(mouse clicks)
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
- (slight gasp) Puppets! - (Yellow Guy) Hmm.
Something's different. - This again? No! No!
- Oh, it's them again.
- I hope they never stop making these.
- (Duck Guy) Something's... missing.
- What is this?
- (Yellow Guy) Is it this guy? - (Bread Loaf) ♪ Fish and chips! ♪
♪ (drumming) ♪
♪ Steak and beef! ♪ - Oh my god, it's a musical.
(silverware clatters) - Nope, no, no.
- (Spinach Can) ♪ Are you hungry? ♪ - Oh, yes, yes, yes!
- (Spinach Can) ♪ You look to be a bit hungry! ♪
- (Yellow Guy) No.
- (Spinach Can) ♪ Doot, doot, doot, doot ♪
♪ (jazzy melody) ♪ - (Steak) ♪ That's your body ♪
- Oh no, this is gonna be weird. - (Steak) ♪ Hungry comes from your body ♪
- (Spinach Can) ♪ What's that? A tasty snack! ♪
♪ You don't wanna go ♪-- - So far, I love it.
- (Steak) ♪ Greedy to eat all that ♪
♪ You'll end up... ♪ - Is this a health advertisement?
- (Spinach Can) ♪ Doot, doot, doot, doot, doot ♪
(all chime in) ♪ Doot, doot, doot, doot ♪
♪ To be healthy ♪
- They're gonna eat the duck!
♪ (rhythmic drumming) ♪ - Is this like a kid's show?
- (Steak) Let's get healthy now! (phone rings)
♪ (ominous music) ♪
- What's going on?
(phone stops ringing)
♪ (ominous music) ♪ - Who is it?
- (Duck Guy) Hello? ("hello" echoes)
- Now it got weird.
- (laughing) I knew it was gonna take a dark turn!
- I can't wait to show my kids this.
- (Steak) You see, the food comes in through the chimney (mouth),
and goes from room to room,
greeting the different organs.
- (Yellow Guy) Hello! - He is kind of...
- (Steak) Not healthy foods are very rude
and must leave through the cat flap! - No.
- (Duck Guy) That doesn't make sense!
- That doesn't make sense. - (Spinach Can) ♪ Doot, doot, doot ♪
♪ Doot, doot, doot ♪ - (doots along and cracks up) What?!
- (in video) ♪ ...to be healthy ♪ (phone rings)
- I don't like videos like this. Why do you show me this?
- Don't do it! - (anxiously) Don't answer the phone.
- (Duck Guy) Hello? - (Spinach Can) ♪ What's that? ♪
♪ A tasty snack! ♪
♪ You don't wanna go and eat a snack like that ♪
(chuckling)
- (Steak) ♪ Greedy to eat all that! ♪
♪ You'll end up with your gums all grey ♪
- (perplexed) You don't want pasta? - (Spinach Can) How do we know which ones
are the healthy foods to eat?
- (Steak) Well, that's easy!
The food groups can easily be sorted
using the simple health shape. - This is not a simple food group!
Why is there tobacco on the side?
- (Steak) Food such as bread, cream... - (laughing) White sauce!
- (Steak) ...and aspic--
- What is aspic?
- (Steak) Fancy, show-offy foods: fruit salad, soil foods, and yolk!
(laughing) - (Spinach Can) Ugh!
- (Steak) These foods-- - You gotta appreciate the production value.
I mean, these guys put a lot of effort into this.
- (Steak) Oh no, look! - Oh no! Body, no!
- (Steak) It's all broken and on the floor.
- Ew, what?! - (Fridge) Everything tastes great!
Maybe we should wait! - (Duck Guy) No!
- No, no... fridge-- fridge, NO!
- (Duck Guy, distorted) I don't wanna do this anymore!
(camera clatters) - Is that the end?
- Oh no. What's going on? ♪ (ominous music) ♪
- Buckle up, guys.
♪ (ominous music) ♪
(muffled, indistinct voices)
- (Steak) I choose a pizza slice!
- (Spinach Can) What's that? A pizza slice?
- No, what happened? Where'd he go?
- They put a lot of effort into it. I mean, it's nicely done.
- (Steak) Plain white sauce?
Plain white sauce makes your teeth go grey!
(chuckles) - (Fridge) Doesn't matter.
Just throw it away!
Why not try something else on your tray?
(in video: menacing cackle)
- (shrieks) WHAT?! No, that is so gross!!!
- Oh god, why?
- Ugh, I knew it!
- What is that?!
- Whoa-ho, whyyyy?
- (Steak) ♪ You shouldn't eat food from a stranger's plate ♪
(all chime in) ♪ Stranger's plate! Stranger's plate! ♪
- God, what a nightmare.
- Oh my god! This is so creepy.
(in video: indistinct screaming) - I really don't like it.
(cackling) (in video: warbling)
- What is the lesson here?
(microwave dings)
♪ (ominous music) ♪ - Oh my gosh!
- It's like Sesame Street on crack. (phone rings)
- Oh my god, he ate all of them.
(phone rings)
- Don't answer it. - Let it go.
♪ (easy-listening jazz) ♪
- What?!
- So many questions that will never ever be answered.
- Well, that was terrifying.
- I did not see that coming.
- That ended exactly how I wanted it to.
(silence)
- (meekly) I don't like it.
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
- (Finebros) Okay, so are you familiar with this web series?
- (taken aback) This is a web series?!
- This is all new to me.
- (both) No! (laughter)
- Yes, I am indeed.
- Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, episodes one through-- now five.
- Every time I come in here, you guys force me to watch it.
- No, and I don't want to be.
- (Finebros) You were in another episode of YouTubers React
to another episode of this once. - Which one?
- (Finebros) It was all about learning about time.
- Oh my god, no! No.
- (Finebros) Do you remember it now? - Yes.
Yes, I blocked these things out.
- (Finebros) This is the fifth episode of a popular show
on YouTube called "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared."
- I'm scared too. Why is there five of them?
- (Finebros) What did you think of it? - I loved it.
- Uh, I'm [bleep] in love with them. They're just so good.
- I thought it was gonna be like,
"Oh, let's teach kids how to be healthy." NO.
- At first, I was like, "Oh, this is adorable! I love The Muppets.
I want to come on this show."
And then, at the end, I was like, "Ugh, no."
- Whose brain does that come from?
I still think you guys are involved.
It's like a lonelygirl15 kind of situation.
- It was horrifying, but I'm also gonna go back
and watch it all.
I need answers. - (laughing)
- That just gave me questions.
- (Finebros) What do you think was the weirdest part of the video?
- Everything!
- How the body was a house.
- Eating the guy on the table.
It was all felt and cute and nice, even though it was disturbing,
and then it was like real organs.
- Puppets are supposed to be this childhood-friendly thing
that makes you happy and cheery,
and then it starts getting weird and trippy
and it almost kind of disturbs your soul a little bit.
- (Finebros) What do you think of the production value?
- I mean, it was nicely done. I will give them that.
- The production value was so high!
- Puppets-- obviously-- animation, stop motion.
the location changes. It's a breath of fresh air,
seeing a YouTube video look like something
that could stand on Adult Swim or even better.
- (Finebros) Some people spend lots of time dissecting this series,
to break down the messages and all the hidden parts of it.
What's the message, potentially, in this video?
- There is none!
- White sauce makes your teeth go grey.
(cracks up)
- Unhealthy food can... mess up your body and end up killing you.
- I think it's trying to tell you that you should eat healthy,
but you should think about what is really healthy
and what people are just saying is healthy.
- Everybody's always trying to say this is what's good for you,
this is what's bad, and then suddenly you're supposed
to have almond milk, and then the next day--
oh, almond milk is bad for you.
So it could be a play on just our culture's obsession
with the new healthy trends.
- (Finebros) So, in overall, this series seems to have
a continuing narrative arc with these same characters
in every episode, where people are now hypothesizing
what's really going on here, and hints being given
that make some people think that we're gonna find out
eventually that these characters have been kidnapped
or they're trapped in some weird world in some way.
- (intrigued) Ooh!
- Oh god, it's like puppet Matrix.
- (Finebros) So what do you think about people that
are that into things like this, to spend so much time
really analyzing the scope of this thing that someone else created?
- I think they have a lot of free time.
- I think that's cool.
Clearly, so much thought went into this.
Like, just episodes-- I want to watch the other four when I get home.
- They're dense. Each episode is so dense.
You pause it and there's so many hidden Easter eggs.
- There are a lot of shows like that, you know.
You see stuff like Black Mirror.
I've done that with my things too.
Every single, little, tiny, hidden thing has some kind of meaning.
- I wouldn't probably go that into it myself,
but I like reading up on that sort of thing.
Like with Five Nights at Freddy's, some of the stuff that people
come up with-- it's just like, "Wow, that's really in depth."
- It's almost community-based,
and rather than it just being about your experience,
watching it with a screen, it becomes you and this community
of people that get to bond and get together and talk and discuss,
and that's what makes, I think, a cult following.
- (Finebros) And what do you think about how YouTube allows
for anything to get made, even something like this?
- I think it's cool.
- This wouldn't, I don't think, be on TV.
It probably wouldn't make it to Netflix either
or anything like that. (laughs)
- With YouTube, you have this freedom to, like,
"Yeah, let's get weird. Let's get gross.
Let's get some organs on the plate, you know,
and let's make a statement about society."
- That's the reason I am here today, because I tried to go
the other routes of traditional media
and definitely no one would green light a girl that thought
she could be dancing violinist.
- This is the kind of stuff that I love to see on YouTube.
This is why-- it's not just cat videos.
There's no one there to stop you. - You can do whatever you want,
as long as you don't use a song by someone else.
- (Finebros) So finally, are you excited to see more of the show?
- I don't think I will ever be revisiting Don't Hug Me I'm Scared.
- Yeah, I think that I would be interested to see more of these.
- (emphatically) Yes!
And my biggest concern is I'm more scared that they stop!
- Dude, I'm totally gonna go subscribe and analyze stuff
and leave paragraph long comments.
- Absolutely! I'm so excited.
- Yeah, that's just-- - This is right up my alley.
- (laughs) That just created too many questions
and now I have to see more.
- Tonight, I'm gonna do it.
I'm just gonna watch the videos frame by frame,
and I'm gonna give you guys a five paragraph essay
about what I think the meaning is.
- (Finebros) So my last question: are you excited to...
- Nope. - (Finebros) ...see more?
- Nope.
- (Finebros) And find out how this ends eventually?
- (laughing) Nope.
- (Finebros) What would you do if we had you watch another one?
- I'm gonna walk out of this room! (giggles)
- Thanks so much for watching another episode of YouTubers React.
- Let us know in the comments what we should react to next.
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- Thanks for watching.
Subscribe to all of us or (British accent) your teeth will go grey!
- (tearfully) Goodbye! - Bye!
(weeping)
- It'll be okay. - He ate all of him!
♪ (end music) ♪