- "He who pays the Piper calls the tune!"
Airdate: December 17, 2006
Cuddles discovers an opening to join Lumpy’s music band. He gets in a jam when he has no money to purchase a guitar.
"In a Jam" contains the following:
- Accidental Murder: Aside from his own and Russell's, Cuddles is solely responsible for every death in this episode.
- Afraid of Needles: Cuddles is — and we immediately see why when Mole is the doctor.
- Butt-Monkey: Cuddles throughout the episode.
- Convulsive Seizures: Handy goes through one courtesy of Cuddles.
- Cruel and Unusual Death:
- Handy's head is split in half by cymbals stuck in his mouth.
- Sniffles' organs are pulled out of his tongue by the spinning recording machine.
- Lumpy explodes when Cuddles' guitar plays an extremely loud sound.
- Cuddles' insides are filled with cotton, crushing his organs and suffocating him.
- A Day In The Lime Light: Cuddles' only starring role in this season.
- The Determinator: Cuddles goes through ridiculously painful lengths to buy his guitar.
- Downer Ending: Lumpy and his band are killed by Cuddles’ incompetence, and Cuddles himself is unknowingly killed by the Mole.
- Epileptic Flashing Lights: Cuddles causes this during their training session, giving Handy a nasty seizure.
- Eye Scream: A loose guitar string cuts Cuddles' eye in half.
- Fingore: Lumpy strums his guitar so fast when keeping up with the music that his fingers are sliced off by the strings.
- Hope Spot: Any hopes of Cuddles surviving the episode is dashed when The Mole comes back to help him.
- New Job as the Plot Demands:
- Cuddles, Handy, Sniffles, Lumpy, and Russell are all members of a band.
- The Mole is a doctor.
- Precision F-Strike: Cuddles can be heard saying a muffled "fuck" when The Mole injects cotton into him.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Cuddles, Handy, Sniffles, Lumpy, and Russell die.
- The Tooth Hurts: Handy chips his teeth on a cymbal when having a seizure.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Nutty, Cro-Marmot, Mime, and The Mole survive.