Without a Hitch



Without a Hitch is an episode of the Happy Tree Friends internet series.

Starring Roles

 * Flippy
 * Flaky

Appearance Roles

 * Lumpy

Plot
On a dark night, Flaky happily drives her car when she suddenly spots a figure underneath a streetlight. Flippy casually puts out his thumb to catch a ride. Being kind, Flaky stops and picks Flippy up. Once inside, Flippy pulls out some cheese from his dufflebag. The cheese gives off a horrid odor, forcing Flaky to roll down her window and stick her head out for fresh air. As she sighs in relief, the window begins rolling back up. Flippy, who is now flipped out, presses the switch to raise the window, laughing manically. Flaky screams as the window closes on and decapitates her.

The scene then shifts back to Flaky in her car, her "death" having been a vision inside her head. She shivers at the thought of her gruesome death and drives on past Flippy. A few seconds later, however, Flaky runs over a nail and has to stop. As she stares at her flat tire, it begins to rain heavily.

Flaky starts to use her tire iron to change her tire, when she looks up. Lighting lights up the sky, revealing Flippy's figure proceeding towards her. Flaky begins to panic and tries to speed up her work. Flippy catches up next to her, however, causing Flaky to drop her tire iron and scream. She reaches out to grab it, but Evil Flippy picks it up and stabs her in the eye with it. Flippy then twirls the tire iron around, and pulls out her eye. To finish her off, he smacks her in the head, crushing her skull. Evil Flippy then drives off in Flaky's car with Flaky's corpse acting as a tire.

It turns out this, too, is just a vision Flaky made up in her frightened mind. While she was zoned out and screaming, Flippy has already fixed her tire. Gracious that her car was fixed, a nervous Flaky gives Flippy a ride. After buckling in, Flippy pulls out a straight razor from his dufflebag. He then proceeds to smash Flaky's head through her windshield. Evil Flippy then lets go of the wiper blade, which he has tied his razor to, slicing Flaky's face off in several pieces as it moves back and forth.

However, this is also another convoluted vision from Flaky's imagination. Flaky screams as this vision goes through her head, taking her eyes off the road. Flippy tries to slap some sense into her to no avail as the car plows into a utility pole, forcing Flippy through the windshield of the car. Flaky is still in her car thanks to the many seatbelts she put on earlier, however she is badly injured and cut from broken pieces of the windshield.

Flippy, seeing Flaky is more hurt than himself, pulls out his straight razor to cut the seatbelts away from her. Flaky, however, whose overactive imagination has gotten the better of her, screams as she sees the razor and grabs a nearby shard of glass. As Flippy starts cutting on of the seatbelt straps, Flaky jabs the glass into Flippy's eye. Flippy screams and flees from the scene, where he is almost immediately plowed into by Lumpy, who is driving a truck. Lumpy, noticing he's hit something, slows his vehicle down and comes to a screeching halt behind Flaky's car. He barely hits her bumper, bumping her car forward a few inches.

Inside her vehicle, Flaky sighs in relief, having survived the ordeal. Suddenly her airbag inflates, crushing Flaky into pieces. Flakys distrust of Flippy lead her to her demise.

Deaths

 * 1) Flippy is run over by Lumpy.
 * 2) Flaky is crushed by her car's airbag.

Goofs

 * 1) When Flaky's car tire goes flat, the car is only half in the light. When she looks at the tire, however, the car is completely inside the light.
 * 2) The angle in which Flippy slaps Flaky doesn't seem possible.
 * 3) Just before Flippy is stabbed in the eye, he was cutting Flaky's buckle. But when Lumpy slightly pushes Flaky's car, the buckle is not cut.

Trivia

 * 1) This is the only regular episode that is in black, gray and white. For the most part, the animators try to avoid these colors (with a few exceptions, such as eyes, teeth, milk, snow, etc.). These colors were also used in the irregular episode Dino-Sore Days.
 * 2) This is the first Season 3 episode Flippy appears in.
 * 3) There are no voices in this episode (only sounds, i.e., thunder).
 * 4) This is the first time Flippy is killed by one of the main characters (other than himself). In this case by Lumpy.
 * 5) This was the first episode where Flippy did not kill any character or flip out (Flippy didn't kill anyone in Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow, though he did flip out).
 * 6) A majority of the episode was in black, gray, and white apart from any blood (red) and Evil Flippy's eye color (greenish-yellow).
 * 7) Flippy's death is similar to his death in Autopsy Turvy/Double Whammy Part 2.
 * 8) This episode proves it may be possible for Flippy to be cured from his Flip outs. (see Doubly Whammy Part 2)