Yojumbo

Infobox Television episode
Title = Yojumbo
Series = Garfield and Friends


Caption =
Season = 2
Episode = 63
Airdate = October 7, 1989
Production = G021-C
Writer = Mark Evanier
Sharman DiVono
Director = John Walker
Steve Clark
Guests =
Episode list = List of Garfield and Friends episodes
Prev = Sleepytime Pig
Next = Pros and Cons

"Yojumbo" is an episode of "Garfield and Friends". It originally aired on October 7, 1989.

Episode recap

Garfield crashes Jon’s date, where he and Liz are dining at a Japanese sushi restaurant. Liz then goes into detail about Japanese culture, and she enthusiastically tells about urban samurai warriors known as "yojimbos." As the three of them leave the restaurant, they get stopped by a thug that tries to be romantic with Liz. Jon tries to stand up to him and fails, but they all manage to get away unharmed.
At home, Jon thinks that Liz thinks of him as a wimp because he didn’t succeed in standing up to the thug, and he decides to take martial arts lessons. Garfield goes along as a bodyguard and takes the persona Yojumbo. Jon doesn’t perform very well at the martial arts school; all he learns is to assume a stuffed vulture position that he is supposed to use whenever a troublemaker comes along.
Jon (and Garfield) take Liz for another date, and Jon tells Liz that he’ll challenge the thug if he sees him again, and immediately afterwards they come across him. While Liz runs off to call the police, Jon threatens the thug by assuming the stuffed vulture position. The thug looks confused; then he threatens to pound Jon until Garfield jumps up and tries to defeat him. Garfield soon changes his mind, and he and Jon run away; the thug pursues them.
Jon runs past an auto garage, while Garfield runs into the garage and then uses a grease gun to make a grease slick on the ground. The thug slips on it and then crashes into Jon; they both land in an alley. Liz and the police run up then and the police take the thug away. Liz is impressed that Jon defeated him, whereas Garfield states that although "he" didn’t get credit for defeating the thug, he’d better be rewarded with a big dinner.

Notes

*Apparently Jon weighs 155 pounds.
*Garfield uses a toothbrush as a sword.
*This is the only "Jon and Liz dating" episode that starts out with Jon and Liz on a date, instead of having Jon ask Liz for a date.
*This episode hints that Liz may have Japanese heritage.

Quotes

Jon: Garfield, what are you doing here?
Liz: It’s okay, Jon. I was getting kind of tired of waiting for him to show up.
Sakamoto: You have done well, my son.
Jon: How can you say that?
Garfield: You’re still alive.
Garfield: This looks like a job for…"Yojumbo!" ["Jumps up onto thug; attempts martial arts moves"] Question: what am I doing? ["Jumps down; to Jon"] Do the words “run for your life" mean anything to you?
Garfield: This town ain't big enough for the both of us, Toshirō!

External links

* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/31201-Yojumbo.html Yojumbo] at the Big Cartoon DataBase
* [http://www.tv.com/episode/94882/summary.html Yojumbo] at TV.com