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(The episode begins one day above Jon’s house. Jon is in the kitchen preparing a meal and Odie is behind him, holding a ball in his mouth and wagging his tail)
Odie: Whimpers
Jon: Sigh. I’m sorry, Odie, I don't have TIME to play right now. (He closes a pantry door with his foot) I’m making dinner tonight for Liz! (He drains a small plate of beets)
Odie: Whines Pants
Jon: It’s her birthday! (He skips over to the fridge)
Odie: Huh?
Jon: I have to make it real special! (He sets the plate into the refrigerator) She’s always complaining (He closes the door) we don’t do anything interesting or special (He raises his finger) on her birthday. I’ve prepared a dish of carrot and celery sticks… (He gestures to the counter, only to find the dish missing) Yelp! It was right here on the counter (Both he and Odie walk over to the counter) and now it’s not here.
Odie: Pants Hmm… (He places his front paws on the counter and smells) Sniff, sniff! (Jon hears the sound of chewing. He looks into a cabinet)
Jon: Aha! (There is Garfield, who is sneakily eating the vegetables on the plate)
Garfield: Yelp! Celery stick? (He offers Jon the plate and then bolts out of the cabinet) Pants
Jon: GARFIELD! (He chases the cat around the table)
Garfield: You can have a carrot stick… (He pops a piece into his mouth)
Jon: Scowl!
Garfield: (continuing) if you prefer! (Jon swipes at him as they race around the hallway)
Jon: I’m trying to make a nice dinner for Liz’s birthday! (Odie trots partially out of the kitchen)
Odie: Mutter
(Outside, the neighbor witch, Mrs. Cauldron, walks up the sidewalk toward Jon’s house with her niece, Winona)
Mrs. Cauldron: I have such interesting people living near me, Winona. That house (She points at Jon’s house) over there, well, it belongs to a man (The two stop on Jon’s yard) named Jon Arbuckle, or as the neighbors call him, “The guy with the cat”.
Winona: Gasp! (She clasps her hands together longingly) What does he do? (Garfield bursts out the pet door, plate of vegetables still in his paw. He spills some on the ground as he flees)
Garfield: Pants
Jon: The sweet potato pie is supposed to be (He opens the door and follows Garfield) for six people, not one cat!
Mrs. Cauldron: Ooh! Well he does a lot of THAT. (Garfield races between her and Winona, spinning the latter in place and hiding behind the elder witch. Jon walks up to them)
Jon: Oh, hi, Mrs. Cauldron. Have you seen Garfield? (He points at her)
Garfield: Please don’t tell him where I am! (Jon leans on one side of Mrs. Cauldron, and then the other side, growling like a lion) Please don’t tell him where I am!
Mrs. Cauldron: Oh, I, uh, sputter no, (She shakes her head) I haven’t.
Garfield: Yay, (He leaps into the air and floats there for a brief moment) Mrs. Cauldron! (Everyone turns to look at him, which he notices) Ahem. (He drops and immediately takes off down the street) Laughs (Jon is about to resume the chase, but Mrs. Cauldron stops him)
Mrs. Cauldron: Mr. Arbuckle, I want you to meet my niece, (She gestures to Winona. Behind them, Garfield winds his way up a light pole) Winona. (Winona grins and puts a finger to her lower lip) She's staying with me for the summer.
Jon: Nice to meet you, Winona. (He extends his hand to shake)
Winona: Giggles (She shakes his hand) Such a pleasure to meet you, (She raises her leg) Mr. Arbuckle. (Jon takes his hand away, looking a bit nervous or awkward)
Jon: Oh, chuckle, call me Jon. I'm sorry I can't stay and chat. I’m making dinner. (He points behind him with his thumb)
Mrs. Cauldron: Oh, well we understand. (She leaves)
Winona: Good-bye, Mr. Ar- (She catches herself) I mean Jon.
Jon: Sigh… (He shakes his head, and the two witches leave, heading toward the orange cat. Jon himself returns inside)
Mrs. Cauldron: I don’t blame you, Garfield. I like sweet potato pie myself. Chuckles Oh, c’mon, Winona. (The two of them head home. Odie trots up)
Odie: Questioning mutters
Garfield: Oh that’s Mrs. Cauldron. You remember her from last season? (He refers to the episode Which Witch from Season 2) She was that lady I thought might be a witch.
Odie: (very loosely translated) But why? (He trots closer to the pole. Garfield slides down it)
Garfield: Why? (He reaches the bottom unharmed) I don’t know. There’s something about her voice. It reminds me of every witch I've seen in a cartoon.
(That night, Mrs. Cauldron and Winona are in their house. Mrs. Cauldron reads from her magic book to Winona, who is sitting on a floating chair and seems to be distracted)
Mrs. Cauldron: “Now, when you make your potions, heat them over a fire. Don’t try microwaving them, it doesn’t work.” Scoff. These kids today. (She turns to her niece) Winona, are you paying attention?
Winona: Huh? Oh, sorry. I was just thinking about Mr. Arbuckle. (Mrs. Cauldron smiles, and Winona hops off the chair)
Mrs. Cauldron: Chuckles You liked him, eh?
Winona: Oh, (She leans over her aunt) I MORE than liked him, Auntie. (She twirls in place) He’s the man I'm going to marry. (She nods firmly. Her aunt is a lot more doubtful)
Mrs. Cauldron: (sarcastically) Right. (She smiles)
Winona: Yes! (The raven circles in the air) He’s going to be my husband. (The raven lands on her extended arm)
Raven: Nevermore!
Mrs. Cauldron: At least pay attention! You’ll NEVER (She shakes her head and walks over toward her) be a full-fledged witch unless you learn your enchantments. (She heads for the stairs. Winona is sitting back on her chair) I’m going to take a little beauty nap, (She wags her finger at Winona) now you study your potions while I sleep.
Winona: Scoff. I will, Auntie! May I look into the brazier of all-seeing wisdom?
Mrs. Cauldron: Oh, sure. (She chuckles as she says this) It’s a lot cheaper than cable TV. Just don’t (She points at her) touch my book of spells, (She heads downstairs) or my broom! (With her aunt gone, Winona floats over to the brazier, which is spewing eerie green smoke. She rubs her hands together)
Winona: I want to see my beloved, Jon Arbuckle! (The green smoke rises and shows Jon serving Liz her birthday dinner on a covered dish)
Jon: I made your favorite, Liz, because I know you love it!
Liz: Oh, Jon, you’re always so wonderful to me. (Seeing Jon with his girlfriend makes Winona furious)
Winona: Grunt! (She points her fists onto the table)
Jon: Oh, nothing’s too good for my favorite lady. (Winona clears the smoke away, and the scene within dissipates with it)
Winona: She can’t have him! He’s mine! (She stands up and clenches her fist) He’s GOING to be mine!
Raven: Nevermore!
Winona: I will go and sweep him off to the Tower of Witchery (She clenches both fists) and marry him this night!
Raven: Nevermore! (Winona turns to the bird, which is perched on the back of the chair)
Winona: You stupid raven! (She stomps her feet and points at it) Don’t you ever say anything besides, “Nevermore”?
Raven: Nevermore! (It flaps its wings)
Winona: I’m not supposed (She extends her arm) to borrow Auntie’s broom and book of spells, (Both objects float over to her, and she grabs both of them) but this is an emergency! (She flies out the window on her aunt’s broom) Cackles Coughs I have to learn how to do that laugh. (She bobs and weaves around the neighborhood, over fences, between houses, eventually stopping outside Jon’s open living room window and peering inside)
Jon: C’mon, guys, let’s bring in the birthday cake!
Garfield: Longing laughs
Odie: Mmmm! (He and Garfield head for the kitchen. Winona disappears and reappears inside, right next to Liz)
Liz: Gasp! Who are you?
Winona: I’m the future Mrs. Jon Arbuckle.
Liz: What?! (She stammers in surprise) I-I don’t, I-I don’t, I…
Winona: You think he’ll marry you (She threateningly leans closer to her) but he won’t! You know why? (She shakes her head) Because you’re a mouse!
Liz: Gasp! A mouse?
Winona: Yeah, hold on. (She, still being a witch-in-training, scans her aunt’s book for the correct spell) “Moose, molehill, mountain…” (She soon finds it) oh mouse! Mouse, OK, here it is. (She snaps her fingers) Mouse. (Yellow magic glistens from her fingers, and Liz is instantly turned into a mouse, complete with her hair and eyelashes)
Liz: Yelp! (She falls onto the chair) Oh my goodness! (She faints in shock just as Jon brings out her two-tiered cake. The pets accompany him, eying the cake hungrily)
Jon: Happy birthday, Liz! (Odie’s tongue hangs out of his mouth and Garfield reaches out for the cake) Make a wish! (Jon sees Winona) Where’s Liz? And who are you? (Winona glances at him)
Winona: Don’t you remember me, Jon? Winona. Liz isn’t here, and anyway, she’s a mouse now. (She leans toward Jon) So I'll make a wish. (She blows out the candles)
Odie: Moan…
Winona: See? I get my wish, and my wish is that you’ll marry me!
Odie: Huh? (He grabs his master’s leg)
Garfield: Go for it. Could be your only chance. (Jon, however, is having none of it)
Jon: Now wait a minute, lady! (Winona puts her hand on Jon’s mouth, interrupting him)
Winona: I’m taking you to the Tower of Witchery (The book floats over to her) for the ceremony! (She glances at the book) And since you’re too big to fit on my broom with me… (She zaps Jon with magic green lightning. Garfield and Odie are horrified to see that their owner has now been shrunk and is crushed under the cake)
Odie: Yow!
Garfield: Jon! (He grabs his head)
Odie: Whimpers (He is visibly concerned, and the Flabby Tabby lifts the cake off of Jon)
Garfield: Strains (Jon is dazed)
Winona: Now, (Cut to the pets) as for you two… (Both pets wince, terrified)
Garfield: AAHHH! Run, Odie! (Say no more. The pup darts into the kitchen)
Odie: YAHH! (Garfield is close behind. Winona zaps at them, but only hits the cake, which Garfield lost control of after tripping and falling on his stomach. He catches the now bite-sized cake in his paw and eats it, candles and all)
(With Liz out of the way and the pets presumably dealt with, Winona picks up Jon. Liz watches from near the chair)
Liz: This can’t be happening! (She takes off in a panic, but runs into Squeak) Eek! A mouse! (She points. Squeak, who sees Liz as a mouse, questions her reaction)
Squeak: What are you, a zebra?
Liz: (shaking her head) I’m not a mouse, at least, (She holds up her hand) I wasn't five minutes ago.
Squeak: Well THIS is gonna take (He puts a paw to his chin) some explaining.
(Winona flies out of the house into the sky, her groom-to-be in her fist)
Jon: Let me go!
Winona: Don’t fight it, Jon. It was meant to be, and now, it’s on to the Tower of Witchery so we can be wed.
Jon: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! OH! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! (The pets watch Winona fly off into the night sky from their backyard. Odie turns to his best friend for a solution)
Odie: Whimpers (He points toward the sky where Winona flew)
Garfield: Of COURSE I have a brilliant plan to rescue Jon!
Odie: Yow?
Garfield: (tapping his chin) I just don’t know what it is, yet.
Odie: (sadly) Oh… (He seems disheartened, but luckily for them, Squeak and Liz have arrived)
Squeak: Try talking (Garfield and big-hearted beagle turn to the mice) to this lady. (He gestures to Liz)
Liz: Garfield? (She is surprised) Can you talk? (She points at him, and Odie whines quietly as Garfield explains)
Garfield: To other animals, which I'm afraid includes YOU (He points) now, Liz. How are we gonna defeat an all-powerful witch?
Liz: She may not be (She waves her arm across her body) all-powerful. She said she’s learning. (She points) Um, she borrowed her aunt’s broom and book of spells.
Garfield: And I'll bet her aunt (He taps his chin) doesn’t know anything about it. C’mon! (He points behind him with his thumb, and the quartet of animals race toward the Cauldron house)
Odie: Bark! Bark, bark!
Garfield: You have to talk to her, Liz!
Liz: Wha-What am I gonna say? (They stop in Mrs. Cauldron’s front yard)
Garfield: Just tell her that her niece stole her stuff, and ask her if she really wants a cartoonist in the family.
(They tell Mrs. Cauldron the situation upstairs. The witch sits in her floating chair, the mice sit on the table, and the pets stand–Odie now on all fours–on the floor in front of her)
Mrs. Cauldron: (raising her finger) I TOLD her not to touch my book of spells! And my broom as well.
Liz: We have to stop her from marrying Jon!
Mrs. Cauldron: I’ll say, (she shakes her head) “I don't want a cartoonist (She hops off the chair) in my family!” (She walks toward her closet)
Raven: Nevermore! (She opens the door. Inside is a vacuum)
Mrs. Cauldron: That bad niece of mine took my broom, so I'll have (She grabs the vacuum’s handle) to use my vacuum cleaner! Who’s coming with me?
Garfield: Me! (He puts his paw on his chest. Odie follows suit, confirming that he intends to join them)
Odie: Yowl!
Liz: (now on the floor) I’m going. (Squeak, who is also on the floor, taps his fingers together nervously)
Squeak: I… (He taps his chin) think I’ll walk home. (He points at the others) I get airsick, especially flying on household appliances. (He grins sheepishly. Everyone gives him a “bruh” look)
Garfield: Hmm…
Squeak: Nervous chuckles (Nonetheless, time is of the essence. Mrs. Cauldron plugs in her vacuum and the four of them head out, Liz in front, followed by Mrs. Cauldron, Garfield, and Odie)
Mrs. Cauldron: (pointing forward) We’ve got to hurry! They marry people fast (She raises her finger) at the tower of Witchery! (They fly out of the open window)
Garfield and Odie: Yowl!
Mrs. Cauldron: Cackles (Into the night sky they go. Squeak stands on the windowsill waving his friends good-bye. The raven stands next to him)
Squeak: Good luck! You’ll need it. (He turns to the raven) So that’s all you do all day? Sit around and say, “Nevermore”?
Raven: (hanging his head) It’s all I could get. I have trouble learning my lines. (He extends his wings) BRAWK!
(The Tower of Witchery is an upside-down castle built on a rock formation shaped like an hourglass, or perhaps two cones connected on their points. Lightning strikes all around, and witches are all over the place flying and spinning on their brooms)
Witches: Cackle (Inside, the head witch conducts the ceremony for Winona and Jon)
Head Witch: I would be proud to conduct the wedding ceremony, Winona, but whom do you wish to marry?
Winona: Him. (She presents Jon to her)
Head Witch: Laughs Very cute, and practical! (She raises her finger) Your groom is just the right size to fit atop the wedding cake. Laughs
Jon: (raising his finger) Uh, may I say one word?
Head Witch: Is it a good word? (She puts a finger to her chin)
Jon: It’s an excellent word, and it’s very appropriate.
Head Witch: Very well then. (She waves her hand dismissively) Say your word.
Jon: HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP! (Luckily for him, help is coming, in the form of a mouse, a witch, a cat, and a dog)
Mrs. Cauldron: There it is! (She points at the tower, Liz is now on her arm. Garfield’s toes wiggle in the wind) That’s the Tower of Witchery! But I just realized, we may have a tiny (She holds her fingers close together) problem.
Liz: What is it?
Mrs. Cauldron: (pointing up) This vacuum cleaner has a thousand-mile power cord, and the Tower of Witchery is 1,000 miles and six inches (She brings her fingers close) from my home. (After making this observation, the vacuum gets pulled out from under them, similar to a tablecloth being pulled out from under dishes, leaving them floating in midair)
All: Gasp! Uh-oh. (They drop like rocks) AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Liz: What are we gonna do? (Mrs. Cauldron comes in clutch by spawning clouds underneath each of them. She and Odie land on their stomachs, and Garfield lands on his back. The clouds whisk them away to the tower)
(Inside, the Head Witch is about to finish the ceremony in front of a crowd of witches and other magical beings. There are other recurring characters among them, including Paddy the Leprechaun)
Head Witch: If anyone objects to this man and this witch being joined in magical matrimony, let this person speak now. (Jon is depressed, and is now locked up in a birdcage that Winona is holding. Among the witches are Dr. Somnambulo from the Season 1 episode Jon’s Night Out, Esmeralda Brubaker, and the princess from Winona’s fairy tale TV show in Bride and Broom, which would come later in Season 3)
Jon: Would it do any good for me to object?
Head Witch: No. (She raises her finger) Now then… (She is interrupted by Garfield and Odie)
Garfield: Stop this ceremony! (The pets float upside-down on the cloud, above the gathering of witches. Odie waves)
Odie: Ta-da!
Garfield: (pointing at himself) We’re here to stop this man from marrying that witch (Odie glares and nods, and Garfield points) he doesn’t wanna marry! (The cloud disappears) Oh! (Garfield looks down and then he and Odie drop to the floor) YAAAAAAAHH! Ouch!
Odie: Yowl!
Jon: Sigh! (He raises his arms triumphantly)
Head Witches: We seem to have intruders. (Garfield and Odie moan as they rise and then sit down on the floor) Ladies, what is he going to be: insects, statues, or frogs?
Witches: Overlapping answers (They shout their preferences, one of them being Bernard Scambury from Lucky Charm–another Season 1 episode)
Head Witch: Very well. (She lifts and lowers her hand repeatedly, silencing the group) The frogs (She points up) have it. (She zaps the pets with her magic wand, and they are turned into frogs)
Garfield and Odie: YAAHHH!
Head Witch: Oh, don’t complain. (She lowers her floating chair over the frogs) I could’ve changed you into a moose and squirrel. (She raises her wand)
Garfield: OK, so we’re frogs. (He looks at himself) Ribbit! At least Odie has the tongue for it. Ribbit!
Winona: Uh, hello, (She waves her bouquet to get the Head Witch’s attention) can we just get on with my marriage, please?
Head Witch: Indeed. If anyone objects… (Someone else does)
Mrs. Cauldron: I object!
Witches: Gasp! (Mrs. Cauldron strolls down the center aisle carrying Liz in her hand)
Mrs. Cauldron: I object to this ceremony! My niece (She points at Winona) is not yet a full-fledged witch!
Head Witch: Not? (She puts her hand to her chin, confused) But she has broom and book of spells. (She glares at Winona, who sheepishly comes clean)
Winona: Um… uh, I stole them from my aunt.
Witches: Gasp! (More recurring characters: Professor Bonkers in his wizard outfit from Season 3's Furry Tales and someone who looks like Cleopatra)
Witch: She cannot be wed here if she’s not a full-fledged witch! (Cut to the screaming witch) Drop a house on her!
Mrs. Cauldron: Quiet! (She waves her arm no) We don’t do that anymore! (Winona walks up to her aunt and apologizes)
Winona: I’m really sorry, Aunt. I don't know what came over me. I just thought (She lifts the cage with Jon still inside) he was so cute.
Mrs. Cauldron: Well we’ll talk (She wags her finger at her niece) about that, dear. Plus, I want to get your eyes checked.
Jon: (raising his finger) Excuse me, could you do something about… you know… this? (Garfield and Odie hop up)
Garfield: Yeah and could you, uh, Ribbit! possibly, uhhh, turn us Ribbit! back into ourselves?
Mrs. Cauldron: Oh, chuckle, I can do better than that. I can put EVERYTHING (She raises her finger) back the way it was and wipe your memories (She wiggles her fingers) so that you’ll have no recollection of any of this! (She delivers a magical incantation) Sim sala bim! (The screen fades to black)
(A moment later, Jon is back at home and the right size delivering Liz her birthday cake. Garfield and Odie walk with him, and everything is back to normal, as if nothing ever happened)
Jon: Make a wish, Liz, and blow out the candles!
Liz: Here goes! (Jon sets the cake on the table, and Liz blows the candles out. The lights come on and Garfield claps. His canine companion walks up to him)
Garfield: Odie, (He scratches his head) do you have the feeling that something just… I mean, kinda… (He tries to recall what happened, but he seems to have no memory of it. Odie is also confused as to what Garfield is getting at)
Odie: Huh?
Garfield: Hmm… (He thinks and blinks, but shrugs it off. Their previous adventure has been completely erased from memory) eh, never mind. (He waves dismissively at Odie)
Jon: So, what did you wish for?
Liz: I wished (She points up) that just ONCE (She puts her finger on the table) something really interesting would happen on my birthday. (Unbeknownst to the humans, Squeak is under the table addressing the viewers)
Squeak: (wagging his finger) Be careful what you wish for, Liz. (There is something to be said for a quiet evening with friends and family) Hey, chuckle, we weren’t ALL there to have our memories wiped out. (He smiles, winks at the viewers, and the episode ends)
THE END