- "Never eat the last cookie!"
Airdate: April 7, 2001
"Snow What? That's What!" is the twenty-fifth episode of the first (internet) season of Happy Tree Friends.
Giggles is building a snowman when a stray snowball hits her. She then sees a prehistoric marmot encased in an ice block (Cro-Marmot) with a pile of snowballs, apparently able to throw them despite his condition. Giggles greets him with a friendly hi before throwing a snowball back at him, which pushes him down the slope. Giggles panics and begins to run after him to save him. On the way, the ice block manages to tear off Petunia's body and squeeze Lumpy on his hammock, all while Giggles is more focused on saving her new friend. She finally manages to stop the ice-encased marmot from crashing into a tree, but before she can save herself, her eyes get stabbed by icicles before she gets impaled by a bigger icicle. A stray snowball hits her again.
"Snow What? That's What!" contains the following:
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Accidentally-Correct Writing: While Lumpy laying on a hammock in summer attire can seem like a dumb move, real life moose have a thick coat that keeps them warm in the winter. - Ambidextrous Sprite: Cro-Marmot himself, as his held club tends to switch places between certain shots.
- Brick Joke: At the beginning, Giggles gets hit by Cro-Marmot's snowball and she throws one back at him, causing some trouble. At the end, Cro-Marmot answers Giggles's snowball throw from earlier with another one.
- Cruel and Unusual Death:
- Petunia has her body torn off by Cro-Marmot's ice block.
- Lumpy is squeezed hard by his tied-up hammock.
- Giggles gets impaled by a huge icicle.
- Death by Looking Up: Giggles's death is preceded by her looking up to see icicles.
- Debut Queue: Cro-Marmot's first major appearance in the series. He first made brief appearances in some past episodes.
- Establishing Character Moment: As this is Cro-Marmot's first major appearance, viewers can finally be introduced to his fully Behind the Black actions and his ice block being capable of causing trouble.
- Exposed to the Elements: Shirtless Lumpy having a cool drink in the hammock... while everything else is covered in snow.
- Eye Scream: Giggles's eyes get stabbed by icicles.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Petunia's death.
- Oh, Crap!: Giggles panics when Cro-Marmot begins to slide away down the slope.
- Pun-Based Title: "So what? That's what!"
- Snowball Fight: Giggles and Cro-Marmot try to have one, but it quickly goes literally downhill when Cro-Marmot slides down a slope and Giggles ends up impaled by icicles.
- Tan Lines: Lumpy has these.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Giggles, Petunia, and Lumpy die.
- Updated Re-release: One of the early episodes to be part of "Classics Remastered" releases, which rerelease early HTF episodes in HD.
