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(The episode opens with eerie music playing above Jon’s house at night. Inside, Garfield sits on his chair and Odie sits beside him watching a black-and-white Frankenstein movie on TV)
Odie: Mutters
Dr. Frankenstein: Soon, Igor, it will be time! (He laughs evilly. Odie covers his eyes with his paws and quivers in fear. Garfield glances over at him, unfazed)
Garfield: Chuckles
Dr. Frankenstein: Soon the lightning will commence, soon I shall bring my creation to LIFE!
Garfield: Soon I shall have a tuna salad sandwich on rye with a side of slaw. (He wiggles his fingers in front of him)
Dr. Frankenstein: Laughs evilly (A mysterious hand pops up on screen, handing the doctor a vial of liquid. He drinks it and tosses the glass aside, and it smashes on the floor) Ah. (The potion has strange effects, as it causes Frankenstein’s head to pop up from his body before landing back where it belongs. Despite this, he is unharmed) Evil laugh
Garfield: (turning to Odie) Back in a second, puppo. (The petrified pup hasn’t moved, except from his constant quaking in fear. Garfield gets up and leaves for the kitchen, while the camera focuses on Odie)
Dr. Frankenstein: (on TV) The power of the lightning (Odie cracks one eye open, and then both eyes) coursing through the body will make it happen! (The poor pooch can’t stand much more, and he recovers his eyes in fear) Evil laugh (He peeks out again)
(The camera’s focus shifts to Garfield walking toward the kitchen)
Garfield: Today’s Odie’s birthday. Jon’s making cake so we can surprise him, and I'm going into the kitchen to see how things are going. Oh, (He addresses the audience) and also because I want a tuna salad sandwich on rye with a side of slaw. (He wiggles his fingers and zips off)
(In the kitchen, Jon has everything he needs to bake a cake: bowl, ingredients, and the like, spread out in front of him on the kitchen table)
Jon: Here’s the fronting I'll need later, and I have my cake decorators. (He turns and watches Eddie Gourmand on a portable TV baking a cake. Jon follows along with the food critic)
Eddie Gourmand: Now, if you’re all ready we’ll start, OK? Now to make our cake yummy and fluffy, add in a WHOLE cup of baking soda. (He fills a teacup with baking soda and dumps in into his bowl)
Jon: One WHOLE cup of baking soda. (Jon does the same thing. Behind him, Garfield hums to himself as the fat cat heads for the fridge)
Eddie Gourmand: And three dashes of vanilla. (He holds three beans in his hand and makes a funny face)
Jon: Three dashes of vanilla… (He copies Eddie’s weird face)
(Next to Jon, Garfield opens the fridge)
Garfield: Hums and chuckles (He wiggles his fingers and grabs a tomato, cheese, a can of tuna, and condiments. Eddie’s show continues behind him)
Eddie Gourmand: And half a cup of sugar…
Jon: Half a cup of… (He reaches for the sugar that was supposed to be next to him, but grabs nothing except air) oh no! I’m out of sugar! I forgot to bring it in from the car! (Behind him Garfield, now with a tall stack of a sandwich, hums and starts returning to his chair. Jon sees him and gets an idea) Garfield, quick! You keep adding the ingredients like he says while I run out to the car! (Jon speeds off to get the sugar. Garfield sets the plate on the table, pulls a chair over and stands on it. He cracks his knuckles)
Garfield: Chuckles
Eddie Gourmand: Now the next thing we need to add is a cup of flour. (Eddie pours flour from the bag into the bowl)
Garfield: (while examining the teeny tiny teacup Jon was using to measure with one paw and a sack of flour in the other) Jon never makes his cakes big enough. (He tosses the cup behind him, and it breaks on the floor) I’ll put in a WHOLE bag. Laughs (He dumps the bag’s contents into the bowl)
Eddie Gourmand: And two sticks of yeast… (He adds it into his recipe)
Garfield: 12 sticks of yeast… (He holds 12 packets like a card player holds his/her cards before dropping the yeast into his bowl)
Eddie Gourmand: Half a cup of milk… (He adds that from his teacup into the bowl)
Garfield: All the milk… (He happily dumps a carton of milk into the bowl)
(In the living room, Odie, despite getting scared out of his mind, has kept the channel on this horror movie. He is now standing up on all fours in front of the TV)
Dr. Frankenstein: I must add just a few things to my monster to bring it to life! Evil laugh (The pooch retreats next to Garfield’s chair, shielding his eyes with his paws)
Eddie Gourmand: Add in a few pieces of choc-o-late… (He drops some chocolate into his bowl)
Garfield: All the choc-o-late we have in the house… (He smiles as he dumps an entire bag of chocolate)
(In the living room, Odie is still cowering from the mad scientist)
Dr. Frankenstein: Evil laugh (Behind the pup, Jon runs back with a black-and-white bag of sugar)
Jon: Here I come, Garfield! (He runs into the kitchen where Garfield is stirring the batter) Thanks, Garfield. I can take over. (Eddie also stirs the batter on TV)
Garfield: (while hopping off the chair) Good. (He twirls the mixing spoon around in his hand and snacks some of the batter before tossing it behind him) Cooking isn’t as much fun as eating. (He grabs his sandwich from the table and returns to his chair)
Jon: Now let’s see, (He adds the sugar) where am I in this recipe? (He accidentally drops the box onto the remote. The channel changes to the horror movie that Odie is somewhat watching. Jon, however, doesn’t notice the change)
Dr. Frankenstein: Two cups of vinegar…
Jon: “Two cups of vinegar”? Well, he must know what he’s doing. (He reaches under the table, grabs a bottle of vinegar and adds it to the cake)
Dr. Frankenstein: Sodium carbonate and sulfur…
Jon: “Sodium carbonate and sulfur”? Where am I gonna get…oh wait! My old chemistry set! (He takes off to get the “ingredients”.)
(In the living room, Garfield has returned to his spot on the chair, towering sandwich in his lap, and Odie shivers next to him)
Odie: Whimpers (Garfield grabs a section of his sandwich and–presumably–devours it)
Garfield: Oh, don’t be scared, pupster. It’s just a monster movie. (Jon runs back from the garage through the living room into the kitchen with his chemistry tools. He tosses the set into the air and everything lands perfectly right-side up. Jon–now grinning like a mad scientist–adds a few drops of liquid from one of the vials and a creepy pink smoke rises from the bowl)
(Outside, thunder booms and lightning cracks, terrifying Odie even more)
Odie: Gasp! Howl! (He leaps on his fat feline friend)
Garfield: Odie! I can’t eat my sandwich with a dog on my face!
Dr. Frankenstein: Add in the ammonium chloride.
Jon: (while scratching his head) “Ammonium chloride”...this is the oddest cake recipe!
Dr. Frankenstein: And now, it is time to… (Jon starts to turn around, but as he does, he knocks a few things on the table, including the bowl and the box of sugar. One of them presses a button on the remote that switches the station back to Eddie’s channel)
Eddie Gourmand: Put the batter in a pan (He does and tosses the bowl and all the extra batter off-screen) and place it in the oven. (He walks over to the oven and cooks his culinary confection)
Jon: I hope Odie likes his birthday cake. (Jon does the same to his catastrophic culinary concoction. With the cake done, Jon leaves the kitchen–humming to himself as he goes–and joins his pets in the living room watching TV)
Dr. Frankenstein: And now, the power of the lightning will bring LIFE to my creation! (Jon sits on Garfield’s right, Odie sits on the left, still shaking in fear) Sinister laugh
Odie: Yowl! (He drops a piece of Garfield’s sandwich that the pup was holding in his mouth, but Garfield snags it before it hits the floor. Outside, thunder rolls and lightning strikes their TV antenna, causing the screen to fritz a bit and Odie to panic. He runs behind the chair into Jon’s lap)
Dr. Frankenstein: Even now, the power of the lightning is working!
Jon: (with Odie in his lap looking up at him) Calm down, Odie, it's just a storm. (Lightning cracks outside. The kitchen lights flicker and objects shake) There’s nothing to worry about. (Next to Jon, on the chair, Garfield licks his fingers, polishing off the sandwich)
Odie: Howl!
Jon: Odie, you’re acting like you’re in that silly monster movie. (Despite the kitchen lights being off, the oven still has power, and it’s sinister red glow is still cooking the cake)
(In the living room, Garfield is chewing the remains of his sandwich while Jon is holding the poor pooch)
Dr. Frankenstein: My creation is beginning to grow. It is coming to life! (The TV shows Frankenstein’s monster losing its shackles and starting to rise)
(In the oven, the cake is expanding, growling, and it too is coming to life)
(Garfield rubs his paw against his belly when Odie hears a crash from inside the kitchen)
Odie: Hm? (A delectable aroma hits Garfield’s nose and the fat cat follows it)
Garfield: Mmmmm, I'll just have a small piece…about the size of Portugal. (He walks into the kitchen, only to see that the power has gone out, but only in that room, not the rest of the house) Gasp! (He steps over and flips the switch a couple of times) Uh-oh, lights are out, (He holds his paws out in front of him and walks deeper into the kitchen) but I can find my way to food in the dark. (He follows the evil red glow of the oven and peeks inside through the open door. He does notice that something is missing) Hey, where’s the cake? (The cake tin is empty. Slightly peeved, the Flabby Tabby turns around and speaks to the audience) Did you steal Odie’s birthday cake? That’s MY job! (He points at the camera) Admit it! You took Odie’s cake! Well, it didn’t just get up and walk out. (He wiggles his fingers like they were walking in front of his tummy. He then leans on something soft) Huh? (He pokes it a few more times only to realize that it’s the cake. It has grown gigantic, dwarfing Garfield by comparison, and is now alive)
Cake Monster: Roar! (Its roars are actually burps)
Garfield: (backing away) It’s amazing! It’s astonishing! (He takes a piece of cake with his finger and tastes it) It is, however, an excellent size for dessert.
Cake Monster: Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar! (Garfield shuffles to the kitchen table, frightened by the burping beast. The fat cat puts his paw in front of his face, trying to keep the cake away)
Garfield: Whimper Hey, leave me alone! What did I ever do to you except eat a million of your relatives? Stay away from me! (He feels around the table and grabs a piping bag of icing) Alright, you asked for it! (He points the bag at the cake)
Cake Monster: Roar!
(Meanwhile, Jon and Odie continue to watch the scary movie)
Jon: (shouting) Garfield!
(In the kitchen, Garfield had iced the cake and continues to shoot whatever is left in the bag at it)
Cake Monster: Roar! Roar! (Garfield zips to the table and grabs two candy shooters. He uses them against the monster)
Garfield: Take this! And this!
Cake Monster: Roar! (Garfield pushes a chair up and plants a mixing bowl on the cake’s head)
Garfield: Hey, that’s a good-looking cake.
Cake Monster: Roar!
Jon: (from the living room) Garfield!
Garfield: (now cowering in fear) But it’s still a monster!
Jon: Are you trying to eat the cake I made? (He enters the kitchen and flicks the switch. The lights come on and Jon sees the monster before him and his cat)
Cake Monster: Shrieks
Jon: Huh?!
Garfield: Actually, it’s the other way around! (He trembles in fear)
Jon: (stuttering) It’s…it’s…it’s…it’s… (Jon slowly steps away from the monster. The birthday boy Odie nonchalantly walks in between Jon and Garfield)
Odie: Pants (He looks at the fat cat and then notices the monster) Yowl! (He also starts shivering)
Garfield: Yeah, it’s one of those. Follow the pussycat! (He darts out of the kitchen and flees. Jon and Odie are quick to follow)
Jon: AAAHHHH! (They run through the living room, hallway, and the front door. Garfield rolls out the pet door, and Jon runs out the door. Odie backs out the pet door, getting halfway out before getting yanked back in)
Odie: AHHHHHH! (He escapes and follows Garfield and Jon) Mutters Bark! (The giant cake breaks the door open and gives chase as everyone runs down the street)
Garfield and Jon: AAAAHHHH! (As they run, they pass a neighbor and his wife who are in the middle of an argument in front of their house)
Sheila: We’re through, Harvey. I can't be with a man who forgets my birthday.
Jon: (racing by) AAAAHHHH!
Harvey: (stammering) Sheila, honey, I didn’t…uh, I mean…but I, I did, but then I didn’t, well that is to say…oh what’s the use? (He turns around and walks down the driveway. He heads into the street not noticing the giant cake, which tramples him into the pavement) Oh!
Cake Monster: Roar! (A car has to swerve to avoid hitting the cake. Sheila runs into the street and watches as the monster leaves)
Sheila: Wha-? (She turns around–smiling–to her husband, who is still dazed, stuck in the street. She picks him up and hugs him) Oh, Harvey, you didn’t forget my birthday. (She drops him back into the hole) You got me a cake!
Harvey: I did? Oh, yeah I did!
(Meanwhile, Garfield, Odie, and Jon are running for their lives as the cake monster chases them into the city)
Cake Monster: Roar!
Jon: AAAHHHHH!
(The cake monster closes in on the birthday beagle. Upon seeing it practically on his tail, Odie picks up speed and bolts past his friends)
Jon: I don’t know how this happened! I did everything the guy on the TV cooking show said!
Garfield: (panting from exhaustion) Then maybe he’ll know what to do!
(They run by an elderly couple. The husband loads a TV into the trunk of their car, which–to their surprise–is stolen by the cake. The man looks disappointed in the loss of both his car and his TV. the cake, however, speeds off after the main trio. As they run in the street, Garfield pants heavily. He’s not used to all this exercise. Odie turns around and sees the fat feline behind him. He screeches to a stop and lets Garfield ride him like a horse. The Flabby Tabby grabs Odie’s ears, turns around and sees the cake drawing near. He rears up and Odie takes off)
Garfield: YAAAAHHH! (The cake remains in hot pursuit)
(They pass a garbage man, who watches them run by)
Jon: Whimpers (The garbage collector shrugs and then sees the monster driving behind them. He quickly jumps headfirst into the trash can he was emptying as the cake drives by. The chase continues, until they both see a stoplight. Garfield, Odie, Jon, and the cake all stop as the traffic passes. Odie and Jon catch their breath as easy-going music plays in the background. After the traffic passes and the light turns green, they resume their chase, the cake now even closer. Its car horn honks as it follows, and Garfield loses his grip on Odie and lets go. He lands on the front of the cake)
Garfield: HELP! (Jon turns around and sees his cat in trouble)
Cake Monster: Roar! (Garfield kicks his legs and Jon slows down to try to grab Garfield. They both reach for each other, and eventually Jon saves him. The Tubby Tabby is thrown onto Odie who makes a sharp turn to his right)
Odie: Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! (Jon continues running straight, while the cake follows the pets. As for the owner, he crashes into some garbage bins sitting in front of a fence)
Jon: Moan… Grunt
(At the TV station, Eddie Gourmand is wrapping up his baking show)
Eddie Gourmand: And we’ll be back to see how our yummy cake turned out right after this commercial.
Director: And we’re out! Back on the air in 30 seconds.
Eddie Gourmand: Sigh Mr. Hotchkins, how are you enjoying the show today? (The boss, Mr. Hotchkins, enters the scene. He is not looking happy)
Mr. Hotchkins: Ugh, the show’s boring. Who wants to watch people COOK?
Eddie Gourmand: But I'm trying to make it interesting! Yesterday I made veal scallopini! It was wonderful!
Mr. Hotchkins: Veal scallopini is boring, too. That’s why I'm canceling your program!
Eddie Gourmand: (crying and begging on his knees) Oh please don’t cancel me, Mr. Hotchkins! Please! Cooking is my LIFE!
Mr. Hotchkins: After you finish today’s show, take your spatula and GET OUT! (He steps out from in front of the camera)
Director: Back from commercial in 10 seconds, Eddie.
(Outside, Jon is in a panic looking for his pets. He runs to a corner and looks around)
Jon: Pants Huh? Garfield? Odie? (His pets run by–or rather Odie runs by with Garfield grabbing his tail) AAAHHHHH! (Jon follows. The cake still tails the pets in its car. Garfield soon lets go of Odie’s tail and runs by himself) Whimpers
Garfield: (pointing) This way! (He, Odie, and Jon run into the revolving doors of the TV building. The cake slams into it, causing its car to fly through the air and return to its original spot next to the elderly couple as the husband puts another TV into the trunk. The cake starts climbing the building. Random bystanders scream and flee in terror)
(Inside the building, Eddie tries to put on a brave face as he finishes what seems to be his last show. Mr. Hotchkins watches from behind the camera and glances at his wrist like he’s wearing a watch. Eddie smiles and continues his show)
Eddie Gourmand: (tearfully) And now people…sniff, sniff…let’s go to the oven and see how our…our cake turned out. (He grabs the handle and is about to open it, when the cake monster smashes through the wall) AAHHH!
Cake Monster: Roar! (It slithers into the room)
Mr. Hotchkins: My studio!
Eddie Gourmand: (while holding the oven door) I knew I put in too much baking soda! (He ducks behind his counter)
(The cameraman, director, and Mr. Hotchkins gasp in fear when Jon opens the door on all three of them, smashing them against the wall, save for their hands. Jon sees the hands, which point to the monster, and the man and his pets see the beast before them)
Jon: Somebody has to stop it!
Garfield: And I'm afraid that somebody’s gonna have to be ME! It won’t be pretty, (Odie turns to his best friend) but I'm gonna make the supreme sacrifice! (He pulls out a large spoon from behind his back) I’m gonna eat it!
Cake Monster: Roar! (Garfield sneaks up to it and leaps upon the top of it)
Eddie Gourmand: Gasp!
Garfield: Hey, can I get about 500 gallons of ice cream to go with this? (The cake gives Garfield a ride that would make a bucking bull look like child’s play. It is not long before Garfield is tossed off the top of it and lands on his rear in front of the dessert) Stop! I was just kidding about eating you! (He smiles, as if to say “Just kidding!”) I’m on a low-cake diet! (He holds his tummy and looks out the hole the cake had made in the wall) Whoa! (He runs out the hole and looks at the drop below him) Huh? Pants (He slides on the edge of the building. The Cake Monster gives chase) Yowl!
Jon: My cat!
Garfield: YAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! (The Cake Monster has grabbed Garfield and is carrying him up to the antenna on the building)
(Below them, Jon, Odie, Eddie, and Mr. Hotchkins stand in the hole and look up at the cake monster)
Jon: Where are they going?
Eddie Gourmand: He’s climbing the TV transmission tower!
(In a bus stop, a little girl points at the monster. Her mother picks her up)
Little Girl’s Mother: Ah! (They both look at the piece of cake the girl holds in her hand)
Little Girl and Little Girl’s Mother: AAAAAHHHHHH! (She drops the cake)
(In the TV building, no one has moved from the hole in the wall)
Jon: Oh, this is terrible!
Eddie Gourmand: This is awful!
Mr. Hotchkins: This is EXCITING! It’s JUST what your show needed, Eddie! (He shakes the chef’s hand) I’m renewing you for another season!
Eddie Gourmand: (gratefully) Oh! Oh, thank you!
(The cake monster carries the cat up the antenna as a helicopter circles above them, shining its light at them)
Cake Monster: Roar!
Garfield: Hey, Bakery Boy, look at me for a second! (The monster stops and looks) Hold this. (He raises the spoon for the cake to see. It releases its grip on Garfield and the fat cat plants the spoon in its arm)
Cake Monster: Mutters
Garfield: I think I'd better get off this antenna in a hurry. (He jumps on the antenna and slides down) Chuckles (The monster looks at the spoon) Laughs (Around the antenna, lightning strikes. After four near misses, the metal tower finally gets struck and the cake monster is no more)
(Nearby, Jon, Odie, and Eddie were hiding behind a satellite dish)
Jon: Garfield, you did it!
Odie: Bark! (Jon walks up to thank his cat)
Garfield: Chuckles (Jon hugs him while he winces)
Eddie Gourmand: (while holding Odie) We’ve seen the last of that awful monster!
Garfield: (shaking his head) Nope. (A faint whistling is heard and a small piece of the monster hits him in the head and lands in his paw. He looks at it) I’d say for about the next 10 minutes, it’s gonna be raining cupcakes. (He and Jon both look up at the dark sky, and the cupcake rain above them. Garfield hands a piece to Odie) Happy birthday, boy!
Odie: (touched by Garfield’s generosity) Aww… (With the monster defeated and Garfield actually sharing food with Odie, the episode draws to a close)
THE END