Film Theory: One of us is DEAD! (DHMIS) 

That scream of Lesley screaming "careful!" genuinely scared me so much. Congrats to the voice actor. That scream sounded so real

The pure terror and emotion the actress put into that scream is… incredibly bone-chilling

I'm convinced that "don't hug me I'm scared" is David's last words. After he was hit he tells his mom "Don't hug me" because she tries to hug him but he's in too broken and in much pain. Then, he says "I'm scared" right before he dies.

Consider: Roy was the one driving the car, and Lesley was a passenger. Lesley was injured, but both Roy and David died, which better ties in to Yellow Guy's line at the end of _Family_. If he's the one who ultimately caused their deaths, it would explain why he is always portrayed as unkind or unhelpful. Also, "careful" is a weird thing to exclaim when you see your child walk out in front of your car, isn't it? It would be, unless you were trying to warn the driver. The situation made her feel completely powerless. There was nothing she could do to save her son. That's the reason she created the dollhouse - she can now control every single thing that happens, and she never has to feel helpless again.

Something else that could add to the theory is that we never see a “big” version of yellow guy. If yellow guy really is a version of the deceased David and Lesley is pulling the strings it would make sense that there isn’t a grown up version of yellow guy because Lesley doesn’t want to imagine him grown up and she wouldn’t know what he would look like older

Lesley’s scream as yellow guy was hit by the car was absolutely devastating… Really sounded like she was reliving her son’s death

The delivery on Red Guy's "aww" when he's told "don't be silly, you don't die for ages!" is perfect. I laughed way harder than I should have.

"You don't die for ages." "Aww." Relatable. This is why Red Guy is my favorite.

Him being David makes a lot of sense when you consider that the Big Boys and Bigger Boys rooms have Red Guys and Ducks, but not Yellow Guys because he never got to grow up to become a Big Boy. It's also interesting that Yellow Guy runs on old batteries, implying his artificial nature. They haven't been changed in a long time because she's been grieving for all that time.

I did wonder if DHMIS were the last words David said after the crash, while his mum was trying to comfort him. Rejection to add to the trauma. Great episode as always.

When Lessly screams "CAREFUL" as yellow guy got run over by the car, my hair stands with dread that I haven't felt before It's like she's in pain and I can feel it in my skin

With this new theory about yellow guy and Leslie it opens up a ton of new questions about Roy. Is he actually dead too and if so , how did he die? Was he also partially responsible for yellows/ David’s death somehow? It is interesting how in the original series he seems to want yellow guy to suffer or to use him while Leslie is fond of yellow guy but also kinda Bitter towards him. And how both parents seem to be the ones pulling the strings of the show with Roy perverting Red’s vision in the original RU-vid series and Leslie making things happen with the dollhouse is an interesting parallel. Kinda makes me think of those parents who use their kids to make crappy RU-vid shows and make money off them

What makes the ending sadder of DHMIS to me is that she wanted to break her cycle of sadness but she controlled duck into pulling out Yellow Guys batteries and making him shred the book. She wanted to accept that her son was gone but *cant.*

in my opinion, the reason she said "your not my real son!" is because she was getting attached again.. It's like a voice in her head reminding her. The reason she was so motherly was because she made yellow guy so she could morn the loss of David, her son.

Fun Fact about the DHMIS show that people probably know, but for the people who don't know... The song at the end credits in episode 2 references all the teachers in the show, excluding the Coffin

I've been on the internet for way too long so gore or other disturbing things don't usually face me. But hearing Lesley scream with all her heart "careful" as a child gets brutally run over by a car, that was different. Her voice was so uncomfortable, maybe it was because the voice acting is great or smth. But props for DHMIS for making uncomfertable

I always kind of assumed that “don’t hug me I’m scared” is a reference to how some people don’t want physical comfort during an anxiety attack because it will make them more anxious. Which kind of makes sense, given the anxiety-inducing lessons in each episode.

The episodes always start off happy and then turn awful and bloody, as if she's trying to remember happy times with David, but the trauma she has causes her to breakdown and can only see the gore of that day... love the video!

11:12 ID: "You don't die for ages." Red Guy: "Aww.." Mood buddy... mood

I have an additional theory further explaining Red Guy and Duck. The first part is about who they are and the second part is about what they represent. (Note: When talking about "Yellow Guy," I will be referring to the actual puppet character in the show, while when talking about "David," I will be referring to Lesley's deceased son. And yes, this theory relies heavily on the theory presented in the video.) 1. Red Guy and Duck are David's childhood "friends." I use quotations here because just like Yellow Guy is not exactly David, I feel that's the same case with Red Guy and Duck. Now while I have evidence for this, it's not very solid. Regardless, evidence is still evidence. As seen throughout the series, and heavily in episode 4, Yellow Guy doesn't (or rather can't) get along well with people he doesn't know. He never gets along well with the teachers. It's especially made clear that not only did Yellow Guy have trouble getting along with Warren the "Eagle," the teacher for FRIENDSHIP, but that Warren actually made Yellow Guy uncomfortable. This likely means that David also had trouble making friends and had very few. In the show, the only characters we see Yellow Guy get along with naturally are Red Guy, Duck, and the brain friends he creates in episode 4. Since the brain friends are figments of Yellow Guy's imagination, they will naturally get along with him. Which leaves Red Guy and Duck. Lesley likely wanted Yellow Guy to have friends to learn the lessons with. Given that David probably had trouble making friends, Lesley saw that these friends would have to be ones that Yellow Guy would already know, and that's why I believe that Red Guy and Duck are representations of David's friends. That led me to ask myself, "Why do Red Guy and Duck have more adult-like designs?" Yellow Guy wears overalls and in general acts like a young child, whereas Duck wears a blazer(?), Red Guy is tall and has a deeper voice (like an adult would), and they both act more like sassy adults. This could be Lesley processing that even though these two friends are all grown up now, David still remains a child. continuing on in the replies cause I talk way too much :,)

"Don't be silly, you don't die for ages!" "Aww." I can't help but laugh every time at that part.

I love how red guy's voice changed from monotone to genuine desperation when he wanted to get away from their house.

that jump scare in the beginning literally terrified me

I also think that "Morning, here in Mullhoven, New Town" could also be interpreted as "Mourning, here in Mullhoven, New Town". This may be a stretch, but it could be Lesley constantly replaying the traumatic memory in her head(???)

Lesley screaming at that car accident scene will never not give me chills

Some things I noticed that I thought I would point out: 1: Yellow Guy’s “dream” in the episode 5 intro is the plot of episode 6. And this isn’t the only time is aware of what’s going on, his line about the bigger ones on top with a smaller one of all of it on top is the doll house that Lesley has. 2: Whenever yellow Guy has a reflection, it’s the smarter him looking back at him. 3: When Lesley gets out the duck replacement, it’s from a draw full of ducks. When we enter the room, we can clearly see that there is only one draw on the piano. She only has duck replacements. Now think back at what characters have died. Duck was eaten in the original series episode 5, he is the one who dies one episode 2. And when he is in the same room with the other duck in episode 2, Duck is on the right. When duck kills the other duck, the duck on the right is killed, the real duck is killed. Duck has died and been replaced many times.

I think the title applies less to Lesley and more to Yellow Guy. She is broken, and grieving, sure. But scared? Whereas Yellow Guy, upon learning the existential nightmare that is his life, probably has Lesley try to hug him in an effort to hold her son once again, rejects her because this is all too scary for him to handle. That sounds a lot more relatable.

Fun fact: the people who made DHMIS, Blink Industries, helped create an episode of the Amazing World of Gumball titled “The Puppets” adding their own voices for the titular puppets

Some important information: -The dollhouse they return to after the junkyard isn’t the same one they left -The x-ray of Yellow-Guy’s head shows a power circuit, further proving that he runs on power -The pink blob in the Bigger Boy’s Room is the same one from the Death Episode -Yellow guy seems to be able to read/write the symbols. -The password in the Internet episode, which Yellow Guy is trying to force himself to remember, is in the same symbols -In the beginning of the Last episode, Yellow Guy remembers going upstairs before and even references it in his little nonsense speech -In the family episode, Mother is dead, implying that there might also be guilt from Leslie for leaving more family (a husband, or other children) after “dying” in the same wreck. -Leslie doesn’t seem to have total control, since the puppets were able to leave the dollhouse. Even though she brings them back, this implies they are able to in some way or the other move without her doing so for them

I think the floor above Leslie isn’t for Yellow guy (or David) too reach. It’s for Leslie. We see that duck and red guy have ascended the first few floors, each one gaining more knowledge as they go. The only thing above them, Leslie, the one who knows the truth behind the story. The floors represent knowledge. The only floor that Leslie hasn’t reached, the last stage of grief, acceptance. I think the finale will end wholesomely, with yellow guy leading Leslie too the final floor, showing her it’s not her fault. But that’s just a theory…

I personally love this theory, and if you think about it…Lesley never wants them to go outside, in fact, all the lessons she teach him are about how dangerous the world is and how the journey always end up back at home, back to a place David should have never left, keeping him in the house forever so no more accidents happen, no matter how many backups she own, it’s never easy watching the same outcome play out over and over, so she’d rather torture them in twisted ways yet leave them alive and always staying at home. Red guy tries to break out of the cycle as well as yellow guy tries to understand and grow past the cycle, meanwhile duck is dead and shouldn’t have to care about anything, he’s free to do whatever and not care which is why we’ve never seen him actively go out of his way to go beyond Lesley’s domain.

BTW: In Episode 2 when duck opens his wallet you can see a picture of a bunch of people and on the right there’s a photo of a woman who looks a lot like Leslie (same haircut and everything) with a little boy so this theory could be true.

My theory is that Roy (or whoever Lesley's husband was) was the one driving the car who hit David. That's why Roy is portrayed as an uncaring and horrible father and person in Lesley's puppet world.

The scariest part of the series for me was the book being shredded. How close they got to answers before it being ripped away from underneath their noses, watching the book with the answers being completely destroyed.

I don’t know if someone mentioned this already, but the ID card scene with Red Guy is interesting. His card says he’s not dead, but knows when and how he will die. I think the three main characters ALL represent members of Leslie’s family. I think the Duck represents her father, based on the fact that he seems to be an older man. I think he is her father, and was very sick and weak, which is why his piece breaks so easily and she has so many replacements of him. He was probably the first member of her family to die, which is why he’s the one who dies in the Death episode instead of Yellow Guy, who dies later. The cause of death in this video is forgetting to drink water, which seems silly and even Duck addresses how silly this is, but if he was very sick, it’s possible he was unable to take care of himself and had no one to help him, leading to a really horrible death. Yellow Guy is the next person in her family to die, which was already discussed in this episode, so I don’t want to rehash what the video already said. His death is shown in Transport, the car accident. I think Red Guy is also her son. Even though he’s significantly older than Yellow Guy, large age gaps are not uncommon in siblings, and he’s not Yellow Guy’s father anyway because Roy is his father. I think Red Guy is a much older brother that acts as a father figure. He never dies in the series, but his death is addressed in the ID card scene, which is what made me think of this theory. The ID card reveals he doesn’t die for a while and that his death is by drowning. This death isn’t depicted in the series, so it hasn’t happened yet, but it will. I theorize that dealing with the guilt of watching the younger brother he was supposed to protect die, as well as seeing his mother’s mental health deteriorate, the son Red Guy represents was unable to cope with the pain and trauma, fell into severe depression, and ended his own life by drowning. (Side note: I believe that Roy represents her husband, or more accurately abusive ex-husband, which is why he’s there but isn’t important to this series. Also, while it’s confirmed Roy is Yellow Guy’s father, I do not believe he is Red Guy’s father, so Leslie’s two children are from different relationships, which may also explain the large age gap.) Leslie was already struggling with leaving her abusive ex-husband and the deaths of her father and younger son, but this was the final thing that sent her over the edge. She feels helpless, alone, and afraid, and so she creates the characters in the show to represent her family. Yellow Guy for her naive but optimistic and kindhearted younger son, Duck for her old-fashioned father, and Red Guy for her eccentric and creative yet slightly pessimistic older son. And Roy for her abusive ex-husband because he’s part of her family and her trauma as well. Sorry for the long comment, I just had a lot to say. I don’t know how this series connects with the original series, but I think this also opens up the door to connections and theories there.

After this breakdown and assuming it is spot on, this show is next level genius. It’s hard to notice at first glance because it presents itself in a chaotic acid trip way but the hidden backstory makes all of it make sense and gives it purpose rather than just being an excuse to be gory.

Can we all agree that we love Matt Pat's catchphrase which is him essentially screaming "LORE"

I find the screams of Lesley when she's telling David to careful are really bone chilling, you can really hear the grief in her voice.😵‍💫

One thing I noticed, in the episode Death when Duck Guy kills his other self, he actually killed the real Duck Guy as you can see maggots coming out of his head, which means Stain took Duck Guys place

Yellow Guy’s dissociation in episode 5’s intro isnt remembering. Its describing episode 6. There was another him, other versions of his friends, a lumpy guy and ‘a windy middle one.’

11:13 “don’t be silly, you don’t die for ages!” “Aw” I loved this

I don't think Lesley died just metaphorically, I think she attempted suicide, but failed. That would explain the stitches. She woke up in a hospital, alive, and now she's probably locked in asylum, where she cannot escape her floor, that could represent the room or moving on, and is left falling deep into her trauma of losing her son and living.

Here's my theories 1. In DEATH, Duck's head got cut off by Stain. And in the last episode David accidentally dropped Duck's head when he tried to place Duck, and Lesley replaced Duck with another Duck. So in my theory Stain was the replacement for Duck, but idk if this relates to the theory 2. In the book we saw a stair and a man running, so the other top floor is possibly the rout to escape 3. Duck could be the bird in the gift David got

another thing to solidify this theory; in yellow guy's "david" state, he has green eyes (like how he said his favorite color was green in the very first episode), and lesley also has lighter colored eyes, making it possible that, if the dad also had lighter colored eyes, solidifies the relationship between yellow guy/david and lesley

This show does have a major replacement theme to it. The duck was murdered by his replacement, yellow guy was forced to replace the creepy family’s mother for Roy’s pleasure, and last but not least Leslie made if abundantly clear she had replacements of all three characters in case people went out of line. I believe the trio that made it to the junkyard/wasteland are still there, still potentially able to find the remnants of clay hill. Maybe the theme is simply “the show must go on, no matter what.”

I love how MatPat handles his more serious theories. He's so calm and solemn. It's very nice.

7:43 this just shows how tall red guy is compared to the other two

tbh I always though the house was cursed and anyone inside was made immortal for the sadistic fun of the Object characters. while also being a metaphor for the state of education these days.

Honestly, props to everyone who worked on Lesley. Her acting and look are both absolutely horrifying. That scream when "david" gets hit is chilling.

what if David isn't dead but is on life support and Lesley knows he will never wake up but it hurts too much to turn it off so that's why she started all of this. This could explain why Yellow runs on batteries, like he is being powered by something other than his heart (a life support machine)

The lamp in episode 3 said when you die you replay out your life for the council. And every time you do it correctly you get a pound. They got a pound at the end of episode 1 when they played out working. I think Leslie represents or is part of the council and that they or at least yellow guy is dead.

We dont know that yellow guy has actually made this journey before, at 6:00 you can see that the photo of the stairs doesnt contain yellow guy, he only appears in the picture as he starts climbing the stairs, and we have seen photos change real time before

You could also argue that each level of the house correlates to the stages of grief-but slightly out of order. The first floor is in-denial; where Lesley refuses to address what has happened. She is willing to have each character play their own parts as if nothing is wrong. The second floor is symbolic for depression. Where the characters are beginning to look at things in more detail. Maybe this is where Lesley was beginning to realize that her son is truly gone. Then, the third floor is anger. The torture of the lump of living flesh could be a metaphor for the torture and pain Lesley is inflicting on herself for killing her son. And then, finally, the floor that Lesley is on currently, is symbolic for bargaining. She’s replaying the moments where “David” never leaves. He just stays in the house learning about new things. A place where he never dies. That’s where she is at right now. And the next staircase that we didn’t get see, leads to the last floor: acceptance. Where Lesley truly accepts what happened and is able to move on. Hopefully this makes sense! It kind of just clicked for me after I finished watching the video :)

Anyone else noticed how in the first episode they say that only a freak accident will make you appreciate life and such? Maybe some of the guilt lesley feels is because she wasn't the most attentive mother before the accident and that may be what caused it, making David's death hit harder because she wasn't always there or paying the most attention to him. Could explain why she's trying to teach all these lessons now, because she didn't bother to before and now it's too late

I love this theory, but you missed one very important symbol, the book in ep 6, which symbolizes the truth she denies. When David gets his batteries switched, the first thing he does is come up with is a "new" symbolic sub-set. The same symbolic sub-set that the book is written in. After Lesley makes David clean up the mess caused by the electracy, the door is left open, inferring that Lesley has moved on to a higher level, distancing herself further from her catastrophes. But this time, she shreds the book. This book is also the symbolic connection Lesley has to her past life, so, for every level of the house, the book becomes longer, more diluted and harder to decode by David. This parallels the trip he has to take up the stairs, and the number of layers he has to look through to reach the truth. But every time he has made it up to Lesley's room he was sent back down and striped of his intelligence so that Lesley could add another layer and reset the cycle. For each cycle change, a day passes, so on Jun 19 only 2 layers existed. When red guy (the neighbor) pulled the switch in the first season's finale, the houses power source was reset and a new cycle was started (hence the date change). Notice how it was fully dark when he did so and that the floor matches the house; him and duck were in the exact same situation in the finale of this season. When David (Lesley) shreds the book, the camara pans out, and where the stairs used to be, an endless void replaces it. This could infer 1 of 2 things. 1. Like you said, the next floor represents the exit Lesley needs to take to move passed her grief. So, when she does so and shreds the book, she breaks off the connection she has to her fictional world and lets herself live in the real one. 2. She looses the battle against herself. By shredding the book, she finally destroys all traces of the truth and can never come to terms with it, which also removes the stairs. I think it's 2, as the eerie music implies it. Also, in season 1's finale, Lesley doesn't die and the vibe is much happier and hopeful.

12:21 the scream gave me chills

Just to add a little, the climbing up the stairs is pretty much a symbol to growing up (just as the big boys room implies) and the fact is, Leslie tried to let yellow guy grow, but that means him getting closer to her, it also conflicts with the fact that david never grew, thats why there is not yellow guy equivalent in the other rooms, at the end Leslie puts him back to dullness, to the never growing point and it probably wasnt the first time she did it, cuz she cant deal with the grief

I always assumed that the show's name is basically just describing how the main characters felt during the lessons. They were scared, terrified even of what was happening around them so they didn't want a hug from a singing clock or a slice of huge meat.

Love the David theory. I don’t know if this is a stretch or not but I looked up the meaning of the name David and it means beloved or FAVORITE! Which could explain the “You’re one of my favorites.” line from Lesley 11:26

You guys: "I think one of the characters is dead." Duck: "Well, I'm dead."

ID:"Don't be silly, you don't die for ages" Red: "Aww..." That line alone makes Red Guy the most relatable character in the show.

Surprised he didn't bring up how one of the characters in the Death Episode mentions how the dead are forced to relive their lives as a performance, for which you earn a pound if you do it right (which Duck does at the end of the previous episode). It implies that all three of them have died at least once before, and they're performing rather poorly considering they're 1 for 6

The intro is just chilling. You’ve outdone yourself this time.

0:39 there was no need for that jump scare😠

There was a recent theory made by inside a mind that the original series wasn’t about children’s television, but rather Red guy holding onto his past and not wanting to grow up and be like his father with the ending scene of him pulling the plug being symbolism for him letting go of his childhood, and finally moving on to being an adult.

It’s pretty odd to see Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared finally get an actual plot instead of a short musical with disturbing imagery and we get to see Red Guy, Yellow Guy, and Duck communicate with each other. This is like if Amazing World of Gumball aired on Adult Swim.

Not gonna lie, this was probably one of the saddest theories I've heard from MatPat.

alright, I'll admit it, the yellow guy jumpscare got me

Another thing I noticed is that David's tombstone is one of the only props in the show that doesn't look like its made out of felt. Thats because it isnt really part of Lesley's fake puppet world. Its very real to Lesley.

Something interesting that wasn’t mentioned was how the 5 Floors of the house could represent the 5 stages of grief denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.

'Don't be silly, you don't die for ages' 'Aww . . .' Mood

Another thing. When yellow guy cut his finger his “ow” was almost like sarcastic to me. I don’t know why but he seemed so careless about cutting his finger off.

Roy is also watching from the window when he was hit by Lesley…so Roy has a creepy appearance but we never see him harm anybody outside of protecting his son, it’s almost like he’s watching over him(that’s his eye that you randomly see peeking through the wall during the intro), maybe that’s a representation of the fact he wasn’t physically able to save his son when he was hit by the car but he watched the whole thing unfold able to do nothing🤔

“Don’t be silly! You won’t die for ages!” “Aw...” That’s a whole mood

Wow. It makes sense. Also how in the beginning they're always learning important life lessons, but then get twisted. Maybe she's fantasizing about teaching her son about life, remembers he's dead then breaks down, resulting in the horrors that happen. (meaning she throws a bit of a hissy)

Something that just makes this theory even more realistic is tat on 14:17 You can see yellow guy on Lesley’s jacket

In the title sequence where he's explaining his dream, he's explaining the episode before it even begins. "another me" is the reflection he sees and talks to the "other ones" he talks about are the big boys and bigger boys "and I knew what they were but I don't know now" is his intelligence being removed with the fresh batteries "and then it went away" is the episode restarting all over again just something I noticed :)

When Red Guy yelled "I'm not going back into that house!" i was shocked at the... true feeling in his voice. Granted, i havent watched the series, but from what ive never heard, Red Guy dosent talk like that often. it really shows what a nightmare that house is.

@3:19 Matt mentioned that duck kills his doppelganger, however the show makes it a point that the doppelganger is clay and is pink when cut...the clay doppelganger killed the real duck and the duck seen through the rest of the show is clay

5:14 matpat: I wanna be you duck but sorry. Can't....

I always assumed the title of the show was intentionally sending a confusing, mixed message, since the teachers all do the same thing. Fits perfectly when you think about it.

Im curious to see how the others, particularly red guy, fit into this. Throughout the show Red guy is the only one trying to actively escape his circumstances (besides Duck wanting a job in the first episode but I don't count that as its more a boredom thing) and Red Guy is portrayed as a human in the neighborhood sequence whereas Duck is just a pet. Not to mention that despite being so monotone, Red Guy seems the most, well, human. He also seems to have connection to Yellow Guy because he's much kinder to him and seems that the most meaningful conversations happen between them (though this might be a stretch seeing as the only other character is Duck.. and he's... well- Duck).

Duck:Tell about the tournament Mat Pat:I don't know about the tournament!? Duck:I won a tournament, didn't I? Mat Pat:LORE!!!!!!

I'm super late to commenting but another thing to note is how upstairs, theres only other versions of red guy and duck, which might symbolize that yellow guy is different than those two

When Lesley is narrating and says "Ah, morning" (at 12:10) it could be a double meaning where it also means "mourning".

5:24 Duck just singing shredder is my favorite part of this whole show

Could it also be possible that both series are directly connected? As in Roy and Lesley were the parents of David and worked in show business? This could explain not only her appearance, but how Roy has been portrayed. Always a foreboding creepy. In the original series he was the producer of the show, never letting them go, corrupting the memories, even now still looking in, almost stalking her mind. For example he was in a disguise to follow them out of the house during the drive. Interestingly it was yellow guy who let him in, and red for throwing him out after a rude horn honk. Perhaps she wants him to suffer just as much for what he did to them and their child. I’d also like to point out that the only time Roy was there this season was when he literally destroyed the family. Maybe Roy produced Lesley’s children show, which would explain her outfit as well as the setting for the previous version. Also interesting that the family saw yellow guy as the mother.

Wow.. Absolutely brilliant chronicling, compiling, and presentation Matt-Pat. Kudos my friend. I enjoyed this, alot. 👏

Maybe Lesley made the Roy puppet (who represents her husband) the villain of the web series because she was still in denial that early on and was trying to deflect the guilt by implying it was Roy’s fault

Maybe, since we see that Lesley controls the dollhouse, as well as red yellow and duck, the fact that she makes red and duck rip out the batteries, and then shred the book is supposed to represent her regret. She hands yellow the book, and sends him downstairs, but then realises he could leave her, (whatever that would look like,) and decides that she wants him to stay, therfore restarting the cycle.

MatPat always feels pure delight saying LORE!😅

As always, I’m terrified yet somewhat more educated on the topic of dhmis I know you don’t do requests on RU-vid and especially not about Gacha, but I would highly recommend a channel named WideDoggy. They created a multifandom series with tons of lore, but some things aren’t clear enough. It’d be amazing if you could check that out

I think that duck represents the bird in the mullhoven scene and because of that, Leslie hates him so much. I assume this because she has lots of replacemente for him and he's the one who suffers the most throughout the series.

to me, it feels like the phrase “don’t hug me i’m scared” is something you would say if you’re scared of the person trying to hug you. if the theory that Leslie killed her son in a car accident is true, then it could be from the original David’s perspective after the crash (before he died), being scared of Leslie bc she ran him over. “don’t hug me, i’m scared (of you)”

For some reason a lot of people can't get this joke so i'll explain it: When Duck is being buried, the "his" he's referring to is the tombstone, the tombstone's name is David It's followed by the coffin saying, "Tombstones don't have a name" or somethin along the lines of that The rest of the theory is probably right but I just wanted to say that

What if lesley is hiding in a basement in the real world and the lower floor represent a decent into madness or diving to deep into her fake reality.

I always thought the way this new season felt a little weirder. In the sence that, in the original show, Red guy was always the one who were inyecting reality into all the situations. But now in the tv show, its another one in the crew, ready to be along with everyone else.

I have a kind of extension to this theory: I think that Roy is trying to help her and take her away from her trauma but every time he tries a character “dies” which is her brain making her relive the moment she killed her son and she immediately pushes him away again so it becomes a never ending spiral into depression and and anguish

10:41 was referring to when he gets smart and finds the upstairs area considering he was talking about big people and a lump I reckon. also think about how when yellow guy accidentally breaks ducks mini figure, he breaks it by making its head fall off. And speaking of that, are we even sure it was duck that killed the doppelgänger? It could have been the doppelgänger who killed duck, but in the end it doesn’t matter because Lesley will just replace them. A lot of yellow guys rambles have some ties to what has happened/will happen. I also think that possibly episode 1 was a nod to how red guy normally has something to do with the phone, specifically the phone booth thing.

You this theory explains Roy’s behavior too. He knows this isn’t his real son and is probably mad at Leslie for not only killing David but upset to constantly seeing his dead son and a reminder on who killed him too.