History Recap / HTFStealingTheSpotlight

* OffModel:
** When Giggles and Petunia are seen from behind, their ear holes are visible.
** When Giggles and Petunia approach Pop and Cub's house, the fence they're standing next to is shown to have separated, pointed boards, but in the next shot, the fence boards are together and rounded.
** The tip of Petunia's tail suddenly disappears when the camera focuses on Lumpy after the pan.
** Shifty's hat appears to possess additional ears after it falls off his head, giving him four ears in total (two on his head, two on his hat).

* ManOnFire: Giggles and Cub during Lumpy's showcase.

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"Stealing the Spotlight" is the twenty third episode of the second (internet) season of ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''. This episode pretty much marks show's very first TV special, featured in a collection called ''Happy Tree Friends Winter Break''.

Lumpy enters one-sided competition with Pop on who has the better Christmas decorations after noticing the latter setting up his own decorations with the help of Cub. As for the father-son duo, Pop has just climbed down his ladder and is about to move it somewhere else when he accidentally smacks Cub into the snow with it, causing one of his teeth to fall out. Pop tries to place it back by himself to no avail. He ends up deciding to use his hammer to, well, hammer the tooth back, with unsettling results, though Cub is happy. Back at Lumpy's place, the moose is carrying a ball of Christmas lights when Nutty happens to jitter by from his usual sugar rush. The squirrel notices the lights, mistakes them as sweets, and proceeds to eat them. This causes his organs to get pulled out when Lumpy tugs and forcefully pulls the lights. Meanwhile, Pop is hammering some nails on the roof to tie the lights around, not noticing that the bucket containing the nails is sliding down the roof until it finally falls. By the time Pop looks down, the bucket has landed on Cub's head, with the result too horrific to be seen. Pop now spends his time trying to remove all the nails stuck on Cub. He soon finds one nail that refuses to budge. Hammering it back in only makes things worse, but there is nothing else he can do to remove it anyway. After all that trouble, Pop takes Cub outside where the former plugs the electricity in to turn on all his Christmas lights. The decoration manages to wow Giggles and Petunia who happen to pass by, as well as Lumpy. Bothered by this, he decides to do something that he feels can surpass Pop's work. The result is an unholy abomination consisting of various light-generating objects stacked on top of his trailer, including a lighthouse. Lumpy puts his goggles on before turning on his decoration. The night is suddenly filled with light, as if it is daytime. Of course, the excess intense light leads to fatal results: Giggles catches fire, Pop is boiled to death, Cub explodes, and Toothy and the rest of the critters end up vaporized. The light is so deadly it even generates a moon-destroying beam. After the showcase, the burned Lumpy takes off his goggles, revealing that even his eyes fall victim to his own lights. Mole, who even managed to shield his blind eyes earlier, gives Lumpy's decoration a (flaming) thumbs-up.

* AbusiveParents: Unintentionally. Pop does a [[BlackComedy hilariously terrible job on treating Cub’s wounds]].

* AssholeVictim: Considering what Pop did to Cub throughout this episode, [[KarmicDeath his death is sort of deserved]].
* BeyondTheImpossible: Somehow, Lumpy's lights were so bright that even '''Mole had to shield his eyes from it'''.
* ButtMonkey: Cub, who is constant victim of Pop's negligence.
* TheCameo: Truffles can be found hiding in two separate instances in the [=BlurB!=] version.
* CaptionHumor: One of the few episodes with a [=BlurB!=] version.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath
** Nutty has his organs and intestines forcibly shoved out of his mouth.

* DetonationMoon: Lumpy’s lights were strong enough to fire a laser into the moon, blowing it up.
* DownerEnding: Lumpy’s lights become too strong causing the deaths of several innocent people.

* EyeScream: Lumpy’s eyes pop like a bubble when he turns on his lights.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Lumpy's Christmas lights are beautiful... And so bright that they vaporize everyone but himself and the mole.

* LimitedSoundEffects: Cub's giggle is reused from "Rink Hijinks".
* MadeOfIron: Lumpy and Mole are within ground zero of the former’s lights but manage to get off without dying, albeit the former [[EyeScream loses his eyes]] and one of the latter's [[{{Fingore}} thumbs is set ablaze]]. Meanwhile, characters like Toothy completely disintegrate by sheer exposure of the light.

* MeaningfulName: The episode's title refers to attention-grabbing, which is Lumpy's goal in this episode.
* MythologyGag: Two of the [=BlurB!=] captions mention Team Lammy and Team Truffles, a reference to the show's "Vote or Die" event months ago.

** Shifty's hat appears to possess additional ears after it falls off his head, giving him four ears in total (two on head, two on hat).

** Pretty much every time Pop accidentally injures Cub.

* ProductPlacement: A RunningGag from the [=BlurB!=]. Features mentions of various (fake) products based on certain scenes in this episode.
* RunningGag:
** Cub getting injured during Pop's construction and Pop doing a [[TheDitz horrible job treating him]].
** See ProductPlacement above.

-->Music/MCHammer first appeared around 1961

-->Planet explosion taken from the 1978 [[Film/SupermanTheMovie "Superman"]] film.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Giggles, Toothy, Cub, Pop, and Nutty.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Lumpy and Mole.

* UncertainDoom: The fates of Flaky, Petunia, Sniffles, Lifty, and Shifty. We don’t see them dying — but they’re most certainly killed by the Christmas lights.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Cub suddenly has his tooth injury gone later in the episode.
* UnknownRival: Lumpy is this to Pop and Cub.
* YourHeadASplode: Cub's death.

* MadeOfIron: Lumpy and Mole are within ground zero of the former’s lights but manage to get off without dying. Meanwhile, characters like Toothy completely disintegrate by sheer exposure of the light.

Lumpy enters one-sided competition with Pop on who has the better Christmas decorations.
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* BeyondTheImpossible: Somehow, Lumpy's lights were so bright that even '''The Mole had to shield his eyes from it'''.

* MadeOfIron: Lumpy and The Mole are within ground zero of the former’s lights but manage to get off without dying. Meanwhile, characters like Toothy completely disintegrate by sheer exposure of the light.

* RunningGag: Cub getting injured during Pop's construction and Pop doing a [[TheDitz horrible job treating him]].

* ThrowTheDogABone: Lumpy and The Mole.

* UnknownRival: Lumpy is this to Pop and Cub.

* UncertainDoom: The fates of Flaky, Petunia, Sniffles, Lifty, and Shifty. We don’t see them dying — but they’re most certainly killed by the Christmas lights.

* DetonationMoon: Lumpy’s lights were strong enough to fie a laser into the moon, blowing it up.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Giggles, Toothy, Cub, Pop, Nutty, and maybe Lifty and Shifty die.

Lumpy competes in one-sided competition on who has the better Christmas decorations.

Lumpy competes in one-sided compiwtition on who has the better Christmas decorations.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Lumpy, The Mole, Flaky, Petunia, Sniffles, and possibly Lifty and Shifty survive. Though Lumpy is severely burned and his antlers are shriveled up and his eyes pop, and The Mole’s thumb is on fire.