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"It's 9:30. There's fish everywhere. ...Fish everywhere?"
Red Guy: Hey, the worm in my brain tells me I don't have the body type to pull off wearing denim. But I just tell it to pipe down.
Duck: Oh. And the worm in my brain makes me think that the documents I've been forging have led to many deaths. But I know that's just silly!
— "Friendship"

Despite being known for being surprisingly dark and nightmare-inducing 70% of the time, Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is packed with gut-busting moments of hilarity. The television series in particular hugely amps up the laughs.

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    Main installments 
"Creativity"
  • As soon as Sketchbook starts singing, Yellow Guy looks at them with a surprised expression with his mouth wide open.
  • "I use my hair to express myself." "That sounds really boring." "...I use my hair to express myself!"
  • Every time Sketchbook disses what Yellow Guy tries to deem creative.
  • Just before the creativity explosion, Sketchbook gives them this advice:
    Sketchbook: Listen to your heart! Listen to the rain! Listen to the voices in your brain!
  • During the "Get Creative" scene, each of the puppets starts making an arts and crafts project. Yellow Guy puts effort in, glueing some glitter and popsicle sticks together, Red Guy starts playing with the glitter, and... Duck just puts down the letter "D" and stops.
    • Even better is that this one tiny, simple action is apparently enough creativity to trigger the Disney Acid Sequence.
  • Just look at Sketchbook's face after the Disney Acid Sequence. They took it about as well as the audience did.
    Sketchbook: Now let's all agree... to never be creative again. [falls over]
    • The fact that the puppets themselves seem to be quite embarrassed about how off the rails that went is also worth more than a few chuckles.
  • At the very first scene of the video, a potted cactus is seen Flipping the Bird.
  • During the beginning of the Disney Acid Sequence, Yellow Guy starts dancing like a madman... at which Duck appears to shrug, while Red Guy stands in the corner taking it all in.
  • The clarinet solo during the credits becomes increasingly off-key and screeching until a voice can be heard laughing in the background and saying "such a horrible sound."

"Time"

  • "Meh! Meh! MEH! MEH! MEH! MEH! MEH! MEH! MEH!!! MEH!!!"
  • Red's "I'm so done" attitude makes its debut in this episode. One such example is that, when they're going on a journey through time, he doesn't question the change in scenery at all, instead just telling the clock that they don't want to go through a journey through time because "We're going to miss our show". The fact that he sings completely off-key just shows how little he cares.
  • "An old man died!" "But look, a computer!"
  • Duck is making a tower of cards when Tony suddenly karate-chops it. After Tony goes about reminding the puppets of their lesson, Yellow Guy slides in a quick Non Sequitur simply to introduce Roy to the episode.
    Tony the Clock: Hm! There's a time and a place for mucking around!
    Duck: Like birthdays!
    Red Guy: And camping!
    Yellow Guy: [holding the hand of Roy, whose face is just outside the frame] I'm friends with my dad!
    [pan up to reveal Roy's face]
    Roy: [disconcerting Gonk stare; heavy breathing]
  • "My dad is... a com-computer!"
  • The sheer fact that, in his second appearance, Roy — one of the most consistently ominous figures in the series, and who may or may not be the Big Bad of the whole setting — is browsing porn on the Internet.
  • A brief moment during Tony's first verse:
    Tony the Clock: ...the future doesn't exist!
    Duck: [slightly disappointed] Oh.
  • "Time is important, and I am a clock."
    • The fact that he says this immediately after being asked some deeper questions about time; you can tell that he's desperately trying to avoid answering them.
  • "Let's go on a journey / A journey through all time / A time that's changing all the time / It's time to go to TI-ME!" The voice crack on the last word is very hard to miss and is bound to make you chuckle. Helps that the line is sung in a voice that can only be described as a drunk opera singer. After which he calls Red stupid. Hilarious, since he just big-time fucked up the rhyme scheme.
  • During the fish sequence:
    Red Guy: It's nine-thirty, there's fish everywhere. (looks around and shrugs) ...fish everywhere.
  • Red Guy's reaction to the clock suddenly talking.
    Red Guy: Wha... who is that...?
    Yellow Guy and Duck meanwhile are looking at Tony with expressions that say, "Aw crap, not again!"
  • When Yellow Guy lifts up a tree, Tony is seen scowling at him with his hands on his hips in the background.
  • Tony saying how important time is because it helps make pizza; the fact he pronounces "pizza" as "pizzer" is the icing on the cake.
    Tony: Now you can see the importance of time; it helps us make pizzer, it keeps things in line.
  • At the end, instead of rotting like the others, Red Guy turns into an old man. Complete with a cane, according to this◊ behind the scenes image.
    • This aged version of Red Guy would reappear (in better lighting, mind you) at the end of 'Jobs', and Red's ageing is played slightly more for laughs that time around.

"Love"

  • "(splat) Eugh! Pesky bee!"
  • After Yellow Guy runs off upset:
    Red Guy: Hmm, he seems upset about something.
  • Yellow Guy's reaction upon meeting the talking butterfly.
    Yellow Guy: A little baby pigeon!
  • Near the start of Shrignold's song, he sings a bit about "harmony" and it's spelt out in clouds in front of him. Only it's misspelled as "H-A-R-M-U-N-E-E".
  • Yellow Guy petting the gopher, who asks him to rub harder.
  • "Oh look, there he goes, flying through the sky!"
  • Duck and Red Guy eating chicken instead of trying to find their friend.
    Red Guy: Maybe we should follow him, or we'll get left behind.
    Duck: Yes, but there's lots of chicken left, and I'd like to eat the chicken.
    Red Guy: I'd also like to eat the chicken. [takes out a knife and fork] Let's do that instead.
    • If you listen closely, the first couple of lines make it sound like Red Guy and Duck are still singing, but by the time Red Guy says "Let's do that instead", the rhythm has just sort of died out. There's also the fact that the chicken is not only covered in bugs but isn't even cooked.
    • Halfway through, they decide to go find the Yellow Guy. Duck declares "isn't that what friends do?" before turning to the camera with a look of confused anger and admitting "and we have finished the chicken picnic...". The Beat after he says this makes it look like he's asking the viewer for a better idea.
  • The Tombstones titled Mrs. and Mr. Dead, both died on the same year.
  • "I love this tree and I love this stick and I love this bug..."
  • The Lost Aesop at the end of the Michael song.
    Shrignold: You see? Everyone has a special one.
    (beat)
    Rabbit Boy: Even Michael!
  • Yellow Guy's look of total confusion as the song turns from lovey-dovey to cult worship in the middle of a verse. It's a look that the audience is sharing with him.
    • Specifically, it went a little like this:
    Tree: That's the way that all love goes.
    Unicorn: Like a flower, it grows and grows!
    Frog Boy: And it's forever...
    Flower: And forever!
    Shrignold: And now we all worship our King.
  • The love cult's God-King is named "Malcolm".
  • "Do you ever feel like life's unfair/'cause everybody hates you and no one cares?"
  • After the group is reunited and the Yellow Guy is offered an egg:
    Red Guy: I guess it must be because we... [makes a heart shape with his arms] love you.

"Computers"

  • While playing their board game:
    Red Guy: What is the biggest thing in the world?
    Duck: Hm. That's a tricky one.
    Yellow Guy: A mountains? A sky! A windmill—
    Duck: No!
  • Yellow Guy commenting that he'd like to be as smart as a computer, complete with a brief Imagine Spot of him with a big brain and an adorably goofy grin on his face.
  • Colin singing the last note of the word "digitally" with a derpy look on his face.
  • Red Guy's increasing annoyance with Colin.
    Red Guy: Actually, we already have a computer—
    Colin: Great! Great news!
  • The puppets' computer is an anthropomorphic felt laptop, complete with Windows XP-style rolling hills backdrop.
  • When Colin asks for where the puppets live, their name, and what they like to eat:
    Duck: I live in my house!
    Yellow Guy: Spaghetti!
    Red Guy: Well, my name is Dre—
    Colin: Great news!
    And then Red Guy realizes that Colin is just stalling:
    Colin: Just a few more questions and we'll be on our way!
    Red Guy: Wait a second...
    Colin: What's your favourite colour?
    Red Guy: Stop talking...
    Colin: Do you like cow's or goat's milk?
    Red Guy: Be quiet...
    Colin: Do you have brown hair? What is your blood type? Are you allergic to—
    Red Guy: Shut up! [smacks his hand on Colin's keyboard]
    Colin: [becomes furious, his appearance becoming far more feral] DON'T TOUCH MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
    Even better is the fact that this is pretty much how you create an account on any website, including TV Tropes. The fact that Red Guy's only response to Colin suddenly screeching is to turn to the camera and let out a quick "What?!" before the screen glitches out could also make some people let out a little chuckle.
  • This:
    Red Guy: Oh wow, how amazing, and interesting too, but in this digital world, what can we do?
    [beat]
    Red Guy: [annoyed] What can we—
    Colin: Hey, good question!
  • Digital Dancing! Followed by Colin doing a jig. Then Yellow Guy and Duck show off some of their dance moves. At one point, Duck can be seen pelvic thrusting.
  • "Wow, look, a pie chart!" "Digital style!" "Do a digital dancing! Hey, this is fun!". The fact that these three lines are repeated multiple times with only the Yellow Guy's part changing has made them (but mostly the "Digital Style!" part) something of a meme. And then...
    Yellow Guy: Wow, look, nothing!
  • The very fact that in Colin's version of the World Wide Web, the only things you can do are watch graphs and charts, try out different clothes, and dance is hilarious in and of itself.
    Colin: In the digital world, there's over three things to do!
    There's only three.
  • Red Guy's head randomly exploding into glitter at the end after seeing the Stylistic Suck reenactment of the first episode.
  • The scene where the trio is transported into the digital world after Red Guy pushes Colin's Berserk Button is filled with scratchy, eerie, electric static-like noises and disturbing images. And then at one point, Gilbert the Globe pops out of nowhere and shouts out "HEY THERE!" with a big smile on his face.
  • When the puppets are all questioning what the biggest thing in the world is, they all look at the globe and say prompting statements like "If only there is some way to learn more about the world." They've gotten so used to things randomly coming to life to teach them lessons at this point that they're either expecting it or actively trying to provoke the objects around them to get it over with. Even better, the globe turns around to reveal its face and is just about to start singing (complete with the first few notes of its song playing on the background music) when Colin pipes up, meaning that the whole time, Red Guy and Duck owned a computer they could've used before they started cuing the Teachers for help. The globe just stares blankly before quietly turning back around.

    The trio then has dumbfounded reactions as Colin starts singing. It's clear that they weren't expecting that. Shortly afterwards, they decide to just roll with it. Though it's only a quick look, even Gilbert, the globe teacher, seems to be confused by this going by his raised eyebrows. Yes, the computer's sudden appearance managed to confuse even another one of the Teachers.
  • While he's singing, Colin absentmindedly jabs Yellow Guy in the face with his cursor. Yellow Guy barely reacts.
  • Red Guy is also completely bored and unimpressed with the world inside of the computer.
    Red Guy: Oh yeah. Woooow. Woooow. Woooow. This is a computer.
  • After spending the entire series reacting pretty deadpan-ly to everything around him, it's pretty amusing that when Red Guy accidentally crosses the fourth wall he can only squeak out a quick "Wait, what?"
  • "Inside my mind there is a digital mind..." Cut to a compartment opening at the top of Colin's head, revealing a sticky brain-like organ.
  • Unlike the other inanimate object teachers, who are already visible in the room before they take on their sentient forms, Colin appears out of nowhere. Red Guy's line "Actually, we already have a computer" confirms that they've never seen him before. Not only is there a singing computer in their house, it isn't even theirs. And Red Guy's first reaction is to ask it for help with their trivia game.

"Health"

  • The beginning:
    Duck: Something's... missing...
    Yellow Guy: Hmm... Is it this guy?
    [motions to talking bread]
    Bread: fishandchips, steakandbeef chachacha grapesandeggs steak... uh, eggs... uh...?
    [spoon drop, beat]
    Spinach: Are you hungry? You look to be a bit hungry?
    Yellow Guy: No.
    Spinach: [a little awkward] Dodododo... lots of people get hungry.
    Lamb Chop: That's your body! [prods Duck with his fork] Hungry comes from your body! [fork prods Duck again]
    Duck: [obviously offended] Get off me!
    Lamb Chop: But your body, it musta have to be healthy!
    [fork prod]
    Duck: Myeeh!
    The best part is that, after Duck says that something is missing, there's a long beat as the two puppets look around the kitchen in complete silence; we see multiple pictures of Red Guy with the other two, but they don't seem to make the connection. Finally, after more than ten seconds of dead air, Yellow Guy finally points out the talking bread (who wasn't there a second ago).
  • As this blog post points out, the Bread doesn't drop his spoon; it breaks. And he keeps drumming like nothing happened.
  • "Oh no, look! It's all broken and on the floor!"
  • The "health shape". It and its groups are incredibly jagged, with multiple sections detached from the main shape.
    • The groups include cigarettes and gel.
  • Foods that are considered "healthy":
    "...normal plain-looking foods such as bread, cream, white sauce and aspic"
  • The lamb chop-man refers to vegetables as "soil foods."
  • When the Lamb Chop feeds the model of the digestive system, it responds with a guttural sound, despite being human-shaped.
  • The singers are terrible. The slice of bread mutters, the tin of spinach sounds severely drunk, and the lamb chop-man doesn't even try to find a word that rhymes with "grey". It helps that the tin and lamb chop don't even try to answer the questions Yellow Guy and Duck ask them. Ditto the fridge, who talks-in what appears to be an attempt to rap-instead of sings!
  • The Health Band's standards for healthy food are inconsistent the entire way through the song, including several outright contradictions: pizza is shown as a "nice" food during the body-house segment, but then is dismissed as unhealthy right after in favor of white sauce... which is then itself labelled as bad. It becomes clear early on that they really have no idea what they're talking about, but they just. won't. stop.
  • Duck making a worried whine before it cuts to the "health shape".
    Duck: Yeeehh...
  • "Organs."
  • The entire segment where the Healthy Food Band compares the digestive system to a house.
    Lamb Chop: Oh look, there's Mr. Bladder in the basement!
    After the segment, Duck comes to this conclusion:
    Duck: ...That doesn't make sense!
    Spinach Can: [silences Duck by placing a spoon over his beak] Doo doo, doo doo doo!
  • The Health Band's reaction to the phone ringing: they stop everything when the song is interrupted, looking genuinely confused and offended.
    • When Duck picks up the receiver of the miniature telephone on the model house and answers, the scene transitions back into the kitchen with Duck holding a regular-sized telephone receiver. A cut between Duck and the Spinach Can happens and the telephone receiver is replaced by a sub sandwich.
  • The refrigerator's increasingly frenetic dance moves, which mostly involve wildly contorting his arms. Near the end, he's gotten so groovy that things are falling off his head and crashing to the ground.

"Dreams"

  • After Yellow Guy turns off his lamp, it turns back on and comes to life, asking him if he's sleepy and telling him it's silly to be. His response is to shout "No!" and turn off the lamp.
    • Yellow Guy's tone as he does so, which doubles as awesome—his voice has a distinct "I'm so done" tone to it.
  • The Lamp himself is incredibly amusing to watch, with his drunken demeanor, goofy walk, and (intentionally) god-awful singing voice.
    • Combined with the above, Yellow Guy's sobbing protests somehow manage to become a lot funnier◊ during the Art Shift.
  • "Wouldn't it be funny if one of these files came alive? I am a file and you put documents in me..."
    • This later becomes a Brick Joke when Red Guy messes with the control panel causing the teacher to keep changing into other ones, one of them is a file with "DHMIS File 6" on it that actually does sing "I am a file and you put documents in me..."
  • When Red Guy gets up on stage to sing the "Creative" song:
    Piano-Playing Red Guy: That's rude. No clothes...
    • This further implies that the whole time the three puppets were learning their lessons, Red Guy was naked and nobody cared.
  • The atrocious piano playing by a clone of Red Guy, whose arms are stiff and just moving up and down when pressing upon the keys of the piano.
  • As Red Guy performs, he is soon jeered and booed by the crowd of other Red Guys. Being Red Guys, the most they can articulate is "I don't like it" and "It's not very good at all."
  • After Red Guy finds the control panel and begins messing with it, the Lamp turns into Tony the Clock. Yellow Guy's exasperated response is hilarious. Same with the cycling teachers' timing.
    Tony: Time is a tool you can put on the wall or wear it on your wrist!
    Yellow Guy: Huh!?
    Tony: The past is far behind us—
    Yellow Guy: You!?
    Tony: —The future doesn't exist. Time went new and got old like history, stuff from the past went into a mystery!
    Yellow Guy: You made me die!
    Tony: But look, a—
    Colin: —computer, I'm a computery guy! [Yellow Guy realizes he is now CGI and is very much freaked out by it] Everything made out of buttons and wires, I'd like to show ya—
    Shrignold: —why we're here? What's it all about you have no idea!
    Yellow Guy: Noooo!
    Shrignold: Everywhere you look, all you see is hatred, and darkness, death and—
    Lamb Chop: —Ice cream beef! Ice cream beef makes your teeth go grey!
    Yellow Guy: Gah!
    Spinach Can: Doesn't matter, just throw it away! Why not try some—
    Duck: —fish on my tray? What!? Where am I!?
    • Notably everyone somewhat keeps the song flowing... except the Healthy Band.
    • After further messing with the control panel, the teacher keeps changing until it starts cycling through teachers that never appeared before. Their song lyrics get increasingly ridiculous as they go on.
      Solar System: We are in the universe! Planets live inside the moon! A rocket ship can go to space! A rocket ship can go to the moon!
      Football: Sports! Ball! Let's play sports! Cricket ball! Red card!
      Magnet: I'm a magnet, and I'm friends with metal; I attract it, and it's my best friend!
      Shovel: Let's dig a hole at the bottom of the garden...
      Saxophone: Shoo-bop-a-doo-bop! I teach ya' how to buy a canoooooooe!
      File: I am a file and you put documents in me!
      Stoplight: Green is for go! But red is for not go! You can be crushed by a bus!
      Gel Jar: Let's learn about gel! I know about gel!
      Cigarette: STINKY MOUTH!
      Boombox: Music is your favorite thing—
    • Also, when the Football says "red card," he harmlessly throws one at Yellow Guy's confused face.
  • Could also be considered creepy, but Red Guy's reaction to seeing Roy comes off as funnier than possibly intended.
  • Sketchbook's derpy face◊ at the end of the story.
  • The Sketchbook's abrupt appearance at the end is pretty hilarious, with their face making it even funnier.
  • Just before singing the creative song, the camera cuts to a shot of Red Guy's clothes sprawled over the chair and his (presumably) glass of wine empty.
  • "I'm the Cool Guy, I guess..."

    TV Series Pilot Episode 
  • Red Guy accidentally cutting off Duck's part of the song with his introduction.
  • During the beginning song, Red Guy expresses frustration in the fact that everyone in town sings the same song every morning.
  • Duck being annoyed by Yellow Guy constantly ruining the song by haphazardly adding that it's his birthday into the lyrics.
  • Big Ian's introduction:
    Yellow Guy: Wakey wakey! Big Ian!
    Duck: Who lives nextdoor to our funny house!
    Red Guy: And everyday when we wake you up, you come outside and say "Hello, I'm Big Ian!"
    (Big Ian comes out of his house)
    Big Ian: Hello, I'm Big Ian!
    (Beat)
    Duck: Look, there he is!
  • Mrs. Grenald's cake is clearly made out of real flesh.
    • When Yellow Guy attempts to eat her cake, Red Guy shoves him away from it. Seemingly the only one aware of the flesh inside.
  • After the second chorus, Red Guy bends down to pull the other two into a hug (a rather uncharacteristic move)...only for the other two to ignore him. He actually glances between the two, seemingly hurt by this before the scene cuts away.
  • "Mayor Pigface".
  • The fact that Duck randomly hits an extremely high note as he and the others sing the verse about Mayor Pigface.
  • Duck apparently doesn't know what a key is.
    Duck: Heh, it's the little metal stick from earlier! He's turned into a boy! Isn't he funny?
  • Red Guy is appearently still unsure what to do about random talking objects asking him questions:
    The Key to the City: I'm a key! ...The Key to the City! —ey to the City! —the City!
    Red Guy: ....Uh, right. So... Do you know what happened to the mayor?
    TKTTC: No! (off-screen teleports right to Red Guy's chair) But let me ask you a question. Do you love your town? —your town?
    (long pause)
    Red Guy: ...What? Uh... Is he talking to me...?
  • The Key to the City's Jump Scare on Yellow Guy is equal parts funny as it is Nightmare Fuel.
    Yellow Guy: Sounds like—
    TKTTC: LISTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNN!!
  • Everything involving The Key to the City's Art Shift song about security.
    • This exchange:
      TKTTC: [The Intruders] Renting you a function room!
      Duck: That's nice!
      TKTTC: Stepping on your toes!
      [the Key then stomps on Yellow Guy's foot]
      Yellow Guy: Hey!
      TKTTC: Now you need a toilet!
      [Yellow Guy suddenly pisses his pants]
    • Red Guy abruptly stopping the song to tell everyone he found a clue regarding the mayor's disappearance. Predictably, no one takes notice of him. Heck, at this point, Red Guy seems to being the only person who actually still wants to look for the mayor.
      Red Guy: Look guys! Footsteps leading up to the gate! Uh... (clears throat awkwardly) I mean... Sorry, I know it's-it's... There's a song and stuff, but... Isn't that the mayor? Maybe we should just... look outside here, get a search party going—
      TKTTC: (continues singing) But I thought you loved your town...
      Don't you want to stop it from rotting down?
      Red Guy: Yeah, but, uh... What about the mayor?
      TKTTC: Yes, you do, I'm sure...
      Red Guy: These are definitely his footprints... (camera zooms in footprint, which is literally labeled "MAYOR")
    • Duck's declaration after the song is over, which is autotuned to the max.
      Duck: IiIi aAm yOoOur nEeEw mayoOoOoOr!
  • Duck's extremely weird infatuation with the mayor's bowling ball. He actually gets a boner while thinking about the bowling ball in the mayor's office, his Imagine Spot having him stroke the bowling ball in a very suggestive manner'. Even worse, we actually get to see Duck's penis getting erect. His penis itself is depicted as eyeball-like cylinder. If all that wasn't enough, Duck actually named his penis "Morgan".
  • Yellow Guy turning into a punk rebel.
  • The pilot's ending, where everyone spontaneously starts gushing over their love for Fizzy Milk, leaving the main trio clearly confused.

    TV Series 
General
  • Red Guy's newfound habit of Suddenly Shouting, especially considering his facial expression never changes.
  • Grolton and Hovris, a claymation parody of Wallace & Gromit. Yellow Guy insists that Grolton is the dog, which is repeatedly disproven.
  • The Running Gag of characters asking for "[X]-style meals".
  • The characters' habit of referring to people and things as "the one that", and variations thereof. It's how the main trio frequently refer to one another in lieu of their names.

"Jobs"

  • During the Couch Gag, the camera has a hard time focusing on Duck.
  • Just the way the Briefcase eats his breakfast. He jabs his fork and knife indiscriminately at his plate, tossing the food on it all over the place, and then pours what's left on the plate inside of himself.
  • The Gross-Up Close-Up of Yellow Guy's welt. It's gross, but it's also hilarious.
    Briefcase: That's not a job. That's... a welt!
    Yellow Guy: [sounding genuinely betrayed] Is that true?!
    Welt: ...Yeah.
  • Briefcase says he has "a million things to do today", prompting duck to ponderously go "Wow... a million things..." and imagine a hammer, an apple, and a ball. That's only three things, which is fewer than a million.
  • When Red Guy proposes simply doing nothing at all during the first musical, Briefcase attempts to convince him otherwise by having his brother, Unemployed Brendon, perform a small song. Brendon is very much less than thrilled about this.
    Unemployed Brendon: I don't wanna do this anymore!
    Briefcase: What's wrong? No, come on, that was good! Come on.
    Red Guy: ...Yeah.
    Yellow Guy: Yeah, it's... good.
    Briefcase: Keep going, Unemployed Brendon!
    Unemployed Brendon: Why can't you just call me Brendon?! My name is Brendon!
    Briefcase: Oh, don't be like that.
    Unemployed Brendon: This isn't fair! [punches the wall, which breaks his hand] OW! MY HAND!
    Red Guy: Are you alright?
    Unemployed Brendon: What did you say to me?!
    Red Guy: Is your hand alright?
    Unemployed Brendon: Are you gonna publish my novel?!
    Red Guy: Um, no.
    Unemployed Brendon: Then leave me ALOOOOO-
    (the song continues, cutting off Brendon)
  • The trio's differing attempts at communicating with the assembly line workers over the megaphone.
    • Red Guy tries to be calm, but generalized.
      Red Guy: Uh, sorry to interrupt, guys. Have any of you s-seen a... strange, uh... box person?
      Duncan: Box? [motions to the first-aid kit]
      Red Guy: No, no. He's more of a business bag. Brown bag...
    • Yellow Guy attempts to be more specific. As specific as he can get, anyway.
      Yellow Guy: He eats breakfast! He's one of those ones with one of himself!?
    • Finally, Duck determines that you need to be aggressive to get ahead in life, and attempts Brutal Honesty.
      Duck: Attention, freaks! It's me! We're supposed to be starting our new job any moment. How do we get out of here, away from you, immediately?! [everyone goes back to work] How strange. They're pretending they don't respect me!
  • Peterson's and Sons and Friends Bits & Parts Limited apparently encourages workplace accidents as a way to boost morale, since horrific workplace accidents make employees appreciate not being in an accident.
  • When Duck attempts to turn a bit into a part, some of his feathers get mixed into the metal and it results in an Epic Fail in which it is not only not a usable part, but also a living creature! And the first thing it does is let out a confused scream, and try to flee from the scene. It is killed right away, and its death can definitely be seen as a Black Comedy Burst since this is what Duck has to say about it.
    Duck: Hey! My thing that I did!
  • When Duck removes Duncan's helmet, it reveals that a bloody creature is living on his scalp. While this is very much terrifying as it comes out of nowhere, it becomes kinda funny when you realize that this is more or less a Shower of Awkward.
  • The vending machine asks each employee how their children are doing.
    Andy: I like my child, but not as much as I like... lasagna!
    • It then asks Yellow Guy the same question, to which Duck points out that he doesn't have a child.
  • Duck quickly gains a Sitcom Arch-Nemesis in the form of simple-minded web designer Duncan.
    Duncan: If you're going, can I have your lasagna?
    Duck: Get away from me, Duncan.
  • Red Guy becoming the manager by being the only person to answer the phone, followed by the fax machine flirting with him.
  • Duck asks if Red Guy is wearing a lanyard. Red Guy says no, he's wearing a laminated name tag; the lanyard is the string festooning it.
  • The Elevator's Stress Song is something that needs to be heard to be believed. She goes through a series of bizarre thought exercises (mostly revolving around cubes) that if anything adds more stress to Duck, who finally has enough and tries to shut her down.
  • Yellow Guy's arm being mutilated Crosses the Line Twice when Red Guy's immediate response is to fire him for it.
    Duck: Do something!
    [Red Guy looks around, clearly at a loss as to what to do]
    Red Guy: [to Yellow Guy through the megaphone] ...You're fired!
    Duck: [exasperated] Not that!
    • Everyone else meanwhile celebrates it like a party. Including his own wife and daughter.
      Janet: Yay! Daddy!!!
  • After all the horrifying events at the factory, Briefcase just takes them straight back into the song as if nothing happened.
    • The revelation that Duncan was right about where Briefcase was. He was inside the first aid kit the entire time.
  • When things go back to normal and the three are back in the kitchen, Yellow Guy seems relieved that his hand is back, but then becomes sad that his child is gone too. Meanwhile, what does Red Guy care about?
    Red Guy: My lanyard... and my weight gain...
  • The ending of the episode involves the Briefcase tossing a coin to the main trio with everyone looking in wonder... then it suddenly goes edge-first into Duck's right eye.

"Death"

  • The abrupt start to the episode.
    Duck: Well! [lowers newspaper] I'm dead!
    Red Guy: ...Huh?
    Yellow Guy: What?
    Duck: I'm dead! Says here, I'm definitely dead!
    Red Guy: What else does it say?
  • The cause of Duck's death:
    Duck: I forgot to drink water. Ha!
  • Duck's proud declaration of, "As far back as I can remember, I always knew I deserved to be dead!", is hilarious in and out of context.
  • Red Guy is actually jealous of the fact that Duck is dead, something Duck teases him about. The only one who reacts appropriately is Yellow Guy.
    Red Guy: No, I was more hoping that I was dead.

    Red Guy: It's just, I'm more the kind of guy that would be dead.
  • Duck's heart falling to the floor is pretty gross, but Red Guy and Yellow Guy's reactions provide some pretty good levity.
    Red Guy: Ugh. Did that fall out of your... (muffled) anus?
    Yellow Guy: You laid an egg! Quick, make a wish!
  • To prove that Duck is dead, the Coffin cuts his finger off, and it starts blowing smoke. When Yellow Guy tries...
    Yellow Guy: My turn! (cuts his finger off; profusely bleeds) Ow.
    Coffin: Not you, silly! (Hushed, pitying tone) This must be a very hard time for you.
  • During the first musical number, Yellow Guy and Red Guy randomly shift gears and turn it into a cooking show, before realizing their mistake and becoming flustered.
    Yellow Guy and Red Guy: (in unison) ♪ We gotta get things ready for the...
    Yellow Guy: Shepherd's Pie! ♪
    Red Guy: ...big day. ♪
    Yellow Guy: ...Huh?
    Red Guy: What?
    Yellow Guy: What were we doing?
    Red Guy: Oh no, it's the funeral! It's the funeral, sorry!
    • And when they cut to them walking to the funeral, Yellow Guy still has his chef's hat on, which Red Guy promptly throws off him.
  • Duck's funeral. All of Duck's funeral.
    Duck: (Peeking up from coffin) (waves) Hey guuuys!
    Red Guy: You alright?
    • Duck being accidentally named "David" on the tombstone. Duck assumed that was the tombstone's name.
    • Red Guy learning that he's supposed to say some remarks as Duck's best friend, and is annoyed at the prospect.
      Duck: We're close.
      Red Guy: I mean, I know you. I know which one you are.
    • Followed by the actual "words of the heart":
      Red Guy: He's... a nice guy. He's, uh... the smallest one.
      Duck: Tell them about the tournament!
      Red Guy: (incredulously) I don't know about the tournament!
    • Duck tries to convince Red Guy about being his best friend by mentioning that he left Red Guy his stuff. However, not only does Red Guy not want it, he realizes that they already own and use those things collectively anyway. Duck then points out his diary, only for the wind to blow showing that it's empty.
      Duck: It's new; I just got it.
    • Yellow Guy plays a song for Duck on a trumpet, in a shockingly professional and beautiful manner, which Red Guy compliments; only for the Coffin to stop him by slowly moving his hand up, then plugging his finger into the horn and cheerfully states, "Hey! Wow! I didn't like that!"
    • "If anyone knows any reason why this person should not be dead, say now or he will forever be dead."
    • The Coffin plays the funeral out with Duck's "greatest moments", which includes things like doing karate and flying a plane. Yellow Guy points out that he didn't actually do any of that.
  • The mourning session also provides some good laughs.
    • When Red Guy and Yellow Guy walk in, the tissue box confronts them.
      Tissue Box: You should really eat something at a time like this. Have a sandwiiiiich?
      Mourner: Sandwiches...
      Red Guy: We don't want a sandwich.
      Tissue Box: You're very brave. How about a ti-ssue?
      Red Guy: No.
      Tissue Box: How about a sandwich wrapped in a tissue?
      Mourner: Sandwiches...
    • The guests' explanation for suddenly being there.
      Tissue Box: We're just friends. Friends of Daviiid...
      Yellow Guy: He wasn't called David...
      Tissue Box: So quiet here without David...here, come and sit with us, we're all sharing stories about him.
      Yellow Guy: You didn't even know him!
      Tissue Box: Who really did? So brave...
      Red Guy: Yeah, I think maybe it's best if you all... go.
  • When asking the viewers what they think happens when someone dies, Yellow Guy is suddenly interrupted by the Lamp, who explains that people have many different interpretations of what happens. He then goes on a tangent about his own unusual interpretation, which leaves Yellow Guy baffled before leaving just as abruptly. Part of what sells it is the heartfelt music accompanying the Lamp's explanation.
    Lamp: But me, well, something tells me that when we die, we go into the center of the earth. Well, it's not quite the center. It's in between the core and the surface. And we must relive our lives but as a performance, for a new super race known as the Council. And every time you get it right, you get a pound.
    Yellow Guy: But... What?
  • Compared to the franchise's other teachers, the second half of the episode shows that the Coffin has very little control of events and is quickly becoming the victim of Duck's antics. Particularly when Duck starts carving tally marks into the Coffin.
    Coffin: We've only been here half a day!
    Duck: I'm doing it in seconds.
    Coffin: Wh— We've obviously been here for more than five seconds!
    Duck: Have we? Oh. [starts carving new tallies as the Coffin howls in pain]
    • The absurdity of the situation is hammered home even more when Duck suggests listening to some music...then proceeding to pull out a cassette-player from out of thin air in the cramped space.
      Coffin: (Genuine confusion) ...Where did you get that? What is this?
      Duck: I made it myself!
      Coffin: (Incredulous but resigned) Okay...?
      Duck: On the computer!
  • Yellow Guy sadly recalling fond memories of Duck, most of which consist of Duck insulting him.
    • Red Guy's eulogies are even worse, as the best he can come up with is leftover curry that's gone bad and that he had a beak.
  • Red Guy suggests that Stain Edwards should be one of the "main three guys", something which Yellow Guy protests against. But Red Guy insists, causing the intro to play, but with Stain Edwards in Duck's place. Yellow Guy is not happy and repeatedly attempts to stop the intro, but to no avail. Later, Duck comes back to find out they've turned Stain Edwards into another him. Cue the intro again, this time with two Ducks and them singing "There's four of us"... only for it to abruptly end by one of them killing the other and declaring this doesn't work.
  • "And this is where we keep the stain."
  • While it's mentioned at a sad moment, Yellow Guy claims that some of the things Duck used to complain about were the floor being too loud and that the window was "disrespecting him".
  • Duck's song he made by himself on the computer is heard in full during The Stinger, and it's both foreshadowing and hilarious.
    Duck: When you meet a businessman
    You must shake him by the hand
    When you meet a family man
    You must shake him by the hand
    When you meet the choo-choo man
    You must shake him by the hand
    When you meet a friendly fellow
    You must shake him by the hand
    When you meet the plugging man
    You must shake him by the hand
    Yellow Guy: I'm trying to sleep!
  • There's a humorous irony to the fact that the episode about death, the concept the puppets have all been forced to experience in some horrific way in almost every lesson they've learned, is the Lighter and Softer episode of the season.

"Family"

  • The very fact that Red Guy has to make one more guess, even though he got the answer right, is just absurd.
  • Duck's insistence on being the dad of the group. He also insists that Yellow Guy is the family pet, of all things. Later, he's seen asking to join the Bread's family, offering to be the dad. When he is refused, he takes the smallest slice, shoves him into a toaster to burn him alive, and proceeds to sing a song about how content he is without a family, all with the loaf screaming in tragedy.
  • When Todney and Lilly begin singing the family song, at first it seems they're going to spell out the word "Family" as they sing. This ends up not being the case after the letter "a", and at the end, they've spelt out the word "Faulbchdt". Duck is quick to point out that's not even a word. The Twins take this statement to push their point that "family is more than just a word" because they didn't spell a word at all. Furthermore, through the whole thing, Todney's flute solo becomes more horrible as the song goes on. By the end, he's downright discarded the flute and is just hitting a tambourine with no rhythm or reason, while Yellow Guy stares at him in confusion.
  • Despite the usual creepiness being in play, there's something ridiculous about the motivation of the Family for forcibly assimilating Yellow Guy as their mother for the purpose of ordering a family-sized fast food meal.
  • In the midst of the above scene, the Family is chanting for Yellow Guy to make the call, with the little guy personally ordering him to use his fingers to pick up the phone while talking in a surprisingly deep voice. Yellow Guy is momentarily shocked out of his fear when one of the twins refers to the small family member who's been playing video games all day as "Father".note 
    Yellow Guy: Father?! That one's the dad?!
  • While Roy's appearance at the end is horrifying, Yellow Guy's slow realization of what he's going to do is kinda funny as he starts slowly creeping out of the house as he hears his father start chanting "yum yum yum".
    Yellow Guy: (casually) Bye.
  • At the end of the episode, the trio realise they could consider themselves family after all, even if they are not related. Retro synth music plays as Red Guy attempts to open up the packet of Chuddle Dollops once more, this time successfully. But the music stops when it's revealed that there are only two crisps in the bag. Cue the trio's face of shock and disappointment.
    [Beat]
    Red Guy: I guess we could share—
    Duck: I WANT BOTH!

"Friendship"

  • From the Couch Gag: "And we live in an actual nightMAAARE!" Especially since Red Guy's expression doesn't change at all while he screams it.
  • Almost everything Colin says in this episode is amazing:
    Colin: Freelancers deserve to die.
  • The trio attempts to figure out the password to login after Yellow Guy forgets it, and he suggests using his first name. Cue nearly 20 seconds of Red Guy continuously mashing the keyboard of 20 buttons, the vast majority of which aren't even actual letters.
  • Colin trolling Duck, who is manning the mouse, when the trio have to verify a password change because they forgot their password. After Duck clicks the apple, they have to move the apple to the apple stall. Colin prevents this from happening by stretching his head horizontally, making the screen wider.
  • The group are confused by Warren talking to the audience, as from their perspective, it looks like he is standing with his back to them, pretending that he can't hear them while talking to the wall.
    Red Guy: Huh? Who is that?
    Duck: I think it's an insane person.
  • Warren offers Yellow Guy his card, where "Worm" has been crudely crossed out and replaced with "Eagle".
    Yellow Guy: [touches the card] Ew! Why is it wet?
    Duck: Business cards should be crisp!
  • When Warren almost calls himself a worm, he quickly corrects himself in an agitated voice. He clearly is annoyed with what he said.
  • The group (Colin included) subjects Warren to some particularly savage roasting about why he has a hard time making friends. Some particular highlights come from Duck, Red Guy, and Colin:
    Warren: But how can a confident, handsome worm — eagle! — have trouble keeping friends? Good question—
    Red Guy: Is it because of the way you look?
    [Warren stops talking and slowly turns to the trio with a concerned look on his face]
    Warren: The way I...?
    Red Guy: Yeah, you're sort of lumpy, and red raw.
    Warren: Eeeh, I don't think that's—
    Duck: Is it because you look like a bit of a bigger animal that fell off or was removed and then came to life?
    Warren: [feigning laughter] That's actually, uhh, a personal choice—
    Yellow Guy: It looks more like an old person's finger.
    Duck: Reminds me of an infection I had, up my [muffled] anus!
    Red Guy: Or was it the voice?
    Colin: He looks like a tumor!
    Duck: And he stinks!
    [Warren audibly seethes in anger with his eyes bulging out]
    Yellow Guy: Oh, oh! I know! It's because you've got beady eyes, like a rat.
    Red Guy: Or you're just generally unlikable in a way that's hard to pin down?
  • Once the group gets online, they each declare what they want to do, and each is a different kind of hilarious. Red Guy wants to check their internet speed, Yellow Guy, of all people, has the only semi-normal plan of wanting to do online gambling, and Duck?
    Duck: I'd like to go on the dark web and look at a picture of a skeleton!
  • After Yellow Guy retreats into his brain, the others seek help online from Dr. Bushman.
    Dr. Bushman: Okay, first question: Is he breathing? Y'mate, y'mate breathing?
    Duck: What? What's breathing?
    Bushman: Right, then, got it. Now, does he have a history of (inaudible)?
    Duck: Hang on, what did he say?
    Red Guy: I don't know, let's just put "maybe."
    Bushman: Okay, great! Now, would he be surprised if I started wearing a bandana? One of my patients has a bandana and I think it looks just great.
    Duck: Umm...he might, I guess?
    Bushman: Okay, this is my final question: Right, does your friend have a worm in his brain?
    Duck: A worm in his brain? How are we supposed to know that?
    Red Guy: Yeah, a worm in his brain, how would that even work? That's– oh no, he does have that, remember? From earlier. Worm in his brain, he does, yeah.
    Bushman: Okay, I'm ready to diagnose. Just processing my diagnosis. My diagnosis is: Your friend has got a worm in his brain!
    Duck: Oh no!
  • Yellow Guy's Imaginary Shy Older Brother is caught between being unable to stand to hang out with Warren for any longer and his shyness preventing him from asserting himself enough to just straight up leave the room like the other Brain Friends. How does he resolve this dilemma? By slitting his own throat on a piece of glass.
  • When Duck throws Warren away, Unemployed Brendon's novel can be seen sitting in the trash.
  • During the final song, both Red Guy and Duck give their own experiences with "the worm in their brain":
    Red Guy: (clad in a denim shirt, jeans, and holding a denim cap) Hey, the worm in my brain tells me I don't have the body type to pull off wearing denim. But I just tell it to pipe down.
    Duck: Oh. And the worm in my brain makes me think that the documents I've been forging have led to many deaths. But I know that's just silly!
  • The violent fight at the end that starts because Yellow Guy accidentally breaks Colin's gift and continues into the credits is this to Crosses the Line Twice levels. When the fight breaks out, Red Guy is defending Yellow Guy from being yelled at by Duck. Then when Yellow Guy hits Duck with a glass bottle, Red Guy immediately smacks Yellow Guy in the face with another glass bottle, knocking the camera over in the process. We also hear a random pig walking in, only for Duck to slaughter it, what sounds like a machine gun, and the final part...
    Yellow Guy: I'LL KILL YOU!!!
    Red Guy: Oh, really?!
    Duck: NO!
    [a chainsaw is heard, implicitly going for Duck and Yellow Guy as they both yell]
    • Bonus points for the fact that Red Guy says "Oh, really?" after the chainsaw revs to life, in an almost exasperated tone of voice, like it's something annoying rather than someone coming after him with a chainsaw. And during the whole thing, to show how mad Yellow Guy is, they stuck a bent stick on top of his eyes, representing Angry Eyebrows.

"Transport"

  • Duck's melodramatic scream when Red Guy says that he hates his clipboard, with the very clipboard frowning immediately after.
    Yellow Guy: Please don't have said that.
  • The Old Train tells Red Guy that he is slightly hard of hearing and tells him to speak into his "good ear":
    Red Guy: What? Which one is your good ear? I don't see any... ears on you.
    Old Train: Huh?
    Red Guy: Which one's your good ear?!
    Old Train: I don't know about that! I'm a train! [hits Red Guy in the face with his cane]
    Red Guy: Ow! What's wrong with you!?
  • The Old Train describing his drink (presumably oil) as being "forged far beneath the earth with the last remnants of the ancient ones". Which is a pretty accurate description of oil, technically speaking.
  • The Old Train's reactions in general, really.
    Red Guy: Where are they going?
    Old Train: What? Speaking into my good ear!
    Red Guy: WHERE ARE THEY GOING?
    Old Train: Thaaaat's riiiight!
  • Pretty much the Old Train's entire song, during which pieces of him are actively falling off. At one point he turns into a bus the main trio ride in, veers off the road, and knocks over a bus stop...which the trio are also waiting at. Yellow Guy waves hello.
  • Duck finds a rock in the sea.
    Duck: [points at rock] What's that one?
    Old Train: Hm? Ah, that's nothing. It's just a rock. Not transport.
    Duck: [grabs rock] You don't want it? I can have it?
    Yellow Guy: What are you going to do with a ro—
    Duck: That's my business! Private business!
  • Duck's blasé declaration of "Well, he's dead!" after the Old Train kicks the bucket, followed by his desire to "get out of this disgusting corpse" to continue his visual checklist.
  • The gang's reaction to driving for the first time:
    Yellow Guy: The sky is... rewinding...
    Duck: Why is it so hard to look at? Stop it! Be still!
  • Red Guy tries to convince the others that travel is exciting, and says "Look how excited I'm getting". Duck proceeds to look... downward.
  • This Answer Cut:
    Red Guy: Well, it's better than whatever we'd be doing at home, isn't it?
    Duck: ...I suppose.
    [cut back to the house]
    Time Child: [grooving to techno] Time Child! I'm the Time Child! Hey guys, drink this space alcohol and come with me to the 6th Dimension!
    Tony: They're not here.
    Time Child: [disappointed] Aw, what?
  • Yellow Guy picking up some bum (that looks suspiciously like Roy), and Red Guy promptly grabbing him, honking a horn in his face, and throwing him out the window.
  • The Dog Duck. While they are by all means a complete and utter Mind Screw, it is made much funnier when you remember that Duck actually sees Yellow Guy as the "pet" of the group, but here Yellow Guy sees Duck as a literal pet. Talk about an Ironic Brick Joke!
  • While Red Guy and Yellow Guy are freaking out over the car breaking down after they feed him raisins, Duck's only reaction is a casual, "It's definitely not working..."

"Electricity"

  • Red Guy thinking electricity is "some kind of magic, like a spell or something".
  • Duck's obsession with his personal electric shredder. It has to be seen to be believed.
  • A malfunctioning Electracey declaring that she has "cheeky snakes" for arms while bapping Duck in the face.
  • This exchange between Yellow Guy and the Bigger Boys:
    Yellow Guy: Oh, why don't you experiment on each other?! [storms out]
    [Beat]
    Bigger Boy Duck: So, would you be keen—
    Bigger Boy Red Guy: You're not to touch me.
  • Duck and Red Guy replacing everything in their house with electric versions, including an electric coaster that tells Duck he has diabetes, bunches of "cyber-grapes", and a "funky electric creature" that they drowned their previous pet to replace with.
    Red Guy: And I'm actually glad that the person who gave us this boring, non-electric urn died because now we got an electric urn!
  • This gem:
    Red Guy: What about this boring breadboard?
    Electracey: Let's turn it into an electric breadboard!
    Yellow Guy: What about our boring chair?
    Electracey: That could be an electric chair!
    Yellow Guy: [gets fried by said electric chair]
  • The "Boundaries Song":
    It's nice to hold hands with somebody else,
    But sometimes you need to keep them to yourself.
    Exploring our bodies can be natural and fun,
    But we need to know when it's appropriate or very wrong.
    Now let's talk about personal space...
    • When Yellow Guy leaves the room, the Boundary Sign seems to sing, "One time someone tried to touch my nose," which is hilariously underwhelming as an example of bad touch. Then again, the Sign did jab Yellow Guy on the nose earlier. As did the Coffin and later Lesley...
  • After Yellow Guy's rambling in response to Duck's question about his crossword, Red Guy says he's probably better off just drying the plates. Yellow Guy proceeds to dump the plate he's holding in the trash can.
    Red Guy: Wha- are you just putting the plates in the bin?
    Yellow Guy: No. Yeah.

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