Breaking Wind

Breaking Wind is an episode of Happy Tree Friends, the twentieth of Internet season 3, and the seventy-fourth overall.

HTF's Episode Description
There’s a bad wind blowing into town and it’s up to Splendid to rise to the occasion!

Plot
Splendid is seen tearing up from reading a book that bears a strong resemblance to the novel Twilight. Suddenly, his TV turns itself on. The TV shows Lumpy as a newscaster reporting a tornado in a field. Upset that he to stop reading, Splendid puts his book down and goes to stop the tornado. Unfortunately, Splendid couldn't help himself and decides to bring the book with him.

At the field, Lumpy continues the forecast while Cuddles, Giggles and Flaky watch on. Suddenly, Lumpy's cameraman; The Mole, Cuddles and Giggles get sucked in, and since Flaky is standing behind a fence, she doesn't get sucked in. Then Lumpy gets sucked in, but he suddenly stops. We see that Splendid had had saved him in time. At that moment, Splendid's book gets sucked in. In a hurry, Splendid ties Lumpy's microphone cord around Lumpy, and dashes into the tornado. Unbeknownst to Splendid, the microphone cord wraps itself around his left leg. When Splendid struggles to pull up, he accidentally squeezes the cord around Lumpy too much, resulting in his body getting completely crushed. Realizing this, Splendid uses his laser vision to cut the cord, and he proceeds.

As the book flies around the tornado, the book begins to lose its pages. One of the pages flies onto Splendid's face, rendering his vision. He suddenly flies into Cuddles, splitting him in half. Splendid removes the page from his face, and he begins to read it. Splendid then begins to grab and read the pages that fly next to him. Realizing that he's almost done with the story, Splendid sees that the last page is in heart of the tornado. Thinking for a second, Splendid decides to suck up the tornado. As a result, the tornado begins to shrink in size. This causes Giggles to stop flying around and begins falling down. Giggles calls herself lucky because she landed on some mattresses and pillows. Unfortunately, this causes her to bounce right onto a box of pitchforks. To make matters worse, farming equipment and other sharp objects bounce off the mattresses and impale Giggles, and to top it off, she gets decapitated by a shovel.

Splendid lands on the ground, and swallows the tornado. Splendid then sees the the last page of the book falling towards him. Splendid then begins to read the last page, but before he can do so, his stomach rumbles. As a result, Splendid lets out a huge fart. The gas is so toxic, when it hits Flaky, she is reduced to bone, and Splendid releases so much gas, it contaminates the whole planet. Toothy runs out of his house, screaming and gagging in terror. But not for long, as a knocked out Handy crashes his truck onto him. Disco Bear then walks onto the screen, having a nosebleed, and gagging from the bad air. As a result, he falls to the floor, unconscious. Petunia decides to light a match, in hopes to brighten the environment around her. Unfortunately, the gas reacts to the heat, and the whole world is set ablaze.

Splendid emerges from some rubble, with minor burns around him. Splendid then excitedly reads the last page, then throws the page away with an unsatisfied look.

Moral
"It's an ill wind that blows no good."

Deaths

 * 1) Lumpy is crushed by his microphone cord tied around him when Splendid flies. (debatable)
 * 2) Cuddles is sliced in half when Splendid flies through him.
 * 3) Giggles is impaled on a set of pitchforks and assorted farming equipment fall on her. She is then decapitated by a shovel.
 * 4) Flaky's flesh is burnt to bone by Splendid's blast.
 * 5) Toothy is hit by Handy's truck that loses control.
 * 6) Handy and Disco Bear are intoxicated by the gas.
 * 7) Every possible kind of living thing was killed because of the fart of Splendid. (debatable, as most of the possible deaths were off-screen and many of them are currently unconfirmed.)

Goofs

 * 1) When Splendid is reading the book, part of his patagium passes through his arm.
 * 2) When Lumpy is tied by his microphone cord, Flaky doesn't appear by the fence, but she reappears afterward.
 * 3) Lumpy's antlers switch places once.
 * 4) The creators put Toothy as a featuring character even he only appears in one shot while Lumpy was more of a featuring character.
 * 5) When Splendid recovers the pages of his book from the tornado, the second one he grabs, he reads correctly (left to right, and because of the way his eyes move). But the other three pages he collects, he reads them the opposite way (right to left).
 * 6) Most books are printed with information on both sides of the pages, Splendid's book only had print on one side of the pages.
 * 7) It's unknown where the mattresses and pillows came from.
 * 8) It's unknown how Splendid's television turned itself on.

Trivia

 * The term "breaking wind" means to pass gas/fart. It could also be a reference to the Twilight movie Breaking Dawn.
 * Coincidentally, In this episode, Splendid reads a book that the Twilight novel.
 * The Sneak Peek and Teaser is announced in Mondo Shows Website.
 * When Splendid heard the news on TV, the music also plays on the title card of the episode See What Develops.
 * Despite that this episode was made before All In Vein, the latter was uploaded on YouTube first. This occurs again between Bottled Up Inside and No Time Like the Present.
 * This is the first time that Splendid cries.
 * Truffles can be seen hiding behind the barn when Lumpy floats away.
 * A teaser of this was released on the 1st of October, 2012. It shows Splendid watching the news about a striking tornado then he goes off. Meanwhile, Lumpy and the others are sucked up by the tornado.
 * This is the second episode to show a tornado, the first is Just Desert.
 * This is the second appearance of Splendid and Disco Bear in Internet season 3. They last appeared in Wrath of Con, which also coincidentally stars Splendid while the latter made only appearance roles.
 * Apparently, Splendid actually is breaking wind in this episode. This is the first episode where a character does this onscreen.
 * This is the first time Splendid kills Flaky without killing Russell and Nutty as well.
 * This is the first time Splendid did nothing to save Giggles.
 * This is the third time that Splendid shows interest more in his items than in his job. The first one was in Better Off Bread, where he was more interested in making sure his bread was properly backed than in saving the day, and the second was in From Hero to Eternity, where saving Giggles and the town clearly played second fiddle to doing his laundry.
 * This is one of the few episodes in which all of the featuring and appearing characters die while the starring character survives.
 * Flaky's death is similar to her death in Boo Do You Think You Are?
 * Flaky's death might be a reference to Sarah Connor's death in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, where she died while holding to a fence, though in Flaky's case it wasn't caused by an inferno.
 * This is the first time that Handy kills Toothy.
 * Of all previous episodes where Lumpy dies first (being Milkin' It, Get Whale Soon, and I've Got You Under My Skin), this is the first to feature more than three characters.
 * Lumpy's death is similar to Toothy's death in one of the Comics and Nutty's death in A Sight for Sore Eyes.
 * Giggles' death is similar to her death in Royal Flush, Cub's death in Chip Off the Ol' Block and Shifty's death in Who's to Flame?.
 * Flaky's death is also similar to Lumpy's death in Just Desert and Giggles' death in See What Develops (also caused by Splendid).
 * Toothy's death is similar to Sniffles' injury in A Sight for Sore Eyes and Cuddles' possible death in Happy New Year.
 * The circumstance of Petunia lighting a match to see through the gas clouds and then reacts with the match with enough strength to kill the entire planet is similar to the Mole's circumstance of lighting a match to see in the dark and then killing the entire town in Who's to Flame?.
 * When Splendid screams as his book slips out of his hands he screams exactly like Lumpy.
 * The noise when the TV starts is the noise made from morse code signals.
 * Disco-type music can be heard when Disco Bear appears.
 * It can be assumed that Truffles and the known characters who didn't appear survived the calamity in some way (e.g., Water, shelters, Cro-Marmot's ice block, etc).
 * In the Teaser, the music is similar to The Chokes On You.
 * This is the only season 3 episode that Disco Bear makes sounds.
 * This is the shortest appearance of Toothy, only living for 2 seconds.