Scrambled Eggs (Garfield and Friends)

Infobox Television episode
Title = Scrambled Eggs
Series = Garfield and Friends


Caption =
Season = 2
Episode = 47
Airdate = September 23, 1989
Production = US016-B
Writer = Mark Evanier
Sharman DiVono
Director = John Walker
Steve Clark
Guests = Desirée Goyette as Mother Turtle
Episode list = List of Garfield and Friends episodes
Prev = The Great Getaway
Next = Hansel and Garfield

"Scrambled Eggs" is an episode of U.S. Acres from the series "Garfield and Friends". It originally aired on September 23, 1989.

Episode recap

Orson narrates a flashback that began when a mother turtle was burying her unhatched son in the sand before she left to go bowling. The baby soon unburied himself and exposed his legs through the egg (not unlike Sheldon) because he didn’t want to live life as a turtle. He then ran away and past his mother, who quickly pursued him.
Meanwhile, Booker and Sheldon split up just before Booker goes on a worm hunt. The mother turtle mistook Sheldon for her baby and took him home despite Sheldon insisting that he’s a chick, not her baby. Booker set a trap for a worm that backfired when the worm interfered, and at the end, Booker found the baby turtle (whom he mistakes for Sheldon) and went back to the farm with him.
During all this, Roy’s latest prank was industrial-strength sneezing powder. He found Wade sleeping and tried it out on him, which caused him to begin sneezing uncontrollably and eventually sneeze through the side of the barn. Roy then came across the turtle and also mistook him for Sheldon, and he shook the sneeing powder on him. The turtle sneezed into a cloud of smoke, and when the smoke cleared, Roy found the turtle and the pieces of the shell. Instead of concluding that the turtle had been inside the egg, he thought that Sheldon’s sneezing evaporated him.
While the mother turtle sat on Sheldon to hatch him, Sheldon turned on his barbecue, which became so hot that the mother jumped up screaming. Sheldon then ran away with the mother a little ways behind him, and the baby turtle came running in the other direction and crashed into Sheldon. Sheldon then ran off again just before the mother ran up, and she recognized her hatched baby and left with him. Back on the farm, Roy mourned Sheldon until he ran past him; then Roy picked him and up and promised to never play another prank (until next week’s show). After Orson concludes the flashback, Wade goes by, still sneezing from the sneezing powder.

Notes

*Bo and Lanolin do not appear in this episode.
*Sheldon has a barbecue in his egg.
*The mother turtle sat on Sheldon's egg but it didn't hatch, as it did in "Shell-Shocked Sheldon" when Orson sat on it.

Goofs

*Orson explains that the mother turtle recognizes the hatched baby turtle as hers because “a mother always knows”. With that reasoning, she should have also known that Sheldon "wasn’t" her baby.
*It is also pretty obvious to the naked eye that the turtle's egg and Sheldon's egg didn't look alike. The turtle's egg had spots on it and a tail sticking out.

Quotes

Booker: I wonder what worms eat. You catch fish with worms; maybe you catch worms with fish.
Roy: What I did, I am not fit to eat with "pigs!" Sorry, Orson.
Roy: Oh, Sheldon, you’re alive! Not yet born, but alive.

External links

* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/31417-Scrambled_Eggs.html Scrambled Eggs] at the Big Cartoon DataBase
* [http://www.tv.com/episode/94868/summary.html Scrambled Eggs] at TV.com