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* CarryABigStick: Nutty gets ahold of a giant mallet and crushes a barrel with The Mole in it.



* DropTheHammer: Nutty gets ahold of a giant mallet and crushes a barrel with The Mole in it.
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* DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: Not unsurprisingly, Nutty is briefly blinded upon walking outside after staying inside playing video games for almost a year.

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* DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: Not unsurprisingly, Unsurprisingly, Nutty is briefly blinded upon walking outside after staying inside playing video games for almost a year.
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* HoboGloves: The Mole is seen wearing a pair of fingerless knit gloves along with a tin can hat while warming himself in front of (or rather, facing away from) a TrashcanBonfire to signify that he's a hobo in this episode.



* ThrowTheDogABone: Nutty, Sniffles, and Cuddles survive.

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* ThrowTheDogABone: Nutty, Sniffles, and Cuddles survive.survive.
* TrashcanBonfire: The Mole, who is a hobo in this episode, is shown warming himself in front of one. As is custom for The Mole, though, he's facing ''away'' from it. When Nutty crashes his car into Lifty and Shifty's van, the barrel is sent flying, lands over The Mole, and then starts rolling with him in it, allowing Nutty to play some real-life ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong''.

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Lifty buys a literal truckload of candy from Lifty and Shifty, only to go to hospital for eating so much that the candy tears his insides. After some time in a mental ward, he's cured of his addiction only to quickly replace it with another one: video games.

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Lifty Nutty buys a literal truckload of candy from Lifty and Shifty, only to go to hospital for eating so much that the candy tears his insides. After some time in a mental ward, he's cured of his addiction only to quickly replace it with another one: video games.


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* IKnowMortalKombat: Thanks to his new video game obsession, Nutty goes on a rampage by using skills and attacks he got from them.

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* GoingColdTurkey: An involuntary version. After Nutty's sugar addiction lands him in the hospital for what likely isn't the first time, Sniffles decides to deal with the root of the problem once and for all by locking him in a padded cell until he's been weaned off candy.


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* NailedToTheWagon: After Nutty's sugar addiction lands him in the hospital for what likely isn't the first time, Sniffles decides to deal with the root of the problem once and for all by locking him in a padded cell until he's been weaned off candy.
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* OcularGushers: Nutty cries like this at one point during his withdrawal process when he's forced to go cold turkey on candy.

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* AddictionDisplacement: At first, Nutty is a changed squirrel, but once Lifty and Shifty offer him video games, he becomes addicted to it.
* DropTheHammer: Nutty gets a hold of a giant mallet and crushes a barrel with The Mole in it.
* HereWeGoAgain: Nutty finds a candy cane in Lifty and Shifty's van and eats it. He's back to his candy cravings!

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* AddictionDisplacement: At first, Nutty is a changed squirrel, but once Lifty and Shifty offer him video games, he becomes addicted to it.
them.
* CoatFullOfContraband: Lifty and Shifty do this with a coat full of candy to lure Nutty in. When Nutty rejects Lifty's coat of candy after having his addiction cured, Shifty opens a coat full of ''video games'' instead, kick-starting a whole ''new'' addiction.
* DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: Not unsurprisingly, Nutty is briefly blinded upon walking outside after staying inside playing video games for almost a year.
* DropTheHammer: Nutty gets a hold ahold of a giant mallet and crushes a barrel with The Mole in it.
* HereWeGoAgain: GoingColdTurkey: An involuntary version. After Nutty's sugar addiction lands him in the hospital for what likely isn't the first time, Sniffles decides to deal with the root of the problem once and for all by locking him in a padded cell until he's been weaned off candy.
* KarmaHoudini:
Nutty finds a steals Cuddles' car and kills Petunia, Lifty, Shifty, and The Mole, but suffers no consequences besides his candy cane in addiction returning. Then again, considering how often that addiction gets him killed, maybe that ''is'' punishment enough.
* KarmicDeath: After enabling Nutty's addictions for a profit and getting him hurt by dumping a truckful of candy on him,
Lifty and Shifty's Shifty get what's coming to them when he crashes into their van and eats it. He's back to his candy cravings!sends them smashing through the windshield.



* RoomFullOfCrazy: Nutty is thrown in there to get him to kick his candy habit for good.

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* RoomFullOfCrazy: The padded cell Sniffles throws Nutty is thrown in there to get him to kick his candy habit for good.good eventually ends up like this, with scratches all over the walls and floor.
* SeasonalBaggage: The Seasonal Montage variant is used to show how long Nutty stays inside after getting addicted to video games. It goes from night to day, then to autumn, winter, and spring as his letterbox gets fuller and his lawn gets overgrown.


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* StatusQuoIsGod: At the end of the episode, Nutty finds a candy cane in Lifty and Shifty's van and eats it. He's back to his candy cravings!
* StealthPun: Nutty killing The Mole is an obvious reference to ''Donkey Kong'', but there's also the fact that he's ''whacking'' a ''mole'' with a hammer.
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** Petunia's guts on the windshield resemble ''VideoGame/Tetris'' pieces. Nutty even tries to line a piece with the rest.

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** Petunia's guts on the windshield resemble ''VideoGame/Tetris'' ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' pieces. Nutty even tries to line a piece with the rest.
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[[caption-width-right:350:From one craving to another.]]

Originally made as bonus content for the Xbox-360 game of the same name, later released on the official Website/YouTube channel on August 1, 2008.

Lifty buys a literal truckload of candy from Lifty and Shifty, only to go to hospital for eating so much that the candy tears his insides. After some time in a mental ward, he's cured of his addiction only to quickly replace it with another one: video games.

!!"False Alarm" contains the following:
* AddictionDisplacement: At first, Nutty is a changed squirrel, but once Lifty and Shifty offer him video games, he becomes addicted to it.
* DropTheHammer: Nutty gets a hold of a giant mallet and crushes a barrel with The Mole in it.
* HereWeGoAgain: Nutty finds a candy cane in Lifty and Shifty's van and eats it. He's back to his candy cravings!
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Sniffles is a doctor again and Petunia is a newspaper delivery girl.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Nutty is thrown in there to get him to kick his candy habit for good.
* ShoutOut: To several video games:
** Nutty tossing Cuddles out of his car and stealing it is similar to how cars are stolen in the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' franchise.
** Petunia's guts on the windshield resemble ''VideoGame/Tetris'' pieces. Nutty even tries to line a piece with the rest.
** Lifty and Shifty's death end up with their heads resembling ''VideoGame/PacMan'' and a ghost.
** Nutty jumps over a barrel with The Mole in it and smashes it with a giant hammer, similar to ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong''.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Petunia, Lifty, Shifty, and The Mole die.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Nutty, Sniffles, and Cuddles survive.

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