The Garfield Opera
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| “The Garfield Opera” | |||||||
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| Garfield and Friends episode | |||||||
 The Garfield Opera title card |
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| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 288 |
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| Written by | Mark Evanier | ||||||
| Original airdate | October 24, 1992 | ||||||
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The Garfield Opera is an episode of Garfield and Friends. It originally aired on October 24, 1992[1].
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[edit] Episode recap
A normal episode is playing until it is interrupted by The Buddy Bears, who tell the viewer that they will show something educational. The viewer flips the channel to a Godzilla-like film, until they tell them to turn it back, and start talking about what was coming up. It then cuts to a theatre, and Floyd the Mouse steps up to the musicians as the conductor. The plot of the opera is this:
Garfield is woken up one morning by Odie and Nermal, so he decides to eat breakfast. He notices that his breakfast is lettuce because Jon wants him to go on a diet and lose at least 10 pounds, and Jon will not let him eat until then. Garfield notices Odie is eating a bone in the living room and wants to have it. They break into dance, but Garfield cannot manage to get the bone. Nermal starts singing after that, and Garfield mails him to Abu Dhabi. After the mailman picks him up, Garfield sees Anne McPherson, the chairman of a group that makes sure pets aren't mistreated. He goes into a closet and gets a girdle, wrapping it tight around his stomach so she'll think Jon hasn't been feeding him. He plays dead in front of the doorway, and Anne sees him.
She carries him into Jon's kitchen, while Garfield is still pretending to play dead, and tells him that she will have him arrested if he doesn't feed Garfield. Jon gets worried, and starts to prepare food for him. A happy Garfield sees Jon about to feed him a hamburger, but he stuffs it right into his mouth. He continues to do so, until the girdle finally snaps off, and Garfield becomes gigantic. Jon is still feeding him, but he becomes so big, his head breaks through the top of the theatre, and worried viewers run in fear. He becomes as big as the world and eats the stars and planets. He is finally as big as the earth, and the opera is over. The cast takes a bow, and Floyd passes out from so much work.
[edit] Notes
- This episode reveals The Buddy Bears' full names.
- The episode breaks the fourth wall, and is the first musical episode. (The next one was The Picnic Panic.)
- Orson and Roy make a cameo during the end.
- The music was Amilcare Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours, which was also used for a scene from Disney's Fantasia.
- This episode parodies Godzilla.
- The part where Garfield becomes bigger at the end is a possible parody on the cartoon King Size Canary.
- This episode is possibly a musical version of the Garfield and Friends episodes Nighty Nightmare (eating to King Kong sized proportions) and Well-Fed Feline (animal protector threatening to arrest Jon if Garfield was not fed). In both versions, Garfield pretends to be malnourished by use of girdle to get Jon in trouble. However, in Well-Fed Feline, the woman's name is Harriet Underburger and she makes good on her threat.
[edit] Quotes
Garfield: [singing] But the puppy makes me cautious, / and our house guest makes me nauseous. / I would sleep, but / I'm unable, / might as well see if my breakfast's on a table.
