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.