Pay the Piper

Pay the Piper is a HTFF episode.

Plot
Piper wanders a music store, when she comes across a flute and a musical notebook that goes with it. Intrigued, she decides to purchase the objects.

Meanwhile, Bark opens his closet and fits on his log of the day. All of a sudden, his log dematerializes. Bark tries on several other logs that end with the same fate. Every wooden object in his home is soon chewed into non-existence. Bark realizes he has termites and cries for help. Piper hears the cry as she reads on a page in the book that just so happens to explain termites.

Piper plays her flute in order of the notes. All the termites begin to trail out of Bark's house, which shortly crumbles. Bark, still intact, covers his body and flees into a nearby forest. Piper leads the termites into the forest, where they chew down most of the trees, exposing Bark again.

An angry glare from Bark distracts Piper into changing her tune. A group of rats emerges from a hole in the ground. Piper quickly finds that they are now under her spell. She happily leads the rats across the park. She gets casually interrupted by Cheesy, whom the rats mistake for a giant hunk of cheese and attack.

Irin is in the park playing with her clams, oblivious that some are terrorizing Dexter while Amp is trying to stop them. Piper plays another tune that gets the attention of the clams. They follow her all the way to a butcher shop, which they then decide to enter and wreak havoc. Boz bursts out the door with a clam biting his arm and accidentally knocks the flute out of Piper's mouth.

The flute snaps in half upon hitting the ground, much to Piper's dismay. She sadly marches home until hearing a melody from Pan's panflute. Pan generously allows her to play his instrument. Piper plays one more tune that summons a flock of woodpeckers. Bark is shown wearing a brand new log, only to be pecked at by the great number of woodpeckers, leaving his log with many holes. The woodpeckers then carve a tree which topples over him, forcing his body through these holes.

Irin encounters Pan and Piper, asking if they can help find her clams. Piper lends her the panflute so she could call them back.

Moral
"He who pays the piper calls the tune."

Deaths

 * 1) Cheesy is eaten by the rats.
 * 2) Bark is strained through holes in his log.

Injuries

 * 1) Dexter and Boz are attacked by the clams.

Trivia

 * This episode is an homage to the story of the Pied Piper.
 * The moral is the same one from the episode In a Jam.
 * The previous episode, She's Not My Pipe, also stars Piper.