Eye Candy is an episode of the Happy Tree Friends internet series, the second of Season 2, and twenty-ninth episode overall. This episode is considered to be Toothy's most famous role in the series.
HTF Episode Description[]
One of our most requested episodes, Eye Candy has a high degree of cringe factor! What is it about the eyes that make people squirm so much? It's hard to watch Eye Candy without a real physical reaction, but that's the beauty of this episode. Eye Candy won a prize at the Annecy Film Festival in France and continues to be a real fan favorite.
Plot[]
The scene begins with Toothy cheerfully running through the forest, holding a large yellow lollipop in front of him. His happiness ends soon as he trips over a log, causing the lollipop to get lodged in his eye socket. Screaming, he pulls on the lollipop's stick, forcing his eye and the optic nerve, still connected to his head, to fly out of his eye socket and get tangled around a tree branch.
The first of many eye injuries for Toothy. Nothing without it!
Toothy tries pulling on his optic nerve but fails to get his eyeball down from the branch. Whining and wailing in pain, he begins climbing the tree. When he reaches the branch his eyeball is resting on, we get a view of how difficult it is for him to see with both of his eyes pointed in different directions and orientations.
Toothy reaches for his eye, but unfortunately, a woodpecker lands on the branch and starts pecking his eyeball. Recoiling from the pain, Toothy loses his balance and falls off the tree, which is revealed to be located on the edge of a cliff, causing him to dangle above the ground by only his optic nerve (which acts as a bungee cord). He tries climbing back up his optic nerve, but he loses his grip and slides down again.
How is that possible?
Ultimately, Toothy's brain is pulled out from his eye socket, followed by his other eye as he falls to the ground a few feet below him. Before the episode ends, the bird defecates on Toothy's head.
Moral[]
"Keep your Eye on the prize!"
Deaths[]
- Toothy's brain and his other eye exit his head through his eye socket.
Injuries[]
- Toothy pries his eyeball out of his head with a lollipop and his optic nerve ties around a branch.
- Toothy's eyeball is pecked repeatedly by The Woodpecker.
- Toothy falls off a tree, causing his optic nerve to be stretched.
- Toothy grabs his optic nerve, increasing the pain.
Survival Rate[]
- Amount of surviving main characters: 0
- Amount of dead main characters: 1
- Total rate: 0%
Goofs[]
- Toothy has normal buck teeth throughout the episode. Animation supervisor Jeff Biancalana mistakenly animated Toothy with normal teeth like his friends.
- When Toothy first approaches the tree, it is huge. However, when he begins falling, the size of the tree shrinks dramatically.
- The optical nerve on the right is much longer than the left (though this may be because it was stretched out).
- Through Toothy's point of view, his loose eye sees a higher branch even though Toothy's eye landed on the highest branch.
- In reality, it would be impossible for Toothy to see out of his damaged eye since the eye cannot work if it is detached from the socket.
- While Toothy is attempting to grab his eye, when he reaches out for it on the branch, his leg is positioned closer to his tummy marking.
- When Toothy falls from the tree, he falls from the middle of the tree. However, in the next shot, he is falling straight from the branch.
- There are trees behind the tree that Toothy's eye lands on. However, they disappear when Toothy is shown falling off the tree his eye landed on.
Something you'd think would be impossible, but it is.
- When Toothy is climbing up his optic nerve, his hand is positioned as if it is in front of him, closer to the camera and both of his hands are holding his optic nerve incorrectly.
Quick Shot Moment[]
In the scene where the woodpecker lands on the tree just before it begins pecking at Toothy's loose eye, there's a brief shot of Toothy's eye getting flung out of its socket when he attempts to pull out his lollipop.
Note: This is fixed in the Classics Remastered versions from YouTube and Mondomedia.com.