What the HELL is Happy Tree Friends? (you thought this was for kids? NOPE lol)
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Happy Tree Friends is like one of THE ANCIENT internet memes...any of y'all watch this show back in the day?
Yes
Yes
I watch when I was 5
the show was my childhood
I did back in 2008
Ahh, childhood memories. Horrific memories, but memories nonetheless.
For me it was the best memories but I’m still a kid so it’s different I guess.
For me it wasn't terrific it was yeah a memory I guess.Gore doesn't bother me only specific parts feel uncomfortable like something around eyes or skin getting stretched.My cousin tried to scare me but failed so we just watched it normally until she couldn't handle it.I can't remember what I thought of it my childhood memories are in fog but yeah I just watched it because of my older cousin.My cousin enjoyed to torment me for fun so that's why she did it luckily for me I for some reason can handle gore I don't know why wait now I'm curious how that works why some can handle it and some can't.
@@uopeson1259 If it’s cartoon and doesn’t add these gross noises I can deal with it so I guess it’s like that? Cause the sounds sound unreal so it’s funny for some reason? Or you just find it interesting. At least that’s my take on someone who can handle some gore.
My dad accidentally showed this show to me when i was a little girl
I've seen this since I was 12
I remember watching happy tree friends on high school computer. It was the best flash animations id ever seen at the time. We'd crowd around the screen so the homeroom teacher couldn't see what was on the screen.
Oh hi
Wow.
Have you ever got caught?
You actually bothered? I watched full episodes in homeroom and my teacher pretty much didn't give a crap.
My sister first show me this show as kids and I was traumatised by it seeing innocent cartoon animal brutally kill in a gruesome death I get it was an parody on old cartoon like Looney tune and Tom and Jerry where charther miscellaneous survived from some violence that would have kill them with slapstick.
"Dont show this to kids"
The majority of the people that watched : its our childhood show
Why is this so true
@@llamaking191 No idea
I definitely remember me and my younger brother watching this show on DVD laughing our asses off and our mom peeping in wondering what the hell was wrong with us lol 😂.
@@TheMeloettaful haha lol
That's kinda dark to think about...
I only saw a few scenes from this show but I remember this. It's the kind of show that you only need to see a few seconds of it for it to stick with you forever
I watched the first 30 secs of one episode years ago and I still remember it
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Honestly. My friend showed me it for the first time in sixth grade and I wanted to throw up. I’m a weakling I can’t handle gore and it honestly disturbed me that he liked it so much 😅
Can confirm. I accidentally stumbled into it when I was younger and I remember the singular scene little me saw before I clicked off 💀
your htf phase never goes away, it just hibernates
Fun fact: When Flippy “flips out” he isn’t just killing people because he wants to. He begins to hallucinate that everyone is a soldier and he is back in war, which is why he kills them.
**Insert mandatory Nicolas Cage "You don't say" meme**
It's "Hollywood PTSD" - how people who have no actual psychological knowledge imagine how PTSD works.
My man really has some mental problems going on, poor guy
@@ernovincze2900 as someone with ptsd i find it funny at least, its so dumb its great
No shit
I still have so many T-shirts from High School of Flippy lmao that green PTSD Bear was my fav & all the Early 2000s edge song amvs like Animal I have become, Bodies, and Down with the sickness with him were Amazing lmaoo
Omgsh same but for me it was elementary and early middle school
@@rossbob4215 wait they had T-shirts but yeah Flippy was my favorite and Flaky I saw this show when I was 7 years old I didn't know what I was in for I thought it was some kids show but this show goes 0-100 real quick
Off-topic but, those Eminem/Linkin Park Naruto amv’s were the shit back then fr.
@@Omnihilo_ Amv were the my shit in 2015 When i started watching some anime
I found hundreds of amvs, that's how I found happy tree friends
What's ironic is that UA-cam is accepting it. They even used the characters for their videos in the official "UA-cam" channel.
"Russell, are you uploading Lumpy's video without permission?"
@@MrQuinnzard no
@@MrQuinnzard *"THAT'S HOW THE LAAAAW WORKS"*
lol.
That video made losing a UA-cam account look like the worst thing that can ever happen to you
It is mind boggling to think there is now an entire generation that has no idea what HTF is. But the flip side is that there is an entire generation of people to show it to and watch how they react.
Oh trust me we are very aware and we love it
I saw my 7 year old cousin enjoying it, I thought he was a psychopath
Oh they know they just prefer to have their hyperfixations on South Park
When you sad flip side I thought it was a flippy reference help😭 🙏
God, I thought I was so cool for liking this in the mid 2000s.
First comment thats not a bot
Same
i thought i was just wierd.
I remember kids would excitedly tell their friends to watch it.
We all did man
Saber: "Sorry if I butcher your names"
*turns to Montejo*
"Your name is Mojito now"
haha he said butcher i get it
Me?
How he said Daedalus made it worse for me lol
The fact that Netflix briefly put this in the "For Kids" section
that's how I found it the first time I ever watched Netflix as a kid
*slowly grabs remote and turns on Netflix*
Thats how I first saw it. My sister put it on 🤣
Hmmm
My friend once told me back in middle school that apparently Happy Tree Friends was accidentally aired on Nickelodeon but I couldn't find any articles to verify.
I remember watching this non stop as a kid. I was scared and disturbed, but i was curious and couldn´t stop watching it-
Early 2000s internet was oddly charming. People did things for fun. I miss that.
yeah and among us and Friday night funkin didnt take over the internet
@@thefunny4272 yeah, when all that shit didn’t exist.
Fun is racist
@@thefunny4272 true and not true
@@skyesyd221 how not true
I think the only other memorable thing about this is that the writers of this show ended up writing the stories for the current Sonic the Hedgehog games starting with Sonic Colors.
they *WHAT*
For Real?!?
Damn
@Jenna Tulls bro WHAT
Arguably not a good thing lol
When every Happy Tree Friends characters died at the end of the episode, they just revived in the next as if nothing ever happened and they be like "This is fine." It's basically Kenny from _South Park_ all over again.
What if they're all in hell being forced to "die" over and over in horrible ways?
@@Funny_in_blue Then we get to make theories on why they deserve to be in hell.
Thats the power of Negative continuity for ya!
@@Funny_in_blue but every episode their minds are reset so they keep on dying each time
Family Guy does that a lot too. Think of all the times Peter has died.
Me [ many years ago ]: *Is seven*
My dad: *Remembers this show he found one day when he was confused why a kids show is being recommended to him. Shows me this show*
Me [ still seven ]: *Loves the hell out the show*
The one show parents would let their kids watch, *thinking* it’s a Kids show, lol!
Stupid people thinking I would or other people would click on their links when no one cares.
@built different stop
That was my parents :(
Nah, south park was one for that. Ten and stimpy is actually a kids cartoon
The weird thing is I don't feel disturb watching it when I was 9.
"Don't show this to kids"
Funny enough, I work in a place that sells food and kids come to hang out. I heard a group of boys, probably grade school to middle school talk about this show. It honestly shocked me. lol
that's how old i feel I was the first time watching maybe 14 at the oldest
I was in like 5th grade of elementary school when this got popular between my friends lmao
I watched this as a kid! Found it hilarious
I remember it beeing seen simmilarly to courage test between classmates. We would dare ourselves to watch the gore (boi I regretted it at the time). Everyone felt a mix of disgust and curioucity. For reference we were probably in 5th grade
Lmao jokes on you guys i watched thise when i was 6
When they came out too we had to wait for episodes. So it didn't get old too quick. Every time an episode came out we got excited.
Fun fact: the writers for Happy Tree Friends also wrote MadWorld and many of the recent Sonic games. I have no idea why Sega thought people who write super violent stuff would be good choices to write the stories of Sonic games, but they’ve always just done whatever the hell they wanted.
MadWorld was a masterpiece. I don't think it could be made today. Too many edgy jokes.
@Fletcher Reed
Care to put citations for that, because I don't believe the guys who made this worked on anything Sonic related.
@@DemonicRemption pretty sure they started with sonic colors if i recall correctly or atleast around that time frame of color, unleashed and generation
I love madworld
Knowing Mondo's origins, it's quite ironic that many of the staff members ended up working on video games.
In the commentary of the DVD series, the creators talk about how they didn't want to use guns because it felt too easy and uncreative. I think the closest they came was having Flippy and Evil Flippy fire staples at one another in the "Double Whammy" episodes.
Evil Flippy is actually called Fliqpy
I always wanted to have a staple gun
The show sucks anyway. It's uncreative as a while. They literally ripped off South Park Christmas special where the woodland critters worship Satan. They didn't need over the top death scenes that make you roll your eyes. I would question people's taste but then I remembered that people made the Kardashians famous for nothing and watch trash reality TV.
@@wintermoon7003 Happy Tree Friends aired in 1999, while the South Park episode "Woodland Critter Christmas'' aired in 2004.
@@UnderscoreAngel I'd forgotten about the Ka-Pow series. I just remember someone (I think it was Pontac, but it's been so long that I'm not sure anymore) talking about how they'd called him "Evil Flippy" but had his name as "Bad Flippy" on the storyboards because it was one letter shorter and they were lazy. 😂
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Ironically, it's actually VERY easy to think of a killing method that HTF never used even once: Guns. They intentionally avoided ever actually using guns to kill the main characters because that was "too easy"
Not gory enough either I'm guessing
@@craycraywolf6726 To be fair, they DID entertain a similar idea for the finale. A complete mess of sex, guns, and i believe drugs? But definitely fucking and shooting
@@higueraft571 Sounds like good times 🤪
@@higueraft571 link?
@@higueraft571 wait what ive never heard of that, r u sure thats real?
I remember once, my parents stumbled upon HTF (Happy Tree Friends) and they called me, and they told me to WATCH it. By that time, I already knew what HTF was, so I tried getting out of there, but in the end, I had to watch not one, but TWO whole episodes of HTF, and ending with my mom saying, "See, that wasn't so bad". I'll never forgive them for that.
Damn
Woah, why did u want you to watch it so badly. Especially if you didn’t want to..
@@X3meow.p4rtytime I didn't want to. That's the thing.
@@moon_xplorer yeah so why did they want you to watch it so much. That’s so weird? Did they even know u know about it before that happened?
@@X3meow.p4rtytime They thought it was a normal cartoon and apparently didn't notice the thumbnail.
Fun fact that I don’t think a lot of people know. Either fall out boy was a fan of the series or the other way around and they ended up having an animated music video for their song Carpal Tunnel of Love. Which I can’t remember is it’s own episode or inserting a version of Fall Out Boy as happy tree friends character and their usual chaos ensues.
Fun facts
1.There are an xbox live happy tree friends game, that borrow some elements from lemmings.
2. On some horror movies, an episode of happy tree friends was shown before the movie started.
such as
black sheep
braindead
shaun of the dead
I couldn't imagine that music video being anything else than htf related, it fits so well
@@zebare726 never seen those movies, but I would pay a ticket just to watch a happy tree friend episode on the big screen then leave after
@UCx2mAApS4uaVULutJR0xs1A wtf this comment got here 14 seconds ago while I sent a comment, lucky save
This was my first exposure to this series
"I don't like Gore. Blood, and guts, and organs. Make me lightheaded" We're on the same wavelength. I did watch Happy Tree Friends cause my friends liked it. But me on my own? Nope.
Watch Blood C, as someone who felt nothing from watching HTF when i was 6, that horrifies me.
I remember staying away from Happy Tree Friends when I was little.
For me it was like seeing a train wreck. I wanted to stop watching but couldn't even though it genually upset me. I still can't stan anything involving gore to this day :/
Same
Ayo angy F!corrin, Fire Emblem pfps unite
My mother thought this was a kids show and actually had me watch it for the first two years of my life until she watched it with me and flipped shit. I still remember the screams😂
A
B
From the show or her?
@@katiarepublic7057 *Both.*
I remember watched it on MTV as a kid at the living room while my mom was cooking. I also remember laugh at the goofy ways the were dying lmao and since she only stayed for the first minutes and left, she never found out
Adult Swim Announcer: Up next is Happy Tree Friends. Only on Adult Swim!
Bro that’s not even funny @TNFG180_Official.
Wth is adult swim
Adult Swim doesn’t even have an announcer, that’s too childish
You need a new reply section
“What? This looks like a kids show, why is this on adult swim?”
Saber: I don't do well with Organs
Me as an organist: *starts playing Toccata in D Minor*
You evil monster * applauds* such a Masterwork indeed
@@lornbaker1083 *bows* why thank u. I am quite the evil genius 😈
well yes, but actually yes
You mad lad.
*You absolute madlad.*
**aggressive clapping**
@I'mma Supah Star Warriah! I thought that only works if you say something like two Nos. :?
"Don't show this to children"
A little too late for that
omfg another enby duck :O !!
@@crabplant8426 Ayy!
Man this dude is singlehandedly gonna revive this fandom again
The fandom is a zombie at this point
Makes me wanna rewatch the series
What happened to the series anyways?
Then everything changed when the flippy mod for Friday night funkin came out
Just like how he revived the PTP fandom
(I feel like Saber has the power to revive every dead fandom)
HTF: we made this an online show so we don't have to deal with the restrictions of TV
Also HTF: **gets a TV season that is arguably even more violent than the web series had been to that point**
That “Resistance is futile” bit looks like a modern shitpost. Like if you were to just deep fry that image and post it on Reddit, people would eat that shit up.
True
The weird thing is, just drawings of gore like those doodles aren't getting me all messed up, but the animations creep me out, it is just something about the fact they are moving, the fact you know it is coming.
i remember being a little innocent kid and having my "edgy" friend show this series to me. we were fixated on it for a good 3 hours, and i couldn't stop watching it, but i had nightmares for weeks after that. ah, childhood.
Homestuck profile pic.
I remember back in 2006 when I was 5. I was screwing around on a flash game until I found an ad for Happy Tree Friends by accident i clicked on it thinking Happy Tree Friends was a kids show and boy was i wrong. Ever since that day. I was never the same again. Good times good times lol
Hehe same here
For me, my big brother told me about Flippy (I can't remember but i think his name is spelled a little different than how i just did)
And showed me a bit of the show, both when i was a kid
I was immediately nope-ing out
Though i did find the idea of a war veteran going on a violent rampage after having their PTSD triggered to be an amusing concept indeed
Knowing my big brother, i kinda had a warning sign go off in my head when i first saw the characters, lol
Homestuck? In my 2021? Its more likely than you think.
To be fair, Happy Tree Friends was my childhood and I still kinda like it to this day.
This series is fun. Also, love how Helix Sleep sponsored this saying “after watching this, you won’t get to sleep without or comfy beds!”
I find it amusing that HTF merch did very well in Japan, these creature designs are in keeping with the kawaii tradition, much like Hello Kitty etc. I doubt the vast majority of Japanese customers knew of the merch's grisly origin.
Htf is just cute stuffed animals in japan
Eh, remember popee the performer? i think that made it even better to them
I feel like they did know of the grisly origin but couldn’t care less
They had other violent children’s shows
Such as Poppe the Performer
Yes they did tf, do you think Japanese are naive?
Honestly, I think the characters actually have pretty diverse personalities. Cuddles and Giggles might be a bit basic, but even they have stuff to like about them. I personally love the grumpy Handy, and the timid Flaky. Flippy is probably the most complex.
I always appreciated the gag with Handy always working jobs that require hands, and the Mole always doing things that require eyesight
My boi Flippy had so many screws loose
@@brendankendall41 Yeah it's funny. XD
@@jamillatorres7226 Totally. I feel bad for him.
Remember that episode where Flippy basically finally defeats his alternate personality and moves on from his PTSD before then getting hit by a car afterwards?
I haven’t seen this show until recently and all I have to say is wow. This show is the real life version of Itchy and Scratchy.
This was quite an era. It had a huge fandom on DeviantArt and everything.
Yeah DeviantArt is insane
i was also in there. the fandom was awful for it‘s time. some arts was cool and great but the fandom itself was just somehow hateful as i‘d remember back then.
i didn't know what it was and it kept showing up on deviant art and i didn't actually care much about it. now i know what it is and i guess i still really don't care
@@MisterYeko Eh, I'd say it's less hateful, and like most fandoms; RIFE with infighting....
I was a part of that fandom! It was ... Like Sonic fandom but slightly worse
“It knew what it wanted to be, and it stuck to its’ guns.”
*shows clip of lumpy with a nail gun*
Clever.
I was volunteering for my local library once back in high school and saw that the Happy Tree Friends DVD Collection was placed in the kids section, didn't think much of it until a parent went to go grab it for their kid... had to try and calmly explain to the parent that this was not, in fact, for children, and was quite gruesome. The parent thanked me and walked away, and I ended up taking home the DVD collection at the end of the day for my friend.
I thought the parent would be a Karen lol
@@lylelylecrocodile2538 'I WANT MY CHILD TO BE EXPOSED TO GORE AND VIOLENCE, AND YOUR RESTRICTING MY RIGHTS! I WANT YOUR MANAGER.'
shoulda let them take it
😶😶😶
If you let them take it, there would've been quite a scarred child
You hit the nail on the head by saying that the whole formula behind Happy Tree Friends eventually became its own limitation.
I love the series, but I won't deny that HTF is a classic example of a franchise that is still stuck in the past.
If Mondo Media ever decides for a revival, they would need to make the show evolve beyond its basic premise.
The fact that they would sometimes sob while in pain made it so much worse. I didn’t mind cartoon gore usually because they wouldn’t be fazed by it at all. Their reactions felt so real and guttural for younger me.
I also felt horrible for the characters.
Really? I usually went heeHEEHEEHEEHEEHEE when I saw it
@Ceanie no they were crying like HEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHHEEEHHH
@Ceanie I understand HEEHEEHEEHAW
@@barkingsandwichhe under stands HEHEHEEHAW
This is bringing back some memories...
Turtle approved btw
@@chachashizumi6297 what the absolute f*ck?
Yes
Bad ones mostly
Damn
Even yellow wool is here
The fact that Handy doesn't have hands is hilarious to me.
The whole series has funny bits like that one but if you can't stomach the gore you'll be blinded by it and miss them like Saberspark did
@@brandonalvarado97 the first episodes were just shock stuff but then after a while the characters were given personalities and the episodes got actual plots so there was some actual good humor
And he somehow manages to build shit
What a peak of comedy, I'm dying of laughter.
@daisy 😂😂😂😂😂
Wow! What a wholesome show, I just showed it to my children & they loved it so much that now they’re crying tears of joy!
cant wait for 'Don't hug me im scared' as the next certified nostalgia content
Don't hug me I'm scared is a fricking piece of art 😌
HTF is ''good'' but it's just not on the same level.
OMG I USED TO BE OBSESSED WITH THAT
I can't wait for the Elsa x spiderman content to become nostalgic
Whats that
@@MaximNightFury nOOOOOOO-
Actually there was multiple signs that this show isn’t for kids but I wasn’t one of those kids who got scared. I loved htf
(This is not a brag I just wasn’t scared now stop being rude.)
Same. I like when things are turned cutesy or when cutesy walks into the gruesome territory.
I loved this show so much when I was 4-5 but got bored lol
Cool
Same
same
"It's animation, so it has to be for kids, right?"
-UA-cam probably
Haha lol
I wonder if Berserk is for kids?
i wonder if The Walten Files is for kids?
Some animations are for kids but some are for adults
Ignorants ldlots in a nut shell yeah
What’s funny is that instead of sneaking on my parents computer to watch this, my mother introduced me to the show when I was about 6
Your mom’s wild for that lol, I remember me and my younger brother getting in trouble with my dad for HTF.
Saberspark: *Can't handle gore*
Also Saberspark: *Has played Doom*
also saberspark : watches invincible
Nah happy tree friends is a league of it own.
No joke I think tree friends is a lot worse
@@huntercool2232 well, I grew up with Don Bluth movies which were oftentimes both cute, and dark, so I guess I like cute & dark things.
Doom doesn't exactly have the same sort of gore. It has ludicrous gibs, but it's not being sprayed all over cute fluffy animals.
We actually analysed happy tree friends in our psychology classes, whether or not it fulfills the official qualities for s "TV show for children"
It's amazing how much of the show is actually following these qualities. Violence in TV shows isn't that bad for kids. You have this *gets hurt but still lives* thing even in Tom and Jerry and the likes.
The bug problem with HTF is that their violence is LASTING. It's not s big oof and then laughter. It's torture and lasting suffering. THAT'S the part that makes it soooo suffering.
My personal take is that it's for teens as a minimal
Lol. I showed this show to a boy in my class and I got detention for it.
What the English
If I remember correctly, people die in HTF for one episode, then revived just to die again
Honestly. It's like South Park, If everyone was Kenny. And just like Kenny, everyone is back in the next episode as if nothing happened.
The only part of the HTF fandom I got into was when artists drew the characters as attractive anime men/women lmao. Like seriously some of the stuff I found online were genuinely good art
Happy Tree Friends is a truly amazing show. The episodes seem completely normal until one of the Tree Friends accidentaly die, and then it turns to pure chaos. There are even Friday Night Funkin’ mods based off of Happy Tree Friends!
I think there's more to it than that. It's not just the violence and crazy scenarios. It also has basic, but fun characters, very good soundtrack design, and sharp comedy.
@@pundertalefan4391 voice acting as well, sometimes u can hear the characters say english words (there’s a few compilations on yt) also i just cant imagine the thoughts of the VA’s having to scream and make weird sounds lmao i wouldn’t have been able to complete that.
As I have told people who never heard of this series, I tell them, "It's cute, cuddly and horribly wrong. If you've ever seen Itchy and Scratchy, Final Destination or Saw, you'll know what I mean."
Flippy: Just a lovely green bear who wants to be friends with the other characters
Fliqpy: *F I N I S H* *H I M.*
*Fatality!*
Bowmasters?
@@AaAaAccslytrflp no it's from mortal combat.
*Brutality*
Lol
I think one of the big reasons Happy Tree Friends got big was the “kids watching behind parents back” aspect as well. I know many individuals that it was the first bloody cartoon they watched.
Another semi-early Internet series I’d be curious about your thoughts: Most Popular Girls in School. It’s interesting stop-motion animation, with some gore, but mostly I know of many individuals and it was their introduction to cussing and swearing.
Omg, now I want Saber to review mpgis
PLEASE. Mpgis is severely UNDERRATED
I remember seeing a short part of it on a KIDS CHANNEL once with my my little cousins there... never have i ever made such jump for the remote control this fast .
Great video ❤
I remember seeing this on the horror section on Netflix and wondering “Why is this here?” and then I saw the thumbnails and understood why.
Huh, I thought it was on youtube. At least that’s where I watched it.
it's on netflix?
This but Madoka Magika.
@@sparky9122 used to be years ago
Lmao
"I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?" - Jess C. Scott
Unikitty detected
Lol
@@thesaddestdude3575 Ya might want to check one of his Sailor Ballz community posts though 'cuz I've even quoted her there
Go figure
"Don't show Happy Tree Friends to Kids!"
Too Late, 15 Years Too Late.
I need to rewind my memories to find out if that's also the case with me lol
I have to say though, the episodes where Flippy fights himself is a masterpiece.
Now that you've dreged up this ancient millennial's nostalgic flashbacks, let's go deeper Saber.
Do Homestar Runner next.
Oh God yessss
Trog Dor!
Hell yeah, Strongbad!
Meh, everyone only went there for the Strongbad emails
I still sing e-mail songs when I check my e-mail at work.
This is "not suitable for children", yet is only watched by kids who find it exhilarating to see something gruesome yet not _too_ real. The episodes are repetitive - yes, there are some imaginative scenarios and nice animation, but it's not meant for adults to seriously watch. It's for kids to share with their friends and hide from their parents, getting to feel like they're breaking some rules and seeing a forbidden glimpse into the adult world. For that purpose, it works wonderfully. Kinda like adult magazines or slasher flicks back in the day, and... whatever is the modern equivalent, maybe those questionable Elsa/Spiderman UA-cam vids or whatever is happening on TikTok currently?
Those Elsa/Spiderman Videos Are Awful They Just Are
Am I The Only One Who Thinks That Kids Are Not Stupid And They Not Should Be Getting A "Forbidden Glimpse Into The Adult World"
@@amytattersfield2017 well they're gonna get it anyway so at least it won't actually scar them too much
Also a damn good show
Personally, I found it not graphic ENOUGH, and most B-movie slashers felt too tame by my standards.
Out of all the early internet animated shows, I’d say Salad Fingers is the one that has stood the test of time and the one that gets more high-quality as it goes on. It didn’t have content that would badly date the series (except maybe the crude animation of the early episodes but that’s understandable) and the creator continues to improve the visuals and storytelling to create something that is still to this day very unique.
I like to rub rusty spoons
Mondo also collaborated with Fall Out Boy to create a Happy Tree Friends music video for The Carpal Tunnel Of Love from Infinity on High! It even had happy tree friends versions of the band and they used clips of the series in some of their concerts for a while
"if happy tree friends and tom and jerry fused they'd be itchy and scratchy" is the biggest brain thing
True
My favorite was when Lumpy (the moose) gets stuck under a tree and cute his leg off to escape only to realize he cut off the wrong leg. It was the only time they actually got clever with the formula that I can think of.
Especially since he wasn't even dead at the end, he just pulled out a paperclip and prepared to try again on the other leg (the spoon had broken).
@@maximsavage somehow it was more gruesome than actually killing him too. It’s the only time I remember the show being clever.
That happened in the simpsons. One of the tree house of horror episodes opening. I don’t. Know which one but homer sneaks to the mountains to seaclety eat Halloween candy and falls of a cliff. Ends up chewing off his other arm and leg and I think his other leg then the arm that’s actually trap. Then when he gets the candy it got swapped of veggies and the children have the candy
XD As a fan of the show, I can't watch that one. It's just... too much. Same with the one where he slits his neck while shaving in the car. Dummy.
Nothing screams the late 2000's than edgy cute animals with a fanbase that makes them into anime high schoolers.
@@chachashizumi6297 did anybody ask
Those were the days
Early 2000's, this was not at the end but at the beginning.
Funny enough (or not idk)´-﹏-`；that's how I first found out about HTF was because the anime fanart until I found out it was a cartoon not an anime😓😅
This is one of my favorite cartoons. I love this show, always will, and the show never ceases to make me laugh.
Personally, as someone with complex PTSD, I really appreciate Flippy's character! Yeah, at first it just kinda seemed like "Oh PTSD bear bad" but then they did the dedicated episodes about Flippy getting treated for his condition and literally fighting the manifestation of his trauma. I felt it was a good addition to his character, along with the episode showing his origin. I honestly think it's comforting. Obviously, nothing against you and your opinions, I fully respect you. I just wanted to share a point of view from someone currently going through the same mental condition
Well I hope you are doing well in your troubling problem(s)
ok, i definitely have to rewatch this now... i was like 12 i think when i last watched it, so i really dont remember that. i just remember all the gore because i was an edgy little shit. i dont have PTSD afaik but im just now coming to terms with my childhood trauma so i love that idea
I’m sorry to hear that you have PTSD, I hope your doing okay and enjoying yourself!
There was one episode in which flipped-out Flippy remembered a dream while on one of his usual bedlam and mayhem sprees and teared up, _switching back_ to his normal, saner self even!
Yeah, the episode ended as it usually does with almost all characters obliterated, Flippy included, but it was good to see that his characterization was allowed to remain in a show with basically no canon for a while.
Seems kind of pointless in a show like this. Why care about what happens to him if he’s going to become mincemeat by the end anyway.
They put this show on Netflix when I was 5
My brother and I watched it
It's now a huge part of our childhood and we love it dearly.
I remember friends in middle school talking about this like “wow this is great” and they showed it to me and I was genuinely horrified lmao
imo the best way to experience HTF is through the DVD commentaries, the crew have so much chemistry together and point out so many little jokes especially in the TV season that get overlooked in favor of the violence.
I was obsessed with this from age 7-11. I got everything in green cuz i loved Flippy so much. My mom got so worried when I told her about my favourite murderous bear lmao
I love Flippy!
I continue to love flippy
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In 2012, a friend of mine during high school in said, “Have you hear of Happy Tree Friends?”
“No, what is it?”
“It’s like Spongebob Squarepants, but more violent. Don’t watch it,” he replied, though I can’t remember if that was he exactly said.
In 2017 or 2018, I was introduced to the cartoon by my friend, Miles. I was shocked, disgusted, and fascinating by the violent animation. I never saw nothing like this before.
Omg same I was scared afterwards and I was scared for life I can’t believe my friend showed me this 😖
@@lps4life855 Lol friends love showing their other friends disturbing internet memes/videos/games. That's what (some of my, and vice versa) friends do.
@@lps4life855 its beautiful isnt it?
They actually never used guns in the show since it would be "too easy"in their words, lol
Honestly what made Htf so interesting to me is how flippy is just a war vet and how everyday things can trigger an episode. Even with like two episodes I think having him trying to fight off the having an episode. Especially the tiger Bomb episode showing why he’s like this. This premise got me into violet evergarden
"I'm drawing furry art and making twice as much as you are." based on numerous testimonials the doctor is the one paying for Furry art. Like, a LOT of furry art.
They see humans everyday. They need more
Imagine being a doctor & drawing furry art ^.~
@@somethingsuperbland8829 well theres a limit on the knowledge of human anatomy, but step into the animal kingdom and damm, theres a lot of interesting/unique/weird shit
What’s wrong with furry art? Don’t worry I don’t make weird stuff. that be gross
You're absolutely right
"not suitable for kids"
Literally everyone: reality can be whatever I want
underrated comment police! we found one!
Lmao
If those kids can read they will be dissapointed
Laughs in 8 year old mes old trama
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What is even better than the show itself is watching with the director's commentary. The crew watching their own work and commentating is a whole new level of hilarious!
I love those rare places where you actually get to see real people with souls behind these kinda things.
Yeah, I remember seeing these video. I especially love revisiting Happy Tree Friends while watching this doctor react to the main deaths and injuries that happen in these videos.
This series actually traumatised me when I was a kid. I caught a clip of a Christmas episode while at a friend's house and could never watch a clip of it again.
i didnt know it wae gore-y and i got in it my recommended when i was like 8-9 years old. I was traumatized by some character's guts getting ripped out
@@tomatertate same
I watched it as a kid and didn't question anything. I still thought it was for kids even after all the gore lol
I just thought it was funny
I felt the same. I can handle south park gore, but happy tree friends? Sick.
I used to gamble about who's gonna survive at the end, the mole is a safe bet almost everytime
I oughtta re watch this and try it lol thx for the cheat code
The Mole always dies in the TV series unfortunately
The idea of changing the series name slightly every episode brings to mind the rearranging of the letters on the sign in _Fawlty Towers._
True story: once I got so scared for the ants that always killed the blue anteater that I didn’t went to the restroom for 6 days straight because there were some ants there, I was worried they got inside me and kill me in sadistic ways just like the anteater.
in the newer episodes the ants stopped appearing so i like to think that Sniffles (the light blue anteater) ate them off-screen at some point
@@snifflesthetissuebox Really? I’d like to imagine after Tongue In Cheek, Sniffles learned his lesson and simply stopped messing with them.
@@budgieinahoodie5661 I just like to imagine that because Sniffles is on of my favorite characters and the ants deserve it
Fun fact: The ants were featured killing sniffles in a episode that was too gruesome even for the creators themselves, so after that, the ants disappeared
You know the internet was really the wild west when this show was your childhood compared to kids now being cocomelon
Yep and enjoy it when I was 10
Damn I feel old 😅
As a child i find this offensive but like your right most mids now watch cocomelon 👁️👁️
Yeah. Not to mention pretty much every UA-cam Kids videos that are absolutely inappropriate and disturbing for kids. Happy Tree Friends is pretty tame compared to those so-called "kids videos".
Last year I spent a few months living with a couple friends who had a baby, and babysat their nephew. It was my first exposure to Cocomelon, and I am convinced it is absolute garbage. It has no artistic merit, and the "lessons" could be taught through better means. It's just an excuse for parents not to pay attention to their kids.
The timing when he said “get dismembered” was ABSOLUTELY PERFECT
Had the timing, pacing and force of a goddamn atomic bomb, lmao
Time stamp?
@@idkyiexist3534 2:41
Happy Tree Friends was so big, Mondo animated the music video to Fall Out Boy's song "The Carpal Tunnel of Love" and it's considered an episode of the series.
The band members are all featured in cutesy animated form and everything and, yes, everybody dies!
I’m glad me and Saber are on the same page when it comes to HTF. When I was a kid looking at the thumbnails I was like ‘this is going to traumatize me for LIFE’ so I avoided it like the plague. Going back to it now, I can totally understand the impact it had on the internet and how it changed it.
Saberspark: "Internet Viewer Inflation"
Me: Ooh?
Saberspark: "Not like that"
Me: Oh...
He's onto us... 👀
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@@userisdeadandarchived2995 what do the noses mean...
@@Justalilsilly their saying that you smell like a baka
@@oldinactiveaccount thats kinda cringe...
My teacher played the lemonade one in school to show that animations aren't only for children as an example
And he said he knew we watched edgy and heavy stuff so he didn't care
you have a cool teacher
@@shrek12680 greatly, i still have him
And to think when I was a kid they didn't allow watching Pokemon in class because the VCR tape had the PG rating on it or something. Some teachers are paranoid about lawsuits and then there's cool teachers like you have.
@@boufrops6845 oh, ok then cool
I just recently got into happy tree friends because my husband grew up watching the episodes, especially Flippy. Sometimes it's nice to just turn off your brain and watch some chaos unfold.
This show was the bread and butter of edgy middle schoolers. Both to watch for themselves and to show unsuspecting victims.
I got quite into it when I was a junior in high school and was very edgy so yeah, you’re right
Only wimps are too afraid to watch a single gore scene in this show.
@@calebproductions1264 There’s also a difference between intentionally watching it and someone showing you a “cute video” and suddenly you have a bunny’s face being torn off and an eyeball being cut by a knife when you were expecting a cute animation. It’s really the shock value more than the actual gore if you aren’t expecting it.
@@calebproductions1264 But also be nice, not everyone like watching such stuff, maybe they are wusses but its okay!
@@thesaddestdude3575 what are you my parent?
Flippy is in a popular Friday Night Funkin' mod, so the love for this show lives on.
What
That mod is how I first learned about the show
@@ZimothydaAlien bruh
Happy Tree Friends used to have a forum where people can discuss the shows, make art, and participate in events. But most importantly, the forum was used for fans to create their own HTF OCs, roleplay, etc (mine was named Pookie). HTF was my first introduction to fandom culture, and since I was 8 at that time, the show probably set the precedent to the kinds of media that would interest me for the rest of my life. So anytime I see young kids getting really into FNAF, Creepypasta, or any horror-related media and people call them cringy and weird, I kept thinking to myself: “Damn, I was cringy myself too”. I literally can’t fault kids for being weirdos too.
AAAWWWWW AS A MINOR INTO THIS STUFF THAT GOES UNFAZED YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS 😎 IM CRINGE WHO THE HELL GIVES A SHIT :))))
I created a HTF OC when I was 9; I forgot the name of her though :( I drew her at school but had no idea about the forum
Carpal Tunnel of Love ft. Fall Out Boy was an iconic moment
I remember when I was introduced do Happy Tree Friends. My friend told me to watch it, but he didn't tell me about the gore. So I watched it thinking it was some stupid kids show and looked at him like, "why are you showing me this". Then the shit hit the fan, and my jaw hit the floor. He laughed at me for a good 5 minutes
Do you remember the episode? It was probably a lot funnier if it was so unexpected.
@@GameyGaming it was the one with the piranha i think
Man happy tree friends first deaths should’ve been more brutal to make it more scarier. S1 toothy dies by just splatting against a tree. TV series nutty just gets his heart impaled. There should’ve been more guts and blood in the very first deaths
@@Firefly256 no…. no there shouldn’t
I showed all my friends in person then it got around and my entire class was in the fandom and at indoor recess we would all watch the episodes on the school computers and my teacher was so concerned. It was a great thing though