The seventeenth episode of the second season of Garfield and Friends.
Post-opening sequence line: "Don't try any of this at home, kids. We're professionals."
Arrivederci, Odie!
When Garfield breaks a vase, he pins the blame on Odie. However, when Jon takes Odie to the vet, Garfield begins to think that Jon sent him away as punishment, and feels guilty about it.
Gort Goes Good
When Orson's mean brother Gort comes to visit, he claims he's turned over a new leaf, and tries to earn the trust of Orson and his friends. However, Wade suspects that Gort is still up to no good.
Feeling Feline
After seeing a television show saying that some owners act like their pets, Jon believes he's becoming more like Garfield.
"Arrivederci, Odie!" provides examples of:
- The Cameo: When Garfield sings about how everything is his now that Odie's gone, Wade and Sheldon can be seen on some posters.
- Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: After Garfield blames Odie for breaking the vase and Jon takes Odie to the vet, he believes Jon got rid of Odie, and at first, he is glad Odie is gone because now he can have everything to himself, but he soon begins to feel emotional guilt for getting Odie sent away. At the end of the episode, when Odie returns from the vet, Garfield is happy to see him again and hugs him. Then, when Odie eats from his food bowl, Garfield ties him up and gives him to Jon, saying "I changed my mind; ship him out!"
- Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: When Garfield begins to miss Odie, he tries to count sheep, but ends up counting Odies instead. He tries to get his mind off of Odie by getting a midnight snack, only to find Odie in the Chef's Salad he was about to eat. Finally, when he tries to watch TV, he sees Odie on every channel, including The Binky the Clown Show.
- Contrived Coincidence: After Garfield breaks Jon's vase, he blames Odie. Jon doesn't believe Odie broke the vase, but when Odie sneezes, Jon takes him to the vet. Garfield ends up thinking that Jon is getting rid of Odie, especially when Jon tells him that he finally got rid of that insect (referring to a fly).
- Counting Sheep: Garfield tries to go to sleep by counting sheep, but his guilt at supposedly causing Odie to be sent away makes him count Odies instead.
- Fly Crazy: A fly bothers Jon, who gets advice from Liz to open a window so he will fly out of it.
- Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: Garfield notices that Odie is gone after he tried to frame him for breaking Jon's vase and overhears Jon talking over the phone about how he finally got rid of an insect that was bothering him. Garfield comes to the conclusion that Jon had gotten rid of Odie over breaking the vase, unaware that Jon was referring to a fly that was bugging him when he talked about getting rid of an insect and that he actually wasn't mad at Odie and just had him taken to Dr. Liz Wilson when the dog started sneezing.
- Possession Presumes Guilt: When Garfield breaks Jon's vase, he tries to invoke this trope by pinning the blame on Odie. Fortunately for Odie, Jon doesn't believe Garfield, and even if Odie did break it, he decides the vase was no big deal anyway.
- Priceless Ming Vase: Garfield breaks Jon's vase, and not wanting to get blamed for it, tries to blame Odie.
"Gort Goes Good" provides examples of:
- All for Nothing: After Gort, Mort and Wart leave, Orson tells his friends that he lost the silo's key a long time ago and the door wasn't locked. It means they spent practically the whole episode trying to trick him into giving them something he didn't have and they didn't need.
- Alliterative Title: Gort Goes Good.
- Bad "Bad Acting": This exchange from Wart and Mort when Gort (seemingly) foils their plan to steal Orson's apples:Mort: (in an unconvincing tone) Oh, phooey! Our turncoat brother!
Wart: (in an unconvincing tone) He has turned good and exposed our plan to steal apples! - Be the Ball: Discussed; when Roy tells Orson that Gort is coming to visit, Orson panics, saying "Don't let them play badminton with me; they use me as the shuttlecock!"
- Bee Afraid: When Orson discovers that one of the bees got stuck to the honey he collected and sets it free, Wade panics, not wanting the bee to sting him.
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Broken Aesop: This episode has a "people can change" moral, completely subverted in that Gort's Heel–Face Turn was just a ruse. Despite this, Orson still proclaims that it's possible for people to change for the better, but his case isn't looking too strong. It's worth noting that Orson was the only character that honestly believed that Gort had gone good in the first place, and Orson's Aesop was just an example of his rampant optimism. At the very end, after Wade causes a problem with his panic, Orson grudgingly admits that some people never change. - Chekhov's Gag: Early in this epsiode, Orson gathers some honey from a beehive. Near the end of the episode, when Gort reveals his ruse, Orson tricks his brothers into looking for the key to the silo in the tub of honey so that the honey will attract a bear, which will chase them way.
- Exit, Pursued by a Bear: A literal example; near the end of the episode, Orson gives Gort the job of guarding the apples. Gort finds out that the key to the silo that Orson gave him doesn't fit the lock, so he, Wart, and Mort demand to know where the real key is. Orson tells them it's in the tub of honey. Gort, Wart, and Mort search the tub of honey, but find no key. They only manage to get themselves covered in honey, which attracts a bear who chases them away.
- Falsely Reformed Villain: When Gort arrives at the farm, he declares that he has turned on Wart and Mort in favor of a life of goodness/kindness. He, Wart, and Mort later reveal that his "change of heart" was just an elaborate scheme to get the key to a silo where Orson and his friends were storing a ton of apples.
- Hypocritical Humor: When Wade gets scared by a bee, Orson says its so undignified to act so cowardly. Just afterwards, Roy arrives and tells Orson that Gort is coming, causing Orson to panic.
- Impact Silhouette: Gort leaves a Gort-shaped hole in the wall of a house when he attempts to plow a field.
- Literal-Minded: At the end of the episode, after a bear chases Orson's brothers away, Wade tells Orson that he was right all along and that Gort hadn't changed after all. When Orson tells Wade that it was worth a try, and that sometimes a leopard can change its spots, Wade freaks out, thinking an actual leopard is coming to attack him.
- Never Trust a Title: Despite what this episode's title says, Gort does not actually go good. He just pretends to as part of his plan to steal Orson's apples.
- Properly Paranoid: Wade believes that Gort hasn't really gone good, and doesn't trust him when Orson gives him the job of guarding their apples. Wade turns out to be right when Gort reveals his ruse.
"Feeling Feline" provides examples of:
- Alliterative Title: Feeling Feline.
- Big Eater: When Jon starts to take on Garfield's personality, he has his mom make him beef stew, turkey, ham, pork chops, linguine with clam sauce, egg foo young, Yorkshire pudding, duck a l'orange, pastrami, burritos, chocolate mousse, and iced tea. When she asks him if he wants anything else, he asks "Yes, got any lasagna?"
- Born in the Theater: When Jon's Mom is about to ask Jon if there's anything else he'd like besides the other aforementioned foods she made him, Garfield shows up and says "All right, all together now." After he leaves, the audience says "Yes, got any lasagna?" when Jon says the same.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: When Jon's dream is about to begin, Garfield comes in with a clapper board, saying "Jon Arbuckle Dream Sequence, Take One".
- Here We Go Again!: After Jon proves to Garfield that he doesn't act like him, Garfield suddenly starts acting like Odie. He soon realizes this, and tries to do something different, only to find Odie doing the same things as him.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: To prove that he doesn't act like Garfield, Jon tries to invoke this trope by doing things that Garfield would never do. He first tries to learn how to play hockey, only to find Garfield about to do the same. Then, he tries riding a bicycle, only to find Garfield on a tandem bicycle (with Odie doing all the pedaling). After that, he dresses like Carmen Miranda, only to find Garfield dressed the same way. He then gets the idea to do some yard work, knowing that Garfield doesn't work.
- Toilet Humor: When Jon takes on Garfield's personality, his dad gets him a sandbox.
