Nighty Nightmare

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“Nighty Nightmare”
Garfield and Friends episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 7
Written by	Mark Evanier
Directed by	John Walker Steve Clark John Sparey
Production no.	G002-A
Original airdate	October 1, 1988
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Nighty Nightmare is an episode of Garfield and Friends. It originally aired on October 1, 1988.

1 Episode recap
2 Notes
3 Trivia
4 Quotes
5 External links

[edit] Episode recap

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Jon secretly orders a pizza one night, and when it arrives, he is convinced that Garfield didn’t know about it, but he soon discovers Garfield inside the pizza box and that he’d eaten the entire pizza. Jon tells him that his overeating will give him a nightmare, but Garfield laughs it off and goes to sleep.

Garfield has a dream that he eats so much that he enlarges to King Kong-like proportions. Despite all he’d just eaten, he is still hungry. Jon promises to bring him more food, but when he and Odie search around town for food, they learn that there’s no food left in the city because Garfield had already eaten it. Jon then calls the National Guard to have them deliver one hundred tons of lasagna.

After Garfield finishes eating all the lasagna, he is still hungry, and the National Guard general concludes that there’s isn’t enough food to feed him. Against Jon’s wishes, he puts a plan into action that brings a spaceship down to where Garfield is at the top of an Empire State Building-like skyscraper. Garfield thinks the spaceship is some kind of food and tries to eat it, but instead a laser strikes him and transports him into the spaceship.

Inside the spaceship, an alien greets Garfield and informs him that his constant hunger is due to the citizens of the planet Clarion’s interplanetary hunger ray, and that the objective of the ray was to fatten him up. He then informs Garfield that the Clarionians will eat him for Thanksgiving dinner over the next two days. Garfield then awakens from his nightmare and Jon apologizes for having been too hard on him for eating the pizza and as a peace offering, he gives him a lasagna. Garfield refuses it and announces that he is going on a diet for twenty pounds, but he quickly reduces it to twenty minutes.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Notes

The music played at the title screen of this episode will go on to be used at the title screen of U.S. Acres episodes from much of this season and all of the next season.
This is the first Garfield episode to feature a song.
Vince's Burgers was also seen in Garfield's fantasy from Box o' Fun.
Garfield likes anchovies in this episode -- a preference that will change in later episodes.

[edit] Trivia

Garfield is horrified that the small Clarion alien wants to have him eaten, but considering the alien’s small size, it should be quite easy for Garfield to eat him instead.

[edit] Quotes

Newscaster: We have a report of a giant orange cat that seems to be devouring things left and right. For an on-the-spot report, we cut now to our mobile unit. [Another story is handed to him] What's that? ...We have a report: he just ate the mobile unit! I'm leaving town, folks! [Runs away]

Garfield: I’m going on a strict diet for twenty pounds. Or…twenty minutes. Whichever comes first.