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| Genre | Black comedy Splatter |
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| Creative director | Dean MacDonald |
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| No. of seasons | 5 (total: 6) |
| No. of episodes | 94 (total: 133) (listing of episodes) |
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| Producer | David Ichioka |
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| Running time | ane–5 minutes |
| Production visitor | Mondo Media |
| Distributor | Mondo Media |
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| Original release | December 24, 1999 (1999-12-24) – December 22, 2016 (2016-12-22) [nb 1] |
Happy Tree Friends is an American developed animated web series created by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, and Kenn Navarro, and developed past Montijo, Navarro, and Jeremy Viet Duong for Mondo Media. The prove had achieved a cult following on Mondo Media, G4 and YouTube. [1] Montijo, Navarro, Graff, Ankrum serving as showrunners.
Existence an adult cartoon disguised every bit a children's cartoon, the series features cartoon anthropomorphic woods animals. Every episode starts out peacefully with the animals living life as normal, but a sudden event unintentionally (sometimes intentionally) acquired past another animal leads to many of the characters being subjected to very extreme and cruel graphic violence. [two] Each episode revolves effectually the characters enduring accidental or deliberately inflicted pain, murder or mutilation. [iii]
Background
History
While working on Mondo Media, Rhode Montijo drew a character on a piece of scrap paper who would later become Shifty. He then drew a yellowish rabbit that diameter some resemblance to Cuddles, writing "Resistance is futile" underneath information technology on a spreadsheet affiche. Rhode hung the drawing up in his workstation then other people could see his idea, and eventually the idea was pitched to and accepted by the Mondo Media executives. [4] In 1999, Mondo gave Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, and Kenn Navarro a take chances to do a short for them. They came upward with a short named "Banjo Frenzy", which featured a dinosaur (an before version of Lumpy) killing three woodland animals, a squirrel, a rabbit, and a beaver (earlier versions of Giggles, Cuddles, and Toothy) with a banjo. From there, Mondo gave them their own Internet series, which they named Happy Tree Friends.
Afterward its internet debut in 1999, Happy Tree Friends became an unexpected success, getting over 15 million hits each month [5] forth with screenings at film festivals. [6]
Mondo Media CEO John Evershed attributes the success of the series to animator Kenn Navarro. "He had a clear vision for that show and he's just a vivid animator. He has created something that is pretty universal. I envision kids watching Happy Tree Friends 20 or xxx years from now the same way that they watch Tom and Jerry now. So actually it's Kenn Navarro." [7]
In 2014, after the episode "Dream Job" was released, Mondo Media announced plans to produce a feature flick based on the serial, [8] [9] [10] just in 2016, Kenn Navarro tweeted that he was unaware of work being done on a film, but that his team were "in talk to do more shorts". Later, when a fan asked Kenn Navarro about the motion picture, he replied: ""a handling that [I] and the writers did was all the work (that [I] know of) for the motion picture." [11] [12]
Throughout December 2016, Mondo Media released five all-new episodes for buy online. [13] Arranged as a ready named "Happy Tree Friends: Even so Alive", the episodes came with some boosted bonus material such every bit background designs, animated storyboards, the blitheness process, and a author'southward session video. Upon purchase, the buyer was allowed to download the DRM complimentary video files to their ain computer. In January 2017, Kenn Navarro tweeted "As I understand, sales were OK but cruel below what was expected." [14] As of 2022, the series hasn't released whatever further episodes, nor been officially cancelled, placing the serial in limbo.
Premise
Happy Tree Friends is a parody of a television set prove (e.g. Tiny Toon Adventures , Peanuts ). All the characters are anthropomorphic mammals, and they all (with the exception of Lumpy, Sniffles, and Buddhist Monkey) have two front buck teeth and eye-shaped noses. In early on episodes, most characters played the roles of children playing childish games. However, as the serial progressed, the historic period concept was dropped, and at present characters act variously like children, teenagers, and adults in unlike episodes. The merely characters who are unaffected by this concept are Pop and Cub, who e'er human activity like an adult and a child respectively, and characters whose roles normally are non affected by age, such every bit Splendid or Cro-Marmot.
At the commencement of each episode, the characters are typically plant in everyday situations. Yet, these situations always escalate into violence, and the inevitable deaths of those involved and/or "innocent" bystanders, mostly because of very unfortunate, surprising accidents with otherwise harmless instruments. Some of the characters take mental illnesses, like Flippy, who has post-traumatic stress disorder from a state of war and volition get a killer in sure situations (such every bit when balloons pop, which sounds similar gunfire to him).
The show's characters sometimes appear not to discover others' deaths or injuries, despite clear indications (such as blood coming out of their mouths), or they seem to overcome their deaths (save for the web episode "Happy Trails Pt. two", in which several funerals are held, and the offset few are taken seriously). Most characters always return for the next episode, alive and uninjured.
Each episode starts with introduction credits resembling a book, which portrays the prove'due south logo, the episode title (which is usually a pun), and the cast – and ends with an iris shot, followed by the stop credits, where a (oftentimes sarcastic or ironic) moral is shown at the very end. Internet episodes have a typical elapsing of a maximum of 4 minutes. Usually simply a few of the characters are used in a single episode, merely occasionally longer episodes accept been released in which almost of the characters appear (and in one case, the unabridged cast [with the exception of the Buddhist Monkey, Lammy, and Mr. Pickels] have appeared). Television episodes concluding about half an 60 minutes, having three segments of about seven minutes each.
Episodes
A total of 132 segments have been released across ninety-three web episodes and the thirteen episodes (39 segments) of the television set serial.
Television series
The boob tube series was offset shown at Comic-Con 2006, while some of the episodes were shown on the website a few weeks prior to the show'due south television premiere.[ citation needed ] The television set series would premiere on September 25, 2006 at midnight on G4's tardily-night block, Barbed Wire Biscuit (later on renamed Midnight Spank). The spider web serial also aired on the network'south animation anthology series; Happy Tree Friends and Friends and G4'due south Late Nighttime Peepshow .[ citation needed ]
The Canadian aqueduct Razer (at present MTV2) aired the bear witness in syndication with then-sibling television network Citytv, [15] and then OLN. Internationally, the serial was circulate on MTV in Europe and Latin America, and Animax in S Africa. [16]
Characters and cast
Main characters
- Cuddles – A yellow rabbit who has big ears, pink cheeks, and a tiny fluff of fur on his head that looks similar his tail, along with a pair of pinkish bunny slippers. He is sometimes shown to be rebellious and often does things that are extremely dangerous, while he is beautiful and cuddly at other times. He is considered to be the serial' unofficial mascot and has the highest death count in the serial. His deaths normally involve his body being sliced apart, vehicles, and his intestines. He is voiced by Kenn Navarro.
- Giggles – A pink chipmunk with a pocket-size reddish bow on her head. She was the first female Tree Friend introduced. Her early pattern depicted her equally a blue squirrel. Her deaths usually involve existence crushed, her breast, and her caput. She is more often than not considered a girly girl along with her best friend, Petunia. She is known for being featured as a romantically interested date of many of the show's male characters (except for Disco Acquit, who she loathes) and has a moderate survival rate compared to many of the other main characters. She has been voiced by 3 actresses since her debut: Dana Belben (Flavor 1–2), Ellen Connell (Tv Serial-Season four), and Lori Jee (for a few episodes of Season 3).
- Lumpy – A blue moose with mismatched antlers. He is extremely dim-witted, which often leads to the deaths of many other characters and sometimes his own, but ironically, he has had more jobs than any of the other Tree Friends. His early design in Banjo Frenzy portrayed him equally a dinosaur instead of a moose, and also presented him as quick to anger and having murderous tendencies, both of which were removed with his first appearance in the serial proper. He is the tallest of the main characters, and is 1 of two master characters to not use the bones body shape. He is usually portrayed every bit an adult, or at least older than the other characters. He is usually considered as the prove's primary character, as he has appeared in the well-nigh episodes, had the most starring roles, has the virtually occupations of any graphic symbol, survived more often than most of the other main characters, and has killed more than characters than any other character. Virtually of his kills are unintentional and a consequence of his stupidity, although he has also been shown to either lack taking responsibility for those adventitious deaths or has even intentionally killed some. When he dies, his deaths oftentimes involve mechanism, animals, and his own mistakes. He was first voiced by Rhode Montijo (Season one–ii) and was later voiced by David Winn (Flavor two-4).
- Toothy – A purple beaver with freckles and huge buckteeth unlike the others (hence the name "Toothy"). He is friends with Cuddles. His deaths by and large pertain to his optics and sharp objects. Many people consider him the virtually undeveloped graphic symbol in the testify or a "redshirt". He is voiced by Warren Graff.
- Nutty – A jittery green squirrel with a crazy candy habit, a constant act of giggling, and a candy outfit consisting of three lollipops on his head and a candy cane on his breast. He is shown to be quite obsessive to anything made of artificial carbohydrate, especially candy, and goes to great heights to try to become them at often the expense of himself or others. Eating saccharide makes him feel an exaggerated sugar rush. He has 1 pocket-sized blackness educatee on his left eye, while his right, which is afflicted by a case of lazy eye, has a dark-green iris (much like the eyes of Flippy's bad side). His deaths unremarkably involve his oral cavity, getting impaled, crushed, divide apart, or shredded, and breathing problems. He is voiced past Michael "Lippy" Lipman.
- Flippy – A green bear with a soldier uniform bearing an regular army sergeant insignia. He is a war veteran with a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder. He is normally a friendly and outgoing character, but whenever he sees or hears anything that reminds him of war, he flips out (hence the proper noun "Flippy"), thinking he is nonetheless in the middle of warfare with nobody only enemy combatants, which generally results in him murdering most or all characters around him. This alter ego is known equally "Fliqpy" (as the first "p" in his name is flipped horizontally into a "q") or "Evil Flippy". He is ane of the most popular characters in the series and has the highest intentional kill count. He rarely dies in the series, but when he does, his deaths usually involve vehicles, machinery, and explosions, and these deaths mostly happen either when he is in his adept side or in self-defense past Lumpy. He is voiced past Kenn Navarro, while his evil cocky Fliqpy is voiced by Aubrey Ankrum, who also provided the voice of his good side up until 2005.
- Flaky – A cerise, nervous porcupine with spiny dandruff on her quills (hence the proper name "Flaky"). She is a paranoid tomboy with an extreme fearfulness of dying and frequent trend to express mirth nervously, although it hasn't oftentimes stopped her from willingly participating in activities with her friends. She is i of the most popular characters in the series given her often understandably cowardly personality due to how hands the characters can die in the series. For a long time, Flaky'southward gender was never made clear, merely hints have leaned towards her being female. Eventually, Kenn Navarro comfirmed that Flaky is female. [17] Her deaths usually involve getting skinned, burned, or even eaten, and tin can also involve animals. She is voiced by Nica Lorber.
- Handy – An orangish beaver with amputated hands that are wrapped in bandages (which he is ironically named after), a tool belt, and a yellow hard hat. His amputated easily crusade him trouble that oft frustrates him, and his disabilities event in the death of either him or other Tree Friends. He is the Tree Friend that nigh often does construction work, which he manages to do without trouble as long every bit it is off screen. He too briefly had boots. His deaths usually involve glass, his organs, impalement, being cut in one-half, and his head. He is voiced by Warren Graff.
- Petunia – A blue skunk with a pink flower head accompaniment and a tree air freshener necklace. She is generally considered a girly girl forth with her best friend, Giggles. In later seasons, she has a severe case of obsessive–compulsive disorder and has an unhealthy need to keep everything make clean. Her deaths unremarkably involve her head and household appliances. She has been voiced by 3 actresses since her debut: Dana Belben (Season ane–2), Ellen Connell (Season 3–4, TV Series), and Lori Jee (for a few episodes of Flavor 3).
- Disco Acquit – A golden bear with an afro and '70s-style clothing. In well-nigh episodes, he is seen flirting with mainly Giggles and Petunia, who he fails at flirting with given their dislikes and fifty-fifty ridicules of him. He is also shown to have extreme health issues despite his high frequency to dance. His deaths usually involve his head, his eyes, and explosions. He is voiced by Peter Hermann.
- Mime – A purple deer with a white-colored painted face and striped shirt. He ways to exist entertaining, but results in others around him getting killed or getting self-killed. He is frequently seen riding a unicycle while juggling. Being a mime, he does not talk, which normally results in the Tree Friend he is communicating with not understanding him, which in some cases causes many deaths. For example, in the tv episode "Who's to Flame?", he tries to tell the burn department that the house is burning downward, but since they are talking over the phone, Lumpy the firefighter is unable to understand him before hanging upwardly. Later, seeing more than firefighters, the Mime tries to communicate with them using body motions, but they still practise not understand. His deaths commonly involve his caput, metal objects, machinery, and vehicles. His rare instances of audible noises (such every bit choking or gagging) are provided past Sarah Castelblanco.
- Splendid – A blue flying squirrel with a red superhero mask. Every bit a superhero, he ironically causes only harm and destruction given his poor management of his extraordinary powers and his abiding refusal to take responsibleness for the deaths he caused. He bears some similarities to Superman, such as his weakness being a green crystalline acorn known as Kryptonut (a parody of Kryptonite) in the television episode "Gems the Breaks", which is also his only onscreen decease. His archenemy is an evil doppelgänger of himself known as Splendont. He was first voiced by Rhode Montijo (Season 1–2) and after voiced past David Winn (Telly Serial–Season 4).
- Russell – A teal sea otter. While he has the appearance of a stereotypical pirate and the pirate catchphrase "Yar!", he is non actually a pirate and is more ofttimes seen doing innocent h2o-related activities such equally fishing or sailing. His deaths are ordinarily by vehicles, precipitous objects, or nautical-themed incidents, such as existence eaten past an orca, impaled through his heart socket on his ain ship's mast, or speared through the mouth by a swordfish. He was offset voiced past Jeff Biancalana (Flavor ane–ii) and after voiced by Francis Carr (Telly Serial–Flavour iv).
- The Mole – A blind purple mole with black glasses, a purple turtleneck sweater, a pikestaff, and a mole near his nose. Due to his incomprehension, some of his deportment get him and the other Tree Friends killed. He often does things blind people should non be doing, such as reading and driving and besides holds various occupations that require sight that he ofttimes screws up. In his spinoff episode, his archenemy was a noir-blazon rat villain simply known as The Rat. He rarely dies, but when he does, his deaths usually involve his caput, getting impaled or crushed, explosions, and losses of body parts. Different other characters, he is not voiced past an actor.
- Lifty and Shifty – Two green raccoons who steal any they tin when possible and cackle together when they notice valuable objects to take in the expense of others. Shifty wears a night green fedora, and Lifty does not. Shifty was the first Tree Friend to be created, way earlier Cuddles. Even though they are brothers, they oftentimes contend, and one brother is prone to turning his back on the other in favor of the loot, merely it e'er stop up backfiring, as the double-crossing blood brother suffers a karmic death as a result. They accept the lowest survival rates of all the characters every bit they almost always seem to become their comeuppance. Their deaths usually involve machines, vehicles, being mashed together or sliced apart, impalement, and estrus. Both were initially voiced past Mark Giambruno (Season 1–2) and were later on portrayed by Kenn Navarro (TV Series–Flavour iv).
- Sniffles – A brainy bluish anteater with big glasses and a mouth on his snout. He is the smartest character in the Happy Tree Friends series, but sometimes lacks mutual sense. He makes many inventions, merely these tend to backlash at inopportune times, sometimes resulting in his death or the death of other characters. He often attempts to eat a family of ants, who manage to relieve themselves while killing their natural predator in some of the most graphic and sadistic means possible. His deaths usually involve his natural language, caput, limbs, and organs. He is voiced past Liz Stuart.
- Pop and Cub – 2 tan father-and-son bears. Pop wears a robe and is always seen smoking a tobacco pipe, while Cub wears a diaper and a beanie with a propeller. Cub has appeared without Pop in some episodes and vice versa. Although well-significant to his son, Popular unremarkably causes unintentional misfortune to his son casually or negligently, ending with Cub and others injured or dead – sometimes this negligence gets himself killed as well. When he witnesses his son'southward death and isn't existence negligent, however, he does break down due to these events. Other times it is Cub that gets himself into danger. The father has a high survival rate compared to many of the show's other characters. Popular is voiced by Aubrey Ankrum; Cub has been voiced by 3 actresses since his debut: Dana Belben (Flavour 1-ii), Ellen Connell (Flavour 2-iv), and Lori Jee (for 1 episode of Season 3), which are the same voice actresses for Giggles and Petunia.
- Lammy – A purple sheep with a imperial bow and a white sweater representing her wool. Introduced in Q2 2010, she has a supposedly imaginary friend named Mr. Pickels, a sentient pickle who manifestly enjoys brutally murdering those around her, ruining her chances to develop full friendships with other people (still, Mr. Pickels' bodily sentience is still ambiguous). She is voiced by Renée T. MacDonald.
- Mr. Pickels – A pickle with a meridian hat and mustache. He acts similar to Evil Flippy, due to his tendency of violently killing anyone nearby simply for his own enjoyment. He is also Lammy's "imaginary friend" that merely she can see in animated grade. All the same, in the web episode "Royal Affluent", Giggles is able to see him, in which he as well manages to single-handedly kill Flaky. At first, Lammy thinks of him as prissy, just he then starts causing chaos, such as from ripping the head off of Petunia's teddy bear to running over Handy with his ain truck in their debut appearances in the web episode "A Bit of a Pickle".
- Cro-Marmot – A yellowish-green marmot who wears a leopard-skin loincloth and holds a chocolate-brown gild. He is frozen in an giant cake of ice and lives in an igloo in a giant snow-earth in the woods. Despite existence frozen, he tin can perform many tasks when off-screen. He often drives around in an ice cream truck. The simply episode where he is not frozen is "Dino-Sore Days", as this episode takes place in prehistoric times. He rarely dies in the series, but when he does, his deaths ordinarily involve oestrus, disasters, or being eaten. Like Mime and The Mole, he is not voiced by an player.
Small-scale characters
- Buddhist Monkey – A yellow Buddhist monk monkey who has appeared in three episodes, "Enter the Garden", "Books of Fury", and "Iii Courses of Death". His enemies, the Generic Tree Ninjas, are bears that try to destroy what he cherishes. He is voiced by Jeff Biancalana.
- Generic Tree Friends - Black characters who are often used in masses.
- Truffles - A bluish-grey boar. He makes his debut in the episode "A Bit of a Pickle", but most prominently appears in ''Clause for Concern". While he is non a main grapheme, he has been killed in two episodes, by Lumpy in "All in Vein" and Flippy in "By the Seat of your Pants". It was officially stated that he is a bully, indicating that he could exist an anti-hero.
Awards
| Show | Twelvemonth | Category | Episode |
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| Annecy International Blithe Film Festival | 2003 | Best Animated Curt Picture Made for the Internet | "Eye Candy" |
| 2007 | All-time Idiot box Series for Adults | "From Hero to Eternity" | |
| Ottawa International Animation Festival | 2004 | All-time Animated Short Film Fabricated for the Internet | "Out on a Limb" |
| 2005 | "Mole in the City" | ||
| 2007 | Best Television Serial for Adults | "Dissection Turvy (Double Whammy, Part 2)" |
In other media
Fall Out Boy's 2007 music video for their song "The Carpal Tunnel of Love" was directed by Kenn Navarro and stars characters from the serial. The band members also brand a cameo as animated characters. [18]
A video game titled Happy Tree Friends: Simulated Alarm was released on June 25, 2008. It was adult past Stainless Games and Sega for Xbox Live Arcade on the Xbox 360 and the PC. [19] There was also an iOS game titled Happy Tree Friends: Deadeye Derby, released in 2014.
Spin-offs
A spin-off series chosen Ka-Pow! aired in September 2008 and is an album of action-oriented stories starring The Mole, Flippy, Splendid, and Buddhist Monkey. A total of six episodes accept been produced.
In 2014, Kenn Navarro created D_Void, a bear witness similar to Happy Tree Friends; only ii episodes had been produced for the series. The ii episodes of D_Void were later uploaded to the Mondo Media YouTube channel in the summer of 2022. [20]
See also
- Listing of Happy Tree Friends dwelling house video releases
- The Itchy & Scratchy Show
- Conker'due south Bad Fur Day
Notes
- ^ While the latest official episode "In Over Your Hedge" was uploaded for buy, it was not made available for free until December 24, 2022.
References
- ^ Humphrey, Michael (November 11, 2011). "Mondo Interview: Happy Tree Friends Bring together Eminem, RWJ In YouTube's Billion Views Club". Forbes.
- ^ "Happy Tree Friends: Flavor 1". Metacritic.com. CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved September 12, 2013.
- ^ Horn, Jesse (Dec 10, 2010). "Happy Tree Friends". Interview with Mondo Media CEO John Evershed. Oddities Mag. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
- ^ "Gruesome fun with Happy Tree Friends". G4tv.com. June 22, 2005. Archived from the original on December 17, 2014. Retrieved June ix, 2014.
- ^ "The Kenn Commandments". coldhardflash.com. April v, 2005. Retrieved April 9, 2005.
- ^ Citia. "2003 Official Selection, motion-picture show". Annecy.org. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
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- ^ "Mondo Announces Feature Film Plans for 'Happy Tree Friends,' 'Dick Figures' and 'Deep Space 69'". cartoonbrew.com. Oct 15, 2014.
- ^ "'Happy Tree Friends' Motion picture Leads 3-Film Slate For Mondo Media". Tubefilter. October 10, 2014.
- ^ "Characteristic FILMS ‹ Dwelling Plate Entertainment". homeplateentertainment.com.
- ^ Kenn Navarro [@ChainKnuckle] (August 23, 2016). "@SpringtrapTrap Every bit far as I know, there'southward no work beingness washed on an HTF movie only nosotros are in talks to do more shorts. Stay tuned..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "QA – Happy Tree Friends – Mondo". mondomedia.com.
- ^ "Happy Tree Friends: Nevertheless Alive". htf.mondomedia.com . Retrieved Nov 28, 2017.
- ^ Kenn Navarro [@ChainKnuckle] (January 16, 2017). "@BL00DYKILLS As I understand, sales were OK just fell below what was expected. 😔" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "CityTV.com". Archived from the original on June 18, 2008.
- ^ "Mondo Media Gaining Revenue from International Licensing". Beet.tv. March ix, 2010. Archived from the original on April eighteen, 2013.
- ^ "QA - Happy Tree Friends". Mondo Media.
- ^ Rowe, Abigail. "Would You Watch A Happy Tree Friends Movie? The Scary Aughts Revival Is Coming". NYU Local . Retrieved November 22, 2015.
- ^ "Sega announces Happy Tree Friends False Alert". sega.com. February 2007. Retrieved September fifteen, 2007.
- ^ "D_Void - Mondo".
External links
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Tree_Friends
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