Lifty-Shifty Relationship

This article focuses on the relationship between Lifty and Shifty.

Overview
When it comes to good terms, Lifty and Shifty often work together in committing their crimes, and occasionally show concern for each other. The majority of the time, however, the two are known to come into conflict due to their greedy ambitions, sometimes to the point of choosing material possessions over their lives.

Milkin' It
After stealing a cow from Lumpy's barn, Lifty and Shifty toss various items out of a hot-air balloon in order to gain more altitude. It ends when Shifty tosses Lifty out, leading him to get skewered on a tree. Shifty then snickers at his own brother's demise.

Who's to Flame?
Lifty uncovers the wallet of a dead Pop, which Shifty quickly swipes from him. This understandably leads to an argument until Lifty beats him up to take the wallet back, only to be crushed. Shifty happily takes the wallet but shortly succumbs to death as well.

Sea What I Found
Lifty and Shifty get trapped in a golden submarine as they venture near an underwater volcanic vent. Lifty gets trapped under rubble and Shifty apparently reaches out to help, until, in one of the most notorious examples of their greed, Shifty swipes the jewellery from his brother's arms and leaves him to die.

Doggone It
Lifty tries to grab a dollar bill from Shifty as he drives. This subsequently leads them to swerve into a tree and get crushed by the impact.

Buns of Steal
Following Lifty's fate, Shifty carefully walks across his brother's veins until reaching his head. He then kicks off Lifty's head and snickers before continuing to walk towards The Mole's delivery truck.

Class Act
After the characters have fled from the burning school with injuries, Shifty can be seen dragging Lifty off into the distance, most likely to seek help.

Gems the Breaks
Lifty and Shifty share laughs at humiliating Splendid by using his only known weakness against him.

Easy For You to Sleigh
Shifty is noticeably distressed after Lifty gets caught in one of Flippy's traps. Later, Lifty jumps out a window under the orders of his brother (who actually turns out to be Flippy wearing Shifty's skin), indicating that the two share a trust bond.

Buns of Steal
Shifty is alerted as Lifty nearly falls out of the truck, so he prevents this by nailing down Lifty's other foot. They react with sighs of relief before the latter realizes his predicament and ends up killed shorty after.

False Alarm episode
Lifty and Shifty high-five each other after a newly-reformed Nutty purchases their video games.

Relationship with others
Unsurprisingly, Lifty and Shifty rarely get along with other characters, who often fall victim to their acts of thievery. The brothers seldom show concern for others' deaths or injuries, sometimes even causing these calamities personally to fulfil their needs (most notably Swelter Skelter). However, there are rare occasions where they do show concern for others, particularly in Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark; in which they try to help Flippy, Lumpy, Sniffles and Flaky Lumpy escape a deserted island.

Although a common victim of their crimes due to his stupidity, Lumpy has been implied to be friends with Lifty and Shifty in a few cases, such as The Wrong Side of the Tracks and Kringle Feast. The raccoons were also concerned for Lumpy after accidentally running him over in Concrete Solution, that is until finding his wallet and leaving him unconscious. One of the few other times they provided help would be Easy Comb, Easy Go, in which they give away hair growth formulas to a desperate and bald Disco Bear, of course at a price.

Trivia

 * Shifty is noticeably a bit greedier than Lifty.
 * The bond between Lifty and Shifty could trace back to their apparently poor lifestyle (as implied in Meat Me for Lunch), meaning that their kleptomania - or some of it - could just be out of need rather than greed.