開心樹朋友
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Happy Tree Friends（直譯為開心樹朋友）是由美國Mondo Mini Shows製作的flash卡通片集。

[编辑] 簡介

開心樹朋友是Mondo Mini Show的卡通系列，充滿黑色幽默的喜劇。創立者有Kenn Navarro、Warren Graff Aubrey Ankrum、Rhode Montijo等人。

在本作的官方網頁上，寫道「不適合小孩與大小孩」（not recommended for small children and big babies）。和卡通人物的可愛造型完全不相稱的是，全劇充滿了極端的暴力內容。全套卡通充滿血腥，每一集都是用一些非常殘忍或「創新」的手法將該集大量角色殺死。除了兩集沒人死：「Out on a Limb」和「Nuttin’ but the Tooth」，還有「House Warming」可能也算，儘管這集仍有大量出血且出場角色可能會死於大量失血。

開心樹朋友中的死亡畫面和The Itchy and Scratchy Show（在辛普森家庭裡虛構的節目）比起來，本作顯得更直接。

每一集全長約3分鐘。都會由一個或多個角色主演。在本篇上共有21個角色，全部都是畫得頗可愛的小動物。以日常生活或者笑話開始，接著發展成大慘劇的劇情非常常見。全套卡通基本上沒有對白，但仍會有配上一些角色們的嘆氣聲和慘叫聲。很顯然唯一能理解的語言就是它們的反應。

卡通最後通常附帶一條人生哲理名言，通常與該篇主角有關。

根據官網，開心樹朋友是當Rhode Montijo在一張紙上畫一隻有點像Cuddles的黃兔子，並在底下寫著一行字：「抵抗無用（Resistance Is Futile）」時構想出來的。

Happy Tree Friends中的角色列表

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我觉得Teletubbies在的Wikipedia的介绍实在太搞笑了！

The programme features four colourful characters: Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po who live in a futuristic dome (the “Tubbytronic Superdome”), set in a landscape of rolling hills. The environment is dotted with unusually talkative flowers and periscope-like “voice trumpets”. The only natural fauna are rabbits (although birds are often heard, particularly blackcaps and wrens). The climate is always sunny and pleasant save for occasional inclement days, with rain and puddles, and snow at Christmas time.

The Teletubbies are played by actors dressed in bulky costumes, although the sets are designed to give no sense of scale. The costumes vaguely resemble large spacesuits, although the Tubbies appear not to wear real clothes. They are instead furry, and have metallic silver-azure rectangular “screens” adorning their abdomens. These screens are used to segue into short film sequences, which are generally repeated at least once. When the series is shown in different countries around the world, the film inserts are to be tailored to suit local audiences. (The British inserts are default).

The Teletubbies have the body proportions, behaviour and language of toddlers. The pacing and design of the show was developed by cognitive psychologist Andrew Davenport, who structured the show to fit the attention spans of the target audience. The repetition of practically every word is familiar to everyone who has ever worked with young children. There was also help from Shatarra Willis the stage manager who helped the show to become a success.

The Teletubbies speak in a gurgling baby language which is the subject of some controversy among educationalists, some of whom argue that this supposedly made-up talk is not good for children. (A similar complaint was made forty years previously about another children’s series, Flower Pot Men). Tubbies are at the stage of understanding speech but not yet fully capable of articulating it, exactly like their target audience. They often simply groan in disapproval in situations where a human toddler would throw a tantrum. The Teletubbies’ catch-phrases are Eh-oh (hello), as in: Eh-oh, Laa-Laa, to which Laa-Laa will respond, Eh-oh, [other Tubby’s name]; “Uh-oh”, a common toddler response to anything untoward; “Run away! Run away!”, especially from Dipsy; and “Bye-bye” at least four times in a row. Laa-Laa, when flustered, will explode with “Bibberly cheese!”, which is as angry as they get. Perhaps the most common exclamation, however, is “Big hug!” which one or more of the Teletubbies will invariably call for during the course of an episode, resulting in an enthusiastic group hug.

All the Teletubbies say “Bye-Bye” three times. The narrator bids each Teletubby goodbye, and they disappear, but reappear a moment later saying “Boo!”. The narrator then says “No”, and proceeds to say goodbye to each Teletubby again. The sun is then shown setting, and the Teletubbies each say goodbye again, before jumping down a hole in the roof of their house. Finally, one Teletubby says goodbye a fourth time- they pop out of a hole in the house and say “Bye-bye!”. For special episodes, and at the end of the “Fun With The Teletubbies” cassette, all four Teletubbies say “Bye-bye” in this way. Many of the occurrences of the show, including the end sequence, and the scene preceding the short film broadcast on a characters tummy were shot only once, and the same scenes are used in each episode.

The surreal environment is an evocation of a toddler’s perception of the world, where they are ordered about and told to go to sleep, while wonderful and mysterious things happen without explanation. A prominent feature of each episode is a radiant sun that has an image of a smiling baby superimposed upon it. The baby in the sun occasionally laughs out loud in short bursts. To adults the laughter does not seem to be in response to any stimulus or humorous developments in the plot line of the episode.

The Teletubbies’ diet seems to consist exclusively of Tubby Custard (which is sucked through a spiral straw bowl) and Tubby Toast (circular toast with a smiley face on it). One of their companions is the Noo-Noo, a sentient, self-propelled vacuum cleaner.

Machines like the Noo-Noo, voice trumpets, and the televisions in the Teletubbies’ stomachs were designed to show small children, who are born into a world surrounded by strange and powerful electronic gadgets, that technology is benevolent and helpful, not something to be afraid of.

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