December 24, 1999 – Present
Happy Tree Friends is an American adult web series that started on December 24th, 1999. It was created by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, and Kenn Navarro for the American multimedia company, Mondo Media. The show achieved a cult following on Mondo Media, G4, and YouTube. In 2006, the show would gain a television series, consisting of 13 episodes with 3 segments in each one.
On December 6, 2016, a package called the "Still Alive" package was released on Mondo Media's website. It was made to help boost the profits for Mondo Media, and to help keep the show running. Consisting of five all-new episodes, with bonus materials, behind the scenes footage, storyboards, and more. As stated by Kenn Navarro, he said "the sales did okay, but fell below what was expected".
After a series of community posts on MondoMedia's YouTube channel, it was confirmed that the series would return with a brand new episode to promote a new crossover DLC for the indie adventure-shooter game, The Crackpet Show. On September 27, 2023, the new episode released under the title of "Too Much Scream Time", along with the aforementioned DLC for the game simply titled "The Crackpet Show: Happy Tree Friends Edition". It was also stated two weeks prior in a post on "X" (formerly known as "Twitter") that the developers of the game would request MondoMedia to continue the series, if the post were to reach one million views.
Despite the tweet not reaching the goal, MondoMedia recently announced there are plans to make more episodes and other media if the fans are willing to pay for a membership. So it's glad to say that the series is officially returning after 7 years.
Storyline[]
Being an adult animated show disguised as a kids cartoon show, the series follows cute anthropomorphic forest animals, who are suddenly subjected to very extreme and cruel graphic violence in all of it's episodes. Each episode revolves around the characters accidentally, or deliberately inflicting extreme pain, murder, and/or mutilation.
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TV Show Intro[]
Happy Tree Friends (Season One) Intro