Why I Hate "Happy Tree Friends"

[loc978]

Happy Tree Friends is unrealistic enough to be harmless if viewed by an adult... I've seen much worse in reality.

 

[jack583]

Well, I always saw Hapy Tree Friends as a parody of cartoon violence shown in cartoons like Tom and Jerry. When you think about it, its just a real life version of Itchy and Scratchy. Besides, it was Mel Brooks who said "When someone gets a paper cut, thats a tragedy. When someone falls down a manhole and dies, thats comedy"

I ask you, do you watch "Funniest Videos"? Have you ever found yourself laughing at an incident you know you shouldn't be? Are you disgusted by the fact people do? Its the same principle.

Also, there is WAY more to Horror than gratuitious torture and gore but they are VERY effective. Perhaps you might enjoy Vincent Price in any of the Dr. Phibes films. They are a early predessor of the sb genre but its actually done rather well.
Food for thought.

i agree with you.
but if i may make one correction with that quote:
"tragedy is when i get a paper cut. comedy is when you fall down a manhole and die."
it means that if something bad were to happen to you, you would think it is bad.
but when something bad happens to someone els--no matter how bad it is--you would laugh.


and as for "Happy Tree Friends" being nothing but humorless gore videos.
i'm really not in any position to judge it.
mainly because i laugh through movies like "Final Destination" and any other movie scenes where someone gets sliced in half or has his or her intestines ripped out.
honestly, i laugh my head off at these scenes!
am i insane? well i hear voices, have somewhat of a split personality, and i have a chair as a phyciatrist. so i'd say yes.
yet i've been able to use my insanity for more constructive uses.
so being insane is not really a bad thing.
and therefore if no real people get hurt how are things like "HTF" really bad?
it's not the content, it's how it's used.



and really though, a chair works a LOT better then a real doctor
unless you have a physical problem, then get a real one.

 

[Maylo]

I used to love Happy Tree Friends back in like 5th grade. I don't even remember why. Oh wait, I just watched an episode and giggled a few times. So I guess it must've been hilarious back then.

For discussion value, I like the series but only in low doses. The shock value lasts all of 10 seconds and then it is really like watching a blood filled version of Wiley Coyote, you are only waiting to see the next preposterous situation.

But, yeah. Pretty much this. I don't think it's the gore that's funny. Just the sheer ridiculousness of it.

 

[Dimensional Vortex]

Okay i just watched one episode, I'm not laughing, I don't find this ironic, I can't see some deep point in it that could justify it's violence and gore like Elfen Lied could and did very well.

Happy tree Friend's is literally the most repulsive thing I have ever seen. To me, it is worse than Hostel or Saw could ever be, simply because the violence depicted in the cartoon is not limited by a budget, only by the imaginations of the sick bastards who make it.
Happy Tree Friends is in the same bucket as formerly mentioned Saw and Hostel. These types of "entertainment" rely on copious amounts of gore to shock you, and personally I can't stomach it. I don't really enjoy horror, mostly because the thought of "horror" always comes back to movies like Saw that litter the genre.
Happy Tree Friends freaked me out. The video I saw was completely innocent up until the point someone got there head pulled through the drain of a kitchen sink.

I could understand this, to a certain extent, that if such gratuitous violence was used to make a point, or to be ironic, or SOME kind of symbolism, but there is none. People think it's FUNNY. FUNNY!?

I know that this argument isn't the best, but I don't care. I HATE HAPPY TREE FRIENDS.

Argue with me if you want, or agree with me. I don't care, i'm bored.

I agree with you about it, it's like a show that drops a massive racist/sexist/gross swear/joke and gets a few laughs due to pure shock humor, a good example of that is the show South Park. This did seem innocent until a point were 3 cute fluffy bears got destroyed in various ways. I'm not laughing, as I mentioned at the top of my comment, this has no deeper meaning behind it, this isn't funny, it's gross, it doesn't even have a way to justify it's copious amounts of gore and violence like a good movie/show can.

Also with what you were saying about movies the Saw and Hostel franchises are pretty messed up, but the first Saw was pretty good, it didn't have a bunch of gore in it until the very last scene, it was just dramatic and depressing which is a very good way to justify gore and violence

After the first movie the series just got sick, twisted and less depressing and more shocking. You see, the way to make a good horror movie is instead of getting random characters and having their nut sack go through a meat grinder, you make the audience and viewers connect with the characters, to feel for the characters, to love the characters and to think of the characters as their family. So when you do get around to killing the loved characters, you can make the death fairly quick but the aftermath so long and drawn out that all the viewers get so completely overwhelmed with emotions that they will remember the movie. So you don't make your characters extreme intellectual's, extreme dumb asses or extreme egotistical narcissists you make them normal people with big emotions. Sorry I just wanted to say that.

P.S. Happy Tree Friends is shit! Don't like go ahead and flame me, see if I care, because you all know it is gratuitous violence, in fact it is a quintessential show depicting gratuitous violence.

 

[KefkaCultist]

I used to love happy tree friends, but now its 'meh'. I don't find it disturbing in any way, shape, or form but I think I just outgrew it

 

[Dimensional Vortex]

Happy Tree Friends is unrealistic enough to be harmless if viewed by an adult... I've seen much worse in reality.

You have seen worse than someone being torn to shreds by an airplane turbine, worse than someones eyes being ripped out of their sockets because they were going to fast? If you have than just wow, I don't even know how you could see worse than that.

 

[TilMorrow]

Rant thread much? jks.

OT: I don't like Happy Tree Friends either it just seems horrid in the way it trys to be humourous.

 

[Kurokami]

Happy tree Friend's is literally the most repulsive thing I have ever seen. To me, it is worse than Hostel or Saw could ever be, simply because the violence depicted in the cartoon is not limited by a budget, only by the imaginations of the sick bastards who make it.
Happy Tree Friends is in the same bucket as formerly mentioned Saw and Hostel. These types of "entertainment" rely on copious amounts of gore to shock you, and personally I can't stomach it. I don't really enjoy horror, mostly because the thought of "horror" always comes back to movies like Saw that litter the genre.
Happy Tree Friends freaked me out. The video I saw was completely innocent up until the point someone got there head pulled through the drain of a kitchen sink.

I could understand this, to a certain extent, that if such gratuitous violence was used to make a point, or to be ironic, or SOME kind of symbolism, but there is none. People think it's FUNNY. FUNNY!?

I know that this argument isn't the best, but I don't care. I HATE HAPPY TREE FRIENDS.

Argue with me if you want, or agree with me. I don't care, i'm bored.

Saw is not a horror, it's a thriller.

I enjoy it when watching with friends, that's about it. Certainly don't go out of my way to watch it but it doesn't really disturb me.

 

[loc978]

Happy Tree Friends is unrealistic enough to be harmless if viewed by an adult... I've seen much worse in reality.

You have seen worse than someone being torn to shreds by an airplane turbine, worse than someones eyes being ripped out of their sockets because they were going to fast? If you have than just wow, I don't even know how you could see worse than that.

Like I said: unrealistic. I've seen the aftermath of a body through spinning blades, yes. It's nowhere near as clean and comical in real life as that cartoon (also, I've met a man who survived being sucked through an airplane turbine). Even just the aftermath of a hanging suicide is far worse than anything that show has ever done, and I've seen more than one of those.

 

[incal11]

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.

I respect the opinions of those who do or don't find it funny, but you say it has no comedic value. How can you say that when some finds it funny? Also, how do you define comedic value ?
Perhaps you just meant "it's not funny for me", if so, my bad.

 

[FrossetMareritt]

Happy Tree Friends is unrealistic enough to be harmless if viewed by an adult... I've seen much worse in reality.

You have seen worse than someone being torn to shreds by an airplane turbine, worse than someones eyes being ripped out of their sockets because they were going to fast? If you have than just wow, I don't even know how you could see worse than that.

Is it that hard to believe that someone can work in a high risk area or medical field? You know what's funny is that I was a combat Corpsman in Iraq and it was my duty to fly into high danger areas to pick up wounded service men & women, civilians and even hostiles in order to patch them up on the way to a higher level of care. I cannot stand seeing any person or animal hurt; it tears me up inside even if it's not a physical hurt. That being said I still find HTF funny as hell because it's not real and it doesn't pretend to be. However, if you think that I just like senseless violence and gore I'll say this: I cannot and will not watch the Saw series.

 

[archvile93]

I liked it at first since it was different from the other cartoons I'd seen that had similar violence, but without the more realistic effects it would inflict. After that novelty wore off, I just lost interest.

 

[Zerazar]

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Are you among the unluckiest men on earth, or does your job just suck?

 

[guntotingtomcat]

You know people are entitled to their own subjective opinion, right?

I personally think it's childish, which I also consider ironic.
Only children are interested, but they aren't allowed to see it.

 

[loc978]

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Are you among the unluckiest men on earth, or does your job just suck?

I've lived in some bad neighborhoods and had a few... interesting... jobs that exposed me to such things... and the man who went through the turbine only had a concussion and some welts.

 

[Nouw]

I loathe cartoon violence. Especially vomiting!

This is the guy who's seen the Lawnmower scene from Braindead.
You see the 'joke' is getting cute and adorable animals and killing them in gruesome ways so they can shock the audience. Don't let it get to you!

 

[Lem0nade Inlay]

Uh, not much discussion here, but anyway,

I've seen like 5 episodes, and they were all during the period in which I liked SlipKnot, Horror, the colour black and all things gory.

So I don't know what I'd think of it when I watched an episode now, I mean I still like horror movies, I just don't like gore as much.

 

[Veldel]

Personaly I love Happy Tree Friends I find it amusing but I dont like Saw movies much

 

[Russian_Assassin]

This particular series was one of the things that helped desensitize me during my early teen years. It seems that my strategy worked, because I can tolerate any kind of gore without so much as flinching. I guess that's why 4chan doesn't look so scary to me.

I don't find it much funny, I just like to see how far they are willing to go with each episode.