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(The episode begins above the park. A trio of sparrows fly down over a line for the hot dog cart. Among those waiting in line are Professor Bonkers and Sandra, his assistant)
Professor Bonkers: All right, Sandra, (He spins around to face her) hand me the double-vision glasses! (He spins his fingers in the air, takes off his own glasses, and holds his hand out)
Sandra: Right away, Dr. Bonkers. (She hands them to him) So far, they worked perfectly. You’re a GENIUS! (He puts on the giant spectacles)
Professor Bonkers: And, if this last test is conclusive, I'll have another brilliant yet useless invention to my credit!
Sandra: What does it look like?
Professor Bonkers: It looks like (His voice starts to trail off) we’re not going to get any hot dogs. (He hangs his head sadly)
Sandra: Gasp!
Professor Bonkers: You’ll see! (He holds his finger up) Here, hold on to these. (He hands the glasses back to Sandra, who puts them in her purse)
(Nearby, Garfield peeks out from behind a nearby tree)
Garfield: A chance to fill a severe lack of hot dogs in my life today. (He starts bouncing on the heads of the people in line) YIPPEE!
Line: Overlapping complaints (Garfield lands on the cart in front of the vendor, who is finished making a hot dog)
Garfield: Mmmm! (He takes it and deposits it into his mouth. He points up) Do you hear some people complaining about something?
Hot Dog Vendor: Hi, Garfield. Do you want your usual order? (He points at the fat cat) All I have left with everything?
Garfield: Laughs (He nods his head yes. Bonkers watches, and then turns to Sandra)
Professor Bonkers: (while tapping his fingers together) The vendor will give him all the hot dogs he has left and say, (He holds his finger up) “As usual, I’ll charge them to Arbuckle.”
Hot Dog Vendor: Here you are, Garfield. (He hands a tray full of hot dogs to Garfield as the latter wiggles his fingers behind his back) As usual, I’ll charge them to Arbuckle.
Garfield: Who else? (He carries the tray above his head as he races out of there with his loot) Woo-hoo! (The people in line watch him, and then turn to the seller)
Hot Dog Vendor: Sorry, folks, all out of hot dogs. (He holds his hands up) I’m heading for the beach! Cowabunga! (He takes off. The people in line quickly become angry)
Line: Angry chatter (They chase Hot Dog Vendor past Bonkers and Sandra)
Professor Bonkers: Laughs You see? It works! My invention works!
Sandra: Imagine, being able to look through a pair of glasses and see the future.
Professor Bonkers: Let’s go back to the lab and destroy the glasses! At least we had some fun with them! (Unbeknownst to the two of them, the glasses fall out of Sandra’s purse onto the grass)
(On a park bench, Garfield grabs the last hot dog and shovels it into his mouth)
Garfield: Chewing noises Sigh… (He lounges back on the bench, putting his head in his paws. He then looks at his wrist, even though he’s not wearing a watch) Oh boy, it’s almost dinnertime! (He holds his tummy and calls for his pooch pal) Odie! (The pup promptly appears from the opposite direction Garfield was calling)
Odie: Pants
Garfield: (with his finger up) Done frolicking in the park, boy?
Odie: (breathlessly) Yeah! Yeah!
Garfield: Well then, let’s go home. (He jumps off the bench) Oh, and try not to get between me and the food. (He points at Odie and holds his stomach with both paws. Odie trots toward him, looking down at the ground)
Odie: Mutters (As he follows the path to leave, he spots the glasses on the ground) Huh? (He bends down to get a closer look, and then alerts his fat feline friend) Bark! (He wags his tail as Garfield walks up)
Garfield: What is it, boy? (He looks over at the glasses) Anything edible?
Odie: Mutters (He looks at the glasses, and then at Garfield, and then back at the glasses curiously)
Garfield: Huh? Someone lost their glasses. (He takes them and puts them on) Hey, do these make me look smarter? (He grins) Laugh (He and Odie leave the park, the Flabby Tabby bouncing as he walks out) Laugh Whoo! (He stops and looks around. From his perspective, everything he sees is blurry)
Odie: Bark! (Garfield looks at him)
Garfield: I know, Odie. Everything is blurry. (Instantly, the image changes and Garfield is able to see the future the same way Bonkers did. He watches the back of Odie chase a squirrel toward a construction zone)
Odie: Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! (Of course, Garfield does not fully comprehend what the glasses do, yet)
Garfield: What am I looking at? (He sees the squirrel knock a cone over as Odie runs over an open manhole. After realizing there’s no ground under him, the pooch shakes his legs, drops and lands with a thud)
Odie: Yowl! (The vision starts to fade)
Garfield: Everything is blurred again. (He takes off the glasses and there is his friend, still standing next to him, much to his shock) Odie! But I just saw… (At that moment, a squirrel runs between them and wiggles his fingers at Odie, taunting him) wha-? (Odie, of course, does the normal thing and runs after it)
Odie: Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! (The squirrel runs past an open manhole, knocking a cone over. Odie runs over the manhole, and promptly falls in once he realizes there’s no ground under him) Yowl! (He lands with a thud as the squirrel climbs a nearby tree. Odie gets up, a bit dazed. The squirrel, for good measure, kisses him. Garfield stands next to him, shocked)
Garfield: (To the audience) Did I just see something I'd already seen but didn’t see the first time? (A construction worker raises his head to reveal Odie is standing on him)
Odie: Huh? (He looks down at the man)
Construction Worker: Oh… (Odie gets off and, being the affectionate dog that he is, licks him)
Odie: Slurp! Slurp! Slurp! Slurp!
Construction Worker: Yuck! Your tongue is more disgusting than my sewer! (Odie whimpers and the worker returns to the sewer with a splash)
(Later, the cat and dog duo walk down the street side-by-side. Garfield holds the glasses in his paws)
Garfield: Hey Odie, there’s something very strange about these glasses. I think they show the immediate future? Here, let me try ‘em on again. (He puts them on. He sees Vito’s truck going up the hill) Odie, I see Vito delivering pizza! (Vito stops and skips out of his van, pizza in hand)
(Switching back to the pets...)
Odie: Questioning mutter
Garfield: He’s running toward the house with one! (He points to his left. He then sees Vito skipping down the front path of a fancy house)
Vito: (in a distorted voice) Don’t worry, Mr. Gourmand, Vito’s here with the pizza you ordered! (He clicks his heels together and then slips on a rock) Whoa!
Garfield: Oh no! He tripped on a rock! (The pizza in Vito’s hand flies toward the fountain) The pizza! Somebody save the pizza!
Odie: (panicked) Bark! (Vito quickly recovers and runs after the pizza. He makes a slow-motion diving catch, grabbing it before it hits the turf)
Garfield: Gasp! Sigh. Safe. (Garfield takes the glasses off) I couldn’t STAND (He waves his paws in front of him) to see a perfectly (He points up) good pizza wasted.
(At the house where Vito is about to make his delivery, Garfield and Odie zip in front of the gate)
Garfield: Grunt!
Odie: Bark!
Garfield: Odie, (They run inside the yard) I just had a very yummy vision!
Odie: Bark! Bark!
Garfield: Let’s hide behind the tree and see if it comes true. (They do just that)
(Soon after, the events of Garfield’s vision begin to unfold. Vito drives up the hill, parks, and skips out of his van carrying a pizza)
Vito: Ho ho ho!
Garfield: There he is. (He steps out from behind the tree. Odie looks at him)
Odie: Mutters (His tail wags behind him)
Garfield: (while pointing up) He’ll come running out with the pizza…
Odie: Huh?
Vito: Don’t worry, Mr. Gourmand, Vito’s here with the pizza you ordered! (Just like in Garfield’s vision, he skips up the path and clicks his heels)
Garfield: And now (He points at Vito) he’s gonna trip over a rock. (Which is exactly what happens)
Vito: Whoa! (He hits the ground with a smack) Oopsie…oh no! The pizza! (He gets up and takes off after it)
Odie: Yowl!
Garfield: Watch this diving catch, Odie! (In slow-motion, Vito lunges forward and grabs the pizza, exactly how Garfield saw it) Wow, (He glances at the pup) it’s even more spectacular in instant replay! (As Vito goes to deliver the pizza, Garfield tiptoes forward. Vito rings the doorbell, holding the pizza behind his back. The pilfering pussycat swipes it, unbeknownst to Vito, and Eddie Gourmand answers the door)
Eddie Gourmand: Ah! I’m starving, Vito! (He grins)
Vito: It is always an honor to feed a refined stomach like yours, senor Gourmand.
Eddie Gourmand: I know.
Vito: Voila! (He extends his arms, only to be shocked by a lack of pizza) Gasp! Mama mia! The pizza! She is gone!
Eddie Gourmand: Gone? What do you mean “gone”? Would you just define “gone” for me? (He waves his hand in front of him) No, no, I’ll tell you what, Vito, (Behind the tree, the pets watch. Garfield snacks on the pizza he stole) first give me the pizza I ordered,
Odie: Huh? (He and the fat cat look at each other)
Eddie Gourmand: (continuing) then you can define all you want. (The concerned pooch blinks as he watches the scene unfold)
Vito: I’d be happy to but a-gone is a-gone (Odie covers his face with one ear) and I cannot give you what is gone! Stutters (Odie covers his face with both ears and starts trembling)
Eddie Gourmand: DENY MY ORDER OF PIZZA, VITO, AND I'M GONNA GIVE YOU A VERY BAD REVIEW!!!
Odie: Oh…
Garfield: You know what, Odie, (Odie turns to him as he shovels a pizza slice into his mouth. The pup reveals his eyes) I just realized, (Odie tilts his head) I could change the future with these glasses. (The pup helps himself to a pizza slice)
Odie: Mutters
Garfield: Chuckle. Don’t worry. Chewing noises (He wags a finger at his canine companion) Nothing BAD can happen.
(Elsewhere in the city, in Professor Bonkers’ office)
Professor Bonkers: This is a CATASTROPHE, Sandra! (Inside, the professor and his assistant search for the glasses) When was the last time you saw the glasses?
Sandra: Gasp! When I put them in my pocket (She points to her pocket) at the hot dog van.
Professor Bonkers: (while tapping his chin) Oh my, this is bad, very, very bad! (He points up) Let’s hope they didn’t fall (He clenches his fist) into the wrong hands!
(Returning back to the hands–or rather, paws–they did fall into, Garfield and Odie return home and stand outside)
Garfield: The future is good, Odie. (Odie turns around to face the Flabby Tabby) The future gave me pizza. Let’s see what else the future
Odie: Huh?
Garfield: (continuing) has in store for me. (He lowers the glasses and looks at the house. Odie lets his tongue hang from his mouth. Garfield sees a man, Mr. Barker, leave through the window with a briefcase in his hand) Oh no, a burglar’s robbing our house! I recognize Jon’s briefcase! (The vision fades) Quick, Odie,
Odie: Huh?
Garfield: (continuing) we have to do something! (He is visibly panicked)
Odie: Right!
Garfield: (while pointing at something behind Odie) Go open the lids (Odie turns his head around) in the trash cans! (Odie nods)
Odie: Worried whimpers (They split)
(Inside, Jon leads Mr. Barker, his boss, to the front door)
Jon: Thank you SO much, Mr. Barker. (He tries opening the door, but it refuses to budge) Gee, the lock’s stuck and I can't seem to get it open. Chuckle If you’ll wait while I get my tools. (Mr. Barker points at him)
Mr. Barker: I have to go home and walk my dog, Arbuckle. I'll just climb out the window. (He does so, just as Garfield saw in the glasses. Mr. Barker jumps out of the window only to land on a trampoline the pets had placed underneath) DAHH! (Garfield and Odie run up and watch)
Garfield: Chuckles
Mr. Barker: YAAAAAOOWWWW! (He lands upside-down inside one of the trash cans Odie had prepared. Jon then appears in the window, holding a case and holding a finger up)
Jon: Mr. Barker! You accidentally took MY briefcase instead of…GASP! (He sees his boss, now right-side up, partially covered in trash. The Tubby Tabby leaps and slams the lid on Mr. Barker’s head) OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH! (Of course, Garfield and Odie are pleased with their work, thinking they caught a burglar. Odie pants next to Garfield as the latter dreams of his prize)
Garfield: I’ll bet they give us a reward, Odie. Sigh. I’ll take mine in pasta. (He counts on his fingers. Jon runs up to them)
Jon: Pant Garfield!
Garfield: (surprised) Aha!
Odie: (surprised) Exclaims (He covers his face with his ears and Garfield whistles nonchalantly)
Jon: (continuing) This is Mr. Barker! He’s the publisher who’s going to buy my new comic book, and sell MILLIONS of copies of it! (Mr. Barker stands up in the trash can and waves a fish skeleton at Jon)
Mr. Barker: WAS, going to buy your new comic book, and sell millions of copies of it! (He tosses the skeleton at Jon’s face)
Jon: (while shaking his head) Moan. (The fish bones land on his head)
(Soon, Mr. Barker has gotten into his car. Jon leans in the car window, trying to apologize)
Jon: I can’t tell you how SORRY I am, Mr. Barker!
Mr. Barker: It’s very simple, Arbuckle. (He points at him) I’m putting your new idea in the same place your cat put me: (He points up) IN THE GARBAGE!!! (He zooms away, causing Jon–who was leaning on the car–to lose his balance)
Jon: DAAHAHA!! (He waves his arms and regains his balance) Moan (He watches as Mr. Barker drives away. He turns to his pets, furiously)
Odie: Quiet whimpers
Garfield: Chuckle (They both grin sheepishly at their owner, who growls at them like a lion or tiger)
(Later, Jon is still growling as he sits in Garfield’s chair. He taps his fingers on the armrests. In an attempt to gain forgiveness, Garfield and Odie dance on their toes in front of Jon)
Odie: Bark!
Jon: You can stop dancing, guys. I’m not forgiving you for this one...
Odie: Aww…
(The pets look at each other sheepishly and dance, albeit with a lot less motion. They all watch some TV)
Talk Show Host on TV: And now, it’s time for Restaurant Reviews with Eddie Gourmand!
Eddie Gourmand: Foodies, I'm here to tell you about the WORST (He points at the camera) “pizza” (He makes air quotes with his fingers) on the planet! Maybe even our solar system! (He adjusts his bow tie and points up) It’s called Vito's. (Jon, Garfield and Odie watch with eyes widened. Garfield and Odie wince nervously) Wanna know how bad that pizza is? (He shouts) THERE ISN'T ANYYY!!! Vito is so bad, that when you order a pizza, they deliver, NOTHING! Absssolutely, nothing! Stay away from this place... (He waves his hand like he’s shooing someone away)
Jon: Oh, poor Vito. (Jon gets up) We’d better see how this is affecting him. (He hops over his cat and the chair and heads for the garage, leaving the pets watching TV)
Talk Show Host: Thank you, Eddie. Now I'm sitting with the imminent mad scientist Dr. Thaddeus Bonkers. (The camera pans over to the professor, who is looking quite glum. Garfield and Odie are about to leave, but then they hear something that piques their interest) Dr. Bonkers, you’re here because you lost something.
Garfield: Huh?
Odie: Right! (They lean sideways to watch the TV)
Professor Bonkers: I did, my new invention: double-vision glasses! (He puts his hands to his head to mimic the shape of glasses) They give the wearer, (He points up) a short glimpse of the immediate future! (The TV screen shows the glasses as the crowd goes "Ooh!") Here, is a photograph, of the glasses! (Garfield takes them off his head and looks at them)
Garfield: Hey, these are them!
Professor Bonkers: If anybody found them, you must return them to me IMMEDIATELY, (He points to the ground) and more important, do not use them to change the future! (He gets up close and personal to the TV camera) You never know what kind of disaster you may trigger!
Garfield: Shudder Tell me about it. (Odie looks at him) C’mon, Odie! (He points vaguely in the direction Jon went) We have to go with Jon!
Odie: Bark! Bark, bark, bark! (The pets zip away)
(They arrive at Vito’s, where the owner is mourning his loss of business. Jon stands next to him trying to console him, and the pets look up at him from the other side of the counter)
Vito: Cries I am a ruined! RUINED! No customer will ever set foot in here again after what that man said! (He turns to Jon) Do you know how bad business is?
Jon: How bad, Vito? (The chef points at Garfield, who leaps in surprise)
Vito: Even feeding HIM, (Odie looks at his fat friend) won’t make me enough money to stay open!
Garfield: Ooh, that’s pretty bad.
Vito: I have but one hope. I will take these pizzas (He gestures to a stack of three pizzas in boxes) to senor Gourmand, and beg his forgiveness. (He runs out the door. Following him are Jon, and Odie)
Jon: Vito, let me drive you there!
Odie: Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! (Garfield runs after them)
(The camera pans into the ceiling, where the scene transitions to the critic’s house. Vito, Jon, Garfield, and Odie stand in a horizontal line in front of it)
Vito: I go now, to give him my pizzas, and plead. (The humans walk forward. The animals remain behind. Odie eyes the glasses in Garfield’s paws)
Odie: Grr! Questioning mutters (Garfield translates)
Garfield: Do I think it’ll work? (Odie looks up at the Flabby Tabby) Uh, beats me. (He puts the glasses over his eyes) Oh, I can use the GLASSES to see! (He sees Vito in Eddie Gourmand’s car, frantically stomping the brake, pulling the stick, and turning the steering wheel) Oh, I recognize that car! That’s Eddie Gourmand’s car, and Vito is stealing it! (He lifts the glasses to his forehead, terrified by what he saw) Gasp!
Odie: (panicked) Bowww! (Garfield looks at Odie)
Garfield: That’s gonna make things even worse! We have to stop him! (The cat and dog duo run down the street) We’ll find some way to block this so that he can’t get away!
(Back at Eddie’s house, Vito wonders if anyone’s home. Jon walks up to him)
Vito: There is no answer. (Jon turns around)
Jon: Oh, here he comes! (He points at Eddie, who walks toward him home when he sees the Italian chef)
Eddie Gourmand: Vito, what are you doing here? Aren’t you out of the pizza business yet?
Vito: Well, I have come, to beg you to take back your awful review, senor. Please. (He holds up his peace offering)
Eddie Gourmand: Mocking laughs I never take back a review! (He waves his hand in front of him, reaffirming the “No” response) Never, never, never, never, NEVER! (He wags his finger)
Vito: But senor, you have forgotten something! (He holds up a finger)
Eddie Gourmand: What have I forgotten?
Vito: You’ve forgotten, TO SET YOUR PARKING BRAKE! (He points at Eddie’s car. Next to him Jon grabs his head in horror Eddie turns around and sees the car rolling backwards down the hill while an alarm sound plays in the background)
Jon: Ah!
Eddie Gourmand: Oh! Ah ha ha, My car! My four-star car!
Vito: Don’t worry! Vito will stop it! (He tosses the pizzas behind him as he races to stop the runaway car)
Eddie Gourmand: Save my car! Please! (The pizzas Vito threw hit Jon on the head, knocking him over)
Jon: Oof!
(On the hill, Vito races after the car)
Vito: Pants
Eddie Gourmand: Save my car! (Vito leaps after it and grabs the top of the jeep-like car. He waves in the air like a flag for a moment before regaining his feet and flipping over the top into the driver’s seat)
Vito: Where are the brakes on this a thing? (He steps on the brake and fiddles with the stick shift)
(Not far away, Garfield and Odie try to stop the jeep by getting a truck filled with mattresses to block the path. The driver of the truck asks the pets…)
Mattress Deliveyman: You sure it’s clear to back out, cat? (The pets nod in perfect unison)
Garfield: Chuckle
Odie: Mutters (Garfield gives him the thumbs-up and he backs out)
(Vito, meanwhile, has been unsuccessful in stopping Eddie’s jeep)
Vito: Vehicle! I cannot a stop it! (He shouts as a warning to anyone in the area. That just so happened to be Mr. Barker, who is walking his Chihuahua. They hear the La Cucaracha horn *playing backwards* from Eddie's car, and they stop right in the path of the jeep to see where the noise is coming from. They see the jeep barrelling toward them)
Mr. Barker: Whimpers (His pup leaps into his arms)
Vito: WAHH! (At that moment, the mattress truck pulls out right in front of the jeep. The car collides with it, causing a flurry of feathers to explode from the truck, and the airbag to go off in Vito’s face, but no harm done to anyone)
(Immediately after, Eddie runs down the hill. Jon follows)
Eddie Gourmand: My car! You stopped it!
Jon: That truck stopped it! (Eddie inspects any possible damage)
Eddie Gourmand: It was just a minor bump. (Garfield and Odie walk up next to them. Eddie lifts up Vito in appreciation) Oh thank you, Vito! Vito my hero! I’m gonna take back my review and tell everyone to go to your restaurant! (He carries Vito off)
Vito: My business! She is a saved! (Mr. Barker appears next to Garfield)
Mr. Barker: Cat, (The Flabby Tabby turns around to face him) you caused that truck to stop that runaway car! You saved our lives! Mine, and mademoiselle Fifi here. (He points at Fifi the Chihuahua)
Fifi: Yip! Yip!
Jon: Mr. Barker! (Garfield looks at Jon, and then turns back to Mr. Barker)
Mr. Barker: Thank you, thank you! I even forgive you for dumping me in that trash can. (The two walk away side-by-side) Arbuckle, I'm thinking I’d like to publish that new comic book of yours after all.
Garfield: Odie,
Odie: Huh? (He glances at Garfield)
Garfield: (continuing) I think I'd better get these glasses (He points at them) back to Dr. Bonkers. (The mattress delivery man runs up to the pets with his arms crossed) they’re too dangerous for anyone like me.
Odie: Bark! (He agrees)
Mattress Delivery Man: (angrily) Grr!
Garfield: But, I can’t resist putting them on one more time! (He does so. What he sees is horrifying) AAH! Oh no! No! It can't be! (He inhales sharply) That can’t be the future!
Odie: Worried mutters
Garfield: It’s the end! (He lifts the glasses and turns to Odie. His voice starts to get weepy) It’s the end, Odie!
Odie: Cries
Garfield: (crying) It’s the end of this cartoon! (The Tubby Tabby rests his arm and head on Odie before breaking the fourth wall one more time.)
Random off-screen man: NOOO HO HO HO HOOO!!!
Garfield: (He points up) Oh I sure hope they don’t show all those names (He glances at the crying canine, who is covering his eyes with his ears) you can’t read of the people who worked on this show. (As Garfield saw, the episode ends here, and yes–as always–they did show all the names of the cast and crew who worked on the show. As the credits roll, I am left with one thing to write…)
THE END