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(Part 4 begins with the narrator providing a short summary of what has happened thus far in the story)
Narrator: Master Control, the robotic ruler of the planet Sprocket, (He points and an army of robots goes in the direction he is pointing) had dispatched his army to capture Earthlings. (The robots round up the prisoners and ship them off) The prisoners were then shipped off to Sprocket to work at his factory there! The plan succeeded in part because so many people were used to taking orders from the super intelligent woman who answered questions on their smartphones! (An example of this is shown. A man–possibly Ultra Powerful Guy as his normal self, judging by the list of characters on the main page–asks Zoe a question on his phone while standing in the parking lot of a supermarket)
Ultra Powerful Guy: Zoe, who invented the shopping cart?
Zoe: The shopping cart was invented in… (inside a building, Zoe explains while knitting) 1937 by Sylvan Goldman.
Ultra Powerful Guy: See I told ya! (He rubs it in the face of another shopper)
Shopper: Groan
Narrator: Master Control captured her, and had her replaced by Metalla, a lieutenant who worked for him! (Which is what happens)
Ultra Powerful Guy: Uh, Zoe, it’s me again. Could you tell me one more time who invented the shopping cart?
Metalla: Never mind that. Report to the Northwest Valley and let some robot invaders take you to another planet to work night and day in the Factory for no pay.
Ultra Powerful Guy: If you say so. C’mon, Myron. Let’s go. (Myron, the other shopper, follows)
(With the initial explanation out of the way, Part 4 begins upstairs in Jon’s house, where the robots Garfield defeated in Part 3 are still up there with their heads bouncing on springs. Among them are Jon, Liz, the twins, even Jim Davis. Downstairs, on Garfield’s chair, he and Odie are watching TV and eating sandwiches. Garfield explains how he deactivated the robot invaders, while Bleen watches from behind the chair)
Garfield: I stopped the robots with this magnet, (Odie chomps a sandwich as he says this) the one I used earlier to borrow Jon’s voice recorder. (They both take bites of their sandwiches) Mm! Yum, yum, yum!
Odie: Huh? Sniff, sniff, sniff! Mutters
Garfield: You’re smelling something unearthly? Something that does not belong on this planet?
Odie: Uh-huh! (He nods yes)
Garfield: Oh, that’s just Jon’s meatloaf. Mm! Mm-mm-mm! (Bleen lifts himself up from behind the chair and decides now is the time to introduce himself)
Bleen: Forgive the intrusion. (This startles Garfield and Odie, as for a brief moment they look surprised. Garfield wiggles his toes up for a second before the shock wears off and his toes wiggle back down. He and Odie cautiously look up at the intruder, terrified)
Garfield: It must be another one of those robot invaders from outer space! (He pops another couple of sandwiches into his mouth) Mm. I'm ready for him! (He gets up and points the magnet at Bleen)
Bleen: Whoa! (He lets go and falls. The Flabby Tabby pokes him with the magnet as Odie watches from the other side of the chair)
Garfield: Take that! And that, and that, and that, and why isn’t your head popping off?
Bleen: Laughs That doesn’t affect me, because I'm not a robot. (Odie appears next to Garfield)
Odie: Huh?
Bleen: In fact, I'm one of the few beings on my planet who’s not a robot, and NOT a prisoner of the evil being known as Master Control. Let me tell you the story.
Garfield: Give me a sec to make some microwave lasagna and we’re all ears. (He zooms away, only to be back one second later to explain something about his puppy friend) Well, I'm all ears. He’s all nose and tongue.
Odie: Pants
(Later, a large platter of lasagna is set on the end table. Bleen tells his tale as Garfield shovels food into his mouth and Odie listens, panting all the while)
Narrator: The man called Bleen told the chilling tale of how the smartphones on his planet had gotten so smart they’d taken over! Of how they’d enslaved the people to build robots who would run the world!
Bleen: I was one of the few who escaped, one of the few with free will, who didn’t automatically do (The screen switches to the Factory) what technology told me to do. So now we’re ruled by this creature called Master Control. (He stands before a small garrison of his robot) He is a master of control, having conquered Sprocket, he’s setting his sights on a complete takeover of Earth, and believe me, he has the robot power to do it! (The camera zooms in on Master Control’s evil eye before returning to Bleen in the living room) His Earth scanners did an analysis. They told him YOU were the only creature independent enough to resist and threaten his plans. (Garfield eats another cube of lasagna)
Odie: Wow! (Bleen gets up. In doing so, he knocks the tray of lasagna, sending the Italian delicacy into the air)
Bleen: You must come to Sprocket with me and help this tiny band of Rebels defeat this tyrant! (Garfield, seeing the flying food, zips to the couch, catches all of it in his mouth, and swallows)
Garfield: Hmm…what do you say, pup? Think we have to do it?
Odie: (while nodding his head yes) Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark!
Garfield: I think we have to do it, too. (He hops off the couch) The earth’s been pretty good to me, I figure the least I can do is save it. (He extends his paw to shake Bleen’s hand. Bleen grabs it and violently rattles him) YAAAAAHHH! (After a short shake, Bleen lets go of Garfield, the latter’s eyes still spinning like the numbers on a slot machine)
Bleen: C’mon. My space hopper’s parked around back. (Garfield blinks)
Garfield: Eeh. (He shakes his head and then pulls out his magnet from behind his back) I’m taking this along, it may come in handy.
Odie: Bark! Sniff
(Soon after, Bleen, Garfield, and Odie ride the space hopper on a couple of houses. Bleen sits in the driver’s seat, Garfield sits next to him, and Odie stands between the two, since there are only two chairs)
Odie: Deep-voiced mutters (He shakes his head no, as if something bad will happen)
Garfield: I know you get sick on long rides. DON’T! (Odie hangs his head in shame)
Bleen: Ready for takeoff?
Garfield: As ready as we'll ever be! (Odie covers his eyes with his ears, so I’m not sure how ready he is)
Bleen: Here goes! (He sends the space hopper into space. Garfield is thrust back into his seat upside-down and Odie is sprawled against the back of the spaceship)
Garfield and Odie: AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! (They leave Earth in the dust. Once they do, Odie hits the floor with a thud)
Garfield: Aren’t you supposed to tell us to put our seats and tray tables in their upright position and stow all our electronic devices? (They bounce off an asteroid as Odie pops up between Bleen and Garfield)
Odie: Mutters (At the end of his monologue, he makes gagging noises, even though he’s perfectly fine. Just the way he talks, I suppose)
Garfield: No, you can’t hang your head out the window and let your tongue flap in the breeze.
Odie: Aww… (He looks down, literally and figuratively, disappointed that space has no breeze, or air for that matter)
Bleen: Hold on, guys, here’s one of those space warps that will get us there faster!
Odie: Huh? (The pets watch in surprise as Bleen pilots them into a similar-looking vortex that he had traveled through earlier)
Narrator: It was, for Garfield and Odie,
Garfield and Odie: YAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! (The ship rapidly rotates as it passes through the vortex, tossing the pets around like socks in a dryer)
Narrator: (continuing) the ride of a lifetime, (On Sprocket’s surface, an alarm blares and a turret gun points toward space) but it did NOT go unnoticed on Sprocket! (Inside the Factory, Techno crawls on a button pad like a spider, alerting everyone to the eminent threat)
Techno: Attention, squadron! Attention, squadron! The cat M-M-M-Master Control told us to be on the alert for, (He speaks through a loudspeaker for his fellow robots to hear) he’s coming through W-W-Warp 78 Alpha! (In the Rebel camp, Anja listens to Techno’s message) Mobilize all fighter crafts to intercept!
Anja: That’s Bleen returning with the hero cat!
Glemm: Well, you know what I always say. (Music begins playing in the background, but stops when Anja poses a question)
Anja: (with her hands on her hips) What do you always say, Glemm?
Glemm: A person never rises so high as when he dances with a monkey! (Music resumes and he starts dancing)
Anja: (Facing the audience) Wow. Can’t argue with that. (Glemm starts singing)
Glemm: It’s like I always say,
Go out and you don’t stay.
Why don’t all poodles have wings? (Unnamed rebel members wearing red suits and helmets join him as backup singers)
Glemm and Rebels: It makes you think about things!
Rebels: (Talking amongst each other) What is this man saying now?
He has the brains of a cow. (They dance around Anja)
Will that man ever make sense?
He seems uncommonly dense.
Glemm: It’s like I always say,
My favorite color’s gray. (He gestures toward the baddies and the heroes)
Is too much bacon enough?
Glemm and Rebels: It makes you think about that stuff!
Rebels: (talking amongst themselves) What can that little man mean?
He has the brains of a bean. (The rebels dance again)
Could he be less understood?
His head’s more hard than a wood.
Glemm: It’s like I always say,
Don’t eat a floral bouquet.
Who knows what yesterday brings?
Glemm and Rebels: It makes you think about things!
Is he just trying to shock?
He has the brains of a rock. (The rebels dance again)
What is he trying to do?
He ought to give us a clue.
What does his wordage denote?
He has the brains of a goat.
Can no one figure him out
And tell us what he’s about? (The song ends)
(On Sprocket’s surface, the robots get in their fighters and take off)
Narrator: Within moments, Master Control’s crack interceptor squadron was taking flight.
(In space, Bleen, Garfield, and Odie have just left the wormhole)
Bleen: We’re almost there!
Garfield and Odie: Moan (Garfield grabs the top of the passenger chair and Odie peeks out from behind Bleen)
Bleen: When we get to Sprocket, we have to figure out how to overthrow Master Contr… (He hears beeping on his computer) uh-oh.
Garfield: “Uh-oh”? (He puts another paw on the chair and pulls himself up, still a little woozy) What’s “uh-oh”? I don't like “uh-ohs”.
Bleen: Master Control’s squadron has spotted us! They’re gonna try to shoot us down!
Garfield: That would be an “uh-oh”. (All three of them see a number of ships ready to intercept them)
Bleen: Our only chance is evasive maneuvers. (He thrusts his steering wheel forward)
Garfield: What do you mean by evasive…WHOAAAAA! (They swerve, attempting to avoid lasers from the robots on their tail. The pets slam against the roof and the floor) Whimpers (Bleen spins the hopper, causing two enemy ships, one on each side of him, to ram into each other and explode. However, there are still several more fighters that intend on stopping their plans)
(Inside, the cat and dog duo cling to a chair, Odie the driver side, and Garfield the passenger)
Garfield and Odie: AAAAAAAAHHHH!
Odie: Mutter
Garfield: No, I don't know what’s going on! I don’t even know why there’s sound in outer space!
Odie: Hm?
Garfield: There’s no air in outer space, and in order to have sound you have to have air, and… (His scientific moment is interrupted by more robots shooting at them) whimper (Thanks to Bleen’s fancy flying, two more ships slam into each other)
Bleen: Sigh of relief (The pets are sprawled on the floor next to the chairs)
Garfield: Ah, never mind. It doesn’t bother people in the movies, so I'm not gonna let it bother me. (More robots take aim, and Bleen speeds up again, thrusting the tabby and beagle into the roof again)
Garfield and Odie: AAAAAAHHHHHHH! (Garfield slams face-first on the floor. Why he’s not wearing a seatbelt I do not know)
Garfield: Hey, come to think of it, (His eyes spin for a second, dizzy from the disorienting ride) I don't know why space aliens speak English either.
Bleen: We’re gaining on them, (He looks back at Garfield and Odie) but unfortunately I'm lost and I need to consult this map. (He holds up a map) Take over the controls, Garfield!
Garfield: (terrified) Take over the controls?! (He digs his claws into the floor)
Odie: Oh! (He’s so shocked that he passes out, but only for a second. Garfield follows orders and pilots the hopper while Bleen sits next to him reading the map)
Bleen: Just steer the space hopper (Odie appears next to Garfield, who is continually pushing a button with his thumb like a video game player) while I figure out if we’re headed in the right direction!
Garfield and Odie: Whimper (Two more ships fly toward them. One takes some shots, the other collides with the first, and both robots are scrap metal)
Bleen: (reading the map) Now, if I hang a left at this asteroid, make a U-turn at the space debris… (Garfield pushes the steering wheel forward again, causing Odie to be launched into the back of the ship. He flies into a small squad of enemies)
Robot 1: I have the target in my sights!
Robot 2: So do I! FIRE! (Garfield swerves left, so hard that Bleen is also flung that direction)
Odie: Bark! (The two robots fly forward, but as Garfield weaves, they realize they’re on a collision course for each other)
Robots: Wilhelm screams (They are pulverized)
Odie: Howl! (With some more bobbing and weaving, the final two robots that were tailing them meet the same demise as the others: wrecking into each other)
Garfield: Sigh of relief
Odie: Moan
Bleen: Nice maneuvering, Garfield. Now that I know where we are, I'll take over.
Garfield: Oh sure, now that I've done the hard part. (He glares at Bleen)
(Garfield then flies Odie and the Rebel leader to Sprocket)
Narrator: Soon, Garfield and Odie were meeting the Rebels, the people who believed their world should be run by men, and not machines! (The trio lands and meets with Anja, Glemm, and the other rebels)
Anja: You’re our only hope, Garfield. (And the Star Wars references will not stop)
Odie: Bark!
Garfield: (sadly) Oh, sorry to hear about that.
Rebel: We must find a way to bring down Master Control! (Glemm pipes up, surprising the fat cat)
Glemm: It’s like I always say,
Anja: Frustrated sigh
Glemm: (continuing) if you’re not brushing your teeth…then you’re not brushing your teeth. (Garfield stares at him with a “bruh” look on his face. Odie emerges from behind him)
Odie: Moan
Bleen: Bringing down Master Control won’t be easy. We’ve spent YEARS trying to figure out how!
Anja: I had one thought. Their invasion of Earth started with that woman, the smart one who answered questions on everyone’s phones.
Garfield: Zoe! (He turns to his pooch pal) Remember how Jon used to talk to her all the time and get answers.
Odie: Right!
Anja: They captured her on Earth and brought her here to Sprocket. She's a prisoner, somewhere.
Rebel: And you’re thinking she’s smart enough to tell us how to topple Master Control.
Bleen: If she isn’t, no one is. But how can we POSSIBLY get in there to find her?
Garfield: Hmm, how? (He walks forward, pondering a plan)
Narrator: As he often did when in need of a plan…
Garfield: (interrupting) Hey, keep it down! I’m trying to think. (He, Odie, Bleen, and Anja stare toward the sky, in the direction of this random voice)
Narrator: Oh, sorry. (He whispers) As he often did when in need of a plan, Garfield applied a thought process that always yielded a brilliant idea! (The Tubby Tabby scratches his head, rubs his chin, and paces some more)
Garfield: How would I get into that building if there was lasagna in there and I had to get inside to get it? (Something comes to him, a brilliant idea) Gasp! Chuckle
Bleen: Wait, wait! Garfield seems to have an idea!
Garfield: This! (He waves his paw, telling his friends to join him. Bleen and Odie listen and follow. The Flabby Tabby climbs a small hill overlooking the junkyard) I saw this when we got here. (He points at the valley of garbage. Bleen and Odie look on, the pup tilting his head, looking confused)
Bleen: This? (The camera pulls away from the heroes and pans through the junkyard) This is the robot junkyard. It’s where they dump parts of old robots that had to be replaced. (Returning to the hero trio…) Are you thinking that we could dress up in some of these pieces and…
Garfield: Chuckles
(Later, two robots dump some more trash into the pile. Bleen, Garfield, and Odie have their disguises on and attempt to blend in to the robotic crowd. While Bleen’s costume works for him, Garfield has to stand on Odie. The pup’s arms and legs poke out from inside the robot shell and the cat’s head and arms remain visible. Garfield’s paws, however, have been covered by robot claws to not arouse suspicion)
Bleen: Just try to act natural. (Garfield does not look natural. He looks horrified, but his face becomes more intense as he responds)
Garfield: I’m inside an old tin can standing on the shoulders of a dog. How much more natural could I be?
Odie: Pants Grunts (He wobbles under Garfield’s weight and almost tips over. It’s not easy carrying the fat cat)
Garfield: Steady, boy. Steady.
Bleen: I see you’re wondering about that huge blue cable. (They stare at and walk by it) We’ve been wondering about what that was for years. Maybe we’ll find out inside!
Garfield: Maybe it’s a big extension cord and they run the place on it. Wha-? (They freeze. Garfield has spotted a bin dispensing some waste) Chuckles (He smirks at the audience, seeing his and his friends’ ticket inside the Factory. They cling to the bottom of the bin and stealthily slip inside)
(Down a corridor they trudge. Two robots float in front of them)
Garfield: It’s…Oh boy! (They go undetected by the machines and continue down the hall) Shh! Keep walking, Odie!
Odie: Irritated mutters (They investigate more. They look over a ledge toward the heart of the Factory)
Garfield: What?! (He sees all his friends working tirelessly to assemble more machines) Odie, you won’t believe what we found!
Odie: Questioning mutter (The camera shifts to Garfield’s friends below)
Garfield: It’s Jon! Jon and Vito and Liz and Doc Boy and Eddie Gourmand and everyone else who we know!
Bleen: (whispering) Are those your friends? We must save them. We must! (They are interrupted by a booming voice)
Master Control: What?!
Garfield: AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
Odie: (panicked) Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! (In front of them is Master Control. He reveals himself from his egg form to look more intimidating)
Master Control: What are you two doing here? (Bleen trembles in fear as Master Control snaps his blood-red pinchers. The heroes back up, quivering)
Garfield: AAAAHHHHH!
Odie: Whimpers
Narrator: Face-to-face with Master Control, the ruler of this world and perhaps soon, the Earth!
Garfield: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Odie: (horrified) Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! (Before the evil ruler can do anything else, Part 4 ends with the famous phrase…)
TO BE CONTINUED…