Happy Tree Friends (TV series)

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Happy Tree Friends
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Country of origin
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes13 (39 segments)
Original release
Network G4
ReleaseSeptember 25 (2006-09-25) 
December 25, 2006 (2006-12-25)

Happy Tree Friends is an adult animated television series that was broadcast from September 25 to December 25, 2006, on G4 in the United States. With a total of thirteen episodes that were aired, the show is based on the web series of the same name, created and developed by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, Kenn Navarro, and Warren Graff for Mondo Media. The series was animated by Canadian studio Fatkat, while the opening and end credits were produced by Ghostbot. [1]

Contents

The series is a juxtaposition of cute cartoon anthropomorphic forest animals, who are suddenly subjected to extreme graphic violence. [2] Each episode revolves around the characters enduring accidental or deliberately inflicted pain or mutilation. [3]

Cast

Episodes

No.Title [4] Directed byWritten byOriginal air date [4]
1a"The Wrong Side of the Tracks"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, Warren Graff, Aubrey Ankrum, and Jeff BiancalanaSeptember 25, 2006 (2006-09-25)

The Happy Tree Friends go to Lumpy's fun fair, but the roller coaster seems to be incomplete, troubling both the riders and Lumpy himself.

Starring: Lumpy and Sniffles
Featuring: Cuddles, Flaky, Mime, Nutty, Giggles, Petunia, Disco Bear, Russell, Lifty and Shifty
Appearance: Handy
Deaths: Nutty, Mime, Cuddles, Handy, Shifty, Lifty, Lumpy, Petunia, Giggles and Sniffles.

Moral: "If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing right!"
1b"From Hero to Eternity" [lower-alpha 1] Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, David Winn, Ken Pontac, and Warren GraffSeptember 25, 2006 (2006-09-25)

Splendid has to go to the laundry, but also has to stop a giant snowball from destroying the forest.

Starring: Splendid
Featuring: Giggles, Cuddles, Pop and Cub
Appearance: Toothy, Petunia, Sniffles, Nutty, Handy, Lumpy, The Mole, Flaky, Cro-Marmot, Russell, Lifty and Shifty
Deaths: Cuddles, Petunia, Toothy, Sniffles, Nutty, Handy, Lumpy, Flaky, Russell, Lifty and Shifty, The Mole, Cro-Marmot, Giggles (debatable) and Cub

Moral: "It all comes out in the wash!"
1c"And the Kitchen Sink"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and David IchiokaSeptember 25, 2006 (2006-09-25)

Pop loses Cub, but then finds him playing in the mud. Then, however, while he bathes Cub in the kitchen sink, when he makes the mistake of leaving to pick up the phone, he causes all sorts of trouble for him.

Starring: Pop and Cub
Appearance: Cuddles, Giggles, Toothy, Flaky, Lifty and Shifty
Deaths: Flaky, Cuddles, Giggles, Toothy, Lifty, Shifty, and Cub

Moral: "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater!"
2a"Party Animal"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren GraffOctober 2, 2006 (2006-10-02)

Flaky and her friends celebrate Flippy's birthday, but the carnage erupts when he flips out again.

Starring: Flaky and Flippy
Appearance: Cuddles, Toothy, Mime, Sniffles, Nutty, The Mole and Lumpy
Deaths: Toothy, Cuddles, Nutty, Mime, Sniffles, Flaky, and The Mole

Moral: "Life is a party and everyone is invited!"
2b"Ipso Fatso"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren GraffOctober 2, 2006 (2006-10-02)

Disco Bear finds that he is overweight and feeling insecure, goes to the gym to work out – but it's not as easy as he expects.

Starring: Disco Bear
Featuring: Featuring Giggles, Petunia, Lumpy, Sniffles, Toothy and Handy
Appearance: Lifty and Shifty, Pop, Cub, Russell, Cuddles, Nutty, The Mole, Flaky and Cro-Marmot
Deaths: Sniffles, Toothy, Russell, Nutty, Handy, Cub, Cuddles, Lumpy and Disco Bear

Moral: "The way to one's heart is through their stomach."
2c"Don't Yank My Chain"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Mark Zaslove, Ken Pontac, and Warren GraffOctober 2, 2006 (2006-10-02)

After being arrested by Officer Lumpy, Handy and The Mole go to the slammer and drag a heavy ball to their chain.

Starring: Handy, The Mole and Lumpy
Featuring : Lifty and Shifty, Pop and Cub
Appearance: Cuddles
Deaths: Cuddles, The Mole, Handy, Lifty and Shifty and Lumpy

Moral: "A chain's only as strong as its weakest link!"
3a"Doggone It" [lower-alpha 2] Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro and Ken PontacOctober 9, 2006 (2006-10-09)

Cub and Pop buy a puppy that seems harmless at first, but attacks them. Lumpy attempts to catch it, but the puppy escapes and goes insane whenever it hears a whistle.

Starring: Lumpy, Pop and Cub
Featuring: Cuddles, Giggles, Disco Bear, Mime, Lifty and Shifty, and The Mole
Appearance: Handy, Sniffles, Toothy, Nutty (cameo appearance – unseen, but his shriek was heard off-screen), and Petunia
Deaths: Petunia, Sniffles, Handy, Toothy, Cub (debatable), Giggles, The Mole, Disco Bear, Mime, Lifty and Shifty and Lumpy

Moral: "Let sleeping dogs lie!"
3b"Concrete Solution"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro and Ken PontacOctober 9, 2006 (2006-10-09)

Nutty takes a bag of sugar from the café while on his way home, but then drops the bag of sugar on a pile of cement bags and unknowingly takes a bag of cement home. When he eats the cement afterwards, he ends up in an ambulance, but the bridge it is on is made of sugar.

Starring: Nutty
Featuring: Lumpy and Handy
Appearance: The Mole, Cuddles, Toothy, Sniffles, Russell, Giggles, Mime, Flaky, Cro-Marmot, Lifty and Shifty, Pop and Cub
Deaths: The Mole, Handy, Sniffles, Lumpy, Nutty, Toothy, and Cub

Moral: "Take the bitter with the sweet!"
3c"Sea What I Found"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren GraffOctober 9, 2006 (2006-10-09)

While Lumpy and Russell go fishing, they find a treasure map. Also discovering it, Lifty and Shifty go after the treasure.

Starring: Russell, Lifty and Shifty
Featuring : Lumpy, Disco Bear, Pop and Cub
Appearance: Cuddles
Deaths: Cub, Disco Bear, Lumpy, Russell, Shifty and Lifty

Moral: "There's plenty of fish in the sea!"
4a"Easy For You to Sleigh"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren GraffOctober 30, 2006 (2006-10-30)

Lifty and Shifty try to steal Christmas, but it won't be easy trying to ransack Flippy's home.

Starring: Lifty and Shifty
Featuring: Pop, Cub, Mime and Flippy
Deaths: Pop, Cub, Shifty and Lifty

Moral: "Give until it hurts!"
4b"Wishy Washy"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and David IchiokaOctober 30, 2006 (2006-10-30)

Petunia's toilet is clogged, so Lumpy comes to 'fix' it, but only ends up making a bigger mess.

Starring: Petunia and Lumpy
Appearance: Disco Bear
Deaths: Disco Bear, Lumpy and Petunia

Moral: "Wash behind the ears!"
4c"Who's to Flame?"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro and Ken PontacOctober 30, 2006 (2006-10-30)

Petunia catches fire on her tail while making pancakes. The fire then spreads to Giggles, and then the whole house. Mime calls the firefighters for help, but things do not go well.

Starring: Mime
Featuring : Giggles, Petunia, Lumpy, Toothy, Handy, Sniffles, Disco Bear, Russell, Cuddles, and Lifty and Shifty
Appearance: The Mole, Nutty, Flaky, Pop and Cub, and a cat
Deaths: Cuddles, Petunia, Giggles, Sniffles, Cub, Flaky, Pop, Lifty, Shifty, Russell, Handy, The Mole, Lumpy, Toothy, Disco Bear, and Nutty

Moral: "If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen!"
5a"Every Litter Bit Hurts"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Don GilliesOctober 16, 2006 (2006-10-16)

Giggles confronts Lumpy when she catches him emptying his garbage truck in a lake. She has The Mole, Sniffles, Pop, and Cub clean up his litter, but Lumpy will not stop his dreadful pollution.

Starring: Giggles and Lumpy
Featuring: Sniffles, The Mole, Pop and Cub
Deaths: A frog, numerous fish, Cub, Pop, a snail, Sniffles, Lumpy, and Giggles

Moral: "A new broom sweeps clean!"
5b"As You Wish"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Mark ZasloveOctober 16, 2006 (2006-10-16)

At Petunia's lights store, she throws away a lamp that supposedly doesn't work. When Lifty and Shifty take it from the trash, however, they find that it is a magic lamp with Lumpy the Genie inside. As it is passed between Happy Tree Friends, their wishes result in death.

Starring: Lumpy, Lifty and Shifty
Appearance: Petunia, Nutty, Disco Bear, Cub, Pop, Sniffles, Mime and Giggles
Deaths: Disco Bear, Cub, Nutty, Sniffles, Pop, Mime, Lifty, Shifty and Petunia

Moral: "Be careful what you wish for!"
5c"Take a Hike"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro and Ken PontacOctober 16, 2006 (2006-10-16)

The Happy Tree Friends go camping, but there seems to be trouble.

Starring: Lumpy
Featuring : Cuddles, Toothy, Petunia, Nutty, Sniffles, and Flaky
Deaths: Flaky, Petunia, Nutty, Toothy, Cuddles, Sniffles, and Lumpy

Moral: "Walk a mile in someone else's shoes!"
6a"Snow Place to Go"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, Warren Graff, Aubrey Ankrum, Jeff Biancalana, and David WinnOctober 23, 2006 (2006-10-23)

The boat catches fire and the Happy Tree Friends are marooned in the Arctic. Meanwhile, they have to escape a killer whale deep below.

Starring: Russell
Featuring: Lumpy, Toothy, Cuddles, Flaky, and Giggles
Deaths: Giggles, Cuddles, Toothy, Flaky and Russell

Moral: "A Friend-Ship never sinks"
6b"Dunce Upon a Time" [lower-alpha 3] Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and David IchiokaOctober 23, 2006 (2006-10-23)

Nutty trades his cow to Lifty and Shifty for some magic jelly beans. The next day, he and Giggles' house is in the sky after a beanstalk grew out of Nutty. Giggles meets a giant (played by Lumpy), and must stop him, for he is making food with a nasty recipe.

Starring: Giggles
Featuring: Lumpy, Nutty, Handy, Lifty, Shifty, Mime, Cuddles, Flaky, Toothy, Sniffles, and Petunia, with an appearance of a dead Generic Tree Friend
Deaths: A Generic Tree Friend, Toothy, Handy, Mime, Flaky, Sniffles, Cuddles, Petunia, Nutty, Lumpy, Lifty and Shifty

Moral: "The sky's the limit when your heart's in it!"
6c"Gems the Breaks"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and David IchiokaOctober 23, 2006 (2006-10-23)

When Splendid attacks Lifty and Shifty, they use Kryptonut as a distraction to make him puke violently and fall sick. Whenever he tries to stop them, he fails because they have the Kryptonut in possession.

Starring: Splendid, Lifty and Shifty
Appearance: Cuddles, Toothy, Sniffles, Lumpy, Giggles, Handy, Petunia, Pop, Cub, and The Mole
Deaths: Cuddles, Toothy, Sniffles, Handy, The Mole, Cub, Lifty, Shifty, Giggles (debatable), Petunia (debatable), and Splendid [lower-alpha 4]

Moral: "Pressure makes diamonds!"
7a"A Change of Heart"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren GraffNovember 6, 2006 (2006-11-06)

Disco Bear eats deep fried butter, causing him to suffer a heart attack. Lumpy removes the butter from Disco Bear's heart, but his heartbeat stops. As Giggles pumps life into Disco Bear's body, Lumpy has to find a replacement heart.

Starring: Lumpy and Disco Bear
Featuring: Giggles, Cuddles, Petunia and Cro-Marmot
Appearance: Handy, Mime, Toothy, Nutty, The Mole and Flaky
Deaths: Handy, a whale, and Lumpy (debatable)

Moral: "Absence makes the heart grow fonder!"
7b"A Hole Lotta Love" [lower-alpha 5] Kenn NavarroMark Zaslove, Warren Graff, Kenn Navarro, and Ken PontacNovember 6, 2006 (2006-11-06)

When Pop thinks that Cub fell into a well, he enlists the help of Sniffles, Lumpy, and The Mole to rescue him, which leads them through a mayhem-filled adventure.

Starring: Pop and Cub, Sniffles
Featuring: Lumpy, Mime, The Mole, Handy, Cuddles, and Petunia
Deaths: The Mole, Handy, Petunia, Cuddles, Sniffles, Mime, and Lumpy

Moral: "Anything worth doing is worth doing well!"
7c"Mime to Five" [lower-alpha 6] Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren GraffNovember 6, 2006 (2006-11-06)

Mime wants to buy a unicycle, but he has no money. He tries to find a job to earn money.

Starring: Mime
Featuring: Pop, Cub, Russell, Sniffles, Giggles, Disco Bear, Lumpy, Cro-Marmot, Flaky, Toothy, Cuddles, and The Mole
Appearance: Petunia and Nutty
Deaths: Pop, Cub, Generic Tree Friends, Sniffles, Disco Bear, Toothy, Flaky, Cuddles, Lumpy, Giggles, The Mole, Russell, and Nutty

Moral: "Keep your nose to the grindstone"
8a"Blast from the Past" [lower-alpha 7] Kenn NavarroMark Zaslove, Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren GraffNovember 20, 2006 (2006-11-20)

Sniffles uses a time machine to help the Happy Tree Friends on the playground.

Starring:Sniffles
Featuring: Lumpy, Cuddles, Giggles and Toothy
Appearance: The ants
Deaths: Lumpy (Twice), Cuddles (Twice), Giggles (Thrice), Toothy (Twice), a turtle, two ants, and Sniffles (Twice).

Moral: "Time heals all wounds!"
8b"Chew Said a Mouthful"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren GraffNovember 20, 2006 (2006-11-20)

Nutty tries to eat a jawbreaker, and finds out the reason behind their name.

Starring: Nutty and Lumpy
Featuring: Giggles, Toothy, The Mole, Mime, Disco Bear, and Flaky
Appearance: Russell
Deaths: Mime, Disco Bear, Flaky, Toothy and Nutty

Moral: "Keep a stiff upper lip!"
8c"See What Develops"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren GraffNovember 20, 2006 (2006-11-20)

While The Mole is photographing for the newspaper, Splendid has to save many people who need to be rescued.

Starring: Splendid and The Mole
Featuring: Lumpy, Sniffles, Russell, Giggles, Cro-Marmot, Handy, Disco Bear, Flaky, Nutty, Mime, and Petunia
Appearance: Cuddles, Toothy, Pop and Cub
Deaths: Mime, Handy, Petunia, Giggles, Toothy, Flaky, Disco Bear, Nutty and Cuddles

Moral: "A picture is worth a thousand words!"
9a"Idol Curiosity"Kenn NavarroKen Pontac, Kenn Navarro, Warren Geadd, and David IchiokaNovember 27, 2006 (2006-11-27)

Giggles, Flaky, and Sniffles discover the Cursed Idol, which summons a crack to kill them. Can Sniffles survive the danger?

Starring: Sniffles
Featuring: Giggles, Flaky, The Mole, Russell, Lumpy, and Toothy
Deaths: Numerous Monkeys, Giggles, Flaky, Lumpy, Russell, Toothy, The Mole and Sniffles

Moral: "Step on a crack, break your mother's back"
9b"Home is Where The Hurt is"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, Mark Zaslove, Warren GraffNovember 27, 2006 (2006-11-27)

Handy fails to build a house for Giggles, so he gets help from his friends. Unbeknownst to them, Lumpy is using the blueprint paper to fold a crane as they create a house for her.

Starring: Handy and Giggles
Featuring: Lumpy, Mime, The Mole, Cuddles, and Petunia
Deaths: Cuddles, Mime, Giggles, The Mole, Lumpy, Petunia and Handy

Moral: "Charity begins at home"
9c"Aw, Shucks!"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren GraffNovember 27, 2006 (2006-11-27)

Lumpy's prized corn that he has been raising for years is sabotaged by a crow. He makes many attempts to stop it.

Starring: Lumpy
Featuring: Cuddles, Toothy, Giggles, Disco Bear, Nutty, Sniffles, Mime, The Mole, Flaky, and Handy
Appearance: Russell, Petunia, Pop and Cub, and Lifty and Shifty
Deaths: Cuddles, Toothy, Giggles, Disco Bear, Flaky, The Mole, Nutty, Mime, Sniffles, barn animals, Lifty, Shifty, Handy, Russell, Petunia, Pop and Cub

Moral: "Friends are flowers in the garden of life"
10a"A Sight for Sore Eyes"Kenn NavarroKen Pontac, Kenn Navarro, and Warren GraffDecember 3, 2006 (2006-12-03)

Lumpy the optometrist prescribes a seeing eye dog for The Mole and contact lens for Russell.

Starring: The Mole and Russell
Featuring: Lumpy, Toothy, Sniffles, and Nutty
Appearance: Cuddles and Handy
Deaths: Toothy, Sniffles, Handy, Nutty and The Mole

Moral: "When the outlook isn't good, try the uplook!"
10b"Wipe Out"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, Mark Zaslove, and Warren GraffDecember 3, 2006 (2006-12-03)

Cro-Marmot wants to have the same fame as Lumpy the surfer.

Starring: Cro-Marmot and Lumpy
Featuring: The Mole, Flaky, Nutty, Giggles, Petunia, and Handy
Appearance: Cuddles, Toothy and Sniffles
Deaths: Nutty, Handy, Cuddles, Flaky and Lumpy

Moral: "Don't make waves"
10c"Letter Late than Never"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, Warren Graff, and Mark ZasloveDecember 3, 2006 (2006-12-03)

Mailman Lumpy tries to deliver mail, but a killer turtle is after him.

Starring: Lumpy
Featuring : Giggles, Cuddles, Pop and Cub
Deaths: Giggles, Cub, and Lumpy

Moral: "Good things come in small packages!"
11a"Wingin' It" [lower-alpha 8] Kenn NavarroKen Pontac, Kenn Navarro, and Warren GraffDecember 10, 2006 (2006-12-10)

Flaky goes to the airport and has a fear of flying, which she must face in order to save the others from a plane accident.

Starring: Flaky
Featuring: Sniffles, Mime, The Mole, Lumpy, Petunia, and Cuddles
Appearance: Cro-Marmot, Pop, Cub, Giggles, and Toothy
Deaths: Cuddles, Petunia, Sniffles, Pop (debatable), Cub (debatable), Giggles, Lumpy, Mime, and Flaky

Moral: "Look before you leap!"
11b"Tongue in Cheek"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren GraffDecember 10, 2006 (2006-12-10)

Sniffles attempts to eat his prey, the ants, but they defend themselves against their predator.

Starring: Sniffles and the ants
Appearance: The Mole and Lumpy
Deaths: Sniffles

Moral: "Don't make a mountain out of an ant-hill!"
11c"Easy Comb, Easy Go"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren GraffDecember 10, 2006 (2006-12-10)

Disco Bear has a burnt hair strand, but his barber, The Mole, cuts off everything but his sideburns. Now he has to get his hair (and his beloved afro) back or he'll face humiliation.

Starring: Disco Bear and Lumpy
Featuring : The Mole, Nutty, Mime, Handy, Pop and Cub
Appearance: Giggles, Petunia, Sniffles, Russell, Lifty and Shifty, Toothy, Cuddles and Flaky
Deaths: Toothy, Nutty, Cub, Handy, and Cuddles

Moral: "Don't split hairs!"
12a"I've Got You Under My Skin"Kenn NavarroKen Pontac, Kenn Navarro, and Warren GraffDecember 17, 2006 (2006-12-17)

Lumpy and Sniffles find an injured Giggles outside her house. Apparently, she has a bad cold, and Sniffles wants to cure her – but chaos ensues when Lumpy catches the cold and accidentally injects Sniffles into his own body.

Starring: Sniffles and Lumpy
Featuring: Giggles
Deaths: Lumpy, Giggles and Sniffles

Moral: "It's what inside that counts!"
12b"In a Jam"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, Mark Zaslove, and Warren GraffDecember 17, 2006 (2006-12-17)

Cuddles auditions to join the Happy Tree Band to replace former member Russell, who has been electrocuted. Despite some difficulties, Cuddles gets the part, but then the real chaos begins during the band's performance.

Starring: Cuddles
Featuring: Lumpy, Sniffles, Handy, The Mole, Russell, and Nutty
Appearance: Mime and Cro-Marmot
Deaths: Russell, Handy, Sniffles, Lumpy, and Cuddles

Moral: "He who pays the piper calls the tune!"
12c"Junk in the Trunk"Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren GraffDecember 17, 2006 (2006-12-17)

Lumpy's beloved pet elephant would not listen to him, while Lifty and Shifty have plans with Lumpy's elephant.

Starring: Lumpy
Featuring : Cuddles, Toothy, Lifty and Shifty and Mime
Appearance: Giggles
Deaths: Giggles, Mime, Cuddles, Shifty, Toothy and Lifty

Moral: "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush!"
13a"Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow"Kenn NavarroKen Pontac, Kenn Navarro, and Warren GraffDecember 25, 2006 (2006-12-25)

Lumpy and Cuddles are playing telephone when Cuddles accidentally causes Lumpy to lose his hearing. Even worse, Flippy is trying to kill Lumpy.

Starring: Lumpy
Featuring: Cuddles, Sniffles, The Mole, Russell, Giggles, and Flippy
Appearance: Handy
Deaths: The Mole, Russell, Cuddles, and Flippy

Moral: "Actions speak louder than words!"
13b
13c
"Double Whammy, Part 1"
"Autopsy Turvy (Double Whammy, Part 2)"
Kenn NavarroKenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren GraffDecember 25, 2006 (2006-12-25)

Flippy consults Lumpy the psychiatrist upon becoming aware of his flip outs that result in him killing innocent people as victims. But when they keep on happening, Flippy eventually ends up in a heated battle with his evil side, Fliqpy.

Starring: Flippy
Featuring: Lumpy, Mime and Nutty
Appearance: Russell, Cuddles, Toothy, Handy, Disco Bear, Petunia, Giggles, Flaky, Sniffles, The Mole, Cro-Marmot, Lifty and Shifty
Deaths: In Part 1: Disco Bear, Petunia, Giggles, Sniffles, Mime, and Nutty
In Part 2: Cuddles, Toothy, Lifty and Shifty, and Flippy

Moral: Part 1 "Two heads are better than one" and Part 2 "Two is company, three is a crowd!"

International broadcast

In Canada, Razer aired the show in syndication with then-sibling television system Citytv. [5]

The series has also been broadcast on MTV in Europe and Latin America, and on Animax in South Africa. [6]

Notes

  1. The title is a pun on the film From Here to Eternity
  2. The Dog in this episode is based on writer Ken Pontac's dog Whistle.
  3. This episode is based on a fairy tale, 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
  4. The first and only time that Splendid ever died in the series, unless the Internet short "Class Act" is counted where he possibly died too.
  5. The title is a reference to the Led Zeppelin song "Whole Lotta Love"
  6. The title of the episode is a pun on the phrase 9 to 5
  7. Part of the episode features "Spin Fun Knowin' Ya"
  8. It was originally entitled, "Sky's the Limits"

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Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm is a video game based on the Flash cartoon series Happy Tree Friends developed by independent software developer Stainless Games and published by Sega. It was scheduled to be released in fall 2007 and then April 2008, but was delayed and released on June 25, 2008, for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360.

Aubrey Ankrum is an American screenwriter, animator and graphic artist. He is mostly known as one of the creators of the popular Flash cartoon Happy Tree Friends. He also worked on several Mondo Media shows and has made graphics for many companies.

<i>The God & Devil Show</i> 1999 American TV series or program

The God & Devil Show is an American adult animated web series that had a successful run from 1999 to 2001. The show was produced and developed by Mondo Media and was created by Aubrey Ankrum, who went on to create Happy Tree Friends.

Mondo TV is an Italian production and television distribution company. Founded by Orlando Corradi in 1985 and based in Rome, Mondo TV is a public company, quoted on the STAR segment of the Italian main stock exchange, Borsa Italiana.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">6 Point Harness</span> Production label for Mondo Media

6 Point Harness is an American animation studio and production label of Mondo Media based in Los Angeles. It develops and produces animated television programming, feature films, commercial, music videos and web-based content. Founded by Brendan Burch in 2003, some of the studio's most notable productions include Tom Hanks' Electric City, Fox's Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, MTV's Good Vibes, Nick Jr.'s Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, Nickelodeon's El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, Adult Swim's Apollo Gauntlet and Lazor Wulf, the animated feature The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!, and the web series Dick Figures for the YouTube channel Mondo Media. 6PH also released Dick Figures: The Movie, an in-house production developed from the company's web series.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mondo Media</span> American multimedia company

Mondo Media, Inc. is an American multimedia company that mainly produces online animation aimed at teens and young adults. It was founded in 1988 by John Evershed and Deirdre O'Malley in San Francisco, California.

<i>Peter Rabbit</i> (TV series) Childrens animated television series

Peter Rabbit is an animated comedy children's television series for preschool children that debuted on the Nick Jr. Channel on 14 December 2012, in the United States and on CBeebies and BBC One on 25 December 2012, in the United Kingdom. It is based on the character of the same name from Beatrix Potter's children’s books. The series debuted on American TV and iTunes on 14 December 2012, with the pilot episode debuting as a Christmas holiday special, titled Peter Rabbit's Christmas Tale. The show became a regular series on 19 February 2013, in the USA. The first official DVD of Peter Rabbit was released on 28 May 2013, as a Walmart exclusive. It contains the programme's first eight episodes on a single disc. On 11 October 2013, Nickelodeon ordered a second series of 26 episodes. In Wales the series is known as Guto Gwningen and is dubbed into Welsh on S4C.

<i>Clang Invasion</i> 2009 multi-national TV series or program

Clang Invasion is an animated television series produced for the Canadian children's programming channel YTV, where it first premiered on September 12, 2009. It also aired on Nickelodeon, Clan TVE in Spain, K2 in Italy, Gloob in Brazil, Canal J in France, ABC Me in Australia and Pop in the UK. 26 episodes were produced and first aired from September 12, 2009 to February 12, 2010 on YTV, with reruns airing until September 2, 2011.

<i>Dick Figures: The Movie</i> 2013 independent animated film

Dick Figures: The Movie is a 2013 independent American adult animated fantasy action-adventure comedy film produced by Remochoso and Six Point Harness and distributed by Mondo Media. It is based on the animated web series Dick Figures. The film was written and directed by Ed Skudder and Zack Keller and produced by Nick Butera and Andy Fiedler. Skudder and Keller star as Red and Blue, two best friends and polar opposites who set out on a journey to find the Great Sword of Destiny for the Raccoon in order to save their friendship, Pink's birthday, and the world from Lord Takagami. It also features the voices of Eric Bauza, Ben Tuller, Shea Carter, Mike Nassar, Chad Quandt, and Lauren K. Sokolov.

Night Sweats is a Canadian animated anthology series with live-action/CGI filler segments hosted by Bart Batchelor and Chris Nielsen. It is a compilation of the animated shorts created as part of the Bite on Mondo program, a joint venture of Blue Ant Media's BiteTV, and Mondo Media, in which Canadian animators pitched ideas for new shows. The show consists of 26 episodes.

<i>Sunny Day</i> (TV series) Childrens animated television series

Sunny Day is an animated children's television series produced by Silvergate Media. The series revolves around Sunny, a tween-age hairdresser who runs her own hair salon with the help of her dog Doodle, hair colorist Rox, and receptionist Blair. Sunny's best customers are Timmy, who is in charge of hosting events and shows in Sunny's hometown, and Cindy, the unlucky town chef who has a constant bad hair day. The series is loosely based on the Random House picture book series Fairytale Hairdresser by Abie Longstaff and illustrated by Lauren Beard. Each episode features an original song written by Peter Lurye.

YooHoo to the Rescue is an Italian-Korean animated children's television series produced by Aurora World and Mondo TV. It is the third TV series based on the YooHoo & Friends franchise, and serves as a revival of the franchise. The show is the first Netflix original series for children from South Korea.

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