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To be completely honest, I haven’t seen all of clay hill, but the clips I’ve seen are actually really solid. The intro song was hilarious and was an amazing re intro into the series/characters. The key song was pretty goofy, and while it might be the weakest song they’ve made, it did well to establish how the main three would diverge from their old personalities. Instead of being the cynic, red guy was the only one who pointed out anything the progress the plot, being that he pointed out the mayor’s footprints into the woods. Duck was the target for the episode being that he essentially being a dictator, and the mayor’s key was the best way to move into that. Yellow guy’s plot isn’t really seen much of in the clips I’ve seen, but I know he essentially goes full v for vendetta and starts a war with duck for totalitarianism vs anarchy and he has some weird encounters with a spray can. Maybe it’s just cause I haven’t seen the whole thing, so I can’t really speak on how dull it might’ve been in the moments between, but the political overtones of the episode are definitely the most blatant, likely giving The Boys a run for the money, but the actual clips from the episode just floating around are quite decent

I always find myself wanting folks to talk about Lesley because she was such a huge curveball to me and her half-human/half-stuffed puppet vibes simultaneously freaked me the fuck out and made her my absolute favorite, but I realize that she's got like. 4 minutes of screentime? And of course all of the implications that she saddles the audience with are this mix of Occam's Razor and red herrings, because you know it's never that simple with the DHMIS crew and there is no concrete answer for any given thing. The tension-building is something that Becky/Joe/Baker absolutely excel at, and Lesley was almost like. The ultimate payoff for me in a way that the OG shorts didn't quite measure up to. In a world of felt and clay where the only realistic things are blood and gore, what the fuck is this Very Real person-shaped lady doing? Why is she doing it? Even if there's someone 'above' her in the totem pole, she's in the credits of every episode of the C4 series. Ultimately, if we don't get an answer, that's on brand. It's about the ride, not the destination. In a world that loops forever, the ride is all you have.

3:49 asperger's, maybe?

I honestly really liked the religion episode. It reminded me of my own sex Ed class - and it was like getting a window into how and why it was so messed up. It was so nice to finally get exactly /why/ everything felt so weird and wrong when I didn’t have the words as a kid

Ok, i watched an interview, and becky comfirmed that the name comes from something her friend said out of fear when becky suprised her, and her friend was afraid because she had a box of or puppets or whatever, i forget

DHMIS fills the eerie feeling i crave perfectly

I had no idea Sam Campbell was a writer for the new DHMIS but from what i saw at his fringe show a few years back it makes sense. His whole set was based around deconstructing the formula that most stand ups seem to build around and was very similar in its overall tone to the original DHMIS (and the new one but given hes a writer now that doesnt feel like it should count). Idk if there are any videos of that specific show (especially given the fringe is largely for experimental stuff or works in progress) but i would absolutely recommend checking him out

Star-key ⭐️🔑 awesome review btw

I don’t know if you have learnt more about San Campbell since this video but he definitely wasn’t hired to bring things down to Earth. He is an absurdist madman

YOOO SHIVERING TRUTH MENTIONED 🌪️🌪️🦋

Isn’t Buzz Aldrin Brett’s father

The Title "Don't hug me, I'm scared" is literally the feeling I have when experiencing an autistic meltdown

i feel like u missed out on the actual messages of the show but otherwise the conversation being had on the franchise was good

Plus, during that moment in the pilot where the forest changes, that was immediately after Red Guy says that none of it is real.

30:05 yeah.. i agree. like i REALLY agree. fnaf should have ended at 3 or 6. The rest should be games like into the pit, spin offs that arent canon but are just for fun yk? its far better that way in my eyes

hah... I didn't realize how closely the show mirrored what happened to the show

16:05 its the second pesky bee not first

Communard brother

Now that I think about it, DHMIS really did pave the way for more inspo on these kind of concepts. Sure, they're didn't single-handedly do it but an example that comes to mind is Welcome Home. A website that is trying to uncover a forgotten and lost childrens puppet show. I just think it's really nice to see how just with enough passion and effort other people will also follow these footsteps and create their own unique projects.

Yeah… Episode 3… I don’t know if I like it… But the fifth episode, it’s just a *masterpiece*

When i was a kid, every time people say pupets werent a big deal anymore i got SO confused, cause arguably the most famous spanish speaking series (even today after it ended a WHILE ago) is a pupet show. I DARE YOU to find a single chilean who hasnt watched 31 minutos.

It’s funny to me that the Friendship episode seems to be a fan favorite because it’s my least favorite by a lot. I think it objectively works great, but I don’t like second-hand embarrassment and this episode has too much of it for me to fully enjoy it

It's driving me crazy that you don't have more subs

1:18:54 -I think it's more like Bert and Ernie. Bert is typically shown a little more cyclical and aware but Ernie has the childish levels of innocence and nievity while in a very mature setting. He is living ad an independent adult with his friend Bert, sharing a living space despute the seeming odd couple levels of difference in maturity. This has spawed a lot of very adult and even dark fan assumptions about this situation that put the production under unexpected fire. Things like them being a closet homosexual couple to Bert actually being Earnie's caregiver in a Lenny/George relationship to even Bert being a bit more sinister and taking advantage of Ernie for the monetary or sexual gain have been hypothesized. It was all unintentional but with DHMIS you get very simialr intentional vibes by having these guys all acting like Ernie did in a simailr situation except its the whole world around them that seems to be at differing levels of higher maturity and thus threat. Something to note is like Bert, none of the teachers are truely well adjusted adults either. They are on some higher level than the trio but also garner their own childish triats and inexcusable ignorances. I think this is what really set the dynamic of Bert and Ernie apart from other characters on the show because the childish one is usually paired with a fully mature character. Grover and his mom or Big Bird and the human adults for instance. They act in a manner that can meet the kids at their level comfortably but it is always shown to be them doing just that. With Bert and Ernie, both are adults living independently (aside from their roomate situation) but Ernie is clearly the more dependent and Bert still has childishness specifically in reguard to negative triats like temper or selfishness. THIS is uncomfortable. He comes off as rhe kind of guy who understands money and the law but not why he shouldn't get everything he wants. When paired with a vulnerable character, it is GOING to feel not right. In DHNIS ALL of the "teachers" are like this. They want to force their authority on the trio to "help" but thier job us not the best and it HAS to be their way. We don't know their motivations and see there is DARK consequence for both following along AND resisting. Bert was never intended to be sinister or malicious but the kind of dynamic set up with him dies invoke those red flag feelings in adults that the creators fo DHMIS recognize and capitalize on. It's like watching an 8 year old try to be the responsible adult for a toddler. The role playing is cute at first but your also keeping a very close eye on what's going on, prepared to step in asap. In this case..there is no adult ready to tell the "teachers" to take a chill pill. They ARE the closest thing to adults in this world. In most cases, Bert and Ernie were just alone in their own setting together, creating this discomfort..so imagine if all of sesame Street was made of Bert's surrounding only three Ernie's and real life danger WAS a possibilty. Its freaking terrifying. It's DHMIS

1:09:10 -I think the bigger issue with the origional plan for this scene is that it would break the formula and not make sense because it's red and yellow providing the random gore unprovoked. The dark elements either needs to come directly from the third party or be reactionary from the trio regarding the environmental elements/support characters. Sure the scene is about a dark topic but the characrers don't understand that. The comedy partially comes from them treating this funerary prep as if they are getting ready for some happy celebration. If they started adding random gorey viscera and organs, it would not only be wildly out if character for them but detract from the usual set up in the later scenes where these very innovent characters are juxtapositioned by the darker elements formed upon them. A good example of this is with duck not long after. He shows his two friends the disgusting scar where he had his organs removed by the mortician as if it's some fun, unique experience to boast about. It's some mildly grissley imagry with profoundly unsettling implications on what the characrer recently event though, but he is nievely showing it off like a scar aquired during a sport game or routine surgery. He acts like a kid who had his tonsils or appendix out when he just underwent a fully consious autopsy and embalming. He EXPERIENCED it and telegraghed it but he did not initiate it. If the yellow amd red guy were being coached by the coffin in their prep and directed to add the gross stuff for a reason that made sense for the coffin to do, then it would have skme merit to the scene given how the comedy is this works. If the strait men just start playing the part of the comedic foilwithout explaination then it falls flat. I think the first episode proves it CAN work if done with the right set up and not just randomly in a non sequitur moment. When the trio go to work for the company, they slowly get indocerated to roles withing that facade of what a company is like, except duck. It's still a childish mindset of what work is like at a place like this so yellow and red following suit can work. Same with the family episode to a degree. Once the dark shit happens like with red and yellow now being ancient and retiring yellow..they just go along because they've been slowly transitioned to do so. They are a part of the company and dark occurances, right down to red screaming "your fired! " when yellow is being killed in the "accident" and duck demands he do something. It's believable in this case because we saw the transformation of these two by the outside elements making it more reactionary in that they are not their base selves at this point. The episode with Warren elegantly walks the line because we do get red and duck doing some dark set up for Warrent to step in without getting too out of characrer. They berate yellow in a pretty comically harsh manner but at the same time, we have seen this l3vel of childishness form them. It's not so extreme that it ruins the dynamic and Warren is able to step in and take it up to 11 where they need to go after that. If red and duck just started skinning yellow alive or disembowling him, then it would go too far but calling him offense words THEY likely aren't even truely understanding the meaning of, works. It IS what a nieve but bratty child might do in this situation. Things CAN be suddenly gory and extereme in this series but never when comming from the trio.

0:17 MEME ME!!!

Some of the comedy from the TV show reminds me of another kids show, Flapjack. It has similar surreal and dark humor, including creepy or gross moments that come out of nowhere that the show/characters kind of ignore (except when they do). Scenes like Yellow Guy's welt, Red Guy's teeth, Duncan's screaming scalp thing, Red Guy's hilarious outburst when he said "And we live in an actual nightMAAARRREE!" and that scene where Smart Yellow Guy was foreshadowed in the car before we even knew that it was supposed to be important feel almost reminiscent of that show's humor, but bloodier, more explicitly horror and for older audiences.

If Dhmis 2 is the end, I would count it’s ending as satisfying. Leslie didn’t appear to be defeated, meaning she still reigns control of everything, including the main characters. Metaphorically, it could be a cautionary tale of trusting yourself in order to be free from the fear that binds you in an endless loop. Don’t be/embody Leslie, but protect the one’s you love like she does, so they won’t be scared when they hug you.

I assumed it was the other way around "How Volition killed Saints Row."

For some reason the humor for the tv show reminded me of aqua teen hunger force. I think it might be thanks to similar character dynamics, initial premises (parodies of kids shows that are heavily associated with the 60’s and 70’s that take a quality those shows are infamous for (HB’s cheapness and British kid’s tv’s creepiness) and center on a trio who come into contact with more and more bizarre characters that pull them into weird ass places and scenarios), and similarly weirdly chill yet unhinged vibe

If DHMIS was bought by an american company and not Channel 4 then the only thing that they'll have is the memories of them making "What's your favorite idea?"

I didn’t know they made three episodes before canceling the whole clayhill thing, I guess that means there are even more dhmis lost media

Every other breakdown of this show besides this one is miserably low effort with tons more views. Please fix, youtube.

The mat was always there

My inner child was deeply disturbed, I felt chunks of innocence squirming out of my body when I was first shown DHMIS. I was sure I’d never want to relive those inner child crushing nightmares. However, it’s impossible to forget and almost as impossible to resist sharing with others. To see disturbed confusion creep up into a friends expression is wickedly delicious. I have yet to know anyone personally who hasn’t appreciated it on some level. If I ever do their suspect and not to be fully trusted me thinks.

29:15 What is this footage from?

Did you say yellow was a pig?? Is that what he's supposed to be?

The fact that we may never get a season 2 to the Dark Crystal show is disgusting.

Hold up, 3 other episodes that took place in Clayhill? Where did you find this information? I always thought it was just the pilot. Now we have 4 lost episodes 3 of which we have no footage or information on whatsoever.

Now we got the outside chores show😭

I like to think of it all as literal. The thought of being in the trio's situation myself is absolutely TERRIFYING - not being able to know what's what, everything being made of the same thing that I am, unable to tell who is who and who is me. The pure horror of the situation is something I enjoy IMMENSELY.

PLEASE tell me what show appears at 52 minutes or so. I've been looking for it for YEARS!

I was that younger child you were scaring

This is an incredible documentary that should be seen by many more. Keep this up and you will be a legendary youtuber

I remember when people brought up BEN Drowned on everything related to Majora's Mask.

My reading is realitivily simple. It's about the failure of people to change how they teach. Being autistic and severely adhd, I relate a lot to yellow guy.

Dhmis reminds me of Liminal spaces Its colorful and comforting that turns into scary and into uncomfortable

Canceled it because it probably knew something

6 times this dude said the frick word

It's 2024 and still a tragedy that this show was cancelled