Too Much Scream Time
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| Date | September 27, 2023 |
| Writer(s) | Ken Pontac Warren Graff Kenn Navarro |
| Director(s) | Kenn Navarro |
| Starring | Pop Cub Lumpy |
| Appearance(s) | Handy Cuddles Giggles Disco Bear Truffles |
| Previous | In Over Your Hedge |
"Too Much Scream Time" is an episode of the Happy Tree Friends internet series and a collaboration with The Crackpet Show video game developed by Vixa Games and published by Ravenage Games. It is a tie-in episode for the Happy Tree Friends Edition downloadable content for the game. This episode, alongside the DLC, was first announced via a trailer published by MondoMedia on August 17, 2023 after the channel gradually teased with Community posts in the weeks prior starting mid-July 2023. The teasers began with a post saying "Happy Tree Friends", then followed by "are going to..." with a teaser image attached a week after, then a 9-second video titled "Come back..." on July 28, 2023, then finally an 8-second video titled "really soon" on August 3, 2023.
A brief snippet of this short can be viewed in The Crackpet Show if the player has Happy Tree Friends Edition installed and it is their first time booting up the DLC.
Description
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Happy Tree Friends ARE BACK! Too Much Scream Time features guest characters from The Crackpet Show, an action-packed rogue-lite shoot’em-up about mutated animals that fight in a bizarre TV show.
Embrace the iconic cruelty and humor of the legendary cartoon with your favorite characters playable in The Crackpet Show: Happy Tree Friends Edition!
Dive into the bizarre show solo or with your friends via couch co-op and spread mayhem with tons of guns and perks.[1]
Plot
Pop and Cub are walking at a mall when Pop suddenly needs to go to the restroom after just one bite of a burrito. He sees a display TV showing The Crackpet Show characters, so he places Cub down in front of it while he is going to the restroom. At the public restroom, Handy is entering a stall while Lumpy is cleaning a sink. Pop enters the furthest stall. By then, the TV no longer shows innocent imagery as it shows a brief The Crackpet Show cutscene where the Mega Toad swipes at two crackpets challenging it. This makes Cub highly intrigued. Pop later leaves the public restroom and is then shocked to see Cub watching the crackpets being killed, quickly dragging him away. Meanwhile, Lumpy enters Pop's stall and is disgusted by the state of the toilet.
Pop lets Cub play with a ball this time. His stomach rumbles again, so he leaves. Cub turns his head toward the direction of the mall corridor and once again sees the display TV showing Crackpet footage. In that footage, Bunny shoots an entire group of audience members, enticing Cub to try that too. He picks up a bow and arrow set when Pop comes back. Pop is then shocked again at the sight of him going to fire the arrow. Pop snatches the arrow and feels how sharp the point is before he notices Lumpy passing by, carrying a toolbox. His toolbox includes a toilet plunger, which Pop swaps with the arrow without being seen. He then allows Cub to use the plunger in place of the arrow, assuming it wouldn't be dangerous.
Lumpy returns to the dirty stall and takes out the arrow. He is confused, but starts work anyway, plunging the arrow into the toilet. Handy is still using the toilet at the adjacent stall, dropping the newspaper he apparently managed to hold. But once his lack of hands is fully shown, he is unable to grab the toilet paper. The arrow ends up going through his toilet, piercing through him from bottom to top. Lumpy continues to "plunge" without knowing what is really happening. When he manages to pull out an eyeball with some optic nerve tangled around the arrow, he screams in horror.
While Pop is eating his burrito, Cub starts aiming with the bow. He is going for the box of crackpet dolls, but when he fires, Cuddles happens to pass by and his head ends up impaled by the plunger handle while its suction cup is detached and stuck on the side of his head. Giggles is admiring Disco Bear's new hairstyle when the ricocheting plunger handle hits a button in front of the barber shop, causing the roll-down door to close and cut Disco Bear in half. The plunger handle eventually impales Pop's head, sending bits of his brain into his burrito before falling backwards. Lumpy picks up the burrito and leaves happily with it. Back at the display TV, Cub's hat is left in front of the TV and Cub himself is shown to be inside the TV looking at The Crackpet Show footage in awe before he disappears and footage from the Happy Tree Friends Edition is played to advertise it. Lumpy has finished the entire burrito by then, but his stomach then starts to rumble.
Moral
"Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded."
Fates
Deaths
- Bunny, Shark, and Cowie are shown being killed the Mega Toad.
- In the next piece of gameplay footage, it shows Bunny killing at least three of the enemies. Bunny then goes to kill the audience.
- Handy is killed by a spear through his body while he is on a toilet. This was caused due to Lumpy using it to "plunge" the toilet.
- Cub shoots a plunger out of his bow which impales Cuddles' head.
- Disco Bear is cut in half by a closed roll-down door.
- Pop's head is impaled by the plunger handle.
Survival rate
- Amount of surviving main characters: 2
- Amount of dead main characters: 4
- Total rate: 33.33333333333%
Truffles cameo
Truffles can be seen in a store doorway on the right side of the mall corridor during the zoom-in scene to the display TV.
The Crackpet Show references
- At the beginning, the TV displays dancing crackpets, featuring the characters, Cowie, Goat, Bunny, Panda, Piggy, and Rusty.
- Cowie and Sharky appear on the sides of the display TV and as dolls.
- Cub is watching a snippet of The Crackpet Show intro where two crackpets are facing Mega Toad.
- One of Cub's ways to copy the TV show has him fire a plunger. The Mark Gun is a weapon in The Crackpet Show that involves firing a plunger, albeit not via bow like what Cub did.
- Promotional footage of both The Crackpet Show and the Happy Tree Friends Edition DLC are displayed on the TV both to entice Cub and to advertise the game.
Staff
- Main article: List of Too Much Scream Time staff
Trivia
- "Too Much Scream Time" is the first Happy Tree Friends episode to be published in the 2020s and is the first episode after seven years since the original release of "In Over Your Hedge" back in 2016.
- "Too Much Scream Time" is one of the Happy Tree Friends shorts to be tie-ins with video games. The others are "False Alarm" with the eponymous game, "Buns of Steal" with Run & Bun, and "Camp Pokeneyeout" with Deadeye Derby. This short, however, is the only one to be a collaboration with a third party instead of related to a Mondo Studios video game.
- "Too Much Scream Time" is one of the Happy Tree Friends videos to feature guest characters in the animation. The show already featured the Fall Out Boy in "The Carpal Tunnel of Love" and Really Good Unicornius, who is a contest submission from Oliver Age 24, in "Pet Peeve".