Don't Hug Me I'm Scared vs The Truman Show/Rap Meanings

=== The Executives: ===
*chattering* Okay, quiet on set everyone! *chattering stops*
(The battle begins as if it is being filmed live like The Truman Show in the eponymous film.)
Okay, rap battle intro. (Okay, got it!)
(The crew gives out an instruction to follow the usual Freshy Kanal Rap Battle format, which begins by showing the "Rap Battle!" logo.)
Cut to Truman title card. 3, 2, 1. (Truman title card!) Brilliant!
(The next part of Freshy Kanal intro is showing the title cards of the rappers. Here, Truman's title card is shown first.)
Cut to Red Guy title card.
(After the first rapper's title card, the intro is supposed to show the second one, Red Guy's.)
That's not my name.
(Red Guy, having the ability to break the fourth wall, responds to the crew calling him "Red Guy", which is actually just a nickname used out-of-universe and his real name is never spoken in the series. To reflect this fact, the name on the title card is ?????.)
Uh... action!
(The crew doesn't expect the rapper to interact with them and orders the rap battle to begin immediately to prevent further awkwardness.)
=== Red Guy: ===
Who's this guy? The man with the odd face.
(Red Guy starts by commenting on Truman's appearance, which is human like and, thus, from the perspective of the puppet-like Don't Hug Me I'm Scared characters, is unusual.) At the start of the web episode "Time", Red Guy noticeably asked the fourth wall "Who is that?" when the teacher appeared. 
I would really prefer for you to get lost, mate.
(Red Guy continues to treat Truman like a stranger who should go away.)
Oh, it's Carrey as the only character he ever plays?
(Truman is an energetic and comedic character, which is the type of character that his actor Jim Carrey often plays.)
Wow, even my voice has better range.
(Red Guy says that Carrey's range is limited and he can only play energetic characters like Truman, comparing him unfavorably to Red Guy's monotonous speech.)
Put me on your boring channel, and I'll score some interest.
(Red Guy thinks Truman’s show is boring, and that if he was on it, it would be much more interesting.)
He was born an actor spoiled brat: adored, and still he left.
(Truman spends his whole life in The Truman Show and is loved and given everything for the sake of that reality show. He leaves after realizing that his life is manufactured, but Red Guy disses his choice, calling Truman ungrateful towards the show.)
They pulled the plug because a life that's more secure, he did reject
(The Truman Show ends after Truman leaves it, leaving his old, steady life in process. At the final episode of the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared web series, Red Guy pulls the plug that connected the program.)
To be the loser who got canceled way before the internet.
(Red Guy calls Truman a loser for getting his show "canceled" which means ended, comparing it to people on the Internet who get "canceled" (boycotted) if they are found doing something wrong.)
Maybe swap your batteries; it isn't just your set where the lights are out.
(The usually dumb Yellow Guy becomes smart when his battery is changed. Red Guy is calling Truman dim (as in stupid) like a dark TV set and saying that he should get smarter. Additionally, In the Truman Show a light falls from the sky, causing Truman's suspicion.)
Wow, really, what a tragedy, how you were driven mad with your wife around.
(Truman is married to Meryl in The Truman Show, but she is not his true love and is merely scripted to become his wife, driving him mad when he starts realizing it. This is also a reference to the scene where Truman tries to drive away recklessly from his island with Meryl, but she and some "coincidences" keep preventing him from doing so, further angering him.)
Anyway, as a dad, I'm glad to see we're all celebrating Father's day right 'bout now.
(Red Guy considers himself the father figure of his group (Yellow Guy and Duck) as he is relatively more mature than them. This is also a reference to the calendar in the show, which stays on June 19 (Father’s Day) until the end.)
Oh wait, let's check your dad's ID. Hey, I think that he might've drowned!
(Red Guy checks on the status of Truman's father who "drowned" when Truman was a kid as part of the script to make Truman fear water. The second part of the line is spoken by the ID card, as Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is full of anthropomorphic objects. This part references the episode "Death", where Red Guy checks his ID card to check whether he is dead and the ID card claims that Red Guy will eventually die by drowning.)
=== Truman Burbank: ===
Good morning! Oh, and in case I don't see ya, then good— that'd be greatly ideal!
(Truman starts the battle with his catchphrase, "Good morning, and in case I don't see ya: good afternoon, good evening and good night!", except he would prefer not to meet Red Guy or to greet him.)
Can your eldritch horror wait until tomorrow? Not doing THAT is my favorite idea!
(In the first Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, the Sketchpad asks the main characters what their favorite idea is (without letting them answer.) Truman is saying that he would have answered avoiding Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, which he calls "eldritch horror" as it's a horrifying show featuring things that aren't explainable.)
Here's to hoping that you get a visit from a singing dental floss,
(Every episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared has something (which can be inanimate) suddenly singing to "teach" the main characters a lesson. Truman is hoping that Red Guy's next teacher is a dental floss...)
Because those canines look more rabid than my neighbor's dog!
(...so that it can teach Red Guy to clean his teeth that according to the episode "Death" are terrible looking and can't be hidden with lips. This line also references how Truman is afraid of his neighbor's dog. In the TV show's first episode "Jobs", there is a canine-like monster called the Carehound which has four eyes rather than two like a normal dog.)
And I'm afraid you're wrong! My dad is more alive
(While the previous verse says that Truman's dad drowned, Truman points out that he is actually still alive; in The Truman Show universe, because he just had amnesia and comes back to Truman's life when he is an adult; in The Truman Show production, because he is just an actor who pretended to drown.)
Than that dummy for a brother and that duck "for the wiiiife"?
(All the main characters of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared have been dead at some point, which means they are less alive than Truman's father who never dies.)
Ripping through you like a magazine!
(In the film, Truman likes to buy magazines and rips them to assemble a picture of Sylvia, the woman that he actually loves.)
No sweet talk; I ain't a fax machine!
(In the first episode of the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared TV series "Jobs", a talking fax machine is featured that tries to flirt ("sweet talk") with Red Guy. Truman says that he won't sweet talk Red Guy and that he will verbally rip through him in the rap battle.)
Honey, I had the saddest dream, where Not-So-Little Red Riding Rug tried on some tacky jeans!
(Truman calls Red Guy "Little Red Riding Hood", except Red Guy is huge compared to his friends and he looks like a rug rather than a hood. In "Friendship", Red Guy says that he is told by the worm in his brain that he looks bad in denim.)
With your dark, creepy theming, you managed to reel in
(Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is a dark twist on children's puppet shows featuring creepy deaths and brainwashing among other stuff.)
An audience younger than even Sesame Street's is!
(Truman calls out Don't Hug Me I'm Scared for inviting kids (who should be watching something more appropriate for them like Sesame Street, a puppet show that is actually for kids) to watch it with its kids show-like elements even though it is very dark. This could also reference how horror fandoms on the internet often have very young people joining them.)
So be more discreet when you're speaking about canceled TV, kid!
(Red Guy mentions how The Truman Show is canceled in his first verse. However, Truman has a rebuttal.)
Your first pilot was so egregious that it couldn't be greenlit!
(Don't Hug Me I'm Scared had a TV pilot that was only aired in the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, but the creators themselves felt it didn't have the same feeling as the web series, and it is not continued by a series until 2022 when they scrapped the pilot's concept. In the audio, the word "green" is censored with the word "brown", referencing the line "scrub scrub scrub till the water's brown" from the second Don't Hug Me I'm Scared episode. In that episode, Tony the talking Clock is cleaning the main cast, and says this, but Duck's previous line in the song "What do you mean? We're already clean." implies that "green" would have been a more fitting line to end with then "brown", leading many fans to believe that this is a reference to the first episode of the series, where the Sketchpad says "Green is not a creative color.")
Uh? Here's something you can put in that pad:
(Truman tells Red Guy to write something in the Sketchpad.)
There's not a single creative in that colorful cast!
(In its episode, Sketchpad is teaching the main characters how to be creative, but does it so incompetently that it hampers their creativity instead. Similarly, Truman suggests none of the characters in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared are creative or original.)
The internet's done with the fad of you lousy fuckin' pastas!
(Truman compares Don't Hug Me I'm Scared with creepypastas because of its shock value and the fact that both are released on the Internet. This also serves as a double meaning, as Red Guy's appearance resembles (and was implied by the creators to be) spaghetti.)
They cleared their heads of this browser Cookie Monster!
(Truman says that the Internet has forgotten Red Guy and compares him to Cookie Monster from Sesame Street as both are single-colored characters in a puppet show, except Sesame Street is usually watched on TV, while Red Guy's (first) series is usually watched on an Internet browser. This line also references browser cookies, which are data collected by websites and are often cleared by Internet users to remain anonymous.)
=== Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: ===
Yo, here is how you too can rap! Here is how you rap: first of all, you rhyme,
(Like in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, an inanimate object suddenly sings to teach the characters something — in this case, how to rap.)
And you raise the roof, and you stay on beat, and you sub to the Freshy Kanal Patreon!
(Don't Hug Me I'm Scared teachers tend to be incompetent, giving instructions that are not clear or don't really help. Subscribing to Freshy Kanal Patreon isn't actually a part of rapping, and the record player is probably only telling it because it is a Freshy Kanal character and thus biased. Also, forced advertising of sponsors in the middle of the show is a major part of The Truman Show, since it is the show's source of income like how Patreon and sponsorships are to Freshy Kanal. Additionally, product placements are frequently seen in the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared web series, notably "Roy's oats". )
This is how you rap! I did it!
(Not being very bright, Yellow Guy tries to rap just by mimicking how the record player sings.)
That's not rapping! It is. No, it isn't.
(Yellow Guy and Duck Guy argue about whether Yellow Guy rapped or not.)
See? I tried to rap like this disc insisted.
(Duck Guy says he tried to follow the disc’s instructions…)
And now there's gifts everywhere, and he's ruined Christmas!
(... but ended up wrapping Christmas presents. This makes a nod at how the words rap and wrap sound similar and the fact that there were presents in young Truman's television family's house with a large present with someone in it. Additionally, "there's gifts everywhere" and Red Guy's ad-libbed "everywhere?" during that part is a reference to the episode "Time", where he says, "9:30, there's fish everywhere... fish everywhere?" The second part of the line could be a reference to how Truman's actor Jim Carrey has also played famous Christmas haters The Grinch and Ebenezer Scrooge.)
The roof didn't elevate; it didn't move or budge!
(Yellow Guy takes record player's instruction to "raise the roof" literally and comments that Duck's rapping doesn't move the roof at all.)
Stop trying to raise it and give it up. Like Truman's mum!
(Red Guy tells Yellow Guy not to actually move the roof. Yellow Guy instead turns it into a diss about how Truman's birth mother didn't want to raise him and gave him up to be adopted by The Truman Show.)
Maybe you would like that musical advice
(Duck suggests that Truman should hear song lessons like Duck and his friends.)
As the one human in your life who's not used to having lines!
(Everyone in Truman's life are actors who are just saying scripted lines. Because Truman never had lines before, Duck thinks his rap lines are weak and he needs "musical advice".)
Ask that guy in the mirror to come here and help explain to ya
(Red Guy references the scene in the film where Truman talks to a mirror, knowing that there are cameras recording him behind it. This is also a reference in the web series episode "Transport", where Yellow Guy looks into the window saw a reflection of a much smarter Yellow Guy.)
You're not stuck in Trumania; you're stuck in true MANIA!
(In the mirror scene, Truman jokingly says that he is in Planet Trumania. Red Guy tells Truman that he actually lives in a mad world, or mania, which refers to how everything in Truman's world is scripted or it could also be referring to Red Guy's opinion on his own world. The last word is shouted like how in the TV series, Red Guy sometimes suddenly shouts during his monotonous line.)
Now I'm walking out; don't try to hold me hostage.
(Red Guy would love to get out of his mad world, but he can't. Incidentally, Truman would like to do the same thing and succeeds.In the episode "Nutrition", Red Guy can be seen walking out of the show.)
Cause I'm the top dog. He's Grolton, you're Hovris!
(Red Guy declares himself the winner of this battle. Yellow Guy references the Grolton & Hovris show that he and his friends like to watch, where Grolton is the human while Hovris is the dog, but Yellow Guy often gets it backwards. So, he is calling Red Guy "Grolton" when the actual dog is "Hovris".)
=== The Truman Show: ===
We should probably do something; Truman seems keen to leave.
(Truman indeed always wanted to leave his island, something The Truman Show crew always prevents so he doesn't find out that the island is just a filming set.)
He's more likely to get to Clayhill than Fiji; please!
(Another executive dismisses Truman's ability to escape, saying that he will end up in Clayhill, the town where the first Don't Hug Me I'm Scared pilot takes place instead of Fiji, the place that Truman always wanted to visit because he is told that Sylvia's family moved there.)
Uh, hang on, change frequencies—
(The executives notices that they are using the wrong frequencies that would allow Truman to overhear them. In the film, hearing this kind of radio sound while driving his car is one of the odd things that makes Truman realizes that he is being confined to his island. In this case, it comes from Yellow Guy's radio instead.)
Seems they shut it off, like they did to your show when the Queen deceased!
(Truman comments that the odd radio sounds have stopped. Dont Hug Me I'm ScaredTV series were supposed to premiere on 12 September 2022, but it was delayed because Queen Elizabeth II's died on the previous week.)
Not sure if this is the right time or place for debating this!
(The episodes of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared have viewers questioning various motives of the Teachers and explanations for what is actually going on in the show.)
I feel like a beast is watching as we're stuck here entertaining him!
(Truman drops a hint that he is aware that he is a part of a show, insulting the executives and viewers by calling them "beasts". Truman might also be referencing Roy and Lesley from Don't Hug Me I'm Scared who control said series while the main characters are stuck following it.)
Nah, just kidding! If only someone were taping this
(Truman claims that he is not serious about feeling being watched yet he immediately drops another remark about being recorded. In the film, after being sure that he is recorded, Truman pretends that he is oblivious in order to catch The Truman Show crew off-guard.)
So you could see the looks on the hands they... puppet your faces with!
(Truman claims that he wants people to see the look on Don't Hug Me I'm Scaredcharacters' faces, while referencing that they are puppets whose faces are controlled by the their controller's hands. Truman once again shows that he is becoming aware of the fourth wall.)
Is that the best you can do?
(During his escape in the film, Truman yells "Is that the best you can do?!" to the crew that tries to manipulate the weather to stop him.)
What did I expect from an exec in a suit?
(Truman stops playing around and says that he knows things are being controlled by the executives, finding and destroying the set of the very battle itself.)
I don't mean the red guy, nah; I mean a separate buffoon!
(In case people think Truman is still referencing Red Guy who sometimes wear a suit, or the actor who is wearing a suit to portray him, Truman clarifies that he is no longer talking about him.)
I'm directly addressing this message to you!
(Truman makes it clear that he is aware of the executives and the viewers and breaks the fourth wall to directly tell them about it.)
=== The Executives: ===
Uh, sir, now what?
(Truman is not supposed to know that he is in a show, so the executives are now confused about how the show will go on now.)
Um... get it down, get it down, cut to outro!
(The executives decide to end the battle immediately and cut to the usual Freshy Kanal Rap Battles outro before viewers see things getting even more out of hand.)