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* TakeThat: If you look closely, This episode is taking a jab at parents who let their kids watch seemingly innocent shows that are actually far from innocent, and kids that imitate what they see. (Does that remind you of anyone?)
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* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Lumpy works in mall cleaning service in this short.
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* PunBasedTitle: The short's title is a pun of "too much screen time."
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Much of the short has been known in advance through the promotional trailer, but the worst offender is the one included with the ''The Crackpet Show: Happy Tree Friends Edition'' DownloadableContent, which fully showcases the last third of the short minus the game's footage on the display TV. "Too Much Scream Time" is already short as it is, meaning much of the basic plot is known prior to the actual premiere of the short.

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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Much of the short has been known in advance through the promotional trailer, but the worst offender is the one clip included with the ''The Crackpet Show: Happy Tree Friends Edition'' DownloadableContent, which fully showcases the last third of the short minus the game's footage on the display TV. "Too Much Scream Time" is already short as it is, meaning much of the basic plot is known prior to the actual premiere of the short.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The theme of this short, PlayedForLaughs naturally. Cub ends up exposed to ''The Crackpet Show'' and tries to copy the game's gunplay using bow and arrow, of course with predictably bloody results.

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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The theme of this short, PlayedForLaughs naturally. Cub ends up exposed to ''The Crackpet Show'' and tries to copy the game's gunplay using bow and arrow, arrow (the latter then replaced with plunger), of course with predictably bloody results.

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Airdate: September 28, 2023

In this episode made to promote the Happy Tree Friends crossover with VideoGame/TheCrackPetShow, Pop and Cub visit the store. When Cub is left on his own and watches the titular show, he begins to imitate what he sees on TV. It is the first Happy Tree Friends episode produced since the five-episode ''Still Alive'' package from 2016.

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Airdate: September 28, 27, 2023

In this episode made to promote the Happy Tree Friends ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' crossover with VideoGame/TheCrackPetShow, ''VideoGame/TheCrackpetShow'', Pop and Cub visit the store. When Cub is left on his own and watches the titular show, he begins to imitate what he sees on TV. It is the first Happy Tree Friends episode produced since the five-episode ''Still Alive'' package from 2016.



* TheBusCameBack: This is Giggles' first physical appearance in a regular episode since "Spare Tire".

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* BookEnds: The short begins with Pop having stomach problems from eating his burrito. In the end, Lumpy eats Pop's burrito and begins to experience the same thing.
* TheBusCameBack: This is Giggles' first physical appearance in a regular an episode since "Spare Tire".Tire", not counting the bonus "Blood Donor" short.
* TheCameo:
** Outside what is shown on the display TV, ''The Crackpet Show'' characters Cowie and Sharky appear as decoration on the sides of the TV and as dolls.
** Truffles can be seen at one of the shop doorways during the shot of Cub's perspective before zooming in to the display TV.
* DisgustingPublicToilet: Whatever Lumpy sees in a stall previously used by Pop... it is enough to need a plunger for.



* ProductPlacement: A commercial for VideoGame/TheCrackPetShow plays near the end of the episode right after Lumpy picks up the unclaimed burrito.

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* LimitedSoundEffects: All audio in this episode are reused from past ''Happy Tree Friends'' works. Notably, all voices are reused from the pre-TV series shorts (discounting Pop who has always been this way since his VA left), as shown by the names of people no longer involved with the show, Dana Belben and Rhode Montijo.
* PinballProjectile: The plunger handle fired by Cub first pierces through Cuddles and bounces off a box, then hits a button that closes a barbershop's shutter door (which kills Disco Bear) before piercing through Pop.
* ProductPlacement: A commercial for VideoGame/TheCrackPetShow ''VideoGame/TheCrackpetShow'' plays near the end of the episode right after Lumpy picks up the unclaimed burrito.burrito.
* RecycledSoundtrack: To go with LimitedSoundEffects above. Soundtrack from "A Hole Lotta Love", "A Sucker for Love Pt. 1", and "Going Out with a Bang" are used in this short.



* RunningGag: Pop eating his burrito. It comes full circle in the end when the remains of his brains take the shape of the ends of his burrito and Lumpy eats it without knowing.

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Pop eating his burrito. It comes full circle in the end when the remains of his brains take the shape of the ends of his burrito and Lumpy eats it without knowing.knowing.
** Not to forget the usual frustrated Handy gag. Here, he somehow managed to hold a newspaper (which covers his lack of hands) but when it came to grabbing toilet paper, he was unable to.


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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Much of the short has been known in advance through the promotional trailer, but the worst offender is the one included with the ''The Crackpet Show: Happy Tree Friends Edition'' DownloadableContent, which fully showcases the last third of the short minus the game's footage on the display TV. "Too Much Scream Time" is already short as it is, meaning much of the basic plot is known prior to the actual premiere of the short.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The theme of this short, PlayedForLaughs naturally. Cub ends up exposed to ''The Crackpet Show'' and tries to copy the game's gunplay using bow and arrow, of course with predictably bloody results.
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* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: As Lumpy tries to unclog a toilet with an arrow, said arrow somehow manages to impale Handy.


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* ProductPlacement: A commercial for VideoGame/TheCrackPetShow plays near the end of the episode right after Lumpy picks up the unclaimed burrito.
* RuleOfThree: Cub kills three Tree Friends [[ItMakesSenseInContext with a plunger]]: Cuddles, Disco Bear and Pop.


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* SelfMadeOrphan: Cub ends up killing his father with the plunger Pop used to replace the arrow. Unfortunately, the plunger stick pulled off some fatal trick shots in the lead up to Pop’s death.
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In this episode made to promote the Happy Tree Friends crossover with VideoGame/TheCrackPetShow, Pop and Cub visit the store. When Cub is left on his own and watches the titular show, he begins to imitate what he sees on TV. It is the first Happy Tree Friends episode produced since ''Still Alive'' from 2016.

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In this episode made to promote the Happy Tree Friends crossover with VideoGame/TheCrackPetShow, Pop and Cub visit the store. When Cub is left on his own and watches the titular show, he begins to imitate what he sees on TV. It is the first Happy Tree Friends episode produced since the five-episode ''Still Alive'' package from 2016.
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* TheBusCameBack: This is Giggles' first physical appearance since "Spare Tire".

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* TheBusCameBack: This is Giggles' first physical appearance in a regular episode since "Spare Tire".
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* TheBusCameBack: This is Giggles' first physical appearance since "Spare Tire".
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* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Handy, Cuddles, Disco Bear, and Pop, die in this episode.

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* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Handy, Cuddles, Disco Bear, and Pop, Pop die in this episode.
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* AccidentalMurder: It wouldn't be a ''Happy Tree Friends'' episode without it. Lumpy uses an arrow to unclog toilet, which would travel the pipes and violently impale Handy from the toilet across the stall. Cub shoots a plunger out of the bow, which causes a chain reaction resulting in the deaths of Cuddles, Disco Bear, and Pop.

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* AccidentalMurder: It wouldn't be a ''Happy Tree Friends'' episode without it. Lumpy uses an arrow to unclog toilet, a toilet (which was mistaken as a plunger because of Pop switching them to keep Cub safe), which would travel the pipes and violently impale Handy from the toilet across the stall. Cub shoots a plunger out of the bow, which causes a chain reaction resulting in the deaths of Cuddles, Disco Bear, and Pop.



* RunningGag: Pop eating his burrito. It comes full circle in the end when the remains of his brains take shape of a burrito and Lumpy eats it without knowing.

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* RunningGag: Pop eating his burrito. It comes full circle in the end when the remains of his brains take the shape of a the ends of his burrito and Lumpy eats it without knowing.
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-->''"Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded."''

Airdate: September 28, 2023


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* FreezeFrameBonus: After Disco Bear gets cleaved in two, you can see his pupils move to look at Giggles... somehow.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Disco Bear get split in two, courtesy of a closing shutter door he was standing under.

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* AccidentalMurder: It wouldn't be a Happy Tree Friends episode without it. Lumpy uses an arrow to unclog toilet, which would travel the pipes and violently impale Handy from the toilet across the stall. Cub shoots a plunger out of the bow, which causes a chain reaction resulting in the deaths of Cuddles, Disco Bear, and Pop.

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* AccidentalMurder: It wouldn't be a Happy ''Happy Tree Friends Friends'' episode without it. Lumpy uses an arrow to unclog toilet, which would travel the pipes and violently impale Handy from the toilet across the stall. Cub shoots a plunger out of the bow, which causes a chain reaction resulting in the deaths of Cuddles, Disco Bear, and Pop.



* YankTheDogsChain: [[CasanovaWannabe Disco Bear]], for the first time since his debut over twenty years ago, seems to actually be wooing Giggles with his new haircut. Of course he then gets split in half by one of the store's collapsible doors.

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* YankTheDogsChain: [[CasanovaWannabe Disco Bear]], for the first time since his debut over twenty years ago, seems to actually be wooing Giggles with his new haircut. Of course course, he then gets split in half by one of the store's collapsible doors.doors.
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* AssShove: Poor Handy has an ''arrow'' shoved in him while using the toilet.
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* YankTheDogsChain: [[CasanovaWannabe Disco Bear]], for the first time since his debute over twenty years ago, seems to actually be wooing Giggles with his new haircut. Of course he then gets split in half by one of the store's collapsible doors.

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* YankTheDogsChain: [[CasanovaWannabe Disco Bear]], for the first time since his debute debut over twenty years ago, seems to actually be wooing Giggles with his new haircut. Of course he then gets split in half by one of the store's collapsible doors.
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In this episode made to promote the Happy Tree Friends crossover with VideoGame/TheCrackPetShow, Pop and Cub visit the store. When Cub is left on his own and watches the titular show, he begins to imitate what he sees on TV. It is the first Happy Tree Friends produced since ''Still Alive'' from 2016.

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In this episode made to promote the Happy Tree Friends crossover with VideoGame/TheCrackPetShow, Pop and Cub visit the store. When Cub is left on his own and watches the titular show, he begins to imitate what he sees on TV. It is the first Happy Tree Friends episode produced since ''Still Alive'' from 2016.
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In this episode made to promote the Happy Tree Friends crossover with VideoGame/TheCrackPetShow (and the first produced episode since ''2016''), Pop and Cub visit the store. When Cub is left on his own and watches the titular show, he begins to imitate what he sees on TV.

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In this episode made to promote the Happy Tree Friends crossover with VideoGame/TheCrackPetShow (and the first produced episode since ''2016''), VideoGame/TheCrackPetShow, Pop and Cub visit the store. When Cub is left on his own and watches the titular show, he begins to imitate what he sees on TV. It is the first Happy Tree Friends produced since ''Still Alive'' from 2016.
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* KarmicDeath: Pop's irresponsible behavior of leaving his baby son unsupervised ''twice'' ultimately leads to his demise.

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* KarmicDeath: Pop's irresponsible behavior of leaving his baby son unsupervised ''twice'' (along with stealing Lumpy's plunger) ultimately leads to his demise.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: Lumpy and Cub survive the episode.
* YankTheDogsChain: CasanovaWannabe Disco Bear, for the first time in the entire series, seems to actually be wooing Giggles. Of course he then gets split in half by one of the store's collapsible doors.

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* ThrowTheDogABone: Lumpy Lumpy, Giggles, and Cub survive the episode.
* YankTheDogsChain: CasanovaWannabe [[CasanovaWannabe Disco Bear, Bear]], for the first time in the entire series, since his debute over twenty years ago, seems to actually be wooing Giggles.Giggles with his new haircut. Of course he then gets split in half by one of the store's collapsible doors.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: Lumpy and Cub survive the episode.

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* ThrowTheDogABone: Lumpy and Cub survive the episode.episode.
* YankTheDogsChain: CasanovaWannabe Disco Bear, for the first time in the entire series, seems to actually be wooing Giggles. Of course he then gets split in half by one of the store's collapsible doors.
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* KarmicDeath: Pop's irresponsible behavior of leaving his baby son unsupervised ''twice'' ultimately leads to his demise.

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* AccidentalMurder: It wouldn't be a Happy Tree Friends episode without it. Lumpy uses an arrow to unclog toilet, which would travel the pipes and violently impale Handy from the toilet across the stall. Cub shoots a plunger out of the bow, which causes a chain reaction resulting in the deaths of Cuddles, Disco Bear, and Giggles.

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* AccidentalMurder: It wouldn't be a Happy Tree Friends episode without it. Lumpy uses an arrow to unclog toilet, which would travel the pipes and violently impale Handy from the toilet across the stall. Cub shoots a plunger out of the bow, which causes a chain reaction resulting in the deaths of Cuddles, Disco Bear, and Giggles.Pop.
* RunningGag: Pop eating his burrito. It comes full circle in the end when the remains of his brains take shape of a burrito and Lumpy eats it without knowing.
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In this episode made to promote the Happy Tree Friends crossover with VideoGame/TheCrackPetShow (and the first produced episode since ''2016''), Pop and Cub visit the store. When Cub is left on his own and watches the titular show, he begins to imitate what he sees on TV.
!!"Too Much Scream Time" provides examples of:
* AccidentalMurder: It wouldn't be a Happy Tree Friends episode without it. Lumpy uses an arrow to unclog toilet, which would travel the pipes and violently impale Handy from the toilet across the stall. Cub shoots a plunger out of the bow, which causes a chain reaction resulting in the deaths of Cuddles, Disco Bear, and Giggles.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Handy, Cuddles, Disco Bear, and Pop, die in this episode.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Lumpy and Cub survive the episode.

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