Why HTF Has Been On Long Hiatuses - Part 1

Why HTF Has Been On Long Hiatuses - Part 1 is a Happy Tree Friends Flash-animated story created by SOTC. It aired on deviantART on March 22, 2018.

In this story, Ginger learns that Cub has a sleeping sickness, and tries to consult everyone and get it solved.

Plot
The story starts out with Ginger walking into Cub's room, and finding Cub sleeping in his bed. Ginger then gets temporarily shy about the situation. He decides it is a good idea to tell everyone else in the house to stay quiet. After descending the stairs, he walks across Jordan K, Hovee and Bigtail sitting on a green couch and watching a TV show, and then comes across Fiona and her student, Jamie Kaplan, prepared for a cooking lesson. Ginger tells them to stay quiet, to which Fiona sadly replies that she will have to defer the planned lesson of popcorn (because the popping of popcorn is noisy).

Pop then shows up, telling Fiona and Jamie that deferring the lesson is needless because Cub can sleep through literally everything. He explains that a month ago, Cub slept through Dr. Moon vacuuming the entire house. Then he remained fast asleep during a noisy midnight dance party (even though it kept Giggles awake). Then when morning came, he slept on, and continued to sleep for five straight days. That last part shocks Ginger strongly, and makes him react. Pop then notices the fact that he has never seen Cub awake since the dance party. At this point, Jordan K, Hovee and Bigtail are seen facing the TV screen with it turned off.

The scene then cuts to Smalltail sitting on Cub's bed and asking to play with him. Cub continues to sleep, completely oblivious, making Smalltail feel lonely.

The next scene shows the front of the couch with the Kaplan boys, revealing Joshua and Jessica to be sitting on the floor. Ginger asks the boys if they have ever seen Cub awake. However, they ramble instead of discussing the matter seriously. Hovee tells Ginger that when they were facing the TV screen with it turned off, they were all sleeping on the sofa with the recliner open. Bigtail then points out that Jamie did not sleep with them because she was busy cooking something. Then, Jordan K lies that Joshua and Jessica are still sleeping.

When Ginger walks up to see the babies awake, they close their eyes and claim to be asleep again.

Controversy

 * Jordan K (the user who owns the character by the same name) detested the scene where Joshua and Jessica ripped the boys' tails.
 * He says that without their tails, Jordan can't fly, Hovee doesn't fly fast enough, and Bigtail sees darkness.
 * As a result of that animation scene, Jordan K made two doctor characters who deal with tails, Dr. Tony and Dr. Tony Jr.

Trivia

 * The title is reasonable (though not canonically correct), because:
 * Happy Tree Friends had two long hiatuses;
 * A character with a sleeping sickness would prevent it from being on air anyway.
 * This story reveals that Ginger lives with Jordan K's family.
 * Most of the storyline has been based off of roleplays and other situations on Discord.
 * This part is 7 minutes and 30 seconds in length.
 * It enabled SOTC to improve animation and visuals of sleeping characters.
 * In one of the flashbacks, Cub was asleep in his bed for five straight days. If anyone in real life slept in their bed for that long, they would get serious back pains.