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(The episode opens with the cartoon already in progress. A trio of helicopters shine spotlights on a construction site in the middle of the night. A crowd of people is gathered below, watching the spectacle unfold)
People: Overlapping chatter (One voice cries out from the others)
Man: There’s a guy up there! On the gerters! (The camera pans up the unfinished building. Near the top is Jon, sleepwalking in his pajamas and bunny slippers)
Jon: Snore. (He makes a sharp right turn as he reaches the end of the plank he was walking on) Snore. Snore. (Garfield runs up behind him and looks around the corner of a beam) Snore.
Garfield: Jon?! (He runs after him, holding a device in his paw) Wake up, Jon! (He presses a button on the remote four times, each time it makes a buzzer sound) Wake up before you take a wrong step and you become flatter than fast food pancakes! (He looks at the remote, and back at his owner, pressing the button some more)
Jon: Snore (He walks toward the edge of a plank, a plank that is extended over the edge of the work-in-progress structure. The people below watch in horror. Even Odie is among those on the ground)
Odie: Whimper (His ears are pulled back in fear for his owner. Jon walks down the plank as a spotlight from one of the helicopters shines on him. It creaks under him, and he is one step away from a long drop)
Garfield: Oh my! (He freezes for a split second before quickly coming in clutch. He swivels the plank, pointing it back toward the building, giving Jon something relatively sturdy to walk on. It was not a moment too soon. One of Jon’s bunny slippers falls off and falls harmlessly on the camera, transitioning back to Garfield) Phew! (He turns to the camera and addresses the viewers) Oh, hi. You were probably wondering how Jon got into this mess. (He raises his paw) I can tell ya, but it’ll have to be quick! (He looks over at Jon and then looks back at the audience) Now then… (A flashback begins with one night at the Arbuckle household)
Garfield: (narrating) Jon was having trouble sleeping lately. (Jon sits bleary-eyed in bed) He has tried everything. (Jon knits a very long sock in front of the dimly-lit TV. He then tries drinking milk from a mug, but for whatever reason, he spits it out almost immediately)
Jon: Gag! (He drops the mug and carton and vomits into the sink) BLEECH! (Must’ve been expired, or left out too long)
Garfield: (narrating) Sleeping in all sorts of different positions… (He lies down in bed, sits up with his chin on the pillow, lies with his head in his hand–like he’s watching TV–lies on his stomach, sticks his head under the pillow, all to no avail) he got a book called "How to Sleep". (He reads it in the bathtub)
Jon: “Try drinking a glass of warm milk after a hot bath." (He tosses the book behind him, pulls out a straw, and starts drinking the bath)
Garfield: (narrating) But that didn’t work because Jon wasn’t able to drink the hot bath. (Eww… The next scene shows him sitting in bed, still bleary-eyed and exhausted) Then he decided to try counting sheep, (Garfield appears in front of the flashback scene) but we didn’t have any sheep so we had to improvise. (He gestures behind him with his thumb. Odie is dressed like a sheep, looking embarrassed and humiliated)
Odie: Baa! (He smells his costume) Sniffs Baa! (He leaps over Jon’s bed, shaking his legs in midair) Baa!
Jon: One… (Odie runs around it and jumps again)
Odie: Baa!
Jon: Two… (Odie repeats)
Odie: Baa!
Jon: Three… Moan…
Garfield: (narrating) That didn’t work either, (He reappears in front of the flashback) but it DID tire out Odie. (He gestures behind him to the pooch, who is exhausted)
Odie: Heavy panting
Garfield: (narrating) Finally, (He gestures toward the scene) he decided to watch TV. (Jon holds his pillow and watches an advertisement on TV)
Dr. Somnambulo: Are you wide-awake all night, unable to sleep? Are you so tired all day that you doze off into your oatmeal?
Jon: All of those. (Odie, being the loyal pup that he is, leaps behind him)
Odie: Baa.
Dr. Somnambulo: Then come see me, Dr. Somnambulo! I can enable you to sleep all night through the power of hypnosis! (Garfield, now a part of the scene instead of just narrating it, and Odie walk up to Jon)
Jon: I’m so desperate for a good night’s sleep I’m even willing to try THAT. (He points at the TV. The Flabby Tabby and Big-hearted Beagle look at it)
(The next day–presumably–Jon and the pets are at Dr. Somnambulo’s office)
Garfield: (narrating) Jon went there the next morning, (A car and a few passersby travel next to the building) but he had second thoughts, which is two more than Jon USUALLY has. (The camera zooms in on the outside of the office, which has windows covered by the curtains and a symbol of an eye for a logo outside)
(Inside the office, the pets blink, watching their owner get hypnotized)
Jon: I shouldn’t have come here, Dr. Somnambulo. (Jon sits in a chair as the doctor holds a pendant with the shape of an eye carved into it in front of Jon) People with superior intelligence can’t be hypnotized. There’s no WAY you can cause me to… (The doctor snaps his fingers and Jon instantly falls asleep) Snore
Garfield: Heh.
Odie: Huh? (He and the Tubby Tabby look at each other)
Jon: Snore. Snore.
Dr. Somnambulo: When I press this buzzer, (He holds a remote in his hand) you will awaken. Until I press it again, you will think you are a chicken. (He presses the button with a “buzz” sound. Jon wakes up and begins acting like a chicken)
Jon: Clucks (The pets stare in surprise)
Garfield: Better stop him before he lays (He gestures toward Jon) an egg.
Odie: Right! (The doc presses the buzzer again. Jon sits back down in the chair as if nothing strange had happened)
Jon: …fall asleep because I’m just too smart to be hypnotized.
Dr. Somnambulo: (while stroking his beard) I think you will be a fine subject (He points up) for the hypno-tron (He puts his hands together in front of his face) computer.
Jon: Hypno-what? (The screen transitions to Jon in front of the hypno-tron, having headphones on so his brain could be effected by the computer)
Garfield: (narrating) The hypno-tron computer was this thing Dr. Somnambulo had invented to program people with hypnotic suggestions. (Nearby, the doctor stands in a booth, clacking keys on a keyboard filled with symbols and shaped instead of letters and numbers. Garfield and Odie stand close by. All three of them wear dark glasses to avoid the effects of the computer)
Dr. Somnambulo: I just enter the code for the behavior pattern I wish to implant in him, and he will be properly programmed. (He glances back at Jon)
Garfield: (narrating) I didn’t notice, but I guess while the doc was programming Jon, Odie was distracted by a fly. (A fly buzzes around the pooch’s head. He quickly becomes irritated with it)
Odie: Grrrrrr!
Dr. Somnambulo: Jon Arbuckle, you will fall sound asleep (He holds up the buzzer from earlier) every time you hear this sound. (He presses the button, but at that exact moment, Odie lets out a loud bark)
Odie: Bark!
Garfield: (narrating) I figure that must be how it happened. Jon accidentally got programmed with the sound of Odie barking, (The doctor steps next to Jon) only we didn’t know it at the time.
Dr. Somnambulo: Now I shall test it and put you to sleep. (He presses the button. Again, Odie barks)
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Snore
Dr. Somnambulo: And to wake him up, (Garfield walks up behind him) you just buzz the buzzer again. (He does so. Again, Odie barks, discouraging any suspicion about the button not working)
Odie: Bark!
Jon: …so I really don’t think this is going to work on me. (He wags his finger as he says this)
Dr. Somnambulo: Here, kitty cat. (He turns around) You put him to sleep with this, (He hands the remote to Garfield) and then wake him up when he is sufficiently rested.
Garfield: Oh, got it. (He takes it and looks at it)
Dr. Somnambulo: And keep a careful eye on him.
Garfield: Huh?
Dr. Somnambulo: Once in a while, rarely, (He shrugs) people under hypnosis have been known to walk in their sleep.
(With the treatment finished, Jon drives his pets home. Odie sticks his head out the back seat, letting his ears and tongue wave in the wind)
Odie: Pants
Garfield: (narrating) And so we headed home.
Jon: Liz is coming over. (The light in front of them turns red and they shop) She’s giving a speech next week to the Veterinarians Association.
Odie: Pants (He looks up and sees Rottweiler in the truck stopped next to them)
Rottweiler: GRRRRRR! (Odie retaliates)
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Snore (His head lands with a thud on the steering wheel. Garfield notices this and is understandably confused)
Garfield: Huh?! (He blinks several times. The light turns green and the driver with the dog leaves, with Odie glaring menacingly at Rottweiler. Behind them, other drivers honk, as Jon is not moving, but is instead sleeping. Odie turns to them)
Odie: Bark! (Jon wakes up)
Jon: I promised to help her with her speech. (He accelerates through the green light, but the light quickly changes before anyone else can pass through the intersection)
Driver: YAAAAAHHHHHH! (He leans out the window, shaking his fist at the main trio)
Odie: Mutters (In a snarky move for the pup, he shakes his tongue out behind him, as if he was mocking the drivers behind him. Perhaps Garfield is rubbing off on him. Anyway, the Tubby Tabby looks at the remote, and then back up at Jon a couple of times, confused as to why that happened)
Garfield: (narrating) I guess I should've been a little suspicious that something was wrong… (He blinks)
(Later, they returned home. Liz is outside practicing her speech to Jon in the backyard. Odie is also out with them chasing a butterfly)
Garfield: (narrating) …but my mind was on other things, like lunch!
Liz: I just want you to listen to this speech (She waves the speech in front of her) I have to give.
Jon: Glad to be of help. (Garfield steps halfway outside and rubs his paws together)
Garfield: This would be a good time to eat. (He looks at the audience) Not that there is ever a bad time. (He returns into the house)
Odie: Pants
Liz: Ahem, “My fellow veterinarians… (Odie runs behind Jon’s chair and barks at the butterfly)
Odie: Bark! (Like clockwork, Jon falls asleep, snoring loudly)
Liz: “it is an honor to appear before you today. (She walks in front of Jon) When I was asked to address you…” (She stops and turns around, slightly miffed) Jon? (She waves her speech again. Odie runs by)
Odie: Bark!
Liz: Jon? (He wakes up)
Jon: Oh!
Liz: Are you listening to me?
Jon: Hanging on every word, Liz. (He grins and sets his hands in his lap. Liz resumes)
Liz; Alright. “When I was asked to address you… (The butterfly Odie was chasing won’t simply float out of the yard. The pup barks at it)
Odie: Bark! (Jon, of course, falls asleep again, snoring loudly)
Liz: “I asked myself…” (Hearing Jon snore, she turns around and stares at her sleeping boyfriend, becoming furious with him) If you think my speech is so boring that it puts you to sleep, you can just take a nap, Jon Arbuckle! Good-bye! (She storms away, past Odie and the butterfly)
Odie: Bark! (Jon awakens and sits upright in his chair)
Jon: Liz? Liz? (He looks around and stands up. Odie trots up to his master) Gee, I thought she wanted me to hear her speech?
Odie: Pants
Jon: Odie, did you see where Liz went?
Odie: Bark! (He flops onto the chair, in a deep slumber. The butterfly Odie was chasing lands on Jon’s rear. Odie looks at him, but remains silent)
(Later that night, a bird flies over Jon’s house as he lies in bed, with Garfield ready to presumably put him to sleep)
Garfield: (narrating) Jon dozed off three times during dinner and SIX while playing video games, and he never even knew it! (Garfield steps closer. Jon looks at him) Finally it was time for bed.
Jon: You can try that buzzer thing if you want, Garfield, but it won’t do any good. (The Flabby Tabby looks at it, and then back at Jon) I can’t be hypnotized. (Garfield presses the button. Jon, however, remains awake. Garfield blinks twice in amazement and presses the button a few more times, but nothing changes, except for Garfield's mood, which goes from normal, to miffed, to furious)
Garfield: (narrating) For a time there it looked like Jon was right! (Jon is still awake. The fat cat pins his ears back, violently shakes the controller)
Garfield: (angrily) Ooh! (He presses the buzzer again several more times when Odie trots in through the open door and gives his doggy greeting)
Odie: Bark!
Garfield: Quiet, Odie! (The pup wags his tail as Garfield turns and scolds him) I’m trying to get Jon to fall asleep.
Odie: Oh… (Because of Odie’s bark, Jon is asleep, catching both his pets off-guard)
Jon: Snore. (Garfield turns around with his eyes open wide) Snore. (He looks at his snoozing owner) Snore. (Garfield looks back at the remote, assuming that it was the cause of Jon catching some Z’s)
Garfield: It finally worked. (He turns to leave the bedroom)
Jon: Snore.
Garfield: Shh! (whispering) Don’t wake him up. (He closes the door behind him)
(Later that night, under a full moon, clouds start to cover it as the camera pans above the neighborhood and stops above the house)
Garfield: (narrating) We thought the problem was over, but it was actually just beginning. (Inside, Garfield and Odie watch some TV. The fat cat sits on his chair with a bowl of popcorn resting in his lap and Odie sits in front of him) We sat there watching TV figuring Jon was fast asleep, (Garfield takes a couple bites of popcorn) and he was, (Upstairs, Jon removes the blanket from him and gets up, putting on his bunny slippers as he goes) but something in him had decided to go for a walk. (He walks stiffly toward the now open door, even though Garfield had closed it behind him and Odie when they left. Regardless, Jon walks down the stairs and, as Garfield nibbles on some more popcorn, opens the door and heads outside. Luckily for him, the rattling of the door is heard by his pets)
Garfield: See you later, Jon. (He realizes that Jon is leaving) Gasp! (He leans over the arm of the chair) Jon?! (Odie appears next to him)
Odie: Howl! (The cat and dog duo race out the door, stopping at the edge of the welcome mat and looking around for their owner)
Garfield: Where’d he go? (He looks around. Odie tries using his powerful nose to find Jon)
Odie: Oh…Bark! (Evidently his bark wasn't loud enough for Jon to hear. He points Jon out to Garfield. Their owner is further up the street, waiting for a bus at the bus stop. It arrives and Jon gets on)
Jon: Snore…Snore (The bus driver watches him)
Bus Driver: Another passenger (He shakes his head) without exact change, alright! (He quickly accelerates, and Jon is thrust into the back of the bus)
Jon: Oof! (The bus swerves and almost goes off the road as it turns left at the corner. Garfield and Odie run up to the sidewalk in front of their house and skid to ta stop)
Garfield: Pants Jon is sleepwalking, just like that doctor warned! (He turns to Odie) We have (Odie turns to Garfield) to wake him up!
(The scene shifts to the bus Jon is riding)
Garfield: (narrating) The trouble was, the bus was much faster than we were. (It stops in front of Vito’s. Jon gets off and sleepwalks inside)
Jon: Snore…Snore (He lifts a pizza off of Vito’s hand)
Vito: Huh? (He looks around, confused as to where the pizza went. He then spots Jon leaving out the side door into the alley, but not before Jon drops the pizza into a customer’s lap)
Garfield: (narrating) We followed the trail of our sleepwalking friend to Vito’s pizzeria. (Odie leads the way, with Garfield right behind him. They enter Vito’s. Odie runs past the chef, and Garfield grabs the other pizza in Vito’s hand)
Garfield: He must’ve gone out the back way! (Odie runs outside. Garfield stops before he reaches the door and tiptoes toward the customer Jon spilled pizza on. He stealthily steals his pizza and then sprints out the door, following his canine companion)
(At the end of the alley, Odie digs his paws into the ground, grinding to a stop)
Odie: Huh? (He looks around. Garfield runs up behind him, a pizza slice in his paw)
Garfield: Any sign of him, Odie? (He digs his heels into the ground, stopping his momentum next to the pup)
Odie: Whimpers (He looks at Garfield and points forward with his paw. Garfield then looks in the direction Odie was pointing, and they both see something) Huh? (Jon is walking through a construction site)
Jon: Snore (He gets on an elevator and rides it up)
(Down below, Garfield is quick to react)
Garfield: You get help! (He points at Odie and races toward his owner) I’m gonna try to wake him up! (Across the street he hustles)
(Once in the unfinished building, Garfield peeks around a beam at Jon, finally coming full circle to the episode’s opening scene)
Garfield: (to the audience) And that was how we both wound up here. (With the explanation finished, the Tubby Tabby chases his owner, pressing the button on the remote some more)
Jon: Snore (The crowd below him watches in fear. Odie is among them, pinning his ears back in worry)
Garfield: The trouble is, (He presses the buzzer) I keep buzzing this buzzer and it doesn’t wake him up. (He looks out over the city, visibly nervous. Police cars and a fire truck arrive, and a a couple of firefighters get off the truck and look up. Three helicopters shine their spotlights on the building) Ooh! (Garfield looks at Jon from around a corner of a beam. He is walking off a beam that leads to nowhere except a big drop)
Jon: Snore…
Garfield: There’s gotta be a way to wake him up (He presses the button) before he takes the wrong step. (He pushes the buzzer more frantically, frequently, and desperately, but to no avail. At this moment, Odie speaks up)
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Huh?
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Snore (Odie’s barks are like an on/off switch for Jon. Every bark either wakes him up or puts him back to sleep)
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Huh?
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Snore
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Huh?
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Snore (The scene switches to Odie down below)
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Huh?
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Snore (Up above, Garfield starts to see the connection between Odie’s barks and Jon’s sleepwalking state. He looks between Odie and Jon. The camera also shifts between the three characters a couple of times during Odie’s barking sequence)
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Huh?
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Snore
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Huh?
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Snore
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Huh?
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Snore
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Huh?
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Snore
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Huh?
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Snore (After realizing the connection, Garfield shouts to Odie)
Garfield: Odie, stop barking!
Odie: Huh? (He is visibly confused. Garfield looks up at Jon, who is in his sleepwalking state)
Jon: Snore (Seeing Jon about to step off the edge, Garfield yells to Odie again)
Garfield: Odie, bark one more time! (He obeys)
Odie: Bark! (Jon is awake now)
Jon: Huh? So as I was saying, I don't think there’s any way that you can hypnotize me to sleep. I’ll just lie awake here in my bed Oh! (He realizes what happened, or at least, where he is. He slowly looks down and sees the several-story drop beneath him) WHOAAAAA! (He starts losing his balance) Whimpers (Garfield puts his fists to his mouth, fearing the worst. Jon falls in slo-mo for a few seconds but manages to cling to the beam for dear life. People below scream, others cover their eyes)
Garfield: YAAHH! (He puts his paws to his head, terrified)
Jon: Whimpers (His fingers start slipping. Four firefighters open a net underneath Jon for him to land on) Oh! Oh! Whimpers
Garfield: Oh no! (He races toward Jon, but cannot make it before he loses his grip and drops)
Jon: Whoa!
Garfield: Wha-? (He reaches his paw out)
Jon: Whimpers Oh! (He lands in the firefighters’ net and bounces back up. He soars back into the beam, and hits it with his head) Oh it hurts… (He falls back down and lands safely into the net. The people around him cheer and applaud the rescue) How did I get here? (Odie zips into Jon’s arms and gives him some affectionate slurps, thankful that his owner is OK)
Odie: Slurp! Slurp! Slurp! (Garfield looks down from above)
Garfield: (relieved) Sigh…
(Later, at Dr. Somnambulo’s office, Jon and the pets are there to revert Jon back to normal with the Hypno-tron)
Dr. Somnambulo: You will no longer fall asleep. (His phone rings) I’ll be right back. (He heads into the other room to answer it. The pets watch him leave)
Garfield: While we’re here, (He walks over to the control panel. Odie turns to him) I think I'll give Jon a new hypnotic command. (He twists a knob on the panel)
Odie: Huh?
(Later, after returning home, the pets sit at the table. Jon walks in, and both Garfield and Odie flinch)
Jon: You know guys? I got a good night's sleep and I feel GREAT! I have a feeling my insomnia is gone! (He puts his hands on his hips)
Garfield: Great.
Jon: In fact, I feel so good, I'm not going to make you any lasagnas right now, Garfield. I’m going for a walk! (The Flabby Tabby turns to the big-hearted beagle)
Garfield: Odie, bark please.
Odie: Bark! (His bark puts Jon back in a hypnotic trance)
Jon: Must make lasagnas. (He stiffly walks like he did when he was sleepwalking into the kitchen and returns wearing an apron and oven mitts, holding a piping-hot dish of lasagna in his hands. He sets it on the table)
Garfield: Odie.
Odie: Bark! (His bark brings Jon back to normal. He will do this for the remainder of the episode)
Jon: Huh?
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Must make lasagnas. (He grabs another tray and sets it on the table)
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Huh? (Garfield grins and points at an empty dish)
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Must make lasagnas. (The camera shifts to the front of Jon’s house)
Odie: Bark!
Jon: Huh?
Odie: Bark! (The episode comes to a close)
THE END