Mistakes Will Happen

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Mistakes Will Happen is an episode of Garfield and Friends which aired in 1990.

[edit] Episode recap

[edit] Opening

Garfield appears on the title card saying he has announcement before the cartoon. Lifting the card up to reveal the living room, Garfield says he is disturbed by fan letters from viewers that say they noticed some mistakes in the episodes. Garfield denies on the show making mistakes, but when Odie shows up, he admits, "...except occasionally in casting. Okay, sometimes we make mistakes." Garfield and Odie watch a cartoon in which they go camping in the woods and find an escaped convict, searching for any errors. The entire episode is full of blatant humorous mistakes, such as characters wearing outlandish outfits or being called by the wrong names.

[edit] Main episode

The episode begins in the city park, where Garfield, Jon and Odie are cooking out. The episode already starts out with errors, but in the commentary, Garfield and Odie claim that they have not seen any yet. Back in the actual episode, as soon as Jon warns Garfield and Odie that the woods are supposedly haunted, the day abruptly turns into night. Garfield, of course, takes Jon for granted, and when Jon realises that Garfield won't listen to him anyway, he decides to teach him a lesson and goes into the woods himself. Meanwhile, the police are in the woods searching for an escaped convict. Even when Odie was temporaily replaced with Nermal, Garfield in the commentary still claims to not have seen any mistakes in the cartoon yet.

While Garfield and Odie are lost in the woods, they reach cave as Garfield says that there's no one else around for miles. The Buddy Bears suddenly appear from the cave and sing their theme song before returning into the cave. Garfield nonchalantly reaffirms his claim and leaves the area with Odie. Meanwhile, the convict discovers Gafield and Odie alone in the woods, and realising that people might be nearby, he decides to scare them off so he won't be found. As Garfield and Odie are fully convinced that the woods is not haunted, they are scared away by an owl. As Jon searches for Garfield with a sheet under his arm, Garfield sets up a meal for himself and Odie by unpacking a huge amount of food; in the commentary, Odie calls this out as a mistake, but Garfield claims that that's how much he always packs.

Back in the episode, while Garfield is eating the food (leaving none for Odie), he catches Jon disguising himself as a ghost using the sheet, intending to scare the pets with it. However, Jon realises that there are no eye holes in the disguise, and he blindly walks into a tree. The convict finds Jon's unconcious form, steals the sheet, and puts it on. Upon seeing the convict, Odie gets scared and runs away, but Garfield, believing that it's Jon in disguise, isn't fooled and eventually attacks him. The convict runs away from Garfield and hides in a nearby cave, but gets chased out by a wolf. The sheet falls off of the convict as he escapes from the woods and chases a police car, wanting to return to prison after his ordeal. The sheet lands back on Jon just as Garfield comes to wake him up and go home, telling him that he makes "a lousy ghost". In the final scene, as all three drive home, Garfield hears a news report about the escaped convict being apprehended in the forest, but Jon assures him, "We have pretty boring lives, we haven't run into people like that."

[edit] Conclusion

In total, there were 87 mistakes in the episode. However, Garfield only points out three far-fetched "errors": (1) when Garfield is seen sleeping, he is not eating; (2) when Garfield unpacks his meal, there is no mustard; and (3) in a scene where Garfield is driving Jon's car, the car has no gasoline. Odie, however, declares that the cartoon had more mistakes. Garfield disagrees and they go get a midnight snack at 10 A.M. with Odie transformed into an animated version of Marmaduke.

[edit] Notes

This episode is a rare occurrence when animal characters (Garfield and Odie) speak, rather than do thought speech. This is one of the many intentional mistakes. Mark Evanier is heard midway through the episode, and his cartoonised hands are seen.

[edit] Quotes

Jon: (seen unconscious and with a beard) No, ladies. I'm not Tom Selleck. But I can understand how you can make that mistake.

[edit] Goofs

NOTE: All of these goofs are intentional.

• Title card (when Garfield and Odie watch the main cartoon) reads "Mistake Will Happen" with Garfield's head on Odie's body.
• Old shoe replaces steak on grill.
• Jon holds a microphone where a spatula should be, and says "Your macaroni is ready."
• Garfield gets up wearing a pair of shoes.
• Jon's wearing a tuxedo and gives Garfield a steak while saying "Now, you like your pizza with everything on it."
• Steak replaced with fish
• Garfield says he never likes to eat much
• Odie wears cowboy hat.
• Jon, now wearing scuba gear, calls Odie "Fido."
• Jon's wearing a tutu.
• Odie's ears replaced with flowers
• Leaning Tower of Pisa in background.
• Day turns into night (stays this way for rest of episode).
• Garfield wears backpack (stays this way until otherwise noted).
• Jon turns around and plays pinball machine.
• Garfield calls Jon "Pete."
• Odie says, coherently "I don't know. I'm kind of scared."
• Jim Davis' signature on ground.
• Garfield wears sunglasses.
• Two Odies and two moons.
• Jon has handlebar mustache.
• Jon's pants are gone, shoes replaced with bunny slippers.
• Binky the Clown in shot holding sign reading, "looking for work."
• Police car driven through forest.
• Elephant in police car.
• Cop has Garfield's voice, uses cup telephone.
• After convict says, "there's not another cop within a hundred miles of here," he walks right by two cops.
• Black and white stripes on convict are inconsistant throughout episode (such as when he says "I'll just hide out 'til they stop looking.").
• Garfield wears no backpack (stays this way until otherwise noted).
• Odie wears a jacket and a bowtie.
• Garfield wears a hat and speaks with his mouth moving.
• While Garfield is speaking with his mouth, he messes up a line and the director does a "Take Two".
• Nermal replaces Odie.
• A fish swims around Odie and Garfield.
• Convict wears polka dot shirt and walks on a lake, while a frog jumps into the lake.
• Convict's clothes are gone
• Garfield wears backpack.
• Garfield and Odie have antlers.
• Convict wears a hat and a monocle.
• Garfield and Odie walk through a blizzard, wearing full winter clothing.
• The stripes on Garfield's tail are missing.
• Garfield calls Jon "Fred."
• Owl switches saying "who...who," to "where...where...when...when."
• Garfield loses all color, now just a transparent figure with an outline.
• Garfield wears no backpack.
• Jon is carrying his ghost sheet (which he wasn't carrying before).
• Jon says "Garfield's been a very bad dog lately. I'm gonna teach him a lesson she'll never forget."
• Jon walks past Wade, Orson, and Roy. The U.S. Acres farm appears in the background as well.
• Odie now has rabbit ears; Garfield walks up behind him after going into a door in a tree.
• Garfield wears backpack, then doesn't wear it after unpacking meal (and remains so for rest of episode).
• A stripe on Garfield's tail repeatedly disappears as Garfield eats a pie.
• Garfield has blonde curly hair on his head.
• Jon says "This will scare the pants off those three or my name isn't June Arburkle."
• Garfield wears a visor.
• Upside-down shot.
• When convict takes sheet off of Jon, he has a beard.
• Convict wears a sombrero.
• Eyeholes appear on sheet when convict puts it on.
• Garfield and Odie have duck bills.
• Odie has two extra arms
• Garfield wears a straw hat.
• Garfield and Convict run past an igloo.
• Garfirld opens a door that appears out of thin air.
• Convict falls down stairs and lands in basement.
• Garfield turns blue.
• Garfield's voice turns into a woman's.
• Garfield, still blue but regular voice, wears a pith helmet.
• Barber pole next to a cave.
• Chimney on top of police car, going past the Taj Mahal.
• Garfield wears a superhero costume.
• When Garfield and Odie hear a "moo," they claim to hear a rhinoceros.
• Garfield walks in with an umbrella as he wakes up Jon.
• Odie has duck feet.
• Garfield drives car through forest, just as a police car did earlier, with Jon sitting in the back.
• Jon calls Garfield "Kermit."
• Car drives past Eiffel Tower.
• Background music is the theme song music from season one.
• Odie turns into a dog resembling Marmaduke
• Garfield says "It's 10 a.m., time for a midnight snack."

[edit] References

• The TV Schedule Computer
• News from Me -- blog entry about the episode by its writer, Mark Evanier