The Garfield Show

In the outer reaches of the galaxy, a mother ship in the shape of a pressure cooker is home to some very strange creatures: space lasagna! Their ambition is to invade Planet Earth. When the space lasagna check out Jon's neighborhood, they run into Odie. They think that all humans are just like him, and decide to invade.

Garfield doesn't like eating mice. As long as they don't get in his way, he's happy to have them around and lets them do whatever they want. But when his friend Squeek invites his big mouse family over to stay at Jon's, they take over the whole house: they settle in the cupboards, in the drawers, even in the wash basin!

Are any pizzas better than Vito's? Of course not. But Jon thinks they could certainly find cheaper: they could go to Mama Meany, who is a nasty piece of work, more crook than cook, not very Mama at all. He has invented a machine: called the Pizzagrande 7000 which can pump out 10 pizzas per minute, all totally bland and completely inedible.

Hunting birds is something Garfield gave up long ago. It's like eating mice : he just can't do it ! But when he finds a nest full of what look like abandoned eggs, Garfield puts his feline pride to one side and decides to hatch them. Harry, the stray, doesn't agree with this plan; he would love to put the newborn birds right on his dinner menu.

A new law for dogs has just been introduced: any dog which goes out without a tag on its collar will be thrown into the pound without further ado. Odie, who is messing around with Garfield as usual, loses his tag without realizing it. And of course, when he goes out into the garden, he gets caught by two guards and dragged off to the dog pound.

Jon comes back from grocery shopping with a new pet brush. Garfield isn't keen on the idea since he can take care of his own hygiene, but Odie doesn't mind trying it out. He likes it so much that he falls in love with the brush and swears never to leave it.

Jon has unearthed an old accordion and Garfield can't stand the sound it makes. He therefore decides to get rid of it. But who needs an old accordeon? He tries everything he can think of, with no luck. Each time, the accordion ends up where it started out, i.e. in Jon's hands. But Garfield doesn't give in that easily. He ends up burying it far away.

Jon has won a turkey in a raffle and decides to cook it for dinner. Liz is coming over. The only problem is that when the turkey arrives, it's alive and kicking, and nobody wants to deal with it. Especially since it's kinda nice to have another pet, a feathered one this time. But when the turkey starts taking naps in Garfield's bed, watching TV and eating out of his bowl, Garfield loses it.

While Jon is out at the dentist's having treatment for a painful tooth-ache, Garfield and Odie are home alone watching their favorite TV shows in the living room. At nightfall, Jon still isn't back. But who's that knocking at the door? Could it be the dangerous gangster everyone's talking about on TV? Or might it simply be Jon, who has left his keys at the dentist's and is locked out?

A secret agent known as Agent X has shown up in the neighborhood and is stealing Garfield's limelight by telling anybody who wants to listen all about his adventures. Nermal, Arlene and Harry quickly succumb to his charms, but Garfield is suspicious. Is he really a spy? Or is he nothing but talk? Could he be just another alley cat looking for five minutes' fame?

It's Halloween and Garfield has dressed up as Catzilla, a fierce wild cat, to go out trick or treating. He has painted stripes on his fur and added false teeth to complete his disguise. But what he doesn't know is that the real Catzilla has escaped from the zoo, and the neighbors are terrified of running into him. Garfield is busy trick or treating, going from door to door to collect candy.

Night has fallen and it's time for bed, but Odie is still full of energy and wants to play. Garfield throws him out. In the garden, Odie meets a Martian whose space-ship has broken down! To thank him for finding the missing piece of his ship, the Martian makes a Garfield/Odie body switch. Garfield ends up in Odie's body, and Odie in Garfield's!

Nermal's owner has gone away on vacation, and Jon has offered to look after Nermal while he's gone. Watch out, everybody! The cutest kitten in the world (he says so himself) is coming over for a week! This is hell for Garfield, who can't stand his airs and graces.

Jon trips over Odie, and the dish of lasagna he was carrying ends up all over Pooky, Garfield's favorite teddy bear. A quick spin in the washing machine gets him clean again, but now he has to hang outside on the washing line to dry. The next morning, Pooky is gone! Garfield is desperate, and looks for him everywhere.

It's night-time and the full moon and the alignment of the planets are having a strange effect on Odie. He turns into a monster as soon as the sky is clear and wreaks havoc in Jon's house. The living room is a wreck, and the dish of lasagna has disappeared. Of course, Jon immediately thinks Garfield is behind all this, until he discovers on the news that his dog Odie might be the real culprit.

It's D day! Jon is finally going to meet Liz's parents, Robert and Betty. Everything has to be perfect, starting with Odie and Garfield, who seem determined to mess things up for him. Liz's parents arrive and there's a bit of an atmosphere. Until Betty brings out her little canary, Mimosa. Garfield starts drooling; the canary would make a great appetizer.

Jon goes to visit his brother Doc Boy who lives on a livestock farm. It's out in the country, and since Garfield is a real city cat, it's no picnic for him! To make things worse, Doc Boy asks him to do some work: pile up some logs, wash down the windows, sweep up the leaves. Things really reach their low point when Garfield realizes there's no TV and no pizza.

A pet show has been organized in town, and the 1st prize is a huge dish of lasagne. Garfield's mouth is already watering at the thought of it, and he decides to compete. Things get off to a bad start. He flunks the sign up, and Nermal has already gotten started! How will he ever win now? Luckily, Garfield can always count on Odie, his faithful friend, to help him out.

It's a day like any other at Jon's house, and Jon and Garfield are squabbling for no reason. It can't go on : to help them make up and get some peace and quiet, Odie and Squeek have an idea: there's a new TV game show which aims to find out if pets and their masters are really made for each other.

Our three heroes have no luck: they've gone fishing but the good weather report never warned them it would pour with rain! To fight off his boredom, Garfield sends Odie to the end of a rainbow, promising that if he makes it before the rainbow disappears, he'll find a pot full of gold.

Jon has gone out on an errand and Garfield and Odie are home alone with a dish full of spare ribs and instructions not to touch them under any circumstances. But of course Garfield immediately wolfs them down, telling Odie to get lost so he doesn't have to share. In the meantime, Odie finds a bone out in the garden.

Another day has begun, and Jon is doing the housework. He realizes Garfield and Odie are really dirty and disorderly. But Jon has a stroke of luck: a salesman knocks at the door and quickly talks Jon into buying a very efficient cleaning robot. They shake on the deal and Jon puts the robot to the test.

Jon and Garfield go to see Liz at her office. Liz jumps at the opportunity to weigh Garfield with her new high-tech talking scales. And unsurprisingly, the scales think Garfield is too heavy! Liz gives him a week to lose weight, otherwise she's sending him to the cat fat farm. Garfield doesn't take her seriously at first and keeps eating as normal when he gets home.

Jon hasn't been sleeping well for a while. Garfield and Odie do their best to help him get a little shut-eye, but it's no good. They're about to give up, but maybe Dr. Somnanbulo will succeed where they have failed. His new machine, the hypno-snore might be able to cure Jon's insomnia.

Liz has just come back from a trip to Egypt and is visiting Jon. She has brought him an old mirror as a souvenir. But it's a magic mirror; one lick from Odie, and he and Garfield get sucked through a door into a parallel world! On the other side, the cats are waiting for their new Pharaoh to arrive, accompanied by his jackal.