A Jarring Experience is an episode from the fourth season of Garfield and Friends.
Synopsis
A mouse's mom gets stuck in the cookie jar, and he blames Garfield.
Plot
A mouse named Rip wants to go into the house and bring back food, but his mother tells him to stay out in case there's a cat around and goes in herself. Garfield goes to the kitchen to get a cookie; Rip's mom notices him and falls into the cookie jar. Garfield eats a cookie and closes the lid, unaware of the mouse that he trapped in there.
Rip starts to get worried about his mother and goes in to find her. He sees Garfield making a sandwich and thinks he's using his mom as an ingredient. Garfield tells him that he didn't put his mother in a sandwich; Rip informs Garfield that he won't stop harassing him until he confesses his mother's whereabouts.
Garfield is reading an issue of Power Pig until Rip cuts up a hole in one of the panels demanding his mother back. Garfield then takes a nap in a hammock. He has a dream where voices are constantly chanting "Where is the mouse?" to which Garfield keeps replying he does not know. It turns out that Rip is using a jack to lift Garfield up into the air as torture. When Garfield reiterates what he has told him, he decides to call in Max, a muscular mouse.
Max walks up to Garfield and warns him that he'll get rough if he doesn't tell him Rip's mother's location. With nowhere to run, Garfield requests one last cookie and pulls out Rip's mother. Rip's mother explains what happened and Rip and Max apologize to Garfield for what they did to him, and he forgives them due to the plot telling them to act that way.
Jon is working on his new computer and asks Garfield where the mouse is. Hearing that again, Garfield panics, unaware that Jon meant the mouse that he uses for the computer.
Characters
Main characters
- Garfield
- Rip
Major characters
- Rip's mom
- Max
- Jon
Trivia
Cultural references
- Max bears a resemblance to Arnold Schwarzenegger.