Ode to Odie

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“Ode to Odie”
Garfield and Friends episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 9
Written by	Mark Evanier
Directed by	John Walker Steve Clark John Sparey
Production no.	G002-C
Original airdate	October 1, 1988
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Ode to Odie is an episode of Garfield and Friends. It originally aired on October 1, 1988.

[edit] Episode recap

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

In a rapping style, Garfield narrates a story that begins when he is napping one day only to be awoken by Odie. Odie continues to bother him, and Garfield initially plans to punish him but then he decides to dig out Odie’s favorite bone. He then throws the bone out the front door; Odie chases after it and Garfield then locks him out of the house. Odie returns to the door with the bone in his mouth, and after pawing at the door does no good, he wanders off into the city.

He ends up wandering into an alley where he finds a tough dog named Butch surrounded by two female dogs. Odie tries to make friends with them, but they quickly spurn him and then Butch takes his bone. Odie demands for the bone back; Butch’s response is to literally kick him out of the alley. The female dogs initially laugh at him, but then one of them tells Butch that he had been too rough on Odie. Then Odie returns to get his bone once more; this time Butch literally throws him out. The other female dog then agrees that Butch is being too rough. When it becomes obvious that Butch doesn’t intend to stop picking on Odie, the females leave him and walk off with Odie, leaving Butch behind with the bone.

The dogs walk Odie home, and Garfield watches out the window as they play on the front lawn. As Butch sadly meanders away in the distance, Garfield closes the rap and then tries to pull the curtain down—but he instead gets himself stuck in the rolled-up curtain.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Notes

Jon does not appear in this episode.
Garfield says that “Odie had made lifelong pals with a couple doggie gals”, but those female dogs were never seen again.