Happy Tree Friends is an animated series created and developed by Rhode Montijo, Kenn Navarro, and Warren Graff for Mondo Media. A total of six seasons of the series have been released: five seasons on the internet, and one season on television.
A prequel spin-off called Ka-Pow! debuted in September 2008. In 2010, after airing fifteen episodes for the third web season, a hiatus began, in which there were only Break shorts airing with a subliminal message at the end of each, reading "Happy Tree Friends is dead!". This situation concerned many fans because they thought that the series were going to end soon. The writers confirmed that they were playing a joke on the fact that the characters die a lot, making a pun phrase with the word "dead". The hiatus ended on December 8, 2011, allowing the series to return once again with the fifteenth episode of the third season, named "Clause for Concern".
In addition to the show's five seasons and a spin-off, there have been some special episodes and shorts. These include eleven "Smoochies", ten "Kringles", thirteen "Break" shorts, five "Love Bites", and sixteen other irregular episodes that are unindexed. The "Smoochie" shorts involve three different items being dropped next to a main character, only for them to be killed in three different ways, each regarding the item. These have been adapted into the Happy Tree Friends website where one can choose an item to drop.[1] The "Kringle" shorts are Christmas-themed shorts that feature the main characters doing various Christmas-related tasks, only to be killed in various ways.[2] The "Love Bites" were Valentine's Day-themed shorts, that went with the basic structure of a Happy Tree Friends episode. The "Break" shorts were produced in 2008, when no new episodes were produced until the following year. A new break short debuted in 2009.
Lumpy is spinning a playground merry-go-round as Cuddles, Toothy and Giggles ride it. They tell Lumpy to spin them faster, and Lumpy does so. Suddenly, Toothy flies off and crashes into a tree, breaking his back. The pole Giggles is holding onto breaks off, and she flies right into a tree stump, slicing her body in half as the pole impales her chest. Cuddles' hands rip off from his body and his momentum carries him into the right engine of a parked plane, shredding him to bits. As the merry-go-round comes to a complete stop, Lumpy immediately notices Cuddles' severed hands still clutching onto the pole. He whistles and walks away, trying to look innocent.
Handy finishes constructing a tree house for Petunia, who becomes thankful and goes to play in her tree house. Handy turns around to leave, but at that exact moment, the tree house catches on fire with Petunia inside, Causing Handy to scream in horror. He tells Petunia to jump and he'll catch her, but thanks to his lack of hands, he fails. He sees a hose nearby, but once again his lack of hands fail him. He then sees a bucket and kicks it, thinking it's water, but it's actually a bucket of petroleum. Handy then has no choice but to stomp the fire out, which works. Petunia, now a blackened and bloody mush, weakly raises her arm and gives an "Okay" signal.
Giggles is walking through the forest, with a broken leg. Suddenly, a water dam behind her breaks, and the water is rushing towards her. Giggles starts screaming, and Splendid hears her call and goes to save her. After the rescue, a branch beheads Giggles, so Splendid replaces her head with an acorn with a poorly drawn face, and hands Giggles back to her mom. The mom, not noticing anything, picks up Giggles' dead body and hugs it. As Splendid flies off, Giggles' mom bids farewell, and Giggles' "head" falls off splattering blood on the mom, still unaware of her daughter's death.
Sniffles is walking in the forest, thinking of math equations. He then comes upon an anthill. Fascinated, Sniffles decides to catch some ants to eat. However, the frightened ants hammer a wooden nail down his tongue, trapping him. Then, they scratch it away with a cheese grater, squeeze lemon juice on it, and saw it away with an electric saw. Finally, an ant runs up Sniffles' tongue with a container of gasoline, leaving a trail, and tosses the container of gas into Sniffles' mouth after arriving at the top. One of the ants finishes Sniffles off by using a match to ignite the gas, which rapidly rides up Sniffles' tongue, and when the flame reaches Sniffles' face, his whole upper body explodes, scattering his body all over the place. The ants start cheering at their victory at the end.
Pop and Cub are playing catch with a ball, but then Pop throws too hard, sending the ball to land on the opposite side of a busy street. Not wanting to disappoint Cub, Pop has no choice but to cross the road to retrieve the ball. Though severely injured, Pop successfully retrieves the ball. However, when he takes one step forward, he suddenly begins falling down a cliff. As he falls, a medical helicopter with Lumpy in the gurney is just beneath him. Pop gets sliced and shredded apart by the helicopter's rotor blades and his remains fall to the ground. Cub, who successfully climbed down the cliff, retrieves his ball. But once he grabs it, the gurney Lumpy was on disconnects from the helicopter, and lands on top of Cub, followed by Lumpy getting crushed by the helicopter.
Cuddles jumps into a small pond, having a relaxing swim. Cuddles tells Flaky to join in, but Flaky refuses, pointing to a "No Swimming" sign. After Cuddles encourages her to jump in again, he starts getting attacked by a bunch of piranhas, gets tossed around like a beach ball by 2 sea lions and eaten by an alligator, but manages to escape its mouth. And after he escapes the pond, he gets crushed by a whale, all the while Flaky fails to save her friend.
Nutty rips off a lollipop stuck to his head, and consumes it in one bite. He starts to get a sugar rush, but his vibrations cause the other candies stuck to his body to fall off, much to his dismay. He sees a vending machine nearby and puts a coin in it. However, the candy he wants becomes stuck. Determined, Nutty slides his hand through the slot to get his treat, only to have his arm ripped off. He starts rocking the machine back and forth, causing it to fall forward, trapping him inside. Despite being trapped, Nutty has a treat in his mouth and enjoys the treat. However, the coils spin close to Nutty, killing him off-screen.
Lumpy and Handy are prepared for a race, but Lifty and Shifty are not. It turns out their kart is lacking tires and a steering wheel. They steal the wheels of Lumpy's cart, causing it to fall to the ground and catch fire. During the race, they steal Handy's steering wheel, causing him to crash into an ambulance and lose his lower half. In the lead, the two raccoons laugh at their victory, but then all four wheels fall off, causing their kart to fall on its side, and scraping their bodies away against the pavement. Somehow, Lumpy wins the race despite having no wheels.
Petunia is playing at Lumpy's carnival stand, throwing baseballs to knock down bottles. The Mole hears the noise from the booth and decides to give it a try. Lumpy notices that The Mole is blind, but lets him play anyway. He throws the 1st ball, and it bounces around the booth without hitting any bottles. Eventually, the ball knocks down both of the support beams holding the window of the booth, causing the window to chop off the top of Petunia's head. The Mole throws the next ball, oblivious to the fact the window is closed. The ball bounces off the wall and hits the lever of a Ferris wheel, and the Ferris Wheel comes off its hinges and rolls towards the booth, slicing Lumpy vertically in half. The Mole gets a blood-splattered teddy bear, which he hugs.
Petunia and Giggles are having a tea party. Suddenly, Disco Bear interrupts them with his dance moves. Despite his smooth moves, the 2 girls are unimpressed. Disco Bear grabs Giggles' hand and begins dancing with her. But when Disco Bear gives Giggles a big twirl, she suddenly slams head-first on her tea kettle. Giggles begins screaming in agony while jumping and waving her arms in pain. Disco Bear thinks Giggles is doing a new dance, and he begins to mimic her. The same happens to Petunia, who had bumped into an electric fence, electrocuting her, and her body movements mimic a robot, with Disco Bear dancing along. The 2 girls are now dead, with Disco Bear oblivious to what happened.
Toothy is swinging on the swing. Suddenly, he falls off and lands on his teeth. He sees the Cursed Idol on the ground and picks it up. But then the swing comes back and rams the back of his head, killing him. Elsewhere, Sniffles is playing in the sandbox when the Curse Idol lands next to him. He picks it up, but the sand turns into quicksand, causing Sniffles to sink. Cub reaches the bottom of the slide, and the Idol lands in his hands, causing him to be crushed by a rock at the top of the slide. Flaky is swinging on the monkey bars and the Idol lands in her hands, causing her to get hit by Lumpy's car, followed by Lumpy dying in a car crash off-screen.
Pop is relaxing on a hammock while Cub is mowing the yard with a lawnmower. Cub unknowingly rides the mower over a brick, making him stop in his tracks. Realizing this, Cub looks under the mower and finds the brick lodged between the blades. Cub then attempts to pull the brick out, even though he forgets to turn the mower off. Luckily, Pop wakes up and witnesses this. Over the fear of his son getting injured, Pop snatches Cub just before something bad could've happened. Pop places Cub on his hammock, and orders him to stay. Pop looks under the mower, and pulls out the brick. Pop then proceeds to mow the rest of the lawn himself, with Cub watching. An oblivious Pop starts pushing the mower right towards pieces of broken glass and syringes that are scattered all over the ground. The mower runs over the sharp objects, and they get flung out of the ejection port at full speed right towards Cub. The sharp objects then pierce Cub all over his body and is finally killed when a broken bottle flies through his head, taking away a part of his skull, as well as his brain. Cub's now dead body falls right into a nearby pile of leaves, which cover up his entire body. Pop then comes in, raking some leaves with a rake. Stopping for a second, he lights up a match to restart his pipe. Once his pipe is lit once more, he unknowingly throws the still-lit match at the leaf pile where Cub fell in, setting it on fire.
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