Happy Tree Friends (TV series)
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No. of episodes | 13 (39 segments) |
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Original network | G4 |
Original release | September 25 – December 25, 2006 |
Happy Tree Friends began as an animated video series, created and developed by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, Kenn Navarro and Warren Graff for Mondo Media. A single television season of Happy Tree Friends aired from September 25 to December 25, 2006, on the now-defunct G4 network. Each episode of the television series was a half-hour long, and consisted of three seven-minute segments. The animation for the show was done by Fatkat.
Production
The Happy Tree Friends television series was first screened at San Diego Comic-Con 2006, and some of the episodes were made available on the website a few weeks prior the show's television premiere on September 25, 2006 at midnight on the G4 network. (Segments from the Happy Tree Friends web series also aired on the network's animation anthology series Happy Tree Friends and Friends and G4's Late Night Peepshow.) Each half-hour episode of the television series consisted of three seven-minute segments. Thirteen half-hour episodes were produced, made up of a total of 39 seven-minute segments. Pictures from the first six episodes were available on G4's website.
Episodes
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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1a | "The Wrong Side of the Tracks" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, Warren Graff, Aubrey Ankrum, and Jeff Biancalana | September 25, 2006 |
The Happy Tree Friends go to Lumpy's funfair over but the roller coaster seems to be incomplete, troubling both the riders and Lumpy himself. Starring: Lumpy | ||||
1b | "From Hero to Eternity"[lower-alpha 1] | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, David Winn, Ken Pontac, and Warren Graff | September 25, 2006 |
As Splendid takes his clothes to the laundry, he has too much washing to stop in there. Starring: Splendid | ||||
1c | "And the Kitchen Sink" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and David Ichioka | September 25, 2006 |
Pop loses Cub, but then when finds him playing in the mud while he bathes Cub in the kitchen sink but when he leaves to pick up the phone, he causes all sorts of trouble for him. Starring: Pop and Cub | ||||
2a | "Party Animal" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren Graff | October 2, 2006 |
Flaky and her friends celebrate Flippy's birthday, until he flips out once again kills the fellows. Starring: Flaky and Flippy | ||||
2b | "Ipso Fatso" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren Graff | October 2, 2006 |
Disco Bear finds that he is overweight and feeling insecure, goes to the gym to work out that thing. Starring: Disco Bear | ||||
2c | "Don't Yank My Chain" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Mark Zaslove, Ken Pontac, and Warren Graff | October 2, 2006 |
Falsely arrested by Officer Lumpy, Handy and The Mole go on the lam and dragging a heavy ball to their chain. Starring: Handy, The Mole and Lumpy | ||||
3a | "Doggone It"[lower-alpha 2] | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro and Ken Pontac | October 9, 2006 |
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 | ||||
3b | "Concrete Solution" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro and Ken Pontac | October 9, 2006 |
Nutty takes a bag of sugar from the café while on his way home he drops the bag of sugar on a pile of cement bags and unknowingly takes a bag of cement home when he eats the cement and ends up in an ambulance but the bridge, it is on is made of sugar. Starring: Nutty | ||||
3c | "Sea What I Found" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren Graff | October 9, 2006 |
While Lumpy and Russell go fishing, they find a treasure map. Lifty and Shifty, also discovering it, go after the treasure. Starring: Russell, Lifty and Shifty | ||||
4a | "Easy For You to Sleigh" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren Graff | October 30, 2006 |
Lifty and Shifty try to steal Christmas, but it won't be easy trying to ransack Flippy's home. Starring: Lifty and Shifty | ||||
4b | "Wishy Washy" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and David Ichioka | October 30, 2006 |
Petunia's toilet is clogged and Lumpy comes to 'fix' it, and it only ends up making a bigger mess. Starring: Petunia | ||||
4c | "Who's to Flame?" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro and Ken Pontac | October 30, 2006 |
Petunia catches fire while she was making waffles. The fire then spreads to Petunia, and Giggles and then the whole house. Mime with difficultly calls the firefighters. Starring: Mime | ||||
5a | "Every Litter Bit Hurts" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Don Gillies | October 16, 2006 |
Giggles confronts Lumpy because she catches him emptying his garbage truck in the lake. She has The Mole, Sniffles, Pop, and Cub clean up Lumpy's litter, but Lumpy will not stop his dreadful pollution. Starring: Giggles | ||||
5b | "As You Wish" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Mark Zaslove | October 16, 2006 |
At Petunia's lights store, she throws away a lamp that doesn't work. When Lifty and Shifty take it from the trash, they find that it is a magic lamp. As it is passed between Happy Tree Friends, their wishes result death. Starring: Lumpy | ||||
5c | "Take a Hike" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro and Ken Pontac | October 16, 2006 |
The Happy Tree Friends go camping, but there seems to be trouble. Starring: Lumpy | ||||
6a | "Snow Place to Go" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, Warren Graff, Aubrey Ankrum, and Jeff Biancalana | October 23, 2006 |
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 | ||||
6b | "Dunce Upon a Time"[lower-alpha 3] | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and David Ichioka | October 23, 2006 |
Nutty trades his cow to Lifty and Shifty for some magic jellybeans. 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 | ||||
6c | "Gems the Breaks" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and David Ichioka | October 23, 2006 |
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
Featuring : With appearances by Cuddles, Toothy, Sniffles, Lumpy, Giggles, Handy, Petunia, Pop, Cub, and The Mole | ||||
7a | "A Change of Heart" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren Graff | November 6, 2006 |
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 | ||||
7b | "A Hole Lotta Love"[lower-alpha 5] | Kenn Navarro | Mark Zaslove, Warren Graff, Kenn Navarro, and Ken Pontac | November 6, 2006 |
When Pop thinks that Cub fell into a well, he enlists the help of Sniffles, Lumpy, and The Mole through their mayhem. Starring: Pop and Cub | ||||
7c | "Mime to Five"[lower-alpha 6] | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren Graff | November 6, 2006 |
Mime wants to buy a unicycle, but he has no money. He tries to find a job to earn money. Starring: Mime | ||||
8a | "Blast from the Past"[lower-alpha 7] | Kenn Navarro | Mark Zaslove, Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren Graff | November 20, 2006 |
Sniffles uses a time machine to help the happy tree friends on the playground.
Starring:Sniffles | ||||
8b | "Chew Said a Mouthful" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren Graff | November 20, 2006 |
Nutty tries to eat a jawbreaker, and finds out the reason behind their name. Starring: Nutty | ||||
8c | "See What Develops" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren Graff | November 20, 2006 |
While The Mole is photographing for the newspaper, Splendid has to save many people who need to be rescued. Starring: Splendid and The Mole | ||||
9a | "Idol Curiosity" | Kenn Navarro | Ken Pontac, Kenn Navarro, Warren Geadd, and David Ichioka | November 27, 2006 |
Giggles, Flaky, and Sniffles discover the Cursed Idol. Starring: Sniffles | ||||
9b | "Home is Where The Hurt is" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, Mark Zaslove, Warren Graff | November 27, 2006 |
Handy fails to build a house for Giggles, so he gets help from his friends. Lumpy uses 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 | ||||
9c | "Aw, Shucks!" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren Graff | November 27, 2006 |
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 | ||||
10a | "A Sight for Sore Eyes" | Kenn Navarro | Ken Pontac, Kenn Navarro, and Warren Graff | December 3, 2006 |
Lumpy the optometrist prescribes a seeing-eye dog for The Mole and contact lens for Russell. Starring: The Mole and Russell | ||||
10b | "Wipe Out" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, Mark Zaslove, and Warren Graff | December 3, 2006 |
Cro-Marmot wants to have the same fame as Lumpy. Starring: Cro-Marmot and Lumpy | ||||
10c | "Letter Late than Never" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, Warren Graff, and Mark Zaslove | December 3, 2006 |
Mailman Lumpy tries to deliver mail but a killer turtle is after him. Starring: Lumpy | ||||
11a | "Wingin' It"[lower-alpha 8] | Kenn Navarro | Ken Pontac, Kenn Navarro, and Warren Graff | December 10, 2006 |
Flaky goes to the airport and has a fear of flying. Starring: Flaky | ||||
11b | "Tongue in Cheek" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren Graff | December 10, 2006 |
Sniffles attempts to eat The Ant Family. Starring: Sniffles | ||||
11c | "Easy Comb, Easy Go" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren Graff | December 10, 2006 |
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 | ||||
12a | "I've Got You Under My Skin" | Kenn Navarro | Ken Pontac, Kenn Navarro, and Warren Graff | December 17, 2006 |
Lumpy and Sniffles find an injured Giggles outside her house. Apparently, she has a bad cold, and it was up to Sniffles to save Lumpy and Giggles. Starring: Sniffles | ||||
12b | "In a Jam" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, Mark Zaslove, and Warren Graff | December 17, 2006 |
Cuddles was a no. 1 fan of the Happy Tree Band until Russell gets electrocuted, and wants to join audition as a replacement band member. Starring: Cuddles | ||||
12c | "Junk in the Trunk" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren Graff | December 17, 2006 |
Lumpy's beloved pet elephant would not listen to him, Lifty and Shifty have plans with Lumpy's elephant. Starring: Lumpy | ||||
13a | "Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow" | Kenn Navarro | Ken Pontac, Kenn Navarro, and Warren Graff | December 25, 2006 |
Cuddles gets into big danger after playing telephone with Lumpy.
Starring: Lumpy | ||||
13b 13c | "Double Whammy (Part 1)" "Double Whammy (Part 2)" | Kenn Navarro | Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren Graff | December 25, 2006 |
Flippy consults Lumpy the psychiatrist upon becoming aware of his flip outs. Starring: Flippy |
International broadcast
Happy Tree Friends aired on G4 in the United States. The Canadian channel Razer aired the show in syndication as did the Citytv stations throughout Canada.[1]
It was broadcast on MTV in Europe and Latin America, and on Animax in South Africa.[2] It was also shown on Paramount Comedy 1 in the UK from May 11, 2007 for a short time, with occasional reruns afterward with the channel, now branded as Comedy Central UK. It aired 2×2 in Russia, and 2+2 in Ukraine.
In Asia, the series airs on Comedy Central (Asia) and FX Asia. It also aired on Killerbee 106.3 in the Philippines on August 3, 2012.
Home media
The complete season was released as a 4-disc box set on January 8, 2008. The series is available for streaming on YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Instant Video.
See also
External links
- Happy Tree Friends (Season TV) playlist on YouTube
Notes
- ↑ The title is a pun on the film From Here to Eternity
- ↑ The Dog in this episode is based on writer Ken Pontac's dog Whistle
- ↑ This episode is based on a fairy tale, 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
- ↑ The first time that Splendid ever died in an episode, excluding the internet short "Class Act" where he possibly died too.
- ↑ The title is a reference to the Led Zeppelin song "Whole Lotta Love"
- ↑ The title of the episode is a pun on the phrase 9 to 5
- ↑ Part of the episode features "Spin Fun Knowin' Ya"
- ↑ It was originally entitled, "Sky's the Limits"
References
- ↑ CityTV.com Archived June 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Mondo Media Gaining Revenue from International Licensing". Beet.tv. March 9, 2010. Archived from the original on April 18, 2013.