Spare Me is an episode of the Happy Tree Friends internet series, the twenty fourth of the first season.
HTF Episode Description[]
Happy Tree Friends Website (pre-Atom)[]
Sniffles loses his head over bowling.
Happy Tree Friends Website (post-Atom)[]
Bowling. What could be more fun than bowling with a gang of friends? Well, if one of them is blind and the other has no hands, it may not be so much fun after all. Maybe they should have used the guard rails on those lanes?
Plot[]
That's unfortunate.
While bowling, Handy (somehow) manages to knock down nine pins, leaving one pin standing, which does not seem to satisfy him. He angrily walks away as Sniffles steps up for his turn. Sniffles has difficulty lifting his ball, so he lifts it by sucking it onto his nose. He spins around to put some force behind his throw, but unfortunately, the weight of the bowling ball causes his head to fly off his body.
His head manages to knock all of the pins over, and his snout is hacked off by the pin clearer, exposing his teeth. As the pin clearer sends Sniffles' decapitated head back down the ball return, The Mole, unaware of what just happened, assumes that the head is his bowling ball and jabs his fingers through Sniffles' eyes, shattering his glasses.
The Mole begins slipping on Sniffles' blood and unknowingly spins around as he throws Sniffles' head away from the pins. Over at the snack bar, Handy irately sips on a soda through a straw. When he's out of soda, he looks closely at the neck of the bottle, only to have Sniffles' head hit the back of his head.
Handy jerks back his head in anguish as the bottle is now lodged in one of his eye sockets. Inside the bottle, his eye rattles around. His nubs try in vain to remove the bottle from his head, but unfortunately, all he can do is scream in pain.
Moral[]
"Laughter is the best medicine!"
Deaths[]
- Sniffles has his head torn off while attempting to bowl using his snout to pick up the bowling ball.
Injuries[]
- Handy's eye is forced into a bottle and the bottle into his eye socket when Sniffles' severed head collides with the back of his head.
Survival Rate[]
- Amount of surviving main characters: 2
- Amount of dead main characters: 1
- Total rate: 66.67%
Destruction[]
Goofs[]
- If one looks closely, Handy's lane contains twelve pins instead of ten. Therefore he knocked down eleven pins with one being left out.
- When Handy makes his angry scowl, his pupils face outward. When he turns to leave for the snack bar his pupils face inward. When he loses an eye to a soda bottle, the eye in the bottle has a circular pupil.
- When Sniffles grabs hold of the bowling ball with his snout, in one frame, his right arm is conjoined to his head.
- Sniffles' voice can be heard when his snout is severed, despite him already being dead.
- When Sniffles' snout gets cut off, his teeth are in the back of his head instead of the front of his snout. There is one frame where both of his layers of teeth are shown at the same time.
Uhm... How?
- The Mole puts his fingers through Sniffles' glasses but somehow does not get cut.
- When The Mole slips on Sniffles' blood puddle, the items he holds in his hands swap places.
- In the YouTube version when Handy's right eye is lodged into the bottle, the audio dub loops back to the beginning. (Mondo uploaded a second version of this episode on YouTube with the goof fixed.)
- There is no optic nerve connecting Handy's eye to his head. (However, it could be torn and still in his eye socket.)
- Handy's eyeball that is stuck inside the bottle is much smaller than his other eye.
- The straw Handy is drinking from disappears when the bottle is jammed through his eye.
Quick Shot Moment[]
In the Original version, when Sniffles is struggling to hold the bowling ball, there is a brief shot of his severed head at the end of the bowling lane just before his snout is hacked off by the pinsetter.
In the Second version, before Handy's starring title card is shown in the intro, there's a brief shot of Sniffles' severed head at the end of the bowling lane just before his snout is hacked off by the pinsetter.
Both of these quick shot moments spoil Sniffles' death.
Note: This is fixed in the Classics Remastered version.