madness.
I like the idea that he has read the book, but whether he did it or not, that doesn't change anything.
I think when the batteries are taken out he just can't remember anything anymore, It's like a phone with a battery, when it breaks and the battery goes out, the phone is practically dead, and when you put the battery back, all the information you had open before the phone "died" is suddenly gone. It's still there in some place, but not where you can see it, or worse, the information was not saved, it reboots.
I think that's how Yellow Guy works. I don't know if he will be able to have self consciousness without a battery, just imagine if he had no batteries at all, maybe it's like he will be killed, it's like...a puppet, after all. Or on the contrary, maybe he can live without batteries, if he had a soul or something like that, but all that has nothing to do with this.
So when Duck puts the old batteries back into Yellow guy, he can't remember or has a hard time processing the information, let's remember that yellow guy with old batteries hurts when he thinks, and also having pressure from his friends, he does the first thing that comes to his mind: shred the book.
But anyway, I would like to hear more of the theory of your comment, I'm not going to lie, it sounds interesting.
@@cuch4ra_1rlandess what if the info is still stored in the batteries? Perhaps elec-tracey (the electric teacher yes that's her canon name) knows all this and may come back at some point in season 2 with all this new info
@@animationidot Holy fuck- I hadn't thought of that, but I don't think it's possible. Since when Yellow has his batteries changed in theory for the first time in chapter 6 and he becomes intelligent he doesn't forget anything. He even keeps reminding Duck and Red when the batteries are changed
Edit: Oh wait, forget it, I thought more about that and maybe the batteries can work as a pendrive, now you got me confused
@@cuch4ra_1rlandess it was just a thought so it could use more building so I'll think about it some more and get back to you
There's a theory that suggests that Yellow Guy didn't need to read the book to know what's inside, both because the title is revealing - it's apparently a constructed language that actually means something - and because Yellow Guy has seen the book before, probably because he wrote it himself, and already knows what's inside.
There are hints that this might be the case: the "letters" of the book's title are the same characters that appear in Yellow Guy's "spatial distribution puzzle" written in a "third subset" of characters that are neither letters nor numbers, which Yellow Guy claims to have come up with... these characters appear all over the house and have appeared there since the first TV episode, and the Yellow Guy can apparently both read and write them when his batteries are working properly, so it's not a reach to think that he was able to read and write these things before, and left the characters on post-its and book covers and such for his future reference.
Further, LE5L3Y's interaction with Yellow Guy seems to suggest that Yellow Guy has been there before, that she he came there for help, and that the help he needed was in the book, which hadn't been touched in a long time, but which Yellow guy didn't seem especially surprised to be given. LE5L3Y's amusement at certain things Yellow Guy says, and remarks about Yellow Guy still not seeing the funny side of things and Yellow Guy being her favorite suggest that she knows Yellow Guy pretty well, has talked to him before, and has had the same conversation with him before. The dust on the book could be taken to suggest that LE5L3Y at least has not read the book recently, if ever, and she doesn't seem very curious about its contents, which seem to be more for Yellow Guy's benefit - and that of his friends - than her own.
There are pretty good indications that Yellow Guy has been upstairs before and dimly remembers it: this video shows at least two instances of Yellow Guy remembering it, at least like a half-remembered dream, and not fully understanding the experience.
As for why Yellow Guy would shred the book once returning to his friends? His batteries were switched back to the old,, corroded, dead batteries, and he seems to have forgotten what the book was, where he got it, and what it was for. As LE5L3Y's voice-over at the end of the "Transportation" episode and in this episode suggest, the characters may twist and turn but still dance in chains, and at the end of the episode the always make their appointments and return right back where they started... the book might have been helpful, but the characters are doomed to return where they started, and were unlikely to ever escape their chains... the book was always going to be lost, destroyed, or whatever, and there was little that Yellow Guy could do to change that.
We might suppose that he tried to leave the book in LE5L3Y's care on a previous, mostly-forgotten trip up stairs for the express purpose of protecting it from being shredded! If so, it doesn't seem to have helped much....
I have a theory:
What if Yellow symbolizes the idea of being neglected by family and forced to avoid the abuse by watching the whimsical worlds of cartoons? Always being put down by "teachers", his father watches pornography in front of him on the computer, he is treated like he doesn't understand anything but he's very naive so when he does say something he knows it could be him disassociating to the past. It makes me think of the LOVE episode where everyone was telling him what, who and how to love. Or in the first series in 6 where he's back in his bedroom confused and scared without his friends. Lonely kids make up their own friends. I know I did and I had lots of imaginary friends.
In the very first episode of CREATIVE Yellow is the first to point at the window to describe the cloud shapes. He is the one who painted the clown only for it to be doused in paint or tar. He was the one who said green was his favorite color only for it to be told that it wasn't a creative color. Then the CREATIVE episode goes into this weird disturbing manic episode like a kid or an adult having a full psychotic meltdown. Seemingly saying that Yellow may be forced to grow up too fast while still trying to hold onto his innocence.
When people force someone to believe what and how to think that person may have an identity crisis.
that's a good theory.
but hey thats just a theory: A FILM THEORY!
@@lotsachatting and cut!
@@creepykidandinfinitedreams2987 lol
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I have a head cannon that yellow doesn't like looking at mirrors because it makes him uncomfortable.
My theory is that the yellow guy is David. he is the Leslie's attempt at possibly bringing her son back to life? with the D on his chest, the gravestone, and how jarring the scream was when he was hit by a car in his dreams. there is also the bit where he says the maybe family is just dying in the same way. perhaps the others are more of a family than they thought if that's the case
Holy crap underated theory that could really be what the d stands for oh my gahd :0
THAT EXPLAINS WHY DUCK SAID “that’s his name. he’s david.” WHILE LOOKING AT YELLOW GUY AND WHEN HE ASKED “what’s his name, then?” HE POINTED AT THE STONE BUT NOT UNTIL AFTER THE COFFIN SAID IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HIS NAME AND THATS WHY THE COFFIN ASSUMED YELLOW WAS DEAD AT FIRST OMG AND THAT EXPLAINS WHY YELLOW IS THE ONLY ONE WITH BATTERIES AND THE FACT THAT LESLIE ONLY SPOKE TO HIM AND NOT THE OTHERS AND WHEN SHE SAID “you’re not my real son.” OMFG
WAIT ALSO THE IMAGINARY OLDER BROTHER WAIT THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE
@@andreisdro the pictures in the wallet might be more important than we think too
@@scourgeofman WAITTTUR RIGHT
I have no idea why the YT series and the TV series are not considered connected when they line up so well the only disconnect is the character realizing they are in a simulation. In the YT series Red awakens to it, in the TV series, yellow awakens to it.
From YT to TV, Yellow from the 1ST episode was shown to be smart and gifted but everytime that slipped out, the "teachers" would shut him down the TV show doesnt shut him down as much until the last episode.
I feel like the next set of DHMIS will get Duck to awaken... i hope
Are they not connected? I thought they were
@@Kat-PM i think a lot of people do but a lot of people are also saying its the opposite 😅
I hope, I’m worried for Duck, but he seems to be getting some character development, if but a little, hopefully they tackle that in season two
Yeah I can’t wait for season 2 3 if you count the web series as season 1
@@anapplepinetarticathe23rd90 It could mean there's more in the future.
I love how Duck and Red Guy just let him ramble on in the intro to episode 5.
The way he taps his fingers on the table
such small details
RIGHT I was thinking that too!
The use of body language in that moment is great. He starts of so animated and lively and the by the end of it he’s hunched over and barely moving his mouth.
0:25 he sounds so devastated :( poor lil bean
I never imagined how much development these guys would have
my theory:
these characters are literally stuck in a nightmare like red guy says lol. the reason yellow guy can somehow remember events thst haven’t happened yet… is because they have happened (in the shows time line) that’s why in episode 6, before he gets to the leslie, the lady upstairs, there’s a picture on the wall of a picture of yellow guy of a picture of yellow guy of a picture of yellow guy - as well as being a matrix reference i believe, this is the show telling us what’s happening. this exact event we’re watching has already happened.
more proof:
- leslie says to him, u still can’t see the funny side can you. then when yellow guy is shredding the book of info, he’s laughing.
- ending of ep 5 where red guy says grolton and hovris always make their way back home (this is exactly what happens in this show)
lmk what you think if u read this. a lot of people i think read into the wrong things and think that the yellow guy somehow symbolises family or something and this explores abusive parents n shit but i don’t agree at all. the characters may help push themes of abandonment etc but this show is fundamentally dealing with the existential crisis of which these characters live in. they don’t even know what they are to eachother for most of the show, when they talk about their home it’s mentioned as “this place”. it’s not like their being kept, or abducted or some shit this is *literally* their universe - an insane nightmare of deranged teachers
Given that the "Big Boys" upstairs seem to recognize him, it implies that he's met them before. Either that or when one Yellow Guy leaves, they all do. And it's likely that he's been smart before considering his batteries had to have been new at some point, the fact that he's gotten visions of the smart version of him in the previous episode, and his lines remembering going upstairs are not only in another episode's intro, but also the same episode.
@@samiamtheman7379 exactly!!!!!
@@samiamtheman7379 another thing to which i’d love to hear ur thoughts on are how i believe the final episode really is to show they’re trapped. i’ll be honest i’m not quite sure the proper significance of leslie just yet bc i really don’t think we can but the way i see the house is each level is basically an iteration of the one previous. so that’s why it goes from big boys to bigger boys right but i think leslie’s room is technically just the “next” bigger room. each level though is designed to try and keep them “happy/sustained” on that level, which is why they’re trying to appeal to his new found intelligence so bad bc it thinks that’s what he wants, but bc it’s all the exact same thing just iterated in different levels, he’s able to see through them but not past leslie. at the end we see there’s another set of stairs, both IN the room and in the doll house version of the room, so leslie is the level in a way that yellow guy hasn’t been able to get past i think. on top of that, in the youtube show when red guy leaves through the door, he goes to a very low production cheap version of the show where he then explodes. obv in this show now thst room is their living room but i think it’s the same concept where red guy has basically found the lower version of his exact show.
i fully agree. i'm not a fan of the "trauma" interpretation, the show doesnt need secret subtext. i think there's plenty there already and it's more interesting to consider the show on its own terms
All the episodes take place both before and after all the other ones, perhaps because a TV show is something you can watch over and over again. Each time it is watched, it happens again.
The more I see of this show, the more I realize how detailed and interconnected each scene is.
You can tell because of the railing that Yellow Guy has tried to go up the stairs multiple times but hasn't always succeeded, because the railing is super worn down but only to a certain point, like he went up part way over and over but came back down, and only a few times has he made it past the ground floor.
I also love that when he's talking about the big things being above them, and then there are bigger things above those, and a small thing above them all, he's talking about the Big Boy Room, the Bigger Boy Room, and Lesley. All of those are 'UP', the word he was trying to think of for the crossword puzzle.
Another interesting thing about that crossword puzzle scene: when Duck asks the other guys what the answer to a two-letter word that is opposite of 'down', that's the point where in any other episode, a "teacher" puppet -an animated thesaurus or vegetable or whatever - would step in from thin air and sing them a ludicrous but catchy song full of Blatant Lies.
Instead, nothing happens, and Red Guy gives a good guess with "above", while Yellow Guy gives a remarkably lucid description of what "up" means in the context of their house. Red and Yellow, at least, seem to know the answer, with Yellow in particular knowing a really good answer, but Green seems to have no clue at all - Green is also the guy who has (so far) not really transcended the show's base reality the way Red and Yellow have (Red stepping outside the reality by the end of the web series, and Yellow stepping outside the reality of the first TV series....)
The next time the crossword puzzle turns up, Yellow solves it pretty quickly, and moves on to creating a "spatial distribution puzzle" using a "third symbolic subset" of his own creation. There's pretty strong evidence that the symbols in this puzzle refer to the three main characters... and what is a "spatial distribution puzzle"? It seems to be a puzzle designed around how objects are connected relative to each other in space... sort of like their relative positions within a level of a house, or on different floors of the house.
I think that ties the crossword puzzle (and its question about "up") thematically to Yellow Guy's "spatial distribution puzzle" and to the puzzle involving the different floors of the house, and the bigger puzzle of what the show is about and where it's going. Yellow Guy seems to have subconsciously worked out an answer to his "spatial distribution" puzzle, which was also "up", when he realized there was a staircase in the house. I wonder what the answers to the other puzzles would be?
What
Sad to see how he has so much potential and knowledge, but is held back by the world around him. Even when he might try to make sense of things, he’ll never fully understand everything as he should.
Feel like the whole show is trying to show us how blind we are to the real world.
Honestly I think so too
That’s true, it can seem like that, and then when we’re getting somewhere, we get treated like yellow, and nothing changes.
@@anapplepinetarticathe23rd90 exactly
Those moments where so confusing on first watch, but now they have interesting implications
0:35 so this basically describes everything he sees later in the same episode but apparently he's seen it before and forgotten it? so does it all happen on a loop or something like the YT series? crazy stuff either way 🤯
People believe the episodes are out of order. Wouldn’t doubt it but that would mean episode 5 is actually the last one
It's possible that either the episodes are out of order, or that episode wasn't the first time he became smarter. Possibly both.
@@samiamtheman7379 Oh, both would be quite interesting.
I just realized that Leslie gives the book to yellow guy and says something like "I know why you are here" while Yellow guy is confused by what Shem could mean, maybe it's not the first time yellow guy becomes smarter
Probably from when his batteries were still new
“Maybe they’re not in charge of us anymore”
“Maybe they never were”
I’ve not watched the new series but this seems like a line in the show that just ties it together, it seems so deep and it actually has quite a lot of emotional impact, it’s like he’s finally realising, I love yellow guy, all the characters in the show are just so loveable
(I might just be going on about nonsense right now lol)
Maybe Logic and Ego are not in control of your Inner Child/Soul...
0:56 god I love that melody for some reason
How hard it is to contradict you
0:06 the duck's like "uh dude you ok?"
What I think is the scariest part of these is the fact that in the beginning it almost sounding like the final episode of the YT DHMiS series, "DREAM", what he describes almost matches up with the episode exactly, if everything is loop like what he implied in the second clip afterwards, does that mean that the CZcams series is somehow canon to the TV series?!
I think we can absolutely take the web series as canon for the TV series, and vice-versa, and I don't think what we are seeing is a loop, per se: the Table Lamp in "Death" seems to describe the situation pretty well by describing the afterlife as something like "descending to the center of the earth to relive your life over and over as a performance for a new super-race known as The Council, and getting a pound every time you get it right...." (The Table Lamp also mentions just before that that the afterlife could be reincarnation into a familiar object, which seems like as good an explanation as any for what is going on with all those weird "teachers" that keep popping up and giving absurd advice and guidance....)
You forgot, "when i look at my Window It looks back to me"
“We live in an actual nightMAAAARE”
Genius show. Best telly of 2022, no question. It even beat Inside No. 9 for me.
After several concussions and head injuries I can relate to this.
You forgot the scene from episode 5 where he looks in the car window and sees his other self, foreshadowing the 6th episode.
Trying to recover repressed memories be like
The 2nd one makes so much more sense now “over the top of it there are bigger ones.” Which are probs referring to the big boys. Saying that yellows met Lesley before
Yellow Guy and 2D would be great friends. Both have blue hair, great singers, traumatized, and feel trapped in some way
Saw a theory on reddit saying his name might be David on the gravestone. How he has a D on his shirt, and Leslie saying he isn't her real son. I think Duck wasn't suppose to go in, it was Yellow Guy. Probably more to it but I forgot rn.
I agree, I came to this conclusion myself. I’d say another piece of evidence is when the coffin guesses which one of them has died- and he says he’s really good at guessing- he guesses Yellow
@@Kat-PM 👆 Yes! And I think Yellow Guys dream about going into the new neighborhood is showing how he really died. The scream 'Careful!' sounded so real.
Someone on CZcams has done a really nice job of going over the theory that the characters have all died - I don't remember where I saw the video, but most of the above was mentioned (though the reference to the Coffin's guesses is new to me - good catch!) The CZcamsr's theory on this is that all of the characters are actually dead, and the more I think of it, the more I have to agree.
Yellow Guy in particular though was given a lot of evidence in the TV series' first six episodes - it seems that the voice that describes Mulhoven New Town in the voice-over, and which screams "Careful!", is LE5L3Y - and she does say that Yellow Guy is her favorite, in addition to that line about Yellow Guy not being her real son - the theory is that Lesley is/was David's mother, with Roy as a neglectful/abusive father.
The Table Lamp in the "Death" episode seems to hint at what's going on in a surprisingly direct and muted response to Yellow Guy's question about what happens after we die: We descend to a place near the center of the earth to relive our lives over and over as a performance for "a new super-race called The Council" who will give us "a pound" ever time we "get it right": this seems to describe rather eloquently the 'loop" that some viewers see the characters going through.
The lamp also says something about characters being reincarnated as objects (which sounds like a very direct explanation for who/what the "teachers" are, who pop up out of thin air in every episode. To paraphrase the Briefcase, "If you find the right job, you'll even feel like an ANGEL!"
The Table Lamp also give a very brief reference to the fairly routine afterlife theory of a paradise, which is possibly the only one of the Table Lamp's three theories that doesn't seem to stand out... but then again, the house where the main characters live doesn't see like a bad place to live, really, until they start trying to escape from it or argue with their "teachers"... really, they seem to have a safe place to live, death is only temporary, they don't seem to experience much pain or suffering until the "lessons" go haywire, and they can have pretty much anything they ask for, after a fashion (do they want something to do? Briefcase shows up to get them a job! Does Red Guy just want to sit around doing nothing? His job is in upper management, where he sits at a desk doing nothing! Does Green Guy want something special to do? He gets a 40-year adventure in the belly of the Care Hound....) It's a weird and unsettling sort of 'Paradise", but obviously the characters could do much worse!
Anyway. I kind of question how literally we can take Yellow Guy's understanding of Roy being his father, and whether Lesley is literally Yellow Guy's mother - it's something to watch out for when re-watching the show and the web episodes, and when we see the second season. But, I think the evidence for the characters being dead and reliving their lives as described by the Table Lamp seems pretty strong.
I just realized that the second example is litteraly a foreshadowing of the last episode. What are you doing with your puppet son Leslie ?? God I love the hidden story of this show
In a world filled with so much million dollar cgi being thrown around. Its so refreshing to see puppets.
His rambling in the first clip reminds me a bunch of the last episode, and I am willing to elaborate
Elaborate please
@@webbglauner3141 there was stuff like there was another me" smart yellow guy is very different from regular, and is somewhat foreshadowed in the transport episode
Everything was not so fun- the lights went out, the teachers died, and neither the stuff from red/duck nor what Yellow was experiencing with the stairs would be what I would call "fun
And I went and saw the other ones- pretty simple, he saw the big boys and bigger boys.
Then I went and saw the lumpy one- might be referring to the experiment from the bigger boys room, it looker rather lumpy and If I remember right is supposed to be Stain Edwards.
The whiny little one- could be a reference to all the figures, this one I'm the most unclear on, but it could be how red and duck were kind of cowering/complaining, or how they were complaining about the non-electric stuff, almost whining
I used to know but I don't know now-he forgets when his batteries were taken out, maybe his dreams are where some of the power is going, but it could just be foreshadowing to that
I hope there is another season.
I heard they are making season 2
@@ShadeHaxor lol
@@ShadeHaxor since it's the second make that 12 years
Since they have a better studio now let’s hope for 3 years
If it helps, it sounds like development of the first season got hung up when the the Clay Hill pilot teased by the "Wakey-Wakey" teaser didn't really gel with the show's creators or the test audience, resulting in the original concept getting scrapped and these episodes being produced instead.
And I'm glad they went the direction they did: I've seen bootleg copies of the Clay Hill pilot, and I think that what they ultimately went with instead turned out to be a much deeper, much richer, much more ambitious and creepy show than the Clay Hill product would have given us.
By the looks of things, the DHMIS writers really found their stride with the six aired episodes, and I suspect they have a good idea of where to go next: the six web episodes seem to have resulted in the Red Guy getting a big "wham" episode finale, followed by this first TV season which gives the Yellow Guy a big "wham" episode for a finale, so a hypothetical second season would give us similar content to the first one and the web episodes, but could be expected to deliver a finale focused on Duck. I think that there are plenty of hints in the first TV season of where the show will be heading, as well, so I think the writing team have a stack of ideas to work with as an outline, and subsequent seasons will largely be a matter of fleshing those ideas out successfully, while trying to keep on the air by maintaining an audience and the support and funding of the network (the hardest part, I think, for any show!)
So, I think that the date for when the next season will drop might not be all that far away, and depends a lot on how well the writing team can keep up with the production schedule, and how much support the production gets from the network and audience.
Here's hoping that doesn't add up to 12 years, but I have a feeling it won't take them quite as long to get the second season out as it did the first :)
I don't like my window. When I look out through it, it looks back through me.
I may be wrong, but this show seems to be shaping up to be a "Rage against the fourth wall" kind of scenario
Im 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 windy middle one and there were things that they heard around that i knew what they were but i don't know now and then it went away
Would you like some therapy my friend?
somebody decode this
So it was you that had that dream?
@@HankRichard yez
It might be a bit of a stretch but also the “we’re already in loads of debt” from episode two could be a reference to him reading the electric bill in episode six
huh, that's interesting! do you think the timeline of DHMIS is different from how it's presented? that theory would definitely make sense considering that reveal that the characters are constantly being replaced from the final episode
You forgot about the scene in transportation where he looks at the car window reflection and sees smart him looking back!
In the transportation episode, yellow guy said he didn’t like his window in the car because “when i look into the reflection it looks back into me.” The reflection showed what yellow guy would look like with better batteries, and it’s the opposite in this episode.
My favorite version of Plato's allegory of the cave
They NEED another series
Or another season
0:35 I only watched that episode once and only now see that he was talking about the people up stairs
love the usage of eerie music in the last scene
Literally i have so much compassion for the yellow guy.
I still have no idea what the "bigger one above/smaller one on top of that" bit was referring to lol
In the last episode he goes to the room upstairs, and there were bigger versions of themselves living there. At the top of the building where the woman was playing the piano, there was a model house with small dolls of all the characters in it.
He's referring to the rooms above them that have the bigger versions of themselves, and 'the smaller one on top of that' is the dollhouse at the top
"over the top of you there's bigger ones that are bigger [the first floor], and bigger [the second floor], and then over the top it there's a smaller one of all of it at the top of that [the doll house]".
@@shanechandler3261 huh
Big boys.
yellow guy is such an interesting and complex character, i can’t wait to watch videos on peoples theories of him
I love yellow guy. This show just keeps getting better
I like the change in design between normal yellow guy and smart yellow guy.
I thought it was just his hairstyle but smart yellow guy also has green irises instead of just pupils. This way normal yellow guy looks depicted as a cartoon, but smart yellow guy is an actual person
Green is a intelectual color in dhmis
I hadn't consciously noticed that! I just sort of thought at a certain point "I never noticed how green and striking his eyes were before!" Now that you mention it, his eyes don't normally have irises, and it gives him a dazed, vaguely confused look normally, especially with the way his mouth normally hangs open vacantly....
In the second episode when bird guy dies, the newspaper hes reading has a headline that says something about a power outage/black out. Which happens in a later episode.
I just want to know why Roy came to eat the food and the family in the family episode 😂
I don’t think he ate the food… I think he went to protect his son and killed that family and probably ate them…
I also think one of the family members head hits the door if I’m not mistaken
Roy is one creepy character. There's a popular theory that says that Roy is an abusive/neglectful father or even a stranger who has kidnapped and abused the three main guys, but I'm not quite sure it's as simple as that... the theory rests partly on the really strange answer to an interview question which was given in-character as Roy: "My silly boy has allowed his eyes to grow arrogant and rude, for this I will take him on a trip to punish land." Roy doesn't seem to have actually ever HURT Yellow Guy on screen, but he is a creepy character, very stern and emotionless, and kind of pushes Yellow Guy out of the house, closing the door, to eat that creepy family that was tormenting Yellow Guy ("yum yum YUM!!!!") It's hard to say what to make of that... Roy isn't exactly protective of Yellow Guy in that scene or anywhere else, and the "Punish Land" quote certainly sounds ominous, but Roy doesn't seem to be trying to actively hurt any of the three main characters at all, even though he's clearly had many chances to. It's a very strange relationship!
I need to rewatch this immediately
Ok so the TV versions gonna ease it's way into having lore like the web series, good to know.
The first sounds like something straight out of The Residents and I love it so much.
it was only on the second watch that I noticed these.
I love how it's implied that Yellow has been through the other floors before, but through some strange shenanigan he ends up back where he started.
That was a heck of a trippy episode to end on
Now i feel bad for laughing
There's another scene in the Transportation episode during the car trip where Yellow Guy says "my window is looking back in at me" or something and the smarter version of him is in the window.
Yellow Guy is kind of like a child trying to make sense of the world
this means that it's on a cycle where the episodes loop with the same plot line but always ends with yellow guys oppiffany and the then discovery of alll the top floors
There’s also that time when he saw his reflection in the car window, and it was a version of his more lucid self
there was a cameo about his other look in the car episode when he talked about how when he looks at his window, it looks back at him, but it's him when he's smart.
I clearly did not pay attention to this show the first time I watched it.
The fact that I noticed Yellow Guy's hand going up and down on the table was kinda adorable -
"Hey, I know... it's when you can't remember that over top of you there's bigger ones, there are bigger, and bigger. And over the top of it, there's a smaller one of all of it at the top of that" -- He's referring to the doll house at the attic? God I love this show.
if you look closely in yellow guys shirt it has a D and in the episode 2 the ducks tombstone is writing David maybe yellow guy is named David and not the duck and yellow guy supposed to be dead because maybe yellow guy is Leslies dead son named David
Interesting🤔
Cant wait for season 2
Interesting memories friend
don’t forget when he’s in the car abd looking out the window - “when i look at it, it looks back at me”
Tbh I think the last episode should have been the fourth one. To me it just makes SENSE
it really is when you cant remember that over the top of you theres bigger ones that are bigger and bigger and over the top of it theres a smaller one of all of it at the top of that
over the top of you- the other floors of the house
bigger ones- the 2nd duck and red guy
that are bigger and bigger- the 3rd floor duck and red guy
over the top of it- lesley floor
smaller one on top of it all- the house that controls it all
just explaining for those who dont know :>
I think it's because we keep re-watching it
“It’s when you can’t remember that”: Him forgetting there are stairs upstairs
“Over top of you, there’s bigger ones”: the floors above them
“That are bigger and bigger,”: The floors above being smarter and more advanced versions of duck and red
“And then overtop of it there’s a smaller one with all of it at the top of that.”: the final room with Lesley and the mini doll house version of that house that controls it all.
Yellow guy if smarter would remember everything perfect, but because of the old batteries it’s hard for him to
I love this yellow thing so much /pl /gen
Literally got the second one on my second watch and fuck is that a cool thing to know it’s not just nonsense
When he's talking about bigger things being above him, he could be referring to the bigger boys who live upstairs. And he smaller one at the top could be Lesley or whatever is above her as show in the last moments of episode 6. (He could remember this because he had walked up those stairs before the sixth episode. Also, the paintings on the wall show him walking up the stairs making it seem like this wasn't the first time.)
A small detail I noticed re-watching friendship is when the brain friends are leaving theres framed photos of Full power Yellow
On the 2nd one , it was explaining the electricity episode bigger ones “the big boys” and bigger “the bigger boys” and bigger “the biggest boys” and on the top there is a small one on the top of it all “the doll house”
How long has this been happening?
Depending on the show time. It’s been there for 10 years. Whenever he looks back into a reflection. It becomes real because it is real. And looks back through him.