robinsonaustin-07490 Happy Tree Friends. What more do I have to say here? On the surface, Happy Tree Friends appears to be family friendly with its cutesy art style and character designs. However, this is merely a façade underneath which belies a truly screwed up premise. Each episode starts off fine with cute little forest animals going about their daily lives but then without that much time in, the show transforms into a violent display of death and mayhem with characters getting into horrible accidents or dying in some of the most brutal ways. Which is one of the reasons as to why I love the show.I can't remember the first video from Mondo Media I watched about Happy Tree Friends, but I can definitely recall being utterly shocked because I was reeled in thinking that it was a kids' show. To me, the violence reminds me of some of the older cartoons such as Wile E. Coyote and Tom and Jerry. I always imagined what it would be like if for instance Wile E. Coyote was crushed by an anvil from ACME but with a more realistic spin to it, or if Tom got into accidents that he couldn't easily recover from. Happy Tree Friends fulfills that curiosity for me. Knowing the gist behind how each episode plays out, it would seem that the show would lose some interest due to its predictability, but Happy Tree Friends usually subverts this by playing with expectations to keep the show fresh. They would set up a scenario where it appears to be a shoo-in for a character to meet their bloody end only to then subvert that expectation...only to have them die a different way. For instance, there's one episode where Flaky -- a nervous-prone porcupine -- is blending nuts only for the gear to get clogged. At first it's pretty obvious that she would get horribly maimed if she were to try to reach in and unclog it, but at the last minute, she stops herself and goes to turn off the blender. She dies later on when she accidentally ingests some nuts and bloats up exploding when a blind mole mistakes her for the donkey. Another character winds up falling victim to the blender. This bait and switch tactic is one of the things I love about the show aside from its creativity when devising endless numbers of ways for the forest animals to die. The characters for the most part are simplistic in personality. There's Petunia, a skunk who has severe disdain for anything dirty and must clean it due to her OCD. There's Lumpy, a moose who is often the one indirectly responsible for the deaths of the other characters his main schtick being that he has several jobs despite his idiocy. Sniffles, a nerdy anteater who is often seen inventing or trying to eat a family of ants (who are some of the worst characters in the show). Or Nutty, a squirrel obsessed with candy or anything sugary. As for characters I personally like there is Flippy. Flippy is a green bear who suffers from PTSD that he had acquired from his time in the W. A. R. While he is probably one of the nicest characters in the show, whenever he sees anything that reminds him of his time in service whether it be a knife, gun sound, or fire, he shifts into his "Fliqpy" persona. And he is an absolute beast whenever he is in that persona. As Fliqpy, he can relentlessly kill other characters with ease and is a force to be reckoned with. One of my favorite episodes with Flippy is "Double Whammy" where he realizes all of the carnage he causes whilst in his Fliqpy alter ego and tries to find ways to suppress it which eventually leads to him having an all out war with his evil side. Despite some of the character's simplistic personalities some do have moments where they have hidden depths such as Disco-Bear. Originally I disliked this character, but later episodes give indications that he has low self-esteem so he acts like an egotistical jerk in order to gain acceptance. Other than that, a very enjoyable show for anyone who is into this type of visceral black comedy, but be warned that it is most certainly not for young children or anyone who finds this type of comedy squeamish.

Myra Glina Ummmm...I have watched a little bit of it and I find it scary to be honest because you see, I'm still a teenager experiencing things and stuff but anyway, I saw one or two episodes of it and I find them okay but for some reason, my parents downloaded them last year... When I first heard of 'Happy Tree Friends', I thought it was about happiness and pollution and all of that crap, so yeah. I was pretty uncomfortable when I was watching the show for the first time and I was like "What even is this sh*t...", so I covered my eyes and everything but I'm glad my parents warned me about the blood and animals killing themselves etc. (that reminds me of my friends, man I'm so deep sometimes) That's why I rated it 3 out of 10 stars because I didn't expect that a show would go that far with that type of violence like for example, South Park, The Simpsons and Family Guy.

michaelclifford-38758 This is awful. I thought "Happy Tree Friends" was a kids show! I almost showed it to my friends little sister who was 9 at the time! Then I looked it up on YouTube and found that it was created by a bunch of ex-TV writers with no lives.Explain how watching psychotic, deranged, sadistic animals murder each other makes for a good plot line to base a show around.Let me explain: IT DOESN'T. This show should have never been created, and should not exist, in any universe, at ANY time. This is not the worst show ever, but it is there.There is nothing good about it. Just don't watch it.

Otis Crazypants I saw people say The Mr. Men Show was the new Happy Tree Friends. I love both shows, but I don't think The Mr. Men Show is the new Happy Tree Friends. This show is really hilarious, especially when a stupid blue moose I call "Dumpy" (I don't care if his name is Lumpy) dies. It's like 1,000 Ways to Die without anything perverted or alcoholism. It also is the perfect reason why the song "Dumb Ways to Die" was created. Because they die pretty stupid deaths, which makes this show enjoyable for others. Seriously, how can this get 7/10 on IMDb when everyone on YouTube likes it (You should see how much fans of this show comment on every video of Happy Tree Friends). I bet if the YouTube users go on this site, this show might actually jump to 8.6/10 or maybe 9.3/10.