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Happy Tree Friends

Happy Tree Friends poster
Genre
adult animated television series
Country
United States

How it feels

The show features cute forest animals that get into extremely violent accidents. Each episode follows the characters as they suffer graphic injuries and deaths.

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What happens

Happy Tree Friends is an adult-oriented Flash-animated television series that was broadcast from October 3, 2006 to December 25, 2006, on G4 in the United States. With a total of thirteen episodes that were aired, the show is based on the web series of the same name, created and developed by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, Kenn Navarro, and Warren Graff for Mondo Media. The series was animated by Canadian studio Fatkat, while the opening and end credits were produced by Ghostbot. The series is a juxtaposition of cute cartoon anthropomorphic forest animals, who are suddenly subjected to extreme graphic violence. Each episode revolves around the characters enduring accidental or deliberately inflicted pain or mutilation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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