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"It's a Cat's World" (FRFlag Chassé croisé) is the 35thUS/27thEU episode of the first season of The Garfield Show.

Synopsis[]

After being sucked through a wormhole, Garfield finds himself in a universe where humans and cats have switched places.

Plot[]

During what Garfield considers to be a perfect day, he is resting in the living room armchair and eating snacks. After he finishes a box of cookies, he contemplates whether he should get up to get more snacks. Very suddenly, the house begins to violently rattle, and from in front of him, a portal opens from thin air and sucks Garfield through. Travelling through a vortex, Garfield encounters another being flying through, completely identical to him, before he falls into what seems the living room.

Garfield shrugs off the significance of the event, considering it to have been just a hallucination. He quickly realizes otherwise when he finds Jon acting like a cat and Arlene arriving to do a veterinary checkup on Jon, something Garfield apparently called her for the previous day. After confirming a date with Arlene while pretending to be nonchalant, he runs out the house in terror. Exploring the city, he soon finds that cats have replaced human beings in all positions of life, and likewise, all humans appear to act like cats. Exhausted, he returns back home to find Arlene finished. Garfield is unable to process her information or the house's phone ringing. She answers for him and reveals the call is from his publisher. Garfield finds out that he contractually works as a cartoonist, much to his dismay.

Attempting to find a reason for the strange happenings, Garfield finds an interview on television with a physicist, Dr. Angus McCloon, who suggests parallel universes exist and that he's invented a device that will prove their existence. Garfield concludes he has been transported to a parallel universe, and realizes that the identical being he saw in the wormhole was a parallel version of himself. Just then, McCloon happens to enter the house in a state of panic, unsure if "Garfield" is alive. Garfield confronts him, and after finding out that they're supposed to be friends, Garfield discloses they aren't on account that they are not from the same universe. McCloon celebrates over the revelation that his machine worked, and offers to take Garfield back to his lab to explain how the event occured.

McCloon reveals that that morning, he invited the parallel Garfield to see his new invention, the wormhole opener, or, the WHO. Through a bet with McCloon over a month's supply of lasagna, Garfield manages to find the right button sequence to initiate the machine, causing it to open a wormhole and suck him through. Again, he meets his parallel self. Both express relief over returning home, though Garfield is unable to warn his parallel self over the date planned with Arlene. Garfield is greeted by Odie on his return, and is pleasantly surprised to find Jon has baked him a lasagna. Meanwhile, back in the parallel universe, the parallel Garfield is confronted by Arlene over missing their date, and infuriates her when he attempts to convince her it was due to a parallel universe.

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Trivia[]

  • The cat in a jeep is revealed to be "Cody" in the subtitles of Netflix.
  • In the parallel universe, Garfield and Jon's roles are switched, with Garfield as the cartoonist owner and Jon as his pet. Also, Arlene has Liz's role as a veterinarian in this universe.

Cultural References[]

  • The title of the episode may be a parody of It's a Small World.


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