Happy Tree Friends | |
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Genre |
Adult animation Dark comedy Splatter |
Created by |
Aubrey Ankrum Rhode Montijo Kenn Navarro |
Developed by | Rhode Montijo Kenn Navarro Warren Graff |
Voices of | Kenn Navarro Nica Lorber Rhode Montijo (1999–2005) David Winn Dana Belben (2000–2005) Ellen Connell (2005–09) Lori Jee (2009–present) Warren Graff Aubrey Ankrum Liz Stuart Jeff Biancalana (2002–2005) Peter Herrmann Michael "Lippy" Lipman Francis Carr Renée T. MacDonald |
Theme music composer | rj Eleven |
Country of origin | United States Canada |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 5 |
No. of episodes | 133 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | John Evershed |
Producer(s) | Liz Stuart |
Running time | 1–7 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Mondo Media Fatkat (television) |
Distributor | Mondo Media |
Release | |
Original network | Mondo Media (internet) G4 (television) The Comedy Network (in Canada) |
Picture format | Flash cartoon |
Original release | December 24, 1999 | – present
External links | |
Website |
Happy Tree Friends is an American-Canadian adult animated flash series created and developed by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, Kenn Navarro and Warren Graff for Mondo Media. The show is cited as an example of achieving a cult following. The show is rated TV-MA.
The series is best known for its mixture of cute cartoon anthropomorphic forest animals and extreme graphic violence. Each episode revolves around the characters enduring accidental or deliberately inflicted events of bloodshed, pain, mutilation, dismemberment, evisceration and/or death. At one point, there was a warning given to the site "Cartoon Violence: Not recommended for small children or big babies".
Happy Tree Friends features a variety of characters, each with varying appearances and personalities. However, almost all share identical Pac-Man eyes, boot-shaped feet, buckteeth, and pink heart-shaped noses; characters include Cuddles, a yellow bunny, Petunia, a blue skunk, Giggles, a pink chipmunk, Toothy, a mauve-colored beaver, Disco Bear, a gold-orange bear, Flaky, a red porcupine, Flippy, a green army veteran bear, Handy, an orange beaver with amputated hands, Lammy, a purple sheep, etc.