House Warming



"House Warming" is an an episode of the Happy Tree Friends internet series. This episode introduces two new characters, Handy and Petunia, and what problems Handy's amputations can cause for him.

Starring Roles

 * Handy
 * Petunia

HTF's Episode Description
Handy, the resident carpenter beaver with no hands, builds Petunia a lovely new home. How does he do this with no hands? Some secrets may never be revealed! The project turns into a disaster when a fire breaks out and Handy has to come to Petunia's rescue.

Plot
The day starts off with Handy building a little present for Petunia. As she marvels at Handy's work, the present is shown to be a pretty treehouse. Petunia hugs Handy in thanks and goes up to play in the treehouse. Handy, feeling satisfied with the job, turns away. A giant explosion is heard, and Handy turns back to see the treehouse, and Petunia, ablaze.

Handy runs over to the tree and shouts out for Petunia to jump. She does, but to her dismay, Handy, having no hands, misses her, so she ends up crashing to the ground. With Petunia burning to a crisp, Handy has to think quick. He sees a hose attached to a fire hydrant and rushes over to grab it. Realising that he would need hands to do so, he pulls off his trademark frustrated look.

He turns back to Petunia and notices a bucket of what he assumes to be water. He kicks it over, hoping to put out the fire but the liquid makes the fire worse. A blackened Handy realises he kicked over a bucket of petrol.

With Petunia burning to death and Handy out of ideas, he decides to stomp out the fire with his beige worker boots. With the fire finally out, Petunia struggles to lift her hand to signal she is okay. As a blackened, bloody mush, it's unclear whether or not she had really survived.

Moral
"Smiles are always Free!"

Deaths

 * Handy may have killed Petunia by stomping on her with his boots to put out the fire on her. (debatable because she signals that she was OK end of the episode) If she did, indeed, survive, then this episode is one of only six that has no deaths. The other five are Nuttin' but the Tooth, Out on a Limb, A Sucker for Love, Pt. One, Deck the Halls, and We Wish You.

Goofs

 * 1) The tools on Handy's toolbelt change places numerous times.
 * 2) Handy does not wear any form of boots, but he has beige worker boots on when stomping out the fire on Petunia.

Trivia

 * 1) Handy's hard hat flies off his head when he sees Petunia is on fire. He doesn't seem to have ears on his head, even though he is shown to have ears later in Blind Date.
 * 2) This was the first regular series episode to have a character's presumed death be "debatable".
 * 3) The treehouse is later seen in From Hero to Eternity.