Binky Gets Cancelled!

Infobox Television episode
Title = Binky Gets Cancelled!
Series = Garfield and Friends


Caption =
Season = 2
Episode = 58
Airdate = October 7, 1989
Production = G020-A
Writer = Mark Evanier
Sharman DiVono
Director = John Walker
Steve Clark
Guests =
Episode list = List of Garfield and Friends episodes
Prev = Health Feud
Next = Show Stoppers

"Binky Gets Cancelled!" is an episode of "Garfield and Friends". It originally aired on October 7, 1989.

Episode recap

As Garfield relaxes in a hammock outside, he explains something that happened to Binky the Clown. The WBOR station manager called Binky into his office, and he informed him that because of low ratings, the "Binky the Clown Show" was cancelled in favor of a new show called "Bowling for Meatloaf. " Meanwhile, Jon decided to hire a handyman to make repairs around the house, and before he left to run errands, he instructed Garfield to let the handyman in when he arrived.
Garfield was worried when the handyman turned out to be Binky, and he made so much noise fixing the house that Garfield was unable to sleep. When he finally started to doze off, Binky woke him up and showed him the new look of the house, which was in complete circus motif. In addition, Binky had equipped several appliances with prank “functions”. Garfield then went over to test the dishwasher, but Binky stopped him with the warning that it had been acting strange since he rewired it.
When Jon got home, he was so infuriated by the new look that he chased Binky across the house. The station manager arrived at the house then and told Binky that he was rehired because the new show was a bomb. He then volunteered to pay for a real handyman to fix the house back to the way it was; then Jon walked off to start the dishwasher. A few seconds later, Garfield and Binky realized what he said and tried to stop him; they were all soon chased out of the kitchen by soap suds. Garfield concludes the flashback by stating that the happenstance occurred that morning, and as Jon also relaxes in the hammock, he checks in on Binky, who is busy shoveling suds that had overrun the entire house.

Goofs

*Garfield mentions that the sud incident happened that morning. Assuming that the suds already came out of the house, they should have stopped. They were still some coming out of the chimney, though, at the end, when Binky is crying.

Quotes

Garfield: ["voice-over"] Binky was upset because, well, he knew there weren’t a lot of jobs around for clowns. He even thought of getting into politics, but, of course, there are too many clowns in Washington already. (This quote was a bit controversial.)
Jon: I’m getting rid of everything around here that doesn’t work.
Garfield: I am "not" leaving.

External links

* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/31198-Binky_Gets_Cancelled!.html Binky Gets Cancelled!] at the Big Cartoon DataBase
* [http://www.tv.com/episode/94878/summary.html Binky Gets Cancelled!] at TV.com