The thirteenth episode of the fourth season of Garfield and Friends.
Post-opening Sequence Line: "Serving cartoon watchers the world over since 1988."
Guaranteed Trouble
After his old TV set dies, Jon buys a new TV set from Madman Murray with a three-year guarantee, only to discover that both the TV and the guarantee are faulty.
Fan Clubbing
Roy Rooster and Wade Duck argue over who has the better fan club.
A Jarring Experience
Riff the Mouse thinks his mother has been eaten by Garfield, when she is actually trapped in a cookie jar.
"Guaranteed Trouble" provides examples of:
- Alliterative Name Madman Murray
- Bilingual Bonus: Madman Murray sells Jon a Takashimatta TV. In Japanese, "shimatta" is roughly equal to "oops", possibly foreshadowing the fact that the TV is defective.
- Bittersweet Ending: Jon travels 12,000 miles to get to and from the Takashimatta TV factory in Japan and spends every cent he has, but his new TV is fixed, or so it would seem. Every TV show is now dubbed in Japanese. Garfield decides the best thing they can do is sit in front of the TV and eat teriyaki chicken until they learn the language.
- Comically Missing the Point: After smoke emits from Jon's new TV, Jon tells Garfield "It's smoking." Upon hearing this, Garfield tells him "It's brand new, it's too young to smoke."
- Honest John's Dealership: Madman Murray has a three-year guarantee, with fine print so tiny you need an observatory telescope to read it. The fine print says "This warranty not valid Monday through Friday or on weekends. Not valid an any month with a vowel in its name and not valid if TV owner was born after the year 1863.
- Insane Proprietor: Madman Murray is an ecstactic, seemingly crazy salesman who tries to bamboozle Jon Arbuckle.
- Mourning an Object: This episode begins with Jon, Garfield, and Odie attending a funeral for their old TV set.
- No Indoor Voice: Binky the Clown is loud and obnoxious, to the point where he has his own set of Quickies called "Screaming With Binky". Jon knows something is wrong with his new TV when he can't hear Binky, but Garfield considers it an improvement.
- Percussive Maintenance: Garfield attempts to fix Jon's new TV by kicking it. All it does is put it out of its misery.
- Plane Awful Flight: When Jon, Garfield, and Odie travel to Japan by plane to the Takashimmatta factory, they have to ride in the cargo hold with a flock of turkeys. Jon tells Garfield it was the best flight he could afford, and Garfield complains that he didn't even get a bag of peanuts.
- Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: When Garfield pretends to be a saber-tooth cat to scare Murray, he says "Growl, hiss, snarl!"
"Fan Clubbing" provides examples of:
- Alliterative Name: It is revealed in this episode that Roy's full name is Roy R. Rooster, although it is never revealed what the R stands for.
- The Cameo: Orson is revealed to have a Garfield alarm clock.
- "Eureka!" Moment: After wade successfully votes to change the name of the Roy Rooster Fan Club to the Wade Duck Fan Club since the person chairing the meeting can only vote in case of a tie, Roy says that the fan club still has no members. This gives him the idea to become a member so he can vote to change the name back to the Roy Rooster Fan Club.
- Modesty Towel: Orson wears one to cover himself up after Roy and Wade destroy his shower, despite the fact that he doesn't normally wear clothes anyway.
- Not So Above It All: Orson initially dismisses the idea of having a fan club with no members in it as silly, until he decides to start his own fan club.
- Simple Solution Won't Work: Near the end of the episode, Orson decides to settle Roy and Wade's dispute by making the fan club the Roy and Wade Fan Club and making them both presidents. They both disagree, asking "Who'd want to be in a silly club like that?"
"A Jarring Experience" provides examples of:
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Riff wears a baseball cap backwards.
- The Ahnold: Max is a mouse caricature of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- Attack the Tail: Riff bites Garfield's tail when he mistakes Garfield for having put his (Riff's) mother in his (Garfield's) sandwich.
- The Cameo: At one point, Garfield is seen reading a Power Pig comic book, with Orson as Power Pig and Roy as Margarine Man.
- Here We Go Again!: When Jon asks Garfield "Where is the mouse?", referring to a piece of his new computer, Garfield exclaims "The mouse? I don't know where the mouse is! Stop asking me!"
- Last Request: Garfield asks Max if he can have one last cookie before he (Max) beats him (Garfield) up. This is how Garfield finds Riff's Mother in the cookie jar.
- Nightmare Sequence: Garfield has one where he is in a cheese-filled world, constantly being asked "Where is the mouse, Garfield?"
- Out-of-Context Eavesdropping:
- When Riff comes into the kitchen, he sees Garfield saying "Boy, can I make a sandwich?", and mistakes Garfield for having put his (Riff's) mother in his (Garfield's) sandwich.
- At the end of the episode, Jon asks Garfield where the mouse is, referring to his computer mouse. Garfield freaks out, as he thinks Jon is referring to a living mouse.
- That Came Out Wrong: When Garfield tries to tell Max that he doesn't know where Riff's Mother is, he tells him "I don't even like mice! I mean, for food! I like them as friends. Can't we be friends?"
