The Don't Hug Me I'm Scared Pilot That's Been Lost for THREE YEARS 

That was wild when I first saw that scene

I had to pause the video of that episode when that was said, I was like "Oh... OH NO! It's gone. X'D".

I WHEEZED when they did that "It just shriveled up into nothing"

Wow that’s crazy that it was what was in that pilot

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@@Masky-wz2wr somewhere in London, I think

it literally current,ly is lost media. Do you even know what that phrase means?

@@SnoFitzroy Well I mean like lost media in a sense that even its existence is up for debate

@@SnoFitzroy Some people take it to mean media that isn't available to the public, but the vast majority of folks use it to describe media that seemingly doesn't exist anymore. Like, the early doctor who episodes and about 70% of all silent era films are lost media, because they are quite literally lost. Something like 100 Years or the dhmis pilot aren't considered lost media by most definitions, because they are archived and still exist. Just because you personally can't watch something, doesn't mean it's gone missing. It's not lost, just not available. Just like Disney films that are in the vault aren't lost media.

Do you remember anything in it that isn’t shown in already found footage?

@@Loviedove__ hm. Nothing particular but it was a while ago.

LET’S SMASH THIS SYSTEM RIGHT NOW! *holds up a sign that says “It my birthday”*

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Yeah

That really sounds like something they would do lol

an arg for this would be so damn cool

but how would they do it? Does it lead to a box full of VHS tapes containing the pilot? Or to a movie theatre that airs the pilot at a certain time? Or will the whole hunt be on the internet traveling from website to website to find the clues which leads to a website where you can watch the pilot?

Maybe they will upload the pilot on RU-vid

idk, from what I've heard and saw PLENTY of fans want to see the pilot, and the audience seemed to really enjoy the episode when they watched it in Sundance considering how much they were laughing

They said they thought the pilot was too much like South Park by having it be a political commentary about government surveillance and having a load of side characters

There's actually a cameo of clay hill in EP 5 transportation

@@fernandolemus5965 yeah they mention it no longer exists , it’s been erased from canon

@@ColdplayDallas admittedly they do hold back on gore, yeah there’s like one gorey scene per episode but that’s about it

In my opinion it's kinda sad they abandoned clayhill because I Really liked The vibe The pilot gave off And the claustrophobic tone Of the actual show Definitely benefits of horror And makes it more faithful to the original Webseries But I still kind of miss The idea of a bigger space for these characters roam around in.

to be fair its a horror series so the claustrophobic and lonely vibe would be a good thing

@@randomdude9630 that’s why they scrapped the original show. Because it didn’t have that vibe.

I agree about the more intimate, lonely, claustrophobic vibe that they went with working better for this sort of surreal horror! I think it fits the series better on the whole, with the result, once it found its stride, really feeling like an extension of the web series, in a way that it sounds like the Sundance pilot couldn't have. There were comparisons made to "South Park" for the Clay Hill setting, which I think are fair to make, and I'd also make some comparisons to "Peewee's Playhouse" as well: the result is a curious departure from the web series, which apparently included some brilliant character designs and catchy songs, but which I don't think would have served the series well over the longer haul. Hopefully the Sundance pilot does get released to fans in some format eventually, though, just for the chance to see the elements that did work out in one way or another. An "interesting failure" from the DHMIS team is still better than most ordinary entertainment and art out there!

I feel it wouldn't feel claustrophobic at first. But when with each episode we do the same song at the start, and every townsperson says the same thing, as if on a script it would begin to feel like the main trio are alone in this simulation.

What the, hey squeaks didn’t expect to see you here

Wtf

there's a reupload of most of it on yt (the climax doesn't have footage though, they just describe what happened)

I hope that’s more of a “it’s not canon don’t worry about it”. Because even if they don’t like the direction it was going in, I would still like to see it.

@@videogamemusic2962 that’s literally what fire forget said.

@@videogamemusic2962 same

I had no idea what most of the comments were talking about, the only reference to Clayhill I saw was the writing on the chalkboard in Electricity!

@@kp12_art what writing?- I went to check and i couldn’t see anything

You can watch most of it online fyi

@@201hastings Oh, I'm aware, but it's still super interesting that a large chunk of it is lost.

I do like the reference in the show “let’s go there” *points to clay hill* “we can’t go there that place doesn’t exist anymore”

I disagree,the show was made with the intention to be similar to the og youtube series.

I gotta admit, from the clips shown here, it's clear that they weren't skimping on the production value, which tbh a pilot could normally be forgiven for doing.

That's not why, they still showed the Pilot at Sundance 2019, a time when Super Deluxe was shut down. They're likely just giving the TV show time to gain traction until they consider releasing its Pilot.

"It's more political" as if the whole original series wasn't a deep criticism of the whole television industry lmfao the new series is literally less political

@@SnoFitzroy go outside please

@@SnoFitzroy I’m not talking about the new series I’m talking about the pilot, which was a lot more openly political instead of just subtle hints like the original show. The clay hill pilot was literally supposed to be commentary on the Trump administration, you can’t get more political than that

@@SnoFitzroy it...wasn't. that's just a theoooory. aaaaa loser's theory

@@SnoFitzroy wanna touch grass there kid? Like every faction hate a corrupt Corporation, even incels and conspiracy theorists, doesn't make it deep. I enjoy Gumball cuz it's funny, is it smart? Maybe, is it political? No.

It may also be more around the decision to keep them in the house when they're not having a lesson. Having a bigger community with characters that aren't teachers would mess with that, especially when considering the final episode.

you can watch it on my channel. if you sort by most popular and set the video speed to .25x (I had to speed it up so it wouldn’t get copyright claimed)

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This happens all the time, it's literally the entire point of a pilot.

@@Extraamazing every single tv show i have ever watched has aired the pilot as the first episode of the show, or, has included it as optional bonus material on streaming. Stop trying to act like youre smart on the internet while arguing something you are completely incorrect about

@@hatefuleyebrows not to be rude or anything but there are a lot of tv show pilot that went unaired or only seen by small groups and what not. there are like a bunch of youtube videos about it.

true, I do not know what happened to that woman 😐

She's on Tumblr, and she occasionally posts a leak, but RARELY.

Yeah, she would laugh at parts, that weren't even supposed to be funny

Maybe it's intentional? Sometimes when people upload copyrighted stuff like that to RU-vid, they'll mess around with the audio to try and prevent it from getting taken down by copyright bots, or at least help keep it up longer.

i thought it was just a bunch of kids

They did make a DVD. I dunno much about it because I'm new, but I DO know it existed at some point.

@@kimmy1325 the DVD was given out to some Kickstarter supporters when the series concluded

DVDs still exists. I usually buy them in my local dvd shop

DVDs still exist I mean, Walmart, Target, FYE, etc are plenty proof of that.

@@ANewEra05 not being american is so sad rn, i am a begginer collector and i can only find dvds online or in thrift shops :(

The duck being Donald Trump is so funny

Wouldn’t he be Boris Johnson?

@@duane6386 i'll be honest, i know Boris Johnson sucks, but i don't know enough about him to know for sure if the Duck in this pilot acts like him or not

Also! The yellow guys brother was a background character on Wakey Wakey

fun fact, it's entirely possible that Matpat(or at least the ghost writer that wrote that script for him) was RIGHT.

I will send the Bat signal for Ray Mona and see if she can find it!

It’s on my channel, sort by most popular and set the video speed to .25x (I had to speed it up so it wouldn’t get copyright claimed)

@@spellwasp2579 they did it before

@@spellwasp2579 I don't know if you know this but DVD releases are actually pretty common among TV shows.

Im a Brazilian Guy, and here everyone who knows don't hug me, also talks like this "Duh-himmiss"

I don’t think the creators would straight up delete the whole pilot. It had effort and money went into it, however Becky and Joe said they wanted to pretend this pilot didn’t exist. I’m on copium rn but I hope they do one day officially realise it

Lmao yeah they're the person who made that