#dhmis sundance 2019

[creative-time]

WE GOT EVEN MORE BEHIND THE SCENES PHOTOS OF THE PILOT!!!

[cosmicxd]

One year ago today, we lost a legend

[thecultofmalcom]

So. Its out. This is obviously pretty awesome sauce (sorry not sorry jas) and like.

wow.

so it started, middle/late 2011, almost 12 years ago. Some silly little university kids making a stupid horror puppet show. Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling, creating Dont Hug Me Im Scared. What a way to start of the 2010s huh.

After a series of short videos, created for the Kickstarter, the sequel was created. Tony The Talking Clock was he spectacle of 2014 tumblr, eventually winning the most coveted title a fictional outcast could probably get, ‘Tumblr Sexyman.’ The fandom at this time was WILD, with the whole IceHell genre and the ‘Paige x Tony’ fanatics. Not to mention that kids react video.

At this same year, my personal skrunkle scrimblo came around. The Love Cult was introduced by the ringleader Shrignold, worshipping a stone who they fed gravel. Nobody knows why or how the living FUCK they managed to start a cult like this, but here we go. This was the first time the gang was seen outside, and this circled around Yellow Guy (whos a pig??)

Along comes 2015, introducing the absolute LEGEND, COLIN. THE. COMPUTER. Legend in the making, stupid self absorbed fucktwat, and the computery guy!! Also, the outro was a bop. By now, the DHMIS community had grown a fanbase, the watch count of the series so far over 3 Million!!1!

AND NOW. THIS IS WHEN SHIT GETS REAL!!

dhmis five. the talking point of every internet kids trauma. This episode was about being helfy!,2 Joined by the silly goofy Healthy Band, duck guy and yellow (red guy, whered he go?) learned all about why you shouldnt eat food from a strangers plate!! What made DHMIS special was its unsettling gore, which was shown perfectly in the scene where duck gets his. organs took out! graphically! Awesome!

then the finale came. dhmis 6, 2016, 6. years ago now. 6 whole years. introducing the harsh reality of the real world, the absoloute CHAD which we call Larry, Lars, Larson, Lamp Guy, THE LAMP1!11 Teaching (drunk, on drugs, sleep deprived, who knows?) yellow guy all about the wonderful dreams you can have, including eating a drink, buying a hat, losing your friends and drowning in oil of course! This episode was what made this whole puppet show a real nightmare. skrunkle yellow guy gets (unfortunately) mind-tortured by all the teachers, including the saxaphone. still really wanna know how to buy a canoe. At the end, we finally found out who was the brains behind all of this, none other than yellow guys DAD himself, ROY. This is why, perhaps, this whole fever dream nightmare was based around June 19th Fathers day. This is what, we all though, the end was. 5 years of youtube wonder, Becky Joe and Baker created a phenomenon that shocked the internet in perhaps a million different ways. But the positive feedback was overwhelming, woohoo!

By now, the improvement was MASSIVE. as shown below :

And now. This is when we all thought it was over. Until 2 years later, in 2018, all hope was lost. Until those 2 words,

WAKEY WAKEY!!

this was a 30 second short trailer for the DHMIS Pilot, showing at the 2019 Sundance film festival!

This is where it gets a bit weird, because not only is the original Wakey Wakey deleted, the full thing was never shown anywhere else. the only surviving footage of this was the bad quality pirated videos , with those 2 girls laughing thunderously in the background. A new sexyman, MEAN STEVE (🤤, sorry not sorry) WAS INTRODUCED! WE ALL WANNA SEE HIM IN HIS FULL METAL STICK GLORY! But nah we didnt get that. We didnt get a show, which we all because suspicious of.

well. thats what we thought.

2020. the year of the corona. no hope, isolation. until a lovely woman named Becky Sloan posted a lil thing on her instagram. ‘Were making a tv shooowwww! 📺👀📺👀📺👀📺👀’ AND THIS IS WHERE IT GOT WILDER AWESOMER EPICER!!! WE WAITED AND WE WAITED AND WE FINALLY GOT SOME CONFIRMATION! THIS WAS AWESOME! it got picked up by a charity project by the name of BFI YAC,, hoping to pick up on small industries work! AND IT DID!

time went by, still no show. we all thought it was over, cancelled, whatever.

2021 ROLLS PAST.

FILMING WAS WRAPPED! IN THE TIME WE WERE ALL GRIEVING AT THE THOUGHTS OF NO TV SHOW, THEY WERE WORKING ON IT THE WHOLE TIMEEE!!

‘WAKEY WAKEY’ as the fandom called it at the time, was coming!

now we wait. until FEB 25 2022. They finished the final sound recording. It was all done, we were all waiting for that special day, June 19th

, Fathers day. , 3 months ago.

and what did we get?

FLY.

THE TRAILER FOR THE NEW SHOW, PREMIERING CHANNEL 4 IN SEPTEMBER!! OH !EM GEE!

Now, we were all anticipating for the new series, we waited EXTREMELY PATIENTLY for this, 4-5 years no less. Honestly we shoulda won an award for the most patient fandom at this point.

SEPTEMBER 2022!

WE GOTTA GET THINGS READY FOR THS BIG DAY! BIG DAY! THE TRAILER WAS OUT! COMING SEPTEMBER 13TH!

but then, disaster struck! ohh no!

HRH Queen Elizabeth fell ill and kicked the bucket. Obviously , this meant not only is the country in ruins now lol! (fuck liz truss basically) But the show (we thought) was in jeopardy! (not really) The 10 days of mourning began, and the All 4 Website announced that the show would be slightly delayed, but coming this month.

THIS MONTH! NOW! FRIDAY 23RD, 2022. THE BIG DAY HAS ARRIVED! 6 SHINING BRAND NEW EPISODES, PREPARED FOR THE BIG TV DEBUT FRIDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER!

THE IMPROVEMENT, BY NOW WAS STUNNING AWESOME EPIC!! LOOKLOOKLOOK!

this new series, which is 1 day old!! fresh new awesome! is AMAZING! 3 WHOLE HOURS FULL OF OUR FAVE TRAFFIC LIGHT TRIO!

(Yes. we know, you still find red guy sexy.)

(AND COLIN. AND THE LAMP. AND A BIT OF TONY TOO!)

JUST THREE OF THEM! CLAYHILL HAD, UNFORTUNATELY, SHRIVELLED UP OR SOMETHING! (I RECKON)

this was obviously a sign that Wakey Wakey is now Lost Media. But we got this! all thanks to that one silly dumb stupid epic 3 minute long short on youtube, made by 2 people, in their free time, DONT HUG ME IM SCARED!

This post is basically, appreciation for Becky Joe and Baker, and the fandom, and everyone who helped in the making of this phenomenon!

Along the way, we’ve encountered our askblogs, most notably @sketchbook-and-tony-adventures !! And the awesome, probably most noted artists of DHMIS tumblr, the epic awesome amazing @amii-stuff @frootrollup? whats the username again? @hecklefreckled & @bernold ! Obviously more as well but i honestly dont remember the usernames :/ And our epic news sharer @creative-time !! Thanks you guys! And some awesome others, like @creechurfoundincheckerboardvoid @dhmispaint and the bezzie mate @xzumichannn !! Woohoo! Thank you guys so much, without this crazy massive fandom, we probably wouldnt have even got this far, crazy right!

So far, the best moments of this 2011-2022 era for me have been

- ‘Where are all you nasty clockfuckers! did you finally fuck that clock?’

- Sketch has a small face

- LisWeegee Adventures In Lurning dubs

- Whoever the heck that spanish dhmis gacha person is!

- That one ‘No bitches’ meme with shrignold :

- My amazing askblog i could never be bothered to do!

- Whoever that tiktok guy is

- “FREELANCERS DESERVE TO DIE!”

- Money Man. Deserves to be a sexyman fr!

- “BYE GUYS! I LOVE YOU!”

- Hearing the first few seconds of the first episode intro. those bells man. something, a feeling im never gonna feel again. ever. something i could experience only once.

The only bad thing. LAMPS SOBERED UP?? WHERED THE DRUGGIE INSOMNIAC VOICE GO?

Anyways. I love yall your all awesome, were finally trending on tumblr again, and we all have worms in our brain!

What have we got to look forward to now?

- DELTARUNE NEW CHAPTERS, 2023? The finale will probably be ready for 2027…

thats literally it. sorry. Hazbin Hotels coming to tv? i guess? lol.

this is obviously a national highlight of 2022 🥱 well no. Its internationally an internet milestone. duh!

LONG LIVE DHMIS!!

[creechurfoundincheckerboardvoid]

I only started following you because of my salad fingers phase and you had a crossover comic featuring him, but now the lore of dhmis is enticing and I have no clue where to start. Can you- can you pwease explain it to me?

-dysrix anon

ok got it!!! no problem!!!!!

(before i start rambling excessively i just gotta say that's different to hear lol, i think the majority are around for the puppets and just tolerate mr sally's presence)

OK SO. dhmis is a webseries that started in 2011 as a short film made by a couple of college kids who wanted to say something about not imposing rules on how creativity should be expressed, because art school is kinda just Like That. that video was put on youtube and went really super viral and all the Reaction Video People were a "so scawy 😥" whiny baby about it. the creators wanted to make a series but left the idea alone because it was a lot of work and also expensive (puppetry). then in 2014 they were commisioned to make 2, they did, and then tony the talking clock (emphasis on those last three words) became a tumblr sexyman and a bunch of everyone started shipping him with sketchbook (who they called paige) and humanizing them and it was just this whole thing. anyway thanks to them the creators made a kickstarter to fund the rest of the series and it actually worked out, too. so i'd like to thank the clockfuckers we would not be here without you. i hope you fucked your clock. anyway then over the next two years the last four episodes came out and they were epic and gamer and increasingly Kinda Horrifying (three still messes me up a bit but none of the others ever scared me, it's just more weird than anything. in a very good way) and the last one, six, came out june 19th 2016 (which was father's day, and it hasn't been father's day june 19th since yesterday, and it won't be again until 2033), and it was awesome. then september 13th 2018 wakey wakey (thirteen second long trailer) happened and everyone lost their shit and then sundance film festival in january 2019 where they pitched that pilot they made around (and seeing as the pilot as we know it is almost certainly a lost media now, those very low-quality cam leaks on youtube are possibly all that remains). then in july 2020 they started making the show and well you know Plague Was A Thing That Happened so it was pretty quiet for a while and then august 30th 2021 they announced they finished filming and then february 25th there was a clip continuing the pirate joke and saying they were finishing lines and then late may wakey wakey disappeared aND THEN YESTERDAY FLY HAPPENED AND

and the reason i'm finishing that particular tangent very quickly is that i am now realising you were likely asking about the lore of the story itself. and not its process of existence

well

SO NO ONE KNOWS WHAT IT'S ABOUT.

there sure are a lot of ideas out there!! and i have definitely got my own ideas which i don't really talk about ever because they're honestly a bit too rude to the media theory (which i hate - a lot - but also which a lot a lot a lot of other people really like. so it'd be mean)

ANYWAY THE BASIC SUMMARY OF THE WEBSERIES is there are three puppets and they're yellow guy and red guy and duck and they all live in a house together and every episode some object in their house comes alive and sings to them a lesson about an abstract, basic concept like yknow creativity and time. so it's sort of meant to resemble something like sesame street at first. but these sentient objects (who are usually called "teachers") are kinda Really Fucked Up and the lessons go wrong really fast and usually end in uhhhh murder. also their life is a lie and it's like puppet matrix and roy, yellow guy's dad, really does seem to be the guy pulling the strings behind it all. man it's like thirty minutes total on youtube i don't want to spoil it TOO much in case you ever decide to check it out lol. oh wait. oh wait you asked where to start

well you start there!!!!!!

ALSO there's a bunch of lost videos and that one puppet interview and a collection of little things around miss becky's instagram or mr joe's twitter that all just weaves together with the main thing to make A Web of Story and it's awesome. i'd be glad to tell you all about that too if you ask!!!! i'm very normal about all this that's why i have lists and notes and a handful of rambly word document essays about this everywhere

ok i'm done thanks for coming to autism hour with creech

[shrignoldswife]

Hello All!

My names Izora, and i have nothing else to do with my life, so i decided to make a DHMIS ask blog here on Tumblr! So, this is basically set AFTER Red dude pulled the plug, yet everyone is still aware of what happened. You can ask any character, but just incase you forgot, heres a LONG list of every DHMIS character and the names i use for them!

Red / Red guy / Red dude

Yellow / Yellow guy

Duck / Robin

Sketch

Tony / Anthony (full name)

Shrignold / Shrig - Shriggy for short

Colin (The Computer)

Steve / Steak

Spinach / Veg / Spinach Can

Bread boy

Fridge. Just Fridge.

Larry / Alchy Lamp

Speshul One

(The love cult- Purple Thing, Rabbit, Furry Boy, Tree)

Hugo / Solar system dude

Shovel

Traffic Lights

GEL

Magnet

Calendar

Roy

Mean Steve (Key to the City)

Fizzy (Punk Milk Bottle)

Big Ian

Policeman

Mrs. Grenald.

(Quick Note: This will take place after Wakey Wakey also, but i am not that aware of the ending, but i have some info on what wasnt leaked at Sundance 2019. Stop pirating 😍 But thanks Biscuitboy.)

Malcom

Gilbert (Globe)

Money Man (HELP Kidnapper)

Right im pretty sure were done. Please, please ask some questions in either the Ask box (if its there, im not sure?) Or the comments if it isnt. Heres the rules:

I WILL TAKE ASKS FOR SHIPS, I SHIP LAMPNOLD AND DIGITAL TIME BUT YOU CAN ASK WHATEVER.

NO NSFW, I AINT HAVING NO SEX SCENES IN THIS BLOG THANKS.

RELATED TO THE FIRST ONE, NO SEXUAL QUESTIONS DIRECTED AT YELLOW GUY . PLEASE.

BUT OTHER THAN THAG ASK ME ( RATHER, THE TEACHERS-) ANYTHING!

STAY CREATIVE FOLKS!

-Izora 😍

[world-of-puppets]

Wakey Wakey (2018)

With the final episode of the original six part miniseries, it appeared that this was the end of Don’t Hug Me Im Scared. However, like the lessons of the teacher characters, this notion would soon be contradicted...

On June 19th 2017, Becky Sloan tweeted:

It's June 19th!! Big DHMIS news coming in the FUTURE... #DHMIS

And sure enough, on the 13th of September 2018, a video was uploaded to the Dont Hug Me Im Scared Youtube channel simply titled “Wakey Wakey”.

This was a teaser for a new Dont Hug Me Im Scared television show made in a collaboration between Blink Industries, Conaco, and Super Deluxe. The 30-second video gained over two million views within 24 hours of its release and peaked at No. 1 on YouTube's Trending list. And as of now, the video has amassed over eleven million views in total.

On 3 December 2018, it was announced that the show's pilot episode would be shown at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and details of the plot were also released. The pilot episode, unlike the shorter 3-6 minute episodes of the original YouTube series, ran at 23 minutes, and appeared in the "Indie Episodic Program 1" alongside other short films.

As of writing this post, no new news regarding the series has been released. Though Pelling and Sloan both confirmed on thier social media (twitter and instagram respectively) in December of 2019 that the series is still being worked on.

[creative-time]

Here are EVEN MORE behind the scenes photos of the Pilot

[creative-time]

Why Mean Steve (the key from the unreleased dhmis pilot) should be a tumblr sexyman: an open letter to who ever is in charge of the sexypedia wiki.

Mean Steve has the following characteristics:

Has a mustache

Is a sleaze ball /pos

A girlboss

Loved by many (if not all) in the fandom

Has LORE

Literally was too powerful his creators tried to erase him from this reality

Obviously deserves it

Piss kink

Is a piece of lost media (bonus points!)

Needs to be immortalized

I hope these points will inspire you to make the obvious decision and add Mean Steve onto the Sexypedia, thank you for coming to my tedtalk.

[creative-time]

Yo, call me crazy, but I think I prefer what I’ve seen of the Pilot more than the tv series…?

Like the Security Song and the Wakey Wakey song are just God Tier while yeah some of the songs in the tv show are good they just kinda end prematurely, get cut off, or just kinda mid.

Like the transport song would be absolute FIRE if it wasn’t for the fucker coughing and wheezing during it like, bro could you maybe die later?

I really hope if they ever drop the songs on a music platform that they make a version of the transport song thats actually understandable because god I was so disappointed

Like they passed every other aspect with FLYING COLORS but it seems that they flopped in the music department, as disappointed I am in myself for thinking this.

Maybe the songs will grow on me eventually but… for right now I’m on the fence

[creative-time]

This was funnier in my head

[creative-time]

Hey, has anyone ever seen this photo of Joe Pelling before? (Bottom Left)

Someone had said that it might be a behind the scene photo from the pilot because the red guy is super saturated here and the forest background, but I don’t know that for certain

[creative-time]

So a new? Behind the scenes photo of the Pilot was on the pilot’s Wiki page so I thought I share it here

I know I said that I wasn’t going to give sources to these kinds of photos moving forward, but honestly have zero clue where this one came from

[creative-time]

What do you think of the dhmis TV pilot based on the leaks we saw so far?

Been on the record saying this before, but I really do like the Pilot better than the tv series. Sure it’s not god tier and I’m glad this wasn’t made into a full series because it wasn’t the creators vision, but I can still want to see it and appreciate it for what it is and I hope it gets found or released in HD one day.

The security song is not only the better song compared to the tv series songs, but it might actually be one of the best song in the entire series and I will DIE MAD IF I NEVER GET TO HEAR IT IN CRISPY HD

#releasethesuperdeluxecut

[creative-time]

Happy Anniversary to “Wakey Wakey” (The Video That Got Thanos Snapped Out Of Existence)

[creative-time]

Idk why I’m so attached to the pilot now.

Maybe because the Wakey Wakey video was uploaded on my birthday and it’s removal felt like a personal attack and now I’ve made it my life’s goal to try to get a HD copy found if the creators never release it just out of pure spite for something that most definitely wasn’t intentional?

[creative-time]

Still on break but does anyone remember the exact date that the dhmis pilot was shown during Sundance? I got it down to Jan 28th, Jan 29th, and Jan 30th

Tried using the Wayback Machine to look at Sundance’s official schedule but it unfortunately seems that wasn’t archived very well