Happy Tree Friends
 

It's a really weird internet cartoon....

Link to official site

WARNING: IT HAS BLOOD AND GORE. WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK!!

If any of you guys like this cartoon and you have a Video iPod, then you can buy episodes from iTunes.

I watched it at a friend's house once when I was in sixth grade.

It scarred me for life.

So... cute... so... much blood!!! So... SAD!!! I cried, being the nieve eleven-year-old I was...

-Marty 8-)

As funny as I find mass gore and internet dismemebership and all that good stuff I love in movies, I can't bring myself to liking Happy Tree Friends. It kinda goes against everything that I love about cartoons.

It may sound "wussy" on my part, but I feel REALLY bad for seeing those toons going through such gruesome and twisted gags. If they weren't designed to be cute and resemble Disney/Care Bear clones then maybe I'd enjoy it more.

But I think it's because of their image that people love them so much. But me, growing up on things like Darkwing Duck, Care Bears, Rescue Rangers, and now Foster's, it's hard to really enjoy something like this.

I agree, when I first saw this was the episode where they all went to the zoo. It was horrible. I agree beacuse of their image and cuteness thats why people like it. But for me its hard aswell. As I also grew up watching Rescue Rangers & Care Bears. Although I do like the character designs their sooo cute :P

There's all kinds of things wrong with that cartoon. There's just too much violence for no reason at all, and this is coming from someone who read Jhonny the Homicidal Maniac comics.

"Jhonny the Homicidal Maniac" ?? You know, I'm probably better off not knowing.

(Activates search engine...)

I mean it may sound "wussy" of me to feel that way, but from someone who lived off disney and WB and cartoons it's hard to take pleasure in watching them dismember each other. Especially since it's mostly accidental stuff and not really intentional.

I enjoy violence as much as the next gore fan, but I just can't enjoy it the same way as I do in horror movies. That would be like if I pictured this same gruesome stuff in Darkwing Duck, or Tale Spin, or even Foster's.

It's just something that makes me feel crappy inside and I don't know how else to explain it.

Oh my stars. That was so warped...

Honestly, I can't bring myself to enjoy it. I just can't. Not in animation or Hollywood films. I don't think your reaction is "wussy" at all. On the contrary, it's completely normal. Blood and gore is something we've come to expect in Texas Chainsaw Massacre and every other mass-produced horror flick, but cartoons? It's even more disturbing to me in this manner.

Isn't it?

Huzzah, another JTHM fan!

I've not watched Happy Tree Friends, but I've seen chockloads of merchandise. I don't guess it's really done its job, though, because I've never been sparked to actually view it.

From what I've read here, though, I understand that's probably for the best.

I hope you guys don't think I'm a sicko for posting this. :(

Nah, no problem. :)

K, thanks.

the funny thing about this is that I've never actually SEEN it, I've only HEARD about it. I'm not going to watch it either. See, for some reason, when I HEAR about a gruesome caroon, I find it funny, but when I SEE the gruesome caroon... well... it kinda disturbs me. On the Itchy and Scratchy segments of The Simpsons, I often think: "wow, that was mindless violence with absolutely NO PURPOSE... that's.... weird..." Don't get me wrong, I like mindless violence as much as the next guy, but when it comes to caroons... don't ask.

Actually, in regards to the Itchy and Scratchy thing the major difference lies in two things. One is the amount of violence. Happy Tree Friends makes Itchy and Scratchy like G rated violenced, it barely even compares to HTF.

Secondly, the main reason the show is a hit (and why it makes me feel so sucky inside when I see it) is because unlike Itchy and Scratchy, the Happy Tree Friends are designed to look, act, and sound cute, cute, cute.

They're like the Care Bears and that's kinda where the gag lies in dismembering them. What makes it worse for me anyway is the fact that the HTF don't try to kill each other, it all happens through a series of accidents.

Where as Itchy and Scratchy constantly try to kill each other, mostly due to the fact they're the Simpsons versions of Tom and Jerry.

true, true...

I've never seen HTF, but I must admit that my curiosity is piqued...

I remember my friend Nate showed me this cartoon, its hilarious..

Now this is a topic I can resurrect with necromancy, as I know plenty about Happy Tree Friends. I am a moderator on the official Happy Tree Friends forum, even though it’s down at the moment. The show may pride itself on its violence and gore, but I assure you that there is quite a lot of depth to the series. I’ve written several comprehensive articles, two of which were over 10,000 words long, and the characters have complex personalities despite not being able to speak in a language that we can understand. Still, I can respect those who find the show to be unappealing, but the show has more going for it than just blood and gore.

Happy Tree Friends is disturbing but hillarious, as well as Johnny the Homocidal Maniac.

To Huntsman: You posting those FAQs up anytime soon? I'd love to read them. :)

Are you talking about the comprehensive articles? The Happy Tree Friends Forum is down at the moment, so I can?t provide links, though I?ll be sure to post them once the forum is back up. I would post the articles here, but they?re well over the 12,000 character limit and it would be somewhat difficult to get them posted. In the mean-time, I guess I could link to an explanative review I wrote for the series; it?s not as detailed as my comprehensive articles, since they focus entirely on specific characters, but I think my review was kind of decent.

My Explanative Review

Very good!

When the forum comes back up, you can give me the link to the specific charcter articles. I *love* reading your FAQS/articles; must be the avid dork reader in me acting up. ;)

This is the one I wrote for Giggles.

This is the one I wrote for Flaky.

This is the one I wrote for Cuddles.

This is the episode guide that I wrote.

The article for Giggles is probably my best one; the article for Cuddles is probably my worst, since it was only a basic comprehensive article. The episode guide is my longest work, but it’s incomplete at the moment. Keep in mind that these articles stretch over a various amount of posts.

happy tree friends
 

if you wonder why dont post much here anymore its cus i hang out at a different forum. the forums for happy tree friends, if you like the show, stop by.

http://forum.happytreefriends.com/

chatroom: http://www.happytreefans.net/chatroom_v2.php?mode=login

anyone like the show?

It's alright I suppose, I'm not a *huge* fan but once in a while is all my stomach can take. :)

(Oh yeah, can we merge this thread with the older one? )

Ah yes, Happy Tree Friends, all the sense killing/dying by cute, fuzzy creatures......gotta love it ^^

Sorry to disagree but I honest to god HATE this show. I don't really find it funny and in fact i find it appalling. It's not the gore that bothers me, gross humor I find to be very funny and can be funny when used properly. But usually when gore and violent humor is used, its funnier if the person doesn't feel pain.

Monty Python's Holy grail "Black knight" comes to mind. The other main reason is because I grew up on cartoon characters of this nature and to see them being happy and then THAT happen to them, it kind of makes me feel crappy inside. Knowing how close they are to toons I grew up on like Care bears and Chip and Dale etc.

I know it sounds kind of sissy like to feel that way but I just feel this is like a violent venting show and its venting against something I've never felt needed THIS kind of venting. Mockery is one thing but I find this very painful for someone who grew up on toons to watch.

HTF is alrifght once in a while, but i gotta agree with Mr. M, watching small animals die has never been my thing. Particularly the episode where the little kid gets lost at the beach and his dad is looking for him. That was just sad :(

I had to have a look as I was a little bit curious as to how much there is to say about these tragic incidents that keep befalling these sweet little characters. When I went on there were 60 people in the forum (!) 18 of which were members so there's definately a market for it.

However I'm way too squeamish to watch that show so I think I'll just stay here, thank you. Hell, there are bits of Tom & Jerry I can barely watch.

I've never seen HTF but I must admit that I'm becoming more than a little curious, in a morbid sort of way. :bendy:

There are bits of Foster's I can barely watch. :frankiemad:

If there are things in Foster's that you have trouble watching, I assure you, the stuff Happy Tree friends displays is far more harder to swallow. I can't even bare to watch a single minute of the episode without feeling crappy and crummy inside.

I personally don't recommend it for your tastes Cass but that's just me. I don't hate or dislike people who like the show but for me its something I just don't want to think about or see again because it hurts too close to home so to speak.

I know what you're saying. I think my interest is more due to the fact that the premise sounds so ludicrous than anything else; ludicrous like that Geico Caveman show, albeit in a very different way.

I have to admit that I've become curious about this show but I think I'll avoid it. From the sounds of it, it may be a little too much for me...

Um, I just got back from the site... I'm feeling a little disturbed right now. :o :wiltshock: :eek:

Don't want to say I told you so, so.....:-X

I take it that your experience didn't go too good Cass? :(

(Yeah, my 1st reaction to the site was the same thing.)

The episode... eyeballs can't do that... :eek:

some episodes are funny, though.

Where the crazed army guy has a flashback in a diner and kills everyone because he thinks they're Viet Cong 8D THAT was classic.

Oddly enough, I've actually seen a couple of episodes of this cartoon, even though it was clearly never intended for the likes of me. (Blood? Gore? The visceral disassembly of cute, fluffy little animals? And me being notoriously squeamish? No thank you. :o )

I remember my brother first describing it to me as being "exactly like Itchy and Scatchy" (a rather ineffective selling point, given that I've never cared that much for I & S), but when my morbid curiosity finally got the better of me a few short years later, I discovered to my detriment that he was way off the mark. I mean, at least in I & S the gutting and dismembering is as a result of the deliberate actions of a very sadistic rodent (even if his feline victim is totally undeserving). With Happy Tree Friends, on the other hand, the characters are all just so darling and, well, happy, and are really just out for a good time in which to enjoy one another's company. I have to agree with Mr. M about the crappy, crummy feeling that tends to seep in whilst watching them befall one tragic, bloody accident after another. C'mon, they're so damned adorable. I really don't want to see them die. :(

If HTF is your thing, then you're welcome to it. Same goes for I&S. Me, however, whenever I fancy my fill of seeing two supposedly cute and innocent little creatures inflicting nasty injuries upon one another, I'll stick with Aardman's Pib and Pog. Pib and Pog were a work of bloody genius. Without a drop of blood at all, in fact.