According to Flaky's Collect 'em All card, she is banned from balloon shops due to her quills.[1]
In the episode From A to Zoo, Flaky was scared of a baby chicken hopping towards her, giving the implication that she has a fear of birds. But in the episode, Take a Hike, Flaky was seen returning a baby eagle to its nest with no reservations, further implying that Flaky only has alektorophobia, which is the fear of chickens.
Flaky is the only character who has lived in a regular house for the entirety of the series.
In From A to Zoo and Take a Hike, every character can be heard singing the Happy Tree Friends theme song except for Flaky (possibly due to the fact that she is too nervous to sing).
Not helped by her quills, Flaky is shown to be very clumsy when she is around rubber things, such as an inflatable raft and an inflatable slide.
Flaky is considered a tomboy, as she seems to enjoy male-oriented or jock sports (her Smoochie is baseball-themed and she plays soccer with Cuddles in A Change of Heart.
Flaky playing soccer.
She was also the only female character in Wipe Out to try out for the surfing competition).
Flaky saw Lumpy naked in the original version of Let It Slide, but in the edited version, she was replaced with Giggles.
Originally in the episode Flippin' Burgers, she was going to be behind the grill instead of Petunia, which can be seen on the Second Serving DVD commentary.
In the episode Without a Hitch, she has hallucinations about Fliqpy killing her, showing that she is aware of Fliqpy and remembers her constant deaths.
Flaky laughs nervously in almost every episode she appears in.
Before the debut of Mr. Pickels in 2010, she is the only character with the letter K on their name. Now, with the debut of Mr. Pickels in 2010, she and Mr. Pickels are the only two characters with the letter K on their name.
She is the second character to break the fourth wall, as her eyes slowly dart towards the viewer as she laughs nervously in Water You Wading For. The first character being Handy, as he makes his first growl at the viewers in House Warming.
She is the only female character to survive her debut with no ill consequences (Petunia and Lammy both survived theirs but both received injuries.)
Flaky is the character most paired up with other characters in fanart, possibly due to the fact that she is one of the only four females in the show.
Flaky seems pigeon-toed at many times, usually when she is nervous. However, it will occasionally happen when she is not nervous, scared, or shocked, most noticeably in The Wrong Side of the Tracks, when she is walking with Cuddles to the roller coaster.
Flaky has psoriasis, a disease that involves flaking of the scalp.
Flaky has been called both a male and female in Blurb episodes, most likely to confuse people about her true gender.
The term "flaky" also refers to someone who has a tendency to back out of situations and to "flake out" of something means to wimp out, perfectly fitting Flaky's personality.
Flaky is the only female character in the series who does not have eyelashes.
...but this does not make her male!
She is the only female character who wears no clothing or accessories.
Flaky was originally going to be a red male porcupine called Corky.
A concept art of Flaky depicts her with visible ears.
She and Splendont are the only red characters in the whole Happy Tree Friends franchise. But since Splendont is a member of the Ka-Pow! series, that makes Flaky the only red character in the main show.
Some fans mistake her for a hedgehog, though her quill and body shape is different than that of a hedgehog. Even David Winn called her a hedgehog in Behind The Screams.
Episode Statistics
Flaky survives in 12 out of the 51 episodes she appears in. If she survived her debatable deaths she would have survived 17 episodes.
She co-stars with Flippy more than any other character.
She, Splendid, Mime, and Cro-Marmot are the only characters who don't co-star with Lumpy the most. (Not counting Lammy and Mr. Pickels since they have only co-starred with each other as duo characters)
Flaky is one of the few characters who star in two TV episodes. The others are Handy, Nutty, and Mime.
In all three of Disco Bear's starring roles in the TV series, Flaky, Petunia, and Giggles all appeared and survived.
She is one of the three characters who die in almost all of their starring roles, but has survived in one of them. The other characters are Petunia and Lifty.
Flaky features in Chew Said a Mouthful and Wipe Out!, she should have had an appearance role in the former and a starring role in the latter.
Flaky is an appearing character in Easy Comb, Easy Go, which makes very little sense considering how Handy has the same amount of screen time as she does and Handy is a featuring character.
In the TV series, Lumpy, Sniffles, The Mole, Toothy, Cuddles, and Mime appear in all of her starring roles. Sniffles, Cuddles, and Mime die in both episodes, Lumpy, The Mole, and Toothy die in only one episode.
Wingin' It is the only regular episode where she stars in without co-starring anyone.
This is also one of the two regular episodes where a female character stars alone. The other being Giggles in Dunce Upon a Time.
Kills and Deaths
Flaky's deaths tend to involve breathing problems, getting sliced up, getting skinned, burning, and getting eaten.
Flaky has seven posthumous kills, most of them involving her quills.
Flaky is the first character to be purposely killed by the other tree friends (not counting Fliqpy). In the episode Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark, the others murder her because she was responsible for popping the inflatable raft.
Superlatives
If one counts Double Whammy as a finale (since its a two part episodes) Flaky and Russell would be the only characters to survive the first and last episodes of the TV series.
Flaky is one of the three main characters who do not normally wear any clothes/accessories of any kind. The others are Lifty and Toothy.
She is one of the four main female characters. The others are Giggles, Petunia, and Lammy.
Flaky is one of the two main characters who did not hurt anyone or get hurt in their debut episode. The other character is Cro-Marmot.
Flaky and Lammy are the only females who have yet to star in a Love Bites episode.
Flaky is one of the few characters to eat/drink the remains of themselves or another character, the others are Cuddles (thrice), Giggles (four times, one time offscreen), Toothy, Lumpy (twice, one time offscreen), Petunia, Nutty (twice, one time offscreen), Pop (Offscreen), Cub, (twice, one time offscreen),The Mole (Offscreen), Russell (Offscreen), and both sides of Flippy (thrice).
Flaky is one of five main characters whose first appearance, first death and first kill took place in different episodes. The other four are Toothy (Debatable), Petunia, Handy and Cro-Marmot.
Flaky is one of the few characters who have vomited, the others are Pop, Cub, Lumpy, and Splendid. Giggles and Cuddles have been seen getting nauseous but have never actually barfed.
She, along with Disco Bear, Splendid, and Flippy, are the only characters who survived their debut episodes in both the internet and TV series.
She is one of the few characters who do not have a season 3-4 starring pop-up. The others are Mime, Giggles, and Cro-Marmot.
Flaky, Cub, The Mole, and Handy are the only characters so far to be intentionally left alive by Fliqpy. Though Handy did get injured in By The Seat Of Your Pants, Fliqpy decided to leave him alive.
