(critters singing)
Happy Tree Friends. (chuckles)
It's cute.
76 years old and I'm watching cartoons.
Oh, this is fun!
That's a big knife.
(giggling)
Oh no!
Uh-oh.
Huh.
(laughter)
Excellent.
(screaming in pain)
Yuck! It looked so cute. (laughs)
I should've known.
It's mummy time!
Uh-oh.
Heh-heh.
Oooh! That's just nasty.
Is that an eyeball?
Oh geeze.
(giggling nervously)
It's violent.
I thought it was a cartoon. It's a ghoul movie.
Pink lemonade.
Will never drink pink lemonade again! (laughs)
(critters humming)
What's gonna happen now?
Oh no.
(tires screeching)
Oooh!
Oh.
Here comes the tow service.
It's the fastest I've ever seen AAA show up.
(critters mumble)
Oh-ho-ho!
(screaming in pain)
Eww!
This is some sick [bleep].
I think I've reached my threshold.
(Finebros) One more.
(critters humming)
(giggling happily)
(screaming in pain)
(laughing)
HItchcock would've loved this stuff.
I wonder about the guy who thought up these cartoons.
Who would watch this?
Oh no. The bird is gonna take the eye.
Ugh! No! (nervous laughter)
Oh no! (laughs)
That's pretty gruesome...
for a cartoon!
These are mean cartoons!
(screaming in pain)
Gross!
That was horrible! (laughs)
Where do you find these things?
(Finebros) Can you describe what you just watched?
Just a lot of accidents.
It was a lot of violence.
It was some seriously disturbing cartoons.
Not something for children to watch.
Horrid for us elders to watch!
It reminds me of a line from a play,
and the man says, "I may vomit."
(Finebros) But when the video first started,
what did you think it was gonna be?
Some kind of a cutesy cartoon.
A show that my grandson watches in the morning.
I was really thinking you were gonna punish me with some kind of
sickeningly sweet, sugar coated crap!
You're gonna show me little kid cartoons and I'm so done with that!
I suffered through that for so many years.
(Finebros) And by the end of the video, how did you feel about it?
I couldn't keep my mind on it to tell the truth.
Ghoulish crap!
Why would kids like this as opposed to the old stuff?
Gorey, brutal, hard to watch.
Elder abuse, I think I'm gonna claim on here.
(Finebros) Did you enjoy the videos?
No!
Not at all.
Not really.
Oh, yeah!
They're cute videos.
Ghoulish, but cute.
Actually, I did.
I'm a sick [bleep], what can I say?
(Finebros) Does it remind you of any other cartoons that
you've seen in your life?
No. When I was a little kid we saw nice cartoons.
Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Well, the old cartoon, Woodpecker, were really mean too.
But not quite so graphic mean.
It could well be a natural evolution from Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.
i used to wonder why when Wile E. Coyote
got hit by an ACME safe out in the desert,
why he just didn't splatter!
This is what should've happened to Wile E. Coyote.
(Finebros) The name of the show is Happy Tree Friends.
Is that a good name for this show?
Uh...no.
They lose their eyes, they get run over, they get squished around wheels.
I wouldn't be happy if all this happened to me.
You're gonna fool a lot of people with that title.
People are gonna think, "Oh! Happy friends. Come here, my little children.
Let's watch this together!"
(Finebros) And would you have let your kids watch this when they were young?
No. Heavens no.
I wouldn't.
I don't think so.
Sometimes I think I would take the TV and throw it out,
but it doesn't work.
They'll watch it at their friend's house, right?
Probably wanna watch it with them so maybe I can help them
through some of the graphic parts that I would say
might be a little bit rough.
(Finebros) Would you have let us watch this when we were really little?
- Eight or nine, yeah. - (Finebros) Really?!
Yeah, if your capacity was there.
Enjoyed farting at each other and things like that.
You know, you were obviously moving along.
Maturing in the stupidest ways.
(Finebros) And what would you say to parents that
are just letting them watch it without any supervision?
They oughta get a grip.
Well, they're loony. They shouldn't be parents.
You'd better take a look and see what your kids are watching
on the internet, on the TV.
I don't think they give a [bleep].
Parent are looking for a babysitter.
Watch that kid! (laughs)
This is the state of the nation of parenthood.
It's disappearing.
You know, get involved in your kids life.
I mean, actually pay attention to 'em.
You know, if you don't get involved now, then they're not
gonna be involved with you later.
(Finebros) And will you ever watch more Happy Tree Friends?
Yeah. I would watch it.
Yeah, yeah.
Yes, I would.
(scoffs) Why?!
I don't think I'd like to watch it again.
No, I would not watch Happy Tree Friends or good god.
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