Without a Hitch

Without a Hitch is an episode of the Happy Tree Friends Internet series, released October 13, 2009 as the year's Halloween special. It is the eleventh episode of the third season and 65th overall. Visually and audibly, the episode is reminiscent of Sin City: mostly in black and white with occasional bursts of color (red blood and, in this case, Flippy's greenish-yellow eyes) and is
void of voices in this episode (only sound effects, i.e., music, thunder), respectively.
==HTF Episode Description==
In the dead of night, Flaky finds that unimaginable terror lurks at every turn. Fasten your seat-belts for a one way trip straight to the end of the road!
==Plot==
On a dark night, Flaky happily drives her car when she suddenly spots a figure underneath a streetlight. Flippy casually puts out his thumb to catch a ride. The kind Flaky stops and picks Flippy up. Once inside, Flippy pulls out some cheese from his duffel bag. The cheese gives off a horrid odor, forcing Flaky to roll down her window and stick her head out for fresh air. As she sighs in relief, the window begins rolling back up. Flippy, who is now flipped out, presses the switch to raise the window, laughing manically. Flaky screams as the window closes on her neck, decapitating her.
​​​​​The scene shifts back to Flaky in her car, and it turns out that her 'death' was merely in her imagination. She shivers at the thought and floors the gas, driving past Flippy. A few seconds later, Flaky's tire is punctured by a nail and has to stop. As she stares at her flat tire in despair, it begins to rain and thunder heavily.
Flaky struggles to use her lug wrench to change her tire, when she looks up. Lightning tears through the sky, revealing Flippy proceeding towards her. Flaky begins to panic. Flippy catches up to her, causing Flaky to drop her lug wrench shrieking in terror. She reaches out to grab it, but Fliqpy picks it up and stabs her in the eye with it, twirling the lug wrench around, and pulls out her eye. To finish her off, he smacks her in the head, crushing her skull. Fliqpy then drives off in Flaky's car with Flaky's carcass acting as a tire.
​​​​But this too is just Flaky's imagination, and Flippy has already fixed her tire while she's been screaming. Thankful that her car was fixed, a nervous Flaky gives Flippy a ride. After buckling in and encouraging Flaky to do so, Flippy pulls out a straight razor from his duffel bag. He then proceeds to smash Flaky's head through her windshield. Fliqpy then lets go of the wiper blade, which he has tied his razor to, slicing Flaky's face off in several pieces as it moves back and forth.
However, this is another convoluted imagine spot for Flaky, who is no longer paying attention to the road. As Flippy tries to slap some sense into her, the car plows into a utility pole, throwing Flippy through the windshield of the car. Flaky is still in her car thanks to the many seat belts she put on earlier, however she is badly injured and cut from broken pieces of the windshield.
thumb|270px|Flaky is now the only other person to kill somebody intentionally and unwittingly. It must be destiny and fate!|alt=​​​Flippy, seeing Flaky is badly injured and trapped in her car, pulls out his straight razor to cut the seat belts away from her. However Flaky's overactive imagination has completely gotten the better of her. Seeing the razor, she grabs a nearby shard of glass. As Flippy cuts one of the seat belt straps, Flaky jams the glass into Flippy's eye. Flippy yells in pain, seeing with one eye cracked-glass vision, and flees from the scene, where he is run over by Lumpy, who is driving a semi-truck. Lumpy, noticing he's hit something, slows his semi-truck down and comes to a screeching halt behind Flaky's car. He barely hits her bumper, moving her car forward a few inches.
Inside her vehicle, Flaky sighs in relief, but then her airbag belatedly deploys, splattering her body all over the car - the iris closes on her remains.
===Moral===
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions"
==Deaths==
#Flaky has three imaginary deaths:
##Flaky is decapitated when Fliqpy rolls a window under her head.
##Flaky's eye is removed and Fliqpy killed her with another blow to the head. Later, he is seen driving her car while using her stretched, bloody body as a tire.
##Flaky's face is cut off with Fliqpy's razor. Had the hallucination gone on longer or the goof never happened, Flaky would have been decapitated.
#Flippy is run over by Lumpy's truck.
#Flaky is splattered to pieces by her car's airbag.
==Injuries==
#Flaky is slapped by Flippy several times.
#Flaky crashes her car.
#Flippy flies through the windshield of Flaky's car.
#Flippy is stabbed in the eye with a glass shard by Flaky.
==Survival Rate==
*Amount of surviving main characters: 1
*Amount of dead main characters: 2
*Total Rate: 33.33%
==Destruction==
#Flaky's car pops a tire.
#Flaky drives her car into a utility pole.
#Flippy cuts one of the four seat belts with a pocket knife.
#Flaky's car is barely touched by Lumpy's truck, which is enough to activate the airbags.
#Flippy's shirt is run over by a truck.
==Goofs==
#In the shots of Flaky and Flippy in the car, when Flaky is holding the wheel, she has four fingers and a thumb. 
#The design on Flippy's beret changes places numerous times, sometimes during continuous shots.
#Before her first imagined death, Flaky's pupils are inverted.
#When Flaky is fixing the car's wheel (in her imagination), the car mirror is not seen.
#When Fliqpy prepares to kill Flaky with the lug wrench (in Flaky's imagination), his dog tags are missing.
#Flaky has two optic nerves connected to her eye when Flippy pulls it out. (Debatable, since this is Flaky's imagination)
#(In her imagination) When Fliqpy laughs while driving Flaky's car, a mark appears on the bottom of his chin. It disappears when he looks at the tire.
#When Fliqpy grabs Flaky by the back of the head and slams her face through the windshield (in her imagination), Flaky is not wearing her seatbelt, even though she had just buckled it in moments before - something she must have forgotten in her phobia.
#When Flaky's face is cut by wiper blade in her imagination, her damaged face stays the same, even though huge chunks are cut off.
#The angle in which Flippy slaps Flaky isn't possible.
#When Flippy gets in the car, he puts on his seat belt. After the shot of Flaky buckling her seat belt, Flippy is not using the seat belt anymore.
#When Flippy lies on the ground before getting up after the car crash, his beret doesn't fall off his head.
#After the crash, one of the headlights is lying near Flippy. The light is still working, despite the fact that the headlight is not attached to anything.
#When Flippy notices that Flaky is hurt, there is one shot in which his eyes become too large even for the HTF style.
#Just before Flippy is stabbed in the eye, he was cutting Flaky's buckle. When Lumpy bumps Flaky's car, however, the buckle is not cut.
#When Flippy is killed, his eyeball has a circular pupil.
#When Flaky is killed, her eyeball has a circular pupil.
#When Flaky is killed by her car's airbag, the steering wheel disappears after the airbag deflates.
#When Imagination Fliqpy pulls Imagination Flaky's eye out, the optic nerve(s) are black and white. When Flippy gets run over by Lumpy, the optic nerve seen attached to his eye is pink. When the airbag kills Flaky, the optic nerve on her eye is pink.
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