- Crime and Nourishment
Infobox Television episode
Title = Crime and Nourishment
Series =Garfield and Friends
Caption =
Season = 2
Episode = 96
Airdate =November 25 ,1989
Production = G032-C
Writer =Mark Evanier Sharman DiVono
Director =Tom Ray Karen Peterson Jeff Hall Tom Tataranowicz
Guests =
Episode list =List of Garfield and Friends episodes
Prev =Hogcules II
Next =T.V. of Tomorrow "Crime and Nourishment" is an episode of "
Garfield and Friends ". It originally aired onNovember 25 ,1989 .Episode recap
Jon takes Garfield and Odie for a
picnic by thelake . Garfield goes into thecooler and pulls out thepicnic basket only to discover that Jon had placed apadlock on it. Jon then warns Garfield not to touch the basket before he and Odie run off to play catch.Garfield prepares to unlock the basket anyway until he imagines that his
punishment would be a sentence to eatraisin s for the rest of hislife . He then decided to take a nap, and while he does, agnome pops out of atree hole and takes the picnic basket. Garfield wakes up and notices this; then he goes into the hole himself and soon discovers a hiddencivilization under thepark .Garfield becomes hungry, so he searches the garbage cans for
food . A gnome then gives him ahand ful of dollar bills; then he goes to arestaurant and orders some food. Thewaiter informs him thatcustomer s cannot bring their own food and he throws Garfield out (literally), where he lands right where the gnome that stole the picnic basket is coming out of thebank . Garfield confronts him and demands the basket, to which the gnome replies that he deposited it. Another gnome then approaches them and then asks for change for acannelloni , and then Garfield realizes that Italian food is used ascurrency in the civilization, and money is used as actual food.Garfield and the gnome go into the bank and Garfield soon finds the picnic basket. Garfield takes a piece of
lasagna out of the basket and eats it before he remembers that the basket had been deposited; then he runs out the bank with the basket as several angry gnomes pursue him. He then distracts by throwing the last piece of lasagna in their path beforerunning out of the civilization and back to the park.Jon and Odie come back then, and Jon asks where the food is; Garfield decides that he wouldn’t believe the real story. Jon then
question s what they are supposed to eat, and Garfield presents the dollar bills. Jon is pleased until Garfield instructs everyone to eat the bills.Notes
*When Garfield scans through his
tool collection, he mentions sandpaper even though there is nosandpaper visible.
*Thecreatures are similar to theSmurfs .External links
* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/31223-Crime_amp_Nourishment.html Crime and Nourishment] at the
Big Cartoon DataBase
* [http://www.tv.com/episode/94915/summary.html Crime and Nourishment] atTV.com
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