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(The episode opens at the dog pound where Al was being scolded being Mr. Cannel in his office)
Al: Please, mister Mr. Cannel. You've gotta give me another chance.
Mr. Cannel: I've given you 97 other chances, Al!
Al: Then give me 98. I know I haven't caught many dogs lately.
Mr. Cannel: None! And that's unacceptable, especially now. Did you hear about the new law?
Al: Uhhh... what new law?
(Mr. Cannel turns on the TV)
Newswoman: The mayor's office has announced a crackdown on dog's running around without leashes. Any unleashed dog will be hauled off to the pound and its owner will pay a steep fine.
(In Jon's house, Jon was watching these news and becomes shocked)
Jon (gasps) Oh, good! Odie's always running around without a leash. (Gets up from the chair and calls out to Garfield and Odie) Odie? Garfield? Anyone? Odie's out someplace walking around without a leash! (Runs outside) I better find him before I get tossed into the pound and he has to pay a steep fine.
(Back to the pound)
Mr. Cannel: Alright. One last chance. But only because I don't have anyone else.
Al: (kisses Mr. Cannel's hands) I won't let you down.
Mr. Cannel: (angrily) Oh, for heaven's sake! I'll be driving around. If I see one dog not a leash. You're fired!
Al: I won't let you down. (runs out of the office as Mr. Cannel sulks on his desk in disagreement)
Mr. Cannel: (sadly) Yes, you will.
(Cut to the park where Garfield and Odie were walking down the street past Al's van)
Garfield: I'm so hungry I could pass out any second. I know I shouldn't have skipped my third breakfast.
Odie: (whining) Oh, oh, oh!
Hot-Dog Seller: Hi, Garfield. How many hot dogs? Your usual order?
(Garfield sighs)
Hot-Dog Seller: OK, all of 'em.
Garfield: I don't know if I can wait any longer. I'm losing consciousness fast. (falls over)
Odie: (barking)
Garfield: My whole life is flashing before my eyes. (points to the clouds) There's that lasagna I ate last night. There's a the prime rib from last easter. It's no use. I can't make it. (breathing heavily) I can't... (passes out as Odie looks over him and sobs)
Hot-Dog Seller: Quick, Garfield, eat this hot dog.
(Garfield eats the hot dog fast then says...)
Garfield: You forgot the relish.
(Al is in the park, behind the bush and looking through binoculars)
Al: The park is the best place to find leashless dogs. (He sees one) Yes! (But sees its owner) Dart! (Suddenly smiles and moves forward, looks through the binoculars again and sees Odie) Bingo! Target acquired.
(Garfield continues eating hot dogs)
Garfield: 19 more of these and I should be good as new.
Al: (approaches them) Hello, puppy.
Odie: Huh?!
Al: You are under arrest for running around without a leash. (pulls out his script and reads it off-key) It is my duty to advise you of your rights as a dog. You have the right to remain silent and not bark. You have the right to a flea collar and if you cannot afford one will be purchased before any further scratching. Do you understand these rights as I have explained them to you? (Suddenly sees that Odie have disappeared, thanks to Garfield, still eating a hot dog, has gestured the dog to run quickly) Puppy? (to Garfield) Hey, cat! Did you see where the puppy went?
Garfield: Yes. Hey, that nose of yours could use some of this. (grabs the mustard and squirts it on Al's face)
Al: (yells in pain) I can't believe you put mustard all over my nose!
Garfield: You lucky I don't have hot chilli.
Al: (menacingly) I'll take care of you, cat. And your little dog, too! (though a parody reference to the Wizard of Oz)
Garfield: Woah! (zooms off and eats the hot dog in whole and catches up to Odie and says) Come with me if you want to live.
(Garfield and Odie both ran with Al right behind them)
Al: You won't get away from me! I'm too smart for you! (catches Michael Fastblood in his net by accident, removes it off and darts after the cat and dog again)
(They ran through the park, around the tree in circles. Garfield and Odie went off as Al continues running in circles. The cat and dog walk away from the park, where Mr. Cannel was coming into the scene. And here comes trouble...)
Garfield: Ya see? Dogs aren't the only ones creatures that can spend all day chasing their own tails.
(Odie snickers and Mr. Cannel spots him walking past him. He was furious)
Mr. Cannel: A dog without a leash! That's it!
(Al came running up fast, bellowing like a bull, unaware off his attention until...)
CRASH!!!
(Hearing the crash, Garfield and Odie look back to see Al and Mr. Cannel on the ground in a heap. Al had his net over his own boss. Mr. Cannel removes the net off him and then he roars like a lion)
Al: (crying) Please, Mr. Cannel. This is my life. I'm a dog catcher.
Mr. Cannel: Not anymore, you're not. You're fired. You have been goofing off. You've been eating hot dogs instead of catching real dogs!
Al: I wasn't eating hot dogs.
Mr. Cannel: Don't lie to me! You have mustard all over your face! (snatches the net off Al, then storms off)
Garfield: Shame on you, Odie. Because of you, that nice dog catcher just lost his job. (then laughs with celebration and he and Odie high five each other) Alright! Let's celebrate! Vito has a special two pizzas for the price of one. Does that sound good?
Odie: Uh-huh.
Garfield: Good. Then I'll eat both, and you watch.
Al: Where are you going to find anyone else for this job?
Mr. Cannel: Anyone can do it. I'm tempted to hire the next person who walks by.
(Jon runs to Al and Mr. Cannel for help finding Odie.)
Jon: Excuse me. Have either of you seen a cute little dog around here?
Mr. Cannel: You like dogs, do you?
Jon: Sure.
Mr. Cannel: Well have you ever considered catching them for a living? What do you do?
Jon: I'm a cartoonist.
Mr. Cannel: Oh. Well, this is different. This is a real job.
(Mr. Cannel hires Jon as the new dogcatcher, to Al's disappointment. At home, Garfield and Odie are laughing together inside the house.)
Garfield: Oh, so much for Al the dogcatcher. I wonder what numbskull they'll get to do that job now.
Odie: Whines
Garfield: You're right. A person would have to be pretty dumb to...
(Jon storms into the house to show he is the new city dogcatcher.)
Jon: Congratulate me, guys! You're looking at the new city dogcatcher.
(Garfield and Odie are shocked to see Jon as the new city dogcatcher. In town, Jon is seen using a net to capture stray dogs and lock them inside the animal pound. Inside the house, Garfield and Odie are waiting for Jon to serve them food on the dining table.)
Garfield: Don't worry, Odie. Jon will be down any minute to feed us.
(Jon rushes back home to fetch something from the kitchen and continues with his new job as a dogcatcher.)
Jon: See you this evening, guys. Gotta go catch dogs.
Garfield: Excuse me. Breakfast? We'd like some breakfast. (Jon exits through the front door) Jon has left the building.
Odie: Whines
(Garfield and Odie go into the kitchen to prepare their own food.)
Garfield: Well, looks like we'll have to prepare our own meals. Let's see. I'm thinking lasagna, ravioli, rigatoni. Pasta. Part of your nutritious breakfast. (checks inside the refrigerator) Fortunately, Jon left the refrigerator crammed full of food.
Odie: Bow!
Garfield: Aha!
(They find the refigerator empty.)
Garfield And Odie: WAH! (The word echoes as the camera zooms out of Jon's House, then to the earth)
Garfield: It's time to put an end to Jon's new career and my new lack of food!
(In the park, Jon as the new city dogcatcher used the food that was stored in the refrigerator as food bait to help capture stray dogs.)
Jon: Three more.
(Garfield and Odie sees what is Jon using the food for.)
Garfield: So that's where all our food has gone. Jon's using it as bait. This is not good, Odie. Not good at all. While Jon's catching dogs, our plates go empty.
(Garfield and Odie alerted to the sound of Al crying about that he has been fired from a dogcatcher job.)
Garfield: Huh?
Al: (crying) All I ever wanted to be in life was a dogcatcher. When I was a small boy, all the other kids would play with dogs. I just wanted to catch them. One year for Christmas, my Uncle Nathan gave me the cutest little cocker spaniel you ever saw. It had soft ears and big, sad eyes. I threw a net over it and took it to the pound.
Garfield: Odie, we've got to get that man his job back. Which means we have to get Jon fired. We need a dog he can't catch.
Odie: Whines
Garfield: You know the old saying I just made up: When you want the perfect dog, get a cat.
(At Garfield's home inside the basement, Garfield is looking for the items to dress up as a dog.)
Garfield: I know it's here somewhere. Oh! There's that old department store mannequin. That'll come in handy for the final scene in this episode. (searching inside the chest) Right now, I'm trying to find… Ah! Remember this, Odie?
(Pulls out a pair of socks that Garfield wore in season one.)
Odie: Whines
Garfield: It's that dog costume I wore back in season one. Remember that cartoon where I ate all that lasagna?
Odie: Barks
(Garfield has dressed up as a dog, wearing socks on his ears and a yoghurt cup covering his nose.)
Garfield: Hey, not bad. Arf, arf. Woof, woof.
Odie: Barks
Garfield: Arf, woof. Woof, woof, bark, bark.
Odie: Barks
Garfield: Bowwow. Woof, woof. Yip, yip. Didn't know I could speak a foreign language, did ya? (takes a magnet from the chest) Hey, this magnet will be useful. Now you stay here. We can't have you walking the streets without a leash. Jon would lock you up.
Odie: Barks
Garfield: Okay. I'm off to catch me a dog catcher. Woof, woof, arf.
Odie: Barks
(In a town alleyway, Jon is using the net to look for a stray dog to catch.)
Jon: Meow! Meow, meow! Meow! Meow!
Garfield: Observe the amateur dogcatcher thinking he can attract a dog with a rotten cat impression. Oh well. It's showtime. (runs around dogcatcher Jon) Arf, arf! Bark, bark, bark!
(Jon misses to catch Garfield with his net.)
Jon: Missed! (Garfield stands on his hind legs) So, that's how you wanna play, smart guy? Wait till I catch you!
(Jon starts to chase Garfield who acting like a dog in town. While chasing him, he knocks over people on the sidewalk.)
Man 1: Hey, watch it!
Vito: Signor Arbuckle. May I show you to a table? (the chases continues inside Vito's pizzeria and causes disruption inside the place) Signor Arbuckle! No! Not in my ristorante! (Garfield takes a pizza with his mouth) Please! My lovely restaurant! (Jon uses a net intended to catch Garfield instead went over a man's head) No, no, no! Look out!
Jon: I'm sorry. You looked like a dog.
(Jon continues to chase Garfield inside Vito's pizzeria, causing chaos in the process. Then, he chases him outside the restaurant, leaving Vito upset with the destruction left inside his restaurant.)
Vito: (crying) My restaurant! My restaurant!
Harvey: (laughing) Vito, that was one of the funniest shows I've ever seen.
Vito: Oh, really? Eh, there is a modest cover charge for the entertainment.
(Jon is chasing Garfield on the building rooftops.)
Jon: That dog is as agile as a cat!
Garfield: Woof, woof.
(The chase stops in front of a tree where Garfield is thinking about climbing the tree to escape Jon.)
Jon: You're mine!
Garfield: You're wrong. (Jon was about the catch him, but bumps into the tree.) Okay. Time to get caught. (crash lands on Jon while getting of the tree) Yip, yip, yip.
(Jon manages to catch Garfield with the net.)
Jon: Gotcha! Ha ha. I'm too smart for you.
Garfield: Yeah. Way too smart.
(In the animal pound, Jon is sleeping where the animals are caged up. Garfield uses this opportunity to use a magnet to attract the metal keys and uses the keys to free himself and other dogs.)
Garfield: There's the keys to this hotel.
(The dogs are free from the cages courtesy of Garfield having the magnet on him. The dogs are barking and walking towards Jon.)
Jon: No, no! Get back in the kennel!
Mr. Cannel: Sounds like Arbuckle's caught a lot of dogs. Hiring him was the smartest thing I ever did. (the front door of the animal pound opens on him with dogs running freely out of the pound) Stop!
Jon: Oh! Mr. Kennel! I'm sorry! I don't know how all the dogs got away, but...
Mr. Cannel: Arbuckle! You're even more incompetent than that idiot I fired! I'd better get him back while I can.
Jon: But, Mr. Kennel!
(Outside the park, Al is talking to Pulver who is serving hotdogs.)
Al: So, Mr. Kennel not only offered me my job back, I got a raise.
Pulver: The guy he replaced you with, he must have been really terrible.
Al: I'll say. I wonder what he's gonna do now.
(Jon walks past Al.)
Jon: (sighs) He's going back to being a cartoonist.
(Odie without a leash is seen walking alone into the park. This attracts the attention of Al's job to catch dogs walking without a leash.)
Al: (laughs) That's the puppy that got me fired! If he's not on a leash, he goes to the pound. And this time, he can't escape!
(Garfield shows that Odie on a leash, to avoid being taken to the pound.)
Al: Huh?
Garfield: I told you that mannequin would come in handy in the last scene.
(The episode ends with a mannequin wearing Jon's clothes holding Odie on a leash.)
THE END