Garfield's Moving Experience

Infobox Television episode
Title = Garfield’s Moving Experience
Series = Garfield and Friends


Caption =
Season = 1
Episode = 13
Airdate = October 15, 1988
Production = G001-A
Writer = Mark Evanier
Director = John Walker
Steve Clark
John Sparey
Guests = Ami Foster as Girl
Episode list = List of Garfield and Friends episodes
Prev = Nothing to Sneeze At
Next =

"Garfield’s Moving Experience" is an episode of "Garfield and Friends". It is listed as the first episode of the fifth show, but it was actually the first episode to be produced for the series (in most [if not all] markets, it is still shown as the first episode in syndication). It originally aired on October 15, 1988.

Episode recap

After Garfield plays a trick on Odie involving the recliner, Odie’s retaliation sends Garfield flying and he lands head-first in Jon’s latest food concoction. Afterwards, Odie begins to lick the food off Garfield, which annoys him so much that he ties Odie’s tongue into a bow. Jon then puts Garfield outside because of this (and also because he doesn’t want to be disturbed while he’s cooking).
Garfield is then determined to have someone else take care of him. A girl soon comes along and scoops him up, but her constant talking in baby talk makes Garfield start to wonder whether he’d made a mistake; he changes his mind when he discovers that the girl lives in a mansion. When dinner arrives, he expects an array of delicious food, but he instead is fed some bizarre health food. While the girl leaves to get Garfield some more cat food, he raids the fridge but the girl notices him and takes him to bed.
Garfield is annoyed when the girl dresses him in baby clothes and then she almost manages to sing (Rock a Bye Baby) him to sleep. He escapes and the girl notices and takes him outside to play with her bulldog Boopsie. However, Garfield escapes the house when the bulldog scares him.
Meanwhile, Jon and Odie are sitting at home wondering if Jon had been too rough on Garfield. Jon opens the front door to call for Garfield, and Garfield immediately jumps out (and lands on Jon’s face). Garfield is pleased to be back home. But soon he realizes another horrible meal so he moves back to the girl.

Notes

*This is the first episode to reveal Jon is a very bad cook.

Quotes

Jon: Let’s see, uh…“add one cup of whipped cream.” But I’m all out of whipped cream, so I’ll add mayonnaise. It’s the same color.
Garfield: Anyone who sings like that should be drug out into the street and shot. Or worse, they should listen to a tape of themselves.

External links

* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/31168-Garfields_Moving_Experience.html Garfield’s Moving Experience] at the Big Cartoon DataBase
* [http://www.tv.com/episode/85289/summary.html Garfield’s Moving Experience] at TV.com