Swine Trek

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Swine Trek is an episode of U.S. Acres from the series Garfield and Friends. It originally aired on November 11, 1989.^[1]

[edit] Episode recap

Orson has a cold, and the rest of the gang try to nurse him back to health. Orson politely requests that they let him rest because if they get too close, they might get sick too. After they leave, Orson falls asleep and envisions everyone in a Star Trek-like fantasy.

Orson and his crew travel to planet Deneb 92 after receiving a distress call. After landing on the planet, it is revealed that the evil Porkons (Gort, Wart and Mort) made the call to lure Orson’s crew there so they can test their new secret weapon out on them. The crew easily defeat the Porkons by pelting them with photon tomatoes, and they run off leaving the secret weapon behind. Orson brings it aboard the spaceship and Bo opens it, which releases a space virus.

Orson wakes up from the dream then and realizes that his cold is gone. The rest of the gang then walk back in and state that they caught Orson’s cold, but they don’t blame him because he’d warned them earlier. Booker then advises Orson to stay away from them to avoid getting sick again, but Orson remedies this by donning a spacesuit to nurse them.

[edit] Notes

• Booker says the phrase is, “Starve a cold; feed a fever,” but Sheldon claims the phrase is, “Feed a cold; starve a fever.” Sheldon is correct.
• Above Orson’s bed is a poster of a character called Piggy, who appears to be a parody of comic strip character Ziggy.
• Captain Orson has a Garfield walkie-talkie. His seat in the spaceship also has a feedbag for a cushion.
• The title is a pun on Star Trek and can also be a pun on The Muppet Show's Space Ship Swinetrek, from Pigs in Space.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Swine Trek at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Swine Trek at TV.com