![]() He tiredly agrees, but then asks with an awkward chuckle if it would be funny if the file came alive before proceeding to make a fool of himself and sing a little song about the file. Instead of waiting for his show to be on or going on a chicken picnic with his friends, he's being awoken at his desk by a boss/coworker asking him to file some documents. Meanwhile, the Red Guy wakes up as though it were his dream all along. But why dreams? Is it because dreams are a place that while it all may be fake, to us it's real? Or could it be because dreams allow the impossible (like singing clocks) to become possible? It could even be because dreams have all kinds of hidden meanings behind symbols (like how your teeth falling out means that you feel insecure about a time of changes in your life), just like the series itself. The third episode even ends with the Yellow Guy waking up from his encounter with the Love Cultists as though it were all a dream, but it was all proven to be real in the end when the egg that the Duck had hatched into a creature that proclaimed the Yellow Guy as his father (pesky bee!). I think the theme of dreams is very important because each episode feels as though it were all a dream at the end because of how quickly the chaos and horror always disappeared and left normality in its wake. ![]() This shows how even though he thinks he's free of the media's control, he still finds himself sinking into its murky depths. Could this mean that he's resisting the influence of the media? The Lamp insists he's just having a "BAD DREAM", but wasn't he controlling the dream? Does that mean he wanted to make it a bad dream? Yes. The Yellow Guy realizes that instead of lying in his bed, he's actually sinking into a pool of oil. Moving on, when the Yellow Guy cries "NO MORE SONGS!", he actually wakes up. How many of you saw it and thought it was odd, but didn't think that "intercourse" would also be a rhyme? The censorship is subtle, and we brush it off without any acknowledgement of how it could be covering up something deemed "too mature" for our sensitive eyes by some all-powerful corporate media tycoon. If we keep up the notion that the Lamp represents the media like the rest of the inanimate objects have so far, then this would actually be a clever metaphor for how media censorship can go unnoticed in programming for children. Wait, hear me out! Dreams about sexual intercourse (I'm putting that in the most professional way possible) are common, especially among adolescents, but the Yellow Guy isn't old enough for that, so the Lamp censors that part and replaces it with "oil". Well, I'm probably going to catch hell for this later, but. "Oil" breaks the rhyming pattern, almost like it wasn't supposed to be the line. The Lamp goes straight from "riding a horse" to "drowning in oil", which looks like the same oil that the Notebook used to ruin the painting of a clown in the very first episode. Roy shows up at least twice in this short dream sequence, but the weirdest part is how it ends. The Yellow Guy screams about how he doesn't want to know, but the Lamp refuses to be deterred, and it even seems like he doesn't even really notice the Yellow Guy once inside the dream. ![]() In true "show up where you're not wanted like the annoying friend at a party" fashion, the Lamp wakes him up again and announces that he can't sleep if he doesn't know how to have dreams. The Lamp calls sleeping "silly", and the Yellow Guy promptly shuts that shit right down. I've previously noted how he keeps turning up in the background of every episode "like the creepy stalker that he is", but though I meant that as a joke, it looks like I accidentally stumbled onto the truth (again, more on that later).Īnyway, the Yellow Guy expresses his longing for his friends, turns off the light, and tries to go to sleep, but he is quickly awoken by arguably the most unsettling inanimate object in this series. If you look at the pictures in the photo album he's holding, you'll see an image of the Red Guy with his diploma (meaning he's an adult now, more on that later) and Roy. At the end of the last episode, when he didn't move to answer the phone, I assumed that meant that he did not care about the Red Guy or the Duck Guy, but clearly I was wrong. The video opens with the Yellow Guy lying in his bed, crying and missing his friends. If you argue that the brief song about dreams actually does have some relevance outside of what I've proposed, there actually is some evidence to back it up. ![]()
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