Binky Gets Cancelled!

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“Binky Gets Cancelled!”
Garfield and Friends episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 58
Written by	Mark Evanier Sharman DiVono
Directed by	John Walker Steve Clark
Production no.	G020-A
Original airdate	October 7, 1989
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Binky Gets Cancelled! is an episode of Garfield and Friends. It originally aired on October 7, 1989.

1 Episode recap
2 Notes
3 Quotes
4 External links

[edit] Episode recap

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Notes

Odie does not speak in this episode.

[edit] 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.

Jon: I’m getting rid of everything around here that doesn’t work.
Garfield: I am not leaving.