Sniffles

Sniffles
Species	Anteater
First appearance	Happy Tree Friends - Crazy Antics (2000)
Latest appearance
Latest portrayal	Liz Stuart

"Science is seriously satisfying!."

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

Sniffles is a main character in the Happy Tree Friends franchise. He is a blue anteater with a long snout and large glasses. He is consistently shown to have a high IQ. In several episodes, he is pitted against a recurring family of The Ants who often assault him in sadistic and exceptionally gruesome manners. Sniffles made his debut in Crazy Ant-ics.

Concept and creation

Prior to his debut in Crazy Ant-ics, Sniffles was intially planned to be a squirrel with comically large glasses and a pocket protector. His following redesign changed him into an anteater, but kept his glasses and pocket protector. In the storyboards of Crazy Ant-Ics, Sniffles' mouth was drawn under his trunk, but his tongue seemed to be located in his trunk. While a few episodes seem to follow this design by mistake , both his mouth and tongue more consistently appear on his trunk since his introduction.

History

Happy Tree Friends

Sniffles made his debut in Happy Tree Friends in the episode, Crazy Ant-ics. He makes several major appearances in the main internet series. For Season 1, he only had traits associated with a nerd stereotype. In Crazy Ant-incs, he makes his first attempt at catching the ant family, only to get killed by them. He encounters the ants again in Tongue Twister Trouble, where he is also tortured by Mittens. In Happy Trails Pt. 2 - Jumping The Shark, Sniffles builds a machine for the first time. He also fought the ant family twice in Season 2, as in A Hard Act to Swallow and Suck It Up.

Starring intros

• Season 1: Sniffles looks at the viewer with an intrigued expression.
• Season 2: Sniffles is in a light blue forest, holding a book.
• Season 3 through Season 4: Sniffles is doing a chemical science experiment with two potions.

Happy Tree Friends (television series)

Sniffles appears in the television series adaptation of Happy Tree Friends. His first appearance is in the "One Foot in the Grave" episode, The Wrong Side of the Tracks. As with his internet appearances, Sniffles is featured very often. His inventions also gets more focus. Tongue In Cheek is the only episode in the television series to focus on Sniffles' rivarly with the ants.

Starring intros

• Season 1: Sniffles uses a magnifying glass to show the baby ant.

Arcade games

Fire Escape

Sniffles is one of the victims who Flaky must rescue from a building fire. When Sniffles jumps out the building, he must be bounced off Flaky's umbrella until he lands inside the ambulance. If Flaky fails to rescue Sniffles, he will fall to his death. It is possible for two Sniffles to appear on-screen together.

Happy Tree Friends: Run and Bun

Sniffles is an obstacle in this game. He is seen driving an ambulance. If the player runs into him, the player will be killed.

Strandead

Sniffles appears a few times in Strandead. In the intro cutscene, following the crash in Happy Trails Pt. 1, he, Lifty, Shifty, Flaky, Lumpy, Handy, Flippy, and Giggles are stuck on a small deserted island. However, they spot a distant land across the shark-infested sea. Sniffles begins to design his blueprint that involves a fire extinguisher, a tube, and a chopped up tree to form a giant catapult. After showing his plan to the other Happy Tree Friends, Sniffles enlists Giggles as her test subject.

Sniffles also appears on the pause and game over screens, holding an internal organ in the latter.

Happy Tree Friends: Aggravated Asphalt

Sniffles play a role in the game as an obstacle. If Flippy's evil side runs into him, Sniffles will be sliced in half and killed.

Happy Tree Friends: Deadeye Derby

Sniffles appears twice in Happy Tree Friends: Deadeye Derby. He is first encountered in the tutorial level and is later fought as the first boss.

In his boss fight, Sniffles pilots a machine remiscent of the one in A Hole Lotta Love. In his first phase, he shields himself in a glass dome, requiring the player to attack it. Once the glass dome is destroyed, Sniffles is left vulnerable and he will occasionally call up a laser device to attack the player. The player has 10 seconds to shoot one of the devices before it fires. Once Sniffles' health is depleated, one of his lasers misfires at him, cutting him in half. After Sniffles' defeat, the map "Terror Trails" and Toothy are unlocked.

Biography

General information

Personality

Sniffles is best described as very intellegent. He enjoys reading, science, and solving math equations. He is sometimes portrayed as a geek, as he dresses up as Spock for Halloween in Remains to be Seen and seems to idolize Splendid, which is most evident in Wrath of Con. Over the course of the series, Sniffles has built many inventions. However, they often backfire or malfunction, as they often result in the death of Sniffles and other Happy Tree Friends. Sniffles is also quite prone to making impulsive errors. Naturally, Sniffles loves to eat ants, but he is often unsuccesful at catching them, with the exception of Blast from the Past. The "Collect Them All" section of the First Blood DVD claims that Sniffles has a few allergies, though none are specified. While Sniffles was previously shown as weak in Spare Me, this is contrasted by Idol Curosity, where he appears to be rather atheltic. On some occasions, Sniffles is often frustasted by others' stupidity. While Sniffles is normally friendly and helpful, he (along with Lumpy, Handy, and Flippy) murdered Flaky after she punctured their inflatable raft in Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark.

Physical information

Sniffles is a blue anteater with a long snout and pointy ears. He sports a pair of blue glasses tapped at the brige and has a pocket protector on his chest. Sniffles was seen without his glasses only twice; in A Sight for Sore Eyes, he is shown to have same eyes as the other characters, but in Tongue Twister Trouble, his eyes only comprised of pupils. Unlike the other Happy Tree Friends, he doesn't have a pair of buckteeth or a heart-shaped nose. His truck-like snout is combined with his mouth, as his lips are located on its tip. Its length has gradually shorten over time, as it was intially long enough to almost reach his feet in the first two internet seasons, but as of the television series, became much smaller. Despite being an anteater, Sniffles has teeth. His tongue's length is inconsistent. In Tongue In Cheek, his tongue chased the mother ant throughout a forest and only stopped when Lumpy was standing on it. Meanwhile, his tongue reached its limit after stretching a few feet in Tongue Twister Trouble. In a few episodes, Sniffles' ears seem to move in correlation to his mood.

Other outfits and designs

In Class Act, Sniffles is seen wearing a candy cane costume.

In Remains To Be Seen and Something Fishy, Sniffles is dressed up like Spock from Star Trek. His costume is made up of pointed ears, a red shirt with the U.S.S Enterprise Insignia and black pants.

In Concrete Solution, Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow, Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm, and Spare Tire, Sniffles wears doctor attire, which mainly consists of a head mirror and a white coat.

Trivia

• According to the Favorite Character poll in 2003, Sniffles placed #11 with 3%, putting him below Toothy, Handy, Pop, and Cub (all at 4%) and above Disco Bear, Splendid, Lifty & Shifty, and Russell (all at 2%). In the Best Happy Tree Friends Character tournament, he lost to Russell on Round 1.