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The Big Talker is an episode from the second season of Garfield and Friends.
Synopsis
Garfield decides to get back at a superstitious cat hater.
Plot
Jon is watching TV and finds the program he's watching to be boring. While he's looking to see what else is on, the TV gets lassoed away by Odie who is pulling it in so Garfield can watch TV in bed. One show comes on starring Joe Palaver, who states that cats are good for nothing. Garfield wants Jon to go on the show to defend all cats, despite the fact that the man is a rude and condescending talk show host.
On the show, Joe asks Jon if there's anything particularly special about Garfield. Garfield tries to act cute and playful to up the ante and show them that there's more to him, but it doesn't work and the two of them are shot out of the studio. Jon decides to just go home and forget it ever happened, but Garfield is not willing to give up so easily.
Garfield hears that Joe is superstitious and does not want to take chances with things like a mirror while getting his makeup done. To help with that, Garfield paints himself black and crosses Joe's path, making him panic. Joe tries to get his good luck charms, but Garfield is among them. He tries to hide in the control room, but Garfield is on every monitor. Garfield follows Joe wherever he goes.
On the next show, Joe apologizes on camera for all the rotten things he said about cats. The audience wants him gone for what he has done and Garfield pulls the lever, removing him from the set. Joe runs off in fear of the supposed black cat. His job done, Garfield decides to wash the paint off, but he runs into a superstitious pizza delivery guy who drops a pizza he's delivering. Garfield catches it and is onto exploiting superstition.
Characters
Main characters
- Garfield
- Joe Palaver
Minor characters
Trivia
- At the beginning of the episode Jon names a few TV shows which are references to previous episodes in the series: "Binky Show, Name that Fish (The Binky Show), Rick Deltoid's Workout (Health Feud), It Must Be True (It Must Be True!)"