A new problem makes its roots.
- "Two is company. Three is a crowd!"
Airdate: October 18, 2008
A comet explodes in the sky and ends up as a tiny seed in Lumpy's bag. Planting it quickly produces an alien plant pod that contains a Lumpy clone. The moose decides to take full advantage of having more Lumpys.
"Peas in a Pod" contains the following:
- Accidental Murder: The Pod Lumpys accidentally kill several characters when trying to do their jobs.
- Alan Smithee: He's listed as having done the animation for the episode, likely as a joke given that the episode is a horror B-movie pastiche.
- Alien Blood: Being Plant Aliens, the Pod Lumpys have green blood.
- An Arm and a Leg: The first Pod Lumpy chopping off his leg reveals its regenerative abilities.
- Anvil on Head: When the Pod Lumpys have taken over at the end of the episode, one of them is seen with a safe having fallen on its head. Given that this is Happy Tree Friends, the result is a lot bloodier than most examples, though not as graphic as you'd expect since the Pod Lumpys have green blood.
- Brick Joke: One of the Pod Lumpys accidentally plants one of Petunia's eyes in the ground, thinking that it's a seed. In the final shot of the episode, we see that the eye grew into an actual flower.
- Caption Humor: This is one of the episodes with a Blurb version.
- Clone Army: Lumpy unintentionally creates one after making too many Pod versions of himself.
- Complete Immortality: Nothing can kill the Pod Lumpys no matter how hard anybody tries.
- Deadly Gas: Lumpy tries to murder his clones with a poisonous gas flowing from his plane. It doesn't work.
- Department of Redundancy Department: The blurb has this to say after two of the Pod Lumpys are shown chopping wood, with the first Pod Lumpy and the original Lumpy having been shown to do so earlier:We should have called this episode "Chopping Wood: The Story of Chopping Wood."
- Expendable Clone: Lumpy casually has one of his Pod clones slice another in half once he finds out that if they lose a limb, both the original and the limb regenerate into a full clone. He repeats this off-screen until he has a whole army of clones to do chores for him.
- Eye Scream: Petunia's eyes are flung out of her skull after a Pod Lumpy smashes her skull. Another Pod Lumpy picks it up and plants it in the ground.
- Flaming Meteor: The asteroid that sets off the plot is depicted as a rock with a fiery tail travelling through space, even before it breaks apart to reveal the alien seed inside it upon entering the atmosphere.
- Foreshadowing: In the Blurb version. When Lumpy is shown chopping, the blurb notes that "Lumpy always ends up chopping off his leg when he chops wood. Just wait and see". Sure enough, once Lumpy puts his new Pod clone to work chopping wood, it does just that, revealing its regenerative abilities.
- Gunship Rescue: Lumpy uses a cropduster to spray the Pod Lumpys with poison just in time to save Toothy from being killed by one with an axe. Unfortunately, Toothy's joy is short-lived, as he soon succumbs to the poison himself.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: When Lumpy runs out of lemonade, he orders one of the Pod Lumpys chopping wood to chop the other in half at the waist so it'll regenerate into two Pod Lumpys, one of which Lumpy orders to refill his lemonade while the other continues chopping.
- Halloween Episode: Released on October 2008, and it has a special spooky opening that resembles an old B horror movie.
- Human Doorstop: Lumpy creates a small army of Pod Lumpys to do his chores, including one he uses as a footstool.
- Idiot Houdini: Lumpy doesn't get punished for inadvertently terrorizing the town with his pod clones. Also has shades of Karma Houdini, considering the Expendable Clone treatment he gives said clones.
- Killed Offscreen: Cuddles' death isn't shown in the episode other than his corpse being mopped by one of the Pod Lumpys.
- Man on Fire: At the end of the episode, when Lumpy's clones replace everyone else in town, one of them is seen on fire in the background.
- No Ending: The episode ends with Lumpy still having clones everywhere as he just gives up trying to destroy them.
- Picture-Perfect Presentation: Near the start of the episode, Lumpy reads a newspaper article about a meteor. The scene then cuts from the black-and-white photo of it in the article to the real thing flying through space. Lampshaded in the blurb:Wow! I didn't know newspapers could do that!
- Plant Aliens: The Pod Lumpys. They're green, they have green blood, the pod containing the first one grows from an alien seed, and Lumpy (unsuccessfully) tries to kill them using a crop duster.
- Shout-Out: The Pod Lumpys growing from the pods is a nod to the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
- Sickly Green Glow: The alien seed that lands in Lumpy's seed bag grows an eerie green. Lumpy being Lumpy, he decides that it's good to plant anyway.
- Sinister Silhouettes: The episode's horror-styled title card has a silhouette of a Pod Lumpy holding an axe in the background.
- Special Edition Title: The show's opening starts out normally, but soon starts to glitch like an old TV with bad reception. It then "switches channels" to the episode's title card as spooky music starts to play. The title card itself is modelled after that of an old B horror movie; the title is presented as "THE WAKING TERROR OF... PEAS IN A POD - Presented in SCREAM-O-TASTIC" with the typical old horror font for the title, and there is a Sinister Silhouette of a Pod Lumpy with an axe in a background.
- Spit Take: Lumpy spits out the lemonade he's drinking when the Pod Lumpy he put to work chopping wood for him accidentally chops off its own leg.
- Technicolor Toxin: The poison Lumpy pours into his cropduster to get rid of the Pod Lumpys is green.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Petunia, Sniffles, Cuddles, Toothy, and several Pod Lumpys (though they regenerate) die in this episode.
- Too Dumb to Live: Sniffles lets one of the Pod Lumpys scrub off his face while it's cleaning his glasses. Keep in mind that it took a long time for his face to be scrubbed off and apparently Sniffles didn't do anything about it during the entire time.
- Understatement: When Lumpy chops one of the Pod Lumpys in half for the sole purpose of getting one to use as a footstool, while another one two are fanning him and serving him lemonade, the blurb has this to say:If you look carefully, there are subtle clues that Lumpy is abusing his power over these things
