- "Be careful what you wish for!"
Airdate: October 16, 2006
One of the lamps in Petunia's store turns out to contain a magical wish-granting genie, Lumpy. Lifty and Shifty race all over the town to find the lamp with the genie to wish for money. Meanwhile, the Tree Friends make some terribly worded wishes of their own when they get their hands on the lamp.
"As You Wish" contains the following:
- Ambiguous Ending: Lumpy is granted a wish and unlike the others, he takes his time to think about it. However, we never find out what it is.
- An Arm and a Leg: Lifty and Shifty rip off Sniffles's arms to get the magic lamp.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: The main gimmick of the episode. The moral also recites this verbatim.
- Butt-Monkey: Sniffles continues his trend of always receiving the most Cruel and Unusual Death out of everyone.
- Cruel and Unusual Death:
- Cub ends up on fire thanks to Pop's wish for his son to have a "hot ride". He runs out into the street and gets run over by a fire truck. He seems to be okay, but then he gets run over again by Lifty and Shifty's van, fatally killing him. To add insult to injury, the rolling disco ball flattens his corpse.
- Sniffles gets his arms ripped off by Lifty and Shifty, then the rolling disco ball crashes into the rocket, raining glass shards on Sniffles, and finally the rocket tips and falls on him with a sickening crunch. It continues his trend of receiving the most cruel deaths.
- A bag of coins breaks through the ceiling of the lamp store, shooting coins at Petunia like bullets. Then, the rocket crashes through the store and impales Petunia's torso. Finally, Lumpy's lamp falls from the air and fatally smashes her skull.
- Eye Scream: Disco Bear's eyes melt when the giant disco ball he wished for amplifies the sun's rays.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Pop's death by the tip of a rocket. Mime was nearly this as well, but he comically pops instead.
- Indy Escape: Mime tries to unicycle away from a giant rocket heading for him, but to no success.
- Jackass Genie: Subverted. Lumpy at no point does he ever purposefully make bad wishes, it's just that everyone else worded their wishes poorly (except Nutty and Sniffles).
- Karmic Death: Lifty and Shifty getting impaled by lamps after causing all the chaos and destruction.
- New Job as the Plot Demands: Petunia runs a store that sells lamps.
- Pet the Dog: When it seems like Lifty and Shifty are about to fall to their deaths, Lumpy creates a magic hot air balloon at no expense for them.
- Smart Ball: Nutty (and Sniffles, but he’s already The Smart Guy so it doesn’t count) is the only person to have his wish not backfire on him, as he wished clearly and concisely to Lumpy.
- There Is Another: Turns out that Lumpy isn't the only Genie; he finds Genie Giggles.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Lifty, Shifty, Petunia, Sniffles, Cub, Pop, Mime, Nutty, and Disco Bear die.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Lumpy and Giggles survive.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Lifty and Shifty do some pretty despicable acts to get their wish such as: cutting Sniffles’ arms off and running over an already heavily injured Cub.
- Too Dumb to Live:
- Nutty wishes for a giant lollipop and unlike everyone else, his wish doesn’t backfire — however Nutty stupidly shoves the whole lollipop in his mouth, choking himself to death (pictured above).
- The rocket Sniffles wished for launches on its own, impales Pop, and goes after Mime next. Instead of turning left or right, Mime keeps cycling ahead of the rocket's path, leading to him getting popped like a balloon.
