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Chasing the Curse

Starring Lifty & Shifty (ft. The Cursed Idol)

Featuring Splendid

Appearances by Cuddles, Toothy, Russell, Sniffles, The Mole, and Lumpy

Taking a museum tour with a group of other Tree Friends, Lifty and Shifty are awestruck by a shining gold idol sitting in a glass case. As the rest of the group continue on, the raccoons devise a plan to steal the treasure. Splendid overhears them scheming, and notices that the museum is looking for a night watchman. Getting an idea, he signs up for the job so he can stop Lifty and Shifty in the act.

At closing time, The Mole gives Splendid the keys to lock up the museum and leaves. After an hour of waiting, Splendid gets the impression that the thieves aren't showing up and goes to sleep. After the super squirrel dozes off, Lifty and Shifty sneak in through the air vents and land in the museum. They place a pair of earmuffs on Splendid's head as a way to prevent him from noticing them. The two sneak over to the case where the idol is being kept in. Lifty uncovers the security panel and deactivates the system, and using a glass cutter, Shifty cuts a hole in the top of the case and retracts the idol.

As they make an exit for the front door, the security gate suddenly comes down in front of it. They try to sneak out through the windows, but they are all shut off as well. Using a rope, Lifty and Shifty attempt to sneak out the way they came: the vents. Once Shifty climbs up there, a sudden spray of hot steam blasts through, burning his face and causing him to fall down.

In another attempt to escape, Lifty and Shifty go into the restrooms as to leave via sewer. Lifty sticks his leg into the toilet, but as he does something grabs onto his leg. He starts to get forced into the toilet, and Shifty rushes to pull him out. It is revealed that a tentacle has grabbed ahold of Lifty's leg, and it is torn off when Shifty tries to pull him free. As Lifty starts to bleed heavily, his brother covers up the wound with a bunch of toilet paper.

Thinking of another way to get out, Lifty and Shifty come across some medieval weaponry. Taking a battle axe, Lifty tries to use it as a pickaxe, but he stumbles and ends up slicing off Shifty's ear. Now in pain, Shifty ends up backing up into a dinosaur skeleton and causes it to fall apart. The loud rumbling awakens Splendid, who arrives over to the scene and does not find the raccoons, but the mess that was made. As he works to put the skeleton back together, Lifty and Shifty use a crowbar to pry open one of the gates on the window, then get the window open. Lifty goes to sneak out first, but the window closes on his remaining leg, causing it to get stuck, and the gate closes back down and slices it off. After Lifty falls to the floor, one of the lights on the ceiling falls and lands on Shifty, zapping him. After reassembling the dinosaur, Splendid notices the raccoon duo, who surrender to him, no longer able to bear anymore suffering caused by the cursed idol. As Lifty and Shifty are taken away by the police, Splendid takes a look at the idol, and notices that it's starting to rain. He is then suddenly struck by lightning, and is chased by a thundercloud.

The following day, Lifty and Shifty are breaking rocks in a prison yard, but are happy to finally be free from the idol's curse. Splendid, who is badly burned and bruised because of it, tosses the accursed object away, and it lands in the prison yard next to Shifty. Once this happens, Shifty's pickaxe gets stuck in the rock. When he tries to get it free, the whole rock is lifted and it bashes his face open, killing him. Lifty finds that the idol has returned and throws it out of his sight, but it bounces off the prison building, causing a chunk of the top to topple over. After the piece crushes Lifty, prison guard Lumpy is awoken from his nap and finds the idol. After he picks it up, it begins to rain, and Lumpy takes out a umbrella. As the iris begins to close, Lumpy is struck by lightning.

Moral: "Quality comes at a price."

Deaths:
 * 1) Shifty's face is bashed in by a rock.
 * 2) Lifty is crushed by a chunk of the prison building.

Injuries:
 * 1) Shifty's face is burned by steam.
 * 2) Lifty's leg is ripped off by a tentacle.
 * 3) Shifty's ear is sliced off.
 * 4) Lifty's other leg is trapped in a window and is then sliced off by a gate.
 * 5) Shifty is electrocuted after a ceiling light falls on his head.
 * 6) Splendid is struck by lightning and is shown to have received other injuries caused by the idol.
 * 7) Lumpy is struck by lightning.