Trivia[]
- This episode marks the first appearance of the Generic Tree Friends.
- This is the first of many of Lumpy's jobs.
- This episode was released on the same day as Nuttin' Wrong with Candy.
- This is the first episode where a main character has a featuring role.
- This is the first episode where multiple characters die at once.
- This is one of the few characters to not have a last character die, as many died at the same time.
- This is the first episode (and the only episode of the first season of the internet series) in which Handy dies.
- This is the first episode in which a Tree Friend's death is caused by an automobile (Handy was not hit by the ambulance, but he crashed face-first into it).
- As in this episode, Handy would later laugh at Cuddles' misfortune in The Wrong Side of the Tracks.
- This is one of the few episodes where Lumpy's antlers don't change directions.
- This is the first episode where Lumpy's doesn't kill anyone or himself.
- This episode makes Lumpy the third character to come back to life for another episode.
- Lifty is responsible for every death in this episode.
- This is one of the five Season 1 episodes to have a moral that has anything to do with the episode, instead of just a random piece of advice like "Read a book" or "Eat your veggies!". The others are Nuttin' but the Tooth, Water You Wading For, Mime and Mime Again, and Sweet Ride.
- There are no female characters in this episode.
- This is the first time a character's intestines are shown.
The beginning of the beautiful scenery that we all know and love.
- Lifty and Shifty's role in this episode seems to swap in future appearances. In this episode, Lifty seems to be more dominant and in charge, and takes the steering wheel of the car, but in future episodes Shifty seems to be more dominant and the driver in nearly every episode that they drive in a vehicle, an exception being As You Wish.
- This is the first episode where Handy does his trademark scowl because of something that has nothing to do with his lack of hands. Here, he does it because Lifty and Shifty stole his steering wheel.
- This is the first episode where Lumpy does something intelligent, which is putting together his own race car.
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Cultural References[]
- The title of this episode, "wheeling and dealing", means to look for something and use it to an advantage. It may also be a reference to the 1957 John Coltrane, Mal Waldron, and Frank Wess jazz album of the same name.
Superlatives[]
- Lifty and Shifty's deaths are similar to Nutty's injury before death in A Sucker for Love Part 2.
Production Notes[]
- As shown from the episode's storyboard, Handy's head was originally cut off by his cart's rear wing right after his body gets cut off.
- If one searches deep in the files of this episode, one can find assets of Shifty's original design.
- According to the First Blood DVD Tree Talk Activation, the episode was going to have more characters on the race, this was scrapped so the episode wouldn't be too complex[1]