The Lasagna Zone

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The Lasagna Zone is an episode of Garfield and Friends. It originally aired on October 7, 1989.

[edit] Episode recap

Jon comes home with a new satellite dish, but after he sets it up, he reads a warning stating that lasagna shouldn’t be brought anywhere near the unit. He then goes into the house and tells Garfield not to watch television. Garfield's response: "But the are Movies on! And Cartoons! And game shows where people dress up like large chickens!" Garfield (armed with a pan of microwave lasagna) and Odie turn the TV on, but they don’t get a clear picture. Garfield concludes that Jon didn’t hook the dish up right, and he walks outside (still holding the lasagna) to fix it.

Garfield climbs into the dish to try to fix it, and at one point he drops the lasagna in the dish; then he is zapped away. Meanwhile, Odie is watching an old black-and-white Frankenstein-like movie, and the monster under the sheet on the operating board turns out to be Garfield. He then asks for Odie’s help to get out of the TV universe. And this is a sport in colorized.

After Odie flips through a few channels, Garfield ends up in a pet shop where the announcer treats the pets like used cars. After introducing Garfield, he throws in a free muffler (the clothing-related item rather than the car-related item). Garfield then asks for Odie’s help once more, but his impression on the remote control causes it to fall off the easy chair and break.

Garfield is then automatically flipped through various channels, and the picture is being lost until Jon snaps Odie and him back to reality. He and Odie had been asleep in front of the television, and Jon turns it off before he and Odie walk off. Garfield then concludes that the whole thing was a dream, but then he realizes that he is wearing the muffler from the pet store ad. He then looks over the chair and sees the broken remote control.

[edit] Notes

• This episode is a reference to The Twilight Zone.
• During the western program, Garfield has a spur on his tail.
• The TV Guide Jon throws at Garfield has a picture of Garfield on the front.
• The little clown in the Frankenstein movie is the same clown from Binky's show.
• When Odie breaks the remote, the following where Garfield runs through are:
  • Gulligan's Island
  • a fictional ad for Kawley Grip (possibly a toothpaste)
  • a WBOR weather program
  • an infomercial for Home Shopping Channel with a small yellow car
  • a scene from the U.S. Acres cartoon Banana Nose
  • outer space from Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Beauty Makeover
  • the Garfield cartoon The Sludge Monster
  • The Binky Show
  • Bonanas

[edit] Quotes

Cowboy: I'll bet $20.
Garfield: I'll see your $20 and raise you $30 and a gold watch.
Cowboy: I'll see your gold watch and raise you a million dollars.
Garfield: I'll see your million dollars and raise you a million dollars and the Klopman diamond.
Cowboy: I'll see your million dollars and the Klopman diamond and raise you my horse.
Garfield: I'll see your horse, and raise you a grand piano and the mayor of Davenport, Iowa!
Cowboy: All right, I call! Show me your cards.
Garfield: You got the old maid. I win.

[edit] Goofs

• The satellite dish doesn’t appear to be connected to anything.
• Its a mystery how Jon managed to carry the satellite dish bigger than him to the backyard.
• Garfield strangely jumps onto the satellite very high but cats don't jump this way.
• Even though the remote control breaks before Garfield escapes from the TV, it is shown lying with no damage on the arm rest of Jon's chair for a split-second when Jon scolds Garfield for watching television all night.
• When Garfield is playing poker with the cowboy, he raises a grand piano and the mayor. The cowboy calls, but only puts the mayor on the table and not the grand piano.

[edit] External links

• The Lasagna Zone at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• The Lasagna Zone at TV.com