Cuddles

Name: Cuddles Gender: Male Animal: Rabbit Episode Count: 47 TV Count: 2 Kill Count: 5 Deaths: 45 (40 from Episodes, 3 from Smoochies, 2 from Kringles) First Appearance: "Spin Fun Knowin' Ya" First Death: "Spin Fun Knowin' Ya" First Victim: Flaky from "Let It Slide" Voiceactor: Kenn Navarro

Character Bio
A canary-yellow rabbit with pinkish cheeks who inexplicably wears pink bunny slippers. Cuddles is one of the primary characters in the series. Like Giggles, Toothy and Lumpy, he appears in many of the advertisements.

Cuddles was the first character to be created in Happy Tree Friends. Creator Rhode Montijo first drew him in a piece of paper with the phrase Resistance Is Futile above and that was how the creators got the idea for the show. His voice is even performed by the co-creator of the show Kenn Navarro.

Both his white fluffy curly hair tuft and cotton tail look exactly the same. His ears move to match how he feels, for example, if he's happy, they'll stay up, and when his feelings are hurt, they droop.

Cuddles' personality is somewhat mixed. On one hand he can be dangerously mischievous. Also he can be self-centered. Both of these characteristics can lead to both his death and other characters deaths. On the other hand he is also friendly and caring, making his personality more complex than the others. He was seen to have multiple houses, but his official one is known to be a Hollow Tree, as it is the only one to appear more than once ("In a Jam" and "Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow")

He is particularly good friends with Toothy, Flaky and Lumpy. Cuddles and Giggles are also very close friends, and it has been hinted several times they each have crushes on each other. Their love relationship is most prominent in the Fall Out Boy music video: "The Carpal Tunnel of Love".

With a number of 45 deaths, Cuddles is the character who gets killed most times in the Happy Tree Friends franchise. He is also the character who has, so far, been killed by Flippy the most (though, to be fair, Flippy generally kills everyone in episodes in which he is featured). While he still dies a lot in the web and TV series, Cuddles has survived several times ("Doggone It", "Sea What I Found", "A Change of Heart", "A Sight For Sore Eyes", "Letter Late Than Never", "Double Whammy Part 1" and "We're Scrooged!") and some of his deaths are debatable in ("Mime To Five" and "Concrete Solution"). He tends to die some of the messier deaths such as being sliced to bits by helicopter blades, ceiling fans, exploding, and slithering through a treehole as a bloody mush.

Cuddles is one of the characters to have an account on MySpace. It mentions that he is actually allergic to carrots because they make him choke, which is possibly evidenced by the 'Feed' section of his Smoochie. In addition, it mentions he collects powerful antique electric toothbrushes and his fur is highly protected from the sun.

He may look like a cute, cuddly, and sweet bunny rabbit (which is why his name is Cuddles) on the outside. But on the inside, he's known as the rebellious type of a Happy Tree Friend character with his talents of extreme sports like skateboarding, surfing, soccer, and he applies as a daredevil in "Mime to Five". Cuddles loves listening to rock music, and he tries to play the electric guitar, but he needs more practice. He is also a big fan of "The Happy Tree Band."

He has appeared on one of the episodes of The God and Devil Show on God's keys, when they where chasing a drugged person.

Starring Roles

 * Spin Fun Knowin' Ya
 * Water You Wading For?
 * Sweet Ride
 * This Is Your Knife
 * Happy Trails
 * Flippin' Burgers
 * Class Act
 * I Get a Trick Out of You
 * Let It Slide
 * From A to Zoo
 * In a Jam
 * Autopsy Turvy
 * The Carpal Tunnel of Love
 * Can't Stop Coffin

Featuring Roles

 * Remains to be Seen
 * Ski Patrol
 * The Wrong Side of the Tracks
 * From Hero to Eternity
 * Doggone It
 * Who's to Flame?
 * Take a Hike
 * Snow Place to Go
 * Dunce Upon a Time
 * A Change of Heart
 * A Hole Lotta Love
 * Mime to Five
 * Blast From the Past
 * Home Is Where The Hurt Is
 * Aw, Shucks!
 * Letter Late than Never
 * Wingin' It
 * Junk in the Trunk
 * Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow
 * We're Scrooged!

Appearance Roles

 * And the Kitchen Sink
 * Party Animal
 * Ipso Fatso
 * Don't Yank My Chain
 * Concrete Solution
 * Sea What I Found
 * Gems the Breaks
 * See What Develops
 * A Sight for Sore Eyes
 * Wipe Out
 * Easy Comb, Easy Go
 * Double Whammy

Occupations and Careers

 * 1) Firefighter - Who's to Flame
 * 2) Soccer Player - A Change of Heart
 * 3) Daredevil - Mime to Five
 * 4) Newspaper Writer - See What Develops
 * 5) Delivery Boy - Aw, Shucks!
 * 6) Replacement Lead Guitarist / Rock Musician - In a Jam

Seen on Computer and on TV

 * 1) Spin Fun Knowin' Ya: Spun out of the playground (arms rip off in the process) and sliced to pieces by the engines of a conveniently grounded plane.
 * 2) Water You Wading For?: Dives in pool with sign that says, "No Swimming", and then gets brutalized by water animals, and then gets crushed by a whale.
 * 3) Sweet Ride: Crashes into stairs whilst riding his skateboard and cut in three pieces. His right eye is then impaled by an ice cream cone.
 * 4) This Is Your Knife: Face smashed off by Flippy with a rock, then gets his intestines pulled out.
 * 5) Happy Trails: Sliced in half by the bus window closing on his waist.
 * 6) Flippin' Burgers: Flippy jams a straw in his throat. Blood then pours out of the straw, Cuddles then tries to suck the blood in through the straw but dies because the body doesn't work that way.
 * 7) Class Act: Head forced through the tree costume, engaging a cookie-cutter effect. Dies in an explosion.
 * 8) I Get a Trick Out of You: Lumpy the "wizard" does a magic trick on Cuddles: the saw-someone-in-half trick, just like Sawing a woman in half. When he does the magic trick on Cuddles however, Cuddles is actually sawn in half. Inexplicably his intestines are still intact, despite the fact that the rest of him is completely separated. Lumpy takes Cuddles to the hospital, and later in hospital, Lumpy cuts off Cuddles's blood supply for another trick.
 * 9) Keepin' it Reel: Flippy uses Flaky as a mace to whack him with.
 * 10) Let it Slide: Body sliced in two when going down the broken water slide.
 * 11) Remains to be Seen: Killed in the truck crash. Revived as a zombie, and dies again when Flippy's brain explodes.
 * 12) From A to Zoo: Pierces eye with the balloon blowing machine blowing it up like a balloon.
 * 13) Cuddles Pet Smoochie Feed: Cuddles eats the carrot, only to choke to death due to his carrot allergy.
 * 14) Cuddles Pet Smoochie Sleep: Probably dies after being drugged on tranquilizers shot from outside the screen, from all directions. He is hit by nine of them. (debatable)
 * 15) Cuddles Pet Smoochie Clean: A shower appears, Drowns when the water reaches the ceiling.
 * 16) Kringle Feast: Passes out from a gas leak. Lumpy lights a match, causing a gigantic explosion which wipes out the forest and, of course, kills all in the house.
 * 17) Kringle Karols: His face is impaled by fallen icicle.
 * 18) Ski Patrol: Leg broken and crushed even more by Lumpy. Dragged through a forest and smashes into a bunch of trees because he was tied to the bottom of the helicopter and then flung into an ambulance. The ambulance then falls over and explodes when the helium tank smashes into it. Then a bunch of snow falls on top of the ambulance.
 * 19) The Wrong Side of the Tracks: Dies (of blood loss) when his hands get cut by the wall of the little tunnel and falls.
 * 20) From Hero to Eternity: Gets a rock through the eye during a snowball fight, he then explodes when Splendid inflates him like a balloon while attempting to revive him via mouth to mouth.
 * 21) And the Kitchen Sink: Gets run over by Pop's SUV.
 * 22) Party Animal: Flippy's balloons force him up into a ceiling fan, where he is shredded.
 * 23) Ipso Fatso: Crashes his car into the tree, entire body ground up and pushed through a knot in tree.
 * 24) Don't Yank My Chain: Falls into the well with head stuck in bucket and when rope stops, is decapitated.
 * 25) Concrete Solution: Possibly dies when the highway bridge fell apart or when the ambulance hits his car.
 * 26) Who's to Flame?: Impaled vertically by a fence post, his tail then falls of his body and the cat he rescued uses it as a toy.
 * 27) Take a Hike: The snake venom is spit to his eyes makes his eyes burned and gets impaled in a sharp rock.
 * 28) Snow Place to Go: Half his body gets eaten by a Killer Whale.
 * 29) Dunce Upon a Time: Ground up by giant Lumpy's pepper shaker.
 * 30) Gems the Breaks: Flung out of a bus when it hit Splendid, and flies into the wood chipper along with Toothy and Sniffles.
 * 31) A Hole Lotta Love: The front wall of his house falls on him and Mime, but seemingly narrowly avoid death as they land through the windows. Mime leaves unhurt and Cuddles gets sliced vertically into 4 pieces like apple slices from the window frame.
 * 32) Mime to Five: Blown in half backwards by a cannon with too much powder in it.
 * 33) Blast From the Past:Flung off of a see-saw by Lumpy and freezes in outer space, where a satellite shatters him to pieces, then spun out of the playground (arms rip off in the process) and sliced to pieces by the engines of a grounded plane, just like in "Spin Fun Knowing Ya".
 * 34) See What Develops: Accidentally frozen by Splendid's ice breath, Splendid then tries to thaw him out with his laser vision only to have Cuddles shatter into a bunch of ice cubes.
 * 35) Home Is Where the Hurt Is: Accidentally thrown into wood chipper by Mole.
 * Aw, Shucks!: Sliced vertically in half by parking meter.
 * 1) Wipe Out!: Impaled on a buoy, his remains are then eaten by seagulls.
 * 2) Wingin' It: Had the tray up in his seat When Lumpy was trying to get comfortable he pushed down on his seat too hard, impaling Cuddles and his lower half falls to the floor, he was waering a blanket so this went unnoticed (to all but Flaky).
 * 3) Easy Comb, Easy Go: Drank up a bottle of hair tonic and hair started growing inside him, causing him to vomit out his internal organs.
 * 4) In a Jam: The Mole donates blood by withdrawing it through a needle in both Cuddles's arms. The guitar string cuts his eye, and an eye patch is put on him. Cuddles stops playing the guitar and grows weak from the loud music and The Mole donates blood into him, and he mistakes his arm for the sofa. Cotton is transferred into Cuddles body. Soon he swells, then his eyes pop out into the bag and cotton starts coming out. After a while, Cuddles is then shaped like a sofa, so The Mole mistakes Cuddles for the Sofa.
 * 5) Junk in the Trunk: Forced through clothesline end.
 * 6) Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow: Head with hearing part burned by hot cocoa from cup, and nose sneezes with pepper from the pepper shaker. Sliced up by Flippy's helicopter propeller.
 * 7) Autopsy Turvy / Double Whammy Part 2: Smashed by Cro-Marmot when Flippy's van crashed into the house along with Toothy.
 * 8) The Carpal Tunnel of Love: Gets Impaled through his mouth by a pipe along with Giggles.
 * 9) Can't Stop Coffin: Fingers got scratched off inside the coffin, ears and right side of his face almost burned, nearly drowned, face got disfigured by a wheel, eyeball amputated by The Mole and then crushed by Lumpy's van.

Additional
Cuddles was the very first character to be created and therefore is one of the four main characters of the series, but even more so than that, he is also the primary character used for advertisements, commercials, and promotions and because of that he had additional death scenes that are featured in various promos. These additional deaths are original and official promos drawn and voiced by the creators just like any other death scene shown in the Internet or TV series.


 * 1) First Blood DVD Cover: Cuddles sticks a fork in the outlet and gets electocuted.
 * 2) DVD First Blood Promo: Cuddles is sitting down on the floor watching on a big screen TV, what else, the Happy Tree Friends show, when suddenly the TV falls right on him, crushing him. The TV was tipped over by Lumpy while apparently trying to fix it.
 * 3) DVD Second Serving Promo: Cuddles is left in a microwave and melts to death when the microwave was on.
 * 4) Hot Topic Promo: Cuddles gets slammed around to death by the mechanical claw in a stuff animal game machine. Cuddles was one of the prizes, the other prizes included Giggles, Toothy, Nutty, Handy, Lifty, Shifty, Lumpy and Flippy. All of whom witness Cuddles death and then immediately try to escape out of the stuff animal game machine in fear of them being next.
 * 5) Winter Break Intermission: Was rotating a Jack In The Box toy and ended up getting poked in the eye with the Jack's head.
 * 6) TV Series DVD Volume 3 cover: Face cut in half by The Mole's scissors while he was trying to give him a hair cut.

Seen on Comics

 * 1) HTF Comic #1 & HTF Comic #2: Cuddles hangs a Piñata on a tree branch for Lumpy to shoot, but the string it is on is tied on his foot. When Lumpy hits the Piñata, Cuddles goes up, hanging upside down.  Lumpy hits Cuddles, and his teeth are broke out.  Lumpy hits Cuddles again, and Cuddles is broke like a Piñata and his internal organs are taken by Lumpy.
 * 2) I Get a Kick Out of You: Cuddles throws a football at Lumpy, but the football hits Lumpy's football helmet. He gets his head kicked and cut off by Lumpy, and thrown over the goal.
 * 3) Making a Good Bleed: Dies in car explosion.
 * 4) Big Bubble: Lumpy inflates a bubble so big that exploits, killing himself, Cuddles and Petunia.

Seen on Computer and on TV

 * 1) Doggone It: Cuddles gets attacked by the giant squid and gets bumps everywhere.

Number of Kills

 * Giggles – 0
 * Toothy – 0
 * Lumpy -  2 (In a Jam; Hare Cut)
 * Petunia – 0
 * Nutty – 0
 * Sniffles – 1 (In a Jam)
 * Flaky – 1 (Let it Slide)
 * Handy – 1 (In a Jam)
 * The Mole – 0
 * Disco Bear – 0
 * Russell – 0
 * Mime – 0
 * Lifty – 0
 * Shifty – 0
 * Pop – 0
 * Cub – 0
 * Cro-Marmot – 0
 * Flippy – 0
 * Splendid – 0
 * Generic Tree Friends – 0
 * Others – 0

Trivia

 * Cuddles is very cheeky as seen "A to Zoo" where he pokes the animals and runs off through the Zoo with Toothy.
 * Most of the times, Cuddles keeps his bunny slippers on. But from the episode, "Home is Where the Hurt is", his slippers were seen off of Cuddles feet after his death. It is also seen on the Overkill DVD set box.
 * Cuddles has a pet mouse as he lets it ride on his shoulder feeding it a piece of cheese in the episode, "Junk in the Trunk".
 * In the Collect Them All section of the First Blood DVD, Cuddles has the Master's Degree in Karate.
 * He likes the color of pink as he has a strawberry ice cream cone, his pink slippers and pink cheeks.
 * According to the Pop Corn video version in the First Blood DVD, it proclaims that Cuddles starred in the Ninja movie series called "Paws of Fury", a parody of "Fists of Fury".
 * When he's playing soccer, he wears pink bunny slippers with cleats and an angry look.
 * In "Spin Fun Knowin' Ya", Cuddles cheeks were white. But later in that episode, they changed to pink.
 * In most of the episodes, Cuddles is seen drinking soda on the park benches.