Milkin' It

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"Milkin' It" is an episode of the Happy Tree Friends internet series.

Starring Roles

 * Lifty & Shifty
 * Lumpy

Featuring Roles

 * The Cow
 * The Cursed Idol

HTF's Episode Description
Things are not as simple as they seem down on the farm. Lifty and Shifty make off with Lumpy's cow, only to get tangled up in some electrifying events. This episode is sure to set off some sparks!

Plot
Lifty and Shifty run out of a barn, carrying a cow, while Lumpy chases and shouts after them. The thieving brothers toss the cow into a hot air balloon and fly away with their prize. Lumpy grabs onto the rope hanging down from the balloon, only to get dragged across the ground. His clothes are torn off, his stomach gets scraped, and he is dragged through the circular opening of the pivot the balloon was tied to. This tears the skin off of the upper half of Lumpy's body and compresses the size of his body, killing him.

Lifty and Shifty laugh at Lumpy, but then turn to find that the balloon is headed straight for a power line. A bird lands on the power line and is instantly vaporized, leading Lifty and Shifty to lighten the load of the balloon. They begin by throwing multiple heavy objects out of the balloon. Still on a direct course for the power line, Lifty begins milking the cow while Shifty pours the milk out of the balloon.

Eventually the cow is out of milk, but they are still headed for the power line. Lifty shrugs, unsure of what to do, but Shifty has a plan to clear the power line. Shifty cold heartedly throws Lifty out of the balloon, where he is gruesomely impaled on a pine tree.

The balloon makes it over the power line, and Shifty begins jumping up and down in celebration. The basket he's jumping on breaks, however, causing Shifty to grab onto the cow's udders for dear life. Shifty sees that the balloon is headed for a fast-moving windmill, and because he is hanging below the basket, Shifty begins getting cut by the blades.

His intestines get caught on one of the blades, and his spinal cord is torn by his refusal to let go of the cow. Shifty is spun around the windmill several times before he finally stops, dead. The cow gets out of the balloon, which lands nearby, and begins eating some grass. Before the episode ends, the cow's udders swell up.

Moral
"Don't cry over spilled Milk!"

Deaths

 * 1) Lumpy is mangled by a small hole he is dragged through.
 * 2) A bird is electrocuted and vaporized by a power line.
 * 3) Lifty is impaled on a tree.
 * 4) Shifty is cut in half and tossed about by a windmill.

Goofs

 * 1) A bird on an power line cannot be electrocuted if it's not touching the ground.
 * 2) Shifty's organs wrap around the windmill too quickly.
 * 3) the cow that lifty & shifty threw on the hot air balloonwas crooket.

Trivia

 * The cow in this episode is later seen with a similar appearance (when it becomes scrawny) in Dunce Upon a Time.
 * One of the items Lifty and Shifty throw out of the balloon is The Cursed Idol.
 * The reindeer from The Reindeer Kringle is visible in the background while Lifty is impaled on a tree.
 * This episode contains the first instance in the internet series, and one of three instances in the entire series, that Lifty dies before Shifty. The other episodes are Who's to Flame? when Lifty was crushed by an engine block before Shifty was killed by numerous falling sharp objects, and in Swelter Skelter when Lifty died in an "ice" explosion before Shifty is impaled on an icicle.
 * When Lifty is impaled on the tree, the way his organs wrap around the tree resemble Christmas decorations.
 * Lifty's death is similar to Cuddles' death from Who's to Flame?
 * Lifty appears to scream Shifty's name, when he was throwed from the hot air balloon.
 * This is one of the only three episodes that Lumpy dies first, the others being Get Whale Soon and I've Got You Under My Skin'.