Havin' A Ball

Internet Season: 1 Episode: 5 Production Number: 105 Writers: Mark Fiorenza Rhode Montijo Warren Graff Kenn Navarro Director: Rhode Montijo Episode list: Internet Season 1 Previous Episode: Crazy Antics Next Episode: Water You Wading For "Havin' A Ball" is an episode of the Happy Tree Friends internet series. This episode introduces the father-son duo, Pop and Cub, and with it, a crash course on how not to care for your kids.

Starring Roles

 * Pop
 * Cub

Featuring Roles

 * Lumpy

HTF's Episode Description
A friendly game of catch goes horribly wrong for this father and son bear. Pop tries to impress Cub with his ball handling skills, but disaster ensues and a rescue chopper goes down. So sad that even the simple things go so wrong in Happy Tree Friends Land.

Plot
Pop and Cub are having a nice little ball game, but then, Pop has a slight mis-throw, and the ball bounces off of Cub's head and bounces away, across a highway! With an expectant Cub wanting his ball back, Pop knows he hasn't really got much of a choice but to fight through the traffic and get the ball back.

As Pop travels through the traffic, you can hear him scream in pain from the bludgeoning impact of the trucks, and a helicopter in the background. When Pop finally makes it to the ball on the other side, he is a total mess, he even has a steering wheel sticking out of him, but at least he gets the ball; he picks it up with a smile, but it is then turned upside-down, because he managed to walk off a cliff.

As Pop falls, he looks down to realize that he is heading right for the helicopter's rotor blades, he hits them and is totally shredded, forming a neat set of piles on the ground, the ball and his hat, however, are untouched. While Pop could not get to the ball without certain death, his son Cub climbs down the cliff with climbing gear; picking up his ball with a happy smile.

But there is one last thing overlooked, Lumpy, was strapped to the plane by a gurney, which happens to be disconnected and plummets down on top of Cub. With Lumpy on the ground and Pop and Cub dead, this could not get any worse, until the helicopter comes crashing down on the luckless Lumpy, and yet, the ball is still untouched; but as a final decoration to this slaughter, Cub's Beanie lands perfectly on top of the ball, marking the end of this disaster.

Moral
"Eat your Veggies!"

Deaths

 * 1) Pop is sliced up by the blades of a helicopter.
 * 2) Cub is crushed by a falling gurney.
 * 3) Lumpy is crushed by a falling helicopter.
 * 4) The helicopter pilot dies in a crash.

Goofs

 * 1) When Pop falls off the cliff, the steering wheel embedded in his arm falls away, but for a frame, when you get a close-up of Pop falling, it is actually back in his arm, but it disappears again.
 * 2) When Pop was going to recover the ball, he got hurt by the cars when crossing. But when he returns to the cars, instead there is the cliff.