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General Trivia

• His name is an informal variation of the word "father", usually a not very polite variation.
• Apparently, Pop owns a 1940's style Woody Wagon, as is seen in And the Kitchen Sink.
• His fun fact from the "Collect Them All" section is that he even smokes in his sleep.
• In season 3, his alliterate sentence is: Paternal parents are patient and proud.
• Despite the fact that he rarely dies, his survival rates in both seasons four and five are very low considering how he appears in three episodes in both seasons and dies in two each.
• In Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark, Flippy has Pop's voice instead of his own. This is mainly because Pop was originally supposed to be in the episode, but since Pop isn't really the type of character to kill a character on purpose, and Cub wasn't going to be in the episode, he was replaced with Flippy.
• Pop rarely interacts with female characters. The only times he does are with Petunia in Read 'em and Weep and possibly Class Act (as they are holding hands) and Giggles in Every Litter Bit Hurts.
• Pop can be seen without his hat in Havin' A Ball, Chip Off the Ol' Block, Ipso Fatso, As You Wish, Aw, Shucks!, Read 'em and Weep, Clause For Concern and his BBQ Smoochie .
• The only episodes where Pop appears without his smoking pipe are Doggone It, As You Wish, Mime to Five, Gems the Breaks, A Vicious Cycle, Something Fishy, Clause For Concern, A Handy Nanny, Bottled Up Inside, A Sucker for Love Part 1,A Sucker for Love Part 2, Just Desert, Class Act, Hello Dolly, Happy New Year, and Milk Pong.
• Pop was originally going to be called Poppy.
• Pop and Cub's season 3 featuring card is somewhat similar to their TV series starring card.
• He is the first character to see and encounter Truffles (in Clause For Concern).
• Judging by the Halloween episode Read 'em and Weep, Pop is a cheapskate, as he's seen unwittingly buying the Necronomicon from the cent symbol box, which results in Cub being possessed by The Demon.

  

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• Pop and Cub are the only characters whose fur isn't a rainbow color.
  • Thus, Pop and Cub come the closest to their species' natural color out of the original characters.
• According to writer Warren Graff, Aubrey Ankrum has left Happy Tree Friends, but the creators will sample his voice rather than replacing him for the voices of Pop and Fliqpy.
• Pop sometimes doesn't notice anything bad happened to Cub until he finds his beanie, as is seen in Water Way to Go, A Hole Lotta Love, and Every Litter Bit Hurts.
• You could consider Pop to be 'bald', seeing as there have been times when Cub's beanie is off and he has clearly visible auburn hair, but when Pop takes off his hat, there is no 'hair' on his head.
• Pop is the only original main character who didn’t appear in Deadeye Derby.
• One question on 'Question Kenn' asked if Disco Bear and Pop could be the same character. However, this is certainly not the case as they have been seen as separate characters in episodes in which they both appeared and have appeared on the screen at the same time (Ipso Fatso, Sea What I Found, A Vicious Cycle).
• In Pop's episodes, he doesn't always kill Cub, (e.g. Stealing the Spotlight where Cub is killed by Lumpy's lights).
• Pop and Cub are the only duo characters to have appeared in at least one episode all by themselves.
• He is the only character who rarely dies to die in his debut episode.
• Even though Pop usually does not pay attention to Cub and kills him because of his bad parenting, this was not the case during their debut episode.
• In Just Desert, Pop was seen fishing during the credits. This makes him the second character to be seen during a credit sequence, the first being The Mole in Remains to be Seen.
• Cuddles is the only primary character Pop hasn't directly interacted with.
  • Coincidentally, they were the only survivors in (debatably) Doggone It, Sea What I Found, and Letter Late Than Never.
• In a Happy Tree Friends QA section on the official Mondo website, it has been stated by the creators that Pop and Cub are their favorite Happy Tree Friends characters.

Episode Statistics

• Pop survives in 31 episodes out of 51.
• Pop has only appeared four times without Cub, with those occurrences being his Smoochie, Something Fishy, Milk Pong, and Tunnel Vision.
  • His Smoochie is his only starring role without Cub.
  • If Pop was never replaced by Flippy in Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark, then it would have been his first starring episode without Cub and he would have appeared five times without Cub overall.
• Pop is one of the only characters to appear in both of the TV episodes where Lumpy doesn't appear, the other being Cub, Lifty, and Shifty.
• In the internet shorts, there were a few episodes where Cub appeared on his own and on even fewer occasions, Pop appears on his own. In the TV series, however, Pop and Cub are always together.
• The only TV episodes that Pop and Cub don't appear in are "Twelfth Night" and "Friday the Thirteenth".
• Pop and Cub appear in all three TV episodes of "The Third Degree".
• He is one of the few characters who starred in three TV episodes. The others are Giggles, Cub, The Mole, Disco Bear, Russell, Flippy, and Splendid.
• Pop is the only character to appear in all three of Splendid's TV starring roles and survive in all of them.
• Pop survived in all of his TV starring roles, along with Mime and Cro-Marmot.
  • He is the only character to have three starring roles of the TV series and survives all of them.
• If one does not count Cub, Pop has co-starred with Lumpy (thrice), Nutty (If one counts Stealing the Spotlight), Sniffles, and Disco Bear.
  • Ignoring Cub, Pop has co-starred Lumpy the most.
• Pop has an appearance role in Concrete Solution, Who's to Flame?, and As You Wish when he should have had a featuring role.
• Pop survived his debut in the TV series, along with Russell, Flaky, Disco Bear, Splendid, and Flippy.
• He is the only character to star in more than one Smoochie, starring in his own BBQ Smoochie and Cub's Christmas Smoochie.
  • Lumpy also appears in multiple Smoochies (Giggle's Valentine Smoochie and Disco Bear's Halloween Smoochie), but they are both cameos or Easter eggs.
• Pop is the only character to appear in an episode starring The Cursed Idol and survive.
• He and Russell are the only characters to survive their TV debut but not their internet debut.
• In the TV series, Cuddles appeared in all of his starring roles. Cuddles dies in two of the three episodes.
• Pop is one of the four characters who survive three consecutive segments in the TV episodes. This happens in "The Third Degree" (Doggone It, Concrete Solution, and Sea What I Found). The others are Lumpy, The Mole and Cro-Marmot.

Kills and Deaths

• He has the second highest kill count overall, only losing to Lumpy, who has 350+ kills.
• He has the highest survival rate out of all bear characters.
  • Unless if both Flippy and Fliqpy share the same deaths, then Flippy will have the highest survival rate out of all the bears instead of Pop.
• Cub almost always dies before Pop, and although Pop sometimes dies afterwards, he has survived many times as well. Sometimes it is indeterminable who died first (like in See You Later, Elevator and Wingin' It), or even if they died at all.
• Most of the characters (with the exception of Cub) Pop only killed once, twice, or three times. This changed in the new episode, Too Much Scream Time, where he helps kill Handy (along with Lumpy) for the 4th time.
  • This makes Handy Pop's new frequent victim, coming in behind Cub.
• The only two times Pop died before Cub were Havin' A Ball and Stealing the Spotlight.
• Pop is (debatably) one of the few characters who have never been killed by an animal. The others are Splendid, Flippy, Lammy, and Mr. Pickels.
• Unlike Lifty and Shifty, Pop and Cub rarely die at the same time. The only episodes where this happens are Flippin' Burgers, Mime to Five, Aw, Shucks!, Wingin' It, See You Later, Elevator, and Breaking Wind (Debatable).
• Cub is Pop's most frequent victim. On the other end of the scale, Cub has only killed Pop thrice (in Cubtron Z, Going Out With a Bang, and Too Much Scream Time).

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• The only episode in the entire series where Pop's death isn't caused by another character is Havin' A Ball. Though it is possible he died in Chore Loser.
• Most of Pop's deaths involve fire, explosions, and to a lesser extent, getting impaled.
• Pop is the eighteenth character to die in the TV series, the fifth in the Internet series, and so far has never died in the shorts (Debatable).
• The only characters Pop has killed posthumously are Giggles (See You Later Elevator), The Mole, Lammy, and Toothy (all from Spare Tire).
• Despite his long streak of killing Cub, he hasn't killed him once in season 4 or 5.
  • Additionally, the fourth and fifth season are the only seasons so far to have Cub survive more episodes than Pop has.
• Every time Pop dies, Cub is sure to die as well (excluding his BBQ Smoochie, Cubtron Z, A Vicious Cycle, Spare Tire, and Too Much Scream Time). Mostly only Cub dies, they both die, or they both survive.
• Most of Pop's deaths are bloodless, as seen in Flippin' Burgers, Class Act, Stealing the Spotlight, Easy For You to Sleigh, Who's to Flame?, Wingin' It, See You Later, Elevator, Breaking Wind, and Spare Tire. In fact, he has more bloodless deaths then a majority of the other characters.
• Pop is one of the few characters to have more than 100 kills. The others are Lumpy, Splendid, Sniffles, The Mole, Fliqpy, and Mime.
• Most of Pop's kills are in Read 'em and Weep. In fact most of his kills are made up of birds.
• Lumpy, Splendid, The Mole, and Flippy are the only characters who have killed Pop multiple times.
• The only main characters Pop has not killed are Nutty, Disco Bear, Flippy, Splendid, Cro-Marmot, and Mr. Pickels.
• He dies first in Havin' A Ball and dies last in Chore Loser (Debatable), Cubtron Z, and Too Much Scream Time.
• Pop is one of the two characters who have killed another character (Cub) more then 10+ times, the other character is Lumpy.
• The only episodes where Pop isn't killed by electricity, explosions, or anything fire-related are Havin' A Ball, As You Wish, Mime to Five, Aw, Shucks!, Wingin' It, Cubtron Z, and Too Much Scream Time.
• Out of the characters who rarely die, Pop is the only one with a smoochie.
• Only counting main character kills, Pop has by far the largest outlier in his kill count with 13 kills in-between his most frequent victim and his second most frequent.
• The only starring roles Pop has died in are Havin' A Ball, Stealing the Spotlight, A Vicious Cycle, Cubtron Z, and Too Much Scream Time.

Superlatives

• Pop (similarly to The Mole) has a rather low death count despite having a fairly large number of appearances.
• He, Cub, Splendid, Lammy, and Mr. Pickels are the only main characters who have never appeared in any season finale episode.
• Pop wears a hat, along with Shifty, Russell, Handy, Flippy and Cub.
• He is one of the five characters whose name has actually appeared in the title of an episode, the others are Mime, Handy, Cub, and The Mole. Other characters, like Nutty (Nuttin' but the Tooth), Toothy (An Inconvenient Tooth), and Flippy (Flippin' Burgers), have segments of their names in episode titles. This excludes Smoochies.
• Pop 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), Cub, Flaky (twice, one time offscreen),The Mole (Offscreen), Russell (Offscreen), and both sides of Flippy (thrice).
• Pop is one of the few characters who have smoked. The others are Lumpy and Giggles.
• Pop is one of the four bears. The others are Cub, Disco Bear, and Flippy.
• Pop is one of the eight characters wearing clothes. The others are Mime, Disco Bear, Flippy, The Mole, Russell, Lammy, and Lumpy.
• Pop is one of the few characters who have worn Santa Claus attire. The others are Lumpy, Lifty, Splendid, Giggles, and Mime.
• Pop is one of the few characters who have vomited, the others are Lumpy, Cub, Flaky, and Splendid. Giggles and Cuddles have been seen getting nauseous but have never actually barfed.
• Pop and Fliqpy have a few similarities:
  • Both have the same voice actor.
  • They're both bears.
  • Despite being known for rarely dying, both characters die a lot more in recent episodes.
  • They frequently kill other tree friends (though Pop does not do it on purpose and has one common victim: Cub; while Fliqpy just kills everyone on purpose).
  • They both wear clothes and a hat.