Toothy



Toothy is one of the main characters in the Happy Tree Friends series.

Character Bio
A light purple/mauve beaver with very large, gapped teeth (from which his name is derived), which appears to be diastema and freckles. Although his character description on the official site says he has "big ol' buckteeth" larger than the other characters (more like that of SpongeBob SquarePants), he occasionally has the normal buckteeth. This was mostly due to the laziness of the animators, but when Fatkat took over for the TV series, this problem was removed. He is generally a very friendly character who likes to play around now and then, particularly with the younger characters. He admires Splendid and even dresses up as him for Halloween. He is good friends with Cuddles as seen in Spin Fun Knowin' Ya, Class Act, From A to Zoo, Remains to be Seen, Who's to Flame?, Take a Hike, Snow Place to Go, Blast from the Past, Can't Stop Coffin, Autopsy Turvy/Double Whammy Part 2, Party Animal, Concrete Solution, Wrath of Con and the Strain Kringle. He is also friends with Petunia and Sniffles. As with Cuddles, Lumpy and Giggles, he is another of the main characters since he's often seen with them on both Happy Tree Friends products and advertisements.

There are a couple of ways in which he is famous: he is the first character to be killed ever in Happy Tree Friends and he is also the character who suffered a very horrible death in the episode that won an award at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France, the infamous Eye Candy. Also, Toothy has a wide range of deaths; usually involving his eyes or his head.

He can be used in wide range of situations, unlike most of the other characters whose personality defines how they might act in a given situation. He mostly acts before he thinks (ex. running away and throwing a lit candle behind him in Class Act). He is not generally considered addle-brained, even though there have been instances where he's acted rather oddly in certain situations (such as misinterpreting some instructions and pouring two barrels full of gun powder into a cannon, rather than the necessary two spoonfuls in Mime to Five). Also, Toothy is known to cry in a few episodes when he gets hurt (e.g., Blast from the Past).

It is stated by one of the creators that Toothy is often used as a 'place holder' character due to his ordinary 'Generic Tree Friend' appearance, until they have decided upon a final character. For example, in the storyboard for Wipe Out Toothy was originally drawn in Cuddles' place surfing and getting impaled on a buoy. His lack of a definite character also means that when he is used as a 'place holder' he won't influence the shaping of the episode in ways the creators don’t necessarily mean or want. Sometimes it is Toothy himself who plays the final role in an episode.

Also, while Toothy does have a starring pop-up, he never actually got a real starring role in the TV series. The only episode he starred in was Autopsy Turvy, which wasn't a real episode.

Even though Toothy dies almost as often as Cuddles does, he has survived in Nuttin' but the Tooth, I Get a Trick Out of You, Kringle Karols, A Change of Heart, Wipe Out, Wingin' It, Read 'em and Weep, Can't Stop Coffin, (debatably) Banjo Frenzy, Cold Hearted,, the Youtube Live Episode, All Flocked Up, Something Fishy, and the HTF Break shorts, Deck the Halls and We Wish You. Many of Toothy's injuries and some of Toothy's deaths involve his eyes, as seen in Eye Candy, Keepin' it Reel, Chew Said a Mouthful, Idol Curiosity, and A Sight for Sore Eyes.

In the HTF official forums, writer Ken Pontac said he feels Toothy is the most undeveloped character and needs more of a personality. Ken has said that they may give Toothy more of a personality in future episodes. This is already happening in some of the recent episodes (such as the Love Bites short Cold Hearted, where he is shown to be mischievous by interfering with Giggles' and Cro-Marmot's love life).

Famous Deaths

 * Spin Fun Knowin' Ya
 * Treasure These Idol Moments
 * Hide and Seek
 * Mime and Mime Again
 * Eye Candy

Starring Roles

 * Spin Fun Knowin' Ya
 * Treasure These Idol Moments
 * Nuttin' But the Tooth
 * Hide and Seek
 * Mime and Mime Again
 * Happy Trails pt. 1
 * Eye Candy
 * Class Act
 * Better Off Bread
 * Keepin' it Reel
 * From A to Zoo
 * Toothy's Easter Smoochie
 * Autopsy Turvy
 * We're Scrooged!

Featuring Roles

 * Banjo Frenzy (Pilot Episode)
 * I Get a Trick Out of You
 * Remains to be Seen
 * Stealing the Spotlight
 * Youtube Live Episode
 * Ipso Fatso
 * Who's to Flame?
 * Take a Hike
 * Snow Place to Go
 * Dunce Upon a Time
 * Mime to Five
 * Blast From The Past
 * Chew Said a Mouthful
 * Idol Curiosity
 * Aw, Shucks!
 * A Sight for Sore Eyes
 * Junk in the Trunk
 * The Carpal Tunnel of Love
 * Ski Patrol
 * Read 'em and Weep
 * Can't Stop Coffin
 * Peas in a Pod

Appearance Roles

 * From Hero to Eternity
 * And the Kitchen Sink
 * Party Animal
 * Doggone It
 * Concrete Solution
 * Gems the Breaks
 * A Change of Heart
 * See What Develops
 * Wipe Out!
 * Wingin' It
 * Easy Comb, Easy Go
 * Wrath of Con
 * All Flocked Up
 * Something Fishy

HTF Break Roles

 * Deck the Halls
 * We Wish You

Love Bites Roles

 * Cold Hearted

Kringle Roles

 * Kringle Karols
 * Kringle Feast
 * Kringle Frosty
 * Strain Kringle

Occupations and Careers

 * 1) Dentist - Nuttin' But the Tooth
 * 2) Star of the Christmas Play - Class Act
 * 3) Firefighter - Who's to Flame?
 * 4) Circus Assistant - Mime to Five
 * 5) Film Developer- See What Develops
 * 6) Delivery Boy - Aw, Shucks!
 * 7) Mailman - Easy Comb, Easy Go
 * 8) Garage/Yard Salesman - Read 'em and Weep
 * 9) Toymaker - We're Scrooged!
 * 10) Paperboy- Peas in a Pod
 * 11) Carol Singer - Kringle Carols; Deck The Halls; We Wish You
 * 12) Student - Something Fishy

Seen on Computer and on TV

 * 1) Banjo Frenzy (Pilot Episode): Decapitated by Lumpy's Banjo. (Debatable)
 * 2) Spin Fun Knowin' Ya: Flung off a merry-go-round and flies into a tree, breaking his spine.
 * 3) Treasure These Idol Moments: Impaled through the mouth by a swing.
 * 4) Hide and Seek: Flippy snaps his neck.
 * 5) Mime and Mime Again: Sucked into a fan his bandages are stuck to.
 * 6) Happy Trails: Flies out of a bus and either hits a cliff or falls to the water below. (Debatable)
 * 7) Eye Candy: Brain and left eye pulled out of his right eye socket.
 * 8) Class Act: Dies in an explosion when he sets the school on fire.
 * 9) Better Off Bread: Crushed by a meteorite.
 * 10) Keepin’ it Reel: Flippy jams a projecter through his skull, poking out his eye and burning his brain.
 * 11) Remains to be Seen: (1) Run over by Flippy's truck. (2) Dies when he bites down on Flippy's brain, making it explode. (but, as a zombie)
 * 12) Stealing the Spotlight: Vaporized by the heat of Lumpy's Christmas lights.
 * 13) From A to Zoo: Impaled through the head by a rhino's horn.
 * 14) Toothy Easter Smoochie Yummy: Eats seven eggs, whereupon chicks hatch and burst out of his belly.
 * 15) Toothy Easter Smoochie Goody: Strangled to death by a snake.
 * 16) Toothy Easter Smoochie Tasty: Eats a rotten Easter egg and vomits. He passes out and drowns in the pool of his vomit.
 * 17) Kringle Feast: Dies in an explosion caused by Lumpy.
 * 18) Kringle Frosty: Impaled by Lumpy's skis.
 * 19) Ski Patrol: Lumpy inflates him with oxygen, causing him to pop when he hits a the sharp top of a flagpole.
 * 20) From Hero to Eternity: Cut in half by Splendid's laser vision.
 * 21) And the Kitchen Sink: Run over by Pop's SUV.
 * 22) Party Animal: Part of face sliced off by Flippy.
 * 23) Ipso Fatso: Decapitated by barbell.
 * 24) Doggone It: Attacked by a giant squid (debatable).
 * 25) Concrete Solution: Dies when a bridge collapses (debatable).
 * 26) Who's to Flame?: Dies in a fiery explosion.
 * 27) Take a Hike: Impaled in the stomach on a sharp rock.
 * 28) Snow Place to Go: Nerve system ripped out by Russell's fishing hook.
 * 29) Dunce Upon a Time: Head cracked like an egg by Lumpy.
 * 30) Gems the Breaks: Flung out of a school bus and into a woodchipper.
 * 31) Mime to Five: Fires a cannon that explodes and sends him flying into a pole, where he turns to dust.
 * 32) Blast From the Past: 1). Flies into and impales Lumpy, killing them both. 2). Same death from "Spin Fun Knowin' Ya".
 * 33) Chew Said a Mouthful: Nutty crashes his bed into a group of pipes, where he is crushed.
 * 34) See What Develops: Disintegrated by the backlash of Splendid's speed.
 * 35) Idol Curiosity: Drowns when the ship he's on sinks (debatable).
 * Aw, Shucks!: Caught in barbwire and drowns.
 * 1) A Sight for Sore Eyes: Head cut in half by a open filing cabinet drawer.
 * 2) Easy Comb, Easy Go: Turn into dust by intense UV rays.
 * 3) Junk in the Trunk: Run over by Lifty and Shifty's van.
 * 4) Double Whammy Part 2: Autopsy Turvy: Crushed by Cro-Marmot when Flippy's van knocks him into a closet.
 * 5) The Carpal Tunnel of Love: Lumpy crushes him with a door.
 * 6) We're Scrooged!: Torn apart by wind-up teeth.
 * 7) Peas in a Pod: Coughs out his organs due to the fumes from Lumpy's plane.
 * 8) Wrath of Con: Squashed in the comic con center.
 * 9) Strain Kringle: Body forced through a strainer.
 * 10) Unfinished arcade game (Yet to be released, Test version can be found here: http://mondomedia.s3.amazonaws.com/HTF_Arrows/swf1.swf) Hit by an ice ball, by Lumpy.

Additional

 * 1) Overkill DVD Box Set: (Not shown) Possibly dies from an explosion because Flippy is holding up a very large bomb.
 * 2) TV Series Volume 1 DVD: Impaled in the eye and out the back of a head by a fork he was holding after tripping on an object Mime was juggling.
 * 3) Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm gameplay: Deaths and injuries various, depending on the environment of the level, such as getting sliced by blades and saws, getting crushed and flattened like paper or cardboard, or getting electrocuted or burned.
 * 4) Fall Harvest Wallpaper: Dies when he falls to the ground head-first. (Death not seen)
 * 5) March 2005 Calendar: Apparently squished along with Cuddles and Giggles.
 * 6) It's All Downhill From Here January 2007 Calendar: Impaled on one of Lumpy's skis.
 * 7) Holiday Hangover January 2007 Calendar: Dies from breathing in gas, as in Kringle Feast.
 * 8) Spring Chicken Dinner April 2007 Calendar: Five chicks burst out of his stomach.
 * 9) It's Back to Cruel Time September 2007 Calendar: Impaled through the head with a projecter.
 * 10) Fall Colors November 2007 Calendar: Splats into the ground after falling from a great height.
 * 11) Un-named Wallpaper: He plays with a bomb, along with Giggles. It can be assumed he and Giggles died, when the bomb explodes. (Death not seen)
 * 12) Unnamed Merry-go-round Wallpaper: Flung off a merry-go-round and breaks his jawbone.
 * 13) Un-named Wallpaper: Killed when Flippy's dynamite explodes. (Death not seen)
 * 14) HTF Hot-Topic T-Shirt: Burnt by Flippy.

Seen on Comics

 * 1) Don't Worry, Bee Happy: Toothy flies a kite, but a bee comes and Toothy tries to swat it. He becomes entangled in the kite's string and when the wind blows the kite, Toothy gets sliced by the string. This death is kind of similar Nutty's death in A Sight for Sore Eyes.

Seen in Arcade Games

 * 1) Fire Escape: Falls to his death.
 * 2) Ice Slide: Ran over by Cro-Marmot.
 * 3) Gogo Toothy: Brain torn out of his head. This death is similar to his death in Eye Candy.
 * 4) Flying High: Hits the ground too hard.
 * 5) Aim to freeze: Hit by an iceball,by Lumpy

Injuries

 * 1) Mime and Mime again: Entire body (except for his eyes and nose) get badly injured (offscreen).
 * 2) Eye Candy: Eye multilated by a lollipop after tripping over a log.
 * 3) Snow Place to Go: Breaks one of his buckteeth when trying to open a can.
 * 4) Take a Hike: Arm bitten by a snake, making it swell up.
 * 5) Blast From the Past: Breaks his arm after flying off a slide.
 * 6) Idol Curiosity: Stabbed in the eye by a cocktail umbrella, which opens in his eye.
 * 7) Wrath of Con: (before death) Ears ruptured, and then set on fire.
 * 8) All Flocked Up: Facial skin burnt and torn off by tar after Lumpy fired a rock at his head.

Additional

 * 1) Picture on Pillow: Toothy chases a butterfly, but he steps on a bear trap, and gets his knee cut by the bear trap.
 * 2) Winter Break Intro: Cuddles accidentally drops a glass Christmas ornament on Toothy, and Toothy screams in pain (offscreen).
 * 3) Yule Tube (HTF Competition Intro): His or a Generic Tree Friend's hand is cut off then burnt to nothing.
 * 4) Homework is a PAIN! - September 2005 Calendar: Impaled in the eye by a pencil.
 * 5) May 2005 Wallpaper: Eye torn out of his socket.

Number of Kills
'''It was decided a while back that Toothy was not to be given the blame for the deaths in Class Act, so please refrain from changing this. See the democratic poll that was taken for more information.'''
 * Cuddles - 2 ("Mime to Five", "Strain Kringle" along with Lumpy)
 * Giggles - 0
 * Lumpy - 1 ("Blast From the Past")
 * Petunia - 1 ("Who's to Flame")
 * Handy - 0
 * Nutty - 0
 * Sniffles - 0
 * Pop - 0
 * Cub - 0
 * Flaky - 0
 * The Mole - 0
 * Disco Bear - 0
 * Russell - 0
 * Lifty - 0
 * Shifty - 0
 * Mime - 0
 * Cro-Marmot - 0
 * Flippy - 1 ("Remains to be Seen") (debatable, since Flippy was already dead.)
 * Splendid - 0
 * Generic Tree Friends - Numerous
 * Others - 0

Trivia

 * Toothy is the first character to die in the Internet Shorts, thus he is the first in Happy Tree Friends. Similarly, he was the first (major character) victim of Flippy in the internet shorts and the TV series.
 * In the Pop Corn edition episode of Spin Fun Knowin' Ya, it is revealed that Toothy had a tail enlargement surgery and he impersonates a dentist in seven states, like Ohio (this may be a reference to Nuttin' but the Tooth).
 * The First Blood DVD "Collect them All" section reveals he flosses his teeth excessively.
 * Toothy and Cuddles are the first duo in which both partners have killed each other. In other duos, one kills the other, but not the other way around.
 * Toothy loves watching monster movies, like Godzilla, as seen in Wingin' It.
 * The Fall Out Boy music video The Carpal Tunnel of Love has hinted that Toothy has an allergy to bee stings.
 * He has a pet turtle that had his shell painted with hot rod flames as seen in Junk in the Trunk.
 * In Spin Fun Knowin' Ya, Toothy was seen with two stray hairs on his head. They disappeared in all future episodes.
 * A few of his deaths involve being vaporized, like in Stealing the Spotlight and Easy Comb, Easy Go.
 * Toothy's buckteeth are normally longer than the buckteeth of other characters, though in some episodes he has normal buckteeth. Further, in some episodes, his buckteeth continuously change between being long and being normal.
 * Toothy and Handy are both voiced by Warren Graff. Both characters are beavers and are quite famous for episodes they are featured in (Eye Candy and Shard at Work respectively).
 * Unlike Giggles and Petunia, who are voiced by the same person and also appear a lot, Toothy and Handy have rarely appeared together. The only episodes they appeared on screen together were Happy Trails pt. 1, Doggone It, Dunce Upon a Time, and Wipe Out. All of these moments were brief and involved no interaction.
 * He was the first character to be killed by Flippy, Mime, and The Cursed Idol.
 * He is the only main character that doesn´t have a star billing in the first season of the TV series ("Autopsy Turvy" wasn´t a real episode).
 * Toothy is one of the playable characters in Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm.
 * Toothy is one of the three main characters who doesn't normally wear any clothes/accessories of any kind. The others are Lifty and Flaky. (Lumpy was seen ironing clothes the same color of his fur.)
 * Toothy is, along with Flaky, Nutty's most frequency victim. Additionally, he is the Cursed Idol's most frequent victim.