Hansel and Garfield

Infobox Television episode
Title = Hansel and Garfield
Series = Garfield and Friends


Caption =
Season = 2
Episode = 48
Airdate = September 23, 1989
Production = G016-C
Writer = Mark Evanier
Sharman DiVono
Director = John Walker
Steve Clark
Guests = Desirée Goyette as Nermal
Episode list = List of Garfield and Friends episodes
Prev = Scrambled Eggs
Next = The Sludge Monster

"Hansel and Garfield" is an episode of "Garfield and Friends". It originally aired on September 23, 1989.

Episode recap

Garfield wakes up one morning and learns that it’s Monday, a discovery made worse when Nermal comes to visit. Garfield then tries to get rid of him by selling him to Abu Dhabi (again); Jon quickly puts a stop to that plan. Nermal then asks Garfield to tell her a story, and Garfield settles on his own version of "Hansel and Gretel."
Hansel and Gretel are running home exactly because of the bear living in the forest. Their father tells them to get food themselves and the kids run into a candy store.
Hansel and Gretel begin eating the store, and the bear was still there because he is going to eat Hansel and Gretel. At this point in the story, Nermal gets upset by what’s happening, and Garfield explains that it’s only a story, not real life. He then continues the story by stating that the bear invites Hansel and Gretel into the house and opens his mouth to eat them, but they close the bear's mouth and pepper the bear's nose. Nermal becomes completely traumatized by this.
Jon comes up and orders Garfield to stop making Nermal so upset, so Garfield changes the story by stating that instead of closing the bear's mouth, they order a "lot" of pepper to fill the bear's nose with. Hansel and Gretel's father congratulates his kids. He also takes home the remains of the store for Hansel and Gretel to eat. Garfield expects Nermal to be satisfied with this ending, but she isn’t because the bear had such bad luck. Garfield then states that the bear got sick and never disturbed Hansel and Gretel again, which finally pleases Nermal. Garfield then quips that it's hard to please kids though it's only a story, but afterwards he rips off a chunk of the wall and devours it.

Notes

*Odie does not appear in this episode.
*Hansel's only clothing is a single red sweater.
*Gretel sounds a lot like Garfield.
*Nermal is a girl in this cartoon.

Goofs

*Audio/Visual Unsychronized: When Gretel proclaims, "It must be candy!" her lips don’t move.

Quotes

Jon: You can’t give Nermal away.
Garfield: I know; I’ve tried.
Jon: And paying someone twenty dollars to take Nermal?
Garfield: You’re right. Make it fifty and I’ll throw in Odie.
Nermal: Tell me a story.
Garfield: Okay, come sit down. …Once upon a time, there was a kitty who was so obnoxiously cute that the handsome prince mailed her to Abu Dhabi and--
Nermal: Garfield!
Garfield: So [Hansel and Gretel] headed through the forest. As they walked, they were so frighted, the last time they saw the bear, they screamed their heads off..
Nermal: Wait a minute. How would you scream your head off?
Garfield: ["Clears throat"] They passed a deli. Don’t interrupt.
Garfield: There it was: a store made entirely of candy.
["Hansel and Gretel begin to eat it"]
Nermal: Ooh, was it really made of candy?
Garfield: Well, not quite. Actually, it was made of sugar, and any other sweet things, but they were hungry enough, it didn’t matter.

External links

* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/31190-Hansel_%26amp%3B_Garfield.html Hansel and Garfield] at the Big Cartoon DataBase
* [http://www.tv.com/garfield-and-friends/hansel-and-garfield/episode/94867/summary.html Hansel and Garfield] at TV.com