Havin' A Ball

Havin' a Ball
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Season	1
Date	Febuary 4th, 2000 March 7th, 2008 (YouTube) TBA (Atom) July 4th, 2013 (YouTube, HD)
Production number	105
Writer(s)	Mark Fiorenza Warren Graff Rhode Montijo Kenn Navarro
Director(s)	Rhode Montijo
Starring	Pop Cub
Appearance(s)	Lumpy
Previous	Crazy Ant-ics
Next	Water You Wading For

"Havin' a Ball", is the fith episode of Season 1 of Happy Tree Friends. This episode is the first to introduce Pop and Cub.

Synopsis

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Plot

Pop and Cub are playing with a ball and it accidentally bounces into a street and Pop with an over encouraging son venters out in the road getting hit by the cars in the process he weakly picks up the ball and walks forward and falls off a cliff into a medical helicopter with Lumpy in a gurney, shredding him to pieces, Cub manages to climb down with a rope but is suddenly crushed by Lumpy's gurney, he sees the danger in front of him and tries to escape but is suddenly crushed by the helicopter with the ball bouncing past.

Moral

"Eat your veggies!"

Fates

Deaths

• Pop causes several car accidents when going into a street.
• Pop is shredded to pieces by the rotors of a medical helicopter.
• Cub is crushed by Lumpy's gurney.
• Lumpy is crushed by a medical helicopter.
• The helicopter pilot might have died in the crash.

Injuries

• Pop is hit by several cars when crossing a street.
• Lumpy has an unspecified injury enough to go to the hospital for.

Survival rate

• Amount of surviving main characters: 0
• Amount of dead main characters: 3
• Total rate: 0%

Destruction

• Several cars crash after Pop crosses the street.
• Pop's robe is shredded by a helicopter.
• A helicopter crashes.
• The gurney is destroyed after the helicopter lands on it.

Quick shot moment

When Lumpy tries to escape from the falling helicopter, there is a brief shot of Pop falling down the cliff just before he gets shredded by the helicopter. Oddly, the background is completely purple.

Animation errors

• When Mondo uploaded the HD version of this episode, they accidentally spelt "Friends" wrong. Instead, it's spelt as "Firends".
• Cub is almost as tall as Pop when they are playing with the ball. S1E5 Playing with a ball.
• And to think that younglings who also wear diapers are a bit smaller than this...
• The safety pin on Cub's diaper changes position throughout the episode.
• When Cub notices the ball is on the other side of the street, his philtrum disappears.
• There is no way that ball would have traveled that far, or avoid the traffic.
• When Pop sighs after crossing the road, his philtrum disappears. It disappears again when he falls off the cliff.
• Lumpy isn't shown on the gurney when the helicopter is first shown, although Pop can cause his injuries by crossing the road.
• Initially, there is no cliff on the other side of the highway. It only appears when Pop walks off it after retrieving the ball.
• It is near-impossible for someone to survive being run over in the face by a truck. Pop's skull would have been crushed completely.
• When Pop falls off the cliff the steering wheel embedded in his arm falls away, but for a frame when you get a close-up of Pop falling, it is back in his arm before disappearing again.
• The blood in this episode is colored incorrectly.
• When Pop is sliced by the helicopter's blades, Lumpy and the gurney are about as big as the helicopter.
• When Pop is sliced by the helicopter's blades, some of his blood can be seen floating in midair. In the the "Classics Remastered" version of this episode on YouTube, this scene is edited to make the blood appear on the side of the cliff.
• In the scene at the bottom of the cliff, the cliff base is not visible until the helicopter crushes Lumpy. This is fixed on the DVD.
• When Cub retrieves his ball after Pop's death, some blood is splattered on the ball. However, when the ball gets flung in the air after the helicopter crashes, the blood on the ball isn't there anymore until it lands.
• Rhode Montijo's name isn't in the credits, even though Lumpy's voice can be heard.
• When Cub gets crushed by the gurney, his remains are as big as Pop's remains.
• After the ball hits Cub in the head, his pupils become inverted.

Staff

Main article: List of Havin' a Ball staff

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Altered and deleted scenes

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Gallery

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External links

• The episode on Mondo Media's website
• The episode on YouTube
• Remastered version on YouTube