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{{quote|''Bell out side home, ring it once and once again, it bring the red worm. Everything will be okay? MUST RING A BELL. If babie grows it is a sinister dark eye babie. A killer of man and friend.''|''Instruction for a Babie''}}
''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130618040542/http://www.somethingawful.com/series/34.php Instruction for a Help]'' is a [[Web Original]] series in eight parts, created by Zack Parsons and hosted on [[Something Awful]]. The original series consists of deliberately poorly written [["Faux To" Guide|how-to guides]] illustrated with similarly poor-quality images; the first one is for "a fruit". These start out merely being [[Surreal Humor|strange and unsettling but still pretty funny]], and grow into full-blown [[Surreal Horror]] by the end as the narrator's [[Hive Mind|bizarre civilization]] is drawn into an increasingly brutal war with the "mans from below".
* [[After the End]]
* [[Body Horror]]
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* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The Red Worm. Others are hinted at.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]] {{spoiler|Actually, everything is just trying to infect you; but you are trying to kill everything}}
* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]: The Nuss seems to have created/evolved new organisms for it's purposes (including the Red Worm).
* [["Faux To" Guide]]
* {{spoiler|[[Gaia's Vengeance]]}}: Goes both ways. The Mans From Below see everything going on topside as this, but grow pretty brutal in their attempts to regain ground.
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* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: The text is erratically formatted. Sometimes it's for emphasis, other times it's just random.
** [[Bold Inflation]]
** [[Rainbow Speak]]: Most persistently, {{color|red|The RED WORM}}.
* [[Perspective Flip]]: "The View From Below", which is several times longer than the rest of the series put together, which has a lot to do with it being formatted like normal prose.
* [[Pineal Weirdness]]: Mentioned but never explained. In the view from below, the dissected Red Worm has some sort of enlarged Pineal structure.
* [[Scrapbook Story]]: "The View From Below" has some scrapbookiness to it.
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: The narration primarily uses simple words and [[You No Take Candle|bad grammar]], but with some advanced vocabulary mixed in, much like the output of a machine translator.
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* [[Surreal Horror]]: The main series taken on its own is definitely [[Surreal Horror]]. "The View From Below" puts most of the surreal stuff into context.
* [[Surreal Humor]]: Although they have some unsettling bits, the first four or five installments are light enough in tone for their disjointed, creepy nonsense to be funny.
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]:
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* [[Talkative Loon]]: Some of the narration is too nonsensical to decipher.
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: The origin of the "Nuss" is never explained.
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