Flippy

Name: Flippy Gender: Male Animal: Bear Episode Count: 13 TV Count: 3 (In Double Whammy Part 2, Flippy's pop-up intro page is different) Kill Count: 55 Deaths: 6 First Death: Happy Trails Part 2: Jumping the Shark First Victim: Toothy from Hide and Seek First Appearance: Hide and Seek Voiceactors: Aubrey Ankrum, Kenn Navarro (2006 - present) (good flippy only)

History
Flippy is probably a veteran of war. In each episode, he is always wearing his Battle Dress Uniform with dog tags and green beret with checkered crest. There is evidence to suggest that he fought in the Vietnam War, particularly his obsession with making booby traps inspired by the Viet Cong, as well as a flashback of his experience of being held captive by them (as seen in Easy for You to Sleigh). In addition, his attire seems to resemble to the U.S. Army Special Forces, which played a role during the Vietnam War.

Flippy has a severe case of post traumatic stress disorder. Whenever he sees or hears something that reminds him of war (e.g., gunshot-like sounds or crackling campfires), he goes insane and kills everyone around him, believing that he is still in war. While insane, several physical features about him change: his eyes turn a different color, usually green or yellow, his voice changes from high and cute to low and evil, and his teeth become sharp. In the early Internet shorts, his teeth become crooked. It seems his mental disorder takes control of him, and it assumes in the form of an evil Flippy or, perhaps more appropriately, "Flipped-Out" Flippy.

Flippy shows superb efficiency with many of his military weapons. He uses them regularly when killing the other characters, but for some reason, favors his large Rambo-esque bowie knife and sometimes uses grenades. Also he used a helicopter to try to kill Lumpy in Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow. He also has a display of valuable armor and other war-related objects (with the exception of several ancient Greek pottery kept in his house, suggesting his fascination for ancient Greece, although the art on them suggests records of Alexander the Great) in his home as seen on Easy For You To Sleigh. All these military features are likely to be reference to Rambo.

Happy Trails Part 2: Jumping the Shark is the only episode in which Flippy appears prominently without going berserk and killing everyone. Although he did kill Flaky, that was out of anger for accidentally ruining their chances to escape, and Sniffles, Lumpy and Handy helped him kill her.

Flippy rarely appears in the series, most likely due to his repetitive behavior in most of the episodes in which he appears. Despite this, he is considered a fan favorite and is possibly the most popular character in the series. In the Internet shorts, Flippy rarely dies, but he died in 3 of the 5 TV episodes in which he appeared. When he does die, half of his deaths have involved explosions. A "Flippy Expert" says: "The only time Flippy never went Flippy but still killed some of the characters was in Happy Trails Part 2: Jumping the Shark when Flakes (Flaky) popped the life boat, but compared to The Mole, he has the highest kill count in the entire Happy Tree Friends series." However, Flippy's kill count is lower than Lumpy's.

Flippy, like Cuddles, Nutty and Lumpy, has an account on the MySpace] website where it mentions that he enjoys jogging, feeding birds, eating chocolate chip cookies, and sewing.

Flippy has killed all the characters at least once, except for Splendid, and possibly Cro-Marmot. He hasn't killed Pop & Cub intentionally (although this is debatable, since Flippy could had seen them and dealt with them by using a grenade, explaining the explosion that killed them). For some reason, whenever he flips out, he usually kills Toothy first such as in Hide and Seek and Party Animal. He normally kills first a character with a tail (Cuddles, Toothy, Petunia, Mime, Lifty & Shifty). The only episode in which he doesn't kill anyone while "flipped-out" is in Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow. He attempts to kill Lumpy several times, but changes back and saves Lumpy, but ends up killing himself and Cuddles by his helicopter in the process.

Although Flippy can be the most cruel and dangerous character in Happy Tree Friends, his good side is considered to be one of the most social and kindest characters. This is proven in several of episodes where he is seen doing social activities with some of the other characters such as going to the movies and playing hide and seek. Basically, in most of the episodes where he appears, he is shown as friendly and social before he goes crazy, or should many people say "flipping-out."

Also, you can see that when he "flips-out", he does not remember the bloody rampage that follows. However, in Double Whammy, (and possibly starting from Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow when he resists his evil side for the first time) he finally realizes his problem and goes to Lumpy the psychiatrist for answers. Two attempts at calming himself down were failures (first one was meditation, and the second one was a stress squishy toy) but the third was hypnotism, which ended in Lumpy thinking he's a chicken and Flippy fighting his flipped-out self (in which several Matrix and Rambo parodies ensued). The episode itself is possibly a reference to Bruce Banner and his struggle with The Incredible Hulk. Nowadays, he is apparently learning how to control his evil side, since he can be surprised and be handed sharp objects like a cake cutter and he gets fascinated by them without "flipping out".

The only character Flippy has tried to murder but failed is Lumpy. He attempted to eliminate Lumpy in the episodes, Remains to be Seen and Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow. In Double Whammy, just as Flippy was about to flip-out in Lumpy's office, Lumpy drenched him with water just to snap him out of it. So far, Flippy has failed thrice to try to kill Lumpy. However, he did kill Lumpy once in Keepin' it Reel, but it was done offscreen as the episode ended.

Flippy seems to enjoy tasting blood like a cannibal (In Flippin' Burgers, he sauces a fry in Cuddles blood. In Party Animal, he unknowingly drank Mime's blood from a blender pitcher. In Easy For You to Sleigh, after he mutilates Shifty with a Christmas tree cookie used as a bowie knife, he bites it with Shifty's blood on it). The Mole has also eaten other characters, but only by accident, while Flippy did it for the thrill of it.

It has been announced that Flippy will be one of the three playable characters in the XBOX 360 video game, Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm.

Starring Roles

 * Hide and Seek
 * This Is Your Knife
 * Happy Trails Part 2: Jumping the Shark
 * Flippin' Burgers
 * Keepin' It Reel
 * Remains to be Seen
 * Party Animal
 * Double Whammy
 * Double Whammy Part 2

Featuring Roles

 * Out of Sight, Out of Mime (DVD only)
 * Class Act (Can be seen stabbing Lifty outside the school)
 * Easy For You to Sleigh
 * Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow

Occupations

 * 1) Nuclear Waste Trucker - Remains to be Seen
 * 2) Carny - Double Whammy

Former

 * 1) Special Forces Sergeant - Background Fluff

Popularity

 * Flippy is considered a fan favorite and possibly the most popular character in the series. He is the HTF character with most fan videos on YouTube and most questions asked about him on The HTF website forum. He is also creator Kenn Navarro's favorite character. He is considered the show's breakout character. Flippy is probably a favorite character because of his personality. There are over 3,000 fan-pictures of him on deviantART, many of the pictures being pairings of other people's characters to his. As well as other Happy Tree Friends characters.

Seen on Computer and TV

 * 1) Happy Trails Part 2: Jumping the Shark: The rocket he is in with Handy and Sniffles crashes into the sun and explodes.
 * 2) Class Act: Dies in a school explosion.
 * 3) Remains to be Seen: Kills himself in a truck accident after flipping out. The toxic waste in the back of his truck reanimated as a zombie, later on, Lumpy jabs a leaf blower into his eye, as a zombie, inflating his brain which then explodes when zombie Toothy bites it, this part cannot be considered a death, just putting his body to rest, because of the fact he was already dead.
 * 4) Kringle Feast: Dies from a gas leak and an explosion caused by Lumpy (debatable since only his or possibly another green footed characters feet was shown, it could be one of the Generic Tree Friends).
 * 5) Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow: Got grinded into pieces by the tail rotor propeller of his helicopter along with Cuddles.
 * 6) Double Whammy Part 2: Right after he finally recovers from his "flipping" disorder, he got run over by a chicken truck.

Seen on Computer and TV

 * 1) Party Animal: Has an allergic reaction to peanuts or Mime causing him to get a purple rash, and his mouth and lips to grow big, and his mouth is then chopped off by the ending iris.

Additional Injuries

 * 1) Mimobot:

Number of Kills

 * Cuddles - 6 (This Is Your Knife; Flippin' Burgers; Keepin' It Reel; Remains to be Seen; Party Animal; Autopsy Turvy/Double Whammy Part 2)
 * Giggles - 4 (This Is Your Knife; Flippin' Burgers; Remains to be Seen; Double Whammy)
 * Toothy - 5 (Hide and Seek; Keepin' It Reel; Remains to be Seen; Party Animal; Autopsy Turvy/Double Whammy Part 2)
 * Lumpy - 1 (Keepin' It Reel)
 * Petunia - 5 (Hide and Seek; Flippin' Burgers; Keepin' It Reel; Remains to be Seen; Double Whammy)
 * Nutty - 3 (Remains to be Seen; Party Animal; Double Whammy)
 * Sniffles - 3 (Remains to be Seen; Party Animal; Double Whammy)
 * Flaky - 4 (Hide and Seek; This Is Your Knife; Happy Trails Part 2: Jumping the Shark; Keepin' It Reel)
 * Handy - 1 (Remains to be Seen)
 * The Mole - 1 (Remains to be Seen)
 * Disco Bear - 1 (Double Whammy)
 * Russell - 1 (Remains to be Seen)
 * Mime - 4 (Keepin' It Reel; Remains to be Seen; Party Animal; Double Whammy)
 * Lifty - 3 (Remains to be Seen; Easy for You to Sleigh; Double Whammy Part 2)
 * Shifty - 3 (Remains to be Seen; Easy for You to Sleigh; Double Whammy Part 2)
 * Pop - 1 (Flippin' Burgers)
 * Cub - 1 (Flippin' Burgers)
 * Cro-Marmot - 1 (debatable) (Autopsy Turvy/Double Whammy Part 2)
 * Splendid - 0
 * Generic Tree Friends - 6 (3 from Flippin' Burgers; 1 from Class Act; 2 from Remains to be Seen)
 * Others - 1 (woodpecker from Hide and Seek)

Additional

 * 1) Third Strike Bumper: Flippy kills three ducklings and Lumpy in the lake.

Trivia

 * In the episode Flippin' Burgers, at the end, Flippy was still Flipped out, though his eyes changed back to normal, then they changed back to flipped out after he bit the french fry dipped in Cuddles Blood.
 * According to writer Warren Graff Flippy almost didn't make the characters cut because he was the only character that purposely killed other characters but they decided that he was really funny.
 * At the end of the episode, Party Animal, it is revealed that Flippy is also allergic to peanuts like Flaky. That, or possibly venison, as it was a mixture of both peanuts and Mime he was drinking.
 * The Collect Them All section states that he enjoys knitting sweaters.
 * Whenever Flippy "flips out", his eyes usually turn green or yellow, but in Remains To Be Seen, his eyes turn blue for some reason.
 * He appears to be a heavy sleeper, which is shown on the episodes Easy For You to Sleigh and Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow. His snoring is gentle and sweet.
 * In the episode Easy For You To Sleigh Flippy seems quite wealthy for his character, as in addition to many antiques he owned, a home theater system and large screen TV could be seen in his living room suggesting that he had a high rank in the army. He always watches the horn channel. His favorite film is "The Silence of the Lamb". In the same episode, Ancient Greek pottery can be seen in Flippy's house, suggesting his fascination for Ancient Greece. Again, however, there is no further evidence to support this as well.
 * Flippy also appears to own a helicopter (possibly either a modified AH-1 HueyCobra gunship or UH-1 Huey helicopter, both of which played important roles in the Vietnam War), as seen in the episode "Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow", and seems to be able to fly it with skill. This is probably a further reference to Rambo, who was qualified as a helicopter pilot, as revealed in Rambo: First Blood Part II.
 * Most people think that he was the one who died in Kringle Feast and not Lifty or Shifty. It could be a palette swap] error. Flippy did, however, had a subtle cameo appearance in that short, in one of the picture frames with him standing beside Lumpy and Flaky.
 * Flippy's voice was different in Happy Trails Part 2: Jumping the Shark because Pop (who is also voiced by Aubrey Ankrum) was originally supposed to star in the episode but people in the staff thought that it was weird that Pop would kill Flaky, so he was changed to Flippy at the last minute when all the voices were recorded.
 * Flippy lives in the tree log facing sideways, which is light green with a mixture of purple and pink, as seen in a few episodes. It resembles to a Quonset hut.
 * According to writer Warren Graff, Aubrey Aukrum has left Happy Tree Friends, but the creators will sample his voice rather than replacing him for the voices of Pop and Evil Flippy. And Kenn Navarro will being portraying as the voice of Good Flippy.
 * The only character Flippy has not met yet is Splendid. But it's possible that they'll see each other in future episodes.  Many people claim Flippy has never been in the same episode as Splendid, yet in Class Act, you can see Flippy in the background when Splendid is seen showing up at the last minute.  However, they didn't meet face-to-face yet.

Killing Methods
Flippy has many ways of taking care of his victims, his favorite being with his bowie knife he always seems to have. Sometimes he uses grenades, or even other dead victims. Or in episodes such as Double Whammy, he uses anything around him, staying true to the Special Forces training which emphasized on battlefield improvisations.