Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (often abbreviated as DHMIS) is a British surrealist musical comedy horror web and television series created by Becky Sloan, Joe Pelling, and Baker Terry. The series consists of a short six-episode web series that was released from 29 July 2011 to 19 June 2016 on YouTube, and a television series in 2022 on All 4 and Channel 4. The series incorporates puppetry, live action, stop motion, traditional animation, flash animation, clay animation, and computer animation.

In the series, each episode starts like a typical children's series, consisting of anthropomorphic puppets akin to those featured in Sesame Street and other popular children's television programmes. The series parodies and satirises these TV programmes by contrasting its childlike, colourful environment and its inhabitants against disturbing themes; each episode features a surreal plot twist in the climax, including psychedelic content and imagery involving graphic violence, dark humour, existentialism, and psychological horror.

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