Five Minute Warning is an episode from the third season of Garfield and Friends.
Synopsis
Jon makes a wager to Garfield that if he can stop eating for 5 minutes to prove Garfield's 'self-control', he will give him the chocolate cake and do a can-can dance. This becomes challenging for Garfield.
Plot
While Jon is washing the dishes, Garfield comes in with a shopping cart and puts the entire contents of the fridge into it. Jon stops him, questions his cat's gluttony and takes out a chocolate cake. He decides to make it interesting. If Garfield can go for five minutes without eating anything at all, he can have the cake and Jon will quit cartooning and become a can-can dancer. And so, the time is set and counts down throughout the episode.
Garfield tries to fight the urge to eat, but he keeps becoming overcome by it. But he snaps himself out of it. He hears the ice cream truck coming by and pretends to be a traffic cop, only for Jon to appear as a reminder. Garfield decides to stop with the charade and go to the park to take his mind, but he runs into various things that remind him of food, such as a couple having a picnic, someone giving out prime rib on a stick, and even the Buddy Bears offering him a large feast (that he considers a medium-sized snack). But he restrains himself and doesn't take a bite. He then runs into a few food spots that are giving out free food, at the worst possible time. He then crashes into a salad bar that comes rolling his way and catches him rolling down the street. This causes him to crash into the house, leaving Jon suspicious. No longer able to withstand it with only a few seconds left, Garfield prepares to eat, but the timer goes up before he takes a bite, indicating Garfield won the bet. Not only does he get the cake, but Jon also keeps up his end of the bargain and starts can-can dancing outside, not surprising his mailman in the slightest.
Characters
Main characters
Minor characters
Trivia
- The Garfield Show would have a similar plot with The Last Word.
Errors
- The timer skips two seconds at the start of the final minute.