Happy Tree Friends

[jekylljuice]

Originally Posted by Cassini90125

If it makes you feel any better, so do I. Occasionally I come into this thread looking for the link, click it, and watch. I think I watch it mostly for the sheer absurdity of it all, and in truth it's better than a number of shows on CN these days. Academy-award material it ain't, but sometimes I don't want to bother with high art or stirring dialogue, or even a plot; some days I just want to indulge in something mindless.

That's good to hear. The other day, my housemates and I were having something of a House marathon, and there are bits of that show which I find to be gruesome and difficult to watch (basically, whenever they have close-up glimpses of the surgical procedures, that's me squirming in my seat). The violence in Happy Tree Friends can be pretty graphic and extreme, but it's still of an instrinsically very cartoonish nature. I suppose that, in its own highly distorted way, it's actually very sweet and innocent after all.

Originally Posted by Cassini90125

Same here, but it beats the hell out of shows like Mighty Mouse and Tom & Jerry. Why cats always seen to get the short end of the stick in these and other old cartoon I'll never understand. I like cats and frankly a lot of those shows annoyed the crap out of me.

I love cats, and I've never understood that particular trend either. I probably wouldn't mind them always being allocated the villainous roles if such cartoons didn't always protray them as being so mind-numbingly stupid to boot. Oh well, thank god for the likes of Garfield, Heathcliff and Top Cat.