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High Scale (FRFlag Chat contre balance) is the 13thUS/23rdEU episode from the first season of The Garfield Show.

Synopsis[]

Jon and Garfield go to see Liz at her office. Liz jumps at the opportunity to weigh Garfield with her new high-tech talking scales. And unsurprisingly, the scales think Garfield is too heavy! Liz gives him a week to lose weight, otherwise she's sending him to the cat fat farm. Garfield doesn't take her seriously at first and keeps eating as normal when he gets home.

Plot[]

Jon looks at his portrait of Liz, saying he has not seen her for days, then tells Garfield they will go to the vet to test him. At the vet, Garfield appears to be fine. Liz then shows Garfield a new scale to see his weight. Once he is placed on the scale, Garfield becomes jolted after it says rude things about him. Liz declares that he must lose two pounds before the end of the week, or be taken to a Cat Spa, where he will be placed on a long, strict diet. He then asks if he can still eat lasagna, pizza, pork fried rice, and bacon-wrapped in bacon. Liz then shows him a video about the spa.

Jon and Garfield, horrified by the video, reach a deal with Liz. Garfield then eats Liz's lunch due to the video. At home, Garfield later anticipates numerous helpings of food until he gets a lettuce leaf from Jon. He licks the leaf, then eats it disapproval, he also looks for food in the fridge, while Jon calls with Liz. Jon witnesses him with the leaf-covered with whipped cream and chocolate sauce, Jon hangs up on Liz and gets angry with Garfield. He goes to the scale, which says he gained another pound, leaving him to lose three pounds. Garfield then goes to bed, getting on it tomorrow. Jon wonders when will he lose weight the next day to take it seriously. In bed, Garfield, about to have a dream, tells himself that the Cat Spa cannot be bad.

Garfield experiences a nightmare where he is taken to a cat spa managed by Nurse Psycho who subjects him to extreme weight loss measures. Despite Garfield's efforts, the scale keeps showing he is still overweight. The nightmare escalates as a mutant spider scale insults and taunts him for being fat, leading Garfield to a frightening realization as he is surrounded by tempting food, causing him to fall into a dark abyss in terror.

Garfield then wakes up, realizing the events were all a nightmare. He vows to lose three pounds immediately. Meanwhile, Jon calls Liz, asking her he does not know what to get Garfield to exercise and sees Garfield running around the house and do push-ups. Jon, impressed figures that he may have lost two pounds already. When Garfield gets on the scale, it says he still needs to lose two pounds, then laughs evilly. Garfield loses his mind, figuring his nightmare is coming true. Jon, puzzled as to why this happened, eventually solves the problem by revealing that he mistakenly put the switch from the "Portful Pussycat" section to the "Pintsize Parakeet" section, as he planned to have Garfield lose two pounds the whole time. Garfield becomes angry and disgraced about this, making him scare Jon away. He then delivers the scale to the zoo, tests an elephant, and the scale overloads after saying that the elephant is very fat and complains. Garfield then tells a moral to the viewer about exercise.

Characters[]

Main Characters[]

Major Characters[]

Minor characters[]

  • Elephant
  • Sentient food

Trivia[]

  • Liz Wilson's calendar reveals that this episode takes place in June.
  • The talking scale in this episode may be based on the RX-2 in the comics.
  • The talking lasagna resembles the Space Lasagna.


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