Guess which character survives in the end. No one.
- "Charity begins at home"
Airdate: November 27, 2006
The Happy Tree Friends try to find a way out of Giggles' newly built house.
"Home is Where the Hurt is" provides examples of:
- Bizarrchitecture / Eldritch Location: The titular house in this episode. The house is a massive maze full of death traps and gravity-changing rooms that lead to nowhere else but death.
- Blind Mistake: The Mole accidentally shoves Cuddles into a wood chipper.
- Brick Joke: While the show already loves using this trope, this episode has a lot of them.
- During the beginning of the episode, Cuddles gets pushed into a wood chipper by accident, then near the end when Handy gets pierced by the wooden plank, one can see Cuddles' crushed body stuck to the plank.
- Lumpy attaches an electrical pipe with one of the regular pipes. Later on, Petunia gets electrocuted to death by the same pipe attached to the bathtub.
- In the beginning, Giggles almost steps on a nail but stops right before she injures herself. Handy does the same near the end of the episode.
- Mime's "walking downstairs" trick that he uses, in the beginning, kills him later on when he attempts to do the same thing inside the house.
- After Lumpy folds the house's blueprint into the shape of an origami crane, it's revealed in the end that the entire house was built into the shape of one.
- Book Ends: Both the beginning and the end of the episode feature a scene where a character almost steps on a sharp nail.
- Call-Back: Petunia's Neat Freak tendencies returns when she gets herself dirty with one of the pipes and freaks out.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Where to begin...?
- Giggles is slowly vertically cut in half when sliding down the staircase which has nails poking out of it.
- Lumpy is crushed by a bed and has his head cut into bloody cubes by the grate under him.
- Handy has a nail go through his eye and brain.
- Downer Ending: Almost nobody is able to escape the house. Despite Handy finally doing so, a faulty floorboard immediately kills him.
- "Everybody Dies" Ending: Yet another episode where no one survives.
- Eye Scream: Handy's death.
- Hope Spot: The Mole finds the exit to the house halfway through the episode, but due to being blind, he doesn't notice this and closes the door.
- Pun-Based Title: "Home is where the heart is"
- Off with His Head!: The Mole's death.
- Out of Focus: Both Giggles and Handy have a starring role in this episode, but don't have that much focus compared to some of the other characters (specifically Lumpy).
- The Reveal: The reason why the house ended up so bizarre is because during the beginning, Lumpy folded the house's blueprints into an origami crane.
- Shout-Out: The house itself is obviously a reference to the real-life Winchester Mystery House.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Cuddles, Mime, The Mole, Giggles, Lumpy, Petunia, and Handy die in this episode.
- Upside-Down Blueprints: Due to Lumpy messing up with the blueprints, the resulting house built is an amalgam of upside-down rooms, doors leading to nowhere, deadly pits and hazards, and twisted halls.
- Wood Chipper of Doom: Cuddles' death.
