Happy Tree Friends - Volume 1 - First Blood [DVD]

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Product Description Contains the following episodes: Spin Fun Knowing You House Warming Helping Helps Crazy Antics Havin’ a Ball Water You Wading For Nuttin’ Wrong With Candy Wheelin’ and Dealin’ Pitchin’ Impossible Stayin’ Alive Treasure These Idol Moments Chip Off the Ole’ Block Nuttin’ But the Tooth Hide and Seek .co.uk Review Prior to this release, the Happy Tree Friends were the main attraction at a popular Web site, where they developed quite a cult following. It's easy to see why. These hyper-kinetic, ultra-violent, Flash-animated shorts are exactly the sorts of things to provide office workers with an amusing diversion for a few minutes. A large cast of doe-eyed cartoon animals with names such as Cuddles, Giggles and Lumpy are dispatched in a variety of gruesome ways, with results that are like My Little Pony guest-starring in an episode of The Simpsons' own ultra-violent cartoon Itchy & Scratchy. But what works so well on the Internet doesn't necessarily survive the transfer to home viewing. That which is cathartically entertaining to deskbound employees at 3 o'clock on a Friday afternoon is, at times, repetitive and even predictable when viewed from the comfort of one's own armchair. Itchy & Scratchy works so well because of the satire and the increasingly creative and ridiculously elaborate cartoon violence--qualities that are missing from Happy Tree Friends. As a result, it's best to sample this one episode at a time, rather than sit through the whole thing in one go. --Robert Burrow P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); Review "Happy Tree Friends is the Citizen Kane of roadkill." -- Don Asmussen, cartoonist Time magazine, San Francisco Chronicle"I do whatever it takes to stop my kids from watching these animals." -- Dean MacDonald, concerned parent"There must be some kind of mistake." -- John Evershed, owner, Mondo Media See more