Why I Hate "Happy Tree Friends"

[Sn1P3r M98]

O.K at the time of posting everyone has said they don't see the humor in it.

That's O.K, I personally like it. It's funny to see normally peaceful, happy innocent creatures be horribly dismembered.

Well in anycase different people like different things, if you don't like it, fine don't watch it. But some people find it HILARIOUS. (Like me)

And me!

Call me weird, but I find the gore and "disturbing" imagery laughable.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

I can see how it entertains people but personally I think it's just stupid.

 

[Levitas1234]

Thanks for sharing.
I personally believe the show has no comedic value, but i don't think it should be criticized for being to hard to watch for you, after all it is just drawings.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

It is pretty intense. As was mentioned above though, different strokes for different folks. I was a fan of Itchy and Scratchy which led to me liking Happy Tree Friends. Of course there are worse cartoons than HTF like, Rats on Cocain. I haven't seen either in a while though: I'm more a fan of filmcow now (filmcow cartoons being Charlie the Unicorn and, The Cloak) and, the disturbing/ vulgar cartoons of David Firth (Burntface man, Salad Fingers)

 

[Phlakes]

Wait, people still care about it? I thought it died five years ago.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

People think that Lolicon is fun to masturbate to? People find this OK!?

Oh, sorry, wrong thread.

 

[Swaki]

now i get my fill of cartoon gore with metalopaclypse.

Metalocalypse isn't that violent, and Metalocalypse is hilarious. Metalocalypse's violence always seems surreal, like your just looking at the cover art for a death metal album, so I forgive it, but Metalocalypse is ACTUALLY FUNNY, and it tells jokes. Happy Tree Friends just confuses horrible violence with comedy.

oh yeah, i didnt mean to actually compare the two shows, i think metalocalypse is the second funniest cartoon show, second only to south park and even back when i liked HTF i never thought it was that funny, it was on a good pun level of fun, but due to the more realistic style of metalocalypse i do find the violence there to be more disturbing, it is also accompanied by other things that add to the disturbance, but it was mainly in the first season, after that they focused more on the humour, it still does have its fair share of shock though.

 

[AWDMANOUT]

That's O.K

I dislike it intensely when people put periods in the O and K in ok. I've got nothing against you dude, just sayin, it's a pet peeve.

Irregardless, OT: I like Happy Tree Friends. My ex-girlfriend showed me it a couple years ago. Maybe gore and horror isn't all that funny, but in a way the parodic manner of it all is.

Plus, it's how sick teenagers like me get our giggles.

 

[AWDMANOUT]

Excuse the double post, please. Had to update the forum guidline thingy and well... yeah....

 

[LarenzoAOG]

The violence doesn't bother me, as a child I read my dad's triage manual, desensitized me at an early age, but it is fucking stupid.

 

[Saltyk]

Overall, I don't care for Happy Tree Friends. The only episodes I actually liked were the ones with Flippy. There's just something about watching him flip out and go Rambo on all the other little hopeless tree friends... Yeah, I have problems.

Actually, I always liked Retarded Animal Babies better.
"Why don't we just have sex with each other?"
"Dude, first off you're a dude."
"I'm a fuckin rabbit. Not even the vet knows what I am."
Priceless.

 

[Superior Mind]

The point of Happy Tree Friends is to be shocking. The humour in it is contrasting cutesy fluffy creatures with horrible deplorable completely over-the-top violence. That's all the joke is.

Understandably some will be upset by it - but really it's not worth it. If HTF gets a laugh out of a few people so what? If you find it deplorable, don't watch it.

 

[xmbts]

I never really minded it to be honest, though I never found it funny.

 

[esperandote]

I started liking it and then I lost interest.

 

[LongAndShort]

Does the fact that I do laugh when I watch episodes make me a sick fuck as well?

... Yeah, I thought so. Oh well.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

I'm not a fan. I can see how OTT gore could be funny, but just like the comedy of Frankie Boyle you need to have other stuff happening otherwise it's just relentless...

 

[DocAscii]

A buddy of mine used to be an animator for Happy Tree Friends. The content is fucked up, but drawing intermediate frames is the same regardless of content.

 

[hyrulegaybar]

Shock humor is only funny when it's actually funny. Happy Tree Friends is just not funny. Funny is Serial Mom, after impaling her daughter's exboyfriend with a fireplace poker, trying to jiggle his liver off the end because it grosses her out. That's hilarious.

 

[Dfskelleton]

I cared for like one evening, but after watching all the episodes it doesn't have the same shock value, so rewatching is pointless.