What the HELL is Happy Tree Friends? (you thought this was for kids? NOPE lol) 

Happy Tree Friends is like one of THE ANCIENT internet memes...any of y'all watch this show back in the day?

"Dont show this to kids" The majority of the people that watched : its our childhood show

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.

Happy tree friends is basically a family friendly show where every character is Kenny from South park

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.

Ahh, childhood memories. Horrific memories, but memories nonetheless.

God, I thought I was so cool for liking this in the mid 2000s.

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

Adult Swim Announcer: Up next is Happy Tree Friends. Only on Adult Swim!

What's ironic is that RU-vid is accepting it. They even used the characters for their videos in the official "RU-vid" channel.

Fun Fact: the reason why htf didnt have guns was because according to one of the ppl on the htf team said that killing with guns would be " too easy".

I never watched HTF as a kid either, but my Dad introduced me to it recently and now I'm hooked. I love pretty much everything about the show. though sometimes the Gore can be a bit much, I actually like that about it. I feel that the use of Gore gives the series a sense of realism that stands out against other Cartoons, using real-life physics in cartoony situations to create a contrast that pairs like cheese with fine wine. Another thing I love is the characters and their delivery. I feel that they can be very inclusive at times, being that some characters are Disabled and Flippy actually suffers from DID. For that reason, he's actually a comfort character to me, because I had DID at one point, though I was eventually cured of it through Therapy. However, I did have a different form (I was never dangerous and I had several Alters). I also suffer from PTSD and honestly, his whole character just makes me feel like someone feels what I'm going through. I also love Lumpy, because he reminds me a lot of Goofy, who's one of my favourite Disney characters. I also feel that something beneficial is that most of the words (though not all of them) are mumbled, which gives fans the ability to create their own Script for episodes, dub them and even make their own voices for Characters. None of the Characters have strong accents that I've noticed or features defining their heritage, so coming up with Races/Ethnicities for them and even drawing them as Humans is really fun, honestly. For example, I like to think Flippy is either Japanese or Russian for some reason and has a deeper voice. Designing features like that for every character just adds a little magic to the series, because it's something that you yourself can add to the story. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk, I've probably overdone it, but I love writing Essay-Styled comments/posts on random shit, lmfao.

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.

The fact that Netflix briefly put this in the "For Kids" section

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.

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*

I remember watching this non stop as a kid. I was scared and disturbed, but i was curious and couldn´t stop watching it-

The one show parents would let their kids watch, *thinking* it’s a Kids show, 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.

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.

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!

Saber: "Sorry if I butcher your names" *turns to Montejo* "Your name is Mojito now"

Early 2000s internet was oddly charming. People did things for fun. I miss that.

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.

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.

"Don't show this to children" A little too late for that

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.

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!

To be fair, Happy Tree Friends was my childhood and I still kinda like it to this day.

"It's animation, so it has to be for kids, right?" -RU-vid probably

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 RU-vid vids or whatever is happening on TikTok currently?

I remember stumbling upon HTF back when I was around 7, and it stuck to me like glue. I showed this show to my cousin once (she's older than me btw), she was shocked at first but then started to like as it went on. I actually remember watching HTF compilations on youtube of various ships in the show. My personal favorite ship was Flippy x Flaky(pretty sure its still a popular ship to this day) and honestly it's still one of my comfort ships. I blame this show for my numbness to visuals of bl00d and g0re, but that's okay lol

This is one of my favorite cartoons. I love this show, always will, and the show never ceases to make me laugh.

"Don't show Happy Tree Friends to Kids!" Too Late, 15 Years Too Late.

Saber: I don't do well with Organs Me as an organist: *starts playing Toccata in D Minor*

I remember watching this in 1st with my brother because it was on Netflix for kids but we stopped after maybe two episodes but now that I look at this show it’s literally terrifying 🧍🏽‍♀️

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.

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.

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.

I didn't watch it when I was a kid but I did play some of their games on Y8, especially the ones where you can interact with them by making certain choices and it didn't faze me at all. I never saw anything awful about them.

I believe that a creepy entity controls them. I am imagining the poor characters return from death from a tree growing on their bodies and they hatch from it.

"not suitable for kids" Literally everyone: reality can be whatever I want

2:57 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"

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 ❤

Yeah, back when I was little, me and my sister saw this and thought it was a kids show. We watched the one which is flippy’s birthday and me and my sister were scared when things are going down hill, so we both hide in the hallway, then my dad comes and we told him to turn it off. Now I’m grown up and see it again and it’s quite like wtf.😅

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.

You know the internet was really the wild west when this show was your childhood compared to kids now being cocomelon

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**

Back in the day, you had 2 options when you looking for animated violance: 1.a flash series on newgrounds named madness combat 2.happy tree friends

"if happy tree friends and tom and jerry fused they'd be itchy and scratchy" is the biggest brain thing

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.

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

11:35 Friends Bonanza Friends Tree 3:31 3:38 22:42

Saberspark: *Can't handle gore* Also Saberspark: *Has played Doom*

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.

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.

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

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😂

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.

I have to say though, the episodes where Flippy fights himself is a masterpiece.

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

Man this dude is singlehandedly gonna revive this fandom again

Nothing screams the late 2000's than edgy cute animals with a fanbase that makes them into anime high schoolers.

5 y/o was watching this with a big smile on my face and enjoying this, sweet old memories

Fall Out Boy's music video for The Carpal Tunnel of Love is literally an entire HTF episode. They even have a HTF version of the band (yes, they all get mangled badly).

"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

The fact that Handy doesn't have hands is hilarious to me.

Happy Tree Friends, Heavy Metal Guy, Weebl and Bob, Salad Fingers...I still scream at night

"so how did you get your childhood trauma? " "happy tree friends"

This was quite an era. It had a huge fandom on DeviantArt and everything.

I always hear people complain that this show was too bloody and violent... Like, that's the point?

I searched for happy and got happy tree friends when I was little. When i first watched it i started shaking uncontrollably for about 5 episodes

My mom put The G4 series on for me when I was about three when it first came out, and apparently I loved it. Explain perfectly why I still love it as an adult

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

"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.

And to think I discovered this series through a "Fall Out Boy", music video!!!

If showing this to children was a crime Then my sister would be a convicted felon

“what the fuck” fact: during the whole COPPA thing on youtube and the whole thing youtube did in which they moved content to youtube kids, HTF episodes and other similar content got caught in the mix and were moved to youtube kids. It was also on Netlfix for a while. On the kids section, of Netflix.

"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.

I am a gen z who discovered Happy Tree Friends because my babysitter found it on dvd second hand and would put it on for me while my sister (who had a terrible imune system) needed care. She eventually realized what she was letting me watch. Now I'm kinda f***ed up. So, yeah.

Carpal Tunnel of Love ft. Fall Out Boy was an iconic moment

This is bringing back some memories...

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.

17:47 Out On A Limb: *am i a joke to you?*

The one cable channel that I think would allow this cartoon to air is Comedy Central. I could imagine them airing an episode right after South Park.

Now that you've dreged up this ancient millennial's nostalgic flashbacks, let's go deeper Saber. Do Homestar Runner next.

cant wait for 'Don't hug me im scared' as the next certified nostalgia content

Saberspark: Blood and organs make me light headed Also Saberspark in another video: Poppee and his friends just have a great show

Look for some reason I'm ok with blood and organs. when I was a kid I was clueless about what is happening but as a teen i fell in love with it it's one of the most unique animated shows ever

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.*

The idea of changing the series name slightly every episode brings to mind the rearranging of the letters on the sign in _Fawlty Towers._

I kinda love how you lumped in flying airplanes with dates and lemonade as “harmless fun”

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.)

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.

I loved this show so much as a little kid and it kinda made me tear up a little bit watching this cuz it’s so nostalgic :D

G4 was the absolute epitome of tech t.v. back in the day especially when they had shows like Cinematech, Cheat (before Kristen Holt hosted it), Arena, Attack of the Show with Kevin and Olvia Munn, and my absolute favorite out of them all was X-play with Adam and Morgan Webb

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

Honestly this is what it would look like if Tom and jerry was more realistic

this show is practically Kenny South Park

I remember it being either indoor recess/lunch, going around my class to see what was going on and what everyone was doing, and than seeing a laptop open to what seemed to be a show I never watched before. It was the lemonade stand episode, no one was really paying much attention to it and there were no teachers monitoring us. No one was fazed by it, hell a few who put it on were laughing. God, so many of my classmates were desensitized and psychopathic. I include myself, I was one of the ones desensitized. I watched it with vague interest as I loved cartoons, I was in 4th grade. But to be fair, I grew up reading not only reading *Game Over* books but I also watched Robot chicken as my grandmother thought it was a kids network.