Concrete Solution

"Concrete Solution" is episode number 3.2 of the Happy Tree Friends television series.

HTF Episode Description
It’s all work and no play for the Happy Tree Friends! You’ll need your hard hat for the conclusion of this one!

Plot
Handy drives his truck to the Happy Tree Cafe and manages to make it inside after some difficulty getting out of his truck. Giggles, the rollerblading waitress, delivers orders to the customers, which includes bacon and eggs to Handy and pancakes with syrup to Nutty. While Nutty drenches his pancakes in syrup, Giggles pours some coffee for Handy. He indicates that he'd like some sugar, but because the container is empty, Giggles has to get some more from the pantry. As Nutty happily chows down on his breakfast, he is awestruck upon seeing dozens of bags of sugar in the pantry. As to be expected, Nutty runs out of the cafe clutching a bag of sugar in his hands.

Elsewhere, at a construction site on an unfinished bridge, Handy, Lumpy, and The Mole get ready for work. Lumpy and The Mole punch their time cards, but Handy has difficulty doing this. While Handy and Lumpy begin mixing cement, The Mole guides a truck, carrying numerous metal support wires, backwards. In the back of the truck, a particularly sharp wire moves ever closer to The Mole's unseeing eye.

Meanwhile, Lumpy tries to nail two boards together with a nailgun, but nothing comes out. He looks directly into the barrel of the nail gun and squeezes the trigger but still, nothing comes out. He finally realizes that it isn't plugged in. Upon plugging it in, a nail shoots out and hits Handy in the back of the head. Handy falls face down in the wet cement, and when Lumpy's efforts to pull him out fail, he pushes Handy further into the cement. He then smoothes the cement and leaves his hand prints before running off.

At this time, Nutty comes running up, carrying his bag of sugar. He slips on the wet cement and falls face down on the ground, while the bag of sugar flies into a pile of bags of cement. When he gets up, Nutty grabs a bag of cement and hurries on his way. Lumpy returns now and unknowingly pours the bag of sugar into a cement mixer.

Back at Nutty's house, he puts a piece of cereal in a bowl and pours the bag of cement over it, still thinking he possesses sugar. After quickly eating the cement, his mouth becomes dry and twisted. He sees a glass of water and begins chugging it. Later, an ambulance sits outside his house, wherein Sniffles, the doctor, examines Nutty who lies on a gurney. Sniffles begins tapping a bulge in Nutty's stomach with a reflex hammer and lets out a triumphant, "Aha!"

Back at the newly constructed bridge, a line of cars waits for Lumpy to remove a barricade blocking the bridge. At the end of the line, just behind the truck with the metal support wires which have impaled The Mole's body in numerous places, Sniffles' ambulance pulls up. Lumpy removes the barricade and opens the road. Everyone on the bridge cheers, but it begins to rain. The sugar in the bridge begins melting as the water hits it, causing cars to lose their traction and swerve or stop.

The ambulance sways up and down as it moves forwards, causing Nutty's unstrapped gurney to roll back and forth. As Sniffles turns around to attempt to strap Nutty's gurney down, he slams into a car. Sniffles' head slams into the steering wheel where he is crushed, while Nutty flies out of the ambulance through the windshield. He hits Lumpy and knocks him off the bridge, while Nutty grabs onto the railing for dear life.

The concrete in Nutty's stomach begins weighing his body down, causing his lower half to fall off. His stomach is exposed and the concrete continues to pull down him down. Lumpy lands on the road below and as he tries to get up, he is run over by Lifty and Shifty's van. Panicking, they get out and try to help Lumpy, but upon finding his wallet they take his money and drive off.

While Nutty struggles to keep himself from falling, his tongue touches the rail of the bridge. Tasting the sugar, he enthusiastically begins to lick the railing. Back on the ground, Lumpy tries once again to stand up. This time a section of concrete falls on him, crushing his back. When the concrete falls forward to crush the rest of Lumpy's body, we see that the piece of the bridge that fell was the piece that Lumpy shoved Handy into earlier.

We cut back to Nutty who is still eating the bridge, now holding onto either side of the split bridge. Nutty eats the last section of the bridge keeping the two halves together, causing them to fall away from each other and tear Nutty in half. Nutty's stomach falls into Pop's car which is driving on the road beneath, crushing Cub. At the supermarket Pop puts a bag of sugar in the shopping cart where Nutty's stomach sits, wearing Cub's cap.

Moral
"Take the bitter with the sweet!"

Deaths

 * 1) The Mole is impaled through numerous parts of his body by numerous sharp metal wires. (Death was shown afterwards)
 * 2) Handy is shot in the back of the head with a nailgun and then suffocates when he falls face first into wet cement.
 * 3) Sniffles' head is crushed when it slams into the steering wheel of his ambulance.
 * 4) Lumpy is crushed by a block of cement.
 * 5) Nutty is torn in half when he causes two halves of the bridge to break apart.
 * 6) Toothy, Cuddles, Flaky, Russell, (debatably) Cro-Marmot and several Generic Tree Friends die when their vehicles fall off the bridge. (Death not shown).
 * 7) Mime also dies when he falls off the bridge (debatably as he could easily go through the bridge as he was riding a unycicle).
 * 8) Cub is crushed by Nutty's cement-filled stomach.

Goofs

 * 1) As usual, the candy on Nutty's body changes places numerous times, sometimes during continuous shots.
 * 2) Throughout most of the episode, Nutty's left eye is his lazy eye. This changes to his right eye, however, when he is in the ambulence, sliding around on the gurney. His eyes return to normal when he flies out of the ambulence.
 * 3) It is unknown why Handy's hard hat does not prevent him from getting dizzy when he fall out of his car window.
 * 4) As usual, the directions of Lumpy's antlers change numerous times throughout the episode.
 * 5) When Handy and Nutty enter the cafe at the start of the episode, the door opens inwards. When Nutty runs off with the bag of sugar, however, the door opens outwards.
 * 6) In the cafe, Nutty doesn't have a fork when Giggles delivers his order, but he is later seen eating with one.
 * 7) When we see the Mole impaled on the pipes, his sunglasses are behind his head.
 * 8) When Lumpy notices he's shot Handy, Handy's tail is over the square of cement. When Lumpy runs over to Handy, however, Handy's tail is fully on the cement.
 * 9) The positions of the cars on and beneath the bridge change numerous times.
 * 10) The steering wheel to Sniffles' ambulance becomes bigger after he hits a car.
 * 11) When Lumpy is knocked off the bridge, he falls as though he is about to land on the grass, but falls on the road instead.
 * 12) When Lifty and Shifty try to help Lumpy, Shifty's tummy marking doesn't apppear at first.
 * 13) When Lumpy is run over by the van, his leg is out of place with a bone sticking out. Later, it's only a flesh wound and he is almost able to stand.
 * 14) Lumpy and the cement block with Handy in it disappears shortly after Lumpy dies.
 * 15) The cement was very flat at first, but changed to a thicker shape.
 * 16) The entire bridge melted as if it was made entirely out of sugar, even though Lumpy only used one bag (and even then quite a bit was inexplicably left on the ground).
 * 17) When Lumpy looks into the nailgun, we see his eyes are blue, however, in Wishy Washy, when he dies, we see his eyes are green.
 * 18) When Pop is driving to the store at the end of the episode, there are cars all around him, and even if they did fall off the bridge, they would not be THAT far away from it.
 * 19) When the drivers are cheering when the bridge opens, Flaky and her vehicle are nowhere to be seen.
 * 20) when Nutty is at the Cafe, he pours on globs of syrup but the syrup in the container stays the same the entire time he pours it.
 * 21) Lumpy antlers up.png Nutty sees the cabinet of sugar, his face is dirty with a bunch of syrup. Although, when he runs out with a bag of it, his face is clean.
 * 22) Lumpy would have most likely co-starred. Also, Lifty, Shifty, and Sniffles would have probably made featuring roles instead of appearance.
 * 23) When the scene changes to Lumpy after Nutty begins to lick the railing of the road, before Lumpy is crushed by the cement block, both of his antlers are pointing up.

Trivia

 * As seen in the close-up when Lumpy looks inside the nail gun, Lumpy has blue eyes.
 * When this episode aired along with Doggone It and Sea What I Found on YouTube, the alternate title for the conglomeration of the segments was named "The Third Degree". Lifty and Shifty, Pop and Cub, Cuddles, and Lumpy appear in all three episodes. Additionally, Lumpy and (debatably). Cub dies in all three episodes.
 * Sniffles didn't seem to notice that The Mole's body was impaled on the pipes in front of him.
 * Handy's image in the cement may be a reference to Han Solo being incased in carbonite at the end of Star Wars: The Empire Stikes Back and the beginning of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
 * This is one of the few episodes where The Mole doesn't kill or harm anybody despite being killed himself.
 * The Mole's death is similar to Shifty's death from Swelter Skelter.
 * Lumpy's injury and death is similar to Sniffles' in A Sight for Sore Eyes.
 * At the begining, when Cuddles's menu is shown, it has a picture resembling Java logo
 * After he leaves the Café, Nutty makes a similar noise he did in Milk Pong.
 * The moral is same as A Sucker for Love (part 1).
 * Splendid, Flippy, Disco Bear and Petunia were the only chracthers that didn't appear in this episode. Petunia could made a appearance role as a cooker in the cafe in this episode and Disco Bear in the cafe with Flaky instead of Cuddles abd Toothy.
 * This is one of only seven episodes Lifty and Shifty survive in. The other six are Cheesy Does It, Ipso Fatso, Easy Comb, Easy Go, Happy New Year, the Youtube Live Episode and Claw.
 * Handy, The Mole, and Lumpy die in the same order in Don't Yank My Chain and A Hole Lotta Love.
 * Cuddles, Toothy, Russell, Cro-Marmot, Flaky and Mime made the most minor appearance roles than Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, Pop and Cub.