Editing Happy Tree Friends (section)

==Reception==
===Controversy===
The series has drawn criticism due to concern that children would be influenced by its violent content due to the series appearing as if it were made for children. An example of this happened in 2005, when American author and journalist [[Katherine Ellison]] expressed her feelings about it to ''[[The Washington Post]]'' after witnessing her six-year-old son watch it. She believed that the series should be regulated since she felt it would have an impact on young children's minds.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ellison |first=Katherine |date=2005-10-23 |title=What's Up, Doc? A Bloody Outrage, That's What |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2005/10/23/whats-up-doc-a-bloody-outrage-thats-what/410fcb88-58b5-48e7-ade3-0ab18211caee/ |access-date=2023-11-17 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>

The series has also been controversial with several local and federal [[Government agency|government agencies]] in [[Russia]]. In 2008, the [[Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications|Russian Media Culture Protection Department]] (Rossvyazokhrankultura), a regulatory body for TV in Russia, issued a warning to Russian TV channel [[2×2 (TV channel)|2×2]] about them airing the series along with ''The Adventures of Big Jeff'', claiming that they both promote "violence and brutality." This "violence and brutality" was claimed to harm the psychic health, moral development, and social morality of children, all of this being a violation of the license agreement. The department warned 2×2 to remove them in order to avoid legal issues. The owners of 2×2 voiced their disagreement but reluctantly fulfilled the request.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rsoc.ru/site/news/?id_news=559|script-title=ru:Россвязьохранкультура выносит предупреждения редакции телепрограммы «Телеканал 2х2» и ЗАО «Телеканал 2х2»|publisher=Russian Media Culture Protection Department|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308174114/http://www.rsoc.ru/site/news/?id_news=559|access-date=2023-11-18|archive-date=2008-03-08|language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://lenta.ru/news/2008/03/12/protest/|title=Российские протестанты потребовали закрыть телеканал "2x2"|publisher=[[Lenta.Ru]]|date=2008-03-12|access-date=2023-11-18|language=ru}}</ref> Later on, in 2021, the Oktyabrsky District Court in [[Saint Petersburg]] banned the series along with some [[anime]] films, claiming that the series "contains elements of cruelty" and that it "is designed in a style common for American animation" and that "watching the animated series undoubtedly harms young children's spiritual and moral education and development and contradicts the humanistic nature of upbringing inherent in Russia."<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-07-08 |title=Russian Court Bans 'Happy Tree Friends,' Anime Films |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/08/russian-court-bans-happy-tree-friends-anime-films-a74457 |access-date=2023-11-17 |work=[[The Moscow Times]]}}</ref>

===Accolades===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Show
!Year
!Category
!Episode
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Annecy International Animated Film Festival]]
|2003
|Best Animated Short Film Made for the Internet
| "Eye Candy"
|-
|2007
|Best Television Series for Adults
| "From Hero to Eternity"
|-
|rowspan=3|[[Ottawa International Animation Festival]]
|2004
|rowspan=2|Best Animated Short Film Made for the Internet
| "Out on a Limb"
|-
|2005
| "Mole in the City"
|-
|2007
|Best Television Series for Adults
| "Autopsy Turvy (Double Whammy, Part 2)"
|}