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Reigning Cats and Dogs is the third segment from the seventh episode of the third season of Garfield and Friends.

Synopsis[]

Garfield hosts a show on why cats are better than dogs.

Plot[]

Cats everywhere are tuning into their TV's to watch a show (sponsored by Luigi's Drive-Thru Lasagna). It is a debate on why cats are superior to dogs; Garfield will be hosting it. Garfield answers simply by saying that cats just are better until he is forced out there to give more detail on the answer. He requests a dog for a demonstration, resulting in Odie's appearance. When Garfield needs a cat to be representative, he picks himself, despite Nermal volunteering at first.

The first reason is given with how animals ask for food following footage of Jon taking a pie out of the oven. In the dog version, Odie circles Jon and barks for the pie until Jon gives in and lets him have it. In the cat version, Garfield steals the pie by using a magnet to pull it by the tin.

The next reason involves cats and dogs with interaction in a slide show. The dog version has Odie doing the activities in question while the cat version has Garfield just sleeping to get out of it.

  • Exercise: Odie frolics; Garfield naps.
  • Playing ball: Odie fetches the ball; Garfield holds up a "NO!" sign.
  • Going to the store: Odie takes the money in his mouth; Garfield holds up a phone to have Jon call the market and have the groceries delivered.

Nermal comes back and begs Garfield to let him on the show. Garfield then puts him in a crate addressed to Abu Dhabi. Garfield then demonstrates fetching the paper. In the dog version, the paper has drool and paw prints and teeth marks all over it. In the cat version, Garfield acts as a paperboy.

The show gets interrupted and Garfield finds that a bunch of angry dogs have been watching and come to complain about how Garfield is lambasting their kind. They threaten him to stop. Nermal breaks free of the crate and demands to explain why cats are superior. Under the threats he just got, Garfield craftily allows Nermal to take over the show while he and Odie leave. Nermal says all the unkind things Garfield was gonna say, leading to the dogs chasing Nermal out of the studio. Garfield states that he finally found a use for dogs: getting rid of Nermal.

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Trivia[]

  • The title of this episode is a play on the phrase "raining cats and dogs", an idiom for when it rains hard.
  • Garfield ends his promise to Nermal in "First Class Feline", which Nermal alludes to when he is in the crate.
  • Unusually for an animal character in a Garfield segment, Rover moves his mouth when he 'talks'.
  • One of the cats watching the show resembles Fluffy from "Lights! Camera! Garfield!"


Garfield and Friends
Episodes

"Pest of a Guest / The Impractical Joker / Fat & Furry" • "Rip Van Kitty / Grabbity / The Big Catnap" • "The Great Getaway / Scrambled Eggs / Hansel and Garfield" • "The Sludge Monster / Fortune Kooky / Heatwave Holiday" • "One Good Fern Deserves Another / Goody-Go-Round / The Black Book" • "The Legend of the Lake / Double Oh Orson / Health Feud" • "Binky Gets Cancelled! / Show Stoppers / Cutie and the Beast" • "The Lasagna Zone / Sleepytime Pig / Yojumbo" • "Pros and Cons / Rooster Revenge / Lights! Camera! Garfield!" • "Polecat Flats / Hogcules / Brain Boy" • "Maine Course / No Laughing Matter / Attack of the Mutant Guppies" • "Robodie / First Aid Wade / Video Victim" • "The Curse of Klopman / Mud Sweet Mud / Rainy Day Dreams" • "Basket Brawl / Origin of Power Pig / Cactus Jake Rides Again" • "Binky Goes Bad! / Barn of Fear / Mini-Mall Matters" • "Attention-Getting Garfield / Swine Trek / It Must Be True!" • "Arrivaderci, Odie! / Gort Goes Good / Feeling Feline" • "The Bear Facts / Nothing To Be Afraid Of / The Big Talker" • "Cactus Makes Perfect / Hogcules II / Crime and Nourishment" • "T.V. of Tomorrow / Little Red Riding Egg / Well Fed Feline" • "Invasion of the Big Robots / Shelf Esteem / Housebreak Hotel" • "First Class Feline / Hamelot / How to Be Funny!" • "Mystic Manor / Flop Goes the Weasel / The Legend of Long Jon" • "China Cat / Cock-a-Doodle Dandy / Beach Blanket Bonzo" • "Lemon Aid / Hog Noon / Video Airlines" • "The Mail Animal / Peanut-Brained Rooster / Mummy Dearest"

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