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.

yotamwineer Warning: I review only the tv episodes.The show is almost good, and the animation capture the innocence childish of pre-school shows ironically consider the graphic content of the show. the animation can be expressive about the death of the characters, which most part can be funny, and helps especially with the body language of the characters who mostly speaks in gibberish with English words here and there, the problems tend to be with the story which is very basic, and for the most part could be avoided if the characters didn't do stupid actions that cost other and themselves lifes (especially with lumpy). that thing make some of the characters kinda unlikeable. the music even tough could be applied to environment of the cartoon are not memorable and for the most part forgettable. the moral in the end of each episode useless, and doesn't give for the most part really understanding, in the end, this cartoon is not for everyone, and be warned about the graphic content of the show, if you decide to watch it. also this show is not for little children, don't let the animation mistake you.

doglover_08 I started watching Happy Tree Friends a few years ago most Thursdays at 10PM on SBS and it's so, so funny. The rating was only (M), even though there's a lot of blood and gore in it, but it's still so hilarious and my older sister doesn't like watching violent and gory shows like this. I got the 1st season of Happy Tree Friends in November 2010 now, which is over 4 and a 1/2 hours of non-stop funny, blood and gore and I can't stop laughing. Cuddles would have to be the most cutest and adorable character on Happy Tree Friends and he shouldn't deserve to die in every episode that he's in. I don't laugh when he gets hurt, but he's such a cute yellow rabbit. Poor Cuddles. Lumpy would have to be the most dumbest character ever on the show and he's probably hurt nearly as much characters as Flippy has, but whenever he dies, it's funny as. He's not my least favourite character, but he's funny in some episodes. If Season 2 comes out, I'll definitely be watching it. The episodes that I haven't got, I download them and watch them afterwards. I've got over 100 episodes so far, including Season 1. If I've got nothing to do, I'll just watch Season 1 and the episodes I've downloaded of Happy Tree Friends over and over again and I'll never get sick or tired of it. Ever. I give it a 8/10

FairlyAnonymous This is one of those shows that would've been humorous if it were only a couple of episodes. The episodes follow a very linear pattern: a scenario is set up with various objects, and then someone triggers the various objects to kill them in a gruesome matter. Very predictable, and not funny.I mean I mean I'm not going to say I don't love violence, but Happy Tree Friends makes the violence VERY boring. The show has over the top violence, and apparently this is why it is funny. The only reason why people watch it is to see some innocent animal die viciously. Other than that the show has nothing! Nothing interesting, original, or unique.