Shelter From The Storm is the 4th episode of Happy Tree Friends: The Little Girl Skunk's Orphan Days and the 4th episode of Season 1. In this episode, when a hurricane hits Happy Tree Town, Russell invites The Little Girl Skunk to his treehouse to take shelter.
Cast[]
Starring:
Featuring:
Appearances:
- Lumpy
- Sniffles (on The Weather Channel)
- Generic Tree Friends
Plot[]
The sky was dark in Happy Tree Town and The Little Girl Skunk was inside her shack worried. The wind is really whipping up in Happy Tree Town and The Little Girl Skunk gets out of her shack to see what is going on. She learns on the radio that a Hurricane Warning is in effect for Happy Tree Town and residents must take shelter as Hurricane Andrew a category 5 hurricane is forecast to hit Happy Tree Town. The Little Girl Skunk turns off her radio and runs out of her shack terrified. The residents all go in a frenzy looking for a shelter. The rain starts to fall very hard and lightning flashes and thunder starts to roar scaring The Little Girl Skunk. She starts running to find shelter with the rain making her diaper soaking wet as this happens.
She goes from house to house but the Generic Tree Friends don't want her in their home. The Little Girl Skunk sits down with her wet diaper squishing as she does this. She sits on the bench thinking that she should give up. Russell comes by and asks The Little Girl Skunk to come to his treehouse for shelter. The Hurricane is not making an impact to the tropical area he resides in. The Little Girl Skunk accepts and goes with Russell to his treehouse dodging rain, wind and thunder. The Little Girl Skunk's cape comes lose and comes off of The Little Girl Skunk into the distance. It lands on Lumpy and The Little Girl Skunk gets her cape back and carries it on her arm.
Russell and The Little Girl Skunk make it to the tropical area away from the hurricane and to safety. The Little Girl Skunk puts her cape back on and ties it up a little tighter so it stays on. Russell takes The Little Girl Skunk inside his treehouse where he has invited Sonya The Merfox, Cuddles, Toothy, Giggles, Jack, Sofia, and their nephew Tombo. The Little Girl Skunk makes herself comfortable by sitting with her wet diaper squishing. Russell puts on The Weather Channel and Meteorologist Sniffles reports the latest conditions on the hurricane. Tombo upon hearing this makes a "no no" in his diaper. Jack & Sofia take him to Russell's bathroom to change him.
The Little Girl Skunk that night has a nightmare about her shack in the alley where it is in shambles from the storm.
The next morning, The Little Girl Skunk wakes up and hears news that the storm has passed and some damage happened in Happy Tree Town. The Little Girl Skunk returns to Happy Tree Town to examine the damage and sees some dead from the debris and rubble. She returns to the alley and sees her shack is still standing and unharmed. She goes inside and opens her diaper bag and changes her diaper. She pats her dry diaper, ending the episode.
Moral: "Weather can be unpredictable!"
Deaths[]
- A whole bunch of Generic Tree Friends die during the hurricane.
Injuries[]
None
Destruction[]
- The Little Girl Skunk's diaper gets soaked in the rain.
- Tombo soils his diaper.
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode of Happy Tree Friends: The Little Girl Skunk's Orphan Days where The Little Girl Skunk is clean throughout and it is also the second episode of this show where she doesn't soil her diaper, the rain from the hurricane gets The Little Girl Skunk's diaper wet while searching for shelter and she doesn't bother changing it until she the end of the episode because she did not have her diaper bag with her.
- Tombo does soil his diaper in this episode with the stink lines shown in place of the "no no" in the diaper.
- Sniffles works for The Weather Channel in this episode.
- Only the Generic Tree Friends die in this episode.
- The wind causes The Little Girl Skunk's cape to go flying off of her in this episode. In One Wild & Windy Day, she ties her cape tightly to avoid it from flying off of her in the wind. The events of this episode are also mentioned in One Wild & Windy Day.
- The Little Girl Skunk also leaves her shack behind and finds it still standing and unharmed. In One Wild & Windy Day, even though the shack does not appear, she mentioned that she tied it off to keep it from coming apart in the wind.
- The hurricane in this episode is named Andrew which is the name of a hurricane that the most destructive hurricane to hit Florida in 1992. The strength of the hurricane in this episode is the same as the real one.
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