- Caped Avenger
Infobox Television episode
Title = Caped Avenger
Series =Garfield and Friends
Caption =
Season = 1
Episode = 34
Airdate =December 3 ,1988
Production = G012-A
Writer =Mark Evanier Sharman DiVono
Director = John Walker
Steve ClarkJohn Sparey
Guests =Larry Storch as Mr. Mendelbaum
Episode list =List of Garfield and Friends episodes
Prev =All About Odie
Next =Shy Fly Guy "Caped Avenger" is an episode of "
Garfield and Friends ". It originally aired onDecember 3 ,1988 .Episode recap
During
dinner , Jon remarks that a comic book publisher (Mr. Mendelbaum) is coming to check out Jon’s new stripidea . After dinner, while Garfield is taking a nap with Pooky, someone creeps in and takes Pooky from thebed . Garfield eventually wakes up and doesn’t find Pooky, so he decides to turn into asuperhero called the Caped Avenger (he simply puts hisblanket on as a cape) in order to find him.
Garfield decides he needs asidekick , and he settles for Odie. He tells Odie that he needs acostume , to which Odie runs off and comes back dressed as aclown . He takes it off before they search for Pooky in thekitchen , and they walk past Jon, who says that he put Pooky in the washer because he was covered inlasagna stain s. Garfield doesn’t notice and searches for Pooky in therefrigerator . He then reminds Odie that he needs a costume, to which Odie dresses up in achicken suit.
Meanwhile, Mr. Mendelbaum seems disinterested in all of Jon’s ideas, to which Jon presents a character called BuddyBear ; Mr. Mendelbaum then tells him that he detests bears. Garfield then looks in on them before he calls for Odie, who shows up in aprofessional -looking costume; Garfield tells him to never dress better than the hero. Jon then goes into thekitchen for refreshments, and Mr. Mendelbaum references Buddy Bear by saying that he’s glad they got rid of a“ stupid-looking bear” .
Garfield misinterprets this as meaning he got rid of Pooky, so he attacks Mr. Mendelbaum. Jon catches him and scolds him, but he also gives him Pooky. He then apologizes to Mr. Mendelbaum, who instead says that he wants a comic book about Jon’s crime-fighting house pet. Garfield then jumps up with a list of demands, but then he learns that Mr. Mendelbaum was referring to Odie. Garfield then chooses Pooky as his new sidekick because he doesn’t upstage the hero.Notes
*This episode is loosely based on a "
Garfield " comic strip story from1983 .
*Pooky makes his first appearance as brown,and was yellow in Ode to Odie.
*Jon refers to the bear as "Buddy Bear", a possible reference to the Buddy Bears.Goofs
*After Garfield raids the refrigerator, his eyes turn orange for a split second.
*Jon said that Pooky was covered with lasagna crumbs,but there was no lasagna in this cartoon.
*In this cartoon, the Comics Studios man says that he'll never buy a comic strip about bears, but in the 2007 movie GarfieldGet Real, there's a comics strip of Billy Bear called Billy Bear Woods!Quotes
Garfield: Look at those beady
eye s. That obvious criminalface .
Odie: Hmmm?
Garfield: No, not Jon; the "other" guy!External links
* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/31182-Caped_Avenger.html Caped Avenger] at the
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* [http://www.tv.com/episode/85310/summary.html Caped Avenger] atTV.com
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