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Overview

Time Master (FRFlag La langue au chat) is the 30thUS/34thEU episode from the first season of The Garfield Show.

Synopsis[]

After Odie finds a mysterious stopwatch, Garfield finds that it can stop and start time, causing him to use it for his own gratification.

Plot[]

As morning arrives, Jon is woken up by his alarm clock, and realizes that he has overslept. Rushing through the morning routine, Jon serves Garfield frozen lasagna, and causes Garfield to spill coffee onto himself, much to the latter's annoyance. After Jon drives off, the garbage collectors arrive. One of them mentions that he found and took an old pocket watch from one trash can, thinking it may be worth something. His coworker, however, labels it as valueless, and throws it onto the Arbuckle front lawn.

Meanwhile, Garfield and Odie exit to the backyard, as Garfield complains about the morning. Napping in the garden chair, Garfield tells Odie not to bother him, leaving the dog to chase after a butterfly. Odie unintentionally finds the pocket watch, and brings it back to Garfield. When Garfield presses the watch's button, the world around him suddenly stands still in time, with only him able to move. Time resumes as suddenly when the button is pressed again. Garfield is at first perturbed, but realizing the power potential, uses the watch to push Odie into the path of the garden sprinkler.

The next morning, when the alarm clock rings, Garfield freezes time to sleep longer. Later, Garfield uses the watch to cause Jon to pour multiple bowls of cereal, when Garfield was only allowed one. Noticing Herman Post, Garfield hitches a ride in Post's mailbag, and overhearing that the latter plans to skip a house of yapping dogs, Garfield mischievously stops time to push Herman into their property. Garfield soon runs into Nermal, who mentions that he is going to a major cat pageant. Yet again, using the watch, Garfield uses a woman's makeup palette to paint Nermal's face like a clown.

As Garfield is fooling around on a zebra crossing, the watch suddenly stops working, refusing to resume time. Garfield realizes that with the world halted, no one will be unable to make him food, and panicking, goes around prodding people in the hope it will resume time. In frustration, Garfield throws the watch against the sidewalk, causing time, and subsequently, all previous events to reverse, returning to the morning of episode's beginning. Waking up, Garfield retracts his wish for time to stand still. Garfield calls the experience nightmarish, save for his action toward Nermal.

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