Easy For You to Sleigh

TV Season: 1

Episode: 4.1

Writers: Warren Graff

Ken Pontac

David Winn

Jeff Biancalana

Kenn Navarro

Director: Kenn Navarro

Episode list: TV Season 1

Previous Episode: Sea What I Found

Next Episode: Wishy Washy

"Easy For You to Sleigh" is episode number 4.1 of the Happy Tree Friends television series.

Starring Roles

 * Lifty &amp; Shifty

Featuring Roles

 * Pop
 * Cub
 * Mime
 * Flippy

Plot
On Christmas Eve, Pop cooks up a meal while singing "Deck the Halls". He checks the turkey to see if it's done, but smoke pours out of the oven and sets off the fire alarm. Pop, wanting to protect Cub's hearing, gets the ladder and tries to turn it off. He ends up breaking it and removing the batteries to stop the noise. Outside, Lifty and Shifty (Lifty is wearing a Santa hat) plan to ransack Pop's house by going down the chimney with a sack. They come out of the fireplace and are about to steal Pop's possessions when suddenly, they see a Christmas tree with ornaments and a star on top, which they decide to steal instead. It's too big to fit through the chimney, however, so they decide to leave the tree stuck half way.

As Pop sets a fire in the fireplace, Cub wants him to read a Christmas story before going to bed. Pop begins reading when smoke begins flowing out of the chimney and filling up the room. Because the fire alarm's broken, Pop and Cub don't realize this and they pass succumb to carbon monoxide poisoning.

Lifty and Shifty next set their sights on Mime's tent, only to find it empty. They both watch Mime pantomiming washing his face, frying an egg, and putting a bag of money inside a safe before leaving the room. They shrug their shoulders and enter the tent, pretending to steal the imaginary safe and put it in the bag. When they leave the tent, they're disappointed by how little they've accomplished.

Next, they see Flippy's house, which they enter through the chimney. Inside, Lifty and Shifty see numerous rare antiques and a huge plasma screen TV in the den, where Flippy sleeps in his armchair with a plate of cookies on his lap. They tell each other to be quiet before going about their task, but they end up knocking over a picture frame, breaking a vase, and turning on the TV while a trumpet plays revelry with flashing lights. Flippy doesn't wake up through any of this, so Lifty and Shifty decide to steal everything in his house.

After they are done removing every last appliance, decoration, and piece of furniture, as well as tying Flippy to a cinder block, Lifty and Shifty decide to take some of the Christmas cookies on Flippy's lap. As they take one, however, a crumb falls to the ground, making a tiny breaking sound, and wakes Flippy up. He sees in horror that he's being restrained just like he was when he was captured by the Viet Cong during the war. He flips out in anger and breaks free from the ropes.

Lifty and Shifty try to escape through the door but Flippy locks them in, forcing them to run in the other direction. While running, Shifty sees candy canes that look like stakes flying at him. He ducks, while an oblivious Lifty is impaled in the torso. Shifty keeps running until he sees a fancy candle holder in a bear trap. He carries a bag of sand and attempts to match the weight of the bag with the candle holder's. He successfully switches the items around runs for it. Being fatally greedy he comes back to grab the bag, however, and the bear trap snaps off one of his arms. Meanwhile, Lifty begins licking the candy canes in an effort to escape.

Shifty continues running and narrowly avoids stepping in a snare trap made with Christmas lights. He then turns to see Flippy, who breaks a glass ornament in his hand and and blows the dust into Shifty's eyes. He takes a few steps back and he gets his leg caught in the snare trap. Flippy uses one of the Christmas tree cookies as a knife and cuts open Shifty's torso, spilling blood everywhere while Shifty screams in pain. A happy Flippy takes a bite out of the blood-stained cookie.

Lifty, meanwhile, finally licks through the candy canes and falls out of the trap. He looks up to see a shadowy figure that looks like Shifty standing on a stack of boxes and pointing to an exit out a window. He climbs the pile and jumps out the window, only to discover that Flippy is wearing Shifty's skin and hat in order to trick him. Lifty flies into a baler and is torn apart. Flippy drives the baler away and Lifty's carcass comes out of the machine in the shape of a Christmas present under a tree. Lights on the tree begin blinking, resembling a Christmas tree.

Meanwhile, back at his tent, Mime turns on the light to discover that his "safe" has been stolen.

Moral
"Give until it hurts!"

Deaths

 * 1) Pop and Cub die of carbon monoxide poisoning when their chimney gets blocked.
 * 2) Shifty is carved with a Christmas tree cookie that Flippy uses as a Bowie knife.
 * 3) Lifty is tricked by Flippy into jumping out a window where he lands in a baler.

Goofs
7.  It would be impossible for Flippy to get to the baler before Lifty did.
 * 1) Pop and Cub shouldn't have died as quick as they did, as it would normally take up to 2 hours for a room to fill up with smoke. Of course seeing as how each episode is roughly 7 minutes, time is likely sped up.
 * 2) Flippy's TV turns on even though it's unplugged.
 * 3) The crest on Flippy's beret changes places several times.
 * 4) After Shifty's arm is cut off by the bear trap, he runs through the hallway gripping the candlestick. His detached hand grasps the candlestick, even though it was his other arm that was originally holding the candlestick.
 * 5) When Shifty steps in the snare trap, despite being upside-down his hat does not fall off.
 * 6) When Flippy dressed as Shifty he has blood on his body but when he was in his vehicle he was clean again.

Trivia

 * 1) Lifty and Shifty robbing the house at Christmas is a reference to How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Coincedentally, Lifty, Shifty, and The Grinch are all green.
 * 2) Many of the noises Pop makes when reading a story to Cub resemble the sounds he made in Read 'em and Weep.
 * 3) The scene where Shifty tries to replace to candlestick on the bear trap with a bag of sand is a reference to a similar scene in the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Shifty's greed, however, leads to a different end result.
 * 4) The candle holder that Flippy used to bait Shifty into a trap beared some similarities to a Menorah.
 * 5) Flippy wearing the dead Shifty's skin to trick Lifty is a reference to the movie The Silence of the Lambs.
 * 6) When this episode aired along with Wishy Washy and Who's to Flame? on YouTube, the alternate title for the conglomeration of the segments was named "Four on the Floor."
 * 7) This is only one of two episodes in the first season of the television series that Lumpy does not appear in, the other episode being And the Kitchen Sink. Oddly the aforementioned episode has Pop, Cub, Lifty and Shifty in it too.
 * 8) This is the last episode where Aubrey Ankrum voiced Pop and Flippy.
 * 9) There are no female characters in this episode.
 * 10) There is a rope tied around Flippy's neck, although it does not trap him (it was there to choke him).