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(Part 4 of 5 begins with a recap. Jon, Liz, Garfield, and Odie are flying to Manzia to stop Dirk Dinkum from capturing a Manzian White Lion and selling it for a boatload of money. While there, Garfield and his friends meet up with Angie, and their guide Armstrong. During a plane ride, they crash land in a tree, resulting in Garfield and Odie getting lost. Eventually, the pets meet a nice trio of monkeys known as the Baboon Brothers. While Jon worries about his pets, Dirk and Buckley make their way to the West Portal, where the Manzian White Lions are. He doesn’t know that Garfield and Odie have beaten them to it)
(Part 4 itself begins with Liz running back to the crash site to inform them of urgent news. Jon, Angie, and Armstrong are waiting, still looking for the cat and dog duo)
Liz: Pants Oh, Dinkum’s on his way to the West Portal!
Armstrong: He knows where the lions are!
Angie: So we’d better be on OUR way to the West Portal!
Jon: Garfield, where are you? (He puts his hands to his mouth, calling for his cat)
(Meanwhile, Garfield and Odie had gone with the Baboon brothers to meet the twin cubs of Queen Tania, the female Manzian White Lion. The twins’ names are Prince and Princess. Odie is giving Bunky–possibly–a ride on his back)
Prince: Mr. Garfield, could we ask you a question? (The cubs circle around Garfield, having never met a housecat before, they are curious)
Princess: Yeah, could we? Huh? Could we?
Garfield: Oh, sure. Go ahead.
Prince: (stammering) W-w-w-w-what are you? (He sits. His sister joins him)
Princess: Yeah, what are you?
Garfield: What do you mean? (The camera spins around to show the cubs, and Odie, who is standing nearby)
Princess: Well Elsa is a rhinoceros and Ambushi is an elephant, and Jeremiah, he’s a giraffe.
Prince: So, like, what are you?
Garfield: I’m…a cat! (His answer makes Princess fall backwards in laughter)
Princess: Laughs (She kicks her legs)
Prince: You can’t be a cat!
Garfield: What?
Princess: (sitting up) Yeah, WE’RE cats! (Prince runs up to the Flabby Tabby)
Garfield: (pointing) Well not all cats roar. (He holds his finger up. Prince winks at his sister)
Princess: WE roar!
Prince: Yeah, let’s roar for him! Roar! (Garfield is surprised by the cub’s roar. Princess shows off her roar)
Princess: Yeah, and now me! Now me! ROAR! (She roars so powerfully it blows Garfield’s ears backwards and causes him to flinch. Queen Tania watches from her rock, smiling)
Prince: We wanna hear you roar! (The cubs begin circling him)
Lion Cubs: (chanting) We wanna hear you roar! We wanna hear you roar!
Garfield: Alright, alright, alright, (He picks up both cubs by the tail. Not sure how smart that is with the mother–who is a lion–watching them) already! I’ll roar! (He sets the cubs down and takes his turn) Roaaaar! Roaring sounds (The cubs burst into laughter)
Lion Cubs: Laugh (Even Bunky and Odie giggle)
Bunky and Odie: Laugh
Garfield: Sigh
Prince: You call that a roar?
Princess: Jeremiah Giraffe roars better, and he can’t even make ANY sounds!
Lion Cubs: Laugh
Garfield: OK, so I can't roar! (He holds his finger up) I can do other things.
Princess: Like what?
Prince: Can you gallop across a ravine?
Garfield: (wagging his finger) No. (Princess leaps in front of him)
Princess: Are you the king of beasts?
Garfield: No. (Prince joins Princess)
Prince: Can you pounce on (He sets his front paws on Garfield’s stomach) a dangerous foe?
Garfield: (hugging the cubs) Only if it’s a mushroom pizza! (He releases the cubs) Listen, I do a lot of things, (He points to his left and right as he lists the things he does) I eat, I sleep, then I eat, then I sleep, (He points at the cubs) and then for a change, I sleep, and then I eat! (He holds his finger up) Oh, and I mail Nermal to Abu Dhabi! Then I eat some more, and then I eat some more, and then I sleep! (He snaps his fingers) Hey! (A song and fantasy begin. Squeak and Humphrey play guitar and drums, respectively. A bunch of mice carry Garfield, who is wearing a crown and holding a royal scepter)
Garfield: I am the king of cats, (He wags his finger)
Of all aristocrats, (He runs to the lion cubs)
Step up and drop your hats
Of me I sing! (He walks away. The cubs look at each other)
I am the cat supreme,
Each lady’s fondest dream. (He passes several animals, including Odie, Bunky, a giraffe, a hippo, and an elephant)
They always yell and scream
That I’m the king! (He is joined by several mice as backup singers, who dance along with Garfield)
Mice: Scat (Garfield dances behind the mice and waves his tail at the audience)
Garfield: I am the king of cats! (He tiptoes away, leading the mice)
Mice: Scat (The cubs are still not believing, and then they gag)
(The Tubby Tabby appears in front of several cats, Harry, Lucky, Myron, Nermal, a tiger, even Spring and Summer. They all glare at him)
Garfield: My fans, they all adore (He dances and spins on his toes)
They cry for more and more! (He whacks Nermal with his scepter, and then appears holding a mirror)
I don’t know where to store
The gifts they bring. (Odie is behind him, laughing)
Odie: Stifled giggles
Garfield: Grr! (The cubs and Garfield ride on birds)
There is no cat like me
I say that modestly
The experts all agree
That I'm the king! (More mice sing backup)
Mice: Scat (Podiums rise, looking like a multi-tiered cake)
Garfield: I am the king!
The king, the king of cats! (The mice spin in sync)
Mice: Scat
Garfield: I am the king! (He takes off his crown and holds it. The song and fantasy come to an end with him holding his paws out like he actually has a crown and scepter) Chuckle (He grins at the cubs)
Lion Cubs: Uhh…
(The Baboon Brothers hold up their scores, 01, 000–which is still zero–and 10, which is held by Plunky. The other two look at him and he turns the sign upside-down, revealing a 01 instead of a 10)
Plunky: Chuckle
Bunky and Funky: Gag
Prince: Aw, (he shakes his head) you’re not a cat.
Princess: Nope! Not. A. Cat! (Garfield is quite frustrated)
Garfield: Grrrrr! (He puts a paw to his face. Seeing there is no convincing the cubs, he focuses on more pressing matters) How are Jon and the others ever gonna find us? (He steps away, with his finger to his chin, thinking. He walks over to Funky, who is in the shade of a nearby tree)
Funky: Hey Garfield, did you know that snails (He shows him the tablet and points at it) can sleep up to three years? (Behind Garfield, Prince and Princess are playfully tossing Odie in their paws. While the cubs seem to be enjoying it, the pup is far less so)
Garfield: In my home, we call that a quick nap. Funky, is there a phone around here?
Funky: Laughs The nearest phone is way off the… (He taps his tablet)
Odie: Whimpering (One of the cubs has his tail. Odie tries to break free, but can’t)
Funky: (continuing) hm… 82.46 kilometers away. (Odie is finally freed, but his momentum carries him off)
Odie: Yowl!
Funky: Say, it says here that you (He points at Garfield) share your birthday with at least nine million (He holds his finger up) other people on this planet! (As he says this, the sound of spinning helicopter blades slowly intensified)
Garfield: (while tapping his chin) Gotta find some way to at least tell Jon where we are. (He hears the copter above him) Gasp! (He looks up and sees the chopper, with Dirk Dinkum leaning out the side) And I think I need to find it (He taps his head) in a hurry!
Dirk Dinkum: There’s lions around here someplace! (He scans the plains) And there they are, (Cut to an overhead shot of the lion cubs walking up to Odie) two of ‘em!
Prince: What’s that?
Princess: That’s the weirdest bird I ever saw! (Odie is determined to protect the cubs. He raises each paw to keep them back)
Odie: (angrily) Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! (His attempts to tell off Dinkum do not work. To his credit, though, he stands his ground)
Dirk Dinkum: Laughs (He points a net gun at the cubs, and Odie. Queen Tania sees the helicopter above her, and her cubs in peril)
Odie: BARK! (He scowls at Dirk)
Dirk Dinkum: A little on the small side, but they’ll do. (Her Majesty immediately leaps into action)
Queen Tania: Growl! (She climbs down her rock as Dirk’s finger slowly closes on the trigger. The cubs put their front paws on Odie’s paws, scared for their lives. Odie looks at each of them, but doesn’t move from his position. Queen Tania then arrives to protect her offspring) Growl! (Dirk is surprised by the Queen’s entrance, but the stand-off doesn’t last for long)
Dirk Dinkum: Down there! THAT’S the kind of lion Spendington will pay good money for! That’s the one I want!
Odie: Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! (Queen Tania growls at Dirk and then turns around to the cubs and their puppy protector. She gives them a sad look and Odie looks back at her, confused) Huh? (Realizing that she is the target, Tania makes like a queen in chess and zips away quickly. The hunters, however, are on her tail)
(Cut to Funky, Plunky, and Garfield, who are all watching nearby)
Plunky: What’s she doing?
Garfield: (pointing) Trying to draw the hunter away from the twins! C’mon! (They take off. A couple more monkeys appear from behind a tree. They run past the cubs and Odie) Here, (Three monkeys pick up and carry the twins and Odie)
Odie: Bark!
Garfield: (continuing) hide these two!
Bunky: We’ll hide you from the steamship!
Funky: (pointing up) Helicopter.
Bunky: Like I said, helicopter! (A couple of monkey chains lift Garfield, Odie, and the lion twins into a tree)
Garfield: Whoo! Whoa!
Odie: Bark! (Despite reaching safety, Prince is still understandably horrified)
Prince: A hunter!
Odie: Huh?
Garfield: Huh?
Prince: We gotta go save Mama!
Princess: (distressed) Yeah! (Both cubs are desperate to rescue their mom, and so they try to head back)
Lion Cubs: Overlapping chatter (Garfield grabs their tails, stopping them)
Garfield: No! We have one lion in danger, we don’t need three!
Princess: Please! Please!
(Meanwhile, Queen Tania is still on the run from Dirk and the helicopter. Dirk takes a shot from his net gun)
Dirk Dinkum: Grunt! (Queen Tania runs into a small group of trees and the trap gets caught on one of them)
Queen Tania: Growl!
Dirk Dinkum: Growl! Missed! (He points up) But I won't miss again! Max, (The pilot) after her! (The chase is unrelenting. Garfield and the Baboon Brothers watch from the tree)
Garfield: (with his paws on his head) I have to find some way to tell Jon where we are! (Odie is behind him standing between the cubs and letting his tongue hang from his mouth)
Odie: Mutters (He holds his fingers as if making a hand phone. The Flabby Tabby zips up to him)
Garfield: No, there’s no phone for miles! (He shakes his head. It’s probably for the best since he can’t talk) Funky looked it up on his computer, and he said… (An idea comes to him and he smiles) laughs (Funky is sitting on a branch, with his tablet)
Funky: (holding his finger up) Hey, did you know that Wayne Newton is only four foot tall?
Garfield: (pointing at Funky) Never mind! (Odie and Bunky stand with him) Can you send a text message on that thing?
Funky: Sure! (He holds his finger up) You got a phone number?
Garfield: Yes! It’s, uh, 555-42… (He points at Funky with each digit he says. Funky types each digit in)
(Elsewhere, the team of Jon, Liz, Armstrong, and Angie are still on the lookout for Garfield, Odie, and the rare lions. Armstrong inspects the ground)
Jon: (calling out) Garfield, where are you? (Armstrong stands upright and Liz gets a text on Jon’s cell phone)
Armstrong: The lions and Dinkum could be anywhere in this whole area!
Liz: Jon, I got your cell phone here and you just got a text message!
Jon: (distressed) Not now, Liz.
Liz: But it’s from Garfield!
Jon: Garfield? (He smiles. Angie looks at Jon’s phone)
Angie: And he’s given us the coordinates of where he and Odie are, (Liz nods) and the lions!
Armstrong: Give them to me, ladies, (He clenches his fist) and hope we are in time! (They pile into their jeep and, without a moment to lose, speed away)
(Meanwhile, Dinkum is still pursuing Queen Tania)
Dirk Dinkum: Run all you want! Eventually you’ll be too tired to run, and I'll still be here! (He points his net launcher at the Queen. She sees it, and he launches another shot. She makes a quick swerve and avoids it) AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! (Behind one of the distant trees, Armstrong drives the others into the Portal)
Armstrong: They’re SOMEWHERE in this area!
Jon: Yeah, but where?
Liz: Up there! (She points at the helicopter) That helicopter, that’s GOT to be Dirk Dinkum! (They drive toward it)
(Elsewhere, Garfield slides down the tree trunk)
Garfield: YAAHH! Whoa! (He reaches the ground unharmed. Several monkeys form a chain and drop Odie off next to him) Grunt!
Odie: Bark!
Garfield: (over his shoulder) Odie, do you know how to roar?
Odie: Uh, I don’t know. (The Tubby Tabby grabs some bushes and assembles them around his neck to resemble a lion’s mane. He turns around)
Garfield: Well learn fast! (A monkey slides down the trunk behind him)
Odie: Huh?
(In the helicopter, Dirk is taking aim)
Dirk Dinkum: I’m about to make myself very rich! (He then hears Odie howling nearby)
Odie: HOWWWWWWWWLLLLLLL! (Garfield lip-syncs with Odie’s howls and barks, waving his arms to get extra attention) Bark! Bark! (The puppy himself is out of sight behind a tree, helping his fat feline friend buy Queen Tania some time) HOWWWWWWWLLLLLLLL!
Max: What is that animal?
Odie: Bark! Bark! (Dirk and Max descent to get a closer look)
Garfield: Grunt!
Dirk Dinkum: That? That’s a very fat pussycat (They take off, knocking Garfield onto his rear)
Garfield: Grunt!
Dirk Dinkum: (continuing) trying to distract me. Nice try, cat! (Garfield gets up and dusts his paws off. It was a valiant effort, just to no avail)
Garfield: You can lose the roar over, Odie. It’s not working. (The pup lets his tongue hang. Armstrong and the other humans roll up behind them)
Jon: Garfield!
Garfield: (to Odie) C’mon!
(While the distraction didn’t work as intended, Queen Tania is still ahead of the hunters. However, she is visibly tired from the sprint)
Queen Tania: Pants (She doesn’t have long to catch her breath. Seeing the helicopter behind her, she takes off again)
Dirk Dinkum: Laughs (He leans out of the helicopter and takes aim once again. The heroes follow in their jeep. Dirk has Her Majesty in his sights) Hi-yah! (In the trees, the Baboon Brothers cover the twins’ eyes. Dirk takes the shot, which hits the camera)
Garfield: Oh! (This time, Dirk doesn’t miss)
Queen Tania: Roar! (Dinkum has her tied by the ankles, airlifting her toward the airport. His job is done, all he needs is payment. The heroes helplessly watch, their jeep parked in the middle of the savanna, and Prince and Princess mourn their loss in the trees. The monkeys around try to comfort them)
Lion Cubs: Whimper (Funky takes one last look at the chopper. He, the other monkeys, and the cubs hang their heads sadly. The helicopter flies past a couple of giraffes, whose necks get wrapped around each other so that they look each other in the eyes)
Dirk Dinkum: Max, fly me to the airport! (Max nods) I have a very precious cargo to deliver!
Max: Chuckles (The camera pans down to Tania. She passes by it)
Queen Tania: Grr…
(Back on the surface, everyone mourns the loss of Queen Tania. Angie and Armstrong are on the jeep, Jon is holding Odie, and Garfield stands next to Liz)
Angie: Sigh…
Odie: Quiet whimpers
Garfield: Moan… (Liz pats his head)
Liz: We got here too late!
Jon: Sigh…
Odie: Whimper
(In the trees, one monkey scratches his head. Princess is being hugged around the neck by Bunky)
Princess: That bad man got her.
Prince: Didn’t he?
Bunky: He got her.
Funky: But we promise you,
Plunky: He is NOT going to keep her!
Lion Cubs: Whimper (They rub their heads against each other)
(Down below, Liz is not going to take this defeat lying down)
Liz: At least we know where he’s taking her!
Jon: To the Spendington estate! It’s not far from where we live!
Angie: We can be on the next plane there!
Armstrong: I have a friend who flies cargo there. HE can give us a lift! (While Odie is deeply saddened by the loss of Queen Tania, Garfield looks furious and shakes his clenched fists. Odie looks at him as he begins speaking)
Garfield: You know how determined I was that time (He puts his paw under his chin) when Jon said no more pepperoni pizza?
Odie: Uh-huh. (He nods. Garfield steps out in front of him and points)
Garfield: And how determined I was when Nermal wanted to move in and turn the whole house into the Nermal World Fan Club headquarters?
Odie: Mm-hmm. (He nods again)
Garfield: I’m even more determined (He turns around and holds two fingers up) than those two times put together!!
Odie: Woooow!
(Later that evening, Jon, Liz, Angie, and Armstrong are getting ready to go. While the humans chat amongst themselves, the pets sit on a load of crates. Odie plays with his toes as Jon walks up to them)
Jon: We’re almost ready to take off. (Odie lets his tongue hang slightly out of his mouth. Garfield looks down from his vantage point at him) The plane only seats four plus the pilot, so you two will have to ride in the cargo hold. (Both pets are surprised by this)
Odie: Yowl! (Garfield bends his fingers and toes, unhappy with this news)
Garfield: In the cargo hold,
Odie: Huh?
Garfield: (continuing) like baggage?! (He clasps his paws on his head, horrified) What does he think we are, animals?
Odie: Yeah! (He smiles at his friend. However, he and Garfield glare at Jon for the unfortunate seating arrangement)
Garfield: (with his arms folded across his chest) But I still won’t do it! I will not ride in the cargo hold!
Jon: And I forgot to tell you, you’ll be happy to know what the cargo (He holds his finger up) is in there: canned lasagna! (He leaves. The pets’ moods do a complete 180)
Garfield: He didn’t tell me this was a LUXURY flight! (He and Odie speed past Jon, who spins in place due to their momentum) Yippee!
Odie: Bark, bark bark! Bark, bark, bark, bark! (The pets board the plane)
Garfield: C’mon, Odie! (He points toward several boxes. Odie trots up on all fours next to him) I get the seat by the can opener!
Odie: Gasp! Whoa! (In the window, Bunky and Plunky press their faces, looking inside)
Bunky: Wait! Wait!
Garfield: Hm?
Plunky: You can’t leave without us! (The monkeys look at each other)
Bunky: We’re coming with you on the unicycle! (They get down from the window)
Plunky: Airplane. (Garfield appears in the window)
Bunky: Like I said, airplane. (Odie pops up next to Garfield, smiling at his friends)
Garfield: Great, but where’s Funky?
Plunky: Right behind us. (He gestures to the distance. Funky is riding a galloping giraffe like a horse, and the cubs are with him. Prince rides the giraffe’s head, and Princess rides on Funky’s back)
Lion Cubs: Giggle (The giraffe stops next to the plane and lets its passengers off onto the wing of the plane)
Funky: They insisted on coming along!
Prince: We told him if he didn’t take us, (His twin sister finishes his sentence)
Princess: We were going to run there!
Plunky: They would have done it. (The cubs nod. They might be even more determined that Garfield)
Garfield: And probably beaten us there. OK, everyone aboard! (He gestures behind him with his thumb. Odie smiles and nods)
Lion Cubs: YAY! (They high five, or I guess high three, each other)
(With everyone aboard, including the new passengers, the plane takes off in the middle of the night. The humans ride in the cockpit, and the animals in the cargo hold)
Jon: No kidding, this Mr. Spendington has his own private zoo!
Armstrong: Man, talk about rich.
Liz: It’s full of animals, rare species, that belong back in the wild! (Angie gets a stern look) Or at least in public zoos where people can see them!
Angie: That’s no place (She gazes out the window) for one of the last Manzian White Lions.
Jon: (pointing up) I checked and Mr. Spendington is having a big party at his estate tomorrow night! (He leans toward Liz) Probably wants to show off his new… (He is interrupted by the strumming of Plunky’s ukulele) does anyone besides me think they’re hearing music? (They pause to listen)
Liz: It sounds like… ukulele music.
Jon, Armstong, and Pilot: Huh?
(In the cargo hold, the animals dance the night away. Vibrant, multi-colored lights shine on the walls and a voice sings over them. Garfield lip syncs along, though he might be singing this song even though the voice is not his. Plunky plays his ukulele while sitting on a box, Funky browses through his tablet next to Garfield, Odie is dancing with Bunky, the lion cubs play Patty-Cake, and Garfield lies on his stomach on a cage of chickens, splurging on some of that canned lasagna)
VO: We all have times where we see no solution (The fat cat bares a claw and opens the can)
To problems that arise. (Garfield tosses the lasagna into his mouth and closes the can)
That’s when you can make your best contribution,
Cause it to vocalize! (Bunky and Odie dance together)
We can all face catastrophes (Garfield juggles three cans)
Any kind that comes along!
All you need to do is (Garfield stands upright and strikes a pose) sing this song!
We are here, we are here, all together!
We are dancing with all our friends, (The chickens got let out of their cage. Almost everyone is dancing along)
We will sing ‘til we have fair weather (Odie and the cubs each tango with a chicken)
Hey, we’ll dance ‘til the problem ends! (The Flabby Tabby eats more lasagna, and Bunky juggles three cans)
Ah, dance away despair (The chickens, cubs, and Bunky form a conga line)
And gloom, (Odie pops up next to Garfield and pulls him off the cage) and doom (Despite his lasagna feast being cut off, the Tubby Tabby is more than happy to dance with his best friend)
Everything goes better with music! (Garfield and Odie make the peace sign with their paws in front of their faces, pull their paws away, and shake their behinds. Rinse, repeat)
We are here, we are here, all together! (The chickens dance, too)
We are dancing with all our friends (Odie and Garfield dance, and the cubs demonstrate their twin choreography)
We will sing ‘til we have fair weather
I feel better, (Funky waves his foot to the beat, then Garfield and Odie take centerstage in a sort of group photo with the other animals) and hey, (Both pets give a thumbs-up and wink at the viewers) it’s better this way! (Garfield grins and the plane takes off into the night sky. The song ends, and with it, so does Part 4)
TO BE CONTINUED…