Heartwarming / Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

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I love you. Goodbye.

Red Guy: Well, it's just not that great, is it? I wouldn't mind looking at the house again. And, maybe, looking at you.
Duck: Really? You like looking at me?
Red Guy: Uh, yeah. I suppose I do.
Duck: Well, I like looking at you, too.
Red Guy: Oh, yeah? Thanks. For that.

— "Electricity"

Despite being a mix between humorous and horrific, you would be quite surprised to find that there are indeed a few moments that will be able to put a loving smile on your face.

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Web Series

"Creativity"

• After the credits end for the first episode, having been accompanied by a creepy and offsetting clarinet solo, the very last thing you hear as it fades to black is... the faint sound of Becky and Joe cracking up and remarking on how awful the music they just played was. After the horror the viewer has just witnessed, it is actually a very comforting moment to end on.
• Even after Sketchbook poured black paint over the Yellow Guy's clown painting, someone still appreciated the work the Yellow Guy put into the ruined picture enough to frame and hang it up in the puppets' living room. It could also mean that the puppets don't hold any resentment against Sketchbook, as they're seen in various situations lying about the house.
• What are the puppets' favorite colors? Red Guy likes blue, Duck favors red, and Yellow Guy prefers green. In other words, their favorite colors are each other's hair (or feather) colors. Heartwarming in Hindsight given that the ending of "Dreams" has everyone become these colors.
• As bad as the Creativity Explosion is, one of the quick shots is of all three of the puppets hugging each other and dancing in a circle. Aww...

"Time"

• One of the photos on the wall, the one representing the past, has the three friends outside their house smiling at the camera. They clearly care about each other at least somewhat.
• Despite how unsettling and strange Yellow Guy's dad, Roy, is, Yellow Guy still likes him and considers him a friend.
• Sketchbook is seen casually sitting in Red Guy's room. When you think about it, it's sort of sweet and may imply that the puppets do actually care for the Sketchbook as their friend, even after its manipulative lesson in "Creativity".

"Love"

• The ending, where the Red Guy and Duck find Yellow Guy and apologize to him, giving him an egg, and saying that they love him. Red Guy making a heart shape with his arms is ridiculous, but surprisingly touching:
  Red Guy: I guess that must be because we... [makes a heart shape with his arms] love you!
• As one DHMIS blog points out, this episode is the first time Red Guy seems genuinely happy about something, which is really sweet.
• Some lines from the episode's song are really sweet:
  Maybe I could hold your hand, and together we can understand about love
  
  Your heart beats hard like a big love drum, calling for your special one. So be patient! 'Cause just maybe your special one will come
• Yellow Guy is so unabashedly happy in the woodland creatures' presence, although this makes what happens next all the more horrifying.
  Yellow Guy: Hehe! I love you too, furry boy!

"Computers"

• When Yellow Guy comments that he'd like to be as smart as a computer, he has a brief Imagine Spot of himself with a gigantic brain and an adorably goofy smile on his face.
• The ending shows that the Red Guy is the only one who hasn't been trapped in the computer. The first thing he tries to do? Find a way to get his friends out.

"Health"

• Yellow Guy stops listening to the teachers because he misses his friends, which is a big step from "Love", where he ran out on them and almost joined a cult. It's also implied at the end that Red Guy is still alive and trying to help Yellow Guy and Duck from outside their reality.

"Dreams"

• As depressing as it is, the beginning shows just how far Yellow Guy has come, and how much he cares for his friends. If you look closely, you can see a couple of pictures of the three puppets together, and they actually look happy. One is of the three standing around a birthday cake (in Yellow Guy's album), and another is of them at the beach (on the nightstand). In both pictures, Yellow Guy and Duck are smiling.
• Red Guy ends up in a dull, bland version of reality entirely populated by copies of himself, and it seems he realizes that, even though his reality is safe from murderous and psychotic teachers, it is dreadfully boring, while he and his friends got to live in a colorful, vibrant environment made out of felt. And therefore, to supplant the random pounding of the bar's "pianist", he starts to sing the creativity song, and embrace everything he has derided.
• Putting aside the creepy fuel of Roy using a long arm to get Red Guy's attention, he's pointing at the screen, where Yellow Guy's crying for help. As if telling Red Guy to save his son. Alternately, the scene can be read as Roy trying to stop Red Guy from interfering with Yellow Guy's torture, which, while not being heartwarming in itself, makes Red Guy's subsequent unplugging of the machine a heartwarming (and awesome) move.
• The episode ends on an oddly hopeful note, even despite the Here We Go Again! implication: The puppets are all together again, so Red Guy and Yellow Guy don't have to be lonely anymore, and Duck is back with them. The date has finally changed and the room has a nicer and safer layout, suggesting that maybe things won't end up the same way this time around. There's even a door, implying that the puppets can exit anytime they want should things go sour and, most cheering, everyone has become their favorite color!

TV Series

• Tony, Colin and the lamp are back and seem to harbor no ill will towards the main trio. Colin even says that he loves them and gives them a gift!
• In general, the new teachers (besides Warren and the twins) are much less actively malicious.
• In "Jobs", once Duck's attempt to snap Yellow Guy out of the trance Bits & Parts Limited has him in backfires, he immediately starts asking people to help, and when they don't, he runs for the first aid kit to try and save Yellow Guy's life... which it does, sort of.
  • Not to mention the surprisingly heartfelt retirement party speech that "Mr. Peterson" (actually Red Guy) gives Yellow Guy:
    Mr. Peterson: "Hello everyone, as you all know I've been in upper mannagement for a long long time, doing one heck of a good job, but (cough) today isnt all about me, it's about another guy! Who's been working hard or hardly working here for many years now; so let’s all wish him a fond farewell from his many years working for Petersons and Sons and Friends. Of course he's joined by his beautiful wife Claire and his lovely daughter Janet and I think everyone might agree with me when I say what a guy!"
• Though gruesome, Roy of all people helping Yellow Guy escape the family from "Family". Whether he was actually intending to save his son or just wanting to eat people (or a little bit of both), it's still a neat rescue.
• "Family" ends with the puppets deciding that they're a Family of Choice.
• "Friendship":
  • The puppets are very excited to surf the web, and do an adorably goofy synchronized head-banging dance to celebrate logging on.
  • Duck and Red Guy immediately try to help Yellow Guy the moment they notice that something is wrong.
  • Duck and Red Guy both tell Yellow Guy that they are friends.
  • Yellow Guy and the Brain Friends at least make an earnest effort to befriend Warren, at least before Warren starts showing his With Friends Like These... tendencies.
• In "Transport", we get to watch Duck relax in a comfortable car seat, watch his favorite show, and eat a snack. Even though poor Yellow Guy doesn't get the same treatment, it's nice to see Duck in a genuinely relaxing scenario, especially after all of the horrible things he's been through.
• This exchange in "Electricity" when the power is out in the house, which comes out of nowhere and is perhaps the most openly sweet moment in the entire series.
  Red Guy: Well, it's just not that great, is it? I wouldn't mind looking at the house again. And, maybe, looking at you.
  Duck: Really? You like looking at me?
  Red Guy:' Uh, yeah. I suppose I do.
  Duck: Well, I like looking at you, too.
  Red Guy: Oh, yeah? Thanks. For that.

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