Back Forest

## Brief Description

Here it is! The very first episode of Death To Joy starts now!

Bjorn is happily running in the meadow humming the song Ode To Joy, the theme of the show. He, then, goes into a thick forest and suddenly his mane is getting tangled in some sticks of a giant tree. With panick ans terror in his eyes, he starts to move up and down so he can free himself. Unfortunately, the hair of the mane starts to come off along with the skin of the mane, causing him unbearable pain. After keeping moving up and down, the whole skin of the mane and upper skull comes off. Also the skull brakes revealing Bjorn's brain. Bjorn falls down dead while his brain and upper body's skin still hang from the tree.

Immediately after that, Jimmy surprasses the corpse without noticing, while he is riding his skateboard. Suddenly, he is noticing a wooden obstacle from the distance. It causes him to fly with his board, however he is an experienced skate-boarder and he lands safely on his skate. While he sighs in relieve he is crashed in some stairs he didn't even noticed. The stairs cut his body in 3 parts. The upper part of the head continues to getting dragged in the pavement. The iris close to his cap falling to his dead head.

***Next Episode:** Punk Kid*

## Deaths

1. Bjorn's upper body's skin and skull are torn from his rest of his body.
2. Jimmy is sliced in 3 parts by the stairs.

## Injuries

1. Bjorn's skin in mane starts to come off causing him bleeding and extreme pain
2. Bjorn's body crushed to the ground **(post-death)**

## Trivia

* This episode was released the same day with the 2nd episode, Punk Kid.
* Bjorn and Jimmy debuts in this episode.
* Bjorn became the first character to appear and die in the show.
* There is no interaction between Bjorn and Jimmy. The first episode were 2 characters interact is Food Pain.
* How da phaq did Bjorn get tangled in such a high tree while he was running in the ground?

* Bjorn screams "Oh my God" when his mane gets tangled, making it the first intance where a character speaks clear English in the show
	+ Bjorn saying English words will become a running gag of the show.
* Practically, this can be considered a 2-part episode since Bjorn's tale and Jimmy's tale don't connect at all.
	+ *Punk Kid* was supposed to be the "third tale" of this episode, but the creators decided to release it as a seperate episode for unknown reasons.
* The title of the episode is probably a pun from the popular dessert "Black Forest". The word "Back" is probably referring to Bjorn's torture, while the "Forest" to the landscape the episode takes place.
* The official description does not include any hint about the plot, the only time it happens until now. Instead, it just mentions this is the first episode of the show.
* This is the first episode with injuries before and after death.
* Bjorn hums the classic piece "Ode to Joy" which is the theme of the show.
* This is one of the rare moments we see Bjorn running with 4 legs, like a normal horse. He usually uses the front legs as hands.
* Jimmy's love for sports and action is introduced in this episode, but Bjorn's stupidity can't be seen in this episode. **(debatable)**. Maybe the creators didn't intend to make him a stupid character originally.
* Bjorn dies in agony in his very first appearance, which doesn't forshadows his big survival rate in the future.