Mama Meany

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Mama Meany (voiced by Gregg Berger) is a recurring antagonist in The Garfield Show. He is the archenemy of Vito Cappelletti.

Physical appearance[]

Despite his first name, Mama Meany is a man. He has a large girth and wears a cowboy hat that hides the upper half of his face. He wears a red vest over a white shirt with a black bowtie and jacket, brown and white vertical striped pants, and brown shoes.

Personality[]

Meany is a very sleazy and greedy businessman who enjoys scamming people into going to his restaurants using his tempting sales and coupons. He lacks real human integrity and does not care that his food tastes terrible, just as long as the public is dumb enough to fall for his tricks. This public confession is what caused Garfield to defeat him and get his establishments closed down in his final appearance.

Role[]

Perfect Pizza[]

Mama Meany made his first appearance in "Perfect Pizza", when Garfield discovered that Jon Arbuckle had ordered pizza from Mama Meany's Pizza Palace (due to a coupon) instead of Vito's. At first, Mama was believed to be a woman before Garfield and Jon met him personally. He revealed that his machine created the rubber pizzas. When he learned that Eddie Gourmand, the famous food critic, had called in an order for a large pizza from Vito's, Mama and one of his henchman try to sabotage the delivery. They chased Garfield and Jon, who were delivering the pizza due to Vito's van malfunctioning. However, Garfield throws pizzas he stole from their van at their windshield and cause them to crash into a billboard for their restaurant. After Eddie tasted both pizzas, Mama's lost all of his customers to Vito. He is last seen outside his restaurant bandaged up from the accident and believes he can retool his pizza machine to make tires instead, since they taste about the same.

Depths of a Salesman[]

He later appeared in "Depths of a Salesman", this time running the All-Buying-Stuff channel, a scam shopping channel where he and the host sold false products on TV. When he learned that Garfield came to get his money back after he was scammed, he ordered the security guards to capture him and not refund his money. He later promote an product call the "Awesome Audio Appliance", which was really a old tape recorder from a junkyard. While explaining this to the host, the two talk about their scam, unaware Garfield used the tape recorded to record their confession. After Garfield is caught, Mama Meany refuses to give him a refund, and states he never does so because people never catch on to his scheme. At that moment, the host advertises the audio appliance and unknowingly plays his and his boss' confession on live television. Mama Meany then gives Garfield a refund and a three-year supply of bubble wrap per his request to get him to leave. At home, Jon explains the police launch an investigation after getting so many complaints about the All-Buying-Stuff channel and Mama Meany may be forced to refund everyone he scammed to avoid prison, and the scam channel is pulled from the air.

The Lasagna Tree[]

Episode appearances[]

The Garfield Show[]

Season 1[]

"Perfect Pizza"
"Lucky Charm" (cameo on billboard)
"From the Oven" (cameo on billboard)

Trivia[]

Mama Meany shares some similarities to Papa Plastique from Mama Manicotti:
- Both are the owners of a pizza parlor.
- Both of their restaurants served terrible food.
- Both attempt to ruin their competition.
- Both lost due to Garfield.
- Both of their names are alliterations with the first part being a common nickname for an older relative.

Mama Meany

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