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(The episode begins with Garfield sitting in a plane. His arms are crossed and he wiggles his toes, visibly frustrated)
Garfield: Quiet moan… (He starts kicking his feet and throwing a tantrum. Jon is in the seat next to him, and Odie is in the seat in front of him) I wanna be home! I wanna be home! (The camera zooms away from Garfield to show the small plane he and his friends are taking) I wanna be home! I wanna be home! (They are above a vast wasteland of white. Nothing to see but snow-covered trees, hills, and everything else)
(After landing, Jon, Garfield, and Odie make their way to their real destination. Jon is dressed in blue, hat, earmuffs, winter coat, pants, and boots, with orange gloves and a backpack with skis and ski poles attached to it. Odie has darker blue mittens on his ears, a scarf to match, and earmuffs on his head. Garfield wears a dark green hat, a green-and-white striped scarf, and matching gloves)
Jon: Deep exhale! Free at last! (Garfield is lagging behind Odie and Jon. They stop and look back at the cat) Isn’t it great to be far away from civilization, no cars, (Odie holds his arms out) no phones,
Garfield: Splutters (He shivers in the cold)
Jon: (continuing) it’s just us and Mother Nature!
Garfield: (shivering) Mother Nature has a cruel sense of humor! (Jon and Odie continue) I’m cold, I'm tired, I'm starving! I haven’t eaten for, (He checks his wrist, as if wearing a watch) ooh, well, it seems like more than 10 minutes. (They continue up a hill. Odie is grinning)
Jon: (pointing up) Only seven more miles to go and we’ll be at my cousin Bill’s cabin. You’ll be fine.
Garfield: (exhausted) I’ll be extinct. (Odie pauses and gives Garfield some encouragement)
Odie: Bark! Bark! (He waves his paw, telling him to come on)
Garfield: Thanks for the pep talk, Odie, but I'm just an ordinary cat (He wraps his arms around himself again, shivering and frigid) whose big exercise is working… the remote control on the… DVD player.
(Upon reaching the top of the hill, Jon looks at the view. Odie holds his arms out again, admiring all that nature has to offer)
Jon: We’re almost there, Odie! (The pup grins at his master) Bill’s cabin is only three miles away,
Odie: Pants
Jon: (continuing) right at the bottom of this slope. (The Flabby Tabby finally reaches the top, and does so rather dramatically, as if climbing Mount McKinley, or Denali, if one prefers to call it that)
Garfield: Ay-yi-yi. Three miles? (He walks up to his friends) Moan, moan, moan, moan, moan! Can’t we get there any faster? (He leaps into a log with a hole in it, making it resemble an amusement park ride, to rest his tired body. The log starts to shake) Gasp! Doh! (It slides down the hill, taking Garfield with it) YAAHHH! I just changed my mind about wanting to get there faster! YA-HAAAAHHH! (He grabs a couple of branches on the log to try and steer through the maze of trees) Yowl! Oh! Whimpers (He bounces on the trees like a pinball, including actual pinball sound effects) AAAAAHHHHHHHHH! (He approaches their final destination, the cabin) I wanna go home… YAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! (The log catches some air upon reaching the base of the hill and slides up the roof) AAAAAAHHHHH! (Garfield lets go and gets stuck in the chimney) This never happened to Santa Claus, and he’s fatter than I am!
(Jon and Odie soon arrive in their cabin)
Jon: Fantastic, just like the old days! (The camera pans around the interior of the cabin: there’s a water jug, a basin with a cloth, an oil lamp on a table with chairs, a drawer with various cooking supplies on it, a pile of wood for the fireplace, and of course, a fireplace) No electricity, no appliances, nothing! We’ll have to rough it. (Garfield falls through the chimney)
Garfield: Ouch! What? You mean no fridge, (He counts on his gloved fingers) no microwave, no TV?! We’re gonna have to live like… animals!
Jon: OK, guys, (Odie turns around by hopping) let’s go outdoors and have fun! (He holds up his ski poles. Odie hops in place and takes off after him)
Odie: Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! (Garfield walks up to the front door)
Garfield: Hey, I'm not going anywhere! And close the door for crying out loud! I’m freezing! (He angrily slams the door shut, causing a wave of snow to fall off the roof onto Jon and Odie)
Jon: I guess Garfield isn’t coming with us.
Odie: Mutters
(Inside, Garfield sits on a chair in front of an open fire, warming his paws)
Garfield: Mmm, nice. Time for a well-deserved, (He gets off the chair and heads toward the couch) sigh, nap. (Upon reaching the couch, a narrator begins speaking)
Narrator: And so it was that (The Tubby Tabby gets on the couch) while Jon and Odie were outdoors having a jolly good time, (Garfield glances around him, curious as to where the voice is coming from) Garfield remained in the cabin to rest his weary bones.
Garfield: (interrupting) Who said that?
Narrator: I said that.
Garfield: Wha?
Narrator: (continuing) I’m your narrator. I’ve just been included in your story.
Garfield: Why?
Narrator: Don’t ask me, ask the writers. You can go back to sleep.
Garfield: OK, (He lifts his other foot onto the couch and settles in) but keep your voice down. Good night. (He dozes off)
Narrator: My deep apologies.
Garfield: Snore!
Narrator: Where was I? Oh yes. (Cut to Jon skiing, with Odie riding on his back) While Garfield rested his weary bones, Jon and Odie had a jolly good time. (A voice begins singing in the background)
VO: Step up and sing… (He is cut off by Jon, who slams into a tree)
Odie: Ow!
VO: To the anti-grumpy song! (Jon gets up, backwards, and begins sliding down the hill)
You only have to move around
Jump and dance if you’re feeling down! (He spins around to face the right way and sees a snow tunnel directly in front of him. Odie clings for dear life to Jon’s head)
Feeling grumpy? (Jon spins and weaves, avoiding all the icicles in the tunnel) Feeling sad?
Sing this song if you feel bad! (They fly out of the tunnel, and see a skunk on Jon’s shoulder. Jon gags and they continue down the hill)
Stand up, and sing along
To the anti-grumpy song!
(Later, Jon does dome ice fishing. Odie watches next to him)
Shake your belly, bust a move! (The line gets tugged and Jon pulls, revealing a bone at the end of the line. While Jon is let down, Odie wags his tail excitedly)
Get your body into the groove! (Odie ice skates on the pond while Jon fishes)
One, two, three, four, (Jon gets another bite, only to find out that it’s a carrot)
Go and hit the dance floor! (Jon is frustrated, but keeps going. He catches an old top hat, a scarf, a bag of marbles, and a can of spinach)
(Cut to Garfield, who is still sleeping, snoring, and shivering in the cabin)
Step up and sing along
To the anti-grumpy song! (The song ends here, and Garfield awakens abruptly)
Garfield: Gasp! Why is it so cold in here? (He sees that the fire had been reduced to ashes during his slumber)
Narrator: Because you didn’t keep the fire going, numbskull. (Garfield’s eyes narrow, angry at the insult)
Garfield: Hey, (He gets up and points at the ceiling) I don't have to take this abuse from a second-rate narrator! (He storms over to the fireplace)
Narrator: Don’t blame me. I didn’t write this dialogue. Anyway, this story is about to have its first twist, so brace yourself! (Garfield reaches the fireplace) Au revoir!
Garfield: A twist? Au revoir? (The confused cat looks at the viewers. At that moment, Paddy the Leprechaun emerges from a trap door behind the fireplace)
Paddy: Grunt! Oh no…
Garfield: Paddy! Paddy the Leprechaun! (He steps closer and opens the door wider) Oh ho, (He steps back) that’s a nice twist. I didn’t see it coming.
Paddy: Hi Garfield. sorry to be barging in on ya. I was on me way to Hawaii, (He strokes his beard, wondering how he wound up in the frozen tundra) but I guess I took one of those wrong turns at Albuquerque.
Garfield: Hawaii? Oh man, I wish I was in Hawaii. (He smiles longingly. Paddy hops over to a windowsill)
Paddy: Grunt! Grunt! (The Flabby Tabby walks up to him as he puts his hands on the pane) Yeah, I see what ya mean. (Snow falls outside) Brrr! (He blows into his hands to warm them up) You wanna come to Hawaii with me, laddy? (He winks)
Garfield: You betcha! (A thought then hits him) Uh, thanks but no thanks, Paddy. (He turns around and slowly walks away from the window. Paddy soon joins him) If I go, Jon is gonna be worried sick and it’ll COMPLETELY (He waves his arm in front of him) ruin his holiday. (He hangs his head regretfully) I can’t do that to him.
Paddy: OK, as you wish. Bye-bye, laddy! (He hops into the fireplace and the trapdoor behind. As he closes it behind him, Garfield waves good-bye)
Garfield: Sigh… (Paddy reopens the door and reappears)
Paddy: If you change your mind, (He points at Garfield, and then back at the door) open this door, and call me name three times! (He returns to the tunnel. The Flabby Tabby hangs his head again, deeply desiring an escape but he knows that he can’t. No one ever said doing the right thing was easy)
(Outside, Jon and Odie are building a snowman. They put the finishing touches on it, with Jon adding a hat and picking up Odie so that he can put a carrot nose on it)
Jon: Grunt!
Odie: Mutters (Jon sees his cat walking up to him)
Jon: Hey Garfield, (He sets Odie down) how do you like our snowman? (He gestures to it) I named him Boris!
Garfield: I’m hungry. (He points at his mouth)
Jon: Oh, don’t worry. (He holds his finger up) Odie and I went ice fishing and we won’t starve. (He wags his finger at Garfield) We actually caught something!
(Later that night, the snow has stopped falling, but Garfield’s mood hasn’t. The three of them are gathered at the dinner table eating what Jon caught)
Garfield: You caught canned spinach! (He grabs the can frustratedly)
Odie: Moan…
Jon: Ah, bon appétit! (He tries feeding a spoonful to Garfield) Hey, hey! (He plops some onto the Flabby Tabby’s plate. While Garfield is unappeased, Odie is quite the opposite)
Odie: Slurp! Slurp! (He holds the plate to his face and licks it) Slurp! Slurp! Mm-hm!
Garfield: (exasperated) Do you have any REAL food?
Jon: Let’s see if we can get the local weather report. (He twists the knobs of a battery-operated radio and sets it on the table. The voice that comes out of it is the narrator’s)
Narrator: Hi. This is your narrator again. (Cut to the front of the radio, which is very basic: a red screen with AM and FM on it, a slider that shows what station it is, and a speaker) Tonight, Mars, Jupiter and Venus will align with Earth. This will have a DIRECT effect on the story and make for another quirky plot twist!
Garfield: Another twist? Gee, I hope it’s a good one. (He puts a spoonful of spinach into his mouth. The taste is so bad he freezes and blinks twice) Oh! (He spits the spoon out of his mouth) Spit! (He recoils so far that he falls backwards out of his chair) Ow! (He places his paws back onto the table and climbs back into view) Yuck! (He smacks his lips) Smack smack (Jon and Odie applaud sarcastically) Sigh…
(Despite dinner being a bust, Jon and Odie take a moment to do some stargazing. Jon brought his handheld telescope and looks through it at the planets)
Jon: Look, Mars Venus and Jupiter, perfectly aligned! (He hands it to Odie, who also looks through it) What a glorious sight! (The Tubby Tabby watches from the window)
Garfield: (flatly) I’m still waiting for that plot twist. I hope it involves dinner. (Jon and Odie return inside and Garfield closes the window. The three of them decide to turn in for the night. Jon sleeps on the couch, without a blanket for some reason)
Jon: Snore… snore (On the other side of the room, Garfield sleeps in his bed, smiling for the first time since Paddy arrived)
Garfield: Snore… (His rest is short-lived, however, as a distressed Odie runs up to him and wakes him up)
Odie: Bark! Bark! (He waves his paws and pushes his friend awake) Bark, bark, bark! (Garfield wakes up angry and tells the pup off)
Garfield: No! Now go away, Odie! (Odie continues barking and even throws a “Ta-da” in there. He points outside and waves his paws as Garfield continues) Bad dog! Bad, bad, BADDER than bad dog! (Odie looks saddened for a moment, but whatever it is that has him riled up is far too important)
Odie: Bark, bark, bark, bark, bark! (He waves his paws and points outside, even more frenzied than before. Of course, the indifferent cat could care less)
Garfield: Yawn! (Odie puts his paws on his hips) Leave me alone. (Odie, however, will not take “no” for an answer. If Garfield isn’t going to look for himself, then Odie is going to shove his bed out the open door and partially down the hill, which is exactly what the persistent pup does. The fat cat cracks his eyes open) I don’t wanna go outside. That’s where most of the cold is. (He dozes off, and then realizes that he is outside) Huh? (He retreats fully under his blanket, shivering. Odie, who is now with him, explains the situation)
Odie: Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! (Finally, Garfield pokes his head out and asks Odie what has him tied up in knots)
Garfield: What?
Odie: Yeah! (He extends his arms in celebration)
Garfield: (continuing) What is it?
Odie: Bark! Bark! Bark! (He points out a groove in the snow. It looks like the path of someone rolling a giant snowball, just without the tracks of the someone pushing)
Garfield: Huh?
Odie: Bark! Bark! (The path leads into the distance. Garfield has finally gotten up from his bed and surveys the area)
Garfield: Boris the Snowman is gone? (His voice sounds unimpressed and indifferent, and his face says the same thing) Wow, this must be the second plot twist the narrator was talking about.
Narrator: That’s exactly
Garfield: Huh? (He puts a paw to the side of his head)
Narrator: (continuing) right. (Odie appears next to the fat cat, bewildered)
Odie: Huh?!
Narrator: (continuing) Quite unexpected, huh?
Odie: Huh?
Garfield: Ugh… (He shakes his head)
Narrator: (continuing) The writers have really outdone themselves.
Garfield: (pointing) You’re only saying that so they give you more lines, (He puts his paws on his hips) now leave this story, we’ll take it from here.
Narrator: You’re quite the diva, aren’t you? Fine, narrator out!
Garfield: Ooh, touchy.
Odie: Bark! (Garfield then starts shivering in the cold, wrapping his arms around himself and overlaying his toes)
Garfield: Shivers
Odie: Bark! Bark! (The Flabby Tabby hurries off to get his winter gear and soon returns wearing it)
Garfield: Sigh, OK Odie, (He points) let’s follow that trail.
Odie: Bark!
(They follow it. Odie also wears his winter things and Garfield carries an oil lamp to lead them through the night. Owls hoot in the night sky, Eventually, they reach the end of the trail and hear a couple of unfamiliar voices)
Boris: Hey Olaf, how can you tell when a snowman
Garfield: Huh? (He and the pup stop)
Boris: (continuing) is sad?
Garfield and Odie: Huh? (They look at each other and then peek out at something from behind a tree)
Olaf: I don’t know, Boris, (The snowman that Odie and Jon made has come to life and is talking to another snowman, one with a small stick for a nose instead of a carrot and twigs resembling spiky hair on his head) how?
Boris: When you see him cry ice cubes!
Snowmen: Laugh (Garfield has emerged from behind the tree, albeit still behind Odie. He facepalms)
Garfield: Am I seeing things or was that (He walks forward) Boris the Snowman telling a joke to another snowman named Olaf? (He goes to investigate. Odie remains)
Odie: Whimper
Garfield: Are you guys for real? (Olaf puts his branch arm under his chin)
Boris: Sure, we’re for real! (He wags his wooden finger at Garfield) Last night there was an alignment of three (He holds up three fingers) planets, and…
Garfield: Let me guess: (Odie walks up to Garfield’s side) and then you were hit by a ray of light and bingo, you’re alive.
Olaf: (with his finger up) Precisely! How did you know?
Garfield: (shaking his head) Oh it’s the laziest screen-writing trick in the book.
Odie: Hm?
Garfield: A pumpkin or toaster gets hit by an energy beam and poof! Lo and behold, it’s alive. Pathetic.
Boris: (pointing at Garfield) Well, like it or not, I'm thrilled to be alive! (Olaf nods in agreement)
Olaf: (holding his finger up) And so am I! There is nothing more boring than being an ordinary snowman. You just stand there all day doing nothing (The pets look at each other) with no one to talk to slowly melting away… (Boris slides over to him and pats him on the back)
Boris: Yes, Olaf, (He wags his finger at his snowman friend) life of an ordinary snowman is no picnic, (He points again at the pets) and that’s why we’re telling jokes!
Garfield: Hey I got one for ya: what do snowmen call snowballs? (Both snowmen have puzzled looks, unsure of the punchline) Children! (The Tubby Tabby grins)
Snowmen: Laugh (Olaf whacks Boris in the back of the head, knocking it off. Garfield catches it, though he is visibly horrified. He looks at the viewers, and Odie passes out in surprise. Garfield puts Boris’s head back on)
Olaf: (pointing up) Hey, speaking of snowballs, (He reaches into his body and pulls out a snowball) here’s one! (He throws it at Garfield, who dodges it. Odie has come to and stands upright)
Odie: Huh?
Garfield: (pointing) I hope a rabbit eats your nose. (He dodges another snowball, this one from Boris)
Snowmen: Laugh (The pets scoop up some snow in their paws and throw snowballs at the snowmen, one of them gets caught on Boris’s carrot nose. The four of them play throughout the night into the morning. They slide of the snowman’s backs on a frozen pond, and they watch Boris juggle snowballs, and his head)
Garfield and Olaf: Laugh (They have snowball fights…)
Garfield: Bullseye! (He immediately gets hit with three snowballs, knocking him off his feet onto his back) Oh! (Boris then pulls Odie out of his hat like a magician)
Odie: Ta-da! (The pets slide down a hill on the snowmen's backs and get attacked with snowballs soon after)
(Eventually, they walk together back to the cabin)
Boris: Whoa, what a day! Chuckles This has been fun!
Olaf: (pointing) Yeah, but I'm starved! I could use an iceberger! (They all clutch their stomachs, laughing)
All: Laugh (Garfield and Odie climb the steps back to the cabin)
Garfield: Hey, see you guys tomorrow! (He and his pooch pal wave the snowmen good-bye, and the snowmen do the same)
Olaf: Good night! Sleep warm!
Garfield: Good night! (He points back at them) Sleep cold!
All: Laugh
(An indeterminate amount of time later, Garfield is in his bed on the cabin table sleeping. The radio is next to him and the narrator speaks through it, awakening the cat)
Narrator: Well, winter is over, folks,
Garfield: Huh?
Narrator: (continuing) and temperatures are rising quickly.
Garfield: Mmm.
Narrator: (continuing) Time to pack your skis and go home. (Jon puts his hands on the table)
Jon: And that’s exactly what we’re going to do! (He flicks the radio off and walks over to Odie, who is lounging on the couch. The Flabby Tabby runs up with him) Garfield, Odie, we’re leaving! (Odie hops back onto his feet)
Odie: Bark! Pants
Garfield: (pointing up) OK! But first
Jon: Huh?
Garfield: (continuing) we need to say good-bye to Boris and Olaf! (He takes off. Odie follows)
Odie: Bark! Bark! (The pets race out the door)
Garfield: Grunt! Pants (They run over to the snowmen, who are starting to drip from the spring thaw) Guys, we’re leaving. It’s been a pleasure knowing you! (He points) You’re both so cool. (He makes the OK symbol with his other paw)
Boris: Not any more! (He waves his stick hand and shakes his head) We’re melting!
Olaf: By the end of the day, we’ll just be two puddles of water.
Garfield: Boy, (He grabs his face) this is so sad! (He and Odie hug Olaf and Boris, respectively)
Odie: (quietly) Cries
Garfield: We can’t have a sad ending to this story, now can we? OK, chill guys! (He gives a one-fingered salute and zips away. He returns briefly) I’ll be right back! (He zips away again)
(Back at the cabin, Jon is all packed up and ready to leave. All he needs is his pets)
Jon: (calling) Odie, Garfield, let’s go! (The Tubby Tabby sprints into the cabin)
Garfield: Pants Wait for me, I'll catch up! (He races to the trapdoor behind the fireplace and cracks it open. He shouts into it) Paddy, Paddy, Paddy! (His voice echoes through the chamber. His friend appears shortly after)
Paddy: Oh, hello, laddy! Change your mind, eh? Want me to take you to Hawaii? (Garfield bends down, resting his paws on his knees)
Garfield: Not exactly. Say, your underground tunnels out of Ireland, they cover the entire planet, right?
Paddy: Ooh, of course they do! Through them, we leprechauns can go anywhere in the world! (Using his magic, he shows Garfield an image of the world. Garfield leans down and whispers into Paddy’s ear)
Garfield: Indistinct whispers
Paddy: Whoa, laddy, (He strokes his beard) you’re asking a lot, but, (He holds his finger up) OK I’ll do it, for old times sake.
(Garfield and Odie lead the snowmen through the tunnel. Paddy is in front of them standing behind a giant pot, one resembling a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, just minus the gold. He turns around and addresses the snowmen)
Paddy: Hop in! (The snowmen look at each other)
Snowmen: Ha! (They shuffle forward and climb inside)
Paddy: This old engine runs on (He leaps into it himself) leprechaun magic! I’ll have you at your destination in a WEEEE instant!
Boris: (waving) Thanks for everything, Garfield! (Olaf and Paddy also wave their friends good-bye)
Olaf: Bye-bye, now! Bye-bye! (Garfield and Odie wave farewell to them)
Garfield: Hey,
Odie: Mutters (Loosely translated, he also says, “Bye-bye!”)
Garfield: (continuing) don’t forget to write! (The pot takes Paddy and the snowmen down the tunnel and away)
Snowmen: Laugh (They spin and swerve and speed through the tunnel)
(Later on, the pets and Jon have returned home from their winter vacation)
Garfield: Hey Odie, it’s a postcard from Boris and Olaf! (Cut to Garfield, who is sitting on his chair, and Odie, who is wagging his tail and clinging to the left armrest next to him) It says, “Dear Odie and Garfield, (Cut to the snowmen in the North Pole, with penguins next to them. Boris reads off the postcard he was planning on sending the pets)
Boris: “It’s freezing here at the North Pole. We LOVE it! Come up and see us (Olaf starts laughing) sometime and we’ll give you a chilly reception! (Is that better than a cold shoulder? The snowmen lean next to each other and wrap their arms around the other’s back)
Penguins: Laugh
(Cut back to the pets)
Garfield: “Yours coolly, Boris and Olaf” (Now done with the reading, Garfield looks at Odie) Aw, don’t you love stories that end well?
Odie: Bark! Bark! (That would be a definite yes)
Garfield: I feel so happy, (He holds his finger up) I may even forgive
Odie: Huh?
Garfield: (continuing) that narrator! (Both pets glance at the ceiling in the direction of the omnipresent voice)
Narrator: Oh thank you so very much!
Garfield: Well I, I did say “may.” (He grins and gives his signature wink to the viewers before the episode ends)
THE END