Cactus Makes Perfect

Cactus Makes Perfect is a fanon episode of HTF. In this episode, Howdy reels in the wrong catch with his lasso.

Starring

 * Howdy
 * Trippy

Appearances

 * Josh

Plot
Howdy enters a corral and tries to ride on one of the cattle. He fails to get a saddle on the adult animals, so he spots a small calf. The calf runs out of the door which was left open. The cattle runs across the desert plains as Howdy chases it on his horse. With some dust blowing in, Howdy closes his eyes.

His horse stops in front of a cactus forest, and Howdy assumes the calf went through it. Howdy pulls out his lasso and twirls it. The lasso gets tossed all the way over the cacti. On the road, Trippy steps out of his car and takes a breath of fresh air. Unfortunately, the lasso grabs his neck. Howdy pulls the rope, unknowingly sending Trippy through the prickly cacti. Eventually, Trippy gets his wings stuck to the thorns on a very large cactus.

Trippy struggles to free himself, but causes the enormous cactus to topple. As the cactus falls, Howdy is pulled off his horse and into the cactus forest. Somewhere on the other side, Josh paints a picture of the cacti in the desert sunset. Suddenly, the huge cactus crushes him. As Howdy struggles to free himself from the thorns, a flock of vutures attack him. One of the vultures pulls the rope, still attached to Trippy's neck. Stuck to the cactus thorns, Trippy's head soon gets ripped off.

It is revealed that the little calf was hiding behind a nearby rock the entire time. It and Howdy's horse feast on a cactus leaf that fell off during the lasso tug-of-war.

Moral
"Reel in the Catch!"

Deaths

 * 1) Josh is crushed by the cactus.


 * 1) Howdy is eaten by vultures.


 * 1) Trippy is beheaded.

Injuries

 * 1) Trippy and Howdy get lacerated by the cactus' thorns.

Trivia

 * This plot is similar to that of the episode Off the Hook, as Trippy was put in a similar situation to Russell in that episode.
 * This episode was originally going to be named Roping Dopes.
 * Lifty and Shifty were supposed to appear in this episode stealing the cattle, but it was thought that would make it too similar to I've Gotta Bandit to You. Trippy later took their place and the plot was changed.