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 , his mouth was moved to the tip of his trunk by 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 ant 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 can be described as a geeky anteater interested in scientific practices. Most often, he is shown constructing machinery for various reasons. However, his inventions frequently backfire and usually result in the deaths of himself or others. Sometimes, Sniffles is portrayed as a mad scientist, such as the instance where he is mixing fluids while laughing mischievously in Sniffles' Science Smoochie. He usually says "Ah Ha!" when he gets an idea for an invention. Even though Sniffles hold a remarkable IQ, he has the unexplained tendency to observe deaths with a disinterested expression and quickly overcome them.

Despite his trademark ability to create machinery, he constantly makes impulsive errors. In I've Got You Under My Skin, Sniffles implements a timer in his shrinking submarine that determines how long he can stay microscopic. Because the submarine was designed to enter Giggles' body as long as necessary, this is shown to be a defective feature. Despite having the opportunity to do so, Sniffles doesn't rewind the timer to give himself more time. In Party Animal, while Sniffles was previously seen fleeing the area after Toothy was killed by Flippy, it is unknown what he was doing during Cuddles, Nutty, and Mime deaths, as he was later shown seemingly idle until jumping in shock once the camera revealed him. Trying to hide from Flippy, he jumps into a barrel filled with water. Unfortunately, this predicament forces him to give away his hiding spot by jutting his snout out of his water in order to breathe. Flippy catch notice of this and proceeds to kill Sniffles by imprisoning him inside the barrel, stabbing it with many knives, and rolling it down a hill.

Physical information

Sniffles is a blue anteater with a long snout and pointy ears.

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.