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[The episode starts with Garfield in the garden.]
Garfield: Ah… I love these days when the flowers are in bloom, and the leaves on the trees are green. And amazingly, they aren't even plastic. [Garfield begins to jump from the garden chair into the flowers] This is the kind of day when the world should be framed and hung in an art gallery. [Lands inside the flowers and swims inside it] The kind of day when nothing can budge me from the peace and serenity of my bed of flowers.
Jon: Garfield! Lunch is ready!
Garfield: The kind of day when the flowers can wait because lunch is ready. [Runs to the dining table] Hi, Odie. What's new? Tell me later, I want to eat now.
[Jon serving sandwiches for lunch]
Jon: Here you go guys! I made you… [sneezes]
Garfield: Quick! Slow motion!
[Garfield gets up from the chair to catch the sandwiches to eat in his mouth.]
Jon: Thank you, Odie. I don't know what’s wrong I've been sneezing all the time lately. [sneezing]
[Garfield demands Jon to refill his plate]
Garfield: Refill, please.
Jon: [sneezing] No, it isn't all the time. It's just when I'm around you.
Garfield: Moa?
Jon: Could I be allergic to cats?
[The scene changes to Jon visiting the doctor inquiring about his allergy to cats.]
Doctor: No, Mr. Arbuckle. The test shows you're definitely not allergic to cat hair.
Jon: But I keep sneezing every time Garfield is around. And I'm not sneezing now. Are you sure, doc?
Doctor: Well, according to this, you're only allergic to a few things: antelope, goldenrod and grilled asparagus. No cat hair.
Jon: So, why do I sneeze around Garfield?
Doctor: There is one possibility. On TV tonight, there's a show about it. I think you should watch.
[The scene changes to Jon and Odie watching television]
Man from television: And now, the Humanimal Specialist!
Dr. Whipple: Sometimes, sneezing is not caused by a cold or allergy. Sometimes, it's caused by suppressed anger.
Jon: Anger? But I'm not angry at Garfield. Well, not all the time.
Dr. Whipple: You see, suppressed anger is anger you hide. Sometimes, you even hide it from yourself and you don't know it's inside of you. But it has to come out somehow. And sometimes, it comes out as a sneeze.
Jon: Oh, that's ridiculous.
Dr. Whipple: If this is the case, you either have to deal with the anger, or get rid of whatever is making you angry.
Jon: [Turns off the television] Let's go have dinner. I made a roast turkey with all the trimmings. [Jon and Odie walk to the kitchen] That nutty doctor! I am not mad at Garfield and that is not making me sneeze. [Realizes the roast turkey has been eaten with only the bones left] Garfield! You ate the entire turkey dinner? [Garfield hiccupping after eating the roast turkey] You ate all the mashed potatoes and stuffing and corn pudding and rolls? [Garfield hiccupping to answer] Do you have any shame? [Garfield hiccupping] Did you leave anything for us?
[Garfield hiccups and hands over a wishbone]
Garfield: Here. Make a wish. Me, I'm wishing for another turkey.
[Jon becomes angry causing him to be sneezing and his hard sneezing causing him to crash into the wall. Odie walks out of the kitching.]
Garfield: I get my wish!
[Jon is researching on the computer about his allergy problems.]
Jon: I can't be allergic to Garfield. There's got to be a sneezing cure of some kind. [Odie appears behind Jon] I'm researching something online, Odie. Remember, everything you read on the Internet is absolutely true. Here's a site that says wearing garlic can cure sneezing. Oh! I need garlic! [Jon dashes out of the room to get the garlic and Odie whines why Jon needs garlic.]
[Jon placed a dozen bulbs of garlic on his head.]
Jon: A dozen bulbs of garlic. That will stop my sneezing. Liz won't come near me for a month, but it will stop my sneezing.
[Garfield sneakily eats a garlic bulb from Jon’s head, causing the latter to be sneezing.]
Jon: Oh. I've got to try something else!
[Jon is taking a hot bath with Odie by his side.]
Jon: Someone online said a hot bath can cure sneezing. Ah, and it seems to be working. It's funny. I came in to run the water, and I found the tub was already full, so I jumped in.
[Garfield runs over to the bathroom holding a ladle.]
Garfield: Hey! What are you doing in my crab gumbo?
[Jon screams when he is bitten by a few crabs.]
Garfield: [Using the ladle to taste the hot bath] Needs more salt and less Jon.
Jon: Heat lamp. That will stop sneezing.
[Jon is relaxing under the heat lamp in the living room.]
Jon: Ah! This should do it.
[Garfield uses this opportunity to cook the popcorn under the heat lamp, by placing the bowl on Jon’s lap. Jon sees the popcorn cooking and screams when it is cooked all over the living room.]
Garfield: [Eating while walking over the popcorn] Hold still. I'm adding the melted butter.
Jon: [sneezing] That's it! [sneezing] Tomorrow morning, I'm… [sneezing] ...going to see that doctor on TV! [sneezing]
[The scene changes to Jon seeing Dr. Whipple.]
Dr. Whipple: As I said on my show, Mr. Arbuckle, sneezing can be caused by anger. This cat of yours, tell me everything he does.
[Dr. Whipple starts to jot down notes on what Jon is saying.]
Jon: Well, he sleeps.
Dr. Whipple: What else?
Jon: He eats.
Dr. Whipple: Yes, what else?
Jon: That's it.
Dr. Whipple: That's it?
Jon: Well once in a while, he torments our puppy Odie or the mailman.
Dr. Whipple: How exactly does he torment this puppy?
Jon: How doesn't he? Last week for instance, he got a box of gelatin mix. [Garfield pours the gelatin mix into Odie’s bowl] Then he poured it into Odie's water dish.
[Garfield hides the gelatin mix and goes out of sight when Odie appears. Odie licks his bowl for water and gets his tongue into the gelatin mix.]
Dr. Whipple: I see. I see! Now, were you mad at your cat for doing this?
Jon: Mad? Well, maybe a little mad. But no, I don't get mad at Garfield.
Dr. Whipple: Well, you said he did something to your mailman?
Jon: Every day, practically. It's like Garfield waits for him. [Herman Post tries to place the letter through the letterbox] The other day, he took our vacuum cleaner.
[Garfield turns on the vacuum cleaner at the letterbox and sucks Herman’s head through the letterbox.]
Dr. Whipple: Now, did that make you mad at your cat, Arbuckle? Be honest.
Jon: Yes, I… No, I don't let those things bother me. I almost did though. It was about three weeks ago.
Jon: [speaking from the scenario] I know, you’re thinking the ice cream truck will be along any minute and you want some. The answer is no. N-O. No. I don't feel like walking out to the curb.
[Ice cream truck was forced to turn right towards the house after there were a number of signs deliberately placed on the road.]
Jon: The ice cream truck sounds like it's getting real close.
[The ice cream truck destroys the house by crashing into it.]
Garfield: Could I have some money for a quarter of lasagna ripple?
Dr. Whipple: Well, Mr. Arbuckle, it's obvious what's making you sneeze. You can't admit that you're mad at your cat.
Jon: I am mad at my cat. I didn't want to say those words, but you're right, doctor. I'm mad at my cat. I'm very mad at my cat.
Dr. Whipple: Say the words, Arbuckle.
Jon: I'm mad at my cat.
Dr. Whipple: You must confess before the entire world.
Jon: [yelling] I'm mad at my cat!
Dr. Whipple: Louder, Arbuckle!
Jon: [yelling out of the window] I'm mad at my cat!
Elderly man: Who's doing all that yelling?
Elderly woman: Oh, some guy who's mad at his cat.
Elderly man: Is he really mad at his cat?
Elderly woman: He sounds really mad at his cat.
Jon: [yelling out of the window] I'm mad at my cat!
Elderly man: Oh, he must be that Arbuckle guy.
Elderly woman: Oh, the one with the cat that eats all the lasagna?
Jon: [laughing] I did it, doctor! I confronted my anger! I admitted I was mad at my cat.
Dr. Whipple: Excellent, my boy. Now, you just have to do one more thing and you'll be rid of your sneezing problem forever.
Jon: Ah! Anything. What is it?
Dr. Whipple: Well, now, of course, you get rid of your cat.
Jon: Of course, I'll get rid of my cat, and I won't be sneezing… Get rid of my cat? Get rid of Garfield?
Dr. Whipple: Of course. He makes you sneeze, and, as you admit, you are mad at him.
Jon: But I couldn't get rid of Garfield. That would be like getting rid of my right arm.
Dr. Whipple: Think it over, Arbuckle. If you don't have the courage to get rid of your cat, do you know what people will say to you?
Jon: Yeah. They're going to say "Gesundheit" a lot. Thank you, doctor.
Dr. Whipple: What an odd young man. I can't understand why he won't cure his problem.
Woman 1: Patient gone? Good. It's our wedding anniversary, you know. And you have to drive me to my mother's house.
Dr. Whipple: [clears throat] Yes, dear. [sneezing]
[Jon drives back home and parks in front of the garage]
Garfield: Jon's home! [Runs to the living room to talk to Odie] Odie, I've decided I've given Jon a pretty bad time lately.
Odie: [muttering] You?
Garfield: Yeah. I have an attack of conscience at least once a year. I'm going to give him a gift to apologize.
Jon: Garfield, I found out my sneezing was caused because I was angry at you. Well, I've decided something. No matter what you do, I'll never, ever be mad at you again.
Garfield: No matter what I do? Wow. Okay. [brings the gift for Jon] Here's something for you.
[Garfield hands over the flower gift to Jon]
Jon: Oh! You picked me some flowers? That's nice, Garfield. You have so many different kinds: you have daisies, and daffodils, and goldenrod… [sneezing] Goldenrod?
Garfield: Yeah, goldenrod! It's been blooming outside lately. [goes outside and jumps into the goldenrod] And I just love to sleep in it and roll around in it.
Jon: You've been rolling around in goldenrod? A flower I'm… [sneezing] ...allergic to? That's what's been making me… [sneezing] ...sneeze? And I went through all those cures, and went to that doctor… [sneezing] And all that because of that? I'm mad at you, Garfield!
Garfield: "No matter what you do, I'll never be mad at you again." Gee, that didn't last long.
Jon: [yelling] I'm mad at my cat! [sneezing] I'm mad at my cat!
Elderly woman: Poor man. It sounds like he's got a cold. Or maybe it's an allergy to goldenrod.
Jon: [yelling to the whole world] I'm mad at my cat! I'm mad at my cat!
[The episode ends Jon sneezing and yelling to the whole world with the planet earth shaking.]
THE END