The Carpal Tunnel of Love

**The Carpal Tunnel of Love** is a song by the alternative rock band **Fall Out Boy**. A *Happy Tree Friends* episode first appeared on Fall Out Boy's website on February 5, 2012.

## Basic Knowledge

### Starting Roles

* Gaby
* Truffels

### Also Featuring

* Nutty
* The Mole
* Toothy
* Fall Out Boy Members

## The Carpel Tunnel Of Love

### Director

Kenn Navarro

Cuddles approaches a bus stop where Giggles is sitting alone. The two lock eyes, and it is love at first sight. Cuddles sits down and slides over to put his arm around Giggles, but unbeknownst to him, Lumpy has sat down between the two, in which irritates him when Cuddles puts his arm around him. Saddened by his missed opportunity, Cuddles brightens up when he sees Toothy nearby, trimming a large bush with flowers growing out of it.

Cuddles runs over and grabs two flowers, irritating a bee that was about to land on one of them. Cuddles tries to give the flowers to Giggles, but Lumpy's hay fever acts up and he sneezes, destroying the flowers. Meanwhile, Toothy has finished trimming the bush into the shape of a heart. Unfortunately, the enraged bee from earlier flies around Toothy's head and stings him in the eye, causing it to swell up badly.

The bus arrives and Cuddles, Giggles, and Lumpy (whose hay fever is still acting up) get on. While Lumpy sits next to Giggles, Cuddles sadly sits by himself. He gets an idea, however, and draws a heart on a sheet of paper. When he tries to give it to Giggles, Lumpy unknowingly grabs the paper and blows his nose with it. He tosses the snot-covered paper out of the bus and it hits Nutty, who is riding a motor scooter, in the face. This causes him to lose control of his vehicle and crash into a truck full of pipes, where he is impaled in numerous places on his body.

The bus pulls up to a small diner and the three get out. They enter the building, with Toothy following behind them. Lumpy, not realizing Toothy is there, closes the door, accidentally catching Toothy's swelled-up eye in the door. Toothy falls down outside, while his eye becomes detached and flies into a tub of ice cream which The Mole, a waiter at the cafe, approaches with an ice cream scoop.

Cuddles and Giggles gaze longingly into each others eyes while the Fall Out Boy band members (in *Happy Tree Friends* form) enter the diner. Cuddles and Giggles are about to share their first kiss, when The Mole puts an ice cream float between the two of them. They laugh it off and start drinking from two straws. They spit out the drink however, and the carbonation clears to reveal that both straws have been stuck into Toothy's severed eye. Horrified, Cuddles pushes the glass off the table and the eye rolls onto the floor.

Lumpy, who is walking by at the moment, accidentally steps on Toothy's eye and panics upon seeing the blood under his foot. He runs out of the building, killing Toothy when he slams the door open on him. Lumpy spots Handy's tow truck parked nearby and climbs in. He accidentally puts the truck in reverse and crashes into the diner. He then puts the truck in drive and takes off. Unfortunately, the hook of the truck gets stuck to a ceiling fan and the cable becomes taut, slicing The Mole in half as he walks over it.

The building starts to get dragged away by the tow truck as it moves, running over and decapitating the members of Fall Out Boy. Cuddles and Giggles run away from the approaching wall of the building, in an effort to avoid a similar fate. Lumpy, meanwhile, gets stung in the eye by the agitated bee from before, causing him to crash his vehicle into the truck of pipes that Nutty crashed into earlier.

Lumpy appears dazed, but relatively uninjured from the crash. He soon finds, however, that the cable of the truck has wrapped around his head and antlers. To make matters worse, it starts retracting back into the truck. Lumpy tries to get his head free from the cable, and in his struggles he steps on the gas pedal, causing the wheels to start spinning and launching some of the pipes away behind the truck.

At this time, Cuddles and Giggles exit the cafe and look lovingly at each other. Before anything can happen, though, they are both impaled through the head by a pipe launched by the truck and fly off screen. Lumpy, on the other hand, is finally decapitated when he is unable to remove the tow truck's cable from his head. Cuddles is then shown impaled on the pipe (which is sticking out of his mouth in a pucker position), which is sticking to a tree. Giggles' body slides down the pipe, also having been impaled through the mouth by the pipe. As the episode ends, the two finally kiss when their lips touch.

## Lyrics

* We take sour sips from life's lush lips
* And we shake, shake, shake the hips in relationships
* Stomp out this disaster town
* You'll put your eyes to the sun and say, "I know
* You're only blinding to keep back what the clouds are hiding."
* And we might have started singing just a little soon
* We're throwing stones at a glass moon
* Whoa oh, we're so miserable and stunning
* Whoa oh, love songs for the genuinely cunning, whoa-oh
* We keep the beat with your blistered feet
* We bullet the words at the mockingbirds singing
* slept through the weekend and dreaming
* Of sinking with the melody of the cliffs of eternity
* Got postcards from my former selves saying, "How you been?"
* We might have said goodbyes just a little soon
* (Stomp out this disaster town)
* Robbing lips, kissing banks under this moon
* Whoa oh, we're so miserable and stunning
* Whoa oh, love songs for the genuinely cunning
* Whoa oh, we're so miserable and stunning
* Whoa oh, love songs for the genuinely cunning, whoa-oh
* it was ice cream headaches and sweet avalanche
* When the pearls in our shells got up to dance
* You call me a bad tipper of the cradle
* Tired yawns for fawns on hunter's lawns
* We're the has-beens of husbands
* Sharpening the knives of young wives
* Take two years and call me when you're better
* Take teardrops of mine, find yourself wetter
* Whoa oh oh, we're so miserable and stunning
* Whoa oh, love songs for the genuinely cunning
* Whoa oh, we're so miserable and stunning
* Whoa oh, love songs for the genuinely cunning

### Written by:

* Andrew John Hurley, Joseph Mark Trohman, Patrick Martin Stump, Peter Lewis Wentz, Wesley Eisold

## Fates

### Deaths

* Nutty
* Toothy
* The Mole
* Fall Out Boy Members
* Truffels
* Gaby
* Lunders

## Trivia

* Despite being a starring character, Giggles only appears in a single shot by herself once in the episode (at the very start).
* Judging by the severity of the swelling of Toothy's eye after he is stung, especially compared to the absence of swelling of Lumpy's eye, this video seems to suggest that Toothy is allergic to bee stings. However, Toothy is stung by hundreds of bees in *Aw, Shucks!*, with no sign of an allergic reaction. However, it is possible that those were wasps.
* Toothy is the only primary character to not star in this episode.
* Handy's truck appears in this episode, but Handy does not actually make a physical appearance, just as an icon on the truck.
* There are no voices or sound effects in this episode, only music.
* Lumpy is responsible for all the deaths in this episode, including his own. The bee could, however, also be considered responsible.
	+ Cuddles could also be considered responsible, because if he had not angered the bee, it would not have stung Toothy, his eye would not have been there to spook Lumpy, meaning that he would have no reason to get into the truck in the first place.
* This song is featured in the Sony video game "MLB 07: The Show".
* This is the first and so far, only instance of a celebrity appearing on *Happy Tree Friends*.
	+ This is also the first of only two official music videos from *Happy Tree Friends*, despite the many fan-made AMVs on YouTube. The second music video is *Unlucky*.
	+ However, there is not a new episode for the latter. Instead, it uses the scenes cut from other episodes.
* This is the second time Cuddles and Giggles have "kissed" while they were both dead. The first time was in *Remains to be Seen*.
* Nutty also was seen riding a scooter in *Sweet Ride*. However, the scooter in this episode is a red motor scooter, while in *Sweet Ride*, it was a blue push scooter.
* No one survives in this episode.
	+ There is only **one** survivor: the Generic Tree Friend driving the bus. However, in order for a survival to be counted, the character must be visible.
* This is the third time Toothy has an eye injury.
* This is the only and last episode where Lumpy's eyes get big when he's scared outside of the TV Series.
* Lumpy's sick assets are from *I've Got You Under My Skin*.