Happy Tree Friends: Love Bites
- "An Anti-Valentine's Day Series"
- — Official Happy Tree Friends website[1]
The Love Bites (also known as the Nibblets playlist[2]) are a series of Happy Tree Friends shorts typically released on February as a tie-in to the Valentine's Day. However, these are made to be joke anti-Valentine's Day cartoons as all shorts involve a romantic couple that end up in an unfortunate, grisly situation typical of the show. Like other spin-off short collections such as Kringles, a Love Bite short opens with a unique title card, which shows a cracked, bleeding heart with a bandage with the Love Bites logo over them and a green arrow bearing the Happy Tree Friends logo pierced through the heart, all over a crocheted background. Typically after something horrible happens to either character of the focused couple, a break-up message appears for a moment before resuming the short, except for "On My Mind", where the message marks the end of the short.
The Love Bites were introduced after the TV series, so the art style and animation from then are brought over to all the shorts like the web episodes from Season 3 onwards. This is the only non-Irregular themed collection with this distinction. The series began with the first short, "Cold Hearted", which was released on January 29, 2009, the only Love Bite not released in February. The last Love Bite short to date is "My Better Half", which was released on February 14, 2012. There are a total of 5 Love Bites.
All Love Bites are officially grouped under Valentine's Day Playlist among other similarly-themed shorts on the official Mondo website.
List of Love Bites[edit]
| Thumbnail | Title | Characters | Break-up Message |
|---|---|---|---|
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"Cold Hearted" | "We just don't see eye to eye anymore" | |
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"Sea of Love" | "I think we should sea otter people" | |
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"I Heart U" | "You broke my heart" | |
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"On My Mind" | "Get it through your head, we're done!" | |
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"My Better Half" | "I think we should split up!" |
Trivia[edit]
- "On My Mind" was supposedly lost from the official Mondo website during its revamp in late 2014. It took until February 14, 2020[3] for it to be re-uploaded to the website.
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Love Bites on Happy Tree Friends
- ↑ Nibblets on Happy Tree Friends
- ↑ On My Mind - Happy Tree Friends - Mondo (release date written as February 14, 2020 instead of the original's February 3, 2012)
| Love Bites | |
|---|---|
| Cold Hearted • Sea of Love • I Heart U • On My Mind • My Better Half | |