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0:00Happy Tree Friends is a nice,
0:01family-friendly show about cutesy
0:03woodland creatures that love and hug
0:05each other every episode. By love, I
0:07mean kill. And by hug, I mean
0:09eviscerate. Every episode, these lovable
0:11guys find creative ways to purposefully
0:13and more commonly accidentally kill each
0:15other, ripping their spines out, popping
0:17eyeballs, shaving them down at hyper
0:19speeds. This is a brutal show. It makes
0:21Saw look like Sesame Street. Despite
0:23being obliterated every episode, they're
0:26fine the next one. And the reason is a
0:28little more complex than the copout
0:29answer of cartoon logic. So I will solve
0:31that mystery along with going over a
0:33soldier bear with a PTSD ridden past,
0:35time travel, cursed relics to a pig that
0:38stalks the others waiting for the right
0:39move along with the incoherent life
0:41stories of all the characters across 150
0:44episodes. Happy Tree Friends is an
0:46internet show that began in 1999 and has
0:48since developed into five seasons along
0:50with an actual TV series, tons of extra
0:52little shorts and interactives, a
0:54spin-off, multiple video games, and
0:56surprisingly a comic series. Not much of
0:58one, but it exists. It was the kind of
1:00series your cousin would show you when
1:02you were a little too young and now you
1:04are scarred or a little demented. And
1:06let me tell you, I wasn't the victim. I
1:08was the cousin that showed this. There
1:10are roughly 20 main Happy Tree friends.
1:1295% are actually cute, lovable
1:15creatures. They don't intentionally kill
1:16anyone. Their haphazard antics just
1:19happen to do that. Cuddles, giggles,
1:21toothy, patunia, nutty, flaky, handy,
1:24lumpy, sniffles, flippy, pop, cub, mole,
1:27Russell, Disco Bear, Lifty and Shifty,
1:29Mime, Splendid, and Crow Marmet. There
1:31isn't really an overarching story
1:33throughout the episodes. All they really
1:35do is set off a chain reaction which
1:36kills everyone or the centric character
1:38in that episode accidentally beheads or
1:40slices up everyone in pursuit of
1:42whatever their goal is. Each episode is
1:44told as if they're a story from a little
1:46golden book. But the real story lies
1:48within the characters, not the plots.
1:50The Happy Tree Friends' age are a large
1:52point of contention. They are depicted
1:53as kids a lot of the time being in
1:55school, field trips, and so on. And in
1:57these scenarios, Lumpy serves as their
1:59teacher, mentor, camp counselor,
2:01whatever. But they're also shown to have
2:02jobs, own homes, can drive. Flippy
2:05served in the military. One of them is
2:06thousands of years old. So basically,
2:09age is irrelevant for these rodents.
2:11Also, hi guys, it's me, Mung. Not
2:13regular Mung, but one of the alternate
2:15Mungs in the Mverse, the one that
2:16happens to look like a Happy Tree
2:18Friend. I'm outside the Washington
2:19Monument. Nothing bad is going to happen
2:21to me. It's a sheer coincidence.
2:23Original Mung delegated this video to
2:25me. Anyway, I just wanted to introduce
2:26myself. Carry on.
2:32Oh, that was close. The first we ever
2:34see of the Tree Friends is Banjo Frenzy,
2:37where early iterations of Cuddles,
2:38Giggles, and Toothy sit on a log
2:40listening to their good friend Lumpy the
2:42dinosaur play the banjo. And then he
2:44beats them to death with it because they
2:46made fun of his string breaking. But the
2:47true first episode where they get their
2:49actual designs is when the same three
2:51are riding on a merrygoround and Lumpy,
2:53now a moose, spins them too fast,
2:56ripping them limb from limb and Cuddles
2:57flies into a randomly parked airplane.
2:59This episode is surprisingly far more
3:01important than you think, but I'll get
3:02to that later. Cuddles the bunny, the
3:04face of Happy Tree Friends, is actually
3:06pretty bland. He doesn't have many
3:08distinct traits or stories. He's just
3:10there to die. He seems to be friends
3:12with everyone, but is best friends with
3:13Toothy. And there seems to be some sort
3:15of de facto relationship with Giggles,
3:17the main female. However, that has been
3:19confirmed to not be official. In the
3:21Fallout Boy music video they star in,
3:23because of course that exists, Cuddles
3:25and Giggles go on a date and only end up
3:27kissing after both of them are staked
3:29through the head. One of the nonshow
3:31shorts he stars in is a tutorial
3:33teaching someone how to subscribe to a
3:34YouTube channel. And boy, that is an
3:36ancient layout. Hey everyone, uh you
3:38should do what Cuddles is doing and uh
3:40maybe subscribe. Giggles the chipmunk is
3:42a lot like Cuddles, just the female
3:44generic character. She is the only Happy
3:46Tree friend to have a parent shown
3:47besides Cub. Giggles's mother, appearing
3:50only once, is just a taller Giggles.
3:52After Giggles was already decapitated,
3:54her body was returned with a drawn acorn
3:56head. Allah Sid the sloth's eggs, and
3:58she didn't even notice her child's head
4:00was different, let alone dead. She is a
4:03terrible parent, a for some reason
4:05common occurrence in the Happy Tree
4:06Friends world. Giggles happens to be a
4:08bit of a trumpet. She has gone on dates
4:10with Cuddles, Russell, Mime, Flippy,
4:12Mole, even Crow, Marmet. The dude is a
4:15block of ice. Lumpy the moose is the
4:17character I would consider the main one.
4:20He's in essentially every episode. He's
4:22the only one that breaks the regular
4:23small character mold. Originally, he was
4:25a dino in the pilot episode, but I don't
4:28know how in universe his species
4:30changed. He's mostly used as the first
4:31domino. He usually jacks something up
4:33first, which cascades the deaths. He is
4:35incredibly inept, which is perfectly
4:37fitting for all the occupations he has.
4:39In a majority of the episodes, all the
4:40tree friends have some sort of
4:42occupation. They're usually a one and
4:43done. It doesn't really matter what job
4:45they're in because next episode they
4:47won't be in that position. But Lumpy is
4:49a little different. He has over 50 jobs
4:51and he reprises quite a few of them. How
4:53in the world this pea brain got these
4:54jobs, I don't know, especially because
4:57he's like four different kinds of
4:58doctors. The amount of schooling he
5:00would have had to endure. But because of
5:02his immense incompetence, he
5:04accidentally kills a lot in his jobs,
5:06giving him the highest kill count of
5:08over 300. One of his most common jobs is
5:10a doctor. I don't know which kind,
5:12though. He's been shown as a surgeon,
5:14one time, replacing Disco Bear's heart
5:15with a whales. He's been an eye doctor
5:17and a psychiatrist for Flippy. That is
5:19just about the worst thing possible for
5:21Flippy. That same episode, he's revealed
5:23to travel with chickens and lay an egg.
5:25I don't know why. But the bigger
5:27question is, why is there even a need
5:29for hospitals and doctors in their
5:31world? They're just going to regenerate
5:33their limbs and their life. What's the
5:35point in getting something fixed? He is
5:37shown to be the owner of a lumpy themed
5:39carnival. He's been a play director and
5:41after the auditorium is set ablaze, him
5:43and all of his actors make a circle
5:45around it and sing O Christmas Tree and
5:47then they explode. He's worked at
5:49multiple stores. One time having his own
5:51toy store where he found it profitable
5:53to sell his business partner Toothies
5:55limbs and organs. He operated a butcher
5:57shop and accidentally sold the meat of
5:59Lifty and Shifty. Similarly, his own
6:01blood glazed donuts one time and they
6:04got served to people. He's been a
6:05gravedigger. But again, why is there a
6:08cemetery if they are just fine the next
6:10episode? No one really dies. Like dead
6:14dies. He's a teacher for all of the
6:16other tree friends and doubles as a bus
6:17driver who ends up crashing them onto an
6:20island. That's not quite his fault,
6:21though. I'll get to that. And I guess he
6:23also triples as their camp counselor.
6:24That camp episode in specific was
6:26created to promote the game Dead Eyee
6:28Derby. I sure hope games are the only
6:30thing the Happy Tree Friends promote,
6:32not any certain nonfgeable tokens. He's
6:34a recycle garbage man guy, whatever
6:36they're called, but he ends up dumping
6:38it all into the river. That episode was
6:39pro- environmentalism, but
6:41anti-protester. At least it was
6:43portrayed that way. I don't know if that
6:44was the intention. He's a postman and
6:46opens tons of other people's mail, which
6:48is super elite. Actually, I was going to
6:50say how illegal that was, but I think
6:52that's the least illegal thing Lumpy has
6:54done. In this particular postman job,
6:56Lumpy looks up to what I assume to be
6:58his lineage of some master postmaster
7:00moose ancestor. He's also a vampire. His
7:03bat form is pretty cool. His antlers are
7:05the wings, and he's Santa. They really
7:07sort of just fill these roles with some
7:09people. I'm not going to list every job
7:10verbally, but you can read them here if
7:12you want. It's definitely not important
7:15that you do. There's not a reason for
7:16you to do that, but I mean, here you go
7:19if you want it. He lives in a shabby
7:21little trailer right next door to
7:22Flippy. They've become closer as
7:24neighbors. I I think they hang out at
7:26least. One time he decorates his trailer
7:28with so many Christmas lights, it blows
7:30everyone up and the moon it even gets
7:32bright for Mole, who is blind. He is
7:33also shown to wear clothes. That ones
7:35you can actually see because they are
7:37the exact same color as his skin. If I
7:39had a nickel for every blue character
7:40that wears clothes the exact same color
7:42as their skin that I've talked about in
7:44a video, I'd have two nickels. But it's
7:46weird that it happened ever. Period.
7:49Finally, he gets his hands on an alien
7:51seed that creates alien clones of him.
7:53When some part of their body is severed,
7:55the original main part of their body
7:56will regrow what it lost, and then the
7:58severed limb or whatever it was will
7:59regrow their whole body. And in a show
8:02about severing body parts, these clones
8:04multiply a lot. They're able to kill
8:07everyone. Probably not intentionally,
8:09but nothing can kill them. The most
8:11iconic Happy Tree friend. I think I'm
8:14pretty sure he's the most beloved.
8:15Flippy, the PTSD riddled soldier bear.
8:18Flippy is a really good person. He's so
8:20good he dreams of riding unicorns in his
8:22sleep. But because of his military
8:24service, the popping of a balloon or a
8:26woodpecker woodpeckering or some other
8:28sound triggers a PTSD episode where he
8:30becomes flippy, but it's like a a
8:33backwards P, which is a Q, but I don't
8:35know if it's supposed to be a Q or a
8:37backwards P. I typed it with a Q because
8:39that's how you have to. But I don't know
8:41if it's pronounced flick P or flquipy,
8:45but I'm just going to say flippy. He
8:47becomes ravenous and kills everyone
8:48around him, thinking they are enemy
8:50soldiers. Not a ton is known about his
8:52army days, just small little flashbacks
8:54here and there, except for one whole
8:55episode where he was on a special
8:56mission called Operation Tiger Bomb.
8:58Private Flippy was in the war,
9:01weaponized animal regiment, along with
9:02Sneaky the Chameleon and Mouse Kaboom,
9:05surprisingly a mouse. The mission was to
9:07kill the Tiger general. So, in their
9:08mission, Flippy messes up terribly and
9:10kills his own fellow soldiers. And the
9:12entire Tiger army is after him. Flippy
9:14hides inside of Sneaky's corpse and
9:16while surrounded, he flips out for the
9:18very first time, beginning the PTSD
9:20episodes. He demolishes the Tiger Army
9:22and the Tiger General. At some point,
9:24Flippy later evolves from a private to a
9:26sergeant, which is what he dons today.
9:28Henceforth, whenever something sets him
9:30off, he begins to kill and set army
9:32traps. I don't know what war this was,
9:34probably Vietnam because of his trap
9:36styles, but real human events don't
9:38really relate to the Happy Tree Friends
9:40world. During Halloween, Flippy decided
9:41to run his army truck through everyone.
9:43the toxic waste that was in the back of
9:45his truck because you know you just have
9:48that for some reason. It happened to
9:50mutate their bodies into zombies. And
9:52even in death, Flippy is still vicious.
9:54In the grand finale for the TV show,
9:56Flippy is going mad, of course, and
9:58begins envisioning flipped out Flippy
10:00and his normal self as two different
10:02people. He thinks crazy him is attacking
10:04and trying to kill him. This devolves
10:06into a massive fight between an army of
10:08good Flippies and an army of bad
10:10Flippies. He finally realizes that they
10:12aren't two different people, perhaps
10:14finally healing himself of the PTSD, but
10:17he's killed right away. This was also
10:19the episode Lumpy was his psychiatrist.
10:21Flippy would sometimes show up with
10:23blood on him, and not even a single eye
10:26was raised. I understand the
10:27confidentiality, but he's not exactly
10:29being too private because he's a
10:32sergeant now. That's why he's not being
10:34private.
10:35Clap. It was funny. Even in his crazy
10:39state, some army principles still apply,
10:40like no killing children. He gets up
10:42close to Cub on his tricycle, but only
10:44pushes him off instead of horrifically
10:46murdering him. He holds up the trike and
10:48gets zapped by lightning, which kills
10:49him, but his spirit was put into the
10:51tricycle, and that three- wheeled
10:52vehicle. Is that considered a vehicle?
10:54Whatever. It kills a ton of people.
10:56Still never cub though. Also, in that
10:57episode, Rudy the goat appears, and
10:59never again, so that's cool. He was a
11:02fan submission thing that won a contest,
11:03but you know, not really that important
11:05in the grand scheme of things. The mole
11:07is a mole. Wow, how unique. He is blind,
11:11but don't you worry, he does all the
11:13things seeing people can do, like drive.
11:15He drives a lot and he kills a lot.
11:17Sometimes he lives underground near the
11:19cemetery. I bet that feels kind of
11:21awkward. He's also mute. I mean, none of
11:23them talk, but he doesn't even mumble.
11:25Before Happy Tree Friends, he was
11:26somehow a skillful robber going up
11:28against the rat, who I think is also a
11:30robber. I'm not really sure. Kind of
11:32vague with it, but he kills him. pretty
11:34impressive for being blind. In this
11:35uniquely animated short, Mole gives a
11:37pig kid some balloons that probably
11:39later led to his death when he floats
11:41away. And whatever happens next is your
11:43guess. There's also an elephant he
11:45kills. Just fun little characters we
11:47never see again. He one time goes on a
11:48blind date with Giggles. I don't know if
11:50it was a true blind date or just a
11:52regular date. They don't elaborate if
11:54they've been dating or not. Either way,
11:56he doesn't take her anywhere. He ends up
11:58going on a date with Lumpy because he
12:00got the wrong house. And due to him
12:02driving, Lumpy dies. In preparation for
12:04this date, he shaved and he had tons of
12:06cuts on his face, but the toilet paper
12:09pieces were on the outside of his
12:12turtleneck. Mime is a deer and another
12:14mute character. I don't know if it's by
12:16choice. I would hope it is because he
12:18had to call the fire department for a
12:20fire. Duh, that was kind of redundant.
12:22And instead of saying anything, he
12:24played charades over the phone, which in
12:26case you didn't know, you can't do that.
12:27He also tries to work an intercom at
12:29Russell's fast food restaurant, which in
12:31case you also didn't know, you can't do
12:33that. In Mime's house tent, there is an
12:35actual house room with walls in a tent,
12:38but I mean, am I really going to
12:39question that logic of all things?
12:41Inside, there is nothing. There is to
12:43him. There's invisible furniture,
12:45appliances, sinks, a safe, and
12:47everything else that's in a house. Maybe
12:48he lives on a different plane than us.
12:50Perhaps he can see 4D. Lifty and Shifty
12:53break in and steal the safe, acting like
12:55there is weight to it. So, I'm going to
12:56assume it does actually exist. I don't
12:58really know. When Mime is a lifeguard,
12:59Sniffles begins drowning out in the
13:01ocean, but instead he sees an invisible
13:03person and drags them to shore, but that
13:05invisible person dies. So, I'm thinking
13:08he does have some sort of like special
13:10vision. Oh, hello again. Wa! I sure am
13:14glad that arrow didn't hit me. I hit
13:15that guy off camera, but not me. Anyway,
13:18Sniffles is an anteater. He's also the
13:20inventor smart guy archetype inventing
13:21all kinds of stupid stuff like a shrink
13:23machine to kill a cold. A monster blob
13:25that eats the meat off their bones. All
13:27that kind of stuff. In that monster blob
13:29episode, there's a few background
13:30appearances from Trixie the ferret and
13:32really good Unicornius. Again, fan
13:34submissions, but their quick cameos in
13:36the back is like a flashbang. Sniffles
13:39has a dream machine that he hooks
13:40himself up to where you can see his
13:41dreams. Lumpy is able to change the
13:43channel, per se, and his dreams quickly
13:45become violent, giving some credibility
13:47to the cliche everything's a dream.
13:49theory. I don't think those are very
13:50fun, though. Sniffles always goes for
13:52the same family of ants to eat. I don't
13:54know why. Maybe he is a little sick and
13:56twisted. The ant family is notably
13:58missing a father figure, so perhaps he's
14:00just trying to wipe them clean. But
14:02usually, instead of being consumed, the
14:03ants torture sniffles, like actual
14:06demented things. They nail his tongue,
14:08saw off his tongue, nail him to a tree,
14:10rip his toenails off, turn him into a
14:12house. They have an ant rescue mission
14:14inside of him. They are able to control
14:16his mind once and this leads to a death
14:17that is regarded as one of the most
14:19gruesome. Either way, they always kill
14:20him instead of the other way around. One
14:22last thing with Sniffles, he makes a
14:24time machine. He creates it to unspill
14:26his milk. Pulling a rabids, he makes it
14:28from a washing machine. When he travels
14:30back, he crushes someone, but he doesn't
14:32notice. Lumpy then gets his help because
14:34Toothy gets hurt on the playground. He
14:35goes back in time to prevent the injury,
14:37but that actually causes some death, so
14:39Sniffle tries to fix that. Going back in
14:41time, causing more death with every fix.
14:43One of the fixes was a plane to rescue
14:45Cuddles, which he happens to park a
14:46little ways away. He goes way back in
14:48time to prehistoric days, and there is a
14:50cave sniffles with his friend, a cave
14:52ant. Sniffles eats a different cave ant
14:54and returns to the future, but cave
14:56sniffles sees him chomp on the insect,
14:57so he eats his friend, beginning the
14:59anteater versus ant rivalry. Eventually,
15:02Sniffles removed all playground
15:04equipment, leaving only the
15:05merrygoround. This now results in the
15:07very first episode where Lumpy kills
15:08them on the merry-goround. This was
15:10super cool, which makes this episode
15:12take place before the first season. Now
15:14with context, Cuddles flies off into a
15:16not so randomly parked airplane.
15:18Sniffles goes back home thinking they
15:20all ended up okay, but then suddenly a
15:22time machine teleports into the future,
15:23crushing Sniffles. He was the one
15:25crushed at the beginning. And out of the
15:27time machine comes Sniffles in Rushes
15:29Lumpy again to tell him they all just
15:30died on the merry-goround, creating
15:32somewhat of a loop. It's not like a full
15:35circle, but kind of. So, no matter how
15:38many times he goes back, they're going
15:39to continue dying. I I think that's what
15:42that means. I guess fate is a thing or
15:44it's a curse. Everyone is meant to die.
15:46I I don't know. But quickly ending the
15:48merry-goround saga as a construction
15:50worker, Lumpy tears it down. That's it.
15:53Splendid is a flying squirrel, but he
15:55can actually fly. He is just Superman.
15:58He has a weakness to crypto nut. Like
16:00all the characters, he tries his best,
16:01but ends up just killing everyone with
16:03his powers. Despite this, he's still
16:04seen as a celebrity. People want his
16:06autograph at Happy Tree Friends Comic-
16:08Con. By the end of the con, he has no
16:10fans left because he killed them all. He
16:11seemingly can't die from regular things
16:13the other ones can. Like, he
16:15accidentally dropped a massive amount of
16:16concrete on himself and Sniffles just to
16:19sign his autograph. It killed Sniffles,
16:21but Splendid was totally fine. The only
16:23time he died was exposure from
16:24Cryptonut. Another time, Splendid tries
16:26to stop a tornado. He happens to
16:28flatulate. I'm using civilized words for
16:31this civilized show. I don't want to say
16:33any four-letter f-words, but he happens
16:35to fart. There, I said it. It turns the
16:38whole world green because of the
16:39physical smog he releases, which kills
16:41everyone. The power he holds between
16:43those cheeks, it filled up the whole
16:45world. For being a superhero supposed to
16:48help people, he has an excellent KD. He
16:50has a confirmed kill count of 93 and
16:53only two deaths, but when you consider
16:54the whole Earth this one time, I think
16:56it's a little higher than a mere 93. How
16:59he got his powers is unknown. It could
17:01be how Superman got his when his parents
17:03were shot in the alley, but I don't
17:04know. That's just my own speculation. He
17:06leads a band of superheroes called
17:07Splendid Supremely Sensational,
17:09Stupendously Spectacular Super Squad.
17:11They show up to help Splendid after he
17:13was crushed into the ground after
17:14battling his enemy, Splend. They fight
17:16each other with whales and the moon, and
17:18Splendon wins, leaving Splendid to
17:21suffer. What a bummer ending. But I do
17:23think Splendid probably deserve that.
17:25So, back in modern day, there's a power
17:26Splendid shares with Superman, spinning
17:28around Earth the other way to reverse
17:30time. He did this because he saved a ton
17:32of people and then burnt his bread. So,
17:34we reverse time to cook the bread
17:35properly. But now, he refuses to save
17:37all the people again. This could be
17:39another explanation as to how everyone
17:40can die and then everything is reset
17:42before the carnage. However, Splendid
17:44has died twice, making this pretty much
17:47impossible. Also, even if he didn't die,
17:49I think he's just too lazy to reverse
17:50time constantly. Pop and Cub, father and
17:53son bears. If you thought Giggles's mom
17:55was atrocious, you ain't seen nothing
17:57yet. Pop lost his wife a while ago. Why
18:00she doesn't just regenerate like the
18:01others is beyond me. But now he's a solo
18:03dad raising Cub. He's got the typical
18:05Tom and Jerry dad attire. Robe, pipe,
18:07and whatever kind of goofy hat that is.
18:09His actions lead to his son's death one
18:11way or another, making it philicide. Cub
18:13also probably kills Pop. I'm not even
18:15sure. I didn't make that a point to
18:16remember that, but if he did, Patricide.
18:19Cub is just about the only truly
18:21innocent character. He's still got at
18:23least nine kills under his belt, but
18:25he's a baby. Just let it slide. Pop gets
18:28a dog named Whistle. And apparently
18:29everything in the Happy Tree Friends
18:30world is cursed to be a killer because
18:32he's the type of dog that gets a court
18:34order. You catch my drift. Don't worry,
18:36they call pest control to take care of
18:38him. Who's the worker? Oh, Lumpy.
18:41Well, they're screwed. Especially
18:43because they unleash like a hundred more
18:45vicious dogs using the Necronomicon. Pop
18:47accidentally gets cub possessed. Dang
18:49it. Don't you just hate that relatable
18:51experience when you make your son a
18:53demon vessel?
18:56Bomber. A separate time when Cub dies,
18:58he's turned into Cubron Z, a massive
19:00robot that reeks havoc in the city. And
19:02there's also this monster thing. I don't
19:04really know what's going on here. This
19:05was a special animation and it looks
19:06like a boomerang bumper. Every show has
19:08their addict. And here it's Nutty the
19:10squirrel. Sugar is his crack. He
19:12daydreams about marrying a box of
19:14chocolates, getting it pregnant, having
19:16box of chocolate children, her having an
19:18affair with Lumpy. As he walks out the
19:20door, he's licking chocolate off his
19:22face. Why am I acting like this is a kid
19:24show? Never mind. Anyway, Lumpy got in
19:27her Chocolate Box. Nutty plots on
19:28killing Lumpy. He goes to jail. He gets
19:30out, and then Nutty and Chocolate Box
19:32grow old together. Chocolate Box dies.
19:34He buries her. And all of this was in a
19:36daydream. Unsurprisingly, he ends up
19:38getting locked away in a rubber room and
19:40is rehabilitated, getting addicted to
19:41gaming instead, but he eventually
19:43relapses back on sugar. That exclusive
19:45short came only with a game called Happy
19:47Tree Friends: False Alarm. Crow Marma is
19:50an ancient Neanderl Marmet getting his
19:52name from the caveman human species
19:54Cro-Magn. Way back when in dinosaur
19:57days, he was just a regular rodent with
19:59a club who fed on dinosaur carcasses.
20:01Yummy. And was constantly killed by
20:02dinosaurs. In the DVD version of this
20:04short, it's introduced by this guy named
20:06Leather Balkan. Um,
20:11anyway, the fact that Chromar dies way
20:13back when basically throws out both
20:15theories of Sniffles time traveling or
20:17splendid reversing time. So, I mean,
20:20there goes any realistic answer. I
20:21highly doubt Sniffles was going back
20:23this far and even reversing it for his
20:25ancestors. He can go back to this era.
20:27We've seen it, but I doubt he was making
20:29sure they stayed alive. I think that
20:31would make Sniffles a bootstrap paradox
20:33if he did make sure they survived kind
20:35of. Why am I talking about like physics
20:36or something in a Happy Tree Friends
20:38video. I'm not Schrodinger, but watch
20:40this. I'm now both Shrodinger and not
20:43Shrodinger. Fast forward multiple
20:45millennia. He's a block of ice. Don't
20:47know how yet he can throw snowballs,
20:49drive a car, and pedal a unicycle. We
20:51don't actually see him do some of these
20:52things. They happen offcreen, but we see
20:54the result of them. Like the throne
20:55snowball in modern day, he was
20:57interviewed for his vast successes being
20:58in a critically acclaimed tour on
21:00Broadway, accomplished painter, writer,
21:02pianist, owning a brand of footpowder,
21:04named sexiest Happy Tree Friend in 1992,
21:07and in a vastly successful show, which
21:09does make it seem like Happy Tree
21:11Friends is a show and they're actors,
21:12but I hate that reasoning. We're not
21:14going to go with that. Also, the Happy
21:15Tree Friends have been going on dying
21:17since 1992 at least, or were they
21:20switching them out? You know, there's a
21:21whole lot there from that one line that
21:23could be explored in such depth. But
21:26wouldn't it be funny if I didn't try and
21:28think about that? Cool, because I
21:31didn't. But now he's an entrepreneur
21:33selling ice cream. Despite what you
21:34might think, he does have some kills on
21:36his hands or block. Also, if he is
21:39pushed down a hill and then crushes
21:41someone, is it his fault or the pushers?
21:43If he can stop himself, does it change
21:45the answer? If he can use his feet
21:46somehow, which is implied because he can
21:48drive and pedal, he might be able to
21:50stop himself. And you know, I don't
21:54really know. Oh, me again. Surely
21:56nothing bad is going to happen. The
21:58Washington Monument is looking awfully
22:00pokey back there. Good thing I'm
22:01situated all the way down here. Oh, hey,
22:03Nail. My vice president who hasn't
22:05appeared in a video in like 4 months. I
22:08probably have a lot of viewers that
22:09don't even know who you are.
22:10>> God has forsaken us.
22:18Okay, Toothy the Beaver. Toothie is best
22:21friends with Cuddles and he has to shave
22:23down his own teeth sometimes, but like
22:25that's it. He appears all the time, but
22:27it's a lot like Cuddles and Giggles. Not
22:29super unique. I like him though. I wish
22:31he was. Handy the Beaver. He's missing
22:33both of his hands. Completely unknown
22:35how that happened. But the even bigger
22:36question is, if everyone can get mangled
22:39and maimed, why doesn't Handy get his
22:41hands back? He doesn't start with them,
22:42but everyone is reincarnated or reversed
22:44or however. Why doesn't he get his mitts
22:47back? There's a whole episode how he
22:48falls in love with Patunia because both
22:50of her hands were cut off and they
22:51bonded over that. Next episode, she gets
22:53to leave him in the dust with both of
22:55her hands, but he still ain't got no
22:57hands. And again, another victim of this
22:59limb situation is Russell the Sea otter.
23:02He's a pirate missing both feet, a hand
23:04and an eye. I'm guessing him and Handy
23:06would have been like Flippy, so the
23:07creators had to nerf them. mentioned
23:09earlier, Russell owns a fast food place.
23:11I'm guessing it's the Happy Tree Friend
23:12universe off brandand of Long John
23:14Silvers, which means I would never ever
23:17go there. He also has a pet piranha that
23:19totally definitely definitely totally
23:22definitely never in a million years rips
23:24Russell's face off. He also gets a ship
23:25in a bottle stuck into his gut. He
23:27survived in a whale with lumpy ones. We
23:29get it. He's a pirate. He's a mariner.
23:32He's a seaman. Wait, disco bear. Uh the
23:35bear. His personality is disco. He's
23:38also a bear. He likes his hair. I don't
23:40know. Patunia the skunk. She has OCD and
23:42is a germaphobe. There's an episode that
23:44even YouTube deemed too far and removed
23:47it offline. And the fan base also deems
23:49the creator went too far. So apparently
23:51there is a roof to the brutality and it
23:54was hit. And yes, the episode is awful.
23:58Flaky the Pine Cone. She has anxiety and
24:00all she does is worry. One time Flippy
24:02is a hitchhiker and he's completely
24:04cool. Not flipping out or anything. and
24:06all he wants to do is help her. But in
24:08fear, Flaky decides to shove glass in
24:10his eye. And then he dies after Lumpy
24:11runs him over. I did not care for Flaky.
24:13Lifty and Shifty, two twin raccoon thief
24:16brothers. And that's all they do. They
24:18steal. From kryptonut to jewels, coins,
24:21and uh Oh, yeah. Submarines.
24:24>> Hey, it's me, Nail. I'm taking over now.
24:26>> No, you're not. What's that?
24:28>> Oh, nothing. I just mixed some pool
24:29chlorine with Coke and sealed it tightly
24:31in a bottle.
24:32>> Oh, you know, I don't think you probably
24:34should have done that.
24:36No, I'm fine.
24:40>> Lambie is a lamb and Mr. Pickles is
24:43probably a sentient pickle. They were
24:45not in the original cast, but have since
24:47been added after a fan vote between
24:48Lambie and another guy named Truffles.
24:50Mr. Pickles is the only character
24:52besides Flippy in this show that
24:54intentionally kills all the time. He
24:55tries to kill people and then Lammy
24:57tries to stop him, accidentally aiding
24:59in the kill. She, for some reason,
25:00brings him around everywhere even though
25:02he is framing her all the time. Also, he
25:04may not be real and she could just be
25:07imagining him, but I don't think so
25:08because a few kills then would be
25:10improbable. For one of his kills, she is
25:12arrested by cop lumpy and she's put in
25:14jail. But you're telling me there is a
25:17legal system in Happy Tree Friends this
25:19whole time? Why now? After all this
25:21death, even accidental, it still counts
25:23as illegal. Why has no one been
25:25prosecuted before? Truffles the boar.
25:27Don't recognize him? Of course you
25:28don't. Ever since he lost that vote
25:30against Lambie, he has been stalking all
25:32of the characters when they least expect
25:34it. He's hiding around a tree or a
25:36building. I think he's plotting. Or
25:38maybe he's lonely and envys Lambie for
25:39winning. Maybe he's trying to experience
25:41being a happy tree friend from afar. He
25:43is bold a few times being right out in
25:45the open. He's been killed a few times,
25:47once by vampire Lumpy. Somehow he was
25:49inside Patunia and was revealed when she
25:51died. And even crazier, well, maybe not
25:54as crazy as that one, he is seen hiding
25:56during the war in a Flippy flashback.
25:58Flippy is kneeling over a dead soldier
26:00and you just see this pig slightly pop
26:02out from the side. Has he been stalking
26:04them his whole life? Maybe he served
26:06with Flippy. Maybe he was the enemy. I'm
26:08thinking this story will go somewhere
26:09eventually. Maybe. It'd be cool. The
26:11Buddhist monkey. While technically he
26:13isn't a happy tree friend. He is from
26:15the spin-off Kapow. He only gets three
26:17episodes, but he makes use of them well.
26:19He trained in some martial art under his
26:21master dubbed by the fans Sensei
26:23Orangutan. He eventually died actually
26:25like corpse dead dead because logic
26:28might be different in Buddhist monkey
26:29world. I don't know. Monkeykey's nemesis
26:31is the dark shadow lord and uh um uh
26:36yeah, I don't know who he is. I don't
26:38know what he wants with Monkey or
26:40whatever, but he sends his apprentice
26:42Charui. He also has a bunch of generic
26:44ninjas for foot soldiers. Similar to a
26:46crosswalk, Monkey can plow right through
26:48them. A ninja goes back to the dark
26:50shadow lord with failure hung on his
26:51shoulders. So,
26:54[Music]
26:55the dark shadow lord kills him. He sends
26:57out Charui and then she dies, too. And
26:59that's Buddhist Monkeyy's story. I mean,
27:01there's like a panda character in like 2
27:04seconds of a scene. This desperately
27:06needs a revival. But now, the confusing
27:07part. In actual Happy Tree, Friends,
27:09clips of these episodes are seen in a
27:11movie theater, and another time,
27:12Buddhist Monkey is branded on an arcade
27:14machine. So, is Buddhist Monkey just a
27:16movie character? Is he their Batman? Is
27:17he just their fictional superhero or
27:19whatever? Finally, the Golden Idol.
27:21Ripped straight from Indiana Jones. This
27:23thing is cursed. I think everything in
27:25this world is cursed cuz like even the
27:26dogs are evil. Or potentially everything
27:28just has a high proclivity for violence.
27:30But this golden idol brings death almost
27:32instantaneously. It depends a little bit
27:34on the episode with how it works. But
27:35most often if you hold it, something or
27:37someone is about to kill you. One time
27:39sniffles and gang found it at top a
27:41ziggurat. And as soon as they remove it,
27:43it rains monkeys. Later on, it summons
27:45seemingly sentient earthquakes, even
27:47breaking the screen at the end of the
27:48episode. Oh, and of course it killed
27:50Sniffles and Gang along the way. When
27:52it's not the focus of an episode, it's
27:53still in the background of a lot of them
27:55signaling stuff is about to go real
27:57doodoo. I don't really think it matters
27:59that much because it's Happy Tree
28:00Friends stuff is going to go bad anyway.
28:02Lumpy drives over in the bus crashing
28:04onto an island. From there, they build a
28:05rocket ship and dissolve on the sun. I
28:07mean, that part may not have been the
28:09idol. One time, Chro Marma is shown
28:11selling four of them. Maybe they are
28:12just everywhere, but it hasn't been seen
28:14since season 3. So, seasons four and
28:16five still have violence and everything
28:18but are lacking the golden idol curse. I
28:21don't know. But I do think the idol
28:22makes a at least halfdecent for
28:25everything is just cursed. The only
28:27story left is all the weird random bits
28:29and bobs. I'm going to mention them
28:31because I'd be doing the fan base an
28:32injustice. There were many spin-offs.
28:34It's not really in what they are. I
28:36definitely wouldn't call them spin-offs,
28:37but just extra tiny series as serieses
28:41as as is. Cringles. From my
28:43understanding, they were Christmas
28:44themed e-greeting type of things.
28:46Breaks, very, very short clips that were
28:49released during a hiatus. There's a
28:51character called Fat Cat that appears in
28:52a few of them, but he's never seen
28:54beyond those. Smoochies, online
28:56interactives that showed one of the
28:58characters in a completely blank area,
28:59and they just died in certain ways
29:01depending on what you clicked. Some of
29:03them were holiday themed. Blurbs are the
29:05episodes with speech bubbles added. A
29:07few blurb episodes retroactively added
29:09truffles in the background. There was a
29:10short about lumpy knitting antler socks
29:12called Aspestus I can do. There wasn't
29:15any violence and I don't think anything
29:16to do with asbestous. I don't
29:18understand. There were a few other
29:19shorts like an oldtimey training video
29:21on skiing with an actual narrator. A
29:24Fallout Boy music video which I already
29:25mentioned. There was a miniature
29:27crossover with dick figures. It was an
29:29April Fool's joke teasing a new season
29:31in stick figure style. You can tell how
29:33dated this is because look at how this
29:35ends. Troll face. Boy oh boy. That was
29:38definitely 2012. There's lots of games.
29:40Most of them are flash games, but there
29:42are also quite a few on mobile. Really
29:44just your typical stuff with Happy Tree
29:45Friends slapped on it. Dead Eye Derby is
29:47a more prominent one. Xbox 360 and PC
29:49also had False Alarm, which I've already
29:51mentioned. There was a DLC just 2 years
29:53ago for a game called The Crackpat Show,
29:55which also got its own short to
29:57advertise. The most recent Happy Tree
29:58Friends Media is the crossover with Dumb
30:00Ways to Die, the hit internet song from
30:02like forever ago that apparently still
30:04has an active franchise. They don't
30:06really do that much. I was a little let
30:08down. I was hoping they'd kill each
30:09other, but eh, as it turns out, a while
30:11before this crossover, they redid the
30:13Dumb Ways to Die song with Happy Tree
30:15Friends characters. And finally, the
30:16comics. It's basically nothing. They're
30:18a page long. There's a couple of them.
30:20It's just like nothing. I should also
30:23mention there's a human skeleton
30:24underwater holding a treasure chest in
30:26one of the episodes. There doesn't seem
30:27to be any humans in their world. I don't
30:29know how that makes sense. Maybe it's
30:30Leather Balkan. And the chest holds his
30:32payment for introing that extra. Just
30:34thought that was worth noting. So, if
30:36the resurrection isn't Sniffles's time
30:38travel or Splendids reversing time, and
30:40it's probably not a dream with Sniffles
30:42Dream Machine, are they just constantly
30:43reborn like Kenny from South Park? Are
30:46they cursed? Is it all the idol? Do they
30:48remember their past lives? You know, I
30:50think they're just in hell. Anyway, I,
30:52the Mung that looks coincidentally
30:54really similar to Happy Tree Friend, am
30:56looking really forward to narrating more
30:57videos. I want to thank original Mung
30:59for allowing me to do this, and I'm
31:01really glad I made it out unharmed.
31:03Heat.
31:05[Music]
31:08[Applause]
31:09[Music]
31:20Hey, Heat.
31:23[Music]

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