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* UvulaEscapeRoute: The ants lasso a rope to Sniffles' uvula and attempt to climb their way out. Unfortunately, their weight tears it off.
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* CompressedHair: The mother ant somehow manages to fit her [[Franchise/TheSimpsons Marge Simpson]]-esque beehive under an army helmet.
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* CompressedHair: The mother ant somehow manages to fit her [[Franchise/TheSimpsons [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Marge Simpson]]-esque beehive under an army helmet.
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* OffModel:
** For a few frames, Sniffles's pocket protector disappears when he realizes that he has been pinned to the tree.
** His glasses' bridge tape is missing before the ants break his teeth.
** During the climb, the baby ant's single strand of hair ends up missing.
** A screen transition error ends up rendering the daughter ant's pupils as nearly transparent. Fixed in the UpdatedRerelease, which uses a different screen transition.
** Sniffles's HeartBeatsOutOfChest sequence ends up producing frames that appear to be this due to how the animation is done.
** Another one fixed in the UpdatedRerelease: During Sniffles's death, one frame has some nails layered over his snout.
** For a few frames, Sniffles's pocket protector disappears when he realizes that he has been pinned to the tree.
** His glasses' bridge tape is missing before the ants break his teeth.
** During the climb, the baby ant's single strand of hair ends up missing.
** A screen transition error ends up rendering the daughter ant's pupils as nearly transparent. Fixed in the UpdatedRerelease, which uses a different screen transition.
** Sniffles's HeartBeatsOutOfChest sequence ends up producing frames that appear to be this due to how the animation is done.
** Another one fixed in the UpdatedRerelease: During Sniffles's death, one frame has some nails layered over his snout.
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Sniffles is reading a book of math divisions while eating a slice of bread. The baby ant happens to show up in front of him, picking up bread crumbs. Of course, Sniffles does not miss this opportunity to eat him. After that, the anteater leans back to nap. Inside him, the baby ant fires his flare gun to get help from his family. Next thing he knew, Sniffles has been pinned to the tree he leaned onto. The ants begin their rescue mission by breaking through Sniffles's teeth with a battering ram. His uvula is their tied with a rope to support climbing, but it soon gets ripped off from the ants' weight, making Sniffles scream in pain. However, the ants immediately go for Plan B -- Sniffles's heart. One of the ants ties up one of the arteries, causing the blood flow to get stuck and the heart to expand. Soon, Sniffles's heart cannot take it anymore, and it explodes, leaving a large hole on his body. A yellow inflatable slide pops out, and the ants happily slide out.
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Sniffles is reading a book of math divisions while eating a slice of bread. The baby ant happens to show up in front of him, picking up bread crumbs. Of course, Sniffles does not miss this opportunity to eat him. After that, the anteater leans back to nap. Inside him, the baby ant fires his flare gun to get help from his family. Next thing he knew, knows, Sniffles has been pinned to the tree he leaned onto. The ants begin their rescue mission by breaking through Sniffles's teeth with a battering ram. His uvula is their tied with They tie a rope to support climbing, his uvula to climb down, but it soon gets ripped off from the ants' weight, making Sniffles scream in pain. However, the ants immediately go for Plan B -- Sniffles's heart. One of the ants ties up one of the arteries, causing the blood flow to get stuck blocked and the heart to expand. Soon, Sniffles's heart cannot take it anymore, and it explodes, leaving a large hole on his body. A yellow inflatable slide pops out, and the ants happily slide out.
* AsideGlance:
** The baby ant glances at the screen in exasperation after it realises that it has been eaten by Sniffles.
** In a darker example, Sniffles looks at the viewer in terror right before his heart explodes.
** The baby ant glances at the screen in exasperation after it realises that it has been eaten by Sniffles.
** In a darker example, Sniffles looks at the viewer in terror right before his heart explodes.
* BloodFromEveryOrifice: Sniffles starts bleeding out of both his eyes and his mouth right before he dies from his heart exploding.
* CompressedHair: The mother ant somehow manages to fit her [[Franchise/TheSimpsons Marge Simpson]]-esque beehive under an army helmet.
* CompressedHair: The mother ant somehow manages to fit her [[Franchise/TheSimpsons Marge Simpson]]-esque beehive under an army helmet.
* GettingEatenIsHarmless: Sniffles' stomach contains no stomach acid whatsoever, and the ant's only reaction to being eaten by him is to give the audience an exasperated AsideGlance and signal to his family for help with a flare gun.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The ants managed to pin the napping Sniffles into the tree using nails... without waking him up.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The ants managed manage to pin the napping Sniffles into the tree using nails... without waking him up.
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* UpdatedRerelease: One of the early episodes to be part of "Classics Remastered" releases, which rereleases early HTF episodes in HD.
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* UpdatedRerelease: One of the early episodes to be part of the "Classics Remastered" releases, which rereleases rerelease early HTF ''HTF'' episodes in HD.
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--> ''"Follow your Heart!"''
Airdate: September 21, 2003
"A Hard Act to Swallow" is the eighteenth episode of the second (internet) season of ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''.
Sniffles is reading a book of math divisions while eating a slice of bread. The baby ant happens to show up in front of him, picking up bread crumbs. Of course, Sniffles does not miss this opportunity to eat him. After that, the anteater leans back to nap. Inside him, the baby ant fires his flare gun to get help from his family. Next thing he knew, Sniffles has been pinned to the tree he leaned onto. The ants begin their rescue mission by breaking through Sniffles's teeth with a battering ram. His uvula is their tied with a rope to support climbing, but it soon gets ripped off from the ants' weight, making Sniffles scream in pain. However, the ants immediately go for Plan B -- Sniffles's heart. One of the ants ties up one of the arteries, causing the blood flow to get stuck and the heart to expand. Soon, Sniffles's heart cannot take it anymore, and it explodes, leaving a large hole on his body. A yellow inflatable slide pops out, and the ants happily slide out.
!!"A Hard Act to Swallow" contains examples of:
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: So many things are biologically wrong with Sniffles in this episode, from him somehow chewing from the side of his face (his teeth are on the tip of his snout) to the biologically implausible way the ants end up traveling into Sniffles's heart from the esophagus.
* BatteringRam: Used by the ants to infiltrate Sniffles's insides by destroying his teeth.
* BinocularShot: Unlike the usual shots of this kind, this is reflected on the lens instead of from the mother ant's point of view.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Sniffles's chest ends up bursting from his heart exploding.
* DownerEnding: Sniffles dies at the end of the ants' rescue mission. This is a Sniffles vs. Ants episode, after all.
* FlareGun: Used by the eaten baby ant to signal for help.
* HeartBeatsOutOfChest: The ants cause this on Sniffles, leading to his death.
* MamaBear: Upon noticing the baby ant's distress signal, the mother ant shows no mercy and decides to work together with her other two children to save him.
* OffModel:
** For a few frames, Sniffles's pocket protector disappears when he realizes that he has been pinned to the tree.
** His glasses' bridge tape is missing before the ants break his teeth.
** During the climb, the baby ant's single strand of hair ends up missing.
** A screen transition error ends up rendering the daughter ant's pupils as nearly transparent. Fixed in the UpdatedRerelease, which uses a different screen transition.
** Sniffles's HeartBeatsOutOfChest sequence ends up producing frames that appear to be this due to how the animation is done.
** Another one fixed in the UpdatedRerelease: During Sniffles's death, one frame has some nails layered over his snout.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The ants managed to pin the napping Sniffles into the tree using nails... without waking him up.
* PinnedToTheWall: Sniffles ends up in this situation once the ants' rescue mission begins.
* PunBasedTitle: "A hard act to follow"
* ShoutOut:
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by the episode's description, mentioning "children's fables". For those who wonder, it is related to [[Literature/GulliversTravels Sniffles waking up only to find himself pinned by the ants]].
** His death shares a similarity with Kane's from ''Film/{{Alien}}'', as both involve the chest being burst.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Snifflesdies.dies.
* TheToothHurts: Sniffles's teeth end up broken by the ants' BatteringRam.
* TraumaCongaLine: First, Sniffles gets pinned to the tree by nails. Next, his teeth are forcefully broken just so the ants can enter to save the baby ant. After that, his uvula gets accidentally ripped off. Finally, his heart's artery is tied in a knot, causing it to painfully expand and end up exploding.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Sniffles's teeth are fine again when he dies despite being destroyed by the BatteringRam earlier. Also, an undamaged-looking heart can be seen flying out of his chest despite it being the one organ to explode.
* UpdatedRerelease: One of the early episodes to be part of "Classics Remastered" releases, which rereleases early HTF episodes in HD.
* YankTheDogsChain: Sniffles finally eats an ant for the first time! Cue the eaten baby ant signalling for help with his FlareGun.
--> ''"Follow your Heart!"''
Airdate: September 21, 2003
"A Hard Act to Swallow" is the eighteenth episode of the second (internet) season of ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''.
Sniffles is reading a book of math divisions while eating a slice of bread. The baby ant happens to show up in front of him, picking up bread crumbs. Of course, Sniffles does not miss this opportunity to eat him. After that, the anteater leans back to nap. Inside him, the baby ant fires his flare gun to get help from his family. Next thing he knew, Sniffles has been pinned to the tree he leaned onto. The ants begin their rescue mission by breaking through Sniffles's teeth with a battering ram. His uvula is their tied with a rope to support climbing, but it soon gets ripped off from the ants' weight, making Sniffles scream in pain. However, the ants immediately go for Plan B -- Sniffles's heart. One of the ants ties up one of the arteries, causing the blood flow to get stuck and the heart to expand. Soon, Sniffles's heart cannot take it anymore, and it explodes, leaving a large hole on his body. A yellow inflatable slide pops out, and the ants happily slide out.
!!"A Hard Act to Swallow" contains examples of:
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: So many things are biologically wrong with Sniffles in this episode, from him somehow chewing from the side of his face (his teeth are on the tip of his snout) to the biologically implausible way the ants end up traveling into Sniffles's heart from the esophagus.
* BatteringRam: Used by the ants to infiltrate Sniffles's insides by destroying his teeth.
* BinocularShot: Unlike the usual shots of this kind, this is reflected on the lens instead of from the mother ant's point of view.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Sniffles's chest ends up bursting from his heart exploding.
* DownerEnding: Sniffles dies at the end of the ants' rescue mission. This is a Sniffles vs. Ants episode, after all.
* FlareGun: Used by the eaten baby ant to signal for help.
* HeartBeatsOutOfChest: The ants cause this on Sniffles, leading to his death.
* MamaBear: Upon noticing the baby ant's distress signal, the mother ant shows no mercy and decides to work together with her other two children to save him.
* OffModel:
** For a few frames, Sniffles's pocket protector disappears when he realizes that he has been pinned to the tree.
** His glasses' bridge tape is missing before the ants break his teeth.
** During the climb, the baby ant's single strand of hair ends up missing.
** A screen transition error ends up rendering the daughter ant's pupils as nearly transparent. Fixed in the UpdatedRerelease, which uses a different screen transition.
** Sniffles's HeartBeatsOutOfChest sequence ends up producing frames that appear to be this due to how the animation is done.
** Another one fixed in the UpdatedRerelease: During Sniffles's death, one frame has some nails layered over his snout.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The ants managed to pin the napping Sniffles into the tree using nails... without waking him up.
* PinnedToTheWall: Sniffles ends up in this situation once the ants' rescue mission begins.
* PunBasedTitle: "A hard act to follow"
* ShoutOut:
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by the episode's description, mentioning "children's fables". For those who wonder, it is related to [[Literature/GulliversTravels Sniffles waking up only to find himself pinned by the ants]].
** His death shares a similarity with Kane's from ''Film/{{Alien}}'', as both involve the chest being burst.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Sniffles
* TheToothHurts: Sniffles's teeth end up broken by the ants' BatteringRam.
* TraumaCongaLine: First, Sniffles gets pinned to the tree by nails. Next, his teeth are forcefully broken just so the ants can enter to save the baby ant. After that, his uvula gets accidentally ripped off. Finally, his heart's artery is tied in a knot, causing it to painfully expand and end up exploding.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Sniffles's teeth are fine again when he dies despite being destroyed by the BatteringRam earlier. Also, an undamaged-looking heart can be seen flying out of his chest despite it being the one organ to explode.
* UpdatedRerelease: One of the early episodes to be part of "Classics Remastered" releases, which rereleases early HTF episodes in HD.
* YankTheDogsChain: Sniffles finally eats an ant for the first time! Cue the eaten baby ant signalling for help with his FlareGun.
