The Dark Side Of Family (DHMIS)

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Timestamps
0:00 What does family mean to you?
1:47 Grolton and Hovris
3:15 Episode 3 breakdown
5:43 Uncanny Valley / Meet The Twins

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[mcslimy]

when I first watched the episode I thought they were saying "family gay time"

[StupidWeb]

This episode feels a lot like going over a friend's house as a kid, and finding out why he comes over your house all the time because his family is incredibly dysfunctional and abusive

[bloxydoesgaming]

A family is just a group of people that live together and share a lawyer.

[sonicmomo]

I JUST realized that the trio represents an outlook on life, Red is a pessimist, yellow is an optimist and duck is a realist, and this affects each episode

[Laxhoop]

I think that everyone really overlooks this line from Todney:

“I love my family, and they like me!”

He’s so defensive of his family, yet even in the heat of the moment, he can’t say that his family loves him back, but rather they just “like” him.

[mcfrog]

Something interesting I’ve noticed is that it seems like Duck is the only one really *living* in the house. I mean, the other ones live in the house too obviously, but they mostly just sit around waiting for things to happen. In the meantime, Duck reads the newspaper, rummages around the cabinets like in this episode, does his list thing from the transport episode and does a crossword puzzle. Idk what exactly this means but it definitely seems like Duck is the only one really doing things out of his own will instead of just waiting for another teacher to appear

[fluffywolfo]

Red and Duck are interesting because... it's not like they're each the Only Sane Man, it's more that they have a better grasp of some things that the other doesn't. Duck is aware of the absurdity of some of the lessons, but but willing to go with the absurdity of their world.... while Red Guy is more likely to go along with the lessons, but he has less patience for the absurdity of their world.

[Red-jlqr]

I think maybe them peeing themselves hints that they're in a bad home situation cuz wetting yourself common among traumatized kids

[SugarsnapCaely]

Something I wanna mention about that scene where Red is with his "family." It's interesting to note that, while he's excited for him to be there... the other members don't seem to be. What with the lines of "He's ruining it. We'll just have to leave him out of the shot." Only for Red to basically PLEAD for him to stay. "I'm just happy."

It reminds me a bit of web series. Where he doesn't quite fit in with others like him. He wants to fit in with others... he wants to belong... but he doesn't.

[ArtByZac]

Todney saying "i *love* my family and they *like* me" is honestly so heartbreaking because it's just another of many references to how dysfunctional the twins' home life is

[ArcherGhost]

Something I found interesting is how the twins cause this sort of fake positivity. You have to like them, you have to forgive them and you can't call them out for being wrong or corrupt or you'll be made to leave.

I feel like this is a dig at toxic family relationships, a lot of people are made to put up with family members that treat them like garbage solely because "they're family."

[ICantRecognizeCelebrities]

It's weird to me that, while the trio was trying to come up with a title to describe their relationship, they never suggested "roommates". It's like they would consider the term with a level of consent, like roommates are meant to have the option to live together, but they likely didn't.

[saylormoon]

This episode scared me in the first watch but Toddney playing the fuck out of that tambourine in the music segment takes me out every time

[rainy-matcha]

Another reason I think the twins chose yellow to be part of their "family" was that he looks the most similar to them out of the trio. He is the same size as mother in the family picture, and he is a more rounded and cartoonish looking human puppet similar to the twins and the father. He even has a letter "D" on his overalls, like Lilly and Todney's "L" and "T".

[mistermaxie]

This was the first time Roy felt, like, straight up intimidating. He walks in with a calm demeanor, he does his job to make Yellow leave, then he goes apeshit. He knows how to control himself, much like he knows how to control a whole-ass show. He's clearly a bit goofy on the outside, but there's so many intricate parts to Roy's character that make you feel uneasy around him. He's exactly how an abusive dad should be viewed. Even if he isn't physically abusive, his behavior and actions just make him seem unstable and like you're never safe around him. Like he could explode at any second, and that adds an extra layer onto the episode's commentary.

[doomyboi]

I think that Lilly and Todney are the only "real" ones in the family. They're probably connected to the Family Tree in a much more intimate manner than shown. Something I noticed, especially, was that all of the crossed-out family member pictures looked like an existing family member in some way. There were Big look-alikes, there were Small look-alikes, I think I saw some Mother and some Grandmother look-alikes in there too. I think a picture being X'ed out means that the person kidnapped to play that role in the Family Tree+Twins's little stage play died and needed to be replaced. Their pictures are still there and crossed out because as one of the rules of being a family states, A Family Should Keep Records.

[ShippyThe_PT]

Something I’d like to mention is when Yellow goes to make the call he actually makes two, begging for help before dialing again and ordering the chicken

[Dragon_Moth]

The twins also seem to regard family as something... Material. A family MUST have landlines, MUST eat Grolton's chicken and when they talk about their uncle, they mentioned he died but it doesn't matter because they got his filing cabinet. Just how media often shows that families must have things to be called a proper family

[bleachable]

Put the spelling of the letter in a descrambler and the words with the most letters used was “abduct and hateful”. The most note worthy.

[SaiScribbles]

I'm beginning to wonder if the Duck and Red who return to the kitchen are new ones put there by Leslie. I feel like Yellow is the only one she can't do that with.