Sniffles/Trivia

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General Trivia

• Despite seeming to be very intelligent, Sniffles often lacks common sense, which usually ends up causing his demise.
• He started the rivalry between ants and anteaters in Blast from the Past by eating a prehistoric ant in front of a prehistoric anteater.

Who'da thought this little move would screw Sniffles over in the present five times?

• He has a lot of money, as is shown in the episode We're Scrooged!, possibly because his intelligence allows him to have high-paying jobs.
• Just like Handy and Cub, he sometimes does not seem to mind when characters are injured or dead around him.
  • In A Sight for Sore Eyes, he shows no concern when Toothy breaks his head in half and dies, he just watches. (Debatable, as this could be because he can't see after his glasses broke)
  • In In a Jam, he (along with Handy) shows no concern when Cuddles slices his eye in half. He also seems to be more frustrated at Handy's death instead of being shocked or concerned.
  • In We're Scrooged!, he is not shocked to see Lumpy lose his eye and leaves.
  • In Concrete Solution, he just stares at The Mole's dead body and does not seem surprised in the slightest.
  • In Pet Peeve, he is aware that his pet is acidic, but does not bother treating Lumpy after he pulls the blob away from his leg.
• Sniffles is the 6th character to come back to life after dying in an episode, as he died in Crazy Ant-ics and appeared later in Treasure Those Idol Moments.
  • Toothy and Cub also died before appearing again in Treasure Those Idol Moments, but Sniffles is counted as the sixth since he appeared in the episode after Toothy and before Cub.
• He was seen without his glasses in A Sight for Sore Eyes and briefly in Tongue Twister Trouble.
• Despite being a "nerd", Sniffles is pretty athletic. He can run fast, jump far, and is very strong as shown in Idol Curiosity. However, he is seen having difficulty while lifting a bowling ball in Spare Me.
• In Season 3 and Season 4, his alliterate sentence is: Science is seriously satisfying!.
• Despite his attempts to catch ants, he almost never succeeds at catching and eating them at all, an exception being when he eats an ant in Blast from the Past.
• His deaths are considered to be one of the worst and tortuous of the series. Which is no big surprise, seeing his gruesome deaths were, having his upper body blown up in Crazy Ant-ics, having a huge chunk of his skull and brain scratched off by a zombie hand in Boo Do You Think You Are?, having his head blown up due to the heat of the sun in Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark, having his heart ripped to shreds in A Hard Act to Swallow, getting his organs ripped by The Baboon in From A to Zoo, having the roller coaster fall and crush him in The Wrong Side of the Tracks, Fliqpy pushing him down a hill in a barrel of sharp objects resulting in him being cut into pieces in Party Animal, getting run over by a treadmill in Ipso Fatso, having his head crushed by a steering wheel in Concrete Solution, getting split in half horizontally in Every Litter Bit Hurts, getting crushed by a rocket in As You Wish, getting his body and eyes ripped by bean cans in A Hole Lotta Love, getting crushed by a food cart in Wingin' It, getting his organs ripped in Tongue in Cheek and In a Jam, having his eyes rammed out by pencils in Random Acts of Silence, and having the upper part of his head cut off by the pavement in Pet Peeve.
• He may have been based on The Aardvark from the old theatrical cartoon series The Ant and the Aardvark. Both characters are colored blue, usually fail to catch ants (in exceptionally creative ways), and tend to get injured quite a lot.
• Sniffles may also be based on Arthur Read, as both characters are smart and wear similar-looking glasses. Coincidentally, both characters started off with long noses that were eventually made shorter, though Arthur's more so than that of Sniffles.
• Sniffles might also be based on Dexter from the Cartoon Network show; Dexter's Laboratory, since they are both smart characters with high-pitched voices who, despite their intelligence, make constant mistakes.
• He is the only character who is an animal that is not native to North America. Anteaters are found in South America. As such, his species is out of place with the setting.
• He is the first main character to act as a villain.
  • He is the only main character to act like a villain in their debut to become a normal character in future appearances.
• Sniffles appears as a boss in Deadeye Derby.
• Most likely because of his intelligence, Sniffles' most frequent job is being a doctor.
• He is similar to Wile E. Coyote from Looney Tunes, Tom from Tom and Jerry. and Scratchy from Itchy and Scratchy from The Simpsons:
  • All four are animals.
  • They all don't speak (though they did speak in rare occasions however).
  • They are highly intelligent, cunning, fast, and strong, but are incompetent scapegoats who are always physically punished through comedic slapstick.
  • All have grit and constantly get outsmarted by their prey (Sniffles by The Ants, Wile E. Coyote by The Road Runner, Tom by Jerry and Scratchy by Itchy), but never quit to achieve their goals.

Design

• Sniffles is the first and so far only character to have his fingernails seen in an episode. In Tongue in Cheek, the ants open one of his nails and pour salt under it.
• It is possible that Sniffles wears a shirt the same color as his fur (similar to Lumpy in a few episodes), considering his pocket protector. He is also implied to be wearing a shirt in A Hole Lotta Love when Pop grabs him by the chest.
• In addition to his snout, his ears and tail are also unique.
• Some people mistake him for an elephant because of his trunk-like snout. However, his ears and tail are not like an elephant's and his mouth is on the tip of his snout. 
• He and Giggles have the biggest species conflicts in the show, being mistaken for another species than their actual species.
• Despite being an anteater, he actually resembles an aardvark.
• Sniffles' snout was long in the first two seasons of the internet series. During the TV series, though first shown in Suck It Up, his snout became shorter.

  

  Sniffles' snout designs over the course of the series.

  • First seen in Wrath of Con and more prominently seen from Internet Season 4 onward, his snout became slightly smaller and straight (like it appears when he is facing the front). His snout has, so far transitioned between curved and straight three times: Wrath of Con, Pet Peeve and Camp Pokeneyeout.
• Like real anteaters, Sniffles has very poor eyesight (though he wears glasses to help himself see). But unlike his species, he has teeth (probably due to cartoon logic)
• Sniffles was originally planned to be a squirrel. 
• Sniffles has the longest tongue length out of all of the characters, which is not at all strange considering his species.
• According to the original storyboards of Crazy Ant-ics, Sniffles’ mouth was originally drawn under his snout.

Episode Statistics

• Sniffles has only survived 13 out of the 59 episodes he has appeared in. If he survived his debatable deaths he would have survived 16 episodes.
• Sniffles is the first character to have an episode in which he starred without any other main character in it (Crazy Ant-ics).
• Sniffles has the fourth most appearances in the TV series.
• He appears in all three episodes of "Marooned Five" and "Eleventh Hour".
• Sniffles is one of the few characters who starred in more than 3 TV episodes. The others are Lumpy (16), Lifty (4), and Shifty (4).
• Sniffles and Flaky die in the first and last episodes of Season 2.
• Throughout Season 4, Sniffles has appeared in six episodes, dying in the first three and surviving the last three. The episodes he dies in are All Work and No Play, Buns of Steal, and Pet Peeve. The episodes he survives are Spare Tire, Camp Pokeneyeout, and Dream Job.
• Sniffles has co-starred with Toothy (twice), Flaky (thrice), Cub (twice), Giggles (twice), Handy (twice), The Mole, Lifty, Shifty, Lumpy (five times), Flippy, Pop, and Splendid.
  • Like most characters, Sniffles co-stars with Lumpy the most.
• He stars as the only character in an episode the most.
• So far, the only starring roles he has survived in are Blast from the Past (only with the time machine in an endless loop) and Dream Job.
• He stars in both The Wrong Side of the Tracks and Wrath of Con despite barely appearing in either of them.
  • He is a featuring character in Buns of Steal even though he appears for only four seconds.
  • In From Hero to Eternity, Party Animal, and As You Wish he is an appearing character instead of a featuring character.
• In the TV series, Lumpy appears in all of his starring roles. Lumpy also co-stars with him in The Wrong Side of the Tracks and I've Got You Under My Skin. Lumpy dies in four out six of Sniffles' starring roles.
  • In the fourth internet season, Lumpy is also the only character to appear in both Sniffles' starring episodes. He dies in one episode.
• He along with Giggles, The Mole, Disco Bear, Russell, Lifty, Shifty, Cro-Marmot, Lammy, and Mr. Pickels don't appear in any of the Still Alive episodes.
  • He is the only blue character who didn't appear in a Still Alive episode.
• Cuddles dies in every TV episode Sniffles survives in.

Kills and Deaths

• Sniffles is the eighth character to die in the TV series, the fourth in the Internet series, and the ninth in the shorts.
• Sniffles has the worst survival rate out of all blue characters.
• Sniffles' deaths are considered the most graphic and torturous out of all the characters.
• Sniffles is the first character to kill Flippy.
• Without his Class Act kills, his kill count would drop from 111 to 71.
• Sniffles died in every Internet season 2 episode he appeared in. He also dies in the only Kringle episode he has ever appeared in.
• Sniffles is the first character to die in Boo Do You Think You Are?, From A to Zoo, Ipso Fatso, and Random Acts of Silence. On the other hand he dies last in I've Got You Under My Skin, Idol Curiosity, and Wrath of Con.
  • Sniffles is both the first and last character to die in Blast from the Past.
• Most of his kills are caused by what he creates or builds, like his pet in Pet Peeve, the drill in A Hole Lotta Love, or his mechanical paper plane in A Sight for Sore Eyes, to name a few.
• He has killed Giggles, Toothy, Lumpy, Handy, Nutty, Flaky, The Mole, and Flippy at least once by himself.
• The only characters who have not killed Sniffles are Handy, Cub, Cro-Marmot, Flippy, Mr. Pickels, and Lammy.
• He is the first victim of Nutty and Toothy. In the TV series he is the first victim of Disco Bear, Giggles, and Petunia.
• Sniffles has 11 posthumous kills.
  • He killed Lumpy (twice), Handy, Nutty (twice), Pop, Cub (thrice), Flippy and Lammy.
• He is the most frequent victim of Petunia and Mime.
• Lumpy is his most frequent victim.
• His deaths from Tongue in Cheek and In a Jam are both similar.
  • Furthermore, in both As You Wish and his smoochie, Sniffles receives a rocket, has his arms ripped off, and is killed by the gift he just received.
• He is the most frequent and only victim of The Ants (and Mittens, within the show).
• In three of the six TV episodes he starred in, he killed other characters, and in the other three, he did not.
• In two of the only starring roles he survives (those being Dream Job and Blast From the Past), he still technically dies in one way or another in both episodes and survives the episodes under certain circumstances (that being the deaths take place entirely within Sniffles' dreams and Sniffles' past-self surviving the episode respectively).
• After Petunia in Stayin' Alive, he is the second character to die a blood-free death (in Treasure Those Idol Moments).
• Sniffles is one of the few characters with more than 100 kills. The others are Lumpy, Pop, The Mole and Fliqpy.
• Sniffles has the highest kill count out of all the characters who rarely survive.
• His deaths and injuries usually involve, being torn apart, impaled, and having his arms ripped from his body.

Superlatives

• He is one of the male characters with a female voice actor. The others are Cub and Mime.
• Sniffles and The Mole are the only characters to regularly wear glasses.
• He is one of the three characters who have poor vision, the other two are The Mole and Russell.
• He, Nutty, and Russell are the only main characters to debut in a solo episode.
• Sniffles' pocket protector tends to move positions on his chest; much like Lumpy's antlers, Lammy's bow, Nutty's eye and candy, Russell's eyepatch and hook, The Mole's mole, Handy's tools, Flippy's beret, and Cub's diaper pin.
• Sniffles is one of the four blue main characters, the others being Lumpy, Petunia, and Splendid.
• Sniffles is one of the two characters whose animal species is completely carnivorous. The other character is Russell.
  • However, anteaters sometimes do eat fallen fruit, and in captivity, avocado.