Nighty Nightmare

:"Disambiguation: For the James Howe novel in the Bunnicula series see Nighty-Nightmare."Infobox Television episode
Title = Nighty Nightmare
Series = Garfield and Friends


Caption =
Season = 1
Episode = 7
Airdate = October 1, 1988
Production = G002-A
Writer = Mark Evanier
Director = John Walker
Steve Clark
John Sparey
Guests =
Episode list = List of Garfield and Friends episodes
Prev = School Daze
Next = Banana Nose

"Nighty Nightmare" is an episode of "Garfield and Friends". It originally aired on October 1, 1988.

Episode recap

Jon secretly orders a pizza one night, and when it arrives, he is convinced that Garfield didn’t know about it, but he soon discovers Garfield inside the pizza box and that he’d eaten the entire pizza. Jon seems surprised, even though he earlier thinly disguised an announcement of the pizza coming. Jon tells him that his overeating will give him a nightmare, but Garfield laughs it off and goes to sleep.
Garfield has a dream that Jon feeds him so much that he grows to King Kong-like proportions. Among other things, he raises the "billions served" by Vince's Burgers from 8 to 12. Despite all he’d just eaten, he is still hungry. Jon promises to bring him more food, bringing in trucks full of food lined up for miles. Garfield is still hungry, but when he and Odie search around town for food, they learn that there’s no food left in the city because Garfield had already eaten it. Jon then calls the National Guard to have them deliver several one hundred ton lasagnas.
They arrive, and also filled the Grand Canyon with Chicken gumbo "just in case he wants soup."
After Garfield finishes eating all the lasagna, he is still hungry, and the National Guard general concludes that there’s isn’t enough food to feed him. Against Jon’s wishes, he calls in the air force. When Garfield climbs to the top of an Empire State Building-like skyscraper, several jet fighters fly around the building. One of the jets tries to come in close to shoot him, but gets eaten, while the pilot bails out. Then, a spaceship comes down towards him. Garfield thinks the spaceship is some kind of food and tries to eat it, but instead a laser strikes him and transports him into the spaceship.
Inside the spaceship, an alien greets Garfield and informs him that his constant hunger is due to the citizens of the planet Clarion’s interplanetary hunger ray, and that the objective of the ray was to fatten him up. He then informs Garfield that the Clarionians will eat him for Thanksgiving dinner over the next two days. Garfield then awakens from his nightmare and Jon apologizes for having been too hard on him for eating the pizza and as a peace offering, he gives him a lasagna. Garfield refuses it and announces that he is going on a diet for twenty pounds, but he quickly reduces it to twenty minutes.

Notes

*This short was later shown theatrically with "Oliver and Company".
*The music played at the title screen of this episode was also used at the title screen of the "U.S. Acres" episodes from much of this season and all of the next season.
*This is the first "Garfield" episode to feature a song, which is The Barber of Seville.
*Vince's Burgers was also seen in Garfield's fantasy from Box o' Fun.
*Garfield likes anchovies in this episode -- a preference that will change in later episodes.
*When Garfield is inside the alien ship, he says "Yoo-hoo, Mr. Spock?" referencing the Star Trek character.
*This is the first Garfield and Friends cartoon to feature lasagna and pizza.
*The Clarion aliens appear to be named after the small town of Clarion, Pennsylvania.
*Jon's Dad can be seen running when Garfield enters the city.
*The scene in Garfield's nightmare in which he attacks the city is a parody of King Kong.
*A clipping from this episode of the part in which Jon lectures Garfield about eating too much until the part where Garfield grows out of the house (just before he eats the tree), is shown in the Garfield 10th Anniversary special hosted by Jim Davis. The special was aired in May 1988.

Quotes

Jon: You've got to stop eating, Garfield. You're getting bigger ["Garfield grows"] , and bigger ["Garfield grows"] , and bigger ["Garfield grows"] and, OH NO! ["Garfield grows right through the roof of Jon's house"]
Newscaster: We have a report of a giant orange cat that seems to be devouring things left and right. For an on-the-spot report, we cut now to our mobile unit. ["Another story is handed to him"] What's that? ...We have a report: he just "ATE" THE MOBILE UNIT! I'm leaving town, folks! ["Runs away"]
Garfield: I’m going on a strict diet for twenty pounds. Or…twenty minutes. Whichever comes first.
Garfield: More food! MORE FOOD!!
Garfield: ["eating the hot dog stand"] Mmm! I wish I had a mustard factory around here to eat. Now I'm thirsty. ["drinks water out of the pool"] Ahh... but I'm still hungry. More food! ["stomps his foot, causing Jon and Odie to bounce and fall on the ground again"] "More food!"

Jon: [yelling] Don't worry, Garfield! We'll get you more food! HONEST!!

External links

* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/31164-Nighty_Nightmare.html Nighty Nightmare] at the Big Cartoon DataBase
* [http://www.tv.com/garfield-and-friends/nighty-nightmare/episode/84335/summary.html?tag=ep_list;title;6 Nighty Nightmare] at TV.com