Time Master

Time Master is an episode from the first season of The Garfield Show.

Synopsis

When Garfield finds an old watch that makes everything else freeze, he uses it to get what he wants.

Plot

Jon oversleeps, causing him to rush through the morning routine. Garfield finds this approach disagreeable with his laid back personality, wishing that "time would just stand still". As Jon drives off, the garbage men arrive to pick up the trash, with Percy throwing an old, supposedly useless watch on the front lawn. Odie finds it and presents it to a resting Garfield. Testing out what seems to be a stopwatch, Garfield clicks the device. To his amazement, time stops for everything except Garfield. After figuring out how the watch works by stopping and restarting time, he uses it to his advantage to get Odie suddently into the path of a sprinkler.

The next morning, Garfield freezes time to nap longer. When he's ready for breakfast- namely Sweet Oat Crunchies- he gets more food than Jon is willing to give him by pausing time after each bowl filled. He later uses the stopwatch on Herman Post (who gets attacked by chihuahas) and Nermal (who gets a clownish makeover after Garfield gets hold of a make up kit).

Garfield further enjoys the stopwatch at a crosswalk, using it on and off as he easily walks from one side to another. At one point, it stops working. Garfield looks around the city for someone who can fix the stopwatch, or at least move. Realizing the situation he's in, he blames the stopwatch and throws it on the pavement. This causes time to move backwards, affecting everyone and everything, even Garfield.

Eventually, time returns to the first morning, shortly before 7:00. Once again, Jon panics and Garfield wishes for time to stand still. Garfield then screams, retracting his wish. He considers the experience the "most horrible, awful nightmare ever", save for the part with Nermal.

Major Characters

Minor Characters

Percy
Garbage Truck Man
Herman Post
Chihuahuas
Nermal
Squeak (cameo)
Vito (cameo)

Trivia

Cultural References

The episode's plot is similar to A Kind of Stopwatch, an episode of The Twilight Zone.
When Garfield puts Jon's egg timer in the garbage bin, he states "Time for no more timer". This may be an allusion to Time for Timer.

The Garfield Show

Episodes

"Pasta Wars" "Mother Garfield" "Orange and Black" "Freaky Monday" "Bone Diggers" "The Robot" "Catnap" "Agent X" "A Game of Cat and Mouse" "Perfect Pizza" "King Nermal" "Desperately Seeking Pooky" "High Scale" "Jon's Night Out" "Not So Sweet Sound of Music" "Turkey Trouble" "Pup in the Pound" "Odie in Love" "Pet Matchers" "Lucky Charm" "Curse of the Were-Dog" "Meet the Parents" "Down on the Farm" "The Pet Show" "Curse of the Cat People" "Glenda & Odessa" "Underwater World" "Family Picture" "Time Twist" "Time Master" "Fish to Fry" "Little Yellow Riding Hood" "Fame Fatale" "Virtualodeon" "It's a Cat's World" "Mailman Blues" "Extreme Housebreaking" "Heir Apparent" "Caroling Capers" "From the Oven" "Neighbor Nathan" "History of Dog" "Up a Tree" "It's a Cheese World" "Nice to Nermal" "Out on a Limb" "Super Me" "Mastermind" "The Amazing Flying Dog" "The Last Word" "Iceman" "T3000"

"Home for the Holidays" (Part 1, Part 2), "Ticket to Riches" "Gravity of the Situation" "The Art of Being Uncute" "Night of the Bunny Slippers" "Blasteroid" "The Big Sneeze" "The Spy Who Fed Me" "Meet Max Mouse" "The Haunted House" "Which Witch" "Cyber Mailman" "Odie for Sale" "Farm Fresh Feline" "Dog Days" "Planet of Poultry" "With Four You Get Pizza" "The Bluebird of Happiness" "Inside Eddie Gourmand" "Fido Food Feline" "Everything's Relative" "Honey, I Shrunk the Pets" "Garfield Astray" "History of Cats" "Black Cat Blues" "Cuter Than Cute" "Great Pizza Race" "Master Chef" "Guest from Beyond" "Depths of a Salesman" "Night of the Apparatuses" "Land of Hold" "Penny Henny" "A Gripping Tale" "Wicked Wishes" "Jumbo Shrimpy" "Pirate Gold" "Me, Garfield and I" "Detective Odie" "Stealing Home" "Full of Beans" "Love & Lasagna" "True Colors" "Mind Over Mouse" "The Big Sleep" "Pampered Pussycat" "Parrot Blues" "Rain or Shine" "The Mole Express" "Unfair Weather" (Part 1, Part 2)

"Furry Tales" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) "Kind to Kittens" "Little Angel" "Prehistoric Pup" "Land of Later" "Laugh in a Can" "The Non-Garfield Show" "The Caped Avenger Rides Again!" "The Superhero Apprentice" "Teddy Dearest" "Bath Day" "What a Difference a Pet Makes" "Garfield Gets Canned" "Partners in Mime" "Boris the Snowman" "Long Lost Lyman" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4), "The Golden Lasagna Awards" "Pawparazzi" "It's About Time" "Online Arbuckle" "Muscle Mouse" "The Write Stuff" "Cupid Cat" "The Control Freak" "Every Witch Way" "Revenge of the Cat People" "The Garfield-Only Show" "Filthy Fugitives" "Smartest Dog in the World" "Farmer Garfield" "More Than Meets the Eye" "Fast Friends" "Where's Odie?" "Doggone Jon" "The Mysterious Machine" "Fitness Crazed" "Little Trouble in Big China" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) "My Friend, Nermal" "Take a Ferret to Lunch" "Bride and Broom" "Problems, Problems, Problems" "Two Times the Trouble" "The Great Trade-Off"

"Lion Queen" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) "Bewitched" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) "The Mean Machine" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) "Glitter Gulch" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) "Against All Tides" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) "Lasagna Tree" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) "Into the Wild" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) "Double Vision" "My Cousin Petunia" "Barking Mad" "Garfception" "For Mice" "The Six-Can Solution" "Silence of the Sheep" "Bulldog of Doom" "Mother Owl" "Home Sweet Home" "Whatever Happened to Aunt Ivy?" "Delicious Donut Day" "Little Miss Mouse" "Stink, Stank, Skunk!" "Jon 2" "My Dog, the Cat" "World Without Me" "Fraidy Cat" "The Very, Very Long Night"

"Rodent Rebellion" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)