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From the Oven (FRFlag Pas de quoi fouetter un chat) is the 39thUS/40thEU episode of Season 1 of The Garfield Show.

Synopsis[]

While baking a cake for Odie's birthday, Jon unintentionally follows the recipe of a monster movie, causing the cake to turn into a dangerous monster.

Plot[]

On a stormy night, Garfield and Odie and watching a Frankenstein-esque horror movie on television, of which Odie is terrified of. Garfield gets up to go to the kitchen to make himself a sandwich, revealing to the audience that it is Odie's birthday, and that Jon is baking a cake for the occasion. From a small television hooked up on the counter behind him, Jon is following a recipe from Eddie Gourmand's cooking show. After realizing he's forgotten to bring sugar in from the car, he asks Garfield to continue the recipe. Garfield, unsatisfied with the idea of a smaller cake, heavily deviates from the recipe, adding a whole bag of flour, twelve sticks of yeast, a carton of milk, and all chocolate in the house. Jon eventually returns, and takes over from Garfield. While doing so, he drops the sugar onto the remote, changing the channel from the cooking show to the same monster movie Garfield and Odie had been watching.

Though confused by the ingredients, Jon chooses to continue following it, retrieving his old chemistry set for the strange set of ingredients. Just as he is about to turn around to view the television, he pushes the mixing bowl against the sugar, causing the channel to change back to Eddie Gourmand, who instructs to put the batter in a tin, and into the oven. Jon exits the kitchen to go watch the movie with Garfield and Odie. Just when the movie mentions lightning to bring the monster to life, a bolt strikes the house, causing the cake in its tin to come to life. Garfield smells the cake and enters the kitchen to have a piece. He finds the light switch isn't working, and upon looking into the oven, he finds nothing inside the tin. Turning around however, he finds the cake, now a giant monster, alive, and intending to eat him. Garfield's attempt to defend himself causes raucous commotion, causing Jon to enter and find the monster.

Jon and his pets flee out the house and are chased by the cake throughout the downtown area, causing chaos. After Jon proclaims to have followed the recipe as was dictated, Garfield questions if Eddie Gourmand might know what to do. Meanwhile, during a break, Mr Hotchkins, the studio head, tells Eddie Gourmand that he intends to cancel the program due to its boring content, much to Eddie's shock. Eventually, Jon and his pets arrive and enter the building, now being scaled by the monster. Just as the trio arrive at the room hosting Gourmand's show, the monster breaks into the wall. Realizing the situation, Garfield decides that defeating the monster now rests on his shoulders, and starts a futile attempt to eat the monster using a giant spoon.

Noticing the hole in the building created by the monster, Garfield attempts to escape through there, only to be grabbed by the cake, a stunt which Mr Hotchkins tells Eddie is exciting, and has saved the cooking show. The cake continues to climb towards the top of the building, and ends up on top of the antenna. Garfield realizes the electrical conductivity from the lightning storm, and is able to convince the monster to hold the giant spoon while he climbs down. Ultimately, the monster is struck by lightning, blowing up into hundreds of tiny pieces of cake, which begin to rain down, much to everyone's relief and joy.

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Cultural references[]

  • The scene where the cake monster grabs Garfield and climbs up the tower parodies King Kong.

Goofs[]

  • When Mr. Hotchkins says "My studio!", he has Eddie Gourmand's voice.


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