Line #17 Recap/HTFRemainsToBeSeen


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/untitled_348.png]]
2	--> ''"Live and let live!"''
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4	Airdate: September 27, 2003
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6	"Remains to be Seen" is the twenty-second episode of the second (internet) season of ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''.
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8	A group of costumed Happy Tree Friends are out trick-or-treating, while Flippy is driving a truck carrying barrels of radioactive goo. He stops to let the critters cross the road when suddenly, his car backfires, causing him to flip out. He steps on the gas, killing everybody present, including himself. Later, Lumpy has finished burying all the dead critters. He then notices Nutty's foot still exposed above the dirt, so he pushes it in, but Nutty's arm pops out instead. Lumpy pushes said arm, then another foot, then another arm, before Nutty's head pops out with a moan, prompting Lumpy to bury him in a large mound. He is not out of the woods yet though, as the rest of the dead critters, not just Nutty, rise from their graves as zombies. The moose panics for a while before he decides to run towards his tool shed and grab a lawnmower, using it to destroy the zombies. His lawnmower is suddenly stopped by a pair of hands. Zombie Fliqpy rises from his grave, then leaps onto Lumpy, biting his arm. The poor moose shakes Fliqpy off, tearing off his arm in the process, before running away while letting out a girlish scream. Zombie Fliqpy has no lower body, but he happens to spot zombie Handy, whose upper half is then torn off by him, leaving the legs free for him to use. Lumpy runs back into the shed and has to decide on a tool to replace his missing arm. He picks one, attaches it to the stump... and it is actually a leaf blower that does not affect Fliqpy at all. That is, until Fliqpy leaps toward him again, causing the leaf blower to get lodged in his eye. Lumpy detaches his arm from the tool and watches as Fliqpy's head inflates and then rips open, exposing his inflated brain, which attracts the rest of the zombies. The apocalypse ends when zombie Toothy bites down on Fliqpy's brain, causing an explosion that leaves a large crater where the zombies end up buried once again, this time for good. Lumpy feels relieved after all that trouble, until his arm suddenly attacks him. Turns out, his torn arm has been zombiefied. As Lumpy looks at it in confusion, the arm punches him out.
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10	!!"Remains to be Seen" provides examples of:
11	* AmbidextrousSprite: Flippy's beret's crest, Russell's eye patch and HookHand, Lumpy's antlers, zombie Handy's broken decorative horn, and zombie Petunia's damaged face.
12	* AppendageAssimilation: After the truck crash cuts him in half at the waist, zombie Fliqpy rips zombie Handy in half as well and "borrows" his lower half, using his intestines as suspenders.
13	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Handy's tail is somehow attached to his back, as shown when zombie Fliqpy rips his upper half off.
14	* ArtisticLicenseSpace: As usual, stars end up drawn over the moon.
15	* BaitAndSwitch:
16	** Lumpy deciding on a weapon to replace his missing arm. The scene is fixated on a part of the shed that happens to feature the typical zombie-slaying weapon, the chainsaw. Lumpy picks a tool... namely a leaf blower. Still effective, though.
17	** In a meta sense, the [[https://happytreefriends.fandom.com/wiki/Remains_to_be_Seen/Gallery?file=S2E22_The_Promo_picture.jpg promotional picture]] used to hype up the episode hinted nothing towards it being an episode about Fliqpy, Lumpy, or the zombie apocalypse.
18	* BittersweetEnding: Lumpy survives the ZombieApocalypse, but he has lost one of his arms and said missing arm ends up zombiefied. Also, notice zombie Mole in the credits...
19	* BloodierAndGorier: Once Fliqpy takes over, the [=BlurB!=] caption regarding Flippy and Halloween becomes this.
20	-->Flippy is a HUGE Halloween guy he loves all the blood and gore and scary stuff
21	* TheCameo: A FreezeFrameBonus during Cuddles and Giggles's "brain spaghetti" scene shows that the cursed idol is in one of the graves in the background.
22	* CaptainObvious: A staple of [=BlurB!s=], really.
23	-->Most car accidents that happen involve a car
24	* CaptionHumor: One of the episodes with a [=BlurB!=] version.
25	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Courtesy of the [=BlurB!=].
26	** Immediately averted after the "[=BlurB!=]" caption, though.
27	--->''[the ''Happy Tree Friends'' theme plays in minor [[{{Scales}} key]] over a Halloween version of the intro]''\
28	Starting off with creepy music and spooky letters. This must be a [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas episode]]!\
29	[=BlurB!=]\
30	Just kidding, it's Halloween. Christmas would have [[TakeThat scarier]] [[ChristmasSongs music]].
31	** Played straight during the scene where Lumpy gets a lawnmower to destroy the zombies.
32	--->Lumpy is freaked out because he almost forgot to mow the lawn.
33	* CreditsGag: The credits sequence has zombie Mole still shambling about in the background.
34	* CreepyBlueEyes: All the zombies (except Mime, who has pale purple) have pale blue eyes. And for some reason, Fliqpy has them even before he dies.
35	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Everyone involved in the truck crash ends up with horrific injuries. Special mention goes to Mime, who ends up with his flesh fully stripped from his body (his head remaining mostly intact with a chunk of it suddenly missing when he becomes a zombie, exposing a part of his brain), leaving him with bones and what is left of his vital organs for his body.
36	* {{Cowboy}}: Cuddles's costume.
37	* DoesNotLikeSpam: PlayedForLaughs. According to the [=BlurB!=], apparently Flippy is not into Halloween much because he is allergic to chocolate and candy corn (that is, until his Fliqpy self takes over).
38	* FacelessMasses: Pretty much all the bear-shaped background characters. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], however, when they are shown as zombies, as their faces become visible, though they still look generic.
39	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Following the truck crash that turned the Tree Friends into zombies, Fliqpy is missing his lower half. He fixes the problem by ripping zombie Handy in half as well and [[AppendageAssimilation "borrowing"]] his lower half.
40	* HalloweenCosplay: Most of the trick-or-treaters are costumed. The episode's promotional image shows even more, with three of the FacelessMasses dressed up as a BedsheetGhost, a devil, and a bee.
41	* HalloweenEpisode: Despite being released about a month earlier.
42	* HornyVikings: Handy is dressed up as one.
43	* {{Mummy}}: Russell's costume. Makes his ZombieGait look more fitting once he turns undead.
44	* NoZombieCannibals: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] Once zombie Fliqpy's inflated brain gets exposed, the rest of the zombies see this as a treat and shamble towards him instead of targeting Lumpy.
45	* NuclearMutant: The zombies are the result of the dead being covered in radioactive goo.
46	* OhCrap: Oh so many coming from Lumpy, thanks to the [[ZombieApocalypse situation]] he ends up in.
47	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Furthermore, the usual "infection by bite" also works in turning anything dead into a zombie, as seen on Lumpy's torn arm. Lastly, NoZombieCannibals is averted in that the zombies go after zombie Fliqpy when his brain inflates to where it pops out of his head.
48	* RecycledSoundtrack:
49	** The music heard after the crash is reused from "[[Recap/HTFMimeAndMimeAgain Mime and Mime Again]]".
50	** The music from "[[Recap/HTFBooDoYouThinkYouAre Boo Do You Think You Are?]]" and "[[Recap/HTFOutOfSightOutOfMime Out of Sight, Out of Mime]]" is reused in this episode as well. Fitting, both aforementioned episodes are [[HalloweenEpisode Halloween episodes]].
51	* RevenantZombie: Zombie Fliqpy continues to be aggressive and out for blood even after his (first) death. He is also noticeably much more intelligent compared to the rest of the zombies.
52	* RiseFromYourGrave: The zombie Happy Tree Friends all emerge from their graves to attack Lumpy the gravedigger, starting with the classic shot of a hand emerging from the ground.
53	* RougeAnglesOfSatin: One of the [=BlurB!=] captions mentions the radioactive waste barrels having "lose" lids when instead of "loose".
54	* ShoutOut:
55	** Lumpy running into a shed after having his arm torn off is similar to what happens to Ash in ''Film/EvilDead2'', albeit (stupidly) attaching a leaf blower instead of a chainsaw.
56	** Sniffles is dressed as [[Franchise/StarTrek a red shirt with Vulcan ears]].
57	** Nutty's glasses and fake mustache invoke [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho's]] appearance.
58	* SicklyGreenGlow: The radioactive goo.
59	* SoleSurvivor: Lumpy is the only one who survives the entire episode.
60	* SpaghettiKiss: Zombie Cuddles and Zombie Giggles do this with a brain they're both eating. The [=BlurB!=], in its usual style, hilariously misattributes this as a reference to ''D2: Film/TheMightyDucks''. The same joke ShoutOut is also captioned over the ''Evil Dead 2'' reference.
61	* SpecialEditionTitle: Being a HalloweenEpisode, the intro of course has a different theme.
62	* TakeThatMe: PlayedForLaughs, obviously.
63	-->Wow! That was a short episode\
64	not very creative either
65	* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Cuddles, Giggles, Mime, Flippy, Toothy, Petunia, Nutty, Russell, Handy, Lifty, Shifty, and Sniffles die twice. Mole is also revived as a zombie but he stays "alive" at the end.
66	* ToxicWasteCanDoAnything: Apparently all dead Happy Tree Friends exposed to the spilled radioactive goo can come back to life... [[CameBackWrong but not in a happy way]].
67	* UpdatedRerelease: One of the early episodes to be part of the "Classics Remastered" releases, which rerelease early ''HTF'' episodes in HD.
68	* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: This part.
69	-->Flippys brain looks like it's been worked out enough today
70	* ZombieApocalypse: The premise of this episode.
71	* ZombieGait: The zombie Happy Tree Friends move like this, except for Fliqpy, who basically behaves more aggressively than his living self.

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