Every Litter Bit Hurts

TV Season: 1

Episode: 5.1

Writers: Warren Graff

Ken Pontac

David Winn

Jeff Biancalana

Kenn Navarro

Director: Kenn Navarro

Episode list: TV Season 1

Previous Episode: Who's to Flame?

Next Episode: As You Wish

"Every Litter Bit Hurts" is episode number 5.1 of the Happy Tree Friends television series.

Starring Roles

 * Giggles
 * Lumpy

Featuring Roles

 * The Mole
 * Sniffles
 * Pop
 * Cub

Appearance Roles

 * The Cursed Idol

Plot
As Giggles finishes placing items in her recycling bins, Lumpy, the garbage man, drives up in his garbage truck. They bid each other hello, but when Giggles leaves Lumpy throws everything, including the recycling bins, into the back of his truck. Later, Giggles goes swimming in a lake beneath a large dam. After a few seconds she sees random items floating in the water and discovers that Lumpy is dumping his truck in the lake. Enraged, Giggles goes over and yells at a nervous Lumpy who drives away, his truck releasing exhaust everywhere. Giggles feels the need to act.

Giggles organizes a lake clean up, recruiting Pop, Cub, The Mole, and Sniffles for her cause. She hands Sniffles a bag to collect garbage and replaces The Mole's white cane with a litter stick. The Mole gets right to work, picking up a flower, killing a frog, and stabbing Sniffles in the foot, all the while thinking he's picking up trash.

Giggles looks up from her clipboard to see Lumpy standing on a dock, throwing lit sticks of dynamite into the lake as a means of fishing. He dumps his cooler in the lake to make room for the fish, releasing some beer bottles and six pack rings. Once more, an enraged Giggles goes over to chastise the clueless Lumpy. On her way she passes by Pop, who fishes garbage out of the lake, using a hook. He waves over to Cub, who sits on a rock in the middle of the lake. Cub falls in the water when he tries to grab one of the dead fish Lumpy threw back in the lake that is floating by.

Again Giggles yells at Lumpy, who acts embarrassed as he apologizes. Meanwhile Pop continues taking garbage from the lake, when Cub emerges from the water with a six pack ring caught around his neck, choking him. Giggles ends her ranting at Lumpy by telling him to use a fishing pole rather than dynamite. Not comprehending Giggles' idea, Lumpy ties dynamite to the end of the fishing line and accidentally blows up Cub when a stick of dynamite gets stuck in his mouth. Lumpy angrily throws the broken fishing pole away, while Pop scoops part of Cub's skull out of the river, unaware of his son's death.

Lumpy is about to drive off in his truck, when the exhaust kills a flower Giggles was planting. She yells at Lumpy to fix the problem, prompting him to jam a pine cone in the exhaust pipe. When Pop hooks Cub's hat out of the lake, he realizes Cub is missing and begins frantically searching for his son. When Lumpy begins driving off, the now-flaming pine cone is launched out of his exhaust pipe and pierces Pop's head, setting him ablaze.

A little further from the lake, Lumpy gets ready for a picnic. Having difficulty getting an olive out of the jar, Lumpy cuts down an entire tree and sharpens the stump to provide him with a toothpick. He uses the toothpick to eat a single olive and then tosses it away, impaling a nearby snail in the head. Lumpy then pulls out a lawn chair and gets ready for sunbathing, but his plans are thwarted by a large pine tree. Rather than simply move, Lumpy takes out his chainsaw and again prepares to cut down a tree to satisfy his own selfish desires.

Giggles sees this, so she and Sniffles run up and chain themselves to a tree to stop Lumpy. They soon discover, however, that they chained themselves to the wrong tree. Lumpy cuts the tree down and it falls over, splitting the tree Giggles and Sniffles were chained to in half. Giggles manages to escape, but before she can unchain Sniffles, he is decapitated and split in half. Really angry now, Giggles stands in the way of the fleeing Lumpy's truck. Swerving to avoid her, his truck ends up crashing near the dam overlooking the lake.

Lumpy is badly injured, having slammed into the steering wheel. He uses his feet to roll down the window and toss one of his lit cigars out the window, as it is teetering dangerously close to hundreds of sticks of dynamite sprawled all over the truck. Unfortunately for him, the cigar lands in a pool of gas, which leads back to the truck. To make matters worse, several sticks of dynamite are in the gas puddle and numerous other sticks of dynamite litter the ground nearby.

The truck explodes, sending Lumpy flying into the air and destroying the dam, causing the area to flood. When some of the water clears, Lumpy hangs upside down from the top of a tree with six pack rings all over his body. Several heavy pieces of garbage hit him in the head, including a toilet whose seat breaks off around Lumpy's head. Pop's body then comes floating by, and his outstretched hand latches onto one of the six pack rings on Lumpy's antlers. Lumpy's body is stretched as Pop floats away and his body is then cut in half when the tree stump he sharpened earlier hits him in the back.

The water level decreases, and Giggles slides down a tree having barely survived the flood. She is happy, however, as the flood completely cleaned the area and creates a rainbow in the sky. She happily sighs at a job well done, when she is suddenly impaled in the chest by The Mole's litter stick. Despite her screams, The Mole puts her heart in his bag and continues walking while Giggles falls down and dies. As The Mole walks, his bag is dragged across and cut on a sharp rock, spilling all the garbage he collected back to the ground. Before the episode ends, Giggles' heart beats one last time.

Moral
"A new broom sweeps clean!"

Deaths

 * 1) A frog is killed when The Mole accidentally stabs it with a litter stick.
 * 2) Numerous fish are killed when Lumpy throws dynamite into the lake.
 * 3) Cub is blown up by a stick of dynamite.
 * 4) Pop is impaled through the head by a flaming pine cone and is then burned alive.
 * 5) A snail is killed when a toothpick Lumpy tosses impales its head.
 * 6) Sniffles is split in half while chained to a tree that gets split in half.
 * 7) Lumpy is torn in half by a sharp tree stump.
 * 8) The Mole unknowingly pierces Giggles' chest with his litter stick, removing her heart in the process.

Goofs

 * 1) The directions of Lumpy's antlers change numerous times throughout the episode, sometimes during continuous shots.
 * 2) The mole on The Mole's face changes a few times.
 * 3) The dock Lumpy fishes on and the rock Cub sits on aren't in any of the wide shots of the lake.
 * 4) The length of the dam changes numerous times.
 * 5) Lumpy's sticks of dynamite shouldn't explode when they were thrown in lake because their fuses should extinguish when they get wet.
 * 6) When Pop finds his son's burnt hat, he's seen wearing his overalls. However, before he's impaled by the pinecone, his overalls are gone.
 * 7) Lumpy's cigar often floats around.
 * 8) The number of sticks of dynamite in the pool of gasoline changes between shots.
 * 9) Lumpy escapes a truck explosion with no burn marks.
 * 10) When Pop first pulls Lumpy's antler, he is towards the middle. When Lumpy is split in half, however, Pop is nowhere to be seen, indicating his hand is now at the end of Lumpy's antler.
 * 11) The Mole should have died in the flood, as Giggles barely survived in a tree while he was on the ground.

Trivia

 * 1) Among the trash Giggles first discovers in the lake are the The Cursed Idol, one of the stuffed Lumpy dolls from The Wrong Side of the Tracks, and the dirty plunger and the water heater from Wishy Washy.
 * 2) This is the first episode to introduce and explore Giggles' environmental personality and how she loses her cute nature and becomes angry if someone is polluting the environment.
 * 3) Giggles survives 11 seconds without her heart.
 * 4) When this episode aired along with As You Wish and Take a Hike on Youtube, the alternate title for the conglomeration of the segments was named "Marooned Five", which was originally named "The Fifth Grade". Lumpy and Sniffles appear in all three episodes. In addition, Lumpy starred in all three episodes.