The Healthy Band

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Partners in Crime
Full Names	Steak Spinach Can Bread Fridge
Alias	The Healthy Band
Origin	Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 5
Occupations	Teachers
Powers/Skills	Singing Harvesting organs into cans.
Hobbies	Discouraging others from being unhealthy.
Goals	Make the puppets eat "healthy" and punish Duck Guy for having differing opinions (succeeded).
Crimes	Murder Brainwashing Mutilation Torture Theft (possibly)
Type of Villains	Successful Brainwashers

“	What's that? A tasty snack! You don't wanna go and eat a snack like that!	„
	~ Spinach Can.

“	That wasn't onion paste! You shouldn't eat food from a stranger's plate!	„
	~ The Steak.

The Healthy Band is a group of talking food that sings about being healthy and the main antagonists of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 5. The members include a human-sized piece of steak made to resemble a chef, a can of spinach, and a loaf of bread who drums. Later on, a fridge also joins.

Appearances

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 5

Ironically though they are a band they aren't very good singers, and their song is more talking than singing. Their song says that bland foods are healthy while tasty foods are unhealthy, and later they contradict one another over what foods are good for you and what foods are bad and will "make your teeth turn grey".

They become angry when interrupted by the telephone ringing, though they themselves interrupt or ignore Duck Guy's questions. When Duck Guy tries to escape (perhaps after being warned by Red Guy on the phone), they have a can that eats Duck Guy's organs and puts them into smaller cans, which is then fed to the Yellow Guy. They are the most evil teachers to appear in the series, because they actually kill a main character in a gruesome manner and feed him to his friend.

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 6

The steak and spinach can make a minor appearance when Red Guy messes around with the machine used to make the different teachers appear. Shrignold the Butterfly turns into the steak when Red Guy presses a button, and he sings the line "Ice cream beef? Ice cream beef makes your teeth go grey!" and then turns into the spinach can when Red Guy presses another button, who sings "Doesn't matter, just throw it away! Why not try some..." but the Red Guy presses yet another button before she can finish, causing the spinach can to be replaced by a copy of Duck Guy.

Electricity

In the final episode of the TV series, during the blackout in the puppet's house Red Guy and the resurrected Duck discover a room containing the dead bodies of the teachers from the original series. One of the bodies appears to be the fridge. The steak is the only one who is still alive, although he is missing an eye and has been driven insane, obsessively repeating the phrase "help me" (or possibly "healthy") over and over again while sharpening a knife. It's not revealed what happened to them, although Lesley seemingly has something to do with it, or whether the spinach can and bread were also killed.

Possible Symbolism

Their song might symbolize how the health and dieting industries flip-flop over what is considered healthy over time, giving rise to contradictory dietary advice from different sources.

The episode itself may also be promoting vegetarianism or veganism, because of how Duck Guy is brutally murdered and stuffed into a can (with his smiling face on it) to be eaten by his own friend Yellow Guy, unbeknownst to him. It is akin to how people eat meat without thinking of the gruesome way the animal died.

In another sense, the episode may also represent how children are discouraged from questioning what they are taught. When Duck Guy begins to question the Healthy Band, he is interrupted, kept from answering the phone and gaining knowledge from Red Guy, and finally killed as punishment. The puppets being encouraged to stick to eating plain foods can represent them being discouraged from thinking outside the box.

Gallery

Images

The steak watching the phone ring, astonished.

The giant can after murdering the Duck Guy

The fridge, a member of the Healthy Band.

The bread, a member of the Healthy Band, while singing his first line in the song.

Videos

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 5

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 5 EXPLAINED

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 6

Trivia

• The Bread is the only member that does not seem to be villainous nor antagonistic.
• When Duck Guy was on the phone, it is possible that the Healthy Band stole the phone and replaced it with food.

External Link

• The Healthy Band on the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared Wiki.

Navigation

Villains

Staff Lesley | Roy Gribbleston The Teachers Tony the Talking Clock | Shrignold the Butterfly | Colin the Computer | The Healthy Band | The Lamp | Other Teachers | The Briefcase | The Twins | Warren the Eagle The Cult of Malcolm Shrignold the Butterfly Peterson's and Sons and Friends Bits & Parts Limited The Briefcase | Elevator Speaker | Carehound Others The Money Man | Giant Can | Bigger Boys Collaborations Grady | Frank and Howdy