Letter Late than Never

TV Season: 1 Episode: 10.3 Writers: Warren Graff Ken Pontac David Winn Jeff Biancalana Kenn Navarro Director: Kenn Navarro Episode list: TV Season 1 Previous Episode: Wipe Out Next Episode: Wingin' It "Letter Late than Never" is episode number 10.3 of the Happy Tree Friends television series.

Starring roles

 * Lumpy

Featuring roles

 * Giggles
 * Cuddles
 * Pop
 * Cub

Plot
While sorting mail at the post office, mail carrier Lumpy begins rummaging through the mail. He begins eating the contents of a box of chocolates while reading a letter. He gets chocolate all over the paper and blows his nose on it when the letter begins to make him cry. He then takes and stretches out a sweater from a box, before picking up his mail bag and heading out on his route. Before he leaves the building he looks at a painting of another mailmoose on the wall, saluting and taking pride in his duties.

As he walks up to his first house, he is frightened to see a doghouse with a skull over the doorway. He is relieved to find a turtle come out and begining rubbing its head with his finger. The turtle bites down hard on his finger, making him scream and flail wildly. He begins running back to his mail truck but numerous obstacles slow him down as the turtle slowly chases after him. While trying to find the right key to open the door, he is attacked by the turtle, barely managing to get in his truck.

He licks a stamp, puts it on one of his cuts, and sadly takes his mail carrier's hat off. When he looks at a mini picture of the mailmoose, however, he gets a resurgence of pride and puts his cap back on. His next stop is Pop and Cub's house. Pop had previously taken out the garbage including a cardboard box, which Cub, wanting to play, climbed into. Lumpy thinks the box is mail and tosses it into his truck. He turns around to see the turtle slowly walking up the road to attack him again. Lumpy looks through the mail for things to protect himself and eventually comes across a can of dog repellent. He has difficulty pointing the can forward and sprays himself in the eyes three times before getting attack by the turtle again. Once more, he manages to escape into his truck and drives off.

Lumpy puts more stamps over his cuts and swears loudly as he throws off his mail carrier's cap. Upon looking at the picture of the mailmoose, however, Lumpy once more feels pride for his job and continues on his way. He now comes up to Giggles house and realizes that the sweater he's wearing was made for her. He takes it off and puts it back in the box, but when Giggles puts it on it's too big for her. Lumpy drives off and carelessly splashes her with muddy water, but when the sun comes out the sweater shrinks to a perfect fit. Giggles laughs at her luck, when the sweater continues shrinking until it becomes so tight it forces her head to fly off. Her head flies around like a deflated balloon, and lands in her mailbox.

Next on the route is Cuddles' house, where Lumpy, for some reason, thinks the box he picked up at Pop's house is supposed to go. Lumpy realizes the box is too big for the mailslot, but decides to slide it through anyway. Cuddles hears Lumpy and walks to his door, grabbing the box, which now resembles a pizza box, coming through the slot. He opens the box and he sees Cub's flattened body, resembling a bloody, bone and organ-filled pizza. Cuddles drops the box and runs away, screaming.

Lumpy finally reaches the last house on his route, but upon trying to put a letter in the mailbox, it collapses. He sees the house is up a tall mountain, so he begins his trek to do his duty. Neither rain, nor sleet, nor scorching heat, or dark of night keeps him from his post. He makes it to the top of the mountain, only to find the turtle waiting for him. He backs away in fright and falls off the mountain, breaking numerous bones and dislodging part of his spine from his body when he hits the ground. The turtle appears before him and grabs Lumpy's foot in its mouth. It begins pulling Lumpy into its shell, eating him as it goes. Lumpy sees the dog repellent and tries to grab it to save himself, but his antlers touch the button and send the spray right into his eyes. As the turtle finishes eating Lumpy, it spits one of his antlers out of its shell.

Moral
"Good things come in small packages"

Deaths

 * 1) Giggles is decapitated when a sweater she's wearing shrinks too much.
 * 2) Cub is flattened when Lumpy shoves a box he's in through a mail slot.
 * 3) Lumpy is eaten by a killer turtle.

Goofs

 * 1) The directions of Lumpy's antlers change numerous times, sometimes during continuous shots.
 * 2) The sweater Lumpy wears is torn in several places after he's attacked by the turtle the second time. When he gives the sweater to Giggles, however, the sweater has no tears in it.
 * 3) When Cuddles opens the box with Cub's body inside, he uses his left hand to open it. When he looks into the box containing his left and in on the side of the box. Before he throws the box down and runs away, his left hand once again is holding the box open.