Blast From the Past/Trivia

==General Trivia==
*It could be said that Sniffles started the Happy Tree Friends' long reputation of dying over and over, since his influence on the past altered a situation resulting in Toothy's minor injury to one that results in almost everyone's death. (The description on the HTF website saying that "Building a time machine to change the past creates a deadly future for Sniffles!" may also be implying that too.)
*In the beginning of the scene where Toothy breaks his arm in reverse, the text "Track toothy with camera" quickly flashes twice at the top right corner of the screen (this was removed from the remastered version of the episode on Mondo's website).
*This is the one of the two episodes in the TV series to not feature characters with an occupation of any kind. The other is I've Got You Under My Skin.
**Coincidentally, both episodes star Sniffles and feature Giggles.
*The former YouTube thumbnail for Part 1 spoiled Lumpy's second death.
**The current YouTube thumbnail for Part 2 spoils Giggles' third death.
*All four of the featuring characters in this episode make up the four primary characters of the show (Cuddles, Giggles, Toothy, and Lumpy).
*This is the final ever episode where Rhode Montijo voices Lumpy since Lumpy's Whistle from the Original episode was reused here. However, the final episode Rhode Montijo truly voices Lumpy was in Icy You.
*There are numerous notable differences between the merry-go-round scene in this episode and Spin Fun Knowin' Ya on which the scene is based.
*#In the original, Giggles does not have the diamond mark on her head, Toothy has two stray hairs atop his head, and Cuddles' cheeks are white at the beginning. These are fixed in the present episode.
*#In the original, Cuddles, Giggles, and Toothy have their mitten-like hands throughout the episode, while now their fingers can be seen.
*#In the original, Lumpy is neither paying attention to the kids nor smiling. In this episode, he is smiling at and watching the kids.
*#In the original, only Cuddles laughs and tells Lumpy to go faster. In this episode, all three laugh and tell Lumpy to go faster.
*#In this episode, Toothy flinches after Lumpy begins pushing them faster, whereas he does not do that in the original episode.
*#In this episode, Toothy's expression changes before he flies off the merry-go-round, whereas in the original it does not change until after.
*#When Toothy flies off the merry-go-round in this episode, he flies in the opposite direction to the one in Spin Fun Knowin' Ya.
*#In the original, Toothy's blood splatters in a design. In this episode, it makes more of a spaced out splatter.
*#In this episode, the pole that Giggles holds onto is hollow when it breaks off. In the original episode, it is solid when it breaks off.
*#In this episode, during Giggles' death scene, the background is slightly zoomed out.
*#In the original, Giggles is cut completely in half by the stump. In this episode, her spinal cord remains intact.
*#In the original, Giggles' teeth cannot be seen when she is cut in half, but they are present in this episode.
*#In the original, chunks of Cuddles' body can be seen coming out of the airplane's engine. In this episode, only his blood flies out.
*#In this episode, after Toothy and Giggles fly off the merry-go-round, Cuddles yells "Oh my god, I'm going to die! Not this old death again!" whereas in Spin Fun Knowin' Ya he shouts "Alright, alright! I don't want to die!"
*#In the original, Cuddles' hands face the wrong way at the end. In this episode, they face the right way.
*#In the original, when Lumpy makes the "OK" sign, he has five fingers. In this episode, he has four fingers.
*To date, this episode marks the only time in the series that Sniffles was able to eat and hold down an ant.
*In total, Sniffles travels back in time seven times.
*The order of the events that takes place are roughly:
*#Sniffles plants the trees in prehistoric times.
*#Sniffles chops down the trees and dismantles the playground equipment.
*#Lumpy, Cuddles, Giggles, and Toothy arrive at the playground.
*#Toothy breaks his arm or Toothy impales Lumpy or Toothy walks away from the spot the slide was in or Lumpy, Cuddles, Giggles, and Toothy find the merry-go-round.
*#Lumpy is impaled by the seesaw handle or Cuddles is flung into space or Cuddles is rescued by Sniffles or Toothy gets flung into a tree.
*#Giggles is crushed by a garbage truck or Giggles is crushed by a swing-set or Giggles hits a stump and splits in half.
*#Cuddles is flung into an airplane propeller.
*#Lumpy asks Sniffles to help him deal with Toothy's broken arm or Lumpy asks Sniffles to help him deal with the deaths of Toothy, Giggles, and Cuddles.
*#Sniffles knocks over his glass of milk or Sniffles is crushed by the time machine.
*#Sniffles begins building the time machine or Sniffles goes to help Lumpy.
*The moral in this episode is the same one used in Better Off Bread, which makes sense, since both episodes involve time travel.
*This is the first episode in which Sniffles stars and survives. (Debatable, though it may not count, since he got crushed by his past self from the past timeline.)
**Unless if you count Sniffles crushing his past self with the time machine, this is also the first episode where Sniffles makes an invention that doesn't result in his death.
*This is the second time a character turns back time solely to get back something that the character planned on eating/drinking. The first time is in Better Off Bread with Splendid.
*This is the third episode in which a character dies multiple times. The first is Better Off Bread and the second is Remains to be Seen.
==Cultural References==
*The title of this episode has two possible meanings:
*#There is a 1999 movie with the same name.
*#It is also a term that means to quickly remember a previous moment in one's life solely by the sight of an object.
* The moral means that people will eventually get over insults, injuries, and hatreds.
*The movie Sniffles is watching at the start of the episode is Back to the Future, since a shot of the DeLorean speeding off and leaving two fiery trails behind can be seen: one of the many iconic events of the movie.
*Giggles' first death may be a homage to the garbage truck scene in Child's Play 3, and Vince's death in Eric Samsung's Wonder Woman.
**It is also similar to Griff's death from 1000 Ways to Die segments, "Re-Formed". Both scenarios involve a garbage compactor crushing the victim to death.
==Superlatives==
*Lumpy's second death is similar to Petunia's death in The Wrong Side of the Tracks.
*Giggles' second death is similar to Lumpy's death in Snow What? That's What!.
*Cuddles' Spin Fun Knowin Ya death is similar to Giggles' death in Wingin' It, as both involve getting shredded by the engine of a plane.
*Cuddles' first death is similar to his death in See What Develops.
==Continuity==
*The scene toward the end of the episode with the merry-go-round is a remake (or a prequel) of the episode Spin Fun Knowin' Ya. In other words, Sniffles likely caused the events in the short.
==Production Notes==
*When this episode aired along with Chew Said a Mouthful and See What Develops on YouTube, the alternate title for the conglomeration of segments was "Behind the Eight Ball". Lumpy, Toothy, and Giggles appear in all three episodes. Toothy dies in all three episodes and Giggles dies twice, while Lumpy survives in all three.
*Kenn Navarro stated that this episode was really hard to make, most likely because of the various time travel events.
*According to the cast commentary on the TV Series DVD Vol. 3, Sniffles originally spun around and got dizzy when he used his time machine, since it was built out of a washing machine. This was removed because they needed a few shots of him looking out of it.
*The sequence where Sniffles travels to prehistoric times is slightly different in the storyboard version of the episode.
**There is a special time travel transition that starts as black and white before various colors swirl in.
**In addition to a sextant and an L square, Sniffles also measures with laser-level measuring tape, the laser of which hits him in the eye when he snaps it back.
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