Nica Lorber

Cute, cuddly and horribly wrong…It’s the Happy Tree Friends! No matter how innocently their day begins, it always ends in mayhem. But the ensemble cast of Cuddles, Handy, Giggles, Lumpy, Flippy and the others are just so damn cute you’ll want to squeeze them until their little eyes pop out! This Holiday DVD is the ½ hour "Winter Break" special that aired on MTV International and MTV2.

This action and adventure comedy is drawn in simple appearance and combines cute forest animals with extreme graphic violence. Each episode revolves around the characters enduring accidental events of bloodshed, pain, dismemberment and/or death.

Happy Tree Friends is an adult animated television series that was broadcast from October 3, 2006 to December 25, 2006, on G4 in the United States. With a total of thirteen episodes that were aired, the show is based on the web series of the same name, created and developed by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, Kenn Navarro, and Warren Graff for Mondo Media. The series was animated by Canadian studio Fatkat, while the opening and end credits were produced by Cookie Jar Entertainment. In premises akin of children's shows, the series is a juxtaposition of cute cartoon anthropomorphic forest animals, who are suddenly subjected to extreme graphic violence. Each episode revolves around the characters enduring accidental or deliberately inflicted pain or mutilation.