Class Act

Internet Season: 2 Episode: 36 Production Number: 210 Writers: Jeff Biancalana David Winn Rhode Montijo Kenn Navarro Director: Rhode Montijo Episode list: Internet Season 2 Previous Episode: Out of Sight, Out of Mime Next Episode: The Way You Make Me Wheel "Class Act" is the first Christmas episode of the Happy Tree Friends internet series, and to date, the only episode to feature all of the main characters.

Starring Roles

 * Toothy
 * Lumpy

Featuring Roles

 * Nutty
 * The Mole
 * Lifty and Shifty
 * Flaky
 * Giggles
 * Sniffles
 * Cuddles
 * Petunia
 * Pop
 * Cub
 * Disco Bear
 * Mime
 * Flippy
 * Handy
 * Cro-Marmot
 * Splendid
 * Russell

HTF's Episode Description
This is the first Holiday episode we made and it features the entire cast. You have to admire Lumpy's attitude that the show must go on, but sometimes there is even too much disaster for even the Happy Tree Friends gang to handle. In true holiday spirit, they pull together for a tear-jerk ending. Peace to everyone.

Plot
The episode begins on a clear night, at a small performance hall in the middle of the forest. Generic Tree Friends fill the auditorium, where onstage Nutty lies in a bed in front of a set resembling a bedroom. Offstage, Lumpy, the director, motions for Toothy to walk onstage. Holding a candle, Toothy moves to the center of the stage when a spotlight shines several feet to the left of him. Lumpy clears his throat, and the Mole, who is operating the spotlight, moves the light onto Toothy. Lumpy then motions up to Lifty and Shifty, who stand above the stage. The two begin shaking an upside down, and obviously upset, Flaky, her dandruff acting as snow in the background. With everything in place, Lumpy motions for Toothy to start singing.

Toothy begins singing "Oh Christmas Tree", while Giggles, Sniffles, and Cuddles come onstage dressed in cardboard cutouts of a present, a candy cane, and a Christmas tree, respectively. From Nutty's point of view, however, he can only see the top part of Sniffles' candy cane costume. The spotlight makes the costume look like a divine treat. Toothy stops singing upon hearing a crunching noise and a scream. Everyone looks over to see Sniffles with a big bite mark on his costume and torso. Everyone looks over to see Nutty lying in bed with blood on his face, giggling happily, unaware that he just consumed carboard and flesh rather than a candy cane. A scared Toothy looks over to Lumpy, who tells him to keep singing.

As Toothy begins singing again, Sniffles runs offstage and gets the curved part of his costume caught on a rope. This causes a sandbag to drop and knock Giggles' costume off her body. Unfortunately, this also cuts her face off, which lands at Toothy's feet. Screaming, he looks back to Lumpy for guidance. Once more Lumpy motions Toothy to keep singing.

By now, Toothy can barely sing as he sobs in fear. Giggles runs around the stage in a panic, until she slips on her own face. Giggles' face flies up and hits the Mole in his face, causing him to swing the spotlight over to Lifty and Shifty. They throw up their hands to shield their eyes, dropping Flaky in the process. She falls down through the chimney in the set and emerges out of the fireplace, missing her skin. Toothy and Cuddles scream and look over to Lumpy yet again. Lumpy, scared himself, is climbing out the window. Cuddles and Toothy scream and run offstage, but not before Toothy tosses his candle in the air.

The candle lands right by the curtains, setting them ablaze. Everyone starts panicking and running from their seats. Cuddles is the first to reach the door, but in all the confusion he forgets to remove his costume. He gets stuck in the doorway, while numerous Generic Tree Friends run against him, trying to get out. Eventually, Cuddles is forced out of the face-hole of his costume, squeezing his body into a red, cylinder-shaped glob of blood. Finally his costume breaks and animals come flooding out of the performance hall.

Disco Bear stands next to Lumpy, the entire right side of his body (and Afro) are burnt. Lumpy coughs and looks around at the damage. The Mole's cane has impaled him through his eye, Pop is burnt and bruised, and Cub screams in pain as a Christmas star is lodged in his head. Blood and organs are everywhere. Nutty appears to have been lightly burnt, and has some blood on his fur, though its not clear if its his or it belongs to someone else. Flaky kneels on all fours, freezing without any skin. In the background, Mime tries to comfort a burnt Generic Tree Friends while a flipped out Flippy stabs a blue animal (possibly Petunia). Giggles laments the loss of her face, Sniffles stares nervously at the gaping hole in his torso, and Handy stares horrified as he is now missing both of his feet in addition to his hands. Cro-Marmot stands off in the distance, and Shifty drags Lifty (who is missing the bottom half of his body) away. Everywhere dead and dying Generic Tree Friends litter the ground.

Toothy looks down in despair, but as a shooting star flies by in the background he looks up, determined. Once more he begins singing, and everyone looks up. The cries and whimpers stop and everyone smiles, moved by Toothy's singing (except for Flippy who continues stabbing his victim). Lumpy is even moved to tears by the sound of Toothy's voice. Suddenly, everyone starts joining hands, hooks, and bones around the burning performance hall, joining Toothy in his singing. As the camera pans up to the clear night sky, where a bright star shines brilliantly, a loud explosion is heard, and bodies are sent high into the air.

Moral
"It's better to give than to receive!"

Deaths

 * 1) Cuddles dies when his body is forced out of the face-hole of his costume, turning his body into a bloody cylinder.
 * 2) Many Generic Tree Friends die trying to get out of the performance hall.
 * 3) Petunia (or a Generic Tree Friend) is killed by Flippy, being stabbed many times.
 * 4) Everyone else is killed when the performance hall explodes. There are three possible exceptions to this. The first is Splendid, who is usally not hurt by common things (for example, a bus once ran into him at full speed with no effect to him). The second is Cro-Marmot, who is usually safe from injuy due to the block of ice protecting his body. Third, and least likely of the three to have survived, is Flippy who didn't react to Toothy's singing and thus probably didn't join the others around the building. It all depends on whether or not he was far enough away from the building when the explosion occured.

Goofs

 * Throughout the episode there are three steps leading up to the entrance of the performance hall. When everyone stands around it at the end of the episode, however, there are only two steps.
 * The positions of the ornaments on Cuddles' costume change several times.