Meat Me for Lunch is an episode of the Happy Tree Friends internet series, the twentieth of the first season.
HTF Episode Description[]
The kleptomaniac raccoon brothers are at it again, stealing meat from Lumpy the butcher. They learn the hard way that crime doesn't pay, and Petunia ends up with the just desserts.
Plot[]
Hungry, our favorite duo of kleptomaniacs open their refrigerator, only to find it empty (of food at least). Initially saddened, they come up with a plan to get some food.
The scene shifts to the exterior of Lumpy's Butcher Shop. As an alarm goes off, Lifty and Shifty exit the building with armfuls of meat, while Lumpy chases after and yells at them holding a toilet plunger. A chain of sausage gets stuck in the automatic door, however, and Lifty and Shifty are yanked back into the store.
Shifty gets slammed into a wall and is slowly fed into a meat grinder, which grinds him into sausage. Lifty slams into a rack of sharp objects, which fall as he slides down the wall. Several knives and forks pierce his legs and one of his arms. As he tries to remove these objects, including a kitchen knife, a corkscrew, a fork, a knife sharpener and a bread knife, instead of a cleaver, he realizes he's sitting on a meat slicer. Thin, circular portions of his body are sliced as he screams in pain.
The scene cuts once more to Lumpy standing behind his counter as Petunia enjoys a green hot dog. There are more green hot dogs and a stack of thin green circular meat in a display case in the background. Petunia seems to be enjoying her raccoon-meat hot dog until she sticks out her tongue, which is holding an eyeball, surprising (or at least interesting) Lumpy.
Moral[]
"Read a Book!"
Deaths[]
- Shifty is ground into sausage.
- Lifty is sliced into thin portions of meat. (Confirmed by Kenn Navarro)
Injuries[]
- Lifty and Shifty are pulled back to the automatic door and their bodies crash right through it.
- Lifty's limbs are impaled by sharp utensils (a kitchen knife, a corkscrew, a fork, a knife sharpener and a bread knife (except for a cleaver)).
Survival Rate[]
- Amount of surviving main characters: 2
- Amount of dead main characters: 2
- Total rate: 50%
Destruction[]
- The automatic door to the butcher shop breaks when Lifty and Shifty fly through it.
- Shifty's hat is shredded by a meat grinder.
Goofs[]
- Lumpy is more of a featuring character.
- When Lifty and Shifty make their trademark grin and smile after having an idea, their Pac-Man-shaped pupils become circle-shaped, which wouldn't become a permanent part of their design until Season 2. (Debatable)
- Lifty and Shifty's philtrums disappear several times.
- Lumpy's antlers change directions a few times.
- When Lumpy exits the building the automatic doors don't stay open, even though he is standing within range of its sensors (though they may be malfunctioning).
- As Lifty and Shifty run out of the butcher shop, Lifty is holding a steak and some ribs, while Shifty is holding two steaks, a stick of ham, and the sausage chain. However, in the close-up shot of them, Lifty's steak is replaced with another set of ribs and Shifty is holding the third steak.
- When Lifty, Shifty, and Lumpy run outside, there is a pattern on the automatic doors. When Lifty and Shifty fly through the doors, however, they are made of smooth glass.
- The trees are distorted throughout the episode, even when it's not meant to look like a motion blur.
- Lifty should not be pulled back into the butcher shop, since Shifty is holding the sausage chain.
- The blood in this episode is orange or light red.
- Shifty flies into the meat grinder tail-first, but when the sausages come out, his eyes are at the front of the chain.
- The sausages from Shifty should have been red, not green.
- As Lifty gets stabbed by numerous sharp objects, in one part of the scene you can see that Lifty's left leg has detached from his body.
- The ham slicer Lifty lands on activates without being turned on.
- When a kitchen knife, a corkscrew, a fork, a knife sharpener and a bread knife from Lifty's legs and one of his arms impaled, he moves back and forth, and screaming in pain.
- Lifty's tail disappears as he's being sliced (Debatable, as it may have been sliced off).
- Petunia is missing her tail.
- When Petunia sticks out her tongue, her buck teeth are apart.
- Shifty's eyeball has a regular pupil when Petunia sticks out her tongue.