Flaky can't ski why this is so fun.
- "Put your best foot forward!"
Airdate: January 4, 2004
"Ski Ya, Wouldn't Wanna Be Ya!" is the twenty-fourth episode of the second (internet) season of Happy Tree Friends. It is also one of the episodes featured in the Happy Tree Friends Winter Break collection.
After Disco Bear accidentally bumps into Flaky, causing her to get caught on a ski lift, she must face her fears and ski down a mountain when she gets stranded at the top. As in, she ends up suffering from a foot pierced by a nail on a board, an outstretched arm, an avalanche going after her, and another foot also getting pierced, only this time as her only chance at survival. She eventually crashes through a chain link fence surrounding a cabin. Disco Bear opens the cabin door, showing Flaky shortly before she breaks into numerous little pieces. The cabin is finally hit by the avalanche, covering everything in snow. Disco Bear pops out seemingly fine, only for the board that Flaky was riding on to hit him in the face, the nail piercing his skull.
"Ski Ya, Wouldn't Wanna Be Ya!" contains examples of:
- Agony of the Feet: Flaky accidentally steps on a nail stuck on a wooden board. The affected foot ends up with a cut after she gets released from the board the first time, forcing her to use her other foot to escape the avalanche.
- Artistic License – Space: Yet again, the stars are drawn over the shaded part of the moon.
- Asshole Victim: Disco Bear, who, after accidentally starting Flaky's torment, is killed by the nail on her board at the end.
- Bait-and-Switch: The episode starts with a close-up of Flaky skiing, screaming in terror as her scarf flaps in the wind... before it zooms out to show that the "hill" she's skiing on is only a small mound of snow.
- Break the Cutie: Flaky goes through hell trying to survive.
- Brick Joke: The BlurB! version asks the audience the answer two particular questions at the end of the show. During the credits roll, the answers are revealed... as letters from an unseen multiple-choice format, with no actual answer given.note
- Captain Obvious: The BlurB! is back with a vengeance.Fun Fact: Ski lifts work better when you sit on the seats.
- Caption Humor: One of the episodes with a BlurB! version.
- Cathartic Exhalation: Flaky breathes a sigh of relief after managing to jump over a rock in her way with the plank she's unwillingly using as a ski. Her relief is shortlived, however, as she hits a stump instead just a second later.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Flaky ends up cut into numerous pieces from crashing through a chain link fence.
- Chain-Link Fence: What separates the flying Flaky and the cabin, her only hope for help from the avalanche chasing her. She ends up crashing through it, cutting her into pieces.
- Comical Overreacting: The episode starts with Flaky screaming in horror as she is skiing down... a small mound of snow.
- Delayed Reaction: After Flaky gets her foot pierced by a nail, she looks down in confusion for a moment before she starts screaming in pain.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Cro-Marmot, as depicted in the short "Dino-Sore Days", can be seen on Flaky's watch. Said short was released seven months later.
- Faint in Shock: Flaky faints after realizing that the ski lift she ended up on has carried her way too high.
- Fast-Forward Gag: Days pass by quickly after Flaky passes out on the ski lift. Even funnier, the lone lift is still going at the same pace despite the time skip.
- Gratuitous Disco Sequence: Disco Bear's arrival is signaled by a disco ball inexplicably dropping down out of nowhere and his usual Leitmotif.
- Hair-Trigger Avalanche: Flaky's horrified scream after noticing her damaged foot starts an avalanche.
- Hope Spot: Twice for Flaky.
- First is when she thinks she can simply hold onto a branch to stop her forced skiing. It breaks from the force, and the arm she used to grab it ends up outstretched and unusable.
- Second is after she is sent flying from her board the second time. She notices a cabin, making her smile. Shortly after, she realizes that it is surrounded by a chain link fence...
- Instant Wristwatch: Flaky's watch, which only appears during the scene where she checks the time after waking up from her unconsciousness.
- Life-or-Limb Decision: After Flaky is released from the wooden board that damaged one of her feet the first time, the avalanche chasing her is still going. Simply standing on the board with her cut foot does not help... No choice but to impale her other foot.
- Pun-Based Title: "See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya!"
- Rasputinian Death: Flaky suffers from a few injuries from her predicament before she finally dies from crashing through a chain link fence.
- Rubber-Hose Limbs: One of Flaky's arms becomes this from trying to hold onto a branch during a high-speed ski down a a slope, which fails.
- Ship Tease: Despite initially ignoring her for Giggles and Petunia, Disco Bear is very pleased to see Flaky standing at his cabin door at the end.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Poor Flaky has to go through a lot of pain just to survive, not helped by the avalanche she triggers. At the end, she dies anyway, just as she made it to a cabin that she hoped to get help from.
- Ski-Resort Episode: The episode takes place at a ski resort.
- Stuck on a Ski Lift: Flaky in the first half of the episode.
- Take a Moment to Catch Your Death: After Disco Bear's ski cabin gets buried in an avalanche, he pops his head out of the snow and sighs in relief over being okay. Then the board with a nail Flaky previously got her foot stuck on hits him in the head, the nail piercing his skull.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Flaky and Disco Bear die.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Flaky cries when she realizes that she has to impale her other foot on that wooden board.
- Totally Radical: Said word for word in the BlurB! when Flaky manages to jump over a rock in her way with the plank she's skiing with.
- Uncertain Doom: The fates of Giggles and Petunia. They may have died in the avalanche, as Giggles's bow can be seen buried in the snow in the final shot.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Disco Bear's reaction towards Flaky breaking apart is less shocked and more confused. Lampshaded by the BlurB!.Disco Bear seems relatively unfazed by Flaky being chopped to pieces
