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[The episode starts with Garfield watching the television]
Man on television: Hello, and welcome to a very special Garfield cartoon. It's special because it's not about Garfield.
Garfield: What? Why isn't it about me?
Man on television: It's about Mrs. Ferret.
Garfield: Mrs. Ferret? Her?
Man on television: That's right. A lot of viewers have been asking about her. They want to know who she is.
Garfield: She's a ferret who gets way too excited.
Man on television: They want to know where she came from.
Garfield: I ask myself that every time she's on the show.
Man on television: And they might want to hear what happened last week.
Garfield: Oh! Yeah, that might make a good episode. Okay.
[The episode pans into the television screen filmed outside Liz’s veterinary clinic]
Man on television: [narrates] All right then… It all started one day when someone brought a house pet to Liz's veterinary clinic.
Man 1: We got her about a week ago. She seems very… active.
Liz: Uh-huh. Ferrets are like that. Ferrets sleep most of the day. But when they're awake, they burn up energy at an amazing rate. This is an animal that must be fed constantly with several meals a day.
Garfield: Are you sure she isn't talking about me?
Man 1: I'd like her to have a complete checkup.
Liz: Fine. Just come back tomorrow around this time and pick her up.
Man 1: Fine.
Liz: And make sure you come back for her. You'd be amazed how many people abandon unwanted pets here.
Man 1: Oh, I wouldn't think of abandoning that cute, adorable ferret. Bye. [leaves Liz’s veterinary clinic feeling relieved] I got rid of her! Quick, Rebecca! Let's get out of here and move to another country!
[The man enters the yellow car in the passenger seat and the car drives off immediately]
Man on television: [narrates] Within a week or two, it became apparent the ferret's owner was not coming back for her. So Liz let someone else adopt Mrs. Ferret.
[The woman taking out Mrs. Ferret inside the cage]
Woman 1: My children will absolutely adore her.
[The woman knocks on the door of Liz’s veterinary clinic to return Mrs. Ferret]
Man on television: [narrates] Nine hours later…
Woman 1: You take this monster back!
Man on television: [narrates] The next day, someone else adopted Mrs. Ferret.
Old man: Hey. What a great pet she'll make.
[The old man takes out Mrs. Ferret inside the cage and immediately returns back to Liz’s veterinary clinic]
Liz: Huh?
Old man: You take this creature back right now!
[The scene changes to everyone returning Mrs. Ferret back to Liz’s veterinary clinic in frustration]
Laraine: This is the worst pet I ever had! Take her back!
Liz: You didn't think she was cute?
Laraine: No. Mister, can you imagine what it's like to have a pet that is either sleeping or demanding to be fed?
Jon: No, I can't imagine what that would be like.
Laraine: Well, I'm gonna go get a pet that will be a lot more fun… like a slug.
[Laraine leaves the veterinary clinic room]
Liz: I don't know what to do about her, Jon. I can't leave her here in the clinic overnight. She has to be fed every two hours.
Jon: Well, take her home with you.
Liz: I can't. You know about my new landlord and pets in the building. Could you keep her at your house?
Jon: Sure, no problem.
Garfield: I was watching my favorite TV show…
Eddie Gourmand from television: I, your ambassador of edibles, Eddie Gourmand, will be sharing recipes. I have 112 ways to…
Garfield: I can't watch a food show without food.
Eddie Gourmand from television: Ways to fix…
[Garfield enters the kitchen and sees Mrs. Ferret asleep inside the cage]
Garfield: But then I remembered something. When Mrs. Ferret was asleep. She wasn't eating. Which meant I could get food. [opens the cupboard door and takes a pack of marshmallows] Shh. I had to pick out the quietest food so as not to wake Mrs. Ferret. I finally decided that marshmallows were quiet.
[Mrs. Ferret wakes up and unlocks the cage. Then she takes the pack of marshmallows that Garfield was about to eat and eats all the marshmallows including the one that was stuck on Garfield’s claw]
Garfield: You ate my marshmallow. [Mrs. Ferret eats all the fruit inside the refrigerator] You ate all the fruit. [the oven opens with the cooked turkey and Mrs. Ferrets eat all of the turkey] You ate the turkey Jon roasted for dinner tonight, tomorrow night, and the night after!
Mrs. Ferret: I'm a ferret! I have to eat to keep up my energy.
Garfield: Hey, I eat a lot of food, but at least I leave something for somebody else. Well, at least I occasionally leave something for somebody else.
[Jon is serving Garfield a hot bowl of cream lasagna soup]
Jon: Here you go, Garfield. A nice, hot bowl of your favorite soup.
Garfield: Oh boy! Cream of lasagna!
[Mrs. Ferret consumes all of the cream lasagna soup in the bowl before Garfield is about to consume it]
Mrs. Ferret: Sorry.
[Garfield switches on the television and takes a cookie from the plate to eat]
Eddie Gourmand: Tune in for tomorrow's show, when we're going to put tons of whipped cream all over everything.
[The phrase “whipped cream” causes Mrs. Ferret to be hyperactive around Garfield]
Mrs. Ferret: “Whipped cream?” I love whipped cream more than anything else in the world.
[Mrs. Ferret eats everything on the plate includes taking the cookie from Garfield’s hand]
Garfield: Odie, the time has come to find a new home for Mrs. Ferret.
Man on television: [narrates] So Garfield decided he had to do something. [Garfield makes advert posters to adopt Mrs. Ferret on the computer] He printed out ads that asked people if they wanted to adopt a ferret. Then he posted the ads all over the neighborhood.
[Garfield had finished placing the advert posters across the neighborhood]
Garfield: Someone's gotta be dumb enough to take her off our hands.
[Odie barks and the episode pans to Nathan’s mother who is looking at the advert poster]
Man on television: [narrates] Well, it turned out someone was apparently dumb enough.
Jon: [on the telephone] So she's a neighbor, and she called in and says she wants Mrs. Ferret.
Liz: [on the telephone] That's great, Jon, if you think she'll provide a good home.
Jon: [on the telephone] Oh, she's a very nice lady with a son who's very well behaved. I'll take Mrs. Ferret over there right now.
Man on television: [narrates] And that's just what he did.
[Jon takes Mrs. Ferret inside the cage to the house belonging to Nathan’s mother]
Nathan’s mother: This is wonderful. Oh! My son will be so happy with his new little playmate.
[The episode pans to inside Nathan’s bedroom where he busy with his experiments]
Man on television: [narrates] Unfortunately, the son was…
Garfield: Nathan, the youngest, nastiest mad scientist in the fourth grade.
Man on television: [narrates] Nathan was working on a super grow ray.
Nathan: This will finally enable me to rule the world.
Nathan’s mother: Nathan, I have a surprise for you.
[Nathan’s mother is walking upstairs carrying Mrs. Ferret inside the cage]
Nathan: Just what I need in order to conquer the planet! [Nathan’s mother is handing over Mrs. Ferret and she was shocked at Nathan laughing evilly] I mean… Oh, what a great animal to play with.
[Nathan returns to laughing evilly with Mrs. Ferret feeling scared]
Man on television: [narrates] Soon, Nathan was ready to unleash his new invention.
[Nathan uses his invention ray on Mrs. Ferret]
Nathan: Here it goes.
[Mrs. Ferret faints from the ray and Nathan unlocks the cage to free her, she uses this opportunity to escape from the window. However, the rays took its effect on Mrs. Ferret while she was walking in the neighborhood, this causes her to grow to a gigantic size]
Man on television: [narrates] In no time at all, Mrs. Ferret had grown to the height of an apartment house. [Nathan laughs evilly at his experiment on Mrs. Ferret] A large apartment house.
[Everyone in the neighborhood was scared and ran away from a giant Mrs. Ferret]
Man on television: [narrates] And of course, as she grew, so did her need to eat.
[Mrs. Ferret picks up a tree to eat pulling it apart from its roots]
Garfield: Yeah, I'm pretty proud of myself. Mrs. Ferret is no longer a big problem.
[Odie points out the giant Mrs. Ferret in the neighborhood]
Man on television: [narrates] It turned out Mrs. Ferret was still a big problem. The biggest.
[Mrs. Ferret throws the tree which lands in front of Garfield and Odie. Mrs. Ferret is seen picking up cars and houses to try to eat and causing fear for everyone in the neighborhood]
Man on television: [narrates] As her appetite grew, she switched from trees to cars… and from cars to houses. Panic was growing across the city. The cat realized it was up to him to come up with a brilliant plan. I’m not sure why you thought that, Garfield.
Garfield: Because this is The Garfield Show. I have to save the day, and I did. I came up with a brilliant plan.
Eddie Gourmand: [in Garfield’s thought cloud] Tune in for tomorrow's show when we're going to put tons of whipped cream all over everything.
Garfield: So I remembered something she said.
Mrs. Ferret: [in Garfield’s thought cloud] I love whipped cream more than anything else in the world.
Garfield: Ah! I had a three-step plan.
[Garfield and Odie run towards the television station]
Garfield: [narrates] Step one, go to the TV station and borrow all the whipped cream Eddie Gourmand was gonna use tomorrow.
[Garfield and Odie secretly drive off with the tank truck holding whipped cream behind Eddie Gourmand’s back. In the neighborhood, Mrs. Ferret is still terrorizing the residents and takes something for the Harvey’s garage]
Garfield: [narrates] Step two, cover the house where Nathan lives with whipped cream.
[Garfield and Odie covers the whole of Nathan’s house with whipped cream and decoratives it like an ice cream sundae]
Garfield: [narrates] Step three, tell Mrs. Ferret about the lovely sundae we made for her.
Garfield: Hey.
[Garfield whistles for Mrs. Ferret’s attention on Nathan’s house covered in whipped cream]
Mrs. Ferret: Whipped cream! I love whipped cream more than anything else in the world.
[Mrs. Ferret runs towards the house covered in whipped cream]
Nathan: Unless they make me ruler of the world, I'll unleash an army of giant ferrets! [earthquake sounds interrupt his computer work] Hey! What's goin' on? [opens the window] She's eating our house!
[Mrs. Ferret licks the whipped cream causing everything to shake inside Nathan’s house]
Garfield: [narrates] Nathan realized that she was gonna eat the entire house, and he was in that house. So the only thing that could stop him from becoming ferret food was to reverse the ray.
[Nathan uses the ray to revert Mrs. Ferret to her normal size and Garfield catches Mrs. Ferret before she lands on the ground. Also, Nathan’s house was destroyed in the process and made his mother upset while she was coming home wheeling a shopping trolley]
Nathan’s mother: Oh, what has that boy done now? [gasps] I warned him. Ugh! The next time he destroyed our house, he wasn't gonna get his allowance for three whole weeks.
[Nathan manages to get himself out of the demolished house]
Mrs. Ferret: Thanks, guys. You saved me. And you have thought hate me, but not me.
Garfield: You thought right. Well, it's not that.
Mrs. Ferret: It's just that whenever I'm awake, I'm eating. Well, I can't help that. I wish someone would adopt me. Someone who eats the way I do.
Garfield: I was thinking the same thing, Odie. Mrs. Ferret, I think I have the perfect master for you…
[Inside Liz’s veterinary clinic, Garfield, Jon, Liz and Odie are watching Eddie Gourmand on television]
Eddie Gourmand: I was going to put whipped cream on things today, but someone borrowed my whipped cream to spread on a house. Can you believe that? But I do want to introduce you to my new little friend, Mrs. Ferret. [shows Mrs. Ferret] Mrs. Ferret sleeps most of the day then eats everything all at once. Just like me.
Liz: I think Mrs. Ferret finally has a home.
Jon: That was a great idea, guys.
Eddie Gourmand: Today, I wanna discuss the best way to eat watermelon. [Mrs. Ferret eats all of the watermelon placed on the table] Keep it away from your pet ferret.
Man on television: [narrates] But it was a great idea, and Garfield was pretty happy after that. Getting rid of Mrs. Ferret meant he got his living space back and could eat what he wanted when he wanted.
Garfield: And there's something even better than that. The next episode? It'll be all about me.
Man on television: [narrates] Gee, I was hoping it would be all about me.
Garfield: Not a chance.
[Garfield uses the television remote to end the episode]
THE END