Happy Tree Friends is an American adult animated video series disguised as a children's web show created by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo and Kenn Navarro, and developed by Montijo, Navarro and Warren Graff for Mondo Media. The show has been cited as an example of achieving a cult following.The series is best known for its combination of cute cartoon anthropomorphic forest animals and extreme graphic violence. Each episode revolves around the characters enduring accidental or deliberately inflicted pain, mutilation and/or death to which at one point, there was a warning given to the site: "Cartoon...