Toothy

Name: Toothy Gender: Male Animal: Beaver Episode: 44 TV Count: 1 Kill Count: 3 Deaths: 41 (36 from Episodes, 3 from Smoochies, 2 from Kringles) First Appearance: "Spin Fun Knowin' Ya" First Death: "Spin Fun Knowin' Ya" First Victim: Petunia from "Who's to Flame" Voiceactor: Warren Graff

Character Bio
A light purple beaver with very large gapped teeth (that's where he got his name from) 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. 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 his head, like Giggles, Petunia, and Disco Bear.

He can be used in wider 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, for example running away and throwing a lit candle behind him - though he is by no means addle-brained. Toothy's known as a crybaby in a few episodes when he gets hurt.

When looking at the storyboard for I Get A Trick Out Of You, on the "Third Strike" DVD it is Toothy who is drawn in place of Cuddles. 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. 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. It was also shown in the storyboard for Wipe Out! where it shows that Toothy was drawn in Cuddles' place surfing and got impaled on a buoy.

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, the only episodes he lived in are Nuttin' But the Tooth, I Get a Trick Out of You, A Change of Heart, Wipe Out!, Wingin' It, Read em' and Weep, and Can't Stop Coffin. 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.

He was also the first character to be killed by Lumpy, Flippy, Mime and the Cursed Idol.

In the HTF official forums, writer Ken Pontac said he felt Toothy was the most undeveloped character and needed more of a personality and also said that they may give Toothy more of a personality in future episodes.

Starring Roles

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

Featuring Roles

 * I Get a Trick Out of You
 * Remains to be Seen
 * Stealing the Spotlight
 * 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!
 * Junk in the Trunk
 * Read Em and Weep
 * Can't Stop Coffin

Occupations and Careers

 * 1) Dentist - Nuttin' But the Tooth
 * 2) Star of the Chirstmas Play - Class Act
 * 3) Firefighter - Who's to Flame?
 * 4) Circus Assistant - Mime to Five
 * 5) Photographer - 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!

Seen on Computer and on TV

 * 1) Spin Fun Knowin' Ya: He gets thrown off the ride on the merry-go-round and hits a tree at a high velocity, wrapping his torso halfway around the tree. Presumably this breaks his back.(debatable)
 * 2) Treasure Those Idol Moments: Is hit in the back of his head by a playground swing set(idol-induced).
 * 3) Hide and Seek: Flippy snapped his neck in a game of hide and seek.
 * 4) Mime and Mime Again: Bandage moves like snake from leg when Mime flutes at it, and is sucked into fan, and leg broken in half, and is glued back on, and then he is sucked into a fan and torn apart.
 * 5) Happy Trails: Flies and does backflip out of the bus when it drives off the cliff and either falls into water or land, it is assumed he died.
 * 6) Eye Candy: Trips on a piece of wood, his lollipop is rammed into, and just under his eye, and his eye comes out when he attempts to lever out the lollipop. It becomes tied around tree where it is pecked by a woodpecker, and Toothy falls off a cliff. His brain and eyes pop out of his head.
 * 7) Class Act: Head slightly gashed. Dies in an explosion
 * 8) Better Off Bread: Gets hit by a meteorite when Splendid destroyed the comet.
 * 9) Keepin' it Reel: Flippy jams the movie reeler into Toothy's eye, also causing the film to back up.
 * 10) Remains to be Seen: Killed in the truck crash. Revived as a zombie, and dies again in an explosion when he bites Flippy's brain.
 * 11) Stealing the Spotlight: Burnt and vaporised by the extreme heat caused by Lumpy's jury rigged Christmas lights.
 * 12) From A to Zoo: Impaled by a rhino's horn.
 * 13) Toothy Easter Smoochie Yummy: Toothy swallows several easter eggs. The eggs then hatch and six chicks burst out of his stomach.
 * 14) Toothy Easter Smoochie Goody: A snake burst out of the Easter egg. Toothy is strangled by the snake and his eyes pop out. After he dies, the snake tries to swallow him many times, but his head is too big.
 * 15) Toothy Easter Smoochie Tasty: Eats a rotten Easter egg, then throws up at the screen and falls face down in his pool of vomit. It can be assumed that he is dead.
 * 16) Kringle Feast: Passes out from a gas leak. Lumpy lights a match, causing a gigantic explosion which wipes out the forest and, of course, kills all in the house.
 * 17) Kringle Frosty: Gets impaled by Lumpy's skis; tail severed and tongue torn out.
 * 18) Ski Patrol: Lumpy inflates him like a balloon. He then pops when he gets poked on the tip of the flag and his skeleton and organs then fall on the top of the flag.
 * 19) From Hero to Eternity: Cut in half by Splendid's laser eye vision.
 * 20) And the Kitchen Sink: Hit by Pop's SUV.
 * 21) Party Animal: Part of face "caked" by Flippy.
 * 22) Ipso Fatso: Head cut off by barbell.
 * 23) Doggone It: Killed by giant squid.
 * 24) Concrete Solution: Possibly dies when the bridge melts. Seen dead in tanker truck.
 * 25) Who's to Flame?: Dies in explosion.
 * 26) Take a Hike: Arm bitten by snake, falls off. Also impaled on rock.
 * 27) Snow Place to Go: His tooth broke while he was trying to open a can, and then his nerve system got ripped out by Russell's fishing hook.
 * 28) Dunce Upon a Time: Head cracked like an egg by Lumpy.
 * 29) Gems the Breaks: Bus crashes on Splendid, and he flies into the wood chipper along with Cuddles and Sniffles.
 * 30) Mime to Five: After the cannon is fired it explodes at him and he gets hit by a pole at high speed and turns into dust.
 * 31) Blast From the Past: He gets thrown off the ride on the merry-go-round and hits a tree, just like in "Spin Fun Knowin' Ya".
 * 32) Chew Said a Mouthful: Jawbreaker put in the eye socket by Lumpy, then painted a mustache on him by Lumpy. Turned into gloop by poles.
 * 33) See What Develops: Disintegrated by Splendid's high speed, leaving only feet left.
 * 34) Idol Curiosity: Eye impaled by a straw, drowns in the ship.
 * Aw, Shucks!: Stung by bees, caught in barbwire, and drowns.
 * 1) A Sight for Sore Eyes: Eyes slit by Sniffles' mecha-paper plane, head cut in half by an opened locker case.
 * 2) Easy Comb, Easy Go: Turn into dust by UV rays.
 * 3) Junk in the Trunk: Run over by Lifty and Shifty's truck.
 * 4) Autopsy Turvy / Double Whammy Part 2: Smashed by Cro-Marmot when Flippy's van crashed into the house along with Cuddles.
 * 5) The Carpal Tunnel of Love: Eye stung by a bee, eye pops out when the door closed, Lumpy crushed the eye, Lumpy crushed him by the doorway.
 * 6) We're Scrooged!: Finger bitten off by wind-up teeth, body torn apart after falling into box of wind-up teeth.

Additional

 * 1) Picture on Pillow: Toothy chases a butterfly, but he steps on a mouse trap, and gets his knee cut by the mousetrap.


 * 1) Washer you waiting for?(fan based slide video): Goes inside a washing machine and is killed inside when Cuddles activates the Machine.

Seen on Comics

 * 1) Don't Worry, Bee Happy: Toothy flies a kite, but a bee comes, and Toothy tries to swat the bee, but gets the kite's string all over him, and the wind blows the kite, and Toothy gets sliced by the string of the kite, and the bee stings his eye.

Seen on Computer and on TV

 * 1) Blast From The Past: In the beginning of this episode, Toothy goes down the slide, and he skins his knee, and weeps in pain.

Additional

 * 1) Winter Break Intro: Cuddles accidentally dropped a Christmas ball on Toothy, and Toothy screams in pain (offscreen).

Number of Kills

 * Cuddles - 1 (Mime to Five)
 * Giggles – 0
 * Lumpy - 1 (Blast From the Past)
 * Petunia – 1 (Who's to Flame?)
 * Nutty – 0
 * Sniffles – 0
 * Flaky – 0
 * Handy – 0
 * The Mole – 0
 * Disco Bear – 0
 * Russell – 0
 * Mime – 0
 * Lifty – 0
 * Shifty –0
 * Pop – 0
 * Cub – 0
 * Cro-Marmot – 0
 * Flippy – 0
 * Splendid – 0
 * Generic Tree Friends – 0
 * Others – 0

Trivia

 * Toothy is the first character to die in the Internet Shorts, thus he is the first in Happy Tree Friends.
 * In Kringle Carol, Toothy's voice may have seemed deeper than normal when doing CPR on Cuddles.
 * In the Pop Corn edition episode of "Spin Fun Knowin' Ya", Toothy had a tail enlargement surgery and he impersonates a dentist in seven states, like Ohio.
 * In the First Blood DVD "Collect them All" section, he flosses his teeth excessively.
 * Toothy loves watching monster movies, like Godzilla in "Wingin' It".
 * The Fall Out Boy music video edition of Happy Tree Friends, "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 hairs. Now they have disappeared in the other episodes.