- "This jittery squirrel has the biggest sugar-tooth! He's so sweet that you'll get cavities."
- ―"Collect them All" card info[src]
- "Nuttin' wrong with going nuts for nectarously nice candy!"
- ―The description alliteration in the intros in late season 3-season 5.
Nutty is one of the main characters of Happy Tree Friends and a playable character in the False Alarm video game and Deadeye Derby.
Character Bio
Nutty is a lime male squirrel with a yellow diamond-shaped marking on his head and a large curled-up tail that moves when he is excited. Nutty has a sweet tooth: he has an addiction to sugar and anything that contains it, particularly candy. He has a big swirly lollipop, candy cane, small all-day sucker, and a candy apple stuck to his fur, which he treats as his clothes, as evidenced in Chew Said a Mouthful, where he is shown dressing in them and even taking great care in straightening his candy cane like a tie, although this changes at times, where he eats them outright as seen in Nuttin' Wrong with Candy. In his debut episode Nuttin' Wrong with Candy, he eats the swirly lollipop on his head and the candy attached to his fur falls off, meaning that Nutty was seen without candy stuck to him for the first time.
It is apparent that his googly eye is an amblyopia (or lazy eye), as it is almost always looking down and drops down whenever he looks somewhere else: it also bounces around when he jitters. In some episodes, however, he is shown to be able to control it, usually whenever he looks at an object intently. Due to animation errors, Nutty's lazy eye and candy switch positions multiple times, similar to Lumpy and his antlers. An example for the former is Icy You, where his lazy eye is his left eye, but when he notices the slushy machine, it switches to his right eye for the rest of the episode.
This is how Nutty typically walks.
As a result of his extreme sugar intake, Nutty is often hyperactive and jittery, and giggles more than he talks, to the point that he sometimes giggles even while dying. He was first heard actually speaking when he wishes for a scrumptious lollipop in As You Wish. One drop of sugar makes him hyper to the point that he could create a tornado in a similar fashion to the "Tasmanian Devil" from Looney Tunes, as is seen in Party Animal. He becomes momentarily sad after finishing his candy, and, as seen in Nuttin' Wrong with Candy, he sometimes foams at the mouth when deprived of sugar. As seen in the False Alarm episode, he can go insane if left without candy for too long. That same episode also shows that once he loses one addiction, he is susceptible to gain a new one almost immediately, showing he generally has an addictive personality. Lastly, the episode also shows that Nutty values sugar above even his own life, as he stuffs himself with candy to the point that it almost kills him.
He is one of few characters to have an account on the website MySpace, where it mentions that he has fourteen dental cavities. This is probably not helped by the fact that he brushes his teeth with a lollipop and sugar, and uses soda as mouthwash. He drinks coffee ground from jellybeans and still has to add more than a bowlful of sugar to the beverage to make it sweet enough for his taste.
In the Second Serving DVD, he has his own breakfast cereal called "Sugar Frosted Nutty Honey", but there are hardly any cereal pieces in it - the picture only shows a large pile of sugar in the bowl. Nutty is usually featured in episodes revolving around candy, with the exception of Eye Candy, where Toothy is used instead. It is rumored that when Eye Candy was made, Nutty had already been prominently featured in another episode, which was why that choice was made.
Nutty will do whatever it takes to get the sugar he wants, even if it will hurt or even kill him and others around him. If he does not get what he wants, he becomes very irate. He is known to eat other things he mistakes for candy, (like in Class Act where he eats part of Sniffles's body and some cardboard, thinking it was a candy cane, or in Concrete Solution where he eats a whole bag of cement mix, mistaking it for a bag of sugar,) but this is very rare. He will also eat regular food, like pancakes, but he usually drenches them in sugar (in this case, syrup) first, as is seen in Concrete Solution. However, since the release of the Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm (episode), he has gotten a lot more control over his candy addiction. This can be seen in episodes like Swelter Skelter and Camp Pokeneyeout. His personality is also a lot calmer than usual, as seen in episodes like Wrath of Con, The Carpal Tunnel of Love, Random Acts of Silence, and All Work and No Play. However this is reverted in the episode Going Out With a Bang, where he is back to jittering, stealing, confusing objects for candy, and getting other characters killed.
He is shown to care more about candy than his friends. He pushes aside an allergy-stricken Flaky to eat chocolate in Party Animal, he tries to steal a lollipop from Cub in A Sucker for Love Part 1, he steals a gurney with an unconscious Toothy on it so he could get a jawbreaker in Chew Said a Mouthful, he steals a bag of sugar from the Happy Tree Café in Concrete Solution, he stalks Cuddles for his ice cream in Sweet Ride, and he steals Cuddles and Toothy's box of fireworks in Going Out With a Bang.
No candy is safe under Nutty's watch.
Nutty's addiction often gets other characters injured and killed, giving him a large kill count. One of the biggest examples of this is in Class Act where his obsession with candy leads him to injure Sniffles and causes the chain reaction that ultimately kills every character. He seems to lack common sense (as is evidenced in many episodes), especially when sugar or what he believes to be sugar is involved, something that commonly leads to his death. However, despite his foolishness, he is shown to be intelligent, as shown in From Hero to Eternity where he seems to be winning in a game of checkers against Sniffles. His deaths usually involve his mouth, getting impaled, split apart, shredded, or breathing problems. Some of those deaths might arguably be deserved due to his cruel actions towards others in his quests for candy.
The only TV episodes Nutty survives in are Doggone It (Not seen, but heard, and also debatable), A Change of Heart, and In a Jam. In the internet shorts he survives Nuttin' but the Tooth, I Get a Trick Out of You, Out of Sight, Out of Mime, A Sucker for Love Part 1, Something Fishy, and Camp Pokeneyeout. He also survives Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm (episode), Milk Pong, and the HTF Break short Bite Sized.
Nutty's Episodes
Starring RolesSeason 1Season 2
TV SeriesSeason 3Season 5Shorts |
Featuring RolesSeason 2TV Series
Season 3Season 4Shorts |
Appearance RolesSeason 2TV Series
Season 3
HTF Break RolesShorts |
Role Count By Season
| Season | Number of Starring Roles | Number Of Featuring Roles | Number Of Appearing Roles | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| TV Series | 2 | 10 | 8 | 20 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| HTF Break Roles | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Other episodes | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Total | 15 | 19 | 14 | 48 |
Occupations and Careers
Grocery shopping can be simply easy until something unpleasant happens.
- For more information, see List of Occupations
- Christmas play actor - Class Act
- Grocer - See What Develops
- Park Lawn Mower - A Sight for Sore Eyes
- Auditioning musician - In a Jam
- Student - Something Fishy
Fates
Deaths
Seen on Computer and TV
- Nuttin' Wrong with Candy: Is crushed by a vending machine, then impaled by its coils.
- Sweet Ride: Gets his head stuck in a beehive and is stung by hundreds of bees.
Well that's gotta sting. On the outside and on the inside, to be frank.
- Class Act: Dies in an explosion.
- Icy You: Gets his head crushed by an automatic door.
- Remains to be Seen:
- Is killed in a truck crash.
- Is killed when Fliqpy's brain explodes.
- Stealing the Spotlight: Gets his digestive system torn out after mistaking Lumpy's Christmas lights for candy and eating them. (Death not seen)
- Nutty's Party Smoochie:
- Dies in an explosion causing by a spinning yo-yo.
- Chokes to death by balloons.
- Dies from inhaling too much carbon monoxide from his candy car.
- YouTube Live Episode: Either killed by Fliqpy or the claw. (Death not seen, Confirmed by Kenn Navarro)
- The Wrong Side of the Tracks: Is impaled on a ring toss pole.
- From Hero to Eternity: Gets his body messily splattered over a tree house.
- Party Animal: Is cored like an apple by Flippy while spinning in a Taz-like tornado.
- Ipso Fatso: Is sliced into pieces by glass shards.
- Concrete Solution: Is ripped vertically in half by a falling bridge.
Of course, he could've chosen not to eat the bridge, but this is Nutty we're talking about.
- Who's to Flame?: Dies in an explosion caused by an underground gas leak.
- Mime to Five: Is mauled by killer ducks. (Death not seen)
- As You Wish!: Chokes on a giant lollipop.
- Take a Hike: Is sliced to pieces by a grizzly bear. His tail and legs are then crushed by a rock.
- Dunce Upon a Time: Is cut with an axe by Giggles.
- Chew Said a Mouthful: Is crushed by a car under a car magnet.
- See What Develops: Drowns in a store. (Death not seen)
- Aw, Shucks!: Gets his head and arms knocked off by a huge piece of popcorn.
- A Sight for Sore Eyes: Is sliced into pieces by a kite string.
Kite strings are much sharper than you think they are.
- Wipe Out!: Drowns in a small pool of water.
- Easy Comb, Easy Go: Gets his head impaled on a sprinkler.
- Double Whammy: Gets water shot into his mouth by Fliqpy until his head explodes.
- The Carpal Tunnel of Love: Is impaled on pipes.
- A Sucker For Love Part 2: Is impaled on a spiked speed bump.
- Wrath of Con: Suffocates after Splendid sucks all the air out of a room.
- Swelter Skelter: Cracks his head open when he falls down, exposing his brain, which is then fried like an egg on the hot ground.
Fried brain anyone? I didn't think so.
- Happy New Year: Crushed by a chandelier.
- Claw: Either killed by Fliqpy or the claw. (Death not seen, Confirmed by Kenn Navarro)
- Random Acts of Silence: Is shredded by a pencil sharpener by Fliqpy.
- By the Seat of Your Pants: Drowns (or is killed in some other way, as his arm is seen in the pool, Death not seen)
- All Work and No Play: Has his body ripped apart by vibrations from a jackhammer while stuck to a cement block with metal bars sticking out of it. His remains are then crushed when the side of the wall he's stuck to falls over.
- Going Out With a Bang: Dies when the flying outhouse he's sitting in explodes in the sky.
- Happy Train Friends: Impaled by a traffic light.
Debatable Deaths
- Breaking Wind: Is killed either by Splendid's gas or by Petunia setting the world on fire.
- Doggone It: Is killed by a giant squid.
Additional
- Overkill DVD box set: Is possibly killed by Flippy's bomb. (Death not seen)
- Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm game play: Suffers deaths and injuries depending on the environment of the level, such as getting sliced by blades and saws, getting crushed and flattened like paper or cardboard, getting electrocuted, or getting burned.
- Deadeye Derby: Falls off the vehicle he is riding on.
- Mayhem 2008 Wallpaper: Is strangled to death by a balloon string.
- November 2005 Calendar: Is raked in half, with his organs strewn everywhere.
- December 2005 Calendar/Winter Break: Is strangled to death by some Christmas lights.
- The Wading is Over June 2009 Calendar: Dies the same death as in Wipe Out!.
- September 2008 Wallpaper: Gets his head cut in half.
- Sing-A-Long: Is run over by The Mole's car.
- Fall Harvest Wallpaper: Falls and splatters on the ground. (Death not seen)
- Leap Year February 2008 Calendar: Jumps off a cliff after some candy and probably falls to his death.
- Ignorance is Bliss September 2008 Calendar: Gets the top of his head sliced off.
- Unnamed Wallpaper: Is killed when Flippy's dynamite explodes. (Death not seen)
- Unnamed Wallpaper: Is mistaken for a piñata and decapitated by Lumpy.
- Unnamed Wallpaper: Is killed by Mr. Pickels.
- Deleted scene in Nuttin' but the Tooth: Was supposed to have the top part of his head get ripped off by a car jack.
- Deleted scene in Treasure Those Idol Moments: Was supposed to get hit by a meteorite.
- Dumb Ways To Die: Is fattened up from eating too much junk food.
Seen in Arcade Games
- Sugar High: Falls from a great height and splatters on the ground.
- Hot Potato: Is blown up by Flippy's grenade.
- Fire Escape: Falls out of a burning building to his death.
- Sweet Ride Skate: Follows Cuddles on his scooter, crashing into a few signs on the way.
- Candy Cave: Is impaled on a stalagmite.
Injuries
Seen on Computer and TV
- Nuttin' Wrong with Candy:
- Gets his right arm torn off while trying to get a chocolate bar out of a vending machine.
- Gets small shards of glass stuck in his face after getting crushed by a vending machine.
- Nuttin' but the Tooth:
Don't open your mouth that wide, Nutty!
- Gets a hole drilled through his head.
- Gets his jaw torn off with floss and a doorknob.
- Class Act: Is slightly burnt and gets cuts on his body trying to escape a burning school.
- Icy You:
- Gets his lips torn off.
- Bloats after drinking too much slushie.
- Has his stomach explode, causing blood and organs to fly everywhere.
- Concrete Solution:
Eye smell s'mores!
- Has his mouth swell closed due to eating cement powder and drinking water.
- Has his belly swell up for the same reason.
- Gets his lower body torn off by the weight of the cement in his belly.
- As You Wish:
- The magic lamp hits his head.
- A giant lollipop falls on his back.
- Dunce Upon a Time: A beanstalk grows from his stomach, which also pushes his eyeballs through his sockets.
- Chew Said a Mouthful:
- Breaks his jaw trying to eat a jawbreaker.
- Bites off his tongue trying to lick a jawbreaker.
- Cuts the wires on his jaw, making his jaw break again.
- Gets his jaw torn out of his head by an electromagnet.
- See What Develops: Slams his face on the malfunctioning sliding doors.
- A Sight for Sore Eyes: Has his retinas sliced off by Sniffles' plane.
- Wipe Out: He eats an urchin, which impales his throat, suffocating him.
- Double Whammy: Has his head forced through solid wall.
- Nutty's Party Smoochie: Gets a tooth knocked out by a yo-yo.
- A Sucker for Love Part 1: Chews gum mixed with glass shards and blows a bubble which pops on his face, stabbing it with the shards.
- A Sucker for Love Part 2
- Gets his tail cut off by a candy cane-shaped sign.
- (Before death) Is hit by an ambulance and is dragged against the pavement.
- Wrath of Con: Is set on fire.
- Happy Tree Friends False Alarm Episode: Is impaled by several candy canes.
- Bite Sized: Breaks his jaw eating a jawbreaker.
- Random Acts of Silence: Is knocked out unconscious when Fliqpy throws a book at his face.
- All Work and No Play: Is impaled by three bars stuck to an concrete wall, with the holes being made bigger by the vibrations from Lumpy's jackhammer.
- Camp Pokeneyeout:
- One his eyes are burned and melted by his marshmallow.
- Loses his other eye (Offscreen).
- Going Out with a Bang: Becomes constipated after eating fireworks.
Additional
- Winter Break DVD Cover: Breaks his teeth when he takes a bite out of a candy cane.
- Candy Kills: Eats too much candy, making him badly bloated.
- Deadeye Derby:
- Gets hit in his eyes, head, or body by rocks.
- Gets his hand bitten by a piranha.
- Gets hit with dynamite.
Number of Kills
| Character | Number of Times Killed | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Cuddles | 3 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) Concrete Solution (Along with Sniffles and Lumpy) Take a Hike (Along with Lumpy) |
| Giggles | 1 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) |
| Toothy | 4 | Class Act (Along with Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) Concrete Solution (Along with Lumpy) Take a Hike (Along with Lumpy) Chew Said a Mouthful |
| Lumpy | 5 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) Concrete Solution Take a Hike (Along with The Grizzly Bear) Wipe Out! (Along with Cro-Marmot and The Mole) A Sucker for Love Part 2 (In his imagination) Milk Pong (ending 1) |
| Petunia | 3 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) Take a Hike (Along with Lumpy) (Debatable) Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm (episode) |
| Handy | 1 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) |
| Sniffles | 3 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) Concrete Solution Take a Hike (Along with Lumpy) |
| Pop | 2 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) Going Out With a Bang (Along with Cub) |
| Cub | 3 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) Concrete Solution Going Out With a Bang |
| Flaky | 5 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, and Shifty) Party Animal (Along with The Mole) Concrete Solution (Along with Lumpy) Chew Said a Mouthful Going Out With a Bang |
| The Mole | 3 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) Party Animal (Along with Flaky) Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm (episode) |
| Disco Bear | 2 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) Chew Said a Mouthful |
| Russell | 2 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) Concrete Solution (Along with Lumpy) |
| Lifty | 2 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Shifty, and Flaky) Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm (episode) |
| Shifty | 2 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, and Flaky) Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm (episode) |
| Mime | 2 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) Chew Said a Mouthful (Along with The Mole) |
| Cro-Marmot | 2 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) Concrete Solution (Along with Lumpy) (Debatable) |
| Fliqpy | 1 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) |
| Splendid | 1 | Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) |
| Generic Tree Friends | 24+ | 19+ from Class Act (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) 5+ from Concrete Solution |
| Others | 3 | A reindeer in Class Act (Debatable) (Along with Toothy, Lumpy, Sniffles, Giggles, The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, and Flaky) A sea urchin in Wipe Out! (Along with Cro-Marmot) Stumble in Happy Train Friends (Along with Putz) |
Stupidity is the answer to HTF!
Additional
- Going Out With a Bang Storyboard: Was supposed to kill Lammy with a firework that landed in a tree.
Games
- Sugar High: Steps on and crushes a bunch of woodpeckers.
- Deadeye Derby: Kills Cuddles, Toothy, Petunia, Handy, Sniffles, Disco Bear, Russell, Lifty, Shifty, Fliqpy, Splendid, and a giant squid by flinging rocks at them with a slingshot.
Episodes Survived by Season
| Season/Total | Number of Appearances | Deaths | Survived | Survival Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 33.33% |
| 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 33.33% |
| TV Series | 20 | 18 | 2 | 10% |
| 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 28.57% |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50% |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| HTF Break | 3 | 2 | 1 | 33.33% |
| Other Episodes | 6 | 4 | 2 | 33.33% |
| Total | 48 | 37 | 11 | 22.92% |
Survival Rate
- Internet series: 31.58%
- Breaks, Kringles, and Love Bites: 33.33%
- TV series: 10%, the lowest out of all the characters alongside Handy
- Total Rate: 22.92%
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