YouTubers React to Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared 5 (Extras #77)

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- (Steak) ♪ Hungry comes from your body ♪
- The Muppets?

- Imagine if you were trying
to avoid a midnight snack

and this happened to you.

- (Steak) ...greeting
the different organs.

- Okay. So far so good.
I could still show this to my son.

- (Steak) ...simple health shape.
- Whoa.

- (Steak) Choosing normal...

- Whoa.
- (Steak) ...plain-looking food...

- Whoa! Whoa! Simple? Whoa!

- (Steak) ♪ Plain white sauce
makes your teeth go gray ♪

- But I love white sauce.

- (laughing)
- It's my favorite sauce.

- I-- I can't. I'm doing this,
but I'm still looking at it,

because it's-- it's really well-produced.

Oh god, why?

- This is like a scary movie now.
Don't pick up the phone.

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- "Becky Sloan and Joseph..." what?

I hate them. I want them to die.

I'm just kidding.
I don't want them to die.

But I don't like them!

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- (Finebros) What did you
think of this episode?

- Kind of awful for children.

- That was really trippy.

- I thought it lived up to the hype.

- Thought it was a foreign commercial

trying to raise awareness
about healthy food.

But I was very wrong.

- (Finebros) What was
the strangest part of this one?

- Oof... um... the sausage.

The blood sausage was pretty horrific.

- The operating table, I'm gonna say,

with the organs, the disembowelment.

- Like, Saving Private Ryan buffet.

- Oh, definitely when the giant
candy-corn-looking thing

started pulling the organs
out of the little helpless duck.

For sure, that was when it got--

I mean, I don't know about you,
but that was my favorite part.

- (Finebros) Could you share your thoughts

about the production value
of the video though?

- Looked great.
- Yeah.

- Yeah.
- I'm like...

- A for effort.
- Cap off.

- The production quality,

the production value
on every single episode--

that's only why they've made
five in the last, what,

three years or so, 'cause they put
so much effort in each one.

That one alone had

so much [bleep] going on.

- (Finebros) What do you think this video

might have been trying to say?
- Oh my god.

I think this video is trying to talk about

unsolicited health advice.

- How different foods
break down in the body

and how some are better,

you should eat some other than others?

- Apparently, if you eat fancy foods,

you get stepped on by a T-bone steak.
So that's not good either.

- (Finebros) So the debate remains,
but some people feel

that this whole series
in each episode is a satire

about a different part of our society,

with this one breaking down food
and how it's presented to us.

- Yeah. I mean, I guess I could see that.

- Kinda like how everything--
everything gives you cancer.

Like, the whole scare with
the cellphones a few years back.

- I remember growing up and hearing
just different types of stuff

about eggs all the time.

I wasn't even sure if
I was supposed to eat eggs.

It was like, "Eggs are bad for you,"

then, "Eggs are good for you."

Then it was like, "Only the
egg whites are good for you

and the egg yolk is bad for you."

And I was like, "Man,
just give me my omelette."

- I love using puppets
in a satirical, adult way--

like Avenue Q or anything like that,

'cause puppets are so naturally cute.

And we have the nostalgia with them,

'cause when we see them as kids,
we're like, "Oh, we love it."

And so when they deliver
adult language or adult themes,

it's always so interesting
and cool to see.

- (Finebros) What do
you think about people

that would get this obsessed
over a piece of content that,

even though they don't know
what the creators are going for,

they're all talking about
what it might mean?

- Now that you're saying this,
it makes me want to re-watch it.

- As a content creator,
it's fun to leave little in-jokes.

- I'm sure that's just
the highlight of their day,

just getting to read all of the theories
that are coming out now.

- The body chart. If you paused it,

you can even see the mini-phone there,

and you can see the spaghetti monster

in the window on one of the shots.

They're so dense. There's
so much packed in every shot.

- I've always wanted some book

that is really, really hugely analyzed

in high school literature class.

I've always wanted an author
to come out and be like,

"You guys are all crazy.
I just wrote a book to write a book."

- (Finebros) So what do
you think about how YouTube

allows for something like this to exist?

'Cause do you think on TV,
you could ever get away with this?

- It's pretty amazing, actually.
This would never be on TV...

or anywhere else, for that matter...

except for on YouTube.

- Content doesn't have to be
filtered through a gatekeeper.

The gate's been-- like,
there's so many different gates,

you can just jump the wall now.

Like, the gatekeeper isn't there anymore.

- YouTube, create your own stuff.

That's kind of the beauty of it.

But I think there should
maybe be some warnings on them,

'cause imagine a kid saw

some cute little animals on the thumbnail.

And then they're eating each other.

- No, I don't think this would
exist without YouTube.

I really don't. This is
a hard [bleep] pitch for,

"Hey, we want to make
a really weird out-there parody

of Sesame Street. It's gonna be expensive.

We need actual puppets.
We need animators, stop-motion, CGI.

And, oh, it's only gonna be
five minutes per episode.

And we only want to make five.
Does that sound good?"

- (Finebros) Are you excited

now that you know about
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

to watch the previous episodes
and wait for new ones?

- I don't think I will ever be revisiting

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared.

I think I'll just leave that where it is.

- (Finebros) But wait, hold on. Why?
- Um, you know,

I think I'd rather watch something happy,

where people aren't being eaten.

I really don't enjoy
watching guts, you know?

That wasn't my cup of tea.

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