Spare Tire

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The Mole's car needs a new tire.
Internet Season:	4
Episode:	85
Production Number:	407
Aired:	January 7, 2014
Writers:	Ken Pontac Warren Graff Kenn Navarro
Director:	Kenn Navarro
Episode List:	Internet Season 4
Cast
Starring Roles Mole
Featuring Roles Giggles Pop Cub Toothy Lammy
Appearances Lumpy Sniffles Mr. Pickels
Video
Previous Episode	Put Your Back Into It
Next Episode	Camp Pokeneyeout

Spare Tire is an episode of the Happy Tree Friends Internet series, it is the seventh of Season 4 and 85th overall.

Plot

The beginning of the episode begins with Giggles staring in confusion at an array of road signs that display random arrows. Down the road, Mole is seen driving in his car. However, his car is right on the sidewalk, and barely misses Giggles as he run over the road signs. A nail then pops one of Mole's tires, making his vehicle stop. Giggles gives a sigh of relief, having nearly been killed by the blind driver. Unfortunately, the road signs come flying down and slice off a portion of Giggles' body, which rolls away like a wheel, seemingly killing her. As Mole gets rid of his popped tire, Giggles' sliced body piece knocks away Mole's fifth wheel, and as a result, Mole ends up using that piece of body as his new "tire," which leaves a trail of blood behind.

Mole the comes to a stop at a gas station, and Lumpy, the gas station operator, places the gas siphon in Mole's car. Moments later, Pop and Cub come walking by, and Pop lights up a match to start his pipe. Lumpy notices this, and runs towards Pop. At that moment, Mole begins to leave, and his car takes the siphon along with it as well, which leaves a trail of gas behind him. Lumpy quickly grabs Pop's lit match, and Lumpy scolds him not to light a fire next to a gas station. Lumpy then confiscates Pop's match, but it accidentally lands on top of Mole's trail of gasoline. Seeing this, Lumpy and Pop attempt to extinguish the fire, but the fire creates an explosion which reduces Lumpy and Pop's body into skeletons.

Mole continues to drive his car down the road, oblivious that a trail of fire is following him fast. The scene cuts to Toothy's house, where Mole drove his car through, apparently making some major damage. As Toothy cleans up his partially destroyed house, the trail of fire comes in. Acting quickly, Toothy grabs a fire extinguisher and attempts to douse the fire out. But due to Toothy's light body, and the force of the fire extinguisher, the fire extinguisher instead punctures a hole through Toothy's body as he gets slammed into his house wall. As the active fire extinguisher continues spewing, Toothy gets killed when the fire extinguisher crushes his internal organs. Elsewhere, Lammy and Mr. Pickels are seen relaxing in a rubber pool, unbeknownst to Lammy is that the trail of gasoline is directly underneath her pool. The trail of fire suddenly comes by, and as it travels underneath her pool, it creates a small stream of boiling bubbles, and comes out through the opposite side. A small bubble forms in the pool, and Lammy is happy to pop it. Unfortunately, due the amount of heat packed into the bubble, the bubble creates an explosion powerful enough to blow off almost Lammy's entire face off when she pops it.

Mole's car finally stops (probably due to his car running out of gas), and because of this, the trail of fire finally catches up to Mole, and as a result, Mole's car finally explodes. The former explosion mangles up Mole's body, and his now destroyed body lands on a tree, where his intestines wrap around a branch with a tire the end of his intestines, making potential tire swing. Cub then comes into the scene, mildly burnt around the face and upset. But Cub immediately perks up when he sees the "tire swing" and begins to ride on it.

At a hospital, Giggles lies on a hospital bed with a tire replacing the missing piece of her body. Sniffles, a doctor tries to figure out how to bring Giggles back to life. Moments later, Sniffles brings out an air hose. He places the air hose on the intake tube expanding the size of the tire, and wouldn't you know it, the heart monitor begins beeping, which means that Sniffles has successfully brought Giggles' back to life, ending the episode.

Moral

"A bad leadership is like a flat tire. It doesn't go anywhere until being replaced."

Deaths

1. Lumpy and Pop are vaporized by an explosion at a gas station.
2. Toothy's organs are crushed against a wall by his fire extinguisher.
3. Lammy's face is torn off by an explosion of boiling water.
4. Mole is killed when his car explodes.

Injuries

1. Cub is seen with minor burns he received at the gas station. (off-screen)
2. Giggles was killed by road signs, but at the end of the episode, Sniffles brings her back to life.

Goofs

1. Lumpy's antlers change directions several times.
2. When Giggles is on the hospital bed, her blood is pink. (it could be her hospital bed soaking it in.)
3. The car Mole was driving didn't get damaged after going through Toothy's house.
4. It's unknown how the blood and gasoline-trail got under Lammy's rubber pool, unless she placed it there afterwards (though due to time of the fire spreading and the fact that a trail of blood and gasoline would probably be noticed by her it's quite unlikely). It was probably needed for the scene to take place in general.
5. When Lumpy dies, his bow stays floating in the air.
6. When The Mole drives off and leaves a trail of gasoline behind, there's also a trail of blood next to it. But, when Lumpy throws the match on the gasoline, the trail of blood is gone

Trivia

• The sneak peek is officially posted 19 days after the previous episode.
• Mondo released this episode on YouTube a month after its main debut.
• The gas station Lumpy works at has a very similar appearance to the real life gas station, Texaco.
• This is the first episode of 2014.
• There is an episode with a title similar to this one's, "Spare Me". Coincidentally, they both had the Mole and Sniffles.
• This is Toothy's first appearance in Season 4.
• This is The Mole's first appearance since Pet Peeve, and his second starring role in Season 4.
• This is the first of only three episodes to air in 2014, followed by Camp Pokeneyeout and Dream Job. Lumpy and Sniffles appear in all three, and the latter survives all three.
• This is the third time where The Mole drives a vehicle in Season 4. In this episode, The Mole isn't driving the van he had in Pet Peeve and it's a different car than the car he had in past episodes. Instead of being purple, it is red; instead of being a wide and tall car, it is narrow and short.
• It was supposedly going to be released during the Christmas break, but it was delayed.
• When Giggles is sliced by the sign, her scream is the same as Petunia's scream in Royal Flush.
• This is the third time that Lammy dies (after All Work and No Play and All In Vein).
  • However, this is Lammy's first on-screen death (It is unknown if she died in All Work and No Play)
• This is the first time Lammy appears without her sweater.
• This is the second regular episode where Cub survives while Pop dies (after A Vicious Cycle).
• This is the first time that Mole's face is seen onscreen and proves that he doesn't have eyes (though it may have been caused from the explosion which also ripped that part of his face off).
• This is the second time that a character survives just by pumping air in the body. The first was Disco Bear in A Change of Heart.
• This makes Giggles the fourth character to be revived after death, the other three being Petunia, Handy (I Nub You) and Disco Bear (A Change Of Heart). Though only Disco Bear and Giggles remain alive through these episodes.
• Like in See You Later, Elevator, the deaths have started because Pop lit a match.
• This marks the first regular episode since We're Scrooged! where Sniffles survives.
• This is the first episode in Season 4 without a video bomber, while this is the 3rd episode in season 4 that Truffles doesn't appear.
• Lumpy and Pop's deaths are kind of similar to Lumpy's death in Brake The Cycle.
• This is the first episode where Cub seems to realize what death means (except if he was crying because of the injuries he got from the explosion).
• Toothy's house seems to consist of only one room.
• Since Giggles was revived, this is the first episode where Lammy is the only female character to die.
• This is the first time Lammy appears in an episode without Truffles.
• This is the first time that Mole and Pop are responsible for killing Lammy.
• This is the third time Mr. Pickels stays inanimate and doesn't come to life. This first happens in All In Vein and All Work and No Play.
• Did Cub actually walk that far from the gas station, and appear just after the Mole died, he should have appeared minutes later (Unless this was just to sped up the episode).