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Mondo Media CEO John Evershed attributes the success of the series to animator Kenn Navarro. From there, Mondo gave them their own Internet series, which they named Happy Tree Friends.Īfter its internet debut in 1999, Happy Tree Friends became an unexpected success, getting over 15 million hits each month along with screenings at film festivals. 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 a yellow rabbit that bore some resemblance to Cuddles, writing "Resistance is futile" underneath it on a spreadsheet poster. While working with Mondo Media, Rhode Montijo drew a character on a piece of scrap paper who would later become Shifty. Each episode revolves around the characters enduring accidental or deliberately inflicted pain, murder or mutilation. The show is best known for its episodes starting out peacefully with the animals living life as normal, but a sudden event unintentionally (sometimes intentionally) caused by another animal leads to many of the characters being subjected to very extreme and cruel graphic violence and suffering brutal deaths.
Montijo, Navarro, Graff, Ankrum serving as showrunners.īeing an adult show disguised as a children's show, the series features cartoon anthropomorphic forest animals. The show has achieved a cult following on Mondo Media, G4 and YouTube. 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 Jeremy Viet Duong for Mondo Media.
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