Swine Trek

Infobox Television episode
Title = Swine Trek
Series = Garfield and Friends


Caption =
Season = 2
Episode = 86
Airdate = November 11, 1989
Production = US029-B
Writer = Mark Evanier
Sharman DiVono
Director = Tom Ray
Karen Peterson
Mitch Schauer
Jeff Hall
Guests = Pamela Rose as Singer
Episode list = List of Garfield and Friends episodes
Prev = It Must Be True!
Next = Attention-Getting Garfield

"Swine Trek" is an episode of U.S. Acres from the series "Garfield and Friends". It originally aired on November 11, 1989. [ [http://www.povonline.com/Garf%20Episodes.htm Garfield & Friends Episode Guide.] ]

Episode recap

Orson has a cold, and the rest of the gang try to nurse him back to health. Orson politely requests that they let him rest because if they get too close, they might get sick too. After they leave, Orson falls asleep and envisions everyone in a "Star Trek"-like fantasy.

Orson and his crew travel to planet Deneb 92 after receiving a distress call. After landing on the planet, it is revealed that the evil Porkons (Gort, Wart and Mort) made the call to lure Orson’s crew there so they can test their new secret weapon out on them. The crew easily defeat the Porkons by pelting them with photon tomatoes, and they run off leaving the secret weapon behind. Orson brings it aboard the spaceship and Bo opens it, which releases a space virus.

Orson wakes up from the dream then and realizes that his cold is gone. The rest of the gang then walk back in and state that they caught Orson’s cold, but they don’t blame him because he’d warned them earlier. Booker then advises Orson to stay away from them to avoid getting sick again, but Orson remedies this by donning a spacesuit to nurse them.

Notes

* Each member of the U.S. Acres crew in Orson's fantasy is a tribute to a different member of the USS Enterprise crew in "": Orson is a reference to James T. Kirk, Wade to Leonard McCoy, Sheldon to Spock, Lanolin to Uhura, Bo to Montgomery Scott, Booker as Pavel Chekov, and Roy as Hikaru Sulu. The "Star Trek" landing party is also referenced, as Orson, Wade, and Sheldon force the rest of the crew to stay behind.
*Booker says the phrase is, “Starve a cold; feed a fever,” but Sheldon claims the phrase is, “Feed a cold; starve a fever.” Sheldon is correct.
*Above Orson’s bed is a poster of a character called Piggy, who appears to be a parody of comic strip character Ziggy.
*Captain Orson has a Garfield walkie-talkie. His seat in the spaceship also has a feedbag for a cushion.
*The title is a pun on Star Trek and can also be a pun on The Muppet Show's Space Ship Swinetrek, from Pigs in Space.

References

External links

* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/31430-Swine_Trek.html Swine Trek] at the Big Cartoon DataBase
* [http://www.tv.com/episode/94907/summary.html Swine Trek] at TV.com