Good Mousekeeping

Infobox Television episode
Title = Good Mousekeeping
Series = Garfield and Friends


Caption =
Season = 1
Episode = 15
Airdate = October 15, 1988
Production = G001-C
Writer = Mark Evanier
Director = John Walker
Steve Clark
John Sparey
Guests =
Episode list = List of Garfield and Friends episodes
Prev =
Next = Identity Crisis

"Good Mousekeeping" is an episode of "Garfield and Friends". It originally aired on October 15, 1988.

Episode recap

While Garfield is taking a nap, Jon and Odie are in the kitchen where Jon is cooking. Jon tells Odie to close the refrigerator door, but just as he is about to do so, a block of cheese that is sitting in the fridge appears to jump out and run away. It runs out of the kitchen and past Garfield, who goes after it. He picks up the cheese and discovers that a mouse had been carrying it. The mouse pleads for it, but Garfield eats it and makes the mouse cry. The mouse explains that cats always eat mice on television, but Garfield refuses to do so.
After the mouse realizes that Garfield won’t eat mice, he tells all his mouse buddies about it, and they soon invade the house. Jon tells Garfield about the mouse problem, and Garfield is about to call an exterminator until Jon stops him and tells him that he has to catch the mice himself.
After a few unsuccessful attempts to catch the mice, Jon angrily points out that the mice had eaten everything in the house except for his old stew. Garfield then takes the stew and feeds it to the mice. After eating it, they are so revolted that they run out of the house. Garfield then decides to have to something to eat, but Jon reminds him that the mice had eaten everything -- except for his stew.
As the mice are sitting in a trashcan alley, Garfield and Odie walk up dressed like mice. Garfield informs them that they want to stay there because they’re eating better than he and Odie are.

Notes

*A prototypical mouse that would later be known as Floyd makes his first appearance in this episode.
*Odie dines on a box of Bow Wow brand dog food.
*The title is based on the expression Good Housekeeping.

External links

* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/31169-Good_Mousekeeping.html Good Mousekeeping] at the Big Cartoon DataBase
* [http://www.tv.com/episode/85290/summary.html Good Mousekeeping] at TV.com