All About Odie

Infobox Television episode
Title = All About Odie
Series = Garfield and Friends


Caption =
Season = 1
Episode = 33
Airdate = November 26, 1988
Production = G011-C
Writer = Mark Evanier
Director = John Walker
Steve Clark
John Sparey
Guests = Desirée Goyette as Audience member
Episode list = List of Garfield and Friends episodes
Prev = National Tapioca Pudding Day
Next = Caped Avenger

"All About Odie" is an episode of "Garfield and Friends". It originally aired on November 26, 1988.

Episode recap

Garfield and Rosalina moderates a lecture about the fan mail that the cast has received over time. He opens the door to a room where Odie’s mail is kept and is soon buried in letters. When he goes to his own mail room, he only finds "one" letter (which turns out to be a form letter), so he decides to educate the audience on Odie via a series of films and filmstrips after Rosalina gets a love letter from Sylvester the Pussycat, her true love interest.
Garfield first focuses on Odie’s tongue, and he points out the advantages and disadvantages of it.

Rosalina and Garfield next focus on Odie's nose and they point out some funny moments where he sneezes, and Rosalina runs into frame with a tissue box. An audience member wants to know what Rosalina says when she is near a sneezing Odie, and she replies, "Gesundheit."

Then he details what Odie does in the morning, afternoon and evening: running around (occasionally in different s). Rosalina then shows what she does all day: serenading Garfield. Garfield then asks the audience if they would like to know what "he" does all day, and no one answers; nonetheless, he shows himself sleeping (in different positions) in the morning, afternoon and evening.
He then shows himself “vacationing” on his day off, to which an audience member asks what Odie does on "his" day off. Rosalina explains first that on her day off, she likes to chase rabbits (hopping like them, for instance). Garfield explains that Odie likes to chase cars and that he occasionally catches some. The audience then asks what Odie does with a car once he catches one, and Garfield says that he buries cars in the backyard. The audience then laughs at that explanation as well as beginning to insult Garfield, which prompts him and Rosalina to storm out of the lecture hall.
When he arrives home, he runs into Odie in the backyard. He laments about how people didn’t believe him when he told them what Odie does with cars, and as they walk they pass several cars that have indeed been buried in the backyard.

Notes

*Jon only appears in a filmstrip.
*This is the first episode where Garfield goes to a TV station to talk about a subject.
*This is the third cartoon with Rosalina.

Quotes

Garfield: Well, at least I got "one" letter. ["Opens letter"] No doubt from some loyal, true-blue Garfield admirer. Let’s see. "“Dear Occupant, you may have already won $37 million…”"

Rosalina: I got one as well. Dear Rosalina, I am asking you out to a movie. Sylvester. Ah, my true cat boyfriend.
Garfield: Before we go on, are there any questions?
Audience member: Uh, yeah. Is wrestling fixed?
Garfield: …I should’ve asked, are there any "intelligent" questions.
Garfield: I can’t believe my ears!
Audience: We can’t believe your face! ["Laughs"]
Garfield: Hey, I did "not" come here to be insulted!
Audience member: Well, where do you "usually" go?

External links

* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/31180-All_About_Odie.html All About Odie] at the Big Cartoon DataBase
* [http://www.tv.com/episode/85308/summary.html All About Odie] at TV.com