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Overview


Spin Fun Knowin' Ya is the second episode of the Happy Tree Friends, and being the first in the internet series. This is also the episode that introduces Cuddles, Giggles, and Toothy; three cute and cuddly characters doomed to disaster and Lumpy, who is a moose well known for his stupidity.

HTF Episode Description

Spin Fun Knowin' Ya is the very first Happy Tree Friends episode! This show introduces the core character group and also sets up the theme of "innocent mayhem" that runs throughout the entire series. Lumpy is spinning the gang on a merry-go-round, only to have things spiral out of control. A clip of this show was seen in Jennifer Aniston's movie, "The Good Girl."

Plot

The very first episode of the series begins with a blue moose named Lumpy spinning a merry-go-round with three cute creatures on it: a yellow rabbit named Cuddles, a pink chipmunk named Giggles, and a mauve beaver named Toothy. Excited, Cuddles tells Lumpy to spin them faster. Happy to oblige, Lumpy begins to spin the merry-go-round faster, which enthralls the three kids. Suddenly, Toothy flies off after losing his grip, causing him to fly right into a tree, breaking his back, and embedding his buckteeth into the tree. His body then slides down the tree.

Giggles realizes that they're moving too fast, so she hugs the pole she's holding onto, hoping she won't fly off. Suddenly, the bar she's holding onto breaks off, sending her flying away as well. She flies right onto a tree stump, cutting her body in half completely, and the bar she was holding onto to impale her chest.

Cuddles hangs onto his pole for dear life, trying to not fly away like his fellow friends. Sadly, the force is too much for Cuddles, as his hands rip off from his body, hurling him into the right engine of a parked plane, shredding him to bits.

Meanwhile, Lumpy, who is oblivious to the fates of the children, continues to spin the merry-go-round until he stops when he runs out of breath. The merry-go-round comes to a complete stop, and Lumpy immediately notices Cuddles' severed hands still clutching onto the pole. Upon seeing this, Lumpy turns around and walks away, pretending not to notice. The episode ends with Cuddles' severed hands sliding down the pole, where they plop to the ground.

Moral

"Don't forget to floss!"

Popcorn Video (Blurb)

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The Popcorn video of Spin Fun Knowin' Ya contains these annotations:

  • Special Pop Corn Video!
  • Hide and seek is the number eight cause of accidental deaths among small animals
  • Falling from trees is number four
  • The number one cause of death is...
  • Bullets coming out of guns at very high speed!
  • Cuddles likes to wear bunny slippers
  • Toothy has had tail enlargement surgery
  • Lumpy is thinking about candy!
  • The North American beaver can't fly...
  • ...or go through trees!
  • 80% of children hug playground equipment for dear life
  • This stunt took 23 takes!
  • Cuddles' thumbs are backward
  • No They're NOT!
  • Heavy breathing in...
    • 3
    • 2
    • 1
    • Panting!
  • Rabbit's feet are considered good luck!
  • Cuddles has gone on to star in a series of straight-to-video Ninja movies called "Paws Of Fury". Toothy is currently wanted in 7 states for impersonating a dentist. He was last seen in Ohio. Giggles has written a tell-all autobiography called "Tears Behind the Giggles". Lumpy went on to sponsor a bill in the Senate banning the parking of commercial planes near playgrounds. To this day 5 lives have been saved.
    • 6 Lives

Blurb Gallery

Deaths

  1. Toothy flies off the merry-go-round and slams into a tree, breaking his bones and back. 
  2. Giggles flies into a chopped piece of wood, cutting her in half. She is then impaled by the merry-go-round's detached bar.
  3. Cuddles flies off the merry-go-round and into a plane's engine, shredding him to bits.

Injuries

  • Cuddles' arms are ripped off when Lumpy spins the merry-go-round too fast.

Survival Rate

  • Amount of surviving main characters: 1
  • Amount of dead main characters: 3
  • Total rate: 25%

Destruction

  1. One of the merry-go-round's poles gets broken.
  2. The engine of the plane might be ruined when Cuddles flies into it.

Goofs

  1. In the beginning of the episode, Cuddles has white cheeks, but they later become pink. (Fixed in the classics remastered version)
  2. Also, in the beginning of the episode, Giggles does not show any buckteeth when her mouth is closed, but that changes soon after.
  3. The backs of everyone's ears have holes.
  4. When Giggles died, her buckteeth aren't visible.
  5. Even though Cuddles' hands are torn off by the force of the merry-go-round's spinning, severed hands fly out the back of the airplane engine.
  6. Giggles flew away with one of the merry-go-round's poles, but when Lumpy stops, all four poles are present.
  7. Lumpy's antlers change directions at the end.
  8. Cuddles' hands aren't visible until the merry-go-round comes to a complete stop.
  9. When Toothy breaks his back, he loses the two hairs atop of his head.
  10. When Cuddles' hands are shown gripping the bar at the end, they are facing the wrong way.
  11. If Cuddles and Toothy were outstretched like they were, they should have hit Lumpy, but they didn't.
  12. In the beginning, whenever Giggles is shown from the back, her left ear appears to turn purple.
  13. When Toothy hits the tree, his tail goes missing.
  14. When Giggles was about to hit the tree stump, Giggles' eye, ear, bow, and nose is missing.
  15. When Giggles gets impaled by the merry-go-round bar her body outline color was yellow.
  16. At first, it was unknown why there was a plane in the park in this episode. But in Blast from the Past, it was revealed that Sniffles parked it there. It may not be canon, though, prior to the concept of time-traveling.

Quick Shot Moment

When Lumpy continues to spin the merry-go-round after everybody flies off of it, there is a brief shot of Giggles holding onto the merry-go-round before she flies off.

Note: This is fixed in the Popcorn Video (Blurb) version and in the Classics Remastered versions from YouTube and Mondomedia.com.


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