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(The episode opens above Jon's house. Inside, Jon is chasing Garfield around the house)
Jon: (from inside) You come back here! (Garfield runs and laughs nervously. He runs through the hallway and up the stairs) We are going to stay with my brother on his farm, and that's that! (The chase continues through the bathroom where Garfield leaps out of the window and gets to the roof. Jon scowls angrily and Garfield snickers as he climbs the roof and takes a breather above one of the windows. Jon quickly props a ladder on the side of the house and scales it. He growls, and the frantic feline screams)
Garfield: AAHH! (He takes off, and Jon gets on the roof and follows. The fat cat falls down the chimney, and lands hard on the bottom, a bit dazed. He quickly collects himself and runs around the table just as Jon sticks his head out of the bottom of the chimney, growling in frustration again) That's not that! That's cruelty to pussycats! (He and Jon knock over a couple of chairs and a bowl of popcorn during their chase around the table) Send me to prison! Lock me in a room with Nermal for a month! (Odie watches from beside the fireplace, getting more and more dizzy) Just don't make me spend a weekend on the farm! (Odie still watches the excitement before he shakes his head and regains his focus. He grabs a pink squeaky bone and gives chase to Garfield, who screams again) AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! (He runs down the hallway and grabs the doorknob. He tries to open the door, but is unable to do so. Jon runs up to him and grabs his feet)
Jon: (straining) My brother is expecting us! (Garfield clings to the doorknob for dear life. After a loud crash, Jon carries the defiant cat in his arm to his car, the latter still holding on to the doorknob, which broke off the door)
Garfield: No! NO! Not a weekend on the farm! (He tosses the doorknob into the yard) ANYTHING but a weekend on the farm!
Odie: Bark! Wait for me! (He runs out the door and hops in the car as Jon prepares to leave. With his pets in the backseat, Jon takes off. He passes some cows as he drives toward his destination, Garfield still panicking in the back)
Garfield: No pizza delivery! No TV! No pizza delivery AND TV! (Jon heads down the traffic-free road) Nothing to do but watch cows burp!
Jon: I told Doc Boy that we'd all pitch in and help with chores.
Garfield: CHORES?! (Jon pulls up to his brother's farm, with Garfield still complaining) And another thing, they have roosters that wake you up at the crack of dawn! (Doc Boy waves to them as they get out of the car, Jon still carrying Garfield in his arm. Odie trots along beside them)
Jon: Wait, I need to lock my car. (He takes out his key and his car alarm chirps. With that taken care of, he meets up with his brother) You really got rid of your TV set, Doc Boy?
Doc Boy: You can't get your chores done if you're watching TV, and don't call me DB.
Jon: (setting Garfield down) Doc Boy! Doc Boy! (He laughs. Doc Boy leads his brother to the barn. Odie trots off in a different direction, and Garfield slowly sulks behind them)
Doc Boy: I don't care how much Garfield hates it, everyone on the farm has to pitch in and do chores! Now, uh, what is he good at?
Jon: Oh, uh, eating lasagna, sleeping, eating more lasagna... (He looks inside the barn and is caught slightly off-guard by Doc Whipple, who holds a strange device while talking to a cow)
Whipple: You can only hear the sound of my voice. If you understand, say "Moo!"
Cow: Moo!
Doc Boy: Oh, this is Dr. Whipple. I hired him to do, uh, what do you call it, Doc?
Whipple: Subliminal bovine mesmorization, to produce a higher sucrose component in the lactose output!
Cow: Moo!
Whipple: Yes, I'm hypnotizing the cows so they'll give sweeter milk! Isn't that right, cow?
Cow: Moo!
Whipple: It's all about planting the proper suggestion in the cow's mind, you see, so as to cause a change in behavior.
Jon: Change in behavior, huh? Uh, doctor, would that work on a cat, (Unbeknownst to the humans, Odie trots up behind Jon and overhears the conversation)
Odie: Huh?
Jon: (Continuing) maybe make him happy to be working on a farm?
Odie: (shaking his head no) Mm-mm.
Whipple: Hmm... cat on a farm, eh? I don't see why not.
Cow: Moo.
Odie: Gasp! (Odie, being the big-hearted beagle that he is, zips off to warn Garfield of the humans' plans. He approaches the fat cat, who sits on the fence, but before he can inform Garfield, he is cut off by the complaining cat)
Garfield: You know what they want me to do, Odie?
Odie: (nodding his head yes) Uh-huh.
Garfield: Chores! (He turns around to face Odie and sits on the fence) Pets don't do physical labor! That's why they invented people! I-I can't be less happy!
Jon: (offscreen) Oh, Garfield... (the pets turn and see Jon and his brother approaching them) we have a little surprise for you! (Garfield simply grunts and turns away from his owner, who still walks up one one side of the fat cat. Doc Boy walks in to the other side, and Odie rests his front paws on the fence posts below Doc Boy) We were thinking... we know how much you love to watch TV... (With the mention of those two letters, the fat cat smiles, suddenly intrigued)
Garfield: TV! (He jumps up and grabs Jon's face) Almost as good as Italian food! (He bolts inside Doc Boy's house and scans the living room for the beloved piece of furniture, laughing. He looks high and low, but the only thing he sees is Dr. Whipple in front of him holding his hypnotism device. His mood suddenly changes from hyper to uneasy, and he whimpers slightly. Jon and Doc Boy run in, the latter slams the door and Jon growls, determined for his plan to work)
Doc Boy: So our friend, Dr. Whipple here, has a special kind of TV for you. (Dr. Whipple steps toward the cat)
Garfield: (Scoffing, he addresses the audience) They're trying to hypnotize me, but it won't work. I'm too smart to be hypno- (Before he can finish his sentence, he snores, abruptly hypnotized)
Doc Boy: He's fast asleep.
Jon: (sarcastically) Garfield asleep. What a novelty.
Whipple: Garfield, you are not a cat! You are... uh... a monkey! (He snaps his fingers, causing Garfield to wake up)
Garfield: (to the audience) Can you believe these guys? They think I'm a... (before he can finish, he bends down and puts his hands on the floor like a monkey would. His pupils get big and he starts hooting, howling, and hopping like a monkey. He climbs up and around the furniture, suddenly nimble and athletic before swinging himself above a window. Doc Boy, Jon, Odie, and Whipple watch, intrigued. Garfield hoots, jumps on the table, grabs a banana from the fruit basket in the center of it before clambering out the window)
Doc Boy: (pointing) He's running away. (Jon opens the door and runs out. Before he gets too far, he calls for the others)
Jon: After him!
Odie: Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark!
(Outside, Garfield knuckle-walks toward the windmill and yeets himself onto one of its stands. He climbs up it and dangles from the back post of the windmill, still holding the banana with his foot. He tosses it in the air before catching it between his toes and peeling it, still hooting and meowing)
Jon: (running up with the others) Dr. Whipple, you've got to make him think he's a cat again!
Doc Boy: Are you sure, Jon? Bananas are a lot cheaper than lasagna.
Odie: (angrily) Bark!
Jon: You're right, Odie. Dr. Whipple?
(They look up at Garfield, who still holds the banana and clings to the windmill)
Whipple: Garfield, you are no longer a monkey! (Garfield hoots a bit longer before returning to his regular self)
Garfield: Hey, (He laughs while unknowingly letting go of the windmill. He levitates in mid-air, as cartoon characters do when they don't realize there's nothing under them) he actually thinks he can turn me into a monkey. (He looks down and sees the drop below him. Gravity does its thing and he falls with a thud, landing on his head, contrary to the popular belief that cats always land on their feet) AAAHHHH! Yow!
Whipple: Sorry about that, Garfield, but you passed the test! Oh yes! (he holds the gizmo in front of Garfield, who sits upright and stares blankly into it) So now, you can only hear the sound of my voice, and you will obey! If that is so, say "meow"!
Garfield: Meow.
Whipple: Very good. (he leaves the scene)
(Later, the humans and the puppy stand in front of the house as Garfield walks up and stands before them)
Whipple: (pulling out a blue bicycle horn) When you hear the sound of this horn, Garfield, you will become the most enthusiastic, hard-working farm hand in the world!
Garfield: I... will love... farming.
Whipple: And when you hear the horn again, you will NOT love farming.
Garfield: I... will not love... farming. (He shakes his head stiffly. Whipple honks the horn, and Garfield is returned to normal) You're wasting my time with all this, time that I could be spending doing something important, like sleeping. (Whipple honks the horn again, and Garfield snaps into attention) Chores! I have chores to do! (He runs from the viewers' left to right) I have to pitch the hay! (he runs the opposite direction, pitchfork in hand. A loud crash is heard offscreen before he comes back with an armload of logs) I have to chop the firewood! (He drops a log. As he runs back and forth, he rolls on the log he dropped earlier. A few more crashes are heard offscreen before he hustles to the left with a basket in hand) I have to gather eggs! (Clucking can be heard, and the flock of chickens chases him with the basket full of eggs. All the while, Jon and Doc Boy look on in stunned silence, while Whipple smiles, pleased with his work. Once the initial shock wears off, Doc Boy and Jon smile)
Whipple: You look amazed.
Doc Boy: We are.
Odie: (surprised) Bark!
Jon: I've seen flying saucers, I've seen the Loch Ness Monster, but I never thought I'd see Garfield working!
Odie: Gasp! Wow! (Garfield brakes in front of the camera, two red buckets in hand, and speaks to the audience)
Garfield: I have to water the horses!
Doc Boy: Jon, he's the greatest farmhand I've ever seen! (Jon nods in agreement. Garfield runs up, carrying the horse on his back)
Garfield: (grunt) He'll be faster this way! (He runs off to do more chores)
Jon: Looks like we can take it easy, Doc Boy.
Doc Boy: Sure thing! Let's all go in and have lunch! (They all go inside as Garfield chases a couple of cows with a pitchfork in his hand) And don't call me Doc Boy!
Jon: Doc Boy! Doc Boy!
Garfield: (to the audience) Oh, wait, I have to go plant corn now. (He zips away)
(Inside, Whipple watches the feline with a pair of binoculars)
Whipple: He's plowing the North 40. (Jon chuckles, eating a sandwich at the table. Odie sniffs his bowl of kibble, and Doc Boy watches TV on the couch. Outside, Garfield runs into the barn, grabs something, and takes it out. Back inside, Jon crunches his sandwich)
Jon: (to Doc Boy) Great sandwich! Hey, I thought you said you'd stored your TV out in the barn.
Doc Boy: I brought it in. We can watch it now that we have Garfield doing ALL the chores!
Whipple: Now he's plowing the SOUTH 40!
Doc Boy: (pressing a button on the remote) This'll be great! I've missed ALL my favorite shows!
Whipple: Now he's plowing the West 40 and the East 40 at the same time!
Jon: Dr. Whipple, how lone will Garfield be doing all this?
Whipple: Until he hears another horn like this one. (He pulls out the blue bicycle horn from earlier)
Odie: (seeing Jon's unfinished food) Gasp! Snickers (He puts his front paws on the table and swipes a bite while Jon doesn't notice)
(Outside, Garfield hasn't stopped working. He pants as he carries a number of baskets, all filled with vegetables)
Garfield: (to the audience) After this, I have to put new mud in the hog's pen, and then give them all sponge baths! (But having an armload of stuff makes it difficult to see where you're going, and the flabby tabby runs into Jon's car, causing him to drop his goods and the car alarm to chirp) Whoa! (He sits up. The car alarm he set off frees him of his trance, and he shakes his head, dazed) Wha-? Ahem... what have I been doing? (The alarm chirps again, and he stands up quickly, back in his feline farmhand form) I love to farm. I must farm. (the car alarm sounds again) What am I saying?! I hate chores! (he hears the alarm go off once more) No, must do more chores. (He speeds off)
(Inside, the humans, and Odie, watch TV. Doc Boy hears the car alarm blaring outside a couple of times)
Doc Boy: Jon, your car alarm's going off.
Jon: Yeah, it does that every once in a while. It'll stop in a minute or so.
(Meanwhile, Garfield is still stuck in his on-and-off trance. For the moment, he's on)
Garfield: I have to pick up all these vegetables, and put them into the proper bins. (the car alarm goes off again and he snaps out of it) Vegetables?! What am I, a rabbit? (He growls and walks away before the alarm sounds again. He zips back into frame with a ladder over his shoulder) I'd better fix to roof on the barn. (As he runs up to the barn, ladder still in hand, he hears the car alarm) What am I doing? I'd have to be dumber than Odie to climb up there and fix that roof! (He hears the alarm again, and he props the ladder up and quickly climbs it. Once he reaches the top, he hears the alarm one final time, unhypnotizing him. He shakes his head and scans his surroundings) How about that? I'm dumber than Odie. (The ladder begins to sway) Whoa, and just as clumsy! (He and the ladder fall backwards) YAAAAAHHH! (He lands hard on the ground. Groaning, he sits upright, grabbing his toes for support. He inhales a couple of times before a realization hits him) It's that hypno-whatzit ray. That's what did this to me! (He growls angrily and heads toward the house. He grabs a plant for support and peeks in through the window) Ooh, Meow! (He spots the people, and Odie, watching TV. Everyone's so distracted they don't notice the furious feline. Garfield examines the living room and spots the hypnotism machine. This plants an idea in the cat's head) Gasp! (He snickers maliciously before ducking out of the window)
(Inside, Garfield nabs the device, going unseen by everyone else, while Odie rises and slurps up another sandwich)
Doc Boy: Hand me another sandwich, Jon.
Jon: Here you go, Doc Boy.
Doc Boy: Thanks, and uh, well, you know.
Jon: Right. Don't call you Doc Boy.
TV Announcer: And now, ladies and gentlemen...
(Garfield stands in front of the TV)
Garfield: We interrupt this program for this! (He holds up Doc Whipple's machine in front of the others)
Jon: Garfield!
Odie: Bark!
Whipple: He's got my mesmorizing device! He... he... (The four of them, humans and dog, fall under the gizmo's spell)
(Later, Garfield sits on the couch and watches TV while Jon, Odie, Doc Boy, and Doc Whipple stand in the other side of the room, still hypnotized)
Workout trainer on TV: All right, everybody, it's time to work out! Do everything I do! (He starts doing jumping jacks) 1, 2! 1, 2! 1, 2! 1, 2!
(The entranced quartet also does jumping jacks)
Jon, Odie, Doc Boy, and Whipple: 1, 2! 1, 2! 1, 2! 1, 2! 1, 2! 1, 2! 1, 2! 1, 2!
Garfield: (while tossing a sandwich into his mouth) Gee, I wonder what else is on. (He changes the channel to a horror movie)
Woman on TV: Aah! The monster is loose! Run for your lives! (Everyone except Garfield does so, screaming and panicking as they do)
Garfield: (perusing the TV guide) Let's see... I'm sure it's on about now. Ah, here it is! Channel 99. (Garfield wiggles his toes as he grabs the remote and switches the channel to a pet-care station)
Man on TV: It's important to take care of your cat, to make sure he has everything he wants. Pamper him. (Garfield snickers) Give him food he needs. Make sure he has a good place to sleep. (The fat cat gestures behind him, and Whipple places a pillow behind his head. Odie pulls an electric fan up, Doc Boy holds a bowl of food, and Jon spoon feeds his cat)
Garfield: You know, I'm starting to really like it here on the farm. (He eats a spoonful of food from Jon) Fan faster, Odie. I'm getting kind of warm.
Odie: Mm-hmm. (He presses a button, and the fan comes on. Garfield wiggles his toes as he eats another bite of food, chuckles, and winks at the audience as the episode comes to an end)
THE END