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General Trivia

Kringle Feast Cuddles Toothy — Notice the green legs.

Shiftyislifty — Kenn Navarro's confirmation that Lifty and Shifty are twins.

At the table in Kringle Feast, one of the green legs belongs to Lifty and the other to Shifty.
Although they are identical twins, Lifty's voice is slightly higher pitched than Shifty's voice. This has led some to believe that he is the younger of the two. However it was confirmed by Kenn Navarro that they were both born at the same time.
The only main characters Lifty & Shifty have not stolen from are Flaky, Splendid, Lammy and Mr. Pickles.
Lifty & Shifty have a van similar to that of the A-Team (evidenced by the red stripe and spoiler), as seen in Doggone It, Concrete Solution, As You Wish, Easy Comb, Easy Go, Junk in the Trunk and the False Alarm episode.
Lifty and Shifty are the 11th and 12th characters to come back to life after dying, as they died in Wheelin' and Dealin' and appeared later in Meat Me for Lunch.
Despite being kleptomaniacs, Lifty and Shifty had reasons to steal in Wheelin' and Dealin' (they needed wheels to start the race and a wheel to avoid crashing into an ambulance), Meat Me for Lunch (the food in their fridge ran out leaving them with nothing to eat), Swelter Skelter (the heat was too intense and they needed to cool down), and Buns of Steal (they were starving).
Lifty & Shifty have a hot-air balloon that they use for escapes after they rob someone, as seen in Milkin' It and (to an extent) As You Wish.
The only times Lifty and Shifty do not do anything antagonistic are Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark, Remains to be Seen, Stealing the Spotlight, From Hero to Eternity, Easy Comb, Easy Go, Wrath of Con, The Wrong Side of the Tracks, Kringle Feast, Happy New Year, the False Alarm episode, YouTube Live Episode, and Claw. Doggone It could count depending on what Lifty and Shifty were doing. In Aw, Shucks!, they were likely planning on stealing a cow before Lumpy's corn killed them first.
Ipso Fatso and Concrete Solution are the only episodes where Lifty and Shifty steal without getting their comeuppance.
Lifty, along with Cuddles, Handy, and Lumpy, makes a cameo appearance as a totem pole in Gundarr, another Mondo Media show.
Lifty and Shifty are the only characters to have the same amount of starring and appearing roles for now.
Lifty seems to be the mechanic of the raccoon duo, as he is seen working on their van or vehicle in a few episodes. Shifty, on the other hand, drives their van in a majority of the episodes.

He comes up with all of these amazing ideas and still has to do more work than Shifty does.
Starting in the TV series, Lifty and Shifty are voiced by Kenn Navarro, the same voice actor for Cuddles and good Flippy, although Lifty and Shifty sound nothing like either of those characters.
Unlike Pop and Cub, he and Shifty have never been seen without each other (the only exception being spaced out deaths, such as in Easy For You to Sleigh).
Lifty and Shifty have at times said "Uh-oh!" when something goes wrong.
While he and Shifty rarely appear in the internet series, they appear in a majority of the TV episodes.
In the episode Class Act, Shifty can be seen dragging Lifty, so it is evident that even though Shifty has killed Lifty before (like in Milkin' It) and left him to die (like in Sea What I Found), he still tried to save his brother. However, at the time there was no danger to Shifty, so it is fair to assume he cares for his brother, but will leave him behind at any sign of danger or if money is involved with the other option.
Despite being better known for trying to steal money and other valuable items, Lifty and Shifty have tried to steal food eight times in: Meat Me for Lunch, Milkin' It, Swelter Skelter, Easy For You to Sleigh (in which they stole both), Buns of Steal, And the Kitchen Sink, Ipso Fatso, and Cheesy Does It. By comparison, they only tried to steal money or valuables six times in: Sea What I Found, Easy For You to Sleigh, As You Wish, Gems the Breaks, Concrete Solution, and Who's to Flame?.
- This could further support the notion that they are sometimes driven to steal by necessity instead of greed.
His and Shifty's laugh is unique to them. Most other HTFs either giggle or laugh in ways unlike how theirs sounds.
He is the only adult character that wears no clothes.
Lifty has shown several signs of hating being pushed around by Shifty. In Milkin' It, it's Lifty's idea to remove milk from the cow, but Shifty is the one who tells him to pull the udders, which Lifty is clearly upset about. In the same episode he is later seen angrily mocking Shifty as he pulls on the udders.
According to Lifty's Collect them All card, he can successfully bowl a 300 in a game of bowling.
In Autopsy Turvy (Double Whammy Part II), he and Shifty sounded like real raccoons during their deaths.

Design

The two were possibly made green in order to match the color of dollar bills.
In early episodes, his and Shifty's pupils are normal like those of any other Tree Friend (like Pac-Man pupils). However, occasionally in early episodes, and always in later episodes, their pupils dilate or shrink, making them appear more mischievous.
Lifty and Shifty are the only characters with triangle-shaped ears.
In Swelter Skelter, the raccoons' cheek fur appears to be pointing downward, probably to indicate how hot it is.
In earlier episodes, whenever Lifty or Shifty were killed, their tails would turn spiky and rough to display shock.

Episode Statistics

Lifty survives in only 6 out of the 34 episodes he appears in.
Lifty, Shifty, Lumpy, and Flippy are the only characters to have starred in two consecutive episodes of the TV series (Sea What I Found and Easy For You To Sleigh).
In the TV series, the only half-hours in which Lifty and Shifty do not appear are "Seventh Heaven," "Behind the Eighth Ball," and "Ten Speed."
Despite Lifty's low survival rate, he only dies in one out of the three episodes in which he appears in the HTF Break.
Lifty is one of the five characters without a season 3-4 featuring pop-up. The others are Disco Bear, Shifty, Flippy, and Splendid.
They both appear in all three segments of "One Foot in the Grave" and "The Third Degree."
Lifty is one of the only characters to appear in both of the TV episodes where Lumpy doesn't appear, the other being Pop, Cub, and Shifty.
The "Starring", and "Appearing" counts for Lifty and Shifty are both 11 apiece.
Lifty and Shifty had four starring roles in the TV series, the third most (behind Lumpy and Sniffles).
Lifty and Shifty have co-starred with Lumpy (four times), Giggles, Flaky, Flippy, Sniffles, Handy, Russell and Splendid.
- Like most characters, Lifty and Shifty co-star with Lumpy the most.
Lifty and Shifty appeared in thirteen out of the first eighteen TV episodes, but only in four of the last nineteen.
Lifty is one of the few characters who starred in more than three TV episodes. The others are Lumpy (16), Sniffles (6), and Shifty (4).
In the TV series, Pop & Cub appeared in all four of the twins' starring roles. Pop died in only two of their episodes while Cub died in all of them.
Lifty and Shifty are featuring characters in Doggone It and Junk in the Trunk, even though they should have had an appearance role in the former and a starring role in the latter.
Lifty and Shifty only appeared twice in Internet Season 3.
He along with Giggles, The Mole, Disco Bear, Russell, Shifty, Sniffles, Cro-Marmot, Lammy, and Mr. Pickels don't appear in any of the Still Alive episodes.

Kills and Deaths

In every episode where Lifty and Shifty die, at least one other character also dies in that episode (Handy in Wheelin' and Dealin', Lumpy in Milkin' It, and Nutty in Swelter Skelter), with the exception of Meat Me for Lunch, in which only the two of them die and no one else.
He and Shifty are the only characters who have not yet survived a single internet episode. (Debatable as they could have survived in Stealing the Spotlight.)
If one does not count irregular episodes, Lifty would be one of the three characters to die in all of their starring roles. The others would be Cuddles and Shifty.
So far, the only starring role he has survived is the irregular episode Cheesy Does It.
- He 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 Flaky. He is also the only male character to do so.
The only episodes where Lifty's deaths aren't caused by other characters are Wheelin' and Dealin' and Don't Yank My Chain.
Lifty has a wide range of deaths, involving machines/vehicles, being mashed together or sliced apart, impalement, or some form of heat.
Similar to The Mole (Debatable), Shifty, Cro-Marmot, Splendid, Lammy and Mr. Pickels, every episode Lifty dies in has a survival rate of 50% or less, meaning he never died in an episode with more survivors than dead.
- Out of the characters who rarely survive, He and Shifty are surprisingly the only characters who have never died in an episode with more surviving characters than dead characters.
- Pop, Disco Bear and Flippy could also be considered one of these, if it weren't for the episodes Stealing the Spotlight (Pop), Put Your Back Into It (Disco Bear) and By The Seat Of Your Pants (Flippy).
There has only been one episode (Cheesy Does It) in which one of the raccoon twins dies while the other survives. They usually either die or survive together (although sometimes they suffer different deaths). Lifty is the twin that survives, keeping him from sharing his brother's placement for worst survival rate.
Lifty, Shifty, and Cuddles die in the first and last episodes of the TV series.
Without Lifty's Class Act kills, his kill count would drop from 58 to 22.
Not counting the times he has killed his brother, The only characters Lifty has killed without Shifty are Giggles, Toothy, and Cub.
The only characters who haven't killed Lifty are Cuddles, Cub, Disco Bear, Russell, Mime, Lammy, and Mr. Pickels.
The only five instances of Lifty dying before Shifty are Milkin' It, Who's to Flame?, Wrath of Con, Swelter Skelter, and Buns of Steal.
Lifty, Shifty, Cuddles, Toothy, and Flaky are the only characters to be killed by both sides of Flippy.
Out of the characters who rarely survive, Lifty is the only character to never be the first to die in an episode. He does, however die last in Meat Me for Lunch, Sea What I Found, Easy For You to Sleigh, and Junk in the Trunk.
- Him, along with Cro-Marmot, Splendid, Lammy, and Mr. Pickels are also the only characters to never be the first to die in an episode.
The only characters Lifty has posthumously killed are Cuddles, Shifty, (both in Buns of Steal) and Petunia (As You Wish).
Lifty only survives 6 out of the 34 episodes he appears in. If he survived his debatable death he would have survived in 7 episodes.
Lifty is one of the three characters to have a survival rate lower than 20%, the others being Shifty and Handy.
Lifty is the sixth character to die in the TV series, the tenth or eleventh in the Internet series, and the twelfth-twentieth in the shorts.
Lifty is one of the few characters to die in every episode in which he kills another character. The other characters are Toothy, Petunia, Handy, and Shifty.
- This could have changed if he and Shifty and all the characters hadn't been killed in the episode Claw, after they killed Cuddles by accident, however the episode ends without showing anyone actually being killed.
- Cuddles, Giggles, Nutty and the good side of Flippy could also be in this category if it weren't for the episodes Star Kringle (Cuddles), Dunce Upon a Time (Giggles), False Alarm (Nutty) and Operation: Tiger Bomb (Flippy).
Lifty is the most frequent victim of his twin brother.
Cuddles is his most frequent victim, killing him 5 times. His brother Shifty is his second most frequent victim, killing him 4 times.
The first character to kill Lifty and Shifty at the same time is Flaky (indirectly), with the sharks in Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark.
Lifty is the only character to have his first appearance, first death, and first victim in one episode.
Despite his villainous reputation, Lifty is one of the nine characters who have never intentionally killed a character. The others are: Toothy, Cub, Disco Bear, Nutty, Cuddles, Russell, Mime, and (Debatably) Lammy.
Out of the characters who rarely survive, Lifty is one of the few characters who have never been the only death of an episode (in an episode featuring 3 or more characters). The others are Russell and Shifty.
- Out of these three, Lifty is the only one who has never truly been the only death in any episode.

Superlatives

The only other character to sport his and Shifty's grin has been Disco Bear, as seen in Easy Comb, Easy Go.
He is one of the few characters who have made Flippy flip out. The others are Cuddles, Lumpy (thrice), Nutty (twice), The Mole (twice), Shifty, Flaky, and Mime.
Lifty and Shifty are two of the six green characters. The other four are Nutty, Cro-Marmot, Flippy, and Mr. Pickels.
Lifty is one of seven characters not to have the same kind of eyes as the other characters. The other six characters are Lumpy, Nutty, Cub, The Mole, Shifty, and Mr. Pickels.
Lifty is one of the three main characters who do not normally wear any clothes/accessories of any kind. The others are Toothy and Flaky.
- Although, there are a few instances where Lifty is seen wearing a hat of some kind. He wears a crown in Sea What I Found and Gems the Breaks, a Santa hat in Easy For You to Sleigh, and a beanie in Swelter Skelter. This could be one of the few ways to tell the twins apart, as Shifty always wears his own trademark hat.
Lifty is one of the few characters who are disliked by both sides of Flippy. The others are Mime and Shifty.
Lifty is one of the few characters who have worn Santa Claus attire. The others are Pop, Lumpy, Splendid, Giggles, Mime.
Because of a goof in the opening credits of As You Wish, Lifty and Shifty are two of three characters to have only have their names and not "starring" nor "and" in the first season of the TV series, the other being The Mole.
Lifty is one of the few characters whose name is not a real word. The others are Cro-Marmot, Flippy, Lammy, and Mr. Pickels.

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