Lumpy-Pop-Cub Relationship

This article focuses on the interactions between Lumpy and Pop & Cub. Please note that Pop and Cub interactions with Lumpy are not being a duo and being individually instead.
==Overview==
While Pop and Cub rarely interact with other characters, they have frequent encounters with Lumpy. Unlike his other interactions, Pop is mostly on good terms with Lumpy and their relations tend to range from being acquaintances to good friends. 
==Lumpy’s Side==
Lumpy is the only character who regularly interacts with Pop and Cub. In most cases, he is seen helping them with their problems. This includes saving them from Whistle in Doggone It, expelling a demon from Cub's body in Read 'em and Weep, and initially saving Pop from a potential disaster in Spare Tire. He often sticks around and bonds with Pop after helping him out, as he mourns Cub's death in Read 'em and Weep and happily accepts Pop's offer to hang out at his house after Fliqpy's supposed death in A Vicious Cycle.
That being said, Lumpy has gotten into a few quarrels with the father and son duo. Most prominently, Stealing the Spotlight, Lumpy is shown to be jealous of their Christmas lights, with said envy resulting in Pop and Cub's deaths, which Lumpy doesn't seem to be phased by. His actions also costed Pop and Cub their lives in Every Litter Bit Hurts and likely Wingin' It. In addition, when Lumpy was portrayed as a genie in As You Wish, when Pop asked him to make a fire truck for Cub, Lumpy grants Pop's wish incorrectly by setting Cub on fire. Lumpy also scolds Pop for lighting a match near a gas station in Spare Tire. 
==Pop’s Side==
While Pop tends to be quite impatient or dismissive when it comes to other characters, he seems to be on cordial terms with Lumpy. In several of their appearances together, Pop often asks Lumpy for help, showing that he has a degree of trust in the latter. This can be seen in Doggone It and Read 'em and Weep. He also invites Lumpy and Disco Bear to hang out at his house, presumably to congratulate them for putting Fliqpy to justice in A Vicious Cycle. and mourns Cub's death with Lumpy in Read 'em and Weep. Pop also invited Lumpy to a search party to find Cub in A Hole Lotta Love and watches his play in Class Act. He even tries to save Lumpy's gas station in Spare Tire, though unsuccessfully, as it quickly explodes, killing both of them.
However, their relationship isn't perfect. In Every Litter Bit Hurts, Pop was technically working against Lumpy, as the former joined Giggles to clean up the environment that Lumpy was polluting. Because of Pop's lack of intelligence, he also caused Lumpy's death a few times, such as in A Hole Lotta Love, where he kills Lumpy with Sniffles' drill machine, and Spare Tire, where Pop's match had cause the gas station to catch fire and explode.
==Cub’s Side==
While Lumpy doesn't interact with Cub as often, they seem to be friendly with each other. Cub greets Lumpy in Rink Hijinks, and participates in activities Lumpy himself have created, all without Pop even as seen in Kringle Feast, and I Get a Trick Out of You. He also sports a hat resembling Lumpy's early design from Banjo Frenzy in Wrath of Con.
However, Cub also doesn't seem to mind Lumpy's deaths, as he loves to play with Lumpy's body parts as seen in Rink Hijinks and Just Desert, and causes Lumpy's death as a giant cyborg in Cubtron Z. However, this is most likely because he doesn't understands the concept of death.
== Trivia ==
*Both Pop and Lumpy have the largest kill counts in the series, but also survived many episodes.
*Pop was originally going to have an interaction with Lumpy in Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark, as he was originally going to appear in the episode before Flippy replaced him.
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