![]() From there, Mondo gave them their own Internet series, which they named Happy Tree Friends. They came up with a short named Banjo Frenzy, which featured a dinosaur (an earlier version of Lumpy) killing three woodland animals, a squirrel, a rabbit and a beaver (earlier versions of Giggles, Cuddles and Toothy) with a banjo. In 1999, Mondo gave Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo and Kenn Navarro a chance to do a short for them. ![]() Rhode hung the drawing up in his workstation so other people could see his idea, and eventually the idea was pitched to and accepted by the Mondo Media executives. He then drew on a spreadsheet poster a yellow rabbit that bore some resemblance to Cuddles and wrote "Resistance is futile" underneath it. While working on Mondo Media, Rhode Montijo drew on a piece of scrap paper a character who would later become Shifty. Main article: List of Happy Tree Friends episodes Season Each episode revolves around the characters enduring accidental or deliberately inflicted pain, mutilation and/or death to which at one point, there was a warning given to the site: "Cartoon Violence: Not recommended for small children or big babies". The series is best known for its juxtaposition of cute cartoon anthropomorphic forest animals in premises akin of children's shows and the extreme graphic violence that soon follows. ġ–5 minutes (Internet series) 7 minutes (TV series) ![]() ![]() The show has been cited as an example of achieving a cult following. Happy Tree Friends is an American adult animated web series created by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo and Kenn Navarro, and developed by Montijo, Navarro and Warren Graff for Mondo Media. ![]()
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