I have always loved this show called Happy Tree Friends, because of the characters. My favorite one is Petunia.
"False Alarm" is a controversial real-life bootleg tape featuring an unaired HTF episode. Like the long lost but recently discovered "Remains to be Seen", False Alarm was created by a now imprisoned American animator who intended to pass the tape off as an unaired episode and featured the death of Nutty.
I decided to go watch it. Unfortunately, it was corrupted, and I could not get any further than the introduction; and when I did, all I saw was a mess of colors and heard a strange loud-ass fuzzy sound, like radio static. I tried watching it multiple times; different sites for each one. Unfortunately, it was still the same; Color mess, static sound.
What the fuck is this shit, I thought. I almost got pissed, but I decided to just shut it off and go to bed (because it was getting late). The dream I had was unpleasant. I could see Undead Petunia in my room. I was acting like a coward 10 year old curled up in my blankets as I could hear her moaning around my room. Thank Eris it wasn't long before I woke up.
I watched it again, and it wasn't the mess of colors and fuzzy sound like before.
In this episode, Nutty happily walks down the road and eats a large lollipop in one bite. He giggles as the sugar courses through his system, but he is soon saddened that his sugary treat is gone. He is beckoned into an alley by Lifty and Shifty, both wearing trench coats and their trademark grins. The greedy duo offer Nutty an entire dump truck full of candy, which Nutty eagerly accepts, tossing them a wad of cash to seal the deal. Nutty opens his arms wide as the dump truck opens and the mountain of candy begins tilting towards him.
The view suddenly cuts to an emergency room where Sniffles, a doctor, looks at an x-ray of Nutty's stomach, which has been pierced by candy canes and other various candies. Later, a bandaged Nutty sighs happily as he has made a full physical recovery. He becomes confused, however, as a door closes on him and he finds himself locked in a padded room. From a security monitor, we see Nutty go through various episodes of sugar withdrawal including laughing maniacally, crying uncontrollably, screaming in distress, and making an ice sculpture of a candy cane with a chainsaw. Eventually, Nutty kicks the door down and emerges a changed squirrel, now sporting a full head of hair, a tie, and no longer wearing candy as a wardrobe or sporting a lazy eye. He and Sniffles shake hands, happy at the progress Nutty has made.
Nutty walks down the street again, and is once more beckoned by Lifty and Shifty who stand in an alley. Once more they offer Nutty candy, but this time he refuses, having been rehabilitated. Undeterred, they show Nutty some video games and some controllers, which seem to capture Nutty's interest. Later, at Nutty's house, we seem him playing video games with the same interest he had in the candy he once loved.
Time goes by and Nutty remains in his house playing video games, not even going outside to collect his mail. After about a year of playing, Nutty now looks more like his former self (minus the lazy eye), with gaming controllers, rather than candy, decorating his body. One day, one of his video game consoles breaks down and Nutty grows agitated. He exits his house and is blinded by the sunlight. He sees Lifty and Shifty's van, filled with video game equipment, which were stolen, as he rushes over to get all the equipment, they deceive him and drive off.
Then it cuts to black. Slowly fading in, is a picture of Nutty looking very upset, inverted colors and looking very wavy. Then it went to bars and tones. Then it cut to another part I never heard of.
Petunia was turned away from the camera, so I couldn't see her face. She turns to look at the camera, and what I saw... well... I didn't see that one coming.
Her tail was fuzzy, and half of her face was gone. Not like it was torn off or anything, but just not there. Just blood where it should have been.
She wore an expression similar to that of a zombie. She even looked like a blue zombie skunk. The other half of her head was splashed with some disgusting green slime. Think of Remains to be Seen. You get the idea. Her eyes were some light shade of blue, which scared me.
Oh god, I almost wanted to turn my PC off so I wouldn't have to see this again!
It then cut to a picture of Nutty, but he freaked me out.
He wore an expression of unspeakable malice and insanity. His mischievous grin went all the way up to his eyes, and his hair went all the way down to his shoulders. He had claws, long enough, and they looked sharp enough to cut one's head clean off.
Then it cut to the credits, but with no music.
The moral was nothing.
I was relieved. I told Ken Navarro about this, and he told me that he doubts that such an episode was ever produced.
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