He defaces a poster of Duck promoting security with “THE MAYOR IS RUDE”. The milk jug give him a bottle of Fizzy milk, and Yellow Guy turns into punk. The milk vapes, and Yellow exclaims that he wants to be as cool as the milk jug. Suddenly, a Milk Jug approaches Yellow Guy protesting against Duck's new rules. Meanwhile, Yellow Guy is in an alleyway angered and disappointed at Key, especially melting his birthday present. It is introduced via infomercial, and the townspeople seem apprehensive. Meanwhile, Duck implements a surveillance system in the homes of the residents.

It doesn't answer Red's question and calls itself a tree. But, a pile of mud, leaves, and sticks that the glove was on mentions that it is the owner. He comes across a fine leather driving glove on a branch and mentions that the mayor must've been around somewhere. Meanwhile, Red Guy looks for the Mayor in the woods. He then tricks Duck into believing that Paula the Postbox is a stranger in disguise, which surprises Duck.

The key lies saying that's what the strangers want Duck to think. The key tells Duck that nothing is safe, but Duck notices that it was a puppy inside. He smacks it into a bowl of acid, revealing it was a Puppy who had just been killed. The key seems excited, but detects a 'security alert' in the present. Yellow Guy is happy that the town is safe, and is excited to open his birthday present. Red Guy leaves, while Duck is now in the mayor's office after locking the town. While Duck is appointed mayor, Red Guy finds the mayor's footsteps leading into the forest. Duck agrees, and the townspeople decide he should become the new mayor. The key says he's the key to the city, and starts singing a song about keeping the town secure from Strangers. He takes the key out of his pocket and it becomes alive. Duck suddenly hears a voice saying that the town needs to be secure. Yellow Guy wonders who will sing his part of the song, Duck wonders who's gonna look after the town and Red Guy wonders who's going to find the mayor. Duck looks inside and discovers a Key on the floor, and the title 'DON'T HUG ME I'M SCARED' appears.Īt the house, the trio watch the news about the Mayor being gone on TV. All the townspeople go and greet the mayor but only discover that he's missing. Mrs Grenald gives Yellow a pie filled with organs, but Red stops Yellow before he can eat it. Duck and Red Guy enter saying that they sing the song every morning in their Funny House. The door opens and Yellow Guy greets the audience singing that today is his birthday and he's wearing a ribbon that says '38 TODAY'. The episode opens with the door to the house with a colorful background and the all the YouTube episodes playing at high speed. Ultimately, the creators decided not to pursue the concept, and the pilot was scrapped.

the episode's focus on government surveillance) was not in line with what they were trying to do, and ran the risk of dating the series when compared to the timelessness of the original shorts.

They also found that its focus on 'current affairs' (i.e. Although this pilot helped sell the show, delays in production caused by Super Deluxe going under and later the COVID-19 pandemic led series creators Becky Sloan, Joe Pelling, and Baker Terry to rethink the concept: they found that the Clayhill setting, which drew some comparisons to South Park, came at the cost of the claustrophobia of the original shorts (a re-evaluation prompted by the pandemic's lockdown).

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