Remains to be Seen

Remains to be Seen is the twenty-second episode of the second season of Happy Tree Friends, and the forty-ninth overall. It is the first episode to be rendered in Toon Boom, as opposed to Macromedia Flash MX.

Plot
The Happy Tree Friends are trick-or-treating when they come across a road where Flippy is driving his truck, carrying radioactive waste in the back. As Flippy stops the truck and waits for them to pass, the car backfires, giving off a sound similar to a gunshot. Flippy gets scared and jumps to the floor, only to come up flipped out and turned into Fliqpy. In this state, he stomps on the gas pedal and crashes into a tree, splashing radioactive goo everywhere and killing all the other Happy Tree Friends present, along with himself.

Later, after burying all the Happy Tree Friends into graves, Lumpy (as a grave-digger) sighs with relief that his job is done. Then he notices that one of Nutty's legs is sticking out of his grave. When he goes to push it down, an arm pops out instead. Lumpy continues pushing down limbs, eventually ending up right on top of the grave just in time to see Nutty's head pop out of the earth, rotting and soaked in radioactive goo, but definitely not dead.

Before the undead sugar freak can do anything more than moan groggily, Lumpy buries him under a pile of dirt, but then sees the dead Happy Tree Friends rise from their graves as zombies. Quickly, he grabs an old-time push mower and shreds Lifty, Shifty, Russell, and several Generic Tree Friends, when he is suddenly stopped. He looks down to see that two green hands are holding the mower. Fliqpy's face pops out of the ground, still flipped out even after his death. Fliqpy jumps at Lumpy and bites his arm, revealing that he has no lower body. Lumpy shakes his arm in shock, causing it to rip off, and runs away screaming.

Fliqpy spits out Lumpy's severed arm to pursue him. He rips Handy in half at the waist and steals his lower body, using Handy's intestines as suspenders to keep the two halves together. Lumpy runs into a nearby tool shed, looking around for a weapon and smiles when his eyes come upon a chainsaw. However, Lumpy instead chooses a leaf-blower to put on as a replacement for his missing arm. He jabs the air in front of Fliqpy's face, but only succeeds in blowing a few maggots away. Unimpressed, Fliqpy tackles Lumpy to the ground, with the latter closing his eyes, ready for certain death. When he opens them, he sees that the leaf-blower is now lodged in Fliqpy's eye, causing his brain to swell in gastronomic proportions. This attracts the attention of the other zombies, who gather around the cadaverous commando. Lumpy quickly takes the leaf-blower off his arm and runs away.

As the zombies start to surround the scared veteran, Toothy climbs up Fliqpy's over-sized brain and uses his buckteeth to bite it, resulting in a gigantic explosion which kills and re-buries all of the zombies (with the exception of The Mole) and replaces the tombstones in their proper positions. A relieved Lumpy lies on his back, his previously ripped-off arm resting on his chest. Suddenly the hand becomes zombified and attacks Lumpy, attempting to tear out his heart. Lumpy manages to remove the limb from his chest and examine it. The arm comes back to life, however, and punches him out cold. Before the cartoon ends, the same paper ghost from the past Halloween Specials drops down and lets out a wail.

As the credits roll, a silhouette of The (still-zombified) Mole can be seen blindly walking on the horizon.

Moral
"Live and let live!"

Blurb
The blurb version of this episode was released on October 27, 2015 on the official Mondo site, and was also released on October 28, 2015 on YouTube. It contains these annotations:
 * Starting off with creepy music and spooky letters. This must be a Christmas episode! 
 * BlurB!
 * Just kidding, it's Halloween. Christmas would have scarier music.
 * Halloween tip #1: Trick or treating in a forest with dead trees and no houses is a good way to avoid crowds.
 * Flippy isn't much of a Halloween guy...he's allergic to chocolate and candy corn
 * When transporting toxic waste, always make sure the lids are lose
 * Remember kids, when crossing the street don't bother looking or stopping, just keep walking
 * Flippy is a HUGE Halloween guy he loves all the blood and gore and scary stuff
 * Most car accidents that happen involve a car
 * Wow! That was a short episode
 * not very creative either
 * FACT: Humans have been burying their dead dating back for 100,000 years
 * FACT: Lumpy just started burying these dead tonight
 * he's clearly has a lot to learn
 * Nutty went through 23 hours of makeup to get this look
 * It took that long because his makeup was sugar based and he kept eating it
 * FACT: Zombies are fictional characters and can't hurt real people
 * FACT: Lumpy is a fictional character so these zombies can mess him up bad!
 * This is obviously an homage to the classic Disney film "D2: The Mighty Ducks"
 * Lumpy is freaked out because he almost forgot to mow the lawn. 
 * That happens to me a lot too
 * We used stunt doubles for these scenes.
 * R.I.P. Stunt Doubles
 * That's the worst case of crab grass I've ever seen
 * I think you all need to take a moment and appreciate the awesomeness of the intestine suspenders
 * If you thought we were above giving ourselves props, you were wrong!
 * The next part is an homage to the classic horror movie "D2: The Mighty Ducks"
 * Stupid Lumpy
 * Or maybe not so stupid Lumpy
 * They say the brain is the strongest muscle in the body and you need to work it out every day
 * Flippys brain looks like it's been worked out enough today
 * Doesn't matter anymore I guess
 * Lumpy got out of that in relatively one piece
 * Could somebody give Lumpy a hand?
 * Looks like he's already got one!...Get it?
 * AHHHHHHH!
 * Oh wait, it's not real. Man, that was scary!

Blurb Gallery

Deaths

 * 1) Russell, Lifty, Shifty, Handy, Cuddles, Giggles, Toothy, Petunia, Sniffles, Mime, Nutty, The Mole, Flippy, and some Generic Tree Friends die in the truck crash. They are later revived as zombies, and all except The Mole are later killed again.
 * 2) Russell, Lifty, Shifty, and some Generic Tree Friends die again when they are shredded by Lumpy's lawnmower.
 * 3) Handy, Cuddles, Giggles, Toothy, Petunia, Sniffles, Mime, Nutty, and some Generic Tree Friends die again either when Fliqpy's brain explodes or by falling to their deaths before being re-buried (one hit its head on the ground before falling into the hole, possibly killing it). (Debatable for Nutty, as all of the soil that he was buried in may have saved him from the explosion.)
 * 4) Fliqpy dies when his inflated brain explodes with the help of zombie Toothy biting it.
 * 5) Lumpy may have been killed by his severed arm, as he was struggling to fight it and was knocked out in the end. (Debatable and not seen)

Injuries

 * 1) Flippy is torn in half.
 * 2) The zombified Handy is ripped in half by Fliqpy, though his upper body is still animate.
 * 3) Lumpy's arm is bitten off by Fliqpy. It later comes to life and tries to tear Lumpy's heart out.
 * 4) Lumpy is knocked out by his zombified arm.

Surivival Rate

 * Amount of alive main characters: 3 (1 including Debatable deaths)
 * Amount of dead main characters: 11 (13 including Debatable deaths)
 * Total rate: 21,4% (7.1% including Debatable deaths)

Destruction

 * 1) Fliqpy crashes his truck into a tree.
 * 2) The leaf blower most likely blew up when Fliqpy's brain explodes. Numerous graves are also blown into the sky and start landing in random areas of the cemetary.

Goofs

 * 1) Normally, when Flippy goes insane, his eyes turn green. In this episode, Fliqpy's eyes are the same shade of light blue as are later exhibited by the zombified Happy Tree Friends.
 * 2) The Tree Friends take an incredibly long time to cross the road. When they start to cross, there is a time span of approximately 15 seconds where the truck's exhaust backfires and Flippy flips out, yet he still manages to hit the group - either that or he drove off the road.
 * 3) As usual, the direction of Lumpy's antlers changes frequently throughout the episode.
 * 4) Even though Lumpy loses his left arm to Fliqpy, he is seen with both arms intact as he runs into the tool shed. Furthermore, his left arm is still attached to him when he is inside the tool shed.
 * 5) When the crash scene is shown completely, the trail of radioactive waste and a few body parts can be seen 'floating' above the ground.
 * 6) Since a few episodes hint that Mime can actually talk, he should have made noises with the other characters since he is a zombie would be 100% oblivious to his Mime artist status.
 * 7) The Mole should have been attracted to Fliqpy's brain. Blindness isn't an excuse for zombies.
 * 8) The road that the trick-or-treaters are crossing disappears when the crash scene is shown.
 * 9) Prior to the crash, Petunia and Mime appear to be absent from the group (though the former's severed leg is shown along with the other body parts), only to appear, with no costume, among the zombies. The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and numerous Generic Tree Friends also appear like this, possibly implying that they were in the area, but not as trick-or-treaters, or they may have died before the events of this episode.
 * 10) While a zombie, the blood on Handy's hard hat disappears and the left horn is broken instead of the right one.
 * 11) When the truck crashes, Petunia loses one of her legs. But when she gets revived, she is able to walk in a straight line.
 * 12) When Flippy dies, he crashes through his windshield and his body appears intact. When he comes back as a zombie, he is missing his lower half. No explanation is given as to why his body was in that condition (though it is possible Lumpy accidentally broke him in half while burying him). Given the angle of Flippy's post-crash corpse, on the other hand, it may be possible that his body was already bisected, but that it was simply covered by his shirt or the truck itself.
 * 13) When Mime becomes a zombie, the wrong half of his head is missing; the crash that cut his head took off the right side, not the left.
 * 14) The missing part of Petunia's face changes places when she walks toward Flippy.
 * 15) When Fliqpy severs Handy's torso, the maggots on the missing parts of Handy's face disappear as his torso is thrown.
 * 16) When Fliqpy tears off Handy's torso, his tail is somehow attached to his back.
 * 17) Even though Handy loses one of his legs in the truck crash, it reappears when the destroyed vehicle is shown, as well as when he gets revived as a zombie.
 * 18) If one looks carefully, when Fliqpy grabs Lumpy after Lumpy replaces his arm with a leaf-blower, he jumps at Lumpy's body while the leaf-blower is not pointing at him, meaning that it would be impossible for the leaf-blower to get stuck in Fliqpy's eye unless Lumpy struggled with him before that.
 * 19) The tree which Flippy crashes into is nowhere near where the Tree Friends cross the road.
 * 20) When Flippy crashes, Handy's hard hat flies off to the road. In the next scene, he is wearing it. However, he could have retrieved it, or Lumpy could have placed it back onto him when he buried him.
 * 21) Some of the stars are pasted over the moon (likely a layering error).
 * 22) Petunia's air freshener is torn up when she dies, but it is in perfect condition when she begins walking towards Flippy.
 * 23) Lumpy's pupils grow larger after he forces his severed arm off of him.
 * 24) Mime's zombified appearance makes him look like he has been dead for a long time. Since all the characters are killed at the same time, it does not make sense that all of the characters have only slightly decomposed, while Mime has decomposed to the point where most of his skeleton and rib cage can be seen.
 * 25) In the remastered and blurb versions of the episode, when zombie Mime appears, the outline and coloring of his mouth become dislocated.

Quick Shot Moment
After Lifty and Shifty get shredded by Lumpy's push mower, there is a brief shot of a zombified Petunia.

Note: This is fixed on Classics Remastered version.