The Wrong Side of the Tracks/Trivia

==Trivia==
*This episode introduces the main characters' renovated designs that would go on to be used in the internet series, excluding the Break episodes, starting with Season 3 premiere Read 'em and Weep. These changes include:
** Curved buckteeth, with less angular corners.
**Smaller eye sockets.
**Slightly lighter pupils.
** Wider bodies and even wider heads.
**A new screaming mouth asset. This is the first time it was used since it was last used by Toothy and Petunia in Happy Trails Pt. 1.
**A slightly renovated happy mouth asset.
**Lumpy also gains a slightly updated appearance, having his own version of everything mentioned above.
**Sniffles gains a smaller snout.
** Petunia gains a smaller tail.
** For most of the series from this episode onward, Mime does not have his tail.
*Character revelation: This episode gives out the character trait that Handy is a sociopath. When he successfully throws a ring over the peg Nutty got impaled on, Handy not only cheers on his win, but also Nutty's death. This happens later when he and Cuddles are riding on the roller coaster and Cuddles loses his arms, Handy laughs at the fact that Cuddles lost his hands while Cuddles bleeds to death.
*Nutty's death makes him the first character to die in the TV series.
*This is one of the few episodes where Cuddles appears with a large group of characters, but without Toothy.
*This is the first episode in the series where Russell survives.
*This is the only outdoor episode with no trees that doesn't take place on a beach.
*This is the only season premiere where Lumpy appears and dies.
*This is Sniffles' only TV starring role where Nutty, Disco Bear, Lifty, and Shifty appear.
*When Giggles, Petunia, Lifty, Shifty, Cuddles, and Handy are entering the roller coaster, Mime's corpse can be seen still nailed to one of the boards if one looks to the board just above them.
*For comedic effect, when Lumpy is chasing after Lifty and Shifty, the vehicles they are riding in swap places briefly. Lumpy is in the roller coaster cart, and Lifty and Shifty are riding on the pushcart. 
*This episode marks Petunia's first onscreen death since Hello Dolly.
*This is the first time Russell’s has survived an episode 
*When Lifty is shredded by the turnstile, The Cursed Idol and Cub's ball (from Havin' A Ball) fly out. The idol may have been the cause of both Lifty and Shifty's deaths.
*Not counting his starring pop-up where he's smiling, Sniffles' mouth is not seen throughout the episode until he dies.
*This is one of the few episodes where Lifty and Shifty do not steal anything or do anything antagonistic.
*This is the first episode to show Sniffles with a shorter snout as opposed to the longer snout seen in the earlier internet seasons.
*When Giggles and Petunia are about to fall to their death, Giggles screams the same way she does in Eyes Cold Lemonade, where she is voiced by Dana Belben.
*When Cuddles and Flaky see the roller coaster, one can hear Cuddles say "Come on!"
*All of the characters in this episode, with the addition of Flippy, The Mole, Toothy, and Cro-Marmot, appear in Double Whammy Part I and/or its continuation, Autopsy Turvy (Double Whammy Part II).
*Lumpy is responsible for every death in this episode, although Sniffles is indirectly responsible for Mime's death.
* This is one of the only two episodes of the TV series that star Sniffles without him inventing anything, the other one being Idol Curiosity.
*This episode marks the second instance of Handy laughing at someone's misfortune shortly before his own death, the first being Wheelin' and Dealin'.
**Interestingly, Handy laughs in the exact same way as in said episode.
*Not counting the starring and featuring roles in the beginning, Cuddles is the first character to appear in the TV series, as he is the first to appear on camera, riding the roller coaster in the background. If one does count the starring and featuring role pop-ups in the beginning, then Lumpy is the first character to appear in the TV series. If one counts the intro of the TV series, because of the page flip, Pop and Cub are the first to appear in the TV series.
*The music during the Lumpy, Lifty, and Shifty chase scene is also used in the Splitting Hares video. 
**It is also used as one of the 'panic' music tracks (when the alarm bell is getting closer to ringing) in the False Alarm video game.
*Disco Bear, Russell, and Flaky are characters who commonly die, but they are the only survivors of this episode.
**Coincidentally, they are the same characters who have objects thrown at them in Chew Said a Mouthful.
*This is the first and only time Disco Bear has ever survived a featuring role.
*The former YouTube thumbnail for Part 2 spoiled Cuddles' injury/death. The current one spoiled Handy's death, and the current thumbnail on mondomedia.com spoiled Nutty's death.
*Lifty and Shifty's screams after they get thrown out of their cart are reused from Meat Me for Lunch and Milkin' It.
*When Handy is sliced in half, one can only see his humerus, which seems to be fully intact with no remanence of a radius or ulna bone, revealing that his arms are amputated exactly at the elbow and not at the wrist like some have thought.
*This is one of the many episodes to have no trees in the background.
**This is also the only TV episode to have no trees.
*Only Toothy, Pop, Cub, The Mole, Cro-Marmot, Flippy and Splendid did not debut in this episode of the TV series. All of them except Flippy made their debut in the following episode.
*Dana Belben reprises her roles as Giggles and Petunia in this episode in place of Ellen Connell.
*Cuddles is the only rider from the first ride to ride the second one and die in this episode.
*Toothy is the only primary character to not appear in this episode.
*All of Handy's voice clips are recycled from older episodes.
==Cultural References==
*The title of this episode is an idiom which means the bad side of town.
*Handy's death is similar to Atom's death in the 1994 movie Eric Samsung's Wonder Woman: Revelations.
* A roller coaster ride going horribly wrong and killing everyone involved may be a reference to Final Destination 3. Furthermore, Mime dies a similar death to the character Erin from Final Destination 3.
*Nutty's death is similar to NOS-4-A2's death in the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command episode "Revenge of the Monsters" and Bishop's death in the 1986 film Aliens, as three of them involve getting impaled in the chest.
*Some fans of both Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Happy Tree Friends say that this episode is a reference to a Mission in San Andreas', "Wrong Side of the Tracks", due to its title being similar and most characters in the episode dying and the Vagos gang members dying on the train after getting shot by Big Smoke.
*The way Lumpy tries to stop Giggles and Petunia's cart is similar to the runaway subway train scene from Spider-Man 2. According to the commentary on the TV Series DVD Vol. 1, it is also a reference to the mine cart scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
==Superlatives== 
*Handy's death is similar to Giggles' death in Boo Do You Think You Are?, Cuddles' death in Let It Slide, and Sniffles' death in See You Later, Elevator.
*Cuddles' death is similar to one of Sniffles' deaths in his smoochie.
*Nutty's death is similar to Giggles' death in Every Litter Bit Hurts, Petunia's death in Hello Dolly, Flaky's injury before death in Take Your Seat, Jade's death in Mortal Kombat 9, and Pop's death in As You Wish.
*Mime's death is similar to Disco Bear's death in Ski Ya, Wouldn't Wanna Be Ya!, as both deaths involve getting impaled with nails stuck in a wood plank.
*Petunia's death is similar to Lumpy's second death in Blast from the Past.
*Lifty and Shifty's deaths are similar to Lifty's death in Easy For You to Sleigh.
==Continuity==
*One of the stuffed Lumpy dolls in the episode would later appear in a polluted lake in Every Litter Bit Hurts.
==Production Notes==
*When this episode aired along with From Hero to Eternity and And the Kitchen Sink on YouTube, the alternate title for the conglomeration of the segments was "One Foot in the Grave". Cuddles, Giggles, Flaky, Lifty, and Shifty appear in all three of these episodes. Cuddles, Lifty, and Shifty die in all three, while Flaky dies twice.
*This is the one of the three TV episodes in which Dana Belben had her voice sampled.
*This episode marks Francis Carr's first time voicing Russell, and Kenn Navarro's first credited time voicing Lifty and Shifty (though it is one of the five TV episodes where Mark Giambruno's voice was sampled for them).
*This episode, along with From Hero to Eternity (and possibly other TV episodes), was at least partially produced in 2005.
* Nutty's death is slightly different in the storyboard version of this episode, as can be seen in the TV Series DVD Vol. 1. In the storyboard version, Handy throws his first ring while the impaled Nutty is still alive, but misses. He throws another ring that successfully hits the peg, and Nutty cheers at Handy's success before dying.
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