National Tapioca Pudding Day

Infobox Television episode
Title = National Tapioca Pudding Day
Series = Garfield and Friends


Caption =
Season = 1
Episode = 32
Airdate = November 26, 1988
Production = US011-B
Writer = Mark Evanier
Director = John Walker
Steve Clark
John Sparey
Guests =
Episode list = List of Garfield and Friends episodes
Prev = Best of Breed
Next = All About Odie

"National Tapioca Pudding Day" is an episode of U.S. Acres from the series "Garfield and Friends". It originally aired on November 26, 1988.

Episode recap

Roy cooks some tapioca pudding; then he places it into a spring-loaded box and gift-wraps it. He then gives the box to Orson and tells him that it is National Tapioca Pudding Day: the day that you give your friends a box of tapioca pudding to show what their friendship means to you. Orson is embarrassed because he didn’t get Roy anything, to which Roy reacts with faux insult -- then he quickly runs off before Orson can open the box.
Just before Orson opens the box, he decides to get Roy a gift after all and runs off. He bumps into Wade (who had been fighting with his shadow), and he explains the holiday to him. Wade states that holidays are simply for presents, but Orson convinces him that holidays are more meaningful than that; then he gives Wade the tapioca pudding as a token of friendship and leaves.
Wade feels bad because he doesn’t have any pudding to give to Orson, and Booker and Sheldon suggest that he simply rewrap the pudding that Orson had just given him. After Wade does so, he walks past Roy, who assumes that the present is for "him." After finding out the present is for Orson, he gets jealous and confronts Orson and Wade. Orson then gives Roy the present as a token of friendship, and it isn’t until Roy opens it that he remembers that he started the prank; and he gets hit in the face with tapioca pudding.
Booker and Sheldon then walk up with a present for Orson, and Orson and Wade worry that it’s more pudding. Then the chicks open the box and present Orson with a bunch of flowers that they’d picked. Orson wonders why because it’s not his birthday or a holiday, and the chicks state that one doesn’t have to wait for a holiday to do something nice for someone else.

Goofs

*Orson flips the book backwards, meaning he reads the book the wrong way.

Notes

*Bo and Lanolin only appear during Orson’s song.

*At the beginning, while he was cooking the tapioca, Roy hums the Garfield theme song.

Quotes

Booker: Sheldon, I just had a thought.
Sheldon: Oh! Well, whisper it in my ear.
Booker: Okay, sure; no problem. Uh…um…could you give me a hint where your ear "is?"

External links

* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/31412-National_Tapioca_Pudding_Day.html National Tapioca Pudding Day] at the Big Cartoon DataBase
* [http://www.tv.com/episode/85309/summary.html National Tapioca Pudding Day] at TV.com