The Impractical Joker (Garfield and Friends)

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“The Impractical Joker”
Garfield and Friends episode
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 41
Written by Mark Evanier
Sharman DiVono
Directed by John Walker
Steve Clark
Production no. US014-B
Original airdate September 16, 1989
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The Impractical Joker is an episode of U.S. Acres from the series Garfield and Friends. It originally aired on September 16, 1989.

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[edit] Episode recap

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Booker brings Roy his mail, which is an insult joke book. Roy opens it and immediately starts insulting Booker. He then goes on to insult Lanolin, Wade and Sheldon. They all complain to Orson that Roy’s jokes are going too far, but Orson simply states that Roy’s jokes are harmless. He goes to try to reason with Roy anyway, who insults Orson so much that he fires him.

Roy glumly packs his bags, and everyone else tries to convince Orson to hire him back. Orson states that he’ll instead hire a new rooster, someone that is less annoying than Roy. Booker suggests that they find someone more annoying, which prompts Wade to call Fred Duck.

Orson hires Fred even though he really wanted a rooster, and Fred in turn continually insults Orson within minutes. Orson fires him and then tells everyone else to find Roy and rehire him. Everyone thinks Roy is long gone, but it turns out that Roy had actually been hiding in a nearby barrel. When he’s told that his job has been reinstated, he begins to apologize for the insulting things he said, but he can’t do it without laughing. He laughs a little more after each apology and at the end, he walks off laughing uncontrollably.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Notes

  • Bo does not appear in this episode.
  • Roy’s joke book is called 1001 Ways to Insult Your Friends.

[edit] Quotes

Lanolin: Come on, pig! You said Roy’s jokes were harmless!
Orson: Well, I guess that was when they weren’t about me.

Roy: Hey, Sheldon, know how to keep a dummy in suspense for 24 hours?
Sheldon: No, how?
Roy: I'll tell you tomorrow.

[edit] Songs

"Everybody Likes to Laugh" performed by Thom Huge

[edit] External links