Pop and Cub Switch-a-thon

Pop and Cub Switch-a-thon was a special marathon on the Happy Tree Friends website. It included every episode that Pop and Cub appeared in and they switched places. The only episodes not included of Pop and Cub are appearance roles, or ones where Cub appears without Pop.

Plots
All plots will be posted here to prevent a clutter of fan version pages.

Havin' a Ball
Cub and Pop are having a nice little ball game, but Cub has a slight mis-throw, and the ball bounces off of Pop's head. The ball ends up across a busy highway, filled with speeding semi-trucks! With an expectant Pop wanting his ball back, Cub knows he hasn't really got much of a choice but to fight through the traffic.

As Cub travels through the traffic, you can hear him scream in pain from the bludgeoning impact of the trucks. In the distance, behind Pop, a helicopter flies away. When Cub finally makes it to the ball on the other side, he is a total mess. He has a steering wheel sticking out of him and skid marks on his face, but at least he gets the ball. He picks it up with a smile, but then walks straight off a cliff.

As Cub falls, he looks down to realize that he is heading right for the helicopter's rotor blades. He hits them and is totally shredded, forming a neat pile of body parts on the ground. The ball and his hat, however, are untouched. While Cub could not get to the ball without certain death, his father climbs down the cliff with climbing gear; picking up his ball with a happy smile.

Unfortunately, Lumpy, who was strapped to the helicopter by a gurney, becomes disconnected and plummets down on top of Pop. Lumpy suddenly tries to move his gurney, when suddenly the helicopter comes crashing down on him. Despite this, the ball remains untouched. As a final decoration to this slaughter, Pop's hat lands perfectly on top of the ball.

Chip Off the Ol' Block
While Cub relaxes in a hammock near a pile of freshly raked leaves, Pop mows the lawn. One of the blades of the lawn mower hits a brick, however, and prevents Pop from continuing his task. He bends down and tries to remove the brick while the lawnmower is still running, but luckily Cub sees this and rescues Pop before anything bad happens. Cub places Pop on the hammock, removes the brick from the lawn mower, and proceeds to mow the lawn himself.

Cub eventually comes upon broken glass and syringe needles in the yard, which he unknowingly runs over with the lawn mower. The debris that flies out from under the lawn mower cuts into Pop's skull, killing him and knocking his body off of the hammock. Cub then walks up, raking a few loose leaves into the nearby pile. He lights his pipe and throws the lit match into the pile of leaves, setting it ablaze. A gust of wind reveals that Pop's body lay hidden beneath the pile.

Snip Snip Hooray
Pop happily sits in his highchair as Cub brings in a tray containing a comb, a pair of scissors, and an electric shaver. Pop sees the shiny scissors and reaches for them, only to have Cub slap his hand away.

Cub removes Pop's hat to reveal that Pop has a full head of long, flowing hair. Cub begins cutting Pop's hair with the scissors, but stops when he accidentally cuts Pop's right ear off. Pop starts crying and Cub starts panicking as blood flies out of Pop's wound.

The scene changes to Pop happily holding a lollipop while wearing a bandage over the right side of his head. Cub proudly looks at Pop and then looks for the electric shaver, which he has apparently misplaced. He hears a buzzing sound and looks up to see a laughing Pop, who now has a flap of skin detached from his forehead, holding the shaver, while Pop appears not to care about his loss.

Cub rushes over and grabs the shaver, quickly turning it off. Cub cautiously combs and pushes down on the loose flap of skin on Pop's head without any cries or protests from the child. Satisfied, Cub tries to turn the shaver back on, but to no avail. He sees that the shaver has become unplugged, so, setting the shaver down next to Pop, he goes to plug it back in.

Pop starts playing with the shaver, and puts it in his mouth to suck on it. Cub plugs the shaver back in, and it starts tearing the inside of Pop's mouth, throat, and eventually his esophagus to pieces. A dead and bloodied Pop falls face down on his highchair while an oblivious Cub searches for his scissors. Locating them, Cub cuts a lock of Pop's hair, brushes some loose hair from his head, and replaces Pop's hat, all the while unaware that his father has died.

Water Way to Go
Its morning at the beach, and Cub and Pop have arrived early for a fun day in the sand. After Cub accidentally drops a large, heavy cooler, Pop grabs a can of soda and tries to drink from it. With nothing coming out of the can, Pop starts biting down on it. Cub takes the can to open it for Pop, but because it was shaken up, soda sprays in Cub's face and the can flies into Pop's face. Cub stares in horror as the can continues fizzing and pushing itself deeper into Pop's face.

Later, Pop, despite having two band-aids and a large bruise on his face, happily sips soda from a cup. Cub then comes up to Pop, holding a small shovel and bucket, offering to play. They build a sand castle and Cub buries Pop up to his neck in sand. Cub sees an ice cream truck in the background and goes off to buy a sugary treat. Unfortunately, while he was away, the tide came in. Cub sees Pop's hat floating in the water.

Beneath the water, Pop screams in terror. Cub walks right next to Pop's head, but can't see him and walks away. A few seconds later, Pop's face gets hit by a boat. Cub frantically pushes a motorboat into the water, causing the bottom of the boat to scrape the skin off of Pop's face. With a huge chunk of skin hanging off his face, Pop finds the propeller of the boat right in front of him. It slowly starts cutting his face as Cub tries to get it to start. Finally it starts and Cub moves forward, unaware of the pool of blood forming behind the boat. Cub grabs Pop's hat and shouts for him in panic. Behind him, seagulls start eating Pop's remains that float on the water.

Hello Dolly
Petunia happily pushes a baby carriage, holding a teddy bear, through the park. She stops walking when she notices something shiny in the bushes. She picks up the Cursed Idol and likes it, so she decides to leave her teddy bear on the ground and put the idol in the carriage. As she walks beneath some trees, some birds fall to the ground, dead. They go unnoticed by Petunia, however.

Petunia comes upon Cub, who is in the background reading a newspaper, and Pop, who happily plays in the water of a leaking fire hydrant. Pop waves hello to Petunia as she walks by, but as soon as she passes, the water pressure from the hydrant increases significantly. Pop is thrown against a brick wall by the force of the water. When the water dies down, all that's left of Pop is some blood, his intestines, and his hat.

Next, Petunia happens upon Disco Bear, who dances in the park while listening to disco music on a pair of headphones. When she leaves, however, the volume of the music Disco Bear is listening to suddenly begins increasing to the point of pain. Before he can remove the headphones, his head explodes.

Petunia returns home and settles into bed. She turns off the lamp next to her bed, but she turns it back on when she hears a squishing/crunching noise. She screams in terror when she finds that her heart is stuck on a spring from her mattress which has impaled her body. She tries to push her heart back into her body, but this causes other springs to impale several other organs. She slowly dies, letting off a weak death rattle as she goes. The Cursed Idol, now donning a night cap, lies next to her in bed, no doubt the cause of her demise. The screen then cuts to black while the sound of a lamp being turned off is heard in the background.

Stealing the Spotlight
Lumpy walks out of his trailer, holding a coffee cup and wearing a nightcap, apparently having just woken up. He looks with pride at the broken and flickering blue Christmas lights that decorate his home, but he spits out his coffee when he looks over at Cub's house. Cub and Pop are working together to string up brand new, multi-colored Christmas lights. Jealous, Lumpy mutters beneath his breath and retreats inside his trailer. As he closes his door, his Christmas lights fall down.

Meanwhile, Pop plays with a hammer while Cub decends his ladder. He picks the ladder up and carelessly swings it around, accidentally knocking Pop face first to the ground. One of Pop's front teeth falls out of his mouth, and he begins crying. After sticking the tooth back into Pop's mouth fails, Cub uses his hammer to force the tooth into Pop's mouth. He and Pop are both satisfied with the result, even though the tooth is clearly not where it should be.

Lumpy drags a heavy ball of Christmas lights, while Nutty comes hopping down the road carrying a lollipop. He sees the brightly colored Christmas lights and mistakes them for candy. He throws his lollipop away and starts eating the cord of Christmas lights, not realizing he's consuming plastic and glass rather than the sugar he craves. As Lumpy tries to hang up his Christmas lights, he feels some resistance in the cord. He yanks it and we hear a squishing noise as Nutty screams. Later, Lumpy stares proudly at his lights, not noticing that Nutty's digestive system and organs are attached to the them.

On the roof of his house, Cub hammers down nails to tie the Christmas light cords around. As he hammers, a bucket of nails next to him slowly slides to the edge of the roof, eventually falling off. Cub looks down from the roof and sees that the bucket has landed top-down on Pop. From Pop's point of view, we see Cub lift the bucket in horror and then replace the bucket as he is about to vomit. Inside, Cub removes the nails lodged in Pop's head with the claw of his hammer. One nail won't come out, however, so Cub hammers it down and smiles, satisfied despite Pop's cries.

Back outside, Cub and a bandaged Pop plug in their Christmas lights, amazing spectators, including Lumpy. Realizing that he has to pull out all the stops, Lumpy drops a small Christmas light he's holding and sneaks away while still holding onto a larger bulb. Back at Lumpy's trailer, a crowd gathers to see Lumpy's decorations. Lumpy has many items stacked on his trailer, tied together with Christmas lights. The items decorating Lumpy's home include a street lamp, a disco ball, Lumpy's car, and a lighthouse light, among other things.

Lumpy, donning a pair of tinted safety goggles, throws the switch to his lights, lighting up the entire forest. While shielding her eyes, Giggles' arm catches fire which soon spreads to her entire body. Behind her, a blinded Lifty and Shifty run into each other. Cub's head begins to boil, while the top half of Pop's body explodes. Toothy and two Generic Tree Friends are instantly vaporized from the extreme heat of the light, while The Mole actually has to shield his eyes. The rays from Lumpy's lights are so strong, they even cause the moon to explode. Lumpy, burnt and blackened, turns off the lights and removes his goggles whereupon his eyes immediately melt. Nearby, The Mole gives Lumpy a thumbs up, not realizing that his thumb is on fire.

Read 'Em and Weep
Cub and Pop are walking along when they come upon Toothy, who is selling books. Pop takes a fancy to a book featuring a castle on the cover, but Cub, noticing the dollar sign on the table, (thinking that it is expensive) disagrees. Upon seeing a box with a cent symbol on it, Cub decides to buy Pop a book that resembles an agonized face. Later that night Cub reads the book to Pop causing clouds to swirl over their house and birds to fall out of the sky. Cub closes the window and turns out the lights, leaving a terrified Pop alone in the darkness. A strange, ominous glow appears in Pop's room, and when he looks down to see what it is, he is attacked by an unseen force.

The next morning Cub makes breakfast for Pop, who is now green and in a zombie-like state. After refusing to eat his breakfast, Pop's head rotates 360 degrees and Pop vomits a green fluid all over Cub. The doorbell rings and Cub answers the door to see Petunia, dressed as a girl scout, selling cookies. Suddenly, a tentacle wraps itself around Petunia and pulls her offscreen. We now see that Pop has tenacles and a beak coming out of his head. While Petunia clings for dear life on a cabinet under the sink, the monster in Pop's head tears the skin and tail off of Petunia's lower body. She manages to escape into the area beneath the sink. She starts crying from the possible pain she's enduring or from fear or possibly for both reasons, but the tentacles emerge through the pipes and grab her again. The tentacles attempt to drag Petunia through the drain of the sink, crushing her body in the process. When she gets stuck, the tentacles use the garbage disposal to grind up her body, bringing her cries of pain and fear to an end. While the beak begins eating Petunia's mangled remains, a panic-stricken Cub places a phone call.

The doorbell rings again and Cub answers to find Lumpy, a priest/exorcist. He is immediately vomited upon by Pop, who he then tackles. Lumpy struggles with the monster in Pop's head and eventually succeeds in tearing it out.Pop, now his normal color and minus the monster in his head, looks at his body and smiles happily. Unfortunately, Cub, not realizing that Pop has been cured, continuously hits Pop with a shovel until he is a flat, bloody circle. Later, Cub and Lumpy stand at Pop's grave, mourning his death. Before the episode ends, a tentacle comes out of Lumpy's mouth, which he quickly places a hand over.

Can't Stop Coffin
During a backyard baseball game, Cuddles hops a fence to retreive a ball overthrown by Cro-Marmot. When he lands on the other side of the fence, however, he finds himself in an empty coffin sitting in a grave. He tries to lift the lid off the coffin a few times, but his attempts are thwarted by Lumpy who shovels dirt into the grave, weighing down the lid of the coffin. Because Lumpy is listening to music on a pair of headphones, he can't hear Cuddles' screams.

Inside the coffin, the panicking bunny scratches the lid in a vain attempt to free himself. He lights a match, revealing that he's worn away the nails and skin of his fingers and left scratches and blood traces all over the lid of the coffin. The match ends up setting the coffin ablaze and Cuddles screams in terror. Lumpy, meanwhile, smells the smoke coming from the ground and imagines a steak.

Cuddles' ears and head have been burned, but luckily for him, water starts pouring into the coffin via a hose Lumpy is using. Unfortunately the coffin begins flooding. Lumpy ties a knot in the hose, but not before the coffin is completely flooded. Lumpy then tries to drive away in his truck, but he accidentally puts it in reverse and drives onto the grave he just buried Cuddles in. Frustrated, he puts the car in drive and steps on the gas, causing the wheel to spin and his truck to sink deeper into the mud. As a result of this, Cub and Pop, who are mourning at a grave nearby, get splattered with mud. To make matters worse, the headstone behind Lumpy's truck flies out and crushes Pop.

Cuddles is just about to drown when Lumpy's tire destroys the lid of the coffin. This removes the water, but now the tire spins against Cuddles' face, scraping his skin off while he screams in agony. In The Mole's home, underground, the coffin falls down and knocks The Mole's refrigerator further underground. The Mole walks up to the coffin, thinking it to be his refrigerator, and opens the lid up. He reaches in, pulls out one of Cuddles' eyes, and polishes it on his shirt before walking away.

Cuddles falls out of the coffin and crawls on the floor, deformed and groaning in pain and exhaustion. Before he can make it far, however, Lumpy's truck falls through the ground and crushes Cuddles. Meanwhile, The Mole watches TV, sitting behind a coffee table where there sits an apple eaten down to the core and Cuddles' eye eaten in the same way.

A Sucker for Love
Cub gives a large lollipop to Pop, who thanks Cub and begins licking it. As Cub walks away, a jittery and giggling Nutty enters the scene and spots Pop's treat. Nutty daydreams of himself in a meadow, laughing and spinning around with the lollipop in a loving way. He rushes over and takes the candy from Pop, who begins crying. Alerted by his father's sounds of distress, Cub hurries back and fights over possession of the lollipop with Nutty. After a short struggle, they both let go of the lollipop at the same time, causing it to fly away and land on, as well as get stuck to, Pop's face.

Cub pulls the lollipop off, but this ends up tearing Pop's face off and sends the lollipop flying into the air. As Cub picks up Pop and runs off to find help, Nutty goes after the flying lollipop. He attempts to make a diving catch, but he just misses it as it falls off a cliff. Nutty sadly walks away, but he perks up when he sees a gumball machine. He now imagines himself spinning around in a meadow holding the gumball machine. He daydreams again about himself getting to second base with the machine in a movie theater, by jiggling the coin knob. Finally, he sees himself entering a house with the machine in his arms, with him wearing a top hat and the machine wearing a bridal veil.

Back in reality, he rushes over and puts a coin in the machine. The machine doesn't dispense a gumball, however, and Nutty anxiously begins shaking it. When nothing comes out, he smashes the glass bowl of the machine with a garbage can. He scoops up some gumballs and glass shards that fell on the ground and begins chewing both, badly cutting his mouth and teeth. He blows a bubble, but when it pops glass shards get embedded in his face and he screams in pain.

Later, The Mole, a paramedic, puts one last adhesive bandage on Nutty's already bandaged and stitch-covered face. Though Nutty looks sad, he again perks up when he sees a heart-shaped box of chocolates in a candy store window.

Nutty has a daydream, wearing a top hat, carrying the box of chocolates, wearing a bridal veil, into a house. He then imagines himself and the box of chocolates riding a tandem bike together. Next, Nutty makes breakfast in bed for the box of chocolates, getting milk from Lumpy the milkman.

Afterwards, Nutty rides in an ambulance next to the box of chocolates lying on a gurney. The box has a bulge in its center, which means it's at the end of its pregnancy and suddenly its water breaks. The scene now shifts to Nutty happily carrying a small box of chocolates in his hands while pushing a stroller with three other small boxes of chocolate. Next, as Nutty comes home from work, Lumpy exits his house, chocolate covering his face. Nutty is then seen angrily looking at photos of Lumpy popping chocolates, from the box of chocolates, in his mouth. Nutty swears vengenace, when suddenly the scene shifts to him being in jail (possibly due to murdering Lumpy for eating his "wife and children").

Later, now dressed in a striped shirt and hat and missing his usual candy wardrobe, he walks to the visiting area. He sees the box of chocolates, seeming to have a dent in one of its corners (possibly from being beaten by Nutty in his rage from its affair with Lumpy), on the other side of the glass. Nutty cries and begins licking the glass. Finally, on the day Nutty is released from prison, he sees the box of chocolates waiting for him in a car. He rushes over to the car and begins weeping and kissing the box, sorry for the way he treated it.

The scene shifts again, and now Nutty and the box of chocolates are old and on rocking chairs. Nutty hears a thump and sees that the box of chocolates has fallen off its rocker, apparently having died. Nutty cries in anguish while eating the chocolates that fell on the ground. Before returning to reality, the elderly Nutty stands in the rain at the box of chocolates' grave.

In the real world, Nutty runs over to the store and tries to enter, only to find that the door is locked. He begins pulling on the doorknob, trying to get inside. His commotion causes a candy cane sign hanging above the door to fall down. It knocks off Nutty's tail and becomes stuck in a small hole in his back. Screaming in pain, he runs away.

Elsewhere, Cub and Pop are in The Mole's ambulance which is speeding away towards the hospital. The Mole takes his eyes off the road and reaches down to grab something off the floor of the vehicle. Nutty runs into the road and slips on the gumballs that fell on the ground when he broke the gumball machine in the previous episode. He looks up and sees the ambulance speeding towards him and, before he can move out of its way, he gets hit.

Nutty is dragged along the road by the front of the ambulance, scraping his stomach on the asphalt. When the ambulance turns into the hospital, Nutty is impaled and cut on a spiked speedbump the ambulance drives over. Inside the ambulance, The Mole gives Pop what he was looking for: The lollipop from the previous episode, with Pop's face still attached to it. Before the episode ends, Cub squeals in fright at the sight of his bloody, severed face (or in joy to have found the face).

Clause For Concern
A Santa Claus outfit is seen in a dryer in Cub and Pop's basement. Cub takes out the contents and brings them upstairs while Pop comes crawling and gets stuck in a sack. Cub puts on his Santa Claus outfit and prepares to drive for the mall. He puts his sack in the trunk and tries to close it, but he hears a scream. Cub tries closing it again, and soon succeeds. As he drives off, one of his tires hits a small rock, causing a part of the sack to fall and leave a trail of what appeared to be blood on the road, while a dog sniff s the scent and decides to follow.

Cub soon stops at a stoplight and discovers the dog trying to tear open the sack, with several other dogs waiting nearby. Cub comes and manages to pull it from the animal's jaws, as the sack flies onto a railroad. A train then runs it over, but Cub waits patiently for the train to pass. As the train continue to run, Cub continues to wait and eats a sandwich. Cub soon reads a newspaper and eventually goes to sleep as the train still continues its course. After a long wait, the train finally passes. Cub begins to pick up the sack, but is stopped by another passing train. When the other train passes, Cub proceeds his task, but is once again interrupted by The Mole passing by on his handcar. Afterwards, Cub finally manages to pick up the sack.

Cub is then seen at the mall sitting on his throne. Truffles walks up to him, and Pop proceeds to pick up a gift from the sack. He picks up a talking doll whose head falls off, and Cub sees that the gift is broken. He tries to find something else, but picks up a paint tray smeared with red paint. He then picks up some sausages, leading him to confusion. As it turned out, Pop was still at home inside another sack.

After the credits, however, he is seen reaching for a light switch and is soon smashed by the door when a disappointed Cub opens it.

From Hero to Eternity
While having a friendly snowball fight, Giggles makes a snowball, but Giggles did not noticed about that it had a spike at the center she throws it at Cuddles. Suddenly, Giggles accidentally hits Cuddles in the eye with a snowball that has a sharp rock in its center, knocking Cuddles to the ground. Meanwhile, Splendid flies into a laundromat where Cub and Pop await their laundry. Giggles walks over to Cuddles to find that his eye has been pierced by the rock in the snowball, and he is bleeding profusely. Splendid hears her screams for help, and, after putting his clothes and change in a washing machine, he flies off to investigate.

He arrives to find a panic-stricken Giggles standing over Cuddles, who has stopped moving. Splendid begins giving Cuddles mouth to mouth, but, due to his super breath, he ends up inflating Cuddles to the point where he pops. Even though the resulting pop has knocked down trees and shot Cuddles' blood and organs everywhere, Splendid still listens for a heartbeat by placing his ear against Cuddles' exposed ribcage. When he doesn't find one, he briefly mourns Cuddles' death and places a detached piece of Cuddles' stomach skin over his face.

Cuddles' explosion has also knocked Giggles to her back and ruptured her ear drums, throwing off her balance and vision. Splendid runs to her and happily pats her on the head before taking off. The wobbly Giggles stumbles over the the edge of a cliff and falls off, onto a snowy slope below, picking up snow as she rolls. The snowball that is forming as she rolls down the slope approaches Petunia and Toothy who are building a snowman. Splendid hears the rumbling of the snowball and rushes to block the snowball from hitting them. Unfortunately, he misses the snowball and Petunia and Toothy get caught up in it.

Splendid flies after the snowball, using his eye lasers to try and melt it. This, however, only succeeds in splitting the snowball in two and cutting Toothy and Petunia in half. The snowball halves roll down two different paths, leaving Splendid with double the work. He takes care of one half of the snowball by picking up a tree, which holds a treehouse where Nutty and Sniffles play checkers, and uses it as a baseball bat to knock the snowball away. This lands on Handy's freshly shoveled driveway. He angrily kicks the side of his house, which detaches a sheet of ice from the roof, which slices off the top part of Handy's head. Splendid resets the tree in the ground, but the force of his swing caused Nutty and Sniffles to be splattered all over the treehouse's walls.

Splendid is then about to punch the other half of the snowball to oblivion, when he hears the washing machine his clothes are in buzz. Abandoning his cause, he flies back to the laundromat, where Pop has climbed into Splendid's clothes basket for fun. Splendid flies in, piles his clothes in the basket, and tosses everything from the basket into the dryer, not noticing Pop. He puts some change in the dryer and flies off, annoying Cub for flying so quickly.

Elsewhere, Lumpy drives a tank truck along the highway, when he sees the other half of the snowball in his rear view mirror. Lumpy waves the snowball, indicating it can pass him, and then begins cursing the snowball out. He suddenly finds his truck being lifted off the ground by Splendid. Splendid flies to the outskirts of a city where the snowball is headed and throws Lumpy's truck to the ground, crushing the lower half of Lumpy's body beneath the truck. Splendid uses his eye lasers on the truck, causing it to explode and send the upper half of Lumpy's body flying into space.

The snowball rolls onto the truck and is melted by the fire from the explosion. This, unfortunately, causes the town to flood. To get rid of the excess water, Splendid drills a hole in the ground to allow the water to drain. The water level quickly drops, but citizens are sucked into the whirlpool of water that flows down the hole. Luckily, the water stops flowing before Giggles is sucked in. Splendid flies down and again pats Giggles on the head, who bids him farewell as he flies away.

The ground begins rumbling and Giggles looks into the hole, only to have lava fly out and burn her head. She runs away as lava begins flooding the town. Giggles ends up running off a cliff, and forming a new snowball as she rolls down another slope. Back at the laundromat, Splendid collects his clothes, but is confused when he sees all of his whites are now red. He looks in the dryer to see Cub's blood, organs, and hat all over the interior of the dryer. Acting nonchalantly, Splendid flies out of the laundromat, once again annoying Cub.

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