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
"Dont show this to kids"
The majority of the people that watched : its our childhood show
Why is this so true
@@llamaking1912 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...
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
Happy tree friends is basically a family friendly show where every character is Kenny from South park
Exactly, you are correct, i have been looking for such term/comment for ages, thank you sir!
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 😅
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.
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.
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
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.
It pretty much is like if Looney Tunes was realistic with it's violence.
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".
but it was so easy with a guitar in the pilot lol
True. they really did get creative with their kills.
@flippy sup flippy
Oh god
yea with a cake cutter is harder
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
Adult Swim Announcer: Up next is Happy Tree Friends. Only on Adult Swim!
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*
What's ironic is that CZcams is accepting it. They even used the characters for their videos in the official "CZcams" 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 CZcams account look like the worst thing that can ever happen to you
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.
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.
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..
@@Cage0 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?
@@Cage0 They thought it was a normal cartoon and apparently didn't notice the thumbnail.
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
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
I remember watching this non stop as a kid. I was scared and disturbed, but i was curious and couldn´t stop watching it-
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.
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
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 CZcams 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
This is one of my favorite cartoons. I love this show, always will, and the show never ceases to make me laugh.
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
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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?
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
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.
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
@@Dr._Heinz_Doofenshmirtz Thats a double negitive. So ACTUALLY its a "No."
You mad lad.
*You absolute madlad.*
**aggressive clapping**
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
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.
The smoochies?
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.
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
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
And to think I discovered this series through a "Fall Out Boy", music video!!!
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 ❤
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
"Don't show this to children"
A little too late for that
omfg another enby duck :O !!
@@crabplant8426 Ayy!
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
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.
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. 😂
"It's animation, so it has to be for kids, right?"
-CZcams 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
Happy Tree Friends, Heavy Metal Guy, Weebl and Bob, Salad Fingers...I still scream at night
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.😅
"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
I always hear people complain that this show was too bloody and violent...
Like, that's the point?
bot moment ^
Probably just karens
Its always the stupid deviantart users like Nemao complaining about it
It's meant to be messed up
@@JNix99 i hatte nemao
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
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
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
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 😂😂😂😂😂
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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
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.
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.
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**
this show is practically Kenny South Park
"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
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)
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).
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
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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"I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?" - Jess C. Scott
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Lol
@@thesaddestdude3575 Ya might want to check one of his Sailor Ballz community posts though 'cuz I've even quoted her there
Go figure
I have to say though, the episodes where Flippy fights himself is a masterpiece.
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
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.
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😓😅
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Out On A Limb: *am i a joke to you?*
5 y/o was watching this with a big smile on my face and enjoying this, sweet old memories
"if happy tree friends and tom and jerry fused they'd be itchy and scratchy" is the biggest brain thing
True
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 CZcams 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.
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
"so how did you get your childhood trauma? "
"happy tree friends"
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?
“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.
This is genuinely funny.
Another fun fact: HTF animated a music video for Fall Out Boy (it's on vevo if you wanna see it)
@@chocolizard678 Ah yes, I believe the title of the song is "Carpal Tunnel of Love".
I remember HTF did an anti-piracy video for CZcams as well.
THATS why the name “Happy Tree Friends” sounded familiar, because I watched a small bit of it on Netflix lol.
Bruh.
If showing this to children was a crime
Then my sister would be a convicted felon
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
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
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
@@TylerFurrison nOOOOOOO-
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.
That would be cool
Or Adult Swim. God, I can't believe HTF predated Adult Swim by two years. No wonder the internet was HTF's only option at the time.
12:02 Never even seen those companies in my life.. I saw Happy Tree Friends on ABC Kids- 😭💀
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
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 just seen it for the first time ever . Traumatized😭
3:45 - Nickelodeon had Ahhh! REAL Monsters (which had a lot of drawn gore in it)
Cartoon Network had Powerpuff Girls (which had a lot of blood in it), Ren and Stimpy (for the adult humour jokes), etc.
As for Disney, well parents and Villains off screen deaths, just to allow the imagination to explore.
But seeing the violence, ehhh, yah I can see that.
Cartoon network actually did have happy tree friends, only for one day, you can look it up.
Latin America CN apparently aired Mr. Stain on Junk Alley, and it's got blood in it, so...
"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 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
Carpal Tunnel of Love ft. Fall Out Boy was an iconic moment
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.
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
"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
Saberspark: Blood and organs make me light headed
Also Saberspark in another video: Poppee and his friends just have a great show
I've watched this show way back when I was in 5th grade recommended by my cousin,even now that I'm grown up that show still freaks me out