The best holiday DVD ever

NEED AN ANTIDOTE to the relentless seasonal cheer and cutsie-wootsie cartoons about how wonderful it is to be a child during this most magical of times? Then it's time for you to hunker down with a copy of Mondo Media's second collection of Happy Tree Friends mini-toons. Filled with pink, heart-nosed creatures who make teensie squeaking noises, each episode inevitably ends with a happy bunny's brain being chopped into six pieces or an unlucky beaver's eyeball popping out so far that the critter has to shimmy up his own optic nerve to retrieve the missing organ. It's the perfect DVD for parties where everyone has just stuffed themselves with meat and candy. Just send the kids to bed first. The Happy Tree Friends Second Serving DVD is available at www.happytreefriends.com or at your local media retail outlet.

(Annalee Newitz)