The Big Catnap

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“The Big Catnap”
Garfield and Friends episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 45
Written by	Mark Evanier Sharman DiVono
Directed by	John Walker Steve Clark
Production no.	G015-C
Original airdate	September 16, 1989
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The Big Catnap is an episode of Garfield and Friends. It originally aired on September 16, 1989.

1 Episode recap
2 Notes
3 Quotes
4 External links

[edit] Episode recap

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The mailman nervously delivers a package to Jon’s doorstep, and he becomes suspicious when he doesn’t see Garfield around. Jon then pops out from the bushes and startles him so much that he flies and lands in the birdbath. Jon explains that the package is a special box of cookies that his mother sends him every year; then he says that he hasn’t actually eaten them in years, which he explains via a series of flashbacks.

In the first flashback (one year earlier), Jon sits in the kitchen and is about to eat the cookies when Garfield comes in with his fur a yellow color. Jon then finds his first aid book open to a page that lists information about the Bolivian cookie fever, whose symptoms are for the victim to moo like a cow. After Garfield faints, Jon reads on and learns that the only known cure is cookies, so he feeds Garfield all the cookies. Then Odie comes in tracking yellow paint, which confirms that Jon had been duped, and he chases Garfield out of the kitchen.

The year before that, Garfield runs down the street to a payphone and dials Jon’s telephone number just as Jon is about to eat the cookies. He puts them down and answers the phone, and while he’s gone, Garfield eats the cookies. The year before that, Garfield goes to a vacant lot and tears the door off an abandoned safe; then he takes it home and attaches it to the window. He then comes after Jon, who decides to throw the cookies in the safe, so he opens the safe door and throws them in. He then remembers that he doesn’t have a safe, and he discovers Garfield eating the cookies.

Back in the present, Jon sneaks into the house with the package and finds Garfield sleeping. Various loud noises then start (including a street parade and Odie watching a televised drag race), but Garfield doesn’t awaken. Still, Jon hops a city bus and rides way out into the city to escape Garfield. He stops at the city park, and after one bite of a cookie, Garfield wakes up and zooms over to the park (literally). Jon gives up and surrenders the cookies, and as Garfield eats them, Jon walks away concocting wild ideas for protecting the cookies next year.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Notes

Garfield says that the four basic food groups are pasta, cheeseburger with fries, chocolate cake and more pasta.

[edit] Quotes

Mailman: My brother got a job testing defective fighter planes, but not me. No, I had to pick a dangerous line of work.

Jon: Oh, boy! Mom sent me cookies!
[Garfield points to his open mouth]
Jon: Oh, no. Not a crumb. These are mine.
Garfield: What greed. He won’t let me have all of them.