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(This episode begins one night in Jon's neighborhood. Jon is sitting in his backyard chair, stargazing)
Jon: Ah. (He clasps his hands together. Garfield steps out the back door, irritated)
Garfield: You're not cooking... (He points behind him with his thumb)
Jon: Oh, hi, Garfield.
Garfield: Huh?
Jon: (continuing) You probably noticed I'm not cooking. (The camera zooms in on Garfield)
Garfield: What?
Jon: Sigh. I will in a moment. (Garfield flinches and puts his hands on his hips) It's just that sometimes I like to come out here and look at the stars. (He points at the sky. Garfield looks up) They're so peaceful. They're so beautiful.
Garfield: Sigh… (He leans against the door)
Jon: Gasp! Look! (He points) You see that? (A comet shoots across the sky) It's a shooting star! (Garfield and Odie join him outside) Wow! You know what a shooting star is, Garfield? (Odie trots behind his master's chair)
Odie: Quiet mutters
Jon: (continuing) It's a meteoroid entering the earth's atmosphere. (Garfield and Odie stand on either side of Jon)
Garfield: Great. Let's do dinner. (He grabs Jon's arm and violently yanks him out of the chair. Odie hops after them)
(Once inside, Jon takes a moment to gaze out the window above the sink)
Jon: That was terrific! (Behind him, his pets stand on their chairs at the kitchen table. They both have a fork and knife in each of their paws) I wish I was up at the observatory watching it though their big telescope! (The impatient pets bang their silverware on the tabletop)
Garfield: (chanting) Dinner on the table! Dinner on the table! Dinner on the table! (Odie barks in unison with Garfield's chanting, and they both bounce their legs on their chairs)
Odie: Bark, bark, bark! Bark, bark, bark! Bark, bark, bark!
(At the observatory Jon was talking about earlier, the telescope extends. Inside, Professor Bonkers and his assistant notice the asteroid. The assistant walks up to the giant computer screen and looks nervously at it)
Bonkers' assistant: Professor Bonkers, (He turns around to the scientist, who is watching through the giant telescope) did you see the shooting star?
Professor Bonkers: Yes, (he points up) a meteor from the Beta-Blue space quadrant! (It lands in a field with a loud thud)
Bonkers' assistant: Ooh! (He turns around to read the computer, and then faces the professor) Radar says it was down to the size of a gumball, (He approximates a size of a gumball with his hand) and it landed in the north hills! (He points up) Beta-Blue, you say? (Bonkers lowers the chair that he was sitting on to look through the telescope)
Professor Bonkers: Some scientists say that meteors (He gets up from the chair and walks toward his assistant) from the Beta-Blue have regressive powers!
Bonkers' assistant: Ooh!
Professor Bonkers: (continuing) They say ANYTHING that comes into contact with one is turned back (He stand over his assistant menacingly) into its prehistoric form! (The camera zooms in on his angry eyes)
(The next day, a hiker talks to someone named Gertrude on the phone)
Traveler: Yes, Gertrude, I'm hiking up here in the north hills. It's very invigorating up here, and I'm having such a g... (He is interrupted when he sees something on the ground. It is a glowing blue rock, the asteroid that landed the night before. He looks down at it and–as a car passes–picks it up) Oh, I just found something odd, Gertrude. It's some sort of glowing rock. It's like a meteor or a... (After a moment of holding it, the rock begins its effect. The traveler is turned into a caveman with a club) Ahhh! (He tosses the rock into his mouth) Chews (Grossed out by the taste, he spits it out) Spit! Spit! Spit! Spit! (The rock bounces on the street and lands in a car. The car itself transforms into an early 1900s model. The driver–who is still normal–is confused)
Driver: Oh! Hey! Wow! (He watches the traveler turned caveman)
Traveler: Growls AHH! (No longer carrying the asteroid, he returns to his modern-day self) As I was saying, Gertrude, It's very invigorating up here! Really really brings out the caveman in you! (The car chugs along in one direction and the traveler hikes in the other)
(In the city, Jon takes his pets for a make-up lunch at Vito's)
Jon: I'm sorry I didn't cook dinner earlier last night, guys. Maybe lunch at Vito's will make up for it!
Garfield: (To the viewers) Works for me.
Odie: Right! (He accidentally steps in gum) Uh-oh! (He tries pulling his paw free) Angry mutters (Jon and Garfield turn around to see the pup's predicament)
Jon: Oh, gum! (Garfield blows a bubble out of bubble gum) I can't stand people who chew gum and just discard it and make a mess! (Garfield slurps his gum back into his mouth before Jon notices) Isn't that awful, Garfield?
Garfield: That's so rude.
Odie: Mutters (He continues trying to free himself while his friends watch, but the gum is too sticky. At that moment, Vito bursts out of the restaurant shooing flies with a fly swatter)
Vito: Away! Away! You get out of my restaurant, you pesky flies! (He takes a couple of swings at the insects) All of you! (He sees Jon and Garfield) Ahh, signore Arbuckle! (He steps to the side) Welcome to Vito's! (He gestures toward his door, welcoming them in)
Jon: Thanks, Vito. (He and the Tubby Tabby look at each other, the latter's lips covered with gum) Oh!
Garfield: Huh? Oh… (He feels the gum on his lips with his paw. He grins nervously) Chuckles
Jon: Odie, come in and join us as soon as you get that gum off your paw. (Garfield and Jon enter the restaurant while Odie struggles with the gum. The pup agrees)
Odie: Mm-hmm. Strains (He pulls harder and harder, gritting his teeth and tugging as far as he can)
(Nearby, the old car from earlier is causing a traffic jam. A driver behind the slow-moving vehicle honks his horn. Smoke billows out of the ancient car, and the driver gets so frustrated that he bangs his fists on the steering wheel)
Driver: AAAAARRRGHHHH! (He hits it so hard the asteroid shoots out of the front and lands behind Odie. The pooch does not notice, as he is still struggling to free his paw)
Odie: Strains (A fly buzzes in front of him) Huh? (He tries shooing it away with his ears) Grunts (The fly buzzes off, leaving the compassionate canine stuck with the gum) Aw… (The fly then buzzes to the time-reversing rock while the old car, now without the asteroid, turns back into a modern car and zooms away. Odie, meanwhile, struggles to free himself) Strains Oh! (He sees a giant, prehistoric fly with teeth resembling a saber-tooth tiger. The insect flies away)
(Inside the restaurant, Jon and Garfield place their order with Vito)
Jon: My cat will have the left side of the menu… (Garfield blows another bubble and sucks it back into his mouth. Vito looks at him)
Garfield: Chuckle (He grins)
Vito: Excellent choice. (He writes it down. Another customer–one who resembles Mr. Schnitzel from the episode Full of Beans–calls for him)
Complaining customer: Excuse me, waiter, there's a FLY in my soup! (He points at his bowl)
Vito: One moment, signore. (He glances behind him. Jon finishes Garfield's order for him)
Jon: (continuing) and the right side of the menu. (The Complaining customer trembles in fear)
Vito: One of our most POPULAR sides of the menu.
Complaining customer: Waiter! There's a FLY in my soup! (He points at it again)
Vito: Uno memento, signore! Please! (The customer points and shakes some more)
Jon: Anything else, Garfield? (The fat cat points at the back of the menu, the side with all the desserts) Oh yes, the back of the menu. (By now, the other customer is cowering under the table)
Vito: Oh, one of my specialties!
Complaining customer: I still have this fly in my soup! (As Jon sees what the customer is complaining about, his mouth hangs open in surprise. Vito turns around angrily)
Vito: Signore, can you not see I'm busy with another customer? Tell me, what is the big deal about a fly in your soup? (The man behind Vito sees the fly also and is repulsed)
Complaining customer: Well, it's rather large! (The prehistoric fly stands on the table and sucks up the soup. The customer on the other side of the table screams)
Man: AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
Fly: ROAR!
Jon and Vito: AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!
Jon: Oh-oh-oh-OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH! Oof! (Garfield blows a bubble, pops it, and Jon falls backwards in his chair)
Garfield: Can we make that order to go? (Everyone does, as they all flee from the restaurant)
People: AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! (Odie, who is still outside trying to pull his paw free, watches them, but is still focused on extricating his paw)
Odie: Strains (After one more tug, the gum snaps and the poor pooch flips through the air onto the glowing asteroid) Ow! Ow! Ow! (He landed hard on his stomach, but now something else is under his paw) Bark! (He lifts it up to reveal the asteroid is stuck to him. He tries shaking it free, only to find it is stuck there) Bark! Bark! Bark! Ow! Ow! (He sounds desperate to get it off of him. His front right paw cannot catch a break)
(Nearby, Jon, Garfield, and Vito hide inside of some garbage cans. While inside them, they all tremble in fear. Jon and Garfield lift the lids and peek outside, and the top of Vito's chef hat rises from the third can)
Jon and Vito: Oh! (Jon holds the lid and looks around. Vito stands up all the way)
Jon: Vito, do something! (Garfield stands upright)
Garfield: Oh, you need a swatter the size of a FOOTBALL field!
Vito: I'm gonna call for help! (He does so. A garbled voice replies on the other end) This is Vito, of Vito's pizzeria. I would like to report a monster! Thank you. (He hangs up) They'll be here in two seconds! (He wiggles two fingers. Garfield counts them down)
Garfield: (To the viewers) One...two... (Several police cars pull up. Garfield turns to the audience) What TOOK them so long? (Several cops walk up to them)
Policeman: What's this monster you reported?
Vito: It's a fly!
Policeman: (not believing it) All right... (He points back at the cars with his thumb, hinting that this is a waste of time. Jon hops forward, still in his can)
Jon: No officer, it's a MONSTER fly! It's huge and it has razor-sharp teeth! (He puts his hands to his mouth and points down, imitating the fly's saber teeth, and ducks back inside the trash can. Garfield gets out of his)
Garfield: And it can eat more than I can! (The officer snaps his fingers. He and his squad investigate, peeking through the window and then kicking the door down, only to find a regular fly buzzing above a bowl of soup. He looks around, but nothing is out of the ordinary)
Policeman: (pointing at Vito, Jon, and Garfield) I should run you all in!
Jon: Huh?! (The officers leave) Huh? (The customer with the fly in his soup steps between Jon and Vito)
Complaining customer: Next time, I'll just order a SALAD! (With the threat gone, Vito heads back inside the restaurant)
Vito: I shall go prepare the left side and the right side of the menu.
Garfield: Don't forget the back! (He points up and calls to Vito) That's the best part! (In the commotion, Jon notices Odie's absence)
Jon: Garfield, where's Odie? (Garfield blows and pops a bubble of gum)
Garfield: Wha? (He turns around quickly) Huh?
Jon: Odie! Ooo-die! Here boy! (He and Garfield scan the area. On the other side of the street, people flee in terror of something) Hmm, I wonder where Odie went. (Giant footsteps shake the ground) Huh? (Odie runs up to him. The asteroid transformed Odie into a humongous, green dog with fangs)
Odie: Bark! (He wags his tail and lowers his head to his owner) Whimper
Jon: (weakly) Odie?
Odie: Pants Woof! (His friendly greeting is louder and deeper than ever before)
Jon: AAHHH! (He cowers in fear) Whimpers (His teeth chatter. Garfield sucks the bubble he was blowing back into his mouth)
Garfield: Wha?
Odie: Bark! Pants (He lets his tongue hang, drooling all over his friends)
Jon: AAAHHHH! (Garfield steps out of it, only for his feet to be covered in Odie's saliva. Both the cat and his owner slip and stumble, unable to get traction in Odie's drool)
Garfield: We're being drenched in doggy drool!
Jon: We need help! (He slips away, but Garfield is not so lucky)
Garfield: YOWL! Ah! Help! Super-sized slurp! (Odie licks Garfield, flinging him into the air with his enormous tongue)
Odie: Slurp!
Garfield: Help! (He spins through the air) AAHHHH! Help! (He lands safely in the bed of a truck that was filled with leaves) Ah! (He sticks his head out from the top, but he sees Odie on the street in front of him) YAAAAHHHHHH!
Odie: Pants Bark! (The driver, who resembles Jon's neighbor, Harvey, is just as surprised by the pooch)
Harvey: YAAAAHHHH! (He does a quick U-turn and speeds off) Whoa! (Odie follows him. Chasing cars has never been so easy)
Odie: Bark!
Harvey: YAAAAAAHHHHHH! (Odie slows from a run to a casual trot. In his rearview mirror, Harvey sees Odie's giant feet following him. The pup knocks over cars, still focused on Garfield, when Harvey makes a sharp left turn. Odie cannot stop himself and he skids in a different direction, smashes into something, and then runs after Garfield, upsetting more cars in the process)
(Back at Vito's, Jon is making a frantic call to the police station informing them of the incident. Vito stands next to him, quivering in fear)
Jon: You heard me! Right, that's EXACTLY what I said! (The policeman from earlier talks to Jon from the passenger seat while his partner drives the car)
Policeman: Uh-huh. (He taps his fingers on his uniform) I see. OK, thanks. (He turns to his partner) Now it's a giant puppy dog.
Policeman 2: Chuckles (The first officer grabs his radio and informs the rest of them about the situation)
Policeman: Attention all units, we have a report from a guy in Vito's pizzeria. He claims that there's a big puppy dog outside. (Al the dogcatcher drives past them in his van and overhears the bit about the giant puppy dog)
Al: Puppy dog? Sounds like this (He points up…) is right up my (and then gestures to himself) alley as a dogcatcher!
(Al turns his van to the right lane. Elsewhere in the city, in an apartment complex, Bernie strips the boy’s pet dog. The boy’s mother holds him in her arms, while he’s crying.)
Boy: (crying) That's my dog! (He points to the pup in Bernie’s hand)
Bernie: Well I'm your landlord, and your lease says you can only keep a SMALL dog in this apartment. (He points up) This (He holds the dog in front of the two tenants) is NOT a small dog!
Boy: (crying, due to his dog not being small and wanting his dog back)
Bernie: Oh, cry all you want! (The boy’s mother glares at him) I don't care! (The dog in his hand sadly waves the boy goodbye) I'm a landlord! (He leaves, puppy in tow. As he exits the building, Harvey drives by, still with Garfield in the pile of leaves, and Odie bounds up the street)
Odie: Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark!
Bernie: (screams as he stands with his mouth open in shock)
(Back inside, The boy is still crying. The boy’s mother tries to comfort him, but nothing eases him)
Boy: (crying that he misses his dog) (Bernie returns, with the dog in his hand)
Bernie: Oh, OK, you're right. It is a small dog. (The pup leaps out of his hand and reunites with its owner)
Boy’s Dog: Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark!
Boy: Yes! (They hug each other. Bernie, who overheard the giant Odie, smiles and faints)
(Outside, people flee from Odie, screaming and panicking as they do)
Odie: Bark! (He reaches the top of the hill. A police car rolls up at the bottom and the main cop opens the door and looks out. The two officers look at each other in bewilderment, then turn back to Odie in surprise)
Odie: Huh? (He spots the fountain in the park next to him. He lowers, tosses it aside with his nose, and drinks from the pool of water) Slurp! Slurp! Slurp! Huuuh? (He turns around to see police helicopters flying toward him. They circle around him, and he lets his tongue hang again. The main police officer yells through his megaphone, trying to defuse the situation)
Policeman: Do not panic, people! The National Guard is on its way to protect you from this giant monster puppy dog! (Jon runs up to him)
Jon: Don't hurt him! (Garfield sprints up on the cop's other side) He's harmless!
Garfield: Heh. He hasn't licked YOU yet. (He dusts himself off)
Jon: Garfield, we have to figure out a way to get him out of the city! (Garfield puts a paw to his lips in thought) Maybe into the countryside!
Garfield: I know! (He disappears and reappears with a stick in his mouth, bouncing and acting like Odie)
Jon: Throwing a stick so he can fetch it? (The cat nods) But how will that...? (Garfield points at a construction site, and an excavator claw of sorts) I get it! Great idea!
(They drive the excavator up the hill toward the pooch, carrying a tree with it)
Jon: Whimper (Garfield leans out the window, looking a bit nervous. They make it to Odie, but he is too distracted by the circling helicopters to notice them)
Odie: Bark! (Garfield stands and leans out the window, waving his paw to try to get Odie's attention)
Garfield: Yoo-hoo! Oh! Help! (It does not work. Odie leans on the trees around him, barking at the choppers)
Odie: Woof! Woof! Ohhh! Oooh! (Seeing he is not loud enough by himself, Garfield pulls out a megaphone)
Garfield: Odie! (Hearing his name is enough to get the prehistoric pup's attention. He looks down at his friends)
Odie: Huuuuh? (He has chased sticks, but never trees. Jon drives away, and Odie–unable to resist–charges after him. Garfield leans out the window, watching the pup)
Jon: Keep an eye on him, Garfield. we don't want to lose him! (Garfield spins around to ask Jon a valid question)
Garfield: How do you lose a mutt the size of a shopping mall? (Police cars and helicopters follow them over a bridge and out of the city)
Policeman 2: Oh! (The main cop radios for his the other officers)
Policeman: All units, let the puppy dog go! (He points at Odie) He's headed up to the North Hills! (The helicopters turn around and depart, leaving just the main three: Jon, Garfield, and Odie)
Odie: Bark! Bark, bark, bark, bark, bark! (Al drives after them so fast he catches some air on a hill)
Al: Ah, North Hills, huh? What's the big deal catching a little puppy dog? (He accelerates. Odie is still chasing that tree)
Jon: Whimpers (He pulls a lever and dangles the tree in front of the pup, and then throws it down a hill into a forested valley. As planned, Odie follows)
Odie: Bark!
(Meanwhile, Al is still hot on the trail of the puppy)
Al: Come out, little puppy dog wherever you are! (He carries his net over his shoulder) Whistles Here boy! I don't see why the police were making such a big deal. Catching dogs is easy. They're small and harmless and... (He runs into Odie's paw) Hey! (Odie's giant drool falls upon Al in large drops) The weatherman didn't say anything about rain today! (Al looks up and sees Odie, who still has the tree in his mouth)
Odie: Woof! (He lowers his head to Al's level. Al flees in terror)
Al: YAAAAAHHHHHHH! Help! Help! I'll never catch another dog again! Leave me alone! YAH-HA-HA-HA-HAAAA! (In a role reversal, Odie chases the dogcatcher. Al runs between two trees, but the tree in Odie's mouth is too wide to fit. The bumbling beagle gets the tree stuck and he flips head over heels onto Al with a large crash)
Odie: Oof! Moan (The collision left Odie a bit dazed. He shakes his head and feels something under his paw) Huh? (He lifts his paw and sees Al dangling by his nose. He is stuck to the meteorite that is still on Odie's toes)
Al: Help! Help! (The pup gently shakes him off) AAAAAHHHHHH! (Al falls to the ground, but the meteorite is now stuck to his nose. With the glowing rock no longer on him, Odie returns to his regular-sized self)
Odie: Pants Sniffs Huh? (He sees Al, who has turned into a caveman due to the rock)
Al: Grunts (He somersaults and stands with his knuckles on the ground)
Odie: Pants
(Meanwhile, Jon and Garfield are still looking for Odie in their excavator)
Jon: You see him, Garfield? (The cat slowly shakes his head no)
Garfield: Maybe we could lure him with a 10-ton doggy treat! (They hear Odie's familiar panting and bark)
Odie: Pants Bark!
Jon and Garfield: Odie! (The pup wags his tail)
Odie: Bark! (Garfield opens the door and lets his best friend in)
Jon and Garfield: Laugh (Odie hops into the cab and licks Garfield's chin)
Odie: Slurp! Slurp! Slurp! Slurp! Slurp! (Although he is happy to get his friend back, Garfield is still not a fan of getting slurped. He shakes off the slobber when Odie is done licking him)
Jon: I don't know what happened, (Odie sits between the cat and his owner and looks up at Jon) but let's not worry about that now. Let's get him home!
(That is exactly what they do. They take the excavator back, and pass by Al's truck on the way. Garfield spots it out the window)
Garfield: Hey, there's the truck...
Odie: Huh? (He turns to Garfield)
Garfield: (continuing, turning back to Odie) ...of that dumb dogcatcher who's always chasing us.
Odie: Wow. Mutters (He shakes his head sadly. Garfield pets his head and comforts him)
Garfield: Don't worry about him. (He points with his thumb behind him) He's too stupid to hurt ya. He's a real neanderthal. (As they head home, Al attacks his car with a club)
Al: Grunts laughs (The episode ends here with Odie back to normal and Al beating up his van)
THE END