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Giggles tries to save the environment, even if it hurts... those around her.
"A new broom sweeps clean!"

Airdate: October 16, 2006

Giggles discovers that Lumpy the garbage man has been dumping trash and recyclables in the lake. She rallies some of her friends to clean up the place, but Lumpy gets in the way by doing more acts harmful to the environment.

"Every Litter Bit Hurts" contains the following:

  • Accidental Murder:
    • Lumpy inadvertently kills Cub with a TNT dynamite, Pop with a pine-cone he put in his truck, a snail with the tooth pick he used from the tree, and torn Sniffles with the tree that Giggles was on.
    • The Mole inadvertently stabs Giggles in the heart, killing her.
  • And Show It to You: Although accidentally, The Mole stabs Giggles in the back and forces her heart out of her chest, showing it to her before stuffing it in his trash bag.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Giggles' Nice Girl side immediately shatters when she finds out about Lumpy's poor treatment of the lake.
  • Bittersweet Ending: Giggles saves the lake from pollution. However, the Mole accidentally impales her in the heart with his litter stick.
  • Blind Mistake: The Mole unknowingly picks up a flower, killed a frog, stabs Sniffles' foot, and stabs Giggles in the heart at the end.
  • Brick Joke: The Running Gag causes Giggles' death at the end.
  • Character Development: This episode moves Giggles away from her traditional "girly girl" personality and shows her more aggressive and love for the environment side.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death:
    • Lumpy is impaled by the stump of the tree he chopped down.
    • Sniffles is torn by the tree that the other tree fell on.
  • Green Aesop: Don't pollute or nature will make you pay!
  • The Hero: Giggles. She intends to stop Lumpy's pollution on the lake.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: The stump of the tree that Lumpy chopped down ends his life.
  • Idiot Ball: The plot focuses on Giggles putting an end to Lumpy's mishaps on Mother Nature, because he's too ignorant to realize the impact his actions have.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: One of Lumpy's biggest. After Lumpy gets badly injured from accidentally hitting the dam with his truck, a match was about to lit the TNT, Lumpy throws it out of the truck, not realizing the gasoline that was by the truck, blasting Lumpy and destroying the dam. After getting blasted from the explosion, Lumpy's antler is pulled by Pop's floating corpse, and the stump of the tree that Lumpy chopped down impales Lumpy from the back, killing him.
  • Karmic Death: For all his actions that end up hurting the lake and forest and causing the deaths of the other characters, Lumpy finally gets what's coming to him.
  • New Job as the Plot Demands: Lumpy is a garbage man in this episode.
  • No Sympathy: Lumpy either does not care or is oblivious about Giggles' efforts for the environment.
  • Running Gag: The Mole accidentally stabbing things that aren't litter.
  • Sole Survivor: The Mole is the only one that comes out unscathed.
  • They Killed Kenny Again: Cub, Pop, Sniffles, Lumpy, and Giggles die in this episode.
  • Throw the Dog a Bone: The Mole survives this episode.

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