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See What Develops is episode number 8.3 of the Happy Tree Friends television series.

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HTF Episode Description

Mole’s fearless reporting is what Editor Lumpy counts on for his front page photo!

Editor Lumpy sends Mole out to get the front page photo he needs. (DVD)

Nobody knows about Splendid’s real identity.

Lumpy drives haphazardly through town in his news van, causing stacks of newspapers to fly out the back. He enters the office building for The Daily Acorn, the town’s newspaper company, and walks up to Splendid who is dressed as his alter ego, a news reporter with a hat, thick glasses, and a tie. Lumpy holds up a newspaper and asks him where the photo for the lead story is, but Splendid simply shrugs. Searching around the office for a photographer, Lumpy witnesses Cuddles heading out down the elevator, The Mole unknowingly replacing a full bottle of water in the water cooler with an empty one, and Sniffles looking through the lens of his camera with great interest. Ultimately, Lumpy yet again makes a rather poor decision by sending the blind Mole as the photographer and a skeptical Splendid to get the latest scoop.

Splendid and The Mole arrive at the grand opening of a supermarket, where Handy hangs a banner. Then Giggles, their very first customer walks out with a bag of groceries and a stick of French bread. Then Mime comes out of nowhere on a unicycle, and he makes balloon sculptures for Giggles, Russell, and Cro-Marmot (Giggles: balloon hat, Russell: sword, and Cro-Marmot: balloon hat). Attempting to take a photo of this, The Mole unknowingly ends up photographing himself, causing Splendid to sigh in annoyance. Inside the store, The Mole uses a flashbulb to take a photo of Nutty, Disco Bear, and Flaky, the store clerks. Unfortunately, the smoke from the flashbulb sets off the sprinkler system, which shorts out the automatic doors. Outside, The Mole drops a flashbulb, and, upon picking it up, accidentally gets behind a gumball machine. Thinking it’s a camera, he turns the crank and releases gumballs. Nutty sees the candy and tries to run outside, but he slams into the malfunctioned automatic doors, whimpering in sadness and disappointment for not retrieving his treat.

Meanwhile, Mime, still riding on his unicycle, rides it over the gumballs and begins losing his balance. As the gumballs fly out from under the unicycle wheel, gunshot sounds are produced, getting Splendid’s attention. He runs to a phone booth to change out of his street clothes, but Cro-Marmot is inside making a call. Mime makes it safely off the gumballs, but The Mole takes his photo, temporarily blinding him from the flash. This causes him to crash into

Splendid trying to find a hidden area to undress.

Handy’s ladder, knocking off both Handy and his tools. Luckily, Handy manages to use his teeth to grab onto the wire of the sign he hung up, while Mime is forced to start juggling some of Handy’s sharp tools that fell from the ladder.

Splendid sees a second phone booth and gets in to change, but he has to stop when he notices Cub is staring in at him, licking a lollipop and waving at him happily. Splendid sheepishly waves back at Cub, waiting for him to turn away. Still juggling the dangerous tools, Mime ends up crashing into an instant photo booth, where, through the four pictures that come out, it is seen that part of Mime’s face was sliced off by Handy’s tools. The shaved piece of skin is in the shape of a roll of film, and The Mole, who dropped his film, accidentally picks up the bloody roll of skin and places it in his camera. Splendid sees the top part of Handy’s mouth is about to break off, so he runs to the instant photo booth to change. Seeing and very nearly vomiting at the repulsive sight of Mime’s cut and mutilated body inside the booth, Splendid instead runs into a nearby alley.

As he begins undressing, The Mole unknowingly takes Splendid’s photo (which frightens Splendid) and walks back towards the parking lot. Splendid is torn between whether to help Handy or stop The Mole and keep his identity secret. He eventually rushes to Handy’s aid when the top part of his mouth breaks off and he hurtles toward the

Handy falls to his death.

ground. Unfortunately, Splendid isn’t fast enough and Handy splatters on the pavement. Splendid sees a car pulling out of the parking lot and, assuming The Mole is driving, rushes over to tear the top half of the car off. He sees, however, that Petunia is actually the one driving and he ended up tearing her in half at the waist with only her intestines connecting both halves of her body. He replaces the top of the car and uses his eye lasers to weld the car back together, but Petunia ends up crashing. Splendid looks over and sees the silhouette of a figure that appears to be The Mole approaching a photo development booth. He flies over and attacks the figure, only to discover that it is was Giggles, her balloon hat resembling The Mole’s photographer’s cap, and her «walking stick» is actually the stick of French bread Giggles bought from the new supermarket earlier. Toothy, the clerk in the booth, glares at a sheepish Splendid. Splendid sees The Mole walking back to The Daily Acorn building and rushes off to stop him. The supersonic speed he flies at tears the skin off Giggles’ body and

Splendid ripping Petunia in half by accident.

disintegrates Toothy’s body in the backlash, leaving nothing but his feet intact. He flies past the supermarket, where Flaky, Disco Bear, and Nutty have drowned in the flood of rising water, shattering the glass windows and leaving Disco Bear’s corpse in a funky position. The Mole begins taking random photos, including several of Splendid which blinds him from the flash, causing him to fly into a building which quickly collapses.

Splendid sees that The Mole has entered The Daily Acorn building, so he quickly runs up to the office, once more dressed as his alter ego. He finds that he’s too late as The Mole gives Lumpy his camera, but luckily, Lumpy only finds the scrap of Mime’s flesh inside, making Lumpy shudder, evidently disgusted. Splendid breathes a sigh of relief, but he accidentally freezes Cuddles with his ice breath. Realizing what he did, Splendid attempts to thaw out Cuddles with his laser vision, but he ends up breaking Cuddles into small ice cubes.

Later, in the darkroom, Lumpy develops The Mole’s photos, only to find that they are all poorly shot. He picks up Mime’s flesh and decides to develop it. Lumpy pulls out one of the photos from a tub of water, and just as the picture of Splendid’s identity is about to be revealed, The Mole mistakenly opens the door to the room, letting in light, causing to overexpose the film and also causing the picture to blacken, ruining it, and successfully keeping Splendid’s identity safe, much to Lumpy’s anger.

Moral

«A picture is worth a thousand words!»

Deaths

Injuries

Survival Rate

Destruction

Goofs

Splendid’s model from Better Off Bread (top) being reused in this scene.

Сплендид

Сплендид

Отношения

Убийства

Смерти

Первое появление

Озвучивает

Сплендид (англ. Splendid; в русской версии Супермен) — синяя белка-летяга в красной повязке на глазах. Местный супергерой, роль которого в сериале — причинять добро и наносить непоправимую пользу.

Сплендид несколько заторможен и ужасно рассеян; не то чтобы он совсем никудышный, но думать начинает тогда, когда всё самое плохое уже произошло при его непосредственном участии. Надо отметить, что его попытки исправить ситуацию, которую он сам же и создал, нередко не лишены фантазии (зато чаще всего лишены всякой логики).

Характер у Сплендида очень хозяйственный: он умеет готовить, вязать, словом — лучшего домохозяина не найти. Возможно, что он втайне проклинает своё супергеройское призвание и мечтает просто жить нормальной жизнью; в пользу этого предположения говорит тот факт, что в Better Off Bread он решил, что хлеб в печи важнее гибнущих без его помощи зверушек. Впрочем, в сериале Сплендид никогда не давал понять, что ему осточертела работа супергероя или что он винит себя в смерти тех, кого пытался спасти. О других персонажах Сплендид не особо заботится; похоже, что спасение страждущих для него рутинная работа, результат которой ему совсем не важен. Зато он явно неравнодушен к желудям: его дом находится внутри скалы в форме жёлудя, в начале Helping Helps он мирно собирает жёлуди, да и злополучный крипторех имеет форму не ореха, а жёлудя.

Чаще всего Сплендид спасает от беды Гигглс, делая это более охотно и до поры до времени более эффективно, чем в случае с другими персонажами. Им искренне восхищается Тузи, который на Хэллоуин (серия Remains to be Seen) нарядился Сплендидом. Также из Wrath of Con можно сделать вывод, что Сплендид является героем серии комиксов про себя любимого и знаменитостью, а в фанатах у него — почти все остальные персонажи.

Splendid

Gender: Male
Animal: Flying squirrel
Color: Pale Blue
Episode Count: 64 (Duo With Splendont)
TV Count: 3
Age: 18
First Appearance: Helping Helps
First Death: Class Act (debatable) or Gems the Breaks
First Victim: Giggles from Helping Helps
Voice Actor: David Winn
Splendid is one of the main characters in the Happy Tree Friends series.

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character bio [ ]

A pale blue superhero flying squirrel with light blue patagiums (gliding wings), a light

blue/white oval marking on his tummy, and a red mask around his head. He is largely based on Superman; he can fly, shoot laser beams from his eyes, has super strength, super speed, supersonic hearing, can turn back time, and can breathe ice. He is often seen doing housework until he hears the screams of a character that needs to be rescued. His appearance is somewhat based on Rocky J. Squirrel from Rocky & Bullwinkle. Splendid isn’t featured in either the TV or internet series a lot due to his repetitive trend of killing the characters he rescues. Whenever he appears, he is the character the episode revolves around with the exception of Class Act.

The irony of Splendid being a superhero is that he often unintentionally kills the characters he rescues (Giggles in particular). This is usually either because of his ignorance or his own powers. Most of the time, he is oblivious to the other characters’ deaths. He often flies away without checking to see if the other characters are actually safe with the exception of the episodes, Helping Helps and Wrath of Con. However, in Gems the Breaks, he purposely killed 3 characters (The Mole, Lifty & Shifty). In From Hero to Eternity and Wrath of Con he killed, or caused the death, of every character, with the exception of Flippy. He believes that being a superhero is such a pain in the neck.

Some think that Splendid has never died in the Internet shorts. This all depends on whether or not the fans assume that Splendid was killed in the schoolhouse explosion in Class Act. The creators, however, say that every character has surely died, either in the school explosion, or the forest fire that would be caused. (You can see Splendid fly in when everyone is hurt outside). His only confirmed death was in the TV episode Gems the Breaks, where he was overexposed to his one and only superhero weakness: Kryptonut, a parody of Superman’s Kryptonite weakness. It looks like a green glowing acorn, except it’s made out of rock. Not only will the Kryptonut make him lose his powers, but it’ll also make him vomit profusely and give him a stomach flu. While it would make sense that Kryptonut is Splendid’s only weakness, Warren Graff has stated that «He’s not as immune as he seems to be,» meaning he may die more often in future episodes.

He has his own action show called Splendid’s SSSSSuper Squad, part of the Happy Tree Friends Action Series: Ka-Pow! show. In his first Ka-Pow! episode, Mirror Mirror, he met his evil red counterpart named Splendont. He was about to get aquainted with him, but Splendont snubbed him, and they began to fight each other to determine who is the better superhero. After Splendont shoved the moon towards Splendid and ran him into the ground his doppelganger flew away, making this the first time Splendid has ever been defeated. He pressed his acorn-shaped watch to contact a team of other animal superheroes called the Supremely Sensational Stupendously Spectacular Super Squad for assistance. They were last seen trying to pry Splendid out of the pavement, but failed when the giant crowbar they were using broke.

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