The twenty-third episode of the second season of Garfield and Friends.
Post-opening sequence line: "We've got to stop that chicken from writing on my logo every week!"
Mystic Manor
Jon, Garfield, and Odie visit a haunted house called Mystic Manor, only to discover that is has been closed for years. As Jon takes a nap in a nearby motel, Odie wanders into the manor before Garfield goes in to save him.
Flop Goes the Weasel
After Wade accidentally runs into the Weasel, the other animals believe he is a hero, and Wade lets the ego go to his head.
The Legend of Long Jon
Jon Garfield, and Odie go to Washington, DC to find out about Jon's relatives, only to be chased by a mob when they find out that Jon's ancestor, Long Jon, stole maps from George Washington. As they hide out in a museum, they soon find out the truth about Long Jon.
"Mystic Manor" provides examples of:
- Alliterative Title: Mystic Manor.
- The Cameo:
- While on the run from a Frankenstein monster, Garfield finds Nancy Ritz and Sluggo Smith behind a door.
- As Garfield slides down a pole, he passes by Orson, Wade, Roy, and Jim Davis himself.
- Chasing a Butterfly: Odie chasing a bat is how he ends up wandering into Mystic Manor.
- Denied Food as Punishment: Jon threatens not to give Garfield any dinner should anything bad happen to Odie.
- Haunted House: This episode involves Jon, Garfield, and Odie visiting Mystic Manor, a haunted house used as a tourist attraction that closed down years ago because people who came in never came out.
- Impact Silhouette: Garfield and Odie leave holes shaped like their bodies when they run through the walls of Mystic Manor.
- Trap Door: Garfield falls through one when he pulls a rope with a sign that says DO NOT PULL ROPE on it.
- Waking Non Sequitur: When Jon wakes Garfield up to remind him to look after Odie, Garfield says "I didn't eat it! Whatever's missing, somebody else ate it!"
"Flop Goes the Weasel" provides examples of:
- Accidental Hero: This episode has Wade unwittingly foiling the Weasel's plans, allowing him to be removed from the farm. Later, when the Weasel returns, Wade's mere presence scares him into leaving again.
- Box-and-Stick Trap: Near the beginning of this episode, Booker sets this kind of trap for the Worm, using a cheeseburger as bait. He ends up catching Odie with it.
- The Cameo: Odie appears in this episode as the victim of Booker's worm trap.
- Canon Foreigner: The Weasel is not a pre-existing character from the U.S. Acres comic strip and was created for Garfield and Friends.
- Leitmotif: The Weasel is represented by "Pop Goes the Weasel", which this episode's title is a spoof of.
- Miles Gloriosus: After Wade accidentally collides with the Weasel and Orson says that Wade's a hero for saving the farm from the Weasel, Wade starts boasting about and exaggerating his heroic deed, and later that evening, Wade boasts "Why, if I could get my hands on that Weasel again, I'd..."; when Booker and Sheldon tell him the weasel's back, Wade confesses to Booker and Sheldon that his actions were more motivated by fear than true bravery, and runs to take cover in a crate where the Weasel is also hiding, where the crate tumbles downhill and hits the barn. As the Weasel stumbles out of the crate, Wade admits that his actions were more out of fear than heroism, instead of boasting like he did the first time. This time, the Weasel is so much more fearful than Wade is that he runs away.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The Weasel runs away from Wade after Wade foils his plans a second time.
- Wicked Weasel: This episode marks the debut of the Weasel, who plots to steal and eat the farm's chickens.
"The Legend of Long Jon" provides examples of:
- Clear Their Name: When Garfield finds out that Long Jon was actually working for George Washington as a spy, he sets out to find the letter of commendation to prove Long Jon's innocence so the mob will stop chasing Jon.
- Identical Grandson: Long Jon bears a striking resemblance to Jon.
- Invisible Writing: Garfield and Odie were reading from the journal of Jon's pirate ancestor Long Jon Arbuckle, when Odie started drooling on an apparently blank page, which causes writing to appear on the page. It turned out that Long Jon Arbuckle had written on the blank pages in invisible ink, telling about how he was able to arrest some bandits that were carrying phony documents.
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: The museum curator in this episode physically resembles Benjamin Franklin.
- Shamed by a Mob: Jon writes to people telling them he's coming to Washington. The mob chases him angrily due to him being a descendant of Long Jon, whom they believe was a traitor to George Washington. The mob apologizes to Jon upon finding out the truth about Long Jon.
- Shout-Out: When Garfield sees the mob, he says, "If that's a welcoming committee, I'm "Pee-Wee Herman."
