Meal Before Me

Meal Before Me is the fifth episode of the third season of Happy Insect Friends. In this episode, Arlo decided to eat the Ants.

Starring

 * Arlo
 * Ant Family

Appearances

 * Sniffles
 * Shrikes

Plot
The episode begins with Shrikes jabbing a stick the Ants' anthill. The Ants, ready to defend their home, light a giant match and set the stick on fire. Shrikes is instantly set alight and cooks into a crisp. The Ants celebrate after his death.

Not too far away, Arlo sees the anthill and gets hungry. Sticking his tongue into the anthill, Arlo licks the walls to feel for the ants. Thinking the tongue is Sniffles' tongue, the Ants grab a tiny hammer and a tiny nail and attempt to jab Arlo's tongue into the floor of their home.

The aardwolf feels the nail in the ants' hands and grabs it with his tongue, then slams it into the mother ant, smashing her, where he then grabs the ant with his tongue. The Ants attempt to make a hasty retreat through the back of the hill, but they see Arlo's tongue in front of them. His tongue grabs the brother ant and he swallows the ant whole, causing the sister ant to retreat with the baby ant.

Seeing a tree, the sister ant climbs up the branch and the hungry aardwolf follows. Spotting a dart on a branch, the ant grabs the dart and ties it to a piece of webbing. After doing so, she tosses the dart at Arlo, who turns the tables on her by launching the dart back at her with his tongue. Finally, Arlo reaches the branch the ant was standing on and climbs onto it.

With hungry eyes, Arlo prepares to eat the ant until a bird lands on the branch. The combined weight of the bird, the ant and Arlo caused the branch to snap, leading Arlo and the ant to plummet to their deaths. The bird lands on Arlo's body and picks up the ant with her beak, then flies back to her nest on another branch.

The episode ends with Sniffles sticking his tongue in the anthill and feeling no ants in the anthill.

Deaths

 * Shrikes is set on fire and burns to death.
 * The mother ant is eaten by Arlo, the son ant is eaten by Arlo, and the sister ant and baby ant fall to their deaths.
 * Arlo falls to his death and splatters.

Trivia

 * This is Arlo's first death overall.
 * This is also the first episode where Arlo eats the ants.