Spare Tire

Spare Tire is an episode of the Happy Tree Friends Internet series, it is the seventh of Season 4 and 85th overall.

Plot
Giggles is staring confused at the traffic signs while standing on the sidewalk. Mole approaches in his car and runs over the signs, barely missing Giggles who took a dive upon seeing the vehicle. A nail deflates one of the tires and a sign slices Giggles' torso. Her torso, now a wheel-like shape, rolls in the place of the fifth wheel Mole was about to put on his car. Mole drives with Giggles' torso in the place of its wheel, leaving a trail of blood.

The car stops by the gas station where Lumpy fills up the tank. Pop and Cub then appear, the former lights a match to smoke. Lumpy leaves the station, takes the match from Pop and throws it away. Unfortunately, Mole drives off with the hose spilling a trail of gasoline where the match lands. It begins a fire at the station that also follows the car's trail. Pop and Lumpy try to extinguish the fire, but the station explodes leaving only their bones behind.

The fire continues to follow the trail of gasoline, and it arrives at Toothy's house which was just previously damaged from Mole's car. Toothy grabs a fire extinguisher, but the force drives him against the wall, crushing his organs and killing him. The fire then goes under Lammy's rubber pool where it heats the water. Lammy spots a bubble and tries to pop it, blowing her face off in the process.

Mole's car finally stops (likely from the empty gas tank) and the fire blows it up. Mole becomes tied to a tree through his intestines and a tire falls on the end of it. A sad and hurt Cub approaches, but he becomes happy by playing with the "swing" created from the accident.

At a hospital, Sniffles is using Mole's fifth wheel to replace the missing part of Giggles. He grabs the air hose, inflate the tire a little bit, and wouldn't you know it, the monitor begins beeping, revealing that he successfully managed to bring Giggles back to life.

Moral
"A bad leadership is like a flat tire. It doesn't go anywhere until being replaced."

Deaths

 * 1) Lumpy and Pop are vaporized by an explosion.
 * 2) Toothy's organs are crushed against a wall by his fire extinguisher.
 * 3) Lammy's face is torn off by an explosion of boiling water.
 * 4) Mole is killed when his car explodes.

Injuries

 * 1) Cub is injured in the explosion at the gas station.
 * 2) Giggles appeared dead when sliced by traffic signs (but at the end of the episode Sniffles brings her back to life).

Goofs

 * 1) Lumpy's antlers change directions several times.
 * 2) When Giggles is on the hospital bed, her blood is pink. (it could be fer hospital bed soaking it in.)
 * 3) The car Mole was driving didn't get damaged after going through Toothy's house.
 * 4) It's unknown how the blood and gasoline-trail got under Lammy's rubber pool, unless she placed it there afterwards (though due to time of the fire spreading and the fact that a trail of blood and gasoline would probably be noticed by her it's quite unlikely). It was probably needed for the scene to take place in general.
 * 5) When Lumpy dies, his bow stays floating in the air.
 * 6) When The Mole drives off and leaves a trail of gasoline behind, there's also a trail of blood next to it. But, when Lumpy throws the match on the gasoline, the trail of blood is gone

Trivia

 * The sneak peek is officially posted 19 days after the previous episode.
 * Mondo released this episode on YouTube a month after its main debut.
 * The gas station Lumpy works at has a very similar appearance to the real life gas station, Texaco.
 * This is the first episode of 2014.
 * There is an episode with a title similar to this one's, "Spare Me". Coincidentally, they both had the Mole and Sniffles.
 * This is Toothy's first appearance in Season 4.
 * This is The Mole's first appearance since Pet Peeve, and his second starring role in Season 4.
 * This is the third time where The Mole drives a vehicle in Season 4. In this episode, The Mole isn't driving the van he had in Pet Peeve and it's a different car than the car he had in past episodes. Instead of being purple, it is red; instead of being a wide and tall car, it is narrow and short.
 * It was supposedly going to be released during the Christmas break, but it was delayed.
 * This is the third time that Lammy dies (after All Work and No Play and All In Vein).
 * This is the first time Lammy appears without her sweater.
 * This is the second regular episode where Cub survives while Pop dies (after A Vicious Cycle).
 * This is the first time that Mole's face is seen onscreen and proves that he doesn't have eyes (though it may have been caused from the explosion which also ripped that part of his face off).
 * This is the second time that a character survives just by pumping air in the body. The first was Disco Bear in A Change of Heart.
 * This makes Giggles the fourth character to be revived after death, the other three being Petunia, Handy (I Nub You) and Disco Bear (A Change Of Heart). Though only Disco Bear and Giggles remain alive through these episodes.
 * Like in See You Later, Elevator, the deaths have started because Pop lit a match.
 * This marks the first regular episode since We're Scrooged! where Sniffles survives.
 * This is the first episode in Season 4 without a video bomber, while this is the 3rd episode in season 4 that Truffles doesn't appear.
 * Lumpy and Pop's deaths are kind of similar to Lumpy's death in Brake The Cycle.
 * This is the first episode where Cub seems to realize what death means (except if he was crying because of the injuries he got from the explosion).
 * Toothy's house seems to consist of only one room.
 * Since Giggles was revived, this is the first episode where Lammy is the only female character to die.
 * This is the first time Lammy appears in an episode without Truffles.
 * This is the first time that Mole and Pop are responsible for killing Lammy.
 * This is the third time Mr. Pickels stays inanimate and doesn't come to life. This first happens in All In Vein and All Work and No Play.