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==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
*The episode is easily a reference to executive meddling, where the executives force certain changes to the show.
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*The executive meddling in the episode alludes to real life instances at the time, where network executives kept trying to put in more educational segments on Saturday morning shows.
** This was also a case during the 90s and 80s, where network executives kept trying to put in more educational segments on Saturday morning.
 
 
*One nursery rhyme Orson mentioned (though not be name) is Jack and Jill when he mentions every rhyme in the book has death and people "falling down and breaking their crowns".
 
*One nursery rhyme Orson mentioned (though not be name) is Jack and Jill when he mentions every rhyme in the book has death and people "falling down and breaking their crowns".
 
*The targets on Aloysius' dartboard has the following "business decisions".
 
*The targets on Aloysius' dartboard has the following "business decisions".
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**Cancel Saturday
 
**Cancel Saturday
 
**Cancel everything
 
**Cancel everything
*This is the final episode to feature Aloysius. Mark Evanier said he was meant to show up in a fourth episode which never got made.
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*This is the final episode to feature Aloysius. Mark Evanier has said that he was meant to show up in an unproduced fourth episode.
 
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Revision as of 14:43, 14 April 2017

Kiddie Korner is an episode from the seventh season of Garfield and Friends.

Synopsis

Aloysius orders the farm animals to tell nursery rhymes, but every rhyme they tell has something inappropriate for the target demographic.

Plot

The episode starts off with Orson telling the story of Dr. Zhivago with his friends as the characters, but Aloysius stops the cartoon and tells them that there have been complains at (Da dum!) the network. He then tells Orson that he wants him and the other farm animals to tell nursery rhymes as a way to draw in a younger audience, or rather as Roy puts it, because that's all the executives understand. Not wanting to lose their jobs, they give in and do nursery rhymes.

First, they try telling the fable of Wee Willie Winky with Orson as Willie, but Aloysius complains about the idea of wandering around the streets in pajamas.

Next, they try telling Georgie Porgie, but when Roy kisses Lanolin to make her cry, Aloysius describes that as anti-social.

Next, they try Little Miss Muffet, but before Roy can finish the rhyme with the final line, Aloysius says a spider scaring a little girl would frighten the children watching (and sitting on a tuffet sounds naughty to him).

Next, they try Goosey Goosey Gander, but Aloysius is not happy with the idea of shoving an old man down the stairs.

Next, they try Old Mother Hubbard with Roy as the title character and Odie guest starring as the dog in the fable much to Aloysius' delight. But when they get to the part where the dog dies from starvation, Aloysius is furious at the material, especially when it considers killing off a celebrity like Odie even if it was just an act.

Orson tries to find a wholesome nursery rhyme, but everyone is shot down: Three Blind Mice for the barbarism of chopping off the tails of unsightly mice, Humpty Dumpty for the egg's demise and high levels of cholesterol, and Who Killed Cock Robin for obvious reasons. Roy then comments that this is their most violent episode ever and Orson can't find a rhyme that doesn't contain any harsh or gruesome material. Aloysius warns him if he doesn't, he'll replace their show with an infomercial on their time slot.

With their show in jeopardy, Orson tells Roy to come up with a dirty trick, much to the rooster's delight. He then places a new page in the book and comes to talk to Aloysius (who is programming the fall schedule with a dart board) about it. He says he should read it, and Aloysius accepts. It turns out the rhyme is about him being bossy and the farm animals getting back at him with lemon meringue pies. Lanolin, Wade, and Roy chase Aloysius out of the studio lot with their pies as Orson tells everyone that the next episode will be more wholesome while looking over what they can and can't do then.

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Trivia

  • The executive meddling in the episode alludes to real life instances at the time, where network executives kept trying to put in more educational segments on Saturday morning shows.
  • One nursery rhyme Orson mentioned (though not be name) is Jack and Jill when he mentions every rhyme in the book has death and people "falling down and breaking their crowns".
  • The targets on Aloysius' dartboard has the following "business decisions".
    • Renew old show
    • More bears
    • Power anything
    • Buy new show
    • Cancel Saturday
    • Cancel everything
  • This is the final episode to feature Aloysius. Mark Evanier has said that he was meant to show up in an unproduced fourth episode.