Gory Toons

***Gory Toons*** is an American animated web series. Published and mainly uploaded on YouTube, the series was created by Daily Airings. Since the first episode in the date September 3, 2021, there are currently 3 seasons and many shorts. The series is based on *Happy Tree Friends*, which was created by Mondo Media. Just like its predecessor, almost every episode features blood, gore, and violent deaths that are comparable to that of "The Itchy & Scratchy Show" (the short cartoon featured on "The Simpsons"), except more graphic and anatomically correct. Unlike *Happy Tree Friends*, dialogue in the show is not entirely absent, although it is sheldom heard. Some characters, like Kenny McCormick, Kirby, and the characters from *Happy Tree Friends* of course, are rarely heard speaking, though it is obvious what their reactions are.

## History

### Beginning

Prior to Gory Toons, the Daily Airings channel use to feature animations based on Happy Tree Friends. They include a test pilot of haphazard events, a short animation that pitted The Mole and Mime against one another, and several short animations where a character from Happy Tree Friends dies. However, Gory Toons officially started with a short episode called *Crappy Flush*, which featured the popular Nickelodeon character, SpongeBob SquarePants, unclogging his toliet and getting killed by a plunger.

### Success

Shortly after the first episode, Gory Toons managed to garnered a small fanbase, with most of the videos attracting thousand of views. A few episodes managed to be published on r/happytreefriends. For the last remaining portion of 2021, the first Gory Toons season was completed. When 2022 started, the episode *Road Rage* was published and continued the series into the next year, with *Blind Mistake* following. However, after that episode, a hiatus had began with no production from March to August. This hiatus eventually came to a close when the short called *Pop's Drumstick* was released in August 11.

### Return

After several more months of no episodes, Gory Toons finally restasted its production in April 8, 2023 with the episode *Down The Snatch!*. This short was also published on Newgrounds on an old account. After the success of the video, Daily Airings released his longest video he had ever created, which was *Dieseling Derby*. His latest release was met with critical aclaim and is one of the highest rated episodes in the series since *All For Ski*. After the episode's release, the series had continued yet another hiatus. During this time, all of the episodes, with the exception of Season 3, were all unlisted by DailyAirings. Eventually, the whole series, with the exception of the last two episodes, was privated from the channel alltogether. However, as of September, the series was made public on the channel yet again. The series concludes its third hiatus by shiftting back to its shorter format with the second Halloween special, *Good Fright!*.

## Episodes

### Season 1

1. Crappy Flush
2. You're Too Slow!
3. The power of supernova
4. Splendid What Mondon't
5. Home Sweet Pineapple - Gory Edition
6. Zombodie Told Me
7. And It Just Fixs!
8. All For Ski

### Season 2

1. Road Rage
2. Blind Mistake
3. The Kid Who Liked Wario A Little TOO MUCH
4. Pop's Drumstick
5. We Round Love
6. Opsy Tpsy
7. Jelly Tale
8. Moose With Loose Screws
9. Restless Meg Syndrome
10. Canine Chaos
11. Krabby Klash
12. Late Parody Toons
13. Absorbent Voyage
14. Sweet Dreams
15. Turkey Tussle

### Season 3

1. Down The Snatch!
2. Dieseling Derby
3. Good Fright!

### Kringles

1. Cookie Kringle

### Irregular Episodes

1. Calling The Shots
2. Splatter Fest
3. Funny Dummy
4. Bombs Away
5. Smoochies

### Gory Toons Breaks

1. Seats Me
2. Uncandy Resemblance
3. Trick or Treat!
4. You Can Bake It!
5. That's a Mouthful

## Show Characteristics

Most of the show's recurring cast, with the exceptions of Clara, are popular characters from various franchises. All of the Happy Tree Friends, with the exceptions of Cro-Marmot, Lammy, and Mr. Pickels, are featured in the *Gory Toons* series. In addition, many characters from *SpongeBob SquarePants*, *Kirby*, *South Park*, *Super Mario*, among other properties are also present. In early episodes, most characters played the roles of children doing childish games. However, as the series progressed the age concept was dropped, and now characters act variously like children, teenagers and adults in different episodes. The only major recurring characters who are unaffected by this concept are Lumpy, Squidward Mr. Krabs, Wario, 5-Volt, King Dedede, Chef Pee Pee, Plankton, Handy, Disco Bear, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, Larry Koopa, Pop, Cub, the students of South Park elementary and their parents, Clara, Flippy, and Splendid, who always act like adults (except for Cub, Larry Koopa, and the students of South Park Elementary, who are always children) respectively. Just like *Happy Tree Friends*, at the beginning of each episode, the characters are typically found in everyday situations that always escalate into violence and the inevitable deaths of those involved and/or innocent bystanders, mostly because of very unfortunate, surprising accidents with otherwise harmless instruments. The show's characters sometimes appear not to notice other character's deaths/injuries, despite clear indications (such as blood coming out of the latter's mouths), or they seem to quickly overcome their fellows' deaths. So far, every episode has had at least one death. While one of Happy Tree Friends' original creators, Kenn Navarro has stated that he doesn't allow any character to be killed directly by a gun because it would be "too easy", firearms are occasionally used in *Gory Toons*, such as *Blind Mistake*. The continuity of the series does not seem to be affected by the frequent deaths of the characters, as they always appear alive and well in episodes subsequent to those in which they were killed.

Each episode starts with a title card that introduces the episode's name, which is usually a pun, and indicates the episode's plot. Most regular episodes have a typical duration of less than three minutes. Because of the large roster, usually only a few of the characters are used in a single episode, but occasionally larger episodes have been released where most of the characters appear. The longest episode in the *Gory Toons* series, which also happened to feature the most starring characters, is the episode *Dieseling Derby*, clocking in at nine minutes.

## Trivia

* A majority of the episode names in the *Gory Toons* series are puns of everyday phrases and/or a play on words. (Example: The phrase "all for three" was turned into *All For Ski*)
* While nobody has been killed by firearms in most episodes, Chef Pee Pee unknowingly uses Elmer Fudd's gun to shoot of Jeffy's head in *Blind Mistake*.
* The later episodes (most notably episodes such as *Blind Mistake* and *And It Just Fixs!*) seem to be more gruesome than the earlier ones.
* Each season takes about a year to finish. Season One is shorter than Season two, however, as the series began in September of 2021.
* Technically speaking, *Crappy Flush* and *Home Sweet Pineapple - Gory Edition* are the only episodes to feature one series, those cases being *SpongeBob SquarePants*.