See You Later, Elevator

See You Later, Elevator is an episode of the Happy Tree Friends internet series, the fourteenth of season three, and sixty-eighth overall. It was the final episode to be released before a year-and-a-half-long hiatus of new episodes, and numerous HTF Break shorts indicating that the series was "dead".

Plot
Mime, Giggles, Cuddles, and Sniffles are in an elevator waiting to descend when Handy comes running to join them. Because he has no hands, however, he cannot stop the lift from closing in time and growls in anger. A few floors below, Pop presses the elevator call button as he and Cub wait. Pop then lights his pipe with a match and carelessly throws the still lit match out the window. The wind blows the match one floor below, where an exhausted Toothy is finishing papers with a typewriter. The match lands on the papers, causing Toothy and the whole room to go up in flames.

As the fire alarm rings, the elevator abruptly stops, panicking the four passengers. A fire engine bell rings and Lumpy the fireman rushes in to save those trapped in the elevator. He presses the call button and waits while the flames in the elevator shaft short out the electrical wires controlling the lift, sending it spiralling downwards causing the four passengers to slam into the ceiling. Lumpy, still waiting for the elevator, gives up and goes to the stairs. However, Lumpy has to climb many flights of stairs in order to get to those trapped in the lift.

Suddenly, the elevator stops on a floor and the doors open. Sniffles happily proceeds out, but is cut in half when the doors close on him, horrifying Mime, Giggles, and Cuddles. The elevator then spirals downwards again. Meanwhile, we see a panting and sweaty Lumpy think he's gotten to the top of the stairs, only to see he has not even climbed up three steps. The lazy Lumpy sees this himself and sighs at how far he has to go.

The elevator stops just below another floor and the doors open up again. This time Cuddles tries to climb up and out of the elevator to safety. Halfway out, the doors close again and the lift proceeds down, slicing Cuddles in half with his intestines the only thing keeping the two halves of his body together. Finally, the panting Lumpy makes it up several floors only to vomit on the floor from the strenuous activity. He soon hears Mime pounding on the door of the elevator which has stopped on that level. Lumpy raises his axe to chop the doors down, but they open up and Lumpy accidentally chops Mime's head in half. Lumpy screams in horror and pulls his axe out as the doors close again and the elevator decends downwards again.

Lumpy opens up the doors, grabs Cuddles intestines, and slides down them onto the top of the elevator, opening up the top. Inside, Giggles is crying in fear (or possibly grief at seeing Cuddles and Mime get killed) only to look up and notice Lumpy. Later, as the building burns down even more, Lumpy carries Giggles outside to a stretcher, charred, but alive. He leaves her and goes back in to rescue more people.

Suddenly, the building explodes, causing the burned and blackened bodies of Pop and Handy to land near Giggles. She gasps at the sight, only to be crushed by the falling elevator. The doors open and Lumpy rushes out carrying the lower body of Cuddles. Lumpy tries in vain to revive the lower half by blowing air into the intestines, causing Cuddles's lower body to fill up with air, eventually exploding.

Moral

 * "There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."

Deaths

 * 1) Sniffles is split in half vertically by the closing elevator doors.
 * 2) Cuddles is cut in half horizontally, connected only by his intestines. If blood loss didn't kill him, he certainly was killed in the building explosion.
 * 3) Mime's head is chopped in half by Lumpy's axe.
 * 4) Toothy is set aflame by Pop's match, and either dies from the burn or the building explosion. (death not seen)
 * 5) Pop and Handy are either burned to death in the fire or killed in the explosion, as their bodies can be seen when they land.
 * 6) Cub's dead body isn't seen, but assuming he was with Pop he also died from the explosion. (death not seen)
 * 7) Giggles is crushed by the elevator.
 * 8) Generic Tree Friends die burned in the explosion. (deaths not seen.)

Injuries

 * 1) Toothy gets set on fire after the lit match Pop throws out the window gets blown into the room Toothy's in and sets him ablaze.
 * 2) Cuddles gets cut in half when he attempts to escape from the malfunctioning elevator.
 * 3) Giggles gets charred (offscreen) when Lumpy brings her out of the burning building.
 * 4) Lumpy ends up vomiting after climbing many stairs, gets charred (offscreen) after getting Giggles out of the fire.
 * 5) Cuddles stomach inflates (like in a cartoon) but pops.

Goofs

 * Lumpy's antlers change directions sometimes.
 * It's unknown why the match caused an explosion when it should just have burnt the stack of paper.
 * Sniffles remains seems to disappear from the elevator and reappear before Giggles is "rescued".
 * There is no blood on Lumpy's axe after he accidentally chops Mime's head in half.
 * When Pop throws the match out of the window it can clearly be seen that the match flies into the window below, but when we see Toothy the match is nowhere to be found.
 * Considering how this is a modern building, It's strange that there aren't any proper fire alarms or sprinklers (this may be the result of poor planning).
 * Sniffles smiles during his death (though it may have been for comedic effect).
 * Technically, the elevator shouldn't have closed while Sniffles and Cuddles were coming out of it, as in reality, elevators stay open as long as people are coming in or out of it. This may be explained with the elevator malfunctioning through the episode.
 * The wrong font is used for Lumpy's starring role page.

Trivia

 * Following this episode, the show was put on a year-long hiatus. Several shorts which had the message "Happy Tree Friends is dead " started rumors for fans that the series was cancelled. This was later revealed to be a joke and, after the end of the hiatus, a HTF short (Tunnel Vision) confirmed the making of a new full-length episode, later revealed to be Clause For Concern.
 * "See you later, elevator" is a phrase of "see you later, alligator".
 * Also, the theme for the episode is similar to that of the film "Devil", which was released at a similar time this episode was aired.
 * Truffles makes a cameo appearance behind a tree when Handy and Pop's bodies fall from the sky and Giggles is crushed by the elevator, and Lumpy gets Cuddles' body.
 * Pop is the other character who falls with Handy, if one looks close while he can see the burnt hat Pop wears.
 * When the building explodes while The Cursed Idol appears for a split second, similar to a first appearance in Swelter Skelter.
 * For a joke in the credits, the animation was made by Binky Chuckles and Wiggles.
 * The clothes that Lumpy is wearing is similar to his clothing in the box cover for the False Alarm video game.
 * Cuddles' injury is similar to his injury in the episode I Get a Trick Out of You. Also, Lumpy used Cuddles' organs as a rope in both episodes.
 * On Happy Tree Friends Social, Kenn Navarro revealed screenshots from this episode which apparently had clown noses in it while the clown nose was later revealed to be a regular as the trailer by the episode itself had the Happy Tree Friends with normal noses.
 * Since Pop started the fire, he is indirectly responsible for every death in this episode.
 * It could be implied that the elevator in the building is likely to be an older model elevator. The way it displays floors is either on a light or a dial modern elevator which uses a dot-matrix display or LCD screen to tell which floor it is currently on.
 * Sniffles' death is similar to Handy's death in "The Wrong Side of the Tracks".
 * This is one of the few episodes in which all of the featuring and appearing characters die while the starring character survives.