Recap / HTF - Suck It Up

"Follow your nose!"

Airdate: February 22, 2004

"Suck It Up" is the twenty sixth episode of the second (internet) season of Happy Tree Friends.

Sniffles is lying sick on his bed. The baby ant manages to take his cookies because of this. His inability to use snout does not stop Sniffles from devising an idea to eat the ants yet again, this time in the form of a suction machine worn over his face. At first, it goes well, managing to suck up a bowling ball and then hurl it to the ants' home. He even manages to get his cookies back. That is until the boy ant decides to use a box of nails, which promptly get sucked up and injure Sniffles. The baby ant takes this opportunity to take off the control knob, causing Sniffles to be unable to stop his machine. Sniffles first ends up getting his snout burned off by acid, then falling backward from slipping over a test tube. When he gets up, the machine's tube is stuck on one side of his head. Of course, with the machine still active, it tears a hole on his head and sucks up his brain. The baby ant returns and places the knob back on the device, setting it to blow. This causes Sniffles to be completely sucked into his machine before being blown as a chunk of meat. As the ant family celebrate their victory, the baby ant suddenly sneezes.

"Suck It Up" contains examples of:

• Attack the Mouth: Of course, due to how Sniffles's contraption works, the ants take a couple opportunities to feed him dangerous items.
• The Cameo: Splendid appears on the comic book lying on the floor.
• Caption Humor: One of the episodes with a BlurB! version.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Sniffles loses his eye and brain, then his entire body gets sucked in by his own machine. It is left as nothing more than a cylindrical chunk of flesh.
• Don't Explain the Joke: This pun after Sniffles hurled the bowling ball.
  Looks like Sniffles SPARED those ants
  Get it? Bowling humor
• Downer Ending: Sniffles loses against the ants yet again.
• Hollywood Acid: The acid is first shown burning off the table it got spilled on. Guess what happens when it gets sucked up by Sniffles.
• Lampshade Hanging: The BlurB! mentions how Sniffles's right eye got sucked in first even though his machine's tube is stuck on his left.
  Hey! Why does the furthest eye get sucked through first?
  Totally unrealistic
• Oh, Crap!:
  • The ant family's reaction to Sniffles's surprise attack.
  • Sniffles himself when his machine's tube ends up on his head.
• Sick Episode: Sniffles has a case of the sniffles for the entirety of the episode.
• Sickly Prodigy: Sniffles in this episode.
• They Killed Kenny Again: Sniffles dies.
• Too Dumb to Live: Not once Sniffles takes off his contraption after he put it on, which quickly bites him in the rear when the ants begin to use dangerous items on him.
• Trauma Conga Line: Once the ants take advantage of Sniffles's machine, their usual torture begins.
• Vacuum Mouth: Sniffles invokes this with his contraption.
• Visual Pun: The "Mind = blown" caption is displayed when Sniffles's brain is blown out from the tube.