Flippy

Flippy
Species	Bear
First appearance	Happy Tree Friends - Hide and Seek (2000)
Latest appearance	Happy Tree Friends - In Over Your Hedge (2016)
Latest portrayal	Kenn Navarro

"Fire fried food is a feast for a famished soldier."

— Flippy's starring intro, Season 3 of Happy Tree Friends

Flippy is a bear from Happy Tree Friends who once served in the war. He made his debut appearance in "Hide and Seek". In most of his episodes, Flippy is a kind individual who likes to be peaceful. However, when he sees something resembling the atrocities of the wars he has been in, Flippy undergoes a transformation where he has razor-sharp teeth and fangs and greenish-yellow eyes. This alter-ego is known as Fliqpy, who kills the other characters because he believes he is at war.

Concept and creation

Flippy was inspired by John Rambo from the Rambo franchise, according to Warren Graff. His earlier design depicted him with an eyepatch and wore a bandage on his head and arm while wearing one dog tag. Another showed a bandage on his head and arm, but this time, he wore his traditional veteran outfit without the dog tags.

History

Background

Unlike other characters, many episodes show that Flippy has past war experiences. However, the wars' specific descriptions are vague as the creators don't want to state what war he was fighting. In some episodes, Flippy's flashbacks resemble Vietnam though it's not confirmation that Flippy fought in Vietnam. In "Operation: Tiger Bomb", Flippy has the rank of a private and is not a veteran. There, he fights the Tiger Army where Fliqpy kills the General.

Happy Tree Friends

Flippy makes rare appearances in Happy Tree Friends in comparison to everyone else. Flippy's only episodes where he never flipped out are the episodes "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark" and "Without a Hitch" (Fliqpy only appears as Flaky's hallucinations).

Episode apperances

Season 1

Image	Title	Role	Purpose in the episode
Example	Hide and Seek	Starring	Flippy and his friends decide to play and hide and seek. As the characters choose their hiding spots, Flippy counts to ten when a woodpecker begins to tap on the tree, reminding Flippy of gunshots in the war. The memory transforms him into Fliqpy.
Example	This Is Your Knife	Starring	Flippy joins Cuddles, Giggles, and Flaky at the camp. Cuddles offers Flippy a seat. Flippy begins to relax when he looks at the bonfire, reminding him of the war's flames. Flippy then transforms into Fliqpy.

Season 2

Image	Title	Role	Purpose in the episode
Example	Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark	Starring	Flippy (alongside Handy, Giggles, Sniffles, Flaky, and Lumpy are the only survivors on the island after the bus crash. He buries the remains of the previous victims. At one point, Lifty and Shifty shows Flippy their inflatable boat that the survivors can use to escape the island. After Flaky deflates the boat, Flippy and the others swim to the island while sharks eat Lifty and Shifty. Angry with Flaky, Flippy, and the others kill Flaky offscreen with Flippy pounding her grave. Sniffles, with the help of his friends, eventually build a rocket that they can use to escape the island. The rocket could not fly without certain objects removed, so they threw various materials out of the rocket, including Lumpy himself. They all eventually make it to space, but the rocket then goes too fast into the sun as the group starts burning inside. They all eventually die when the rocket reaches the sun.
Example	Keepin' it Reel	Starring	Flippy goes to the theater to see a movie. Lumpy accidentally collides into the film projector and makes the film start flashing, reminding Flippy of flashing guns in the war. He then turns into Fliqpy.
Example	Keepin' it Reel	Starring	Flippy escorts toxic waste in his truck when the engine makes a loud noise, reminding Flippy of gunshots. Fliqpy soon takes over his body.

Video games

Happy Tree Friends: Homerun

A possible appearance of Flippy appears in Happy Tree Friends: Homerun. The player has to use the baseball bat to hit Cuddles, Giggles, Lumpy, and Petunia before hitting the wall. Due to his teeth changing to resemble Fliqpy's yet having the black eyes, it is unclear whether this represents Fliqpy or the two characters are the same in the game.

Happy Tree Friends: Flippy's Flying Frenzy

Flippy has a brief appearance in Happy Tree Friends: Flippy's Flying Frenzy, where Flippy flips out due to a balloon popping. Afterward, he transforms into Fliqpy. While the game focuses more on Fliqpy, Flippy appears as the life and game icon.

Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm

Despite not having a role in the episode of the same name, he is a typical rescuable character in the video game, Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm, alongside Giggles, Nutty, Toothy, Flaky, The Mole, and Russell. He appears alone in the Tutorial Level. In it, he must finish the level without dying. He appears on every level in the game. Unlike his usual appearances, he does not flip out (though Fliqpy does make a cameo in the Xbox 360 version's achievements).

Happy Tree Friends: Deadeye Derby

Flippy appears as the final boss in Happy Tree Friends: Deadeye Derby in the level Lost Mines. In the first phase of the boss fight, Flippy will try to attack the player with his knife slingshot. He will throw a grenade at the player on certain occasions, which they need to touch on their screen. After taking enough damage, Flippy goes into his tank to shoot projectiles at the player who needs to shot them to avoid getting shot. Flippy will eventually come out of the tank only to use his machine slingshot and start shooting rapidly at the player. Flippy's second health bar's depletion destroys the tank, and the rest of the battle revolves around Fliqpy.

After Fliqpy is defeated, the player unlocks Nutty as a playable character.

Arcade games

Hot Potato

In the Arcade Game Hot Potato, the game's description mentions Flippy at the party. He made baked potatoes when he decided to add "bombastic substitutions" to his recipe, implying a flip-out. He otherwise does not appear in the game.

Happy Tree Friends: Run and Bun

Flippy is an unlockable playable character in Happy Tree Friends: Run and Bun. He rides on a jetpack, and his favorite level is The Jungle. He does not flip out in the game.

Happy Tree Friends: Aggravated Asphalt

Flippy plays a significant role in Happy Tree Friends: Aggravated Asphalt. He first does lots of exercises, which makes him sweat. Afterward, he walks on the road and waves at Toothy on a bicycle, not noticing the nail on the road. The bicycle's tire deflates from the nail causing Flippy's eyes to change to green, but he eventually picks up the nail, realizing it is not a gunshot. Soon, Toothy crashes into a trash can and is decapitated, and Flippy notices a pineapple. The pineapple reminds him of a grenade, and he tries to run away only to find more hazards on the road.

In the game, the player must make Flippy avoid the hazards on the road. He can collect three grenades to turn into Fliqpy, and a second level type will occur. After it ends, Fliqpy enters a giant Flippy face.

Biography

General information

Personality

Flippy calmy reading a book on his hammock.

Flippy is usually a friendly, innocent character. In many episodes, he participates with the tree friends in healthy activities such as hiding and seeking and going to the movies. Flippy usually does not remember Fliqpy's carnage except in the episode "Double Whammy" and "Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow". As shown in "Operation: Tiger Bomb" , he is sometimes clumsy, where he fails to kill the General and accidentally kills his comrades, Sneaky, and Mouse Ka-Boom. The only time Flippy has done anything cruel in his normal state is when he (alongside Handy, Sniffles, and Lumpy) murdered Flaky after she punctured their boat that was offered by Lifty and Shifty. He may also have an allergic reaction to peanuts like Flaky though his allergy is not as painful as Flippy's lips become more prominent than average. In "Remains to be Seen", the Blurb claims that he is allergic to chocolate and candy corn. However, it is unknown if this is supposed to be literal or just a joke, especially considering his MySpace account claims that chocolate chips are his favorite food. In the episodes "Easy For You to Sleigh" and "Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow", Flippy is shown as a heavy sleeper, only waking to trivial things. Like Lumpy, he spoke a profanity, such as when he was strangled by Fliqpy in "Autopsy Turvy" where he said, "Oh, crap! What the fuck?!".

Physical information

Flippy was a sergeant, as suggested with his outfit. He wears a green beret with a checkered crest on the top of his head. The peak tends to change directions due to animation errors. He wears a camouflage jacket that makes him blend into the environment. This technique was seen in "Hide and Seek", where Fliqpy kills his victim, Toothy. He also wears dog tags as a necklace. He usually has been seen with his hat, but it has been off a couple of times, revealing baldness. In scenes where Flippy is sleeping, he usually wears his army outfit. Despite bears having tails, just like the other bear characters, he does not have one. He is shown with belly-marking, as shown in some artwork where Fliqpy opens his jacket to reveal grenades and dynamite.

Other outfits and designs

Flippy as a carny.

In Ka-Pow!, he is the rank of a Private. He wears the same dog tags and beret but is now wearing a backpack and not wearing a camouflage outfit. He also wore a belt and wore boots. He also lacked the traditional buckteeth that other characters have.

Flippy wears a carny outfit in the episode, "Double Whammy". It is the same as his regular outfit, but he wears a cloth over his waist.

In the episode "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark", he and Sniffles wear a helmet when using Sniffles' rocket.

In the episode, "New Season Teaser", he was done in the same art style as Dick Figures as a green stick figure.

Occupations

Almost every appearance of Flippy depicts him as a veteran. In the Ka-Pow! episode, "Operation: Tiger Bomb", he is described as a soldier participating in the war. In Double Whammy, he is a carny at an amusement park where he tried to give Handy a foam finger, much to Handy's dismay. In Random Acts of Silence, he is a librarian where he stamped books.

Relationships

Friends and love interests

Cuddles, Giggles, and Flaky greeting Flippy.

Flippy is usually good friends with almost everyone. In the episode "This is your Knife", he and Cuddles camp alongside Flaky and Giggles. In "Party Animal", Cuddles joined Flippy's birthday party. After Fliqpy's flip-out, Flippy accidentally crashes his helicopter into Cuddles' house and is happy to see him alive. He also mourned his death in the "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark".

Flippy and Giggles are seen as friends and even like each other romantically, in "On My Mind". However, Giggles is Fliqpy's most frequent victim. In "This is your Knife", Giggles was camping with Cuddles and Flaky, and they accepted Flippy in the camp. He mourns her death in "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark". In Flippin' Burgers, Flippy is shocked to see Giggles covered in ketchup, reminding him of bloodshed in the war, which causes him to flip out.

In "Hide and Seek", Flippy and Toothy were shown playing that game. In "Party Animal", Toothy was one of the participants at Flippy's party. Flippy supposedly mourns Toothy's grave in " Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark".

Flippy hanging out with Flippy.

Lumpy and Flippy are great friends on occasion. In the episode "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark", he and Lumpy (with others) were seen as survivors from the bus crash. Despite this, Flippy (alongside Handy and Sniffles) threw him out of the rocket to escape from the island. In the episode "Double Whammy", Flippy gets help from Lumpy after Flippy realizes Fliqpy is killing the other characters. Lumpy gives him two pieces of advice that do not work for him. Lumpy tries to hypnotize Flippy, but Lumpy accidentally hypnotizes himself, making him act like a chicken, which causes Flippy to leave. In "By The Seat Of Your Pants", Flippy was in Lumpy's house. Later, he is in the audience in the swimming race. In "In Over Your Hedge", Flippy is annoyed by Lumpy's noise and shushes him as he is trying to read.

Both Fliqpy and Lumpy have killed each other on occasion. In "Keepin' it Reel", Lumpy dies at the hands of Fliqpy after killing everyone else. In "A Vicious Cycle", he kills Lumpy last in the episode, revived as Cub's tricycle. In "Over Your Hedge", Fliqpy beheads Lumpy by wrapping a cord around him and spinning his head until it comes off. In "Remains to be Seen", Lumpy killed a zombified Fliqpy by using a leaf blower, which grew Fliqpy's brain and caused Toothy to bite it. The bite causes an explosion that kills all the zombies. In "Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow", Fliqpy attempts to kill Lumpy but is soon reminded of Flippy riding on the unicorn similar to his dream, which causes Fliqpy to cry and snaps him back to Flippy. In "By The Seat Of Your Pants", Fliqpy lunged at Lumpy to be bounced off by his "trunks". Fliqpy then lands on a flagpole, impaling him. Lumpy then pulls Fliqpy down the pole, which kills Fliqpy.

Toothy, Petunia, Flaky, and Flippy

Petunia and Flippy are good friends, as shown in the episode "Hide and Seek" where they played the hide-and-seek game. Flippy mourned her death in "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark"

In "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark", Flippy and Handy work together to escape the island. In Double Whammy, after Handy somehow won to ring the bell, Flippy offers Handy a foam finger, which offends Handy as he has no hands. Handy gives an angry look and then leaves.

In "Party Animal", Nutty was one of the participants who went to Flippy's party. In "Random Acts of Silence", Flippy orders him and Sniffles to be quiet when they were laughing. In "Double Whammy", Nutty played a carnival game that was hosted by Flippy. Flippy was horrified when Fliqpy killed Nutty.

Sniffles and Flippy have only interacted in "Party Animal", where Sniffles went to Flippy's party, and Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark, where he and Flippy tried to escape the island.

Flaky at Flippy's party.

Flippy and Flaky are also great friends in many episodes. In "Hide and Seek", they played Hide and Seek. In "This Is Your Knife", they went camping with Cuddles and Flaky. In "Party Animal", Flaky was the one set up the party for him. Fliqpy did not kill her in the episode and was flipped back to Flippy after the Mole punctured her eye. In "Without a Hitch", Flippy wanted to ride with Flaky. She eventually crashed her car, causing him to fly out of it. He sees her trapped by the seatbelts and tries to save her. However, in "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark", Flippy's usual self (with Handy, Sniffles, and Lumpy) kill Flaky for puncturing their boat.

Flippy has only minorly interacted with the Mole in the episode "Party Animal" where he is happy to see him. The Mole himself helped with his Party.

Sneaky and Mouse Ka-Boom are Flippy's allies, as seen in "Operation: Tiger Bomb". After their death, Flippy hides in Sneaky's corpse and transforms into Fliqpy to kill the Tiger Army.

Foes and rivals

Flippy (with others) is offered a raft from Lifty and Shifty.

In the episode " Easy For You to Sleigh", Flippy was upset when he realized that Lifty and Shifty tried to rob him and tied him up. These actions by them cause him to flip out, and Fliqpy then kills them. Earlier in the show, however, Lifty and Shifty were the two characters that tried to help the other characters in the episode, " Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark".

Flippy is usually annoyed with Mime on occasions. In "Keepin' it Reel", Mime is somehow eating his "popcorn" loudly, which causes Flippy to tell him to be quiet. In "Random Acts of Silence", Mime keeps making noise in the library, which causes Flippy to get annoyed. Despite this, Flippy mourned his death in the episode " Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark" and Mime participated in Flippy's party in "Party Animal".

Despite being his alter-ego, Flippy has interacted with Fliqpy, though only in hallucinations or dreams. In "Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow", Flippy is enjoying his dream of riding on a unicorn when Fliqpy in Flippy's helicopter comes to kill him. Flippy is shocked by this and tries to run away from him, only for Fliqpy to kill him. The nightmare causes Fliqpy to take over Flippy. In "Double Whammy" and its sequel "Autopsy Turvy", Flippy sees Fliqpy after overdosing on pills. The overdosing causes the two to go into a fight, only for Flippy to realize he imagined the entire thing. Eventually, they both pull up clones of each other and soon begin to attack each other, with Flippy being the only alive one.

Flippy has fought the Tiger Army in the W.A.R Journal episode, "Operation Tiger Bomb". Flippy tried to disguise himself as a pizza delivery man and was supposed to kill the General with a dagger. Instead, he threw a pizza slice by mistake, foiling his disguise. After running away from the army by hiding in Sneaky's corpse, Fliqpy kills all soldiers, including the General.

Speech

Flippy has a high-pitched voice, the most out of any of the adult characters. However, in the episode Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark, he had the same voice as Pop, who has the second most resounding voice behind Fliqpy. When he was laughing when making Flaky's grave after killing her and screaming when Sniffles' rocket was going the sun, the sounds are the same as Fliqpy. The reason for the difference in voice is because the original idea was for Pop to be in the episode, but the writers felt it was out of character for Pop to kill someone in cold blood, and Cub was not in the episode. Because of this, Flippy replaced Pop, yet his voices were not updated.

Deaths

In many episodes, Flippy (as well as Fliqpy) tend to survive his events. He does die in "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark", "Hear Today", "Gone Tomorrow", "Autopsy Turvy", and "Without a Hitch". His deaths usually involve machinery, Lumpy, and explosions. He is the fifteenth character to return after dying in an episode as he died in "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark".

Fates

Deaths

Happy Tree Friends

Flippy's death from the chicken truck.

• "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark": Flippy is burned to death in the rocket when it reaches the sun.
• "Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow": Flippy and Cuddles get sliced by Flippy's helicopter's tail rotor.
• "Autopsy Turvy": After curing his post-traumatic stress disorder, a chicken truck kills him.
• "Without a Hitch": Lumpy's truck runs over Flippy and kills him.

Games

• Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm: Depending on the level's environment, he can get sliced by blades, get crushed, get electrocuted, burn, or drown.

Other media

• August 2005 Calendar: Flippy dies, in the same way, he did in Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark.

Injuries

• "Happy Trails Pt. 2": Jumping the Shark: Flippy's head boils from the sun in Sniffles' rocket.
• "Party Animal": After Fliqpy kills everyone but the Mole and Flaky, Flippy attempts to drink a smoothie from Mime's remains. He gets an allergic reaction to the peanuts or Mime and gets big lips, which the iris tears off.
• "Double Whammy": Flippy chokes on some water after Lumpy splashed it on Fliqpy.
• "Autopsy Turvy": Flippy gets punched by Fliqpy during the battle (imagination only).
• "Without a Hitch": Flippy flew out of Flaky's windshield, and he gets cut. When attempting to free her, Flaky injures Flippy with a shard of glass into his eye.

Other media

• Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm: Flippy gets harmed when touching a hazard.

Number of kills

Happy Tree Friends episodes

Character	Number of times killed	Episodes
Cuddles	2	"Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow" "Autopsy Turvy" (Along with Cro-Marmot)
Toothy	1	"Autopsy Turvy" (Along with Cro-Marmot)
Flaky	1	"Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark"
Lifty	1	"Autopsy Turvy"
Shifty	1	"Autopsy Turvy"
Sneaky	1	"Operation: Tiger Bomb"
Mouse Ka-Boom	1	"Operation: Tiger Bomb"

Games

• Run and Bun: Flippy can kill Lumpy by colliding into him and having his body sliced in half or piercing his body on spikes. He can also kill Cub, Sniffles, Cro-Marmot, and Lumpy's elephant.

Survival rate

(Counting both Flippy and Fliqpy)

Header text	Header text
Internet series	53.84%
Breaks & Love Bites	50%
TV series	60%
All	56.52%

Trivia

• Flippy tends to salute with his left hand, which is the incorrect way of saluting as it only uses the right hand.
• Flippy is one of the few characters to eat or drink the remains of other characters. The others are Cuddles, Giggles, Toothy, Lumpy, Petunia, Nutty, Pop, Cub, Flaky, the Mole, Russell, and Fliqpy.