The Key to Itchiness

The Key to Itchiness is a HTFF episode.

Starring

 * Tingles

Featuring

 * Sniffles
 * Clockwork

Appearances

 * Cacti
 * Giggles
 * Tarsy
 * The Ants

Plot
Sniffles tends to Clockwork until hearing a knock on his door. Tingles asks him for something to get rid of his fleas. In desperate need of a solution, he rushes in and grabs the nearest object, Clockwork, then using it to scratch his back. In doing so, he gets Clockwork's key lodged into his back. He flees and accidentally knocks off Sniffles' glasses. Sniffles unknowingly picks up one of Tingles' quills and pierces it into Clockwork's back, causing him to scream.

Meanwhile, Tingles tries to reach the key in his back. A close-up reveals his fleas curiously looking at the key. They wind it up, gaining control over Tingles' movements. He begins marching like a wind-up toy until coming to a telephone pole. Tingles rubs his back against it, but once again moves when his fleas wind the key a second time.

Tingles approaches Cacti. He picks up the little owl and uses his cactus suit as a back scratcher. Having the key winded up again, Tingles ends up scratching himself in a thorny rose garden belonging to Giggles, much to her shock. Tingles is sent marching through the neighborhood and leaving quills wherever he's scratched. Tarsy opens his mailbox to have dozens of quills fly into his face. Tingles then bursts out of the mailbox and marches on.

Sniffles retrieves his glasses to find Clockwork missing his key. Tingles returns in time for Sniffles to pull the key out of his back. Blood spews out of the hole it left and Tingles soon faints dead. Sniffles trips and now the key gets stuck in his back. The Ants hop on his back and wind it up to bring him for a little "joyride". Sniffles is forced to march across town, stepping on quills left behind by Tingles.

Deaths

 * 1) Tarsy is killed when quills fly in his face.
 * 2) Tingles bleeds to death.

Injuries

 * 1) Clockwork is impaled by Tingles' quill.
 * 2) Tingles and (later) Sniffles get Clockwork's key stuck in their backs.
 * 3) Sniffles steps on quills as he is forced to march.

Trivia

 * This is the first episode Clockwork survives.