#dhmis time

[sh309]

It’s 9:30. there’s fish everywhere…

[tendonart]

Today smells of creativity

I planned to post the animation on this date, but it only completed 30 seconds out of 2 minutes...

[donttouchmeillkillyou]

Happy June 19th, homosexuals

[dhmis-tinhatter]

I was just rewatching Time (episode 2 of the original DHMIS series), and I realized just how good the creators are at teaching you about the characters through their dialogue.

In part of the song, when there are inexplicably fish everywhere, the three guys take turns listing specific times. At first I was examining the times to see if they have any meaning (I don’t think they do), but then I realized that the way each character phrases their statement(s) of time reflects something about that character.

First, here is a list of all the times mentioned, in order, and who they were mentioned by:

Quarter to 8 (Duck)

20 past day (Yellow Guy)

11 to 12 (Duck)

9:30 (Red Guy)

Okay, let’s starts with Duck. The two times he mentions are “quarter to 8,” meaning 7:45, and “11 to 12,” meaning 11:49. Now I don’t know about y’all, but I rarely hear anyone under the age of 60 refer to time by saying “quarter to” or the like. That kind of phrasing is something generally associated with old people.

Yellow Guy’s time is a bit more confusing. I’m not sure exactly what “20 past day” means. 20 minutes after sunrise? After sunset? A vague reference to June 20th? In the end, I decided that it’s probably supposed to be confusing and nonsensical. This is a theme with Yellow’s character– he is naive and often doesn’t get things quite right. You might say that he’s childlike in this way.

And what about Red Guy? Well, 9:30 is how most people I know would denote that time. Plain and simple, like you’re reading it off a digital clock. To me this sounds like the way an adult– perhaps particularly young adults– would speak about time.

I think this analysis gives a lot of credence to the theory that the three main characters are intended to represent three age groups– child, young adult, and elder.

[twinktor-frankenstein]

I drew Ralph, Vanny and Felix as the main three from DHMIS

And also Turbo getting fucking murdered :)

[pastelliek]

[static-scribblez]

June 19th and June 20th

(I fucked up on the “I like looking at you” scene I made it look like something out of an analog horror fml 💀)

[ask-a-clock-and-others]

What’s everyone up to right now?

“Brendon are our fucking wall..”

[jaskersneakthief]

Got inspired by @onlyonepurposestuff Tony's design and I made mine!

Now i made him kinda like a circus ringmaster/clown so that's why his cheeks, lower lip and eyebrows are painted yellow (and his whole face blue lol)

Also i made him have that weird thing that old inkblot cartoons had in his face, yknow the heart -face thing that mickey mouse and Felix have that kinda works as eyebrows!

[groovy-rat-man]

Alright. Fuck, marry, kill. Who's getting what?

[nataliatan31]

Tony meme

Diseño humano amii-stuff

Time creado por mi ÙwÚ

[darkmasterofcupcakes]

DHMIS Review: Short 2, Time

I have to say, I’m kind of impressed by the fact that they managed to actually make the ticking of a clock not only work as actually music, but that it’s actually got a pretty good beat? 

I am kind of wondering what’s up with their TV, since with how they talk about how it’s almost time for their show to start, you’d think that either the TV would be off, or there’d be something playing. But, no, the TV is on, but there’s nothing but static. Do they actually like whatever show they’re planning to watch, or is that just the only time the television works, and they just...want to watch television in general? I’d honestly believe either at this point.

Also, can I just say how impressive the improvement in the puppets is from the first short to this one, especially considering this was from before the kickstarter, if I remember correctly. Yellow Guy especially had a major improvement, namely in regards to how the mouth seems to have been designed. Now he looks a lot more like how I feel most of us tend to remember him.

Anyone else find it a little funny that Red Guy actually bothers to wonder who Tony is (and I’d assume, even though he doesn’t say anything, where he came from), but none of the three really seemed to question it when the Sketchbook came to life in the last short? I mean, Yellow Guy got a shocked expression for a second when she started singing, but nobody ever was like “Wait, what’s happening?” They all just sort of went with it. Now that I’m thinking about it, I think Tony showing up is the only time any of them actually really question the Teachers showing up, at least in the shorts.

“Rizd”? Guess these Teachers just really can’t spell. Then again, with Tony maybe he just wrote it wrong once and then didn’t want to waste the time fixing it, since it’d still “sound” correct when it was being sung. Also, the whole “the future doesn’t exist” is one of those lines that sounds kind of dark, but it’s basically just pointing out that technically you can never really experience the future, since by the time the future happens...it’s become the present for you. 

I know the main joke in the bath scene is how they use “brown” even though it doesn’t rhyme, because the most obvious rhyming word wouldn’t be creative...but am I the only one who finds it hilarious that Duck is the one wearing a shower cap...and he’s the only one who doesn’t seem to have any actual hair?

I think I pointed this out last short review, but I do find it interesting that with both of these first two Teachers, they don’t really seem to get hostile at all until one of the main Trio (or, actually, I think it’s Red Guy both times) says something that they could see as insulting or rude? He called Sketchbook’s way of expressing herself “boring”, and here he just flat out tells Tony they don’t want to have the lesson he’s clearly passionate about teaching. Not even asking if they could do it later, after the show, just flat out going “We don’t want to” - which also has the added “bonus” of, like Duck in the first episode of the TV show, making decisions for the group without consulting the others at all. 

The introduction to Roy almost always gets a bit of a chuckle out of me just for how random it is. There’s zero build up for it, and it doesn’t even fit with what’s happening at the moment, with them listing off things you can do to have a fun time. Yellow Guy just randomly jumps in to tell everyone he’s friends with his dad, and then we get a moment to hold on Roy that’s just long enough to split the difference between unsettling and hilarious. But that whole “I’m friends with my dad” thing....Oh, boy, that is not going to age the best by the end of these shorts, is it?

I don’t know why I love the fish montage, but I do. Maybe it’s just because of how random it is, or maybe part of it is because of the brief cameo from the Sketchbook. Which I am convinced is what helped to spark the Padlock ship, since it kind of established they were both around in the house, meaning fans could imagine they’d interact. I’m also kind of wondering now why there was never really much of a theory that Tony was obsessed with fish, since fish are brought up much more than pizza. Maybe because Tony’s not the one actually singing during the montage?

It’s super messed up, but I kind of love how Tony making the trio rapidly age is done in response to them starting to question if time actually exists. He basically does it because, well, if time wasn’t real, they’d expect to stay the same forever. So, in the mind of a being that doesn’t have “human” morals, what better what to prove that time exists than to give them an undeniable example of the effects time has on the body? 

Though, obviously part of it was also just him getting completely fed up with them trying to undermine his lesson. And unlike with the Sketchbook, it’s pretty clear that Tony did this all intentionally, and, from both his expression right before the aging starts and the brief shot we see of him watching as it happens, he does take a bit of pleasure from it. 

Considering I know mistakes can and do happen in media, part of me can’t help but wonder if the Duck’s eye still being on the floor after we cut back to what seems to be the beginning of the episode was intention or not? I think the most common assumption is that it was, because it serves as proof that the main characters were rapidly aged/killed by Tony, only for him to “reset” them back to before all of that happened, to help them learn their lesson about time. And while that is the most fun to think about as a fan, I do have to consider the possibility that the eye still being on the floor might have just been an error - like it fell there when they were doing the aging scene, and when they swapped out the puppets and costume back to the “normal” ones, they forgot to pick up the eye. 

Gotta love how, after trying to refuse to listen to the lesson because he wanted to watch TV....Red Guy just turns it off without a word as soon as they’re presumably able to start watching.

This is what I feel is the signature episode of all of DHMIS. Well, technically I feel like if you want to full experience what the series is like in a bit of a nutshell, you need to watch both this short and the one preceding it, but “Time” has a bit more polish and I think gets a bit of an edge for introducing both the character of Roy, and the knowledge of just how bad things can get for the main characters. Because this is the first time we actually see any of them get harmed, physically, during a “lesson”.

My favorite episode of either series, and pretty much iconic: 5/5

[tendonart]

Dude said 👍(°▽°)👍

Its black rim looks like a tire

[yokyoaaa]

GET MESMERIZED IDIOT‼️💥💥💥💥💥💥‼️💫💫🌀🌀

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i don't know what this is. the plush has invaded my brain. it has the controls now

[unoriginal-and-dumb]

I drew not all but the majority of characters that i like in a rainbow because the addition of kasper finally made a pretty smooth gradient

Heres some close ups

I should have really added a xenomorph in there but you guys do not understand how long this took me. Just pretend a queen xenomorph is in there at the end 🙏🙏 and also 3 different pictures of ryan gosling 🙏🙏🙏🤑

If you want to know anything about me study all of these characters (emphasis on isaac clarke)