Too Much Scream Time is an irregular episode of Happy Tree Friends. It was featured in the DLC of a rogue-lite shoot 'em up game called The Crackpet Show.
With 2,408 days, or 6 years, 7 months and 5 days from December 22, 2016 to July 27, 2023, it was the longest hiatus in HTF history. The main reason why it was not released is unknown, although the presumed reason is due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was started in 2020 (3 years before the hiatus is ended). Another main reason for this hiatus possibly that Mondo Media has produced nothing since 2018.
Episode Description
Happy Tree Friends ARE BACK! Too Much Scream Time features guest characters from The Crackpet Show, an action-packed rogue-lite shoot’em-up about mutated animals that fight in a bizarre TV show.
Embrace the iconic cruelty and humor of the legendary cartoon with your favorite characters playable in The Crackpet Show: Happy Tree Friends Edition!
Dive into the bizarre show solo or with your friends via couch co-op and spread mayhem with tons of guns and perks.
Plot
The episode opens with Pop and Cub walking together at the mall. Pop takes a bite out of a burrito, and immediately begins to suffer from indigestion. Thinking fast, Pop places Cub in front of a large TV screen playing the game footage from The Crackpet Show and hurries to the bathroom.
Pop finds out the downside of eating too much junk food.
In the bathroom, Handy enters a stall while Lumpy attempts to repair a sink. Pop rushes into the stall next to Handy's and does his business, exiting with his burrito still in hand. He takes another bite from the burrito and notices Cub is now transfixed on the violent video game playing out on the TV screen he was placed in front of earlier. Pop rushes over and carries Cub away from the TV to prevent him from seeing anything else. Meanwhile, Lumpy investigates the toilet Pop used previously and is disgusted by the mess he left behind.
Outside, Pop has given Cub a ball to play with to keep him occupied away from the TV. However, Pop's indigestion returns and he is forced to once again leave Cub alone. Cub quickly notices the TV on the other side of the mall and becomes transfixed by it again for a moment before making his way over to a bow and arrow that is on display. He grabs it and prepares to fire an arrow, but Pop notices him and quickly stops him from doing so. He takes the arrow and, as Lumpy passes by with his toolbox, swaps it for a plunger that is in the box. He hands the plunger to Cub to use instead of the arrow.
Meanwhile, back in the bathroom, Lumpy returns to the messy toilet and searches for his plunger. Instead, he pulls out an arrow, which he decides will work well enough. He begins to plunge the toilet with the arrow. In the next stall, Handy attempts to reach for the toilet paper, but scowls upon remembering that he has no arms to reach it with. Then, suddenly, Lumpy's arrow comes up through the pipe beneath Handy and impales him up through his head. Lumpy pulls the arrow back and forth, which further mutilates Handy's corpse. Lumpy pulls the arrow back out of the toilet and is horrified to find that one of Handy's eyes is coiled around it by the optic nerve.
"What could go wrong?" - Pop said.
Back outside, Pop continues to enjoy his burrito while Cub searches for a location to fire his newly-acquired plunger. He aims for a bin containing plush toys from The Crackpet Show, and fires the plunger just as Cuddles walks by. The plunger's wooden stick impales Cuddles through the head and flies out the other side, ricocheting off the side of the plush bin.
Meanwhile, Disco Bear stands at the entrance to a salon and shows Giggles his new hairdo. The plunger stick flies through the air and activates the "close" button on the salon's retractable metal door as it ricochets again. The metal door comes down and slices Disco Bear vertically in half. Half of Disco Bear's corpse falls to the ground, causing Giggles to scream in terror.
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
Pop is about to take another bite from his burrito when the plunger stick suddenly impales him through the back of his skull, causing a small cylinder of his brain to fall out and onto his burrito. Pop falls to the ground and Lumpy obliviously picks up the dropped burrito with the piece of brain still on it before walking away.
Back at the TV, Cub has somehow managed to find his way inside the screen. The Gameplay Footage of The Crackpet Show plays on the TV. Lumpy finishes eating Pop's burrito, and the episode ends by closing on his stomach as he begins to suffer from indigestion.
Moral
"Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded."
Deaths
- Handy is impaled with an arrow by Lumpy.
- Cuddles is shot in the head with a plunger handle by Cub.
- Disco Bear is sliced in half by a garage door of the hair salon.
- Pop is impaled in the head with a plunger handle shot by Cub.
Survival Rate
- Amount of surviving main characters: 3
- Amount of dead main characters: 4
- Total rate: 42.86%
Goofs
- Lumpy was listed as a featuring character, but his title card is his starring page instead of him on the slide. (This might be an update to the intro sequence)
- In the beginning of the episode, Lumpy's design looks the same as his new design (TV series and onwards). However, for the remainder of the episode, Lumpy's nose is shorter, and more round and his antlers are thinner and shorter than usual.
- When we see Pop leaving the bathroom, the door is missing a handle or a knob (or anything that could be used to open it).
- Considering the length of the arrow that we see before and after Handy's death, Lumpy shouldn't have been able to reach and kill him with it.
- When Handy dies his ears are missing.
- The arrow is layered over Handy's tongue instead of under.
- When Disco Bear dies, the blood silhouette left on the garage door suggests that he has blood inside his hair.
This proves that Disco Bear's hair is an integral part of his body.
- Although blood is left where Disco Bear’s hair used to be, there isn’t any blood shown on Disco Bear’s hair when he is sliced in half.
- Disco Bear’s pupil should not be visible when he dies.
- On the last frame where Cub is watching The Crackpet Show, There is a masking error for a single frame.
- Lumpy's antlers change the directions at the end of the episode.
- After Lumpy picks up the burrito, he can be seen walking away. However at the end of the episode, when we see that he has finished it, he's back to the exact same place from before.
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