We're Kenn Navarro and Warren Graff. We created Happy Tree Friends and ruined your childhood. Ask Us Anything!!

It's a reaction to growing up with all our favorite Saturday morning cartoons. Really, we're doing the world a public service cause we're showing a more realistic depiction of what happens when when you get hit with a crowbar in the head!

As for rules, there's only a few:

• No guns. Not that we're against it, it's just too easy. We'd rather be more creative and try and have Flippy kill somebody with a flower. It's funnier and more unexpected!

• No overtly sexual situations. We want to keep the world "innocent" which makes contrasting the violence even more shocking and, hopefully, funnier! In our minds all Disco Bear want to do with the girls is kiss them. It's like they're all 5 years old.

• Nothing too new or technologically advanced. Same as above, we want to keep the world stuck somewhere around the 50's to the 70's. An idealized "Golden Age," if you will. That's why the tech in the world is very old!

• No scatological stuff. Same as guns, not that that we're above poop-humor (in fact there is some in the show), it's just a little too easy.

• The deaths are mostly accidental. With the exception of Flippy, we've found that it's funnier if their well meaning intentions go horribly, horribly awry!

Ironically, gratuitous violence is our inspiration. Also, we were inspired by old Looney Tunes cartoons and the sweet sappy cartoons of the 80's (Care Bears, Smurfs, etc) Looney Tunes never showed what would really happen if you had an anvil dropped on your head and we wanted to drop an anvil on the Care Bears heads.

My back is a little sore, but I think it's from the way I'm sitting. Thanks for asking!

I'm short sighted with slight astigmatism.

On-line? Man, that would make it SO much easier!

Ideas, literally come from everywhere! We've gotten light bulb moments anywhere from walking the street to going to the dentist and everything in between. One time writer Ken Pontac came in with a news article he read about Aron Ralston (the fellow who they based "127 Hours" movie on). This was before the movie came out and we thought that was such a gnarly thing that we wanted to do our own take on it. Thus was born the episode, "Out On A Limb."

Flaky is a girl. Not all girls have eyelashes. Kenn likes to start shit, but she's a girl.

Not all girls have long eye-lashed, Warren!

I'll tell you how this whole gender thing started. Rhode Montijo (co-creator) designed Flaky as a boy but Nica Lorber (female) does Flaky's voice. Rhode always assumed Flaky was a boy and I thought of her as a girl. When we asked all the other people who worked on the show what they thought the answer was split! So, we left the issue unanswered.

It doesn't really matter what Flaky's gender is. He/she is whatever you want her/him to be! It makes him/her a more interesting character.

"Eye Candy!" We wrote that whole episode in just a few hours and we were on cracking up the whole time! Then Warren said, "I got the title! We can call it Eye Candy" and we all fell on the floor, convulsing in laughter.

I don't know, because they're all fun to work on. It's basically us in a room coming up with violent deaths or horrible ways to maim cute cartoon creatures. I loved working on all of them.

The best part is that I get to sit around in a room with a couple of good friends and laugh all day. The worst part is those days when we don't laugh and we aren't coming up with any ideas...that sucks.

The way we've always written the show is we get together and try to make each other laugh. That is THE BEST thing about working on the show!

Worse part - the stabbings. We lose more animators that way. Sigh...

I don't know if it's funny, but we got a couple of letters from some parents who said their son was autistic and he really responded to Happy Tree Friends. It was his obsession. He was upset that Flippy was so mean and felt that he should get what he deserves. So we decided to kill Flippy in an episode. A little while after it aired we got letters from both parents again thanking us and telling us how happy it made their son and how much better he's been acting. It was all very surreal. Happy Tree Friends, changing lives.

Man, there's SOOOO many! "Hate Mail" is actually one of my favorite things to read. Most of the time, they're just angry rants with very bad grammar, punctuation and spelling and they rarely make any sense!

I remember one letter from an angry Mom that told us she would rather put her child in front of an oncoming truck than make them watch HTF! And they call US monsters!

One of the most memorable is a person from France who called us long distance and left a message on our answering machine to work, ranting about how horrible the show is and how terrible people we were. Right before he hung up he said, "You are the Nazis!"

There were some initial plans to do a Happy Tree Friends movie. We even wrote a treatment for it but sadly, it hasn't gone anywhere. I don't know if the world is ready to see that much blood!

Sometimes it's very hard. It can take us days to come up with an episode we like. Other times we bust them out in less then an hour and take a long lunch.

I think the whole violence in media equals violence in real life is kind of crap. It's just easy to blame TV/movies/music because everybody knows that stuff. Violent people are going to be violent. I read somewhere that we live in a relatively non violent time compared to the past. Somebody should Google that to make sure I didn't just dream it.

We didn't. It actually didn't do anything really during it's first 24 episode run. This was a few years before Youtube. It was just up on some website, UGO I think. Then that was it. After a while we decided that we wanted to make a DVD of the first season, just for ourselves to have. We figured out how many we need to sell to break even and we made it. Directors commentary, art work, etc. That ended up selling a TON. So we made more. The rest is history.