Rip Van Kitty

Infobox Television episode
Title = Rip Van Kitty
Series = Garfield and Friends


Caption =
Season = 2
Episode = 43
Airdate = September 16, 1989
Production = G015-A
Writer = Mark Evanier
Sharman DiVono
Director = John Walker
Steve Clark
Guests = Greg Berg as Newscaster
Desirée Goyette as Nermal
Episode list = List of Garfield and Friends episodes
Prev = Fat & Furry
Next = Grabbity

"Rip Van Kitty" is an episode of "Garfield and Friends". It originally aired on September 16, 1989.

Episode recap

Jon takes Garfield, Odie and Nermal to a picnic by the lake. Garfield tries to take a nap but is constantly interrupted by Nermal and then Odie, and he does mean Punishment to each of them to get them to leave him alone. Jon scolds him and then tells him that he sleeps too much; Garfield says such a thing is not possible and then finally goes to sleep.
In Garfield’s dream, it is twenty years later, everything has a utopian "Jetsons"-esque look, and Garfield, Jon and Odie all have long white beards. When Jon serves lunch, it turns out to be merely tablets, and Jon explains that all food had been capsulized for nutritional value. Meanwhile, Garfield sees a newscast detailing that aliens are invading. The aliens sleep twenty-three hours per day, and during the remaining hour, they consume an entire planet’s food supply. When they invade, Garfield discovers that they all look like a younger version of him.
Jon leads everyone into a room for safety while remarking that Nermal is also in the building. Garfield looks forward to seeing the elderly version of Nermal until he discovers that Nermal is her same young and cute self. Garfield decides that he’d rather be abducted by the aliens, but then he tells Jon to wake him up.
Back in the present, Garfield sits down at a picnic table for lunch, and Jon serves him a tablet. Garfield frantically runs away in search of non-capsulized food, and Jon questions why he has a problem taking his daily vitamin tablet.

Notes

*Garfield’s whiskers are wrinkled in the future.
*Garfield may have really slept 20 years into the future and Jon turned it all into a dream or Garfield may have justhad a nightmare.
*According to DVD closed captions, the alien planet from Garfield's dream is called "Zizzabottawaddawaddaboinkboinkfreeb".
*The episode is a parody of Rip Van Winkle.
*The aliens resemble Garfield except for space helmets and rings around their whiskers.

Goofs

*In the future, when Jon, Garfield and Odie are all sitting at the table, Jon never gives Odie any food and Odie agrees whatflavor the vitamin tablet is.
*The world's entire supply is turned into tablets with the same flavor but Jon said the world has come to an end,but the tabletfood can get the Garfield-aliens from the Earth.
*Jon says, "We're trapped in here!", and "Just the 3 of us and Nermal!" However, they just ran into the door and not take the elevator instead.

Quotes

Jon: If you keep doing these things, Nermal will stop visiting us.
Garfield: Promises, promises.

External links

* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/31188-Rip_Van_Kitty.html Rip Van Kitty] at the Big Cartoon DataBase
* [http://www.tv.com/episode/90588/summary.html Rip Van Kitty] at TV.com