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[Herman is delivering the post to Jon’s house. The doorbell rings and Jon opens the front door]
Herman Post: Hello, Mr. Arbuckle.
Jon: Thank you, Mr. Mailman. And isn't it a lovely day?
Herman Post: [laughs] You're in a good mood, Mr. Arbuckle.
Jon: I'm cooking dinner for Liz. We're going to have a wonderful evening. Life is good. Bye.
[Jon closes the front door]
Herman Post: Eh, he's right. Life is good. I actually delivered the mail to Arbuckle without running into that cat of his.
[A ball of mud is thrown at Herman’s face]
Garfield: That's a special delivery! Welcome to the Mudball Express!
[Garfield and Odie, both covered in mud, are laughing back to Herman Post. Garfield throws a ball of mud at the letter Herman is holding]
Herman Post: I guess I should have been expecting that. Well, let's see if I can guess who’s electric bill this is.
[Jon is humming while organizing the dinner table]
Jon: Set the table for dinner. Check. [Jon is dusting the television screen] Dust the TV. Check. [Jon is carrying the used pizza boxes and throwing it in the trash] Pick up trash from Garfield's mid-afternoon snack. Check. [groans] Which brings me to the thing I've been putting off as long as possible. Give pets a bath.
[Garfield and Odie, both covered in mud, are entering the house and dirtying the house at the same time]
Garfield: [giggles] Oh, that was great. Anyone can build a house of mud. We built an entire shopping mall.
[Odie laughs and barks]
Jon: Huh? [groans] Uh, guys. I baked you some lasagna. It's cooling off in the bathroom upstairs. [chuckles]
Garfield: Lasagna?
[Jon chuckles]
Garfield: Say no more!
[Odie barks]
[Garfield and Odie both run upstairs]
Garfield: Yummy, yummy, yummy.
[Odie barks]
Garfield: Yummy. Yummy [He realizes he has been tricked as he cannot find the lasagna] Where's the lasagna?
[Odie sniffing]
Garfield: Hmm. Hold on a sec, Odie. I smell something, and it isn't us. Why would Jon put lasagna in the bathroom unless… [gasps] It's a trap!
[Alarm sounding]
Odie: (gasps) Uh-oh!
[Alarm sounding]
Garfield: NYAH!
Odie: BAAAAAAAHHH!!!
Garfield: WHAAAAAOOHH!!!!
Jon: Bath time!
[Jon is preparing the bath. Both Garfield and Odie gasp. Jon laughs evilly]
Garfield: Grr!
Jon: GAH! [Garfield pounces at Jon’s face causing him to fall backwards on the floor and Odie pounces over him] Bye!
[Garfield and Odie flee outside the house]
Jon: I don't care what you say or what you do! You are going to TAKE, A, BATH!!!!! [Jon realizes he is shouting at Herman who has mud on his face] Huh?
Herman Post: All right. All right. I'll take one just as soon as I get home.
[Garfield and Odie are walking around covered in mud]
Garfield: What makes him think we need baths? We took baths… well, sometime this year. [Odie whines] Hey. Let's go see Vito. Maybe he'll treat us to a slice of pizza.
[Odie yipping]
[Phone ringing inside Vito’s Pizzeria]
Vito: Vito's Pizzeria, Vito speaking. [High-pitched voice from telephone] No, No, signore. We are not delivering for the next hour. I'm watching my favorite TV program, Complain, Complain with Eddie Gourmand. Excuse me while I hang up. [Hangs up telephone immediately]
Eddie Gourmand: People, people! Welcome back to Complain, Complain with me, Eddie Gourmand. This is the show where you, the public, can call in and air your complaints about anything except, of course, this show or my wardrobe. Ah! I see we have our next caller on video chat, Jon Arbuckle. I know Jon Arbuckle. Jon, what is your complaint, and why do I think it involves your cat?
Jon: My cat and my dog. They won't let me give them a bath. Boy! Do they need it! So I'm offering a big cash reward to anyone who can give them a bath and return them home before eight o'clock. I emailed you a recent photo of them.
Eddie Gourmand: Ooh! We have that image. Take a good look at it, people of this fair city.
[Eddie presents an image of Garfield and Odie both in their clean form]
Vito: Ooh-hoo! Oh, a big cash reward?
Eddie Gourmand: You can make a lot of money if you find these two and bathe them.
Vito: Ah! Vito can do that.
The Butcher: [inside butcher shop] A big cash reward? Mrs. Shmidlap can eat salad tonight. I'm gonna go find that cat and dog and give them a bath.
[The man runs outside the butcher and the turkey flees when the man is gone]
Jon: All you have to do is give my cat and dog a bath.
Aunt Ivy: [Opens her front door carrying a brush prepared to clean the dirty duo] I'll give his cat and dog a bath.
Liz: Jon is making a wonderful dinner for me tonight, Mother. [High-pitched telephone voice] What? "Strange"? [High-pitched telephone voice] No, I don't think Jon is strange. Name one strange thing he's ever done.
Jon: Please give my cat and dog a bath. Please! Please! I'll pay you! Somebody give my cat and dog a bath. [sobbing]
Liz: Mmm. Mother? I'll talk to you later. Fortunately, no one will take him up on that silly offer.
[Everyone run out of the Mally Market supermarket with their purchased cleaning items prepared to clean the dirty duo. The public are whispering to each other ready to clean the duo]
Garfield: Huh? Is it me, or is everyone acting weird today? [gasps when he sees a woman from above about to throw a bucket of water on the duo] Watch out, Odie! [sighs]
Woman: Rats. Missed them by a hair!
Garfield: Hey, watch it, will you? What's wrong with all these people? [Odie whimpering] Come on. Vito's is right down the block here, and pizza cures all ills.
[Garfield and Odie are running down to Vito’s pizzeria]
Man 2: I'm gonna get that big cash reward!
[The public pursues the dirty duo with their cleaning items]
Vito: Garfield! Odie! Come in. Come in. I make the special just for you.
Garfield: I don't care what it is as long as there's a lot of it.
[Garfield and Odie enters Vito’s pizzeria]
Vito: Oh yes!
[The public stops in front of Vito’s pizzeria and looks from outside the window. Bubbling sound from the pot.]
Garfield: Wow. At last, a decent-sized bowl of minestrone.
[Garfield slurps while drinking the liquid and realizes it is not minestrone]
Garfield:: Blech! This minestrone tastes like bathwater.
Vito: [Pushes Garfield towards the pot of liquid] In you go!
[Garfield gasps and resist falling into the pot]
Garfield: Huh?
[Both Garfield and Vito screaming, the latter falls forward into the pot]
[Odie yowls]
Garfield: Come on, pup!
[Garfield and Odie both run out of Vito’s pizzeria]
Man 2: Vito! What's the soup of the day?
[Vito sighs]
Vito: I think it is me.
[Garfield and Odie are pursued from a crowd who are determined to clean the duo]
Garfield: Why is everyone suddenly so concerned with our hygiene?
[Odie yipping]
Aunt Ivy: [Brings out a tub of cleaning water] You two! Get in the tub. Time to wash.
Garfield: Aunt Ivy!
[Odie yowls. Garfield and Odie are running away from Aunt Ivy, spinning some people in the crowd in the process]
Aunt Ivy: Didn't you hear me? I said get in the tub!
[Garfield and Odie runs out of breath after running]
Garfield: What do you mean, wouldn't it be easier to just take a bath? This is becoming a matter of principle.
[The Butcher inside his shop crawls and prepares to pursue the duo. Aunt Ivy is pursuing the duo]
Aunt Ivy: in… The… TUB!!!
[Garfield and Odie immediately stops running, causing the Butcher and his pet turkey to fall over the animal duo and their cleaning items to land on Aunt Ivy]
The Butcher: I'm sorry, Madam. Are you upset?
Aunt Ivy: [pursues the man in a rage, slapping him with her brush] GRR, YOU IDIOT! YOU MORON!! YOU IDIOTIC MORON!!!
The Butcher: WHOOOAAA, OW!
(The Butcher's pet turkey runs after his master)
[Garfield and Odie runs out of breathe while running, but realizes an angry crowd is pursuing them to be cleaned]
Garfield: We don't smell that bad, do we?
[Garfield pulls out the hose from the fire truck]
Electronic voice from fire truck: Target is locked. Drop the soap and water containers!
Garfield: Cowabunga! [Draws out water from the hose, sprays the crowd away, and then starts to lose control of it] We're not safe. [The duo uncontrollably handling the water hose causes the duo to land inside Liz’s car] Let's see what kind of trouble we're in now.
Liz: Hi, guys!
Garfield: It's Liz!
[Odie barks]
Liz: Holy! You guys look like you need someone to rescue you from all those people with soap and water and brushes. Huh?
[Garfield and Odies whimpers]
Garfield: We're saved! Oh, this is great. Huh? [Realizes that Liz is not driving them home] Hey! This isn't the way home.
[Liz drives the duo to the car park of Mally Market then rolls up the roof and windows of her car]
Garfield: Huh?
[Liz pulls out her water gun to clean the dirty duo inside her car, much to the duo’s horror]
Odie: (screaming)
Garfield: (stutters in shock) WAAEEHHH!!
(The pets try to get out while the gun squirts all over the car)
Jon: I have to forget about Garfield and Odie for now. Liz will be here any minute! Where shall I put the cake? [Doorbell rings] Oh. That must be Liz now. I wish I'd been able to get Garfield and Odie bathed before she got here. [gasps]
Liz: I'd like my big cash reward, please.
Jon: What? I mean, how? I…
Liz: The deal was a big cash reward for getting them bathed and bringing them back here. Here they are.
[Jon hands in the cash reward to Liz]
Jon: [spluttering] But our date…
Liz: I can't. I have to go to my hairdresser now and buy some new clothes.
[Liz drives off and Jon cries out of disappointment]
Garfield: Hey, It's okay, Jon. Whatever you cooked for her, we'll eat.
[Odie barks]
Jon: Well, at least you two got washed, and that's a good… [Jon slips over a small puddle of water] Whoa! [The cake lands on his forehead]
Garfield: Oh, look at Jon. All messy now. You know what he needs, Odie? A bath.
[Garfield and Odie prepares to take Jon to the bathroom]
Jon: Guys, no, no, no! I don't need a bath! STOP! [Garfield and Odie carry Jon upstairs to the bathroom] I've had a bath. It was, I think, the week before last. Stop uh he, HELP!! [The duo are washing Jon in the bathroom offscreen] What about my rubber ducky here? Stop, u-HEEEELPP!!!! [water splashing] [muffled with water] Guys…
[The episode ends with the sounds of the animal duo aggressively washing Jon in the bathroom offscreen, from outside the house]
THE END