Out of Sight, Out of Mime

Out of Sight, Out of Mime is an episode of the Happy Tree Friends internet series. This is the second Halloween episode of the series, the ninth episode of the second season, and thirty-sixth overall.

HTF Episode Description
Welcome to our second Halloween special! How do a blind mole and a silent mime communicate? It's typical haunted mayhem in this scary episode. For those of you that own "Third Strike," you'll notice an extended beginning on this episode that we are not able to broadcast on the web. Enjoy!

Plot
It's Halloween night, and the Happy Tree Friends are out looking for some candy. As we pan through the area we see a happy Nutty dragging behind him a sack of candy more than double his size; Pop and Cub (only seen in silhouettes), standing in their home; Cro-Marmot dressed as a ghost, wearing a sheet with two eyeholes over his block of ice; and a flipped out Flippy happily digging graves.

Mime now enters the scene, carrying a small sack of candy and wearing a collar of bells around his neck and a red ball on his nose. He approaches a house and rings the doorbell. Since he is a mime, he holds out his bag of candy without saying "Trick or Treat". Unfortunately this is The Mole's house, and without hearing "Trick or Treat" he assumes no one is there, so he slams the door shut in Mime's face.

Mime sadly walks away, while Giggles (dressed as a witch), Lumpy (dressed as the Grim Reaper and holding a scythe), and Flaky (dressed as a ghost) walk up to The Mole's house. Mime, seeing his chance to get candy, runs up to the door as the others shout, "Trick or Treat!" Mime holds up his bag with the others, all expecting candy.

The Mole, however, accidentally drops the candy short of their bags. As the candy lands on the ground, rats run up and quickly eat the candy. Flaky, Giggles, and Lumpy shrieks and run away. Unfortunately Lumpy is actually carrying a real scythe, and while turning to run he unknowingly cuts Mime's head off in the process.

Mime's head lands on a group of pumpkins lying outside of The Mole's door. The Mole reaches down into the group of pumpkins and unwittingly picks up Mime's head.

Inside The Mole's house, amidst a group of poorly carved pumpkins, Mime's head is plopped down. The Mole cuts a circle in the top of Mime's head and removes his brain from the hole. The Mole then drops Mime's hollowed out head outside of his house. Mime's head has a candle in its mouth and one of the eyes is hanging out.

A rat then approaches and takes the eye. After the screen irises out, a cheap paper ghost, identical to the one seen at the end of Boo Do You Think You Are?, drops down and wails, before cutting to the credits.

Moral
"Keep your chin up!"

Deaths

 * 1) (In the beginning on the DVD version), Flippy likely killed a Generic Tree Friend and buried it in a grave.
 * 2) Mime is accidentally decapitated by Lumpy's scythe.

Goofs

 * 1) When the screen is panning at the start, some of the background objects, such as pumpkins, can be seen through the trees, which are in the foreground (DVD only).
 * 2) Lumpy's antlers change direction once.
 * 3) When the rats eat the candy, the door of The Mole's house is gone.

Trivia

 * The episode originally (as it appeared on the internet) began with Mime walking on-screen and approaching The Mole's house. On the DVD Happy Tree Friends: Third Strike, however, the creators began the episode by silently panning over the area to show various other characters doing their own Halloween related activities. Once the pan is finished, the episode continues as normal, with Mime walking on screen and the episode's music starting up. Since August 2008, the DVD version has been available on the official website and iTunes.
 * This is the only episode where Mime's name in the title of an episode doesn't represent time. Here it substitutes the word "mind".
 * This is the only Halloween episode Giggles and Flaky survive in.
 * When Mime's head is cut off by Lumpy's scythe, he manages to gurgle something out of his mouth. This is the second time Mime has been able to produce a sound verbally. This happened previously in Happy Trails pt. 1 and would later happen in Something Fishy and Keepin' it Reel.
 * One of the goofs from Keepin' it Reel was that when Mime got torn apart, his head turned into the Rudolph costume from this episode. This was mostly the animator's attempt to recycle animation.
 * Mime was dressed as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Flaky was a Ghost, Giggles was a Witch, and Lumpy was (fittingly) Death.
 * Which he plays perfectly, as he cuts off Mime's head.
 * What appear to be ghosts of Generic Tree Friends appear numerous times in the background. For example, one appears on the left side of The Mole's house when Mime walks up to it and it is there until he rings the doorbell.
 * When Mime's head is being cut by The Mole, there is a picture of Lumpy in the background.
 * This is the first episode where a character uses crooked teeth when they die, however, they haven't used crooked teeth when they scream until later episodes.
 * Despite his high survival rate, this is the only Halloween episode that Flippy/Fliqpy survives.
 * According to the Follow the Yellow Rabbit feature on the Third Strike DVD, one of the animators drew pumpkins with his eyes closed to simulate blind carving.
 * The YouTube thumbnail for the HD version spoils Mime's death.
 * The pictures hanging in The Mole's house are all upside down.