Happy appy part 1.

I am researching a show called Happy Appy. One of the main reasons I'm researching this show is because I'm fascinated by missing shows, episodes and movies. Like most people researching missing episodes, I'm hell-bent on finding London After Midnight, Episode 108 of Doctor Who, and Him (1974 movie), where a man has a sexual obsession with Jesus. Although I should also ask for help in finding any bits and pieces of the episodes and movies I'm missing, for now I'm concentrating on researching this series.

Another reason I want to research this show is because I had an experience with it around 2001, around eight o'clock in the morning. My younger brother, who was seven years old at the time, was watching a local station during their block of children's TV shows. After an episode of Blue's Clues, a show called Счастливые Яблоко (Happy Appy) began airing. I can barely remember the plot of the episode, but it was about this Apple trying to help a little girl, named Nate. The series looked low budget, but since my brother liked the episode, he didn't care about the quality of it. The only thing that impressed me was the evil grin Happy had in the middle of the episode.

From what I have gathered, in the first few weeks of Noggin's existence, this show "Happy Appy" started airing. Its plot was about a giant clay apple with arms, baby blue eyes, and big dark green lips, who held onto a rusty looking stick. Who drives a 1996 White Ford Windstar 1996, and helps children with their problems. As the show aired, the episodes started to get weirder. For example, Happy used to look at viewers of the series with a somewhat unhinged smile.

It is worth mentioning that the series not only became bizarre, it also became more violent as its broadcast progressed. Happy Appy was one of Noggin's shorter shows, with each episode lasting 10 minutes at most. But they were presented 2 segments at a time, making the show 20 minutes long, not counting commercials. A couple of months after Happy Appy aired its last episode, Nickelodeon cancelled the show, and it never aired again on Noggin or Nick Jr. Even the most decent episodes are not shown for some reason. However, some parents did have the show recorded, but on VHS copies.

Of those said copies, only a few survived through the years. Many of the tapes had been destroyed either through neglect or disgust, or were simply discarded by accident. But some of those tapes were allegedly stolen by some unknown person. I was one of the lucky ones to own a copy of the episodes. Yesterday, while doing my winter cleaning, I came across an old DVD that had "HA Episodes" written on it. I had a feeling I knew this abbreviation from somewhere, I did some research on the meaning of "HA". My first choice was the lost episodes and movies forum.

When I logged into the lost episodes section of the forum, the first thread I saw was one called "HA, What is this?" A woman logged the thread, who, unlike me, found a VHS with the initials "HA" on it. Upon reading the thread, I learned that the initials on the disc stood for Happy Appy. At that instant I was reminded of the disturbingly low-budget series I used to watch with my brother back in 2000/2001. In the responses, users stated that no DVD copy of the series exists. I have no idea how the disc got there. I certainly don't recall owning a disc similar to this one.

After seeing the thread, I went over to the DVD drive, to play the disc in it, hoping that it would work. Fortunately, the disc did work, and instantly fast forwarded to the intro of the series, no menus or anything. it played the intro song to Happy Appy whose melody was the same as Mary Had a Little Lamb, and went something like this:

Happy Appy Appy Appy App,

Appy, App, Appy App

Happy Appy Appy App,

He helps you!

Happy Appy Appy App,

Appy Appy App, Appy Appy App

Happy Appy Appy App,

Our friend!

Happy Appy Appy App,

Appy Appy App, Appy Appy App

Happy Appy Appy Appy App,

He is Happy!

Episode 1 and 2 were respectively called "Happy goes on vacation" and "Happy gets hurt".

"Happy Goes on Vacation" was exactly what you would expect from the title; Happy Appy goes on vacation to the beach, heals injured children, and even advises a bully not to hurt others. "Happy gets hurt" was about the stick that holds Happy up breaking and his friends rally to help him by bandaging his stick and giving him fruit. Nothing seemed out of place when I first saw them, but when I rewatched the episodes I had a strange feeling. When Happy was driving his truck to the beach on a happy vacation, a few seconds later they omitted. At first, I ignored it, saying it might be a scratched DVD. But when around a lot. The boy cut himself and held his hand over the wound, crying. As blood began to ooze out of the boy's wound, Manzanita parked his truck, gave a normal smile, and said, "Hey guys, I shouldn't have carried the knife up while running!" However, he healed him by putting a bandage over the wound. The boy hugged happily, and he said, "Remember kids, never run with knives up, or scissors for that matter. Always walk with knives and scissors down!" Manzanita took the boy to his truck, drove off, and the credits rolled. However, after the credits, the episode takes a very disturbing turn when he happily returns in his truck, the boy disappears and says "Hey guys! If me and my are gonna find each other, just talk to me and I'll take you away, ha-ha! "

Episode 7 began with Happy on the playground, but he wasn't playing with the kids, or helping them. He was looking at them, with that haunting smile that I hate so much. A group of kids are playing with jump ropes, when happy approaches them. He quietly says something to them, but I could barely hear what he was saying. From what I heard, I could only make out "Hello.... happy ... me ... how ... me ... please?" I could see where he was going, and when the children walk with Manzanita between the bushes of the playground. Loud violent screams are heard for almost a minute and a half, until Manzanita starts dragging three bloody bodies out of her truck.

I couldn't believe it.

For the rest of the episode, what makes the death goddamn smile! Why did they use that look so much? It was almost as if he could get out of his TV, grab you, and murder you slowly and painfully with a rusty knife, but he couldn't. I moved on to Episode 8 and 9 from this time, the episodes were so violent and shoddy that they could not have aired on Noggin at all. Episode 8 had Happy Apple taking a child in his van. By the middle of the episode, cutting the flesh could be heard, and so loud it could scream, it turned into gurgles. As the scene progressed, blood splatters on the windows began to appear. Finally, happy got out of the van, and did so with a smile of death until the end of the show. Like Episode 8, Episode 9 was bloody and violent. But this episode was so casual and violent that I couldn't believe Noggin would even allow it, unless it was some sort of kidnapping.