Just Desert

Just Desert is an episode of the Happy Tree Friends internet series, the sixth of the third season, and 60th overall. It is the final episode to use the Season 2 pop-ups in the intro, along with Cuddles appearing after the credits, It is also the last episode to have a quick shot moment.
==HTF Episode Description==
Lumpy takes a wrong turn heading for a snowy vacation and winds up stuck in the middle of the arid desert.
==Plot==
Lumpy is dressed in a full winter attire, sporting a fur cap, heavy jacket, and snow boots, ready for a hike through the mountains. He lowers his map, however, to find that he's standing in front of an expansive desert. A tornado moves in front of him, destroying a cactus. Lumpy hides behind a rock, but his antlers stick out and get sliced off by the tornado. Saddened, he treks on through the desert.
Lumpy walks through the scorching and never-ending desert, now stripped of his clothes from the unbearable heat, and quickly becomes dehydrated as time goes by. He tries to drink from his canteen, but it is unfortunately empty, disappointing him. Things finally start looking up when he spots an oasis. He dives in the water and swims and drinks to his heart's content. The next day he enters the water and begins brushing his teeth. When he spits, unfortunately, blood and several teeth fly out of his mouth, but they don't fall into the water. It is revealed that the oasis is actually a mirage and Lumpy has been swimming in and drinking sand the whole time.
Lumpy is covered up to his waist in sand and is unable to free himself, when he notices vultures flying overhead. He is suddenly attacked by the vultures, which proceed to eat and tear him apart. He is able to crawl away from them, missing the lower half of his body, with a vulture pecking at the flesh on the back of his neck. The vulture flies off as a tornado hits Lumpy and leaves him as nothing but a skeleton. His skull falls off his body and rolls down a dune, making it look like a typical bare skull in the middle of a lifeless dune. It is then revealed that he was apparently next to a beach, where Pop and Cub are enjoying the day. Cub picks up Lumpy's skull and holds it up to his ear as though it were a sea shell. From the skull, Cub hears the sound of Lumpy moaning.
===Moral===
"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink!"
==Deaths==
*Lumpy is skinned alive and reduced to bone in an instant by a tornado.
==Injuries==
#Lumpy has his antlers sliced off by a tornado.
#Lumpy loses some of his teeth.
#Lumpy is eaten and torn apart by vultures.
==Survival Rate==
*Amount of surviving main characters: 2
*Amount of dead main characters: 1
*Total Rate: 66.67%
==Destruction==
*A cactus is sliced to pieces by a tornado.
==Goofs==
#Throughout the episode, Lumpy has a mix of his Season 2 design with his TV Series.
#Cub has the same design goof as Lumpy.
#It's impossible for Lumpy to wear his hat due to his antlers.
#The directions of Lumpy's antlers change numerous times when he looks for a place to hide from the tornado.
#Lumpy dives into the oasis, spits out the "water" several times, yet blood only appears when he brushes his teeth with it.
#The mirage Lumpy dives into should've disappeared at night, as there is no sunlight to create the image. (Debatable, as this may have been done for comedic effect.)
#Vultures are scavengers and only eat animals that are already dead, so they should've eaten Lumpy when he was already dead instead of attacking him when he was still alive.
#When Lumpy is being attacked by vultures, one of his feet fly out, which shouldn't be possible since his legs are under the sand. One of his hands is also seen flying towards the screen, but he still has both hands when he crawls away. 
#When Lumpy is attacked by the vultures, everything below his waist is eaten, even though his lower half is under the sand.
#When Lumpy is attacked by the vultures, his kidney is seen flying towards the screen. In the blurb version, it is missing.
#When Lumpy is attacked by the vultures, a circular portion of his torso with his vertebrae intact is seen sliding across the screen, even before his foot is cut off.
#The tornado removes Lumpy's antlers, which are bones, so it's unknown why his bones are left after his death. (Debtable, as it may have been because his skeleton is inside his body, while his antlers are on the outside, which means that if the tornado came back, it would take all of his bones with it.)
#Aubrey Ankrum (voice of Pop) is listed in the credits, even though Pop remains silent (and asleep) the entire time he appears in the episode.
==Quick Shot Moment==
In the scene where Lumpy begins walking after stripping all of his clothes off, there's a brief shot of Lumpy trying to drink from his empty canteen.
Note: This is fixed in the Blurb version and in the Classics Remastered version on Mondomedia.com.
Note: This is the last occurrence of the quick shot moment, as they are no longer put into episodes released after this one.
Category:Internet Episodes
Category:Internet Season 3
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Category:Episodes With No Debatable Deaths
Category:Beach Episodes
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Category:Episodes written by Kenn Navarro
Category:Episodes written by Warren Graff
Category:Episodes written by Ken Pontac
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Category:More Survived Than Killed
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