Red guy

> **"I wonder what will happen."**
> -Red Guy
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**Red Guy** is one of the main protagonists in the *Don't Hug Me I'm Scared* series, along with Duck and Yellow Guy. He is portrayed and voiced by Joe Pelling. He resembles no known creature or thing, besides spaghetti or a mop.

## Appearance

Red Guy is human-sized, and the tallest of the main trio. Unlike most characters, he is played by a person in a costume rather than a puppet. He has red, yarn-like hair that covers his entire head, with two eyes placed on top, and his whole body is red. At the end of episode 6, he appears to be blue entirely.

Unlike Yellow Guy and Duck, he doesn't wear any clothes except for at the end of Episode 5, where we see him walking away from a phone boot wearing a trench coat, a scarf and shoes, and in Episode 6, he wears a suit at his job, until he takes it off to sing on stage.

## Personality

Out of all of his friends, he is the most mature, sarcastic, and sharp-witted, and he seems to have the most common sense as well. He also seems to be the most pessimistic of the three main characters, as he doesn't show much interest in the lessons, and would rather go about his own business. It is possible that he is older or more mature than the other two protagonists, as a picture of him in a graduation cap holding a diploma is seen in Episode 6.

He will often get annoyed with the teachers and make sarcastic comments. In Episode 4 he grows impatient with Colin the Computer and steps up to him resulting in Colin getting angry and yelling at him. He also seems rather curious judging by him saying "I wonder what will happen?" when Yellow Guy runs away in Episode 3 and just before he pulls out the plug in Episode 6, and also arguably asks the most questions of the main trio.

Just like Duck, he cares about Yellow Guy, as seen in the Episode 3, when they give him the last boiled egg in order to prove their friendship.

He seems to have changed during the series as well. In Episode 1 he find most things boring and tells Sketchbook that using your hair to expressing yourself sounds really boring but in Episode 6, where Red Guy inhabits a world populated with several Red Guys just like him, he starts to do things to try and stand out, at one point even singing the "Creativity Song" in front of an audience. However, he is booed by the crowd.

Despite Red Guy's pessimistic behavior he seems to genuinely care about the people around him, and can even be selfless at times. In the pilot episode of the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared television show, Wakey Wakey, while everybody else in town seems more worried about their own safety and security, Red Guy goes out on his own to search for Mayor Pigface. This was also showcased earlier in the episode when he kept asking "Who's gonna find him?" while Yellow Guy was worried about his birthday and Duck was worried about who was going to be in charge.

Red Guy is very aware that he's being filmed, often breaking the fourth wall by addressing the audience directly and looking at the camera.

## Story

### Episode 5

Red Guy does not appear much in this episode but makes numerous cameo's. He does appear in person when Duck knocks over the camera where we can see him standing were Steak used to be (although this could also be his Duplicate) and at the end, during the credits, we can see him walking away from a telephone booth with clothes on and holding a suitcase. Other references to him are in the beginning with the picture where he is first seen sitting at the table alongside Duck and Yellow Guy and then outside the window, symbolizing he is leaving them. Once again we see him outside a window in the "organ house" next to what appears to be the stomach. The eye looking at Duck in the spaghetti with meatballs could also be a reference to him. His head also appears in the microwave after Fridge appears. Lastly, when The Healthy Band is brainwashing Yellow Guy, the red spaghetti with two eyes clearly depict him.

The numerous telephone calls during the episode and him coming out of a telephone booth could mean he was trying to call the other puppets and possible to tell them that he is leaving - since the other puppets had just been aware he had left - or to warn them about the teachers and/or tell them to escape.

### Episode 6

Red Guy plays a major role in this episode. Here he is in a world filled with his kind, all in business suits doing boring office jobs, for the majority of the episode. He seems to have become bored with this world and starts to do things like singing a song about a file that becomes alive. After work we see him sitting at a bar looking at his beer until he removing his clothes and start singing the "creativity song" in front of an audience. When he spots Roy in the audience his Boombox becomes alive and he is suddenly transported to another place where, attracted by music, he finds the Control Panel. On it he sees that Yellow Guy is being tortured by the Lamp and he starts pushing the machine's buttons, glitching the Lamp into other teachers encountered in previous episodes and also many new teachers. Suddenly Roy's hand stretched out from behind him and touches Red Guy's shoulder, surprising him. Red Guy then notices an extension cord coming from the machine and pulls out the Plug, resetting the whole series, changing the puppets into their favorite color (turning Red Guy blue), and moved the calendar from June 19 to June 20. Then Sketchbook appears and starts to sing the "creativity song" as the episode cuts to black.

## Quotes

* "That sounds really boring." *—Red Guy, Episode 1*

* "Come on guys, stop mucking around. We only have five minutes until our show's on." *—Red Guy, Episode 2*

* "...What? Who is that?" *—Red Guy, Episode 2*

* "But we don't really want to, we're going to miss our show." *—Red Guy, Episode 2*

* "It's 9:30, there's fish everywhere... Fish everywhere." *—Red Guy, Episode 2*

* "Hm, he seems upset about something. I wonder what will happen." *—Red Guy, Episode 3*

* "I'd also like to eat the chicken. Let's do that instead." *—Red Guy, Episode 3*

* "I guess it must be because we... ‘love’... you." *—Red Guy to Yellow Guy, Episode 3*

* "SHUT UP!" *—Red Guy to the Computer, Episode 4*

* "Wow, how amazing, and interesting too. But in this digital world, what can we do? ...What can we d—" *—Red Guy, Episode 4*

* "Wouldn't it be funny if, uh, one of these files came alive? Uh, yeah... 'I am a file, and... you put... documents in me.' And, um... 'A-doo-da-doo, a file... A...a funny...silly file...a-doo-doo-doo...' You know, it did like a song—" *—Red Guy, Episode 6*

* "I wonder what will happen." *—Red Guy, Episode 6*

* ”Oh dear. We’re all tied up.” *—Red Guy, "HELP"*

* "'If you're watching this, then we need your help. We need money. If we don't raise enough, we'll be killed off, and you'll never see us again.' ...How's that, is that good?" *—Red Guy, "HELP"*

* "The log is in the bin. The log is in the bin. The log is in the bin." *—Red Guy*

* "I also live with them in the funny house, too." *—Red Guy, "Wakey Wakey"*
* "Every morning, we sing this song... *Every* morning." *—Red Guy, "Wakey Wakey"*