Mime to Five/Trivia


 * Running gag: Every time Mime tries to do his job, he ends up killing someone.
 * This is the first and only time Generic Tree Friends appear on screen in the TV series.
 * The surviving cast (Mime, Petunia and Cro-Marmot) are the same characters who appeared in the Chill Kringle short.
 * When the water is pumped out of Sniffles' body, several fish and a crab also come out of his mouth.
 * Some of the Generic Tree Friends in the circus tent resemble Sniffles and The Mole (similar ear shape), This happens again in the flash game Stay On Target.
 * The music playing in the background when Mime finds the circus paper is the same from the YouTube game Milk Pong.
 * Mime is responsible for every death in this episode (though Sniffles technically killed himself unless Petunia revived him).
 * This is the first TV episode where the Generic Tree Friends appear (as the people in the circus audience crowd).
 * An HTF flash game named Hare Trigger is based on this episode, specifically on Cuddles' act involving the cannon.
 * In this episode, it is implied that Mime is near-sighted, as he needs glasses to read the newspaper. (However, since the glasses are just Groucho Marx gag glasses, it is also possible that this was only intended as a joke.)
 * In reality, there are no such thing as killer ducks.
 * The deaths of the three bear characters that appear in this episode all coincidentally involve glass shards impaling their bodies.
 * When Mime goes through the want ads for the first time, the first two icons that appear are a typewriter and an animation cel. These two things are one of the many key elements in making an animated cartoon, as the typewriter represents the people who write the episodes, and the animation cel represents the animators.
 * This is (Debatably) the only one of Mime's starring roles which he survives where other characters survive in the regular series.
 * This is one of only two episodes where Lumpy is depicted as a villain in an episode where he doesn't have a starring role. The other is Dunce Upon a Time.

Cultural References

 * The title of the episode is a play on the phrase "9 to 5," a term that is used to describe average work hours (9:00 AM to 5:00 PM).
 * There's also a Dolly Parton song with the same name.
 * The way Mime runs into the water to "save" Sniffles is a parody of the TV show Baywatch.
 * Lumpy feeding the killer ducks with a live goat may be a reference to the 1993 film Jurassic Park. (Debatable)

Superlatives

 * This is the second time Toothy spontaneously combusted into dust. The first time this happened was in Stealing the Spotlight and the third instance occurred in Easy Comb, Easy Go.
 * This is one of the three instances where Cuddles gets split in half, and his intestines are the only thing holding him together. The other two are I Get a Trick Out of You, and See You Later, Elevator.
 * The sound Pop makes when he gets angry at the drive thru is the same sound he made in Snip Snip Hooray! when he tries to turn on his razor, while its unplugged.
 * This is one of four times in the TV series where Lumpy is killed by animals (the other three are Doggone It, Take a Hike and Letter Late than Never).
 * Because he survived in this episode, Mime is one of only two characters who has had a starring role in more than one TV episode to survive every TV episode he has starred in (the other being Pop).
 * The screams made by Lumpy when he dies are the exact same as the ones he makes during his death in Pet Peeve. Furthermore, Lumpy dies the same way in both episodes.
 * Flaky's death is similar to The Mole's death in The Carpal Tunnel of Love.
 * This is the first time dollar signs ($) appear in a character's (Mime's) eyes. This also happens to Lumpy in We're Scrooged!

Production Notes

 * When this episode aired along with A Hole Lotta Love and A Change of Heart on YouTube, the alternate title for the trio of segments was named "Seventh Heaven". Cuddles, Mime, Petunia, Cro-Marmot, The Mole and Lumpy appear in all three episodes. Lumpy (Debatably) dies in all three episodes, Cuddles and The Mole dies twice, Petunia and Mime die once, and Cro-Marmot survives all three.