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The Amazing Flying Dog (FRFlag Odie au top) is the 49thUS/EU episode of the first season of The Garfield Show.

Synopsis[]

Odie begins daydreaming about being a superhero, wherein he is always able to save a black poodle. However, these prove only to be dreams, much to Odie's misery.

Plot[]

While chewing a bone on the front lawn, Odie hears the distressed cries of a black poodle inside a burning house across the street. By spinning around, Odie suddenly transforms into a superhero. He flies to the building and after the poodle safely jumps into his arms, Odie is able to blow out the fire. As a crowd congratulates him for his heroic deed, the poodle is about to do so with a kiss.

However, this all turns out to be a dream when Garfield wakes him to retrieve the remote Odie is asleep on. Odie attempts to become a superhero and jumps off the couch to fly, but falls to the ground. Odie becomes depressed over his lack of superhero ability, his mood noticed by both Jon and Garfield. Odie spots a woman walking a black poodle, but when he approaches, he finds the poodle is not the same from in his dream.

In another dream sequence, Odie is buying hot dogs for both him and the poodle. While sitting in a car stationed on a downhill slope, she sits on the brake by mistake, causing the car to slide downwards. Odie transforms into a superhero, and before the car can collide with a truck, he lifts it from the road. The dream is interrupted however when Garfield sprays him with a water pistol, leaving Odie irritated. After refusing a bone from Jon, Odie enters yet another dream, wherein a giant spider is terrorizing the city. He saves the poodle from harm, and Garfield, having noticed his restlessness, wakes him up.

Odie finally tells Garfield about his dreams, and again, fails attempting to fly. Garfield chastizes Odie for being illogical and tells him to stop daydreaming. Walking off, Garfield decides to go to Vito's pizzeria, but finds out that the shortest route there is being filled with asphalt and repaved. Undeterred, Garfield ignores the warning and as a result, gets stuck in asphalt. As the construction team start up the steamroller, distraction means nobody notices Garfield. Hearing the commotion, Odie climbs the roof of the house and sees Garfield's predicament.

Passing by, the black poodle from Odie's dream spots Garfield and tries to help him, but she too ends up pulled into the asphalt. Odie, now determined, leaps off the roof and, using his ears like wings, he begins to fly. Just in time, he grabs Garfield and the poodle. The poodle rewards Odie with a kiss while Garfield, unable to fathom what happened, himself wakes up from a dream. He tells Odie about the dream, and the two end up agreeing that it's silly idea.

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Trivia[]

  • The giant bone in this episode is similar to the one from Bone Diggers.

Cultural references[]

  • Odie’s superhero appearance and powers are similar to Superman.
  • Are You Smarter Than Lasagna? is a parody of the television show, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?.

Goofs[]

  • At the end, Odie's says "Ta-da!". The subtitles on Netflix renders this line as "What's up?"
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