Date of Disaster

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Date of Disaster is an episode from the sixth season of Garfield and Friends.

Synopsis[]

Jon starts dating a woman named Monica, unaware that Monica may have ulterior motives for their relationship.

Plot[]

In a park, a woman named Monica and her boyfriend Morton are out on a date and expressing their love for each other when Monica's father, a construction worker, crashes the date and chases Morton away. Monica berates her father for chasing Morton away, but her father insists Morton does not deserve her and wants "only the best" for her to date. Monica concludes that no man is good enough for her in her father's eyes and decides to date a "real jerk" to teach her father a lesson. When she sees Jon taking Odie for a walk, she gets an idea.

That night, Jon tells Garfield and Odie about Monica asking him on a date, making Garfield suspicious. After Jon gets ready for his date, Odie confirms the event as the cat is left in awe.

At that moment, the episode is interrupted by a brief documentary about the dating history of Jon hosted by Garfield. Garfield explains that Jon has dated many women over the years, each ending in failure. The longest date Jon has been on was with a women named Cynthia Underburger. On a Friday night, Jon ended up ordering two soft-boiled athletic shoes and the two had to wash dishes to pay for dinner as Jon forgot his wallet. The next day, Cynthia joined the Marines and sailed to Greenland, where she was never seen again. The shortest date was on August 9th with Sylvia Finster, which lasted about two seconds. Jon even once signed up for a computer dating service where his date was a robot, and Cheryl, a woman who Jon tried to call, preemptively dumped him on her answering machine message. Garfield concludes that Jon is a "walking dating disaster."

The episode resumes where it left off with Jon walking to meet his date. Monica meets him at a restaurant, the Estomac, and gets his name wrong. Meanwhile, Garfield and Odie are spying on them, and Garfield is surprised that Monica would want to go out with him. The two then overhear Morton talking on the phone with Monica's father about Jon. Realizing the date is a setup, and that Monica's father is being incited to injure Jon, Garfield and Odie race into the restaurant to save their owner.

Inside, the waiter recognizes Jon from a previous date and gives him soft-boiled athletic shoes despite Jon's objections. As Monica tries to continue the date, Garfield swoops in carrying a plate of fettuccini from another waiter and dumps it on Monica's head. When Jon tries to stop him, Garfield dumps a plate of linguini on Monica's head. This results in Jon chasing Garfield out of the restaurant and saving his own life.

When Morton sees Jon running, he thinks the plan worked. He arrives too early, and soon Monica's father arrives and gives him a beating. Garfield and Odie then bring Jon back into the restaurant and Jon then realizes the date was a setup as well. After Monica clears the whole thing up, her father concludes that Jon is worse for Monica than Morton and lets her and Morton be. When Jon wonders what just happened, Garfield says he is lucky that his record and kneecaps are still intact.