01x12 - Caped Avenger/U.S. Acres: Shy Fly Guy/Green Thumbs Down

[bunniefuu]

- Hold

- Hold the

- Hold the diving

- Hold the diving board

- Holsteady, odie.board

We're almost done.

There. Let's fill her up.

Okay. Let's give it a try.

Out of the way dog paddler,

I'll be the first to try

Our new swimming pool.

And now, a double reverse,

Half gainer somersault

With a backward roll,

A forwards roll,

And for dessert,

A cinnamon roll.

[ Crash ]

- Could we maybe check those

Assembly instructions again?

- Ladies and gentlemen,

Garfield and friends.

- ♪ Friends are there... ♪

- ♪ To help you get started ♪

♪ To give you a push ♪

♪ On your way ♪

- ♪ Friends are there ♪

- ♪ To turn you around ♪

♪ Get your feet on the ground ♪

♪ For a brand new day ♪

- ♪ They'll pick you up ♪

♪ When you're down ♪

- ♪ Help you swallow
your pride ♪

♪ When something inside's ♪

♪ Got to break on through ♪

♪ To the other side ♪

- ♪ Friends are someone ♪

♪ You can open up to ♪

- ♪ When you feel ♪

♪ Like you're ready to flip ♪

- ♪ When you've got ♪

♪ The world on your shoulders ♪

- ♪ Friends are there ♪

♪ To give you a tip ♪

- ♪ Friends are there ♪

♪ When you need them ♪

♪ They're even there ♪

♪ When you don't ♪

- ♪ For a walk in the park ♪

♪ Or a shot in the dark ♪

♪ Friends are there ♪

- ♪ I don't care ♪

- ♪ But friends will care ♪

♪ For you ♪

- You notice how every week

I say something different here?

- It says the cheetah can run

At speeds of up

To 70 miles per hour.

Seventy miles an hour,

I can't believe a cat

Can move that fast.

On second thought.

Let's keep the house clean,

Garfield, a big comic book

Publisher is coming by to visit

Later and see my new idea.

- Ahem.

- If he buys my new idea,

I could...

- Ahem.

Someone didn't get any food.

- Pookie is a teddy bear.

I'm not going to feed a useless,

Unreal creature with no brain.

- You feed odie.

[ Sighs ]

Want some dinner, pookie?

What?

You don't like it?

Here, I'll show you

How good it is.

What?

You're on a diet.

All right.

I'll eat your dessert for you.

- Mr. Mendlebaum has to like

My new comic strip.

I'd better finish cleaning

The house before he gets here.

- Time for our after dinner,

Pre-snack nap, pookie.

I'll set the alarm.

[ Alarm ringing ]

[ Yawns ]

- Time to get up, pookie.

Pookie?

[ Gasps ]

Pookie is missing.

Hmm, things are usually in

The stupidest place you look.

What's the stupidest place

Pookie might be?

Pookie, you in there?

Pookie has vanished.

Foul play, no doubt.

This looks like a job

For the caped avenger.

The first thing I need

Is a sidekick.

Someone who's loyal,

Brave, and smart.

[ Barks ]

- All right.

I'll settle for loyal and brave.

But what will I call

My loyal sidekick?

All right.

Your name is slurp.

Now you need a costume.

- Ta-da.

- You've missed

The point entirely.

The caped avenger is hot

On the trail.

Nothing gets by me.

- Oh, garfield,

I put pookie in the wash.

- No clue is too small.

- Pookie was covered with

Lasagna stains, so I decided

To launder him.

- Whoever took pookie

Covered his trail well,

But I'll find him.

[ Doorbell ring ]

- That must be mr. Mendlebaum.

Wish me luck, guys.

- The master villain hasn't

Left a hint anywhere.

- Huh?

- We have to search everywhere,

Slurp.

- Ah-hah!

It's just loaded with clues.

You know what

A good detective does?

- Unh-unh.

- He digests

Every clue carefully.

So...

Slurp, you really need

A costume if you're going

To work with me.

[ Barks ]

- Ta-da.

- You still haven't grasped

The principle behind this.

Now, faithful sidekick, we...

- I'm afraid not, arbuckle.

None of these ideas

Are any good.

- How about this

For a new comic book, sir?

I call him buddy bear.

- I especially hate bears.

I would never buy a comic strip

About a bear.

- No bears, right.

Well, I have other ideas.

- Loyal sidekick, where are you?

- Ta-da.

- Listen, loyal sidekick,

Don't you know the first rule?

Never dress better

Than the hero.

Shh. I found the mastermind

Behind the pookie heist.

See him there?

Look at those beady eyes,

That obvious criminal face?

No, not jon, the other guy.

- Let me get you
some refreshments,

Mr. Mendlebaum, sir.

- I'm glad we got rid

Of that stupid-looking bear.

- Did you hear that?

He got rid of

A stupid-looking bear.

Maybe it's not too late.

Come on, slurp.

- I don't know.

Every new comic strip I see

Is boring and old hat.

Huh?

- Hi, evil-doer.

Didn't think you had to pay

For your misdeeds did you?

Well, you failed to reckon

With the caped avenger.

- What's going on here?

Get off me, cat.

- Not until you tell me

What you've done with pookie.

- That's enough, i...

[ Shouts ]

- Mr. Mendlebaum, what's...

[ Shouts ]

- Now are you going

To tell me where pookie is,

Or do I have to get ugly?

- Garfield, go take a nap

And get out of our way,

And take pookie with you.

Here, he's fresh from the dryer.

- Pookie, I knew the

Caped avenger would find you.

- I'm so sorry, mr. Mendlebaum.

- Don't be sorry.

Why, that's a tremendous idea

For a new comic book.

- I'll never let you out

Of my sight again.

- I want a whole comic book

Starring that crime-fighting

House pet.

- Beat it, pook.

I'm gonna be a star.

- You'll pay me

To draw this comic?

- Never mind him.

I want a cut of the gross,

My own dressing room.

- A crime-fighting dog.

What a terrific idea.

- Is it a deal?

- I want a three-picture deal.

Name above the title.

- Just hold that pose

A little longer, odie.

- Hmm.

From now on, pookie,

You are my new sidekick.

You know enough not

To upstage the hero.

Mmm, you smell good too.

- Gee, I wonder what's on

The dark side of the barn?

- You want to find out?

Detective pig here.

Want me to investigate

What's around the corner?

- It's dangerous.

- No one has ever returned

From the dark side of the barn.

- Leave it to me.

[ Screaming ]

- It was just a joke, guys.

Guys?

Oh, guys.

- Ah, the first day of winter,

And the first snow

Of the season.

I used to dislike snow,

And I can't remember why.

[ Rumbling ]

- Oh, yeah.

Now, I remember.

- Uh-oh, dread.

Oh, general dread.

- What's wrong, wade?

- I'm afraid of snow.

It's cold and there are

Avalanches and blizzards.

- Oh, you don't like sun

Because of sunburns

And rain because of floods.

- That's right.

Couldn't we just have
no weather at all?

- I'm going to get this tractor

Working and plow some snow.

You want to ride with me?

- Oh, perish the thought.

I'm especially

Afraid of tractors.

What if you accidentally

Put it in reverse?

- I'm not going to put it

In reverse.

[ Crash ]

- Don't you say one word.

- Did I say anything?

Did i?

I hate snow,

Especially when it's cold.

Why couldn't we have it

In july when it's warmer?

- Hi, cousin. Fred duck.

Awful glad to meet you.

Nice place you've got here.

How's tricks?

- Who are you?

- Fred duck, just on my way

Flying south for the winter.

Got all my supplies

And everything.

Saw you down here and figured

I stop and see if you
wanted to come along.

[ Chuckles ]

Better get a move
on, little fellow.

- I don't fly south

For the winter.

- You don't fly south

For the winter?

- I don't fly anywhere anytime.

It's scary.

[ Laughs ]

- A duck afraid to fly.

What a maroon.

What a wimp.

Hey, well, listen, I'm going to

Florida to work on my tan,

Which when you're covered

With feathers is no mean trick

Believe you me.

So long, chicken.

- I am not a chicken.

I'm going to fly.

[ Clucking ]

- ♪ When you're walking
on the ground ♪

♪ You can't deny ♪

♪ If it's a better
way to travel, ♪

♪ Why not fly? ♪

♪ Start looking all around, ♪

♪ It's not hard to try to see ♪

♪ Everything that knows ♪

♪ How to fly ♪

♪ Birds fly, words fly, ♪

♪ Even monarch butterflies fly ♪

♪ Ducks fly, ♪

♪ Hockey pucks fly, ♪

♪ Butterscotch pie ♪

♪ And flies fly ♪

Everyone thinks

I'm a coward and I resent it.

- Wade, you are a coward.

- That's why I resent it.

I want to hide my head like him.

- ♪ He just sticks his head ♪

♪ Underground ♪

♪ And hides his eyes. ♪

♪ An ostrich can't fly ♪

♪ No matter what he tries. ♪

♪ I don't want to be ♪

♪ A duck who sits and cries ♪

♪ Even garbage trucks ♪

♪ And trousers both have flies ♪

[ Laughs ]

Get it?

Trousers have flies.

- A joke like that?

Maybe you have more guts

Than you think.

- ♪ Birds fly, words fly ♪

♪ Even monarch butterflies fly ♪

♪ Ducks fly, ♪

♪ Hockey pucks fly, ♪

♪ Butterscotch pies ♪

♪ And flies fly ♪

♪ So why not i? ♪

♪ I should fly ♪

♪ I should fly ♪

I was right, I shouldn't fly.

- Wade, are you all right?

- Nothing damaged but

My self-confidence,

And it's not like

I had much to begin with.

Face it, ducks can fly

But chickens can't

And I am ever the latter.

- Gee, orson,

Can we do anything?

- No.

This is the kind of the thing

Wade's gonna have to solve

For himself, even if it takes

All winter.

- Ah, the first day of spring.

No more snow.

Where did that come from?

- Hold on tight, booker.

We're celebrating spring today.

Want some balloons, wade?

- I have naught to celebrate.

Winter had passeth me by

Without me flying.

- Here bo, take these.

- Wow, balloons.

How cheery, man.

- I have to start

Spring plowing.

I had to tractor all--

[ Shouts ]

Help, I can't stop it!

- Scope it, pig needs help.

- Not from i.

I can't even help me.

- Well, hold onto these, then.

- Here wade, hold these.

- Hold these, wade.

I gotta go help orson.

- Oh, I'm of no use.

I can't even learn to fly.

I just have to face it.

I will never soar

Through the skies.

I am an earthbound disgrace

To duckdom.

- Help!

The ignition's stuck.

- Boy, you get a good view

From up here.

[ Stuttering ]

Help. Help.

- Hiya, cousin.

Fancy meeting you up here.

- Oh, hi, fred.

Fred!

[ Shouting ]

- Would you get off me?

- You know, I'd really rather

Not be alone up here.

[ Screaming ]

- I had to rebuild

The gas tank.

- We're coming to save you,

Orson.

- Yeah.

As if we really knew what to do.

[ Shouting ]

- Whoa!

- Nice going, wade!

That parachute slowed

The tractor so I could get

To the engine and

Pull the fuel line.

- Ah, you fly with

A parachute, fred?

[ Laughs ]

- Well, you never know

Who you're going to

Run into up there.

It's not like I'm afraid,

You know.

- Like, you're a little

Chicken yourself.

- I resent that.

- Hey, everybody's

Afraid of something.

- Wade, you're a hero, even if

You are afraid of heights

And everything else.

- But I won't be afraid

Of heights if fred will

Sell me the parachute.

- Well, maybe we can

Work a deal.

- Orson, did you ever think

You'd see wade climb so high?

- Nope.

He's conquering his fear.

[ Shouts ]

- Maybe next week you can

Go up four feet high.

- Well, it's a start.

- Jon's working his fingers

To the bone

Planting a flower bed.

Guess I'd better get out there

And give those flowers

The garfield touch.

Die, you daisies.

- How do you like my new

Plastic flower garden, garfield?

- That's cheating.

[ Doorbell rings ]

- I'll get it.

Groceries.

Let me see the bill.

[ Screams ]

Here's your money.

Canned salmon, $3.

Tomatoes $1.93.

This is an outrage.

- I want my lunch.

- Whoa!

- Hey, I didn't mean you

Shouldn't cook it first.

Yuck, odie kisses.

- I can't believe

These grocery bills.

Why am I buying enough food

For 20 people?

Oh, right.

- Tomato sauce, hamburger,

Mozzarella cheese, wide noodles.

The potential

For lasagna is very high.

- I'm spending

Too much on groceries.

- I know what jon's
going to say.

Food prices are astronomical.

- Food prices are astronomical.

- Now the

When-i-lived-on-the-farm speech.

- When I lived on the farm,

We always ate fresh vegetables.

We should grow them

Here in the garden.

- And now

He'll forget all about it.

Since when does jon have ideas

Of his own?

- I bought lettuce seeds,

Tomato seeds, radish seeds,

Cucumber seeds?

- What? No nacho seeds?

No chocolate layer cake seeds?

Call me when it's food.

- Just who do you think

Is going to do

All this planting work?

Oh, no.

I'm through buying groceries.

If you don't work,

You don't eat.

- Hey, no fair dragging

My stomach into this.

- ♪ Radishes ♪

♪ Carrots and turnips, ♪

♪ Turn up in ♪

♪ The nicest places. ♪

♪ Every day I see new faces ♪

♪ In the garden ♪

♪ Spinach, tomatoes ♪

♪ And lettuce ♪

♪ Whisper please don't let ♪

♪ The bugs get us ♪

♪ Keep us safe and ♪

♪ Don't forget us ♪

♪ In the garden ♪

♪ I'm the guardian ♪

♪ Of the garden ♪

♪ Everything depends on me ♪

♪ From the royal princely ♪

♪ Pumpkin ♪

♪ To the tiniest princess pea ♪

♪ In the garden ♪

Now, we need

A few weeks of sun.

I'm afraid that won't work.

You have to let nature

Take its course.

- Maybe if we took it

All down to the tanning salon.

- I think we have to resort

To more drastic steps here.

These garden shop seedlings

Will give us a head start.

They cost a lot,

But they'll be worth it.

- You're wasting your time,

Fellow.

I think our yard has

Just been declared a cafeteria.

- Garfield, odie, I'm making it

Your job to keep those animals

Away from our new vegetables.

- Guard duty, what fun.

Okay, odie.

We'll work in shifts.

You watch during the day,

And I'll sleep at night.

[ Barks ]

- So easy.

[ Growling ]

[ Barking ]

[ Munching ]

- Hey! Give that back.

Odie!

[ Growls ]

[ Sniffing ]

[ Barking ]

- A gopher hole.

There's only one way

To deal with this.

We'll flush them out.

[ Barking ]

- My garden!

It's-- it's erupting.

What have you done?

The garden is ruined.

I give you one

Simple thing to do,

And you destroy
all our hard work.

[ Grumbling ]

- I'm sorry, guys.

I see you were

Just doing your duty.

What's that, boy?

A head of lettuce

And some radishes.

That's all we have left.

- Better pick them before they

End up in a gopher salad bar.

- The way I figure it,

With all the supplies I bought,

That lettuce cost me

$200 A leaf.

- All that work and all

That money for this?

Oh well.

Let me have one of

Those $300 radishes.