No Time Like the Present

No Time Like the Present is an episode of Happy Tree Friends, the twenty-third episode of Internet Season 3, and 77th episode overall.

HTF Episode Description
It wouldn’t be Christmas without a season themed episode! Happy Holidays!

Plot
On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus Lumpy comes down the chimney of an apartment and lays a present under a tree. The light turns on, much to his suspense. A tired Handy walks in the living room and spots his present under the tree. Lumpy peeps out of the fireplace in satisfaction.

Handy tries to open the gift, but fails. He bites on the ribbon and pulls it, only to tighten it. For the last resort, he bites onto a knife, but loses his grip and causes it to impale his foot, apparentally stucking his foot to the ground. Panicking, Handy spots a saw in his toolbox. One floor below, Lumpy puts a gift under the Mole's tree. The Mole passes by and Lumpy is shocked at first. But as he sits on his couch, Lumpy realizes he is blind, and takes advantage of it by eating his cookies.

Back upstairs, Handy saws the floor underneath his foot in order to get rid of the knife, only to get himself stuck through the hole and cause the Mole's ceiling fan to decapitate Lumpy. A piece of his flesh crashes through the window, and another lands on the record player and it plays his screams in a loop. The Mole hears this and goes to stop the noise.

Handy bites on the ribbon of his gift to save him, but he and the gift are forced through the hole and his corpse lands on the Mole's firewood pile. The Mole stops his record from playing and feels the cold come in from his window. He throws Handy's corpse in the fireplace. He walks back to his couch, however he slips on Lumpy's flesh and gets cut by the glass of his window. His head slices off and lands on a snowman.

The wind blows away the wrapping of Handy's gift, revealing his gift to be a pair of winter gloves.

Moral
"A hug is a great gift - one size fits all and it's easy to exchange!"

Deaths

 * 1) Lumpy's head is sliced by the fan.
 * 2) Handy is forced through the hole in the ceiling, turning him into a bloody cylinder.
 * 3) The Mole's neck is impaled on the glass. He is decapitated soon after this.

Injuries

 * Handy's left foot gets stabbed by the knife.

Goofs

 * 1) Lumpy's antlers change place twice.
 * 2) Handy's tools change place once.
 * 3) The Mole's mole changes place 3 times.
 * 4) The saw was at least one meter away from Handy, so it's unknown how he could even reach it. Though he may have retrieved it with his mouth.
 * 5) On Youtube, this is listed as the 74th episode.

Trivia

 * This the first time to show Handy's house from the outside, though the inside is nothing like the one in Shard at Work. The Mole is also seen living in the same building. It could be an apartment building.
 * This is the last episode of 2012, the next episode; By The Seat Of Your Pants, would air two and a half months later.
 * This marks the third time a character dressed up like Santa. The first was Lifty in Easy For You to Sleigh and the second was Pop in Clause For Concern.
 * This marks the third time that The Mole is decapitated. The first was in Home is Where the Hurt is and the second was in All in Vein.
 * Like Bottled Up Inside, this episode's trailer also shows a character's injury despite the episode itself wasn't fully released.
 * Truffles appeared behind a tree when the Mole's head landed on a snowman.
 * The song on the Mole's record player was the HTF version of Oh Christmas Tree (as sung in Oh Xmas Tree, with Cuddles, Giggles, Toothy's and Lumpy's voices heard).
 * The Mole's death is similar to his death in All in Vein.
 * This is one of the five times Lumpy dies first. The others are Get Whale Soon, I've Got You Under My Skin, Breaking Wind, and Milkin' It.
 * Handy's gift references the joke that Handy usually has to do stuff involving hands or he gets stuff that involves hands.
 * The Blurb edition of Shard at Work was released on YouTube the same day as this on the Mondo site.
 * There are no girls in this episode.
 * When The Mole is watching TV, you can hear what sounds like a slightlly gibberish speaking human voice.
 * In Handy's apartment there are pictures of tools and in Mole's there are upside-down pictures of Generic Tree Friends.
 * Some scissors, a popsicle, a pencil, a chicken leg and a spoon are put on Mole's tree.
 * This episode was uploaded on YouTube before Bottled Up Inside, despite that the latter was aired first.
 * In this episode Handy's starring card is different from I Nub You, since the "H" is blue instead of orange and the trees are absent.
 * Handy, The Mole and Lumpy died the reverse order they did in Don't Yank my Chain, Concrete Solution and A Hole Lotta Love.
 * There are no female characters in this episode, however, Giggles voice was heard in the record player