The eleventh episode of the fifth season of Garfield and Friends.
Post-opening sequence line: "And make sure you stick around after the show for the big cast party!"
The Worst Pizza in the History of Mankind
Garfield tells the story of Tony Arbuckli and how he made the worst Pizza ever.
Jack II: The Rest of the Story
After being unsatisfied with the ending to Jack and the Beanstalk, Roy, Wade, Booker, and Sheldon decide to write their own story that serves as a sequel to it.
The Garfield Opera
The Buddy Bears present an opera based on Garfield's eating habits to provide culture to viewers.
"The Worst Pizza in the History of Mankind" provides examples of:
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Garfield cites the Black Plague, the Spanish Inquisition, and the Cleveland Indians as some of the world's disasters.
- Chekhov's Skill: Tony's (awful) singing is what drove away the angry crowd.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Tony thinks the angry mob came to order and eat his pizza.Angry villager 1: There is-a nothing more-a disgusting than-a this dump!
Tony: Oh, then-a you want an order to-go, correct? - Dreadful Musician: Tony.
- Even Beggars Won't Choose It: Even the hungry Cat who likes to eat a lot but also hasn't found a bite in days around the Italian village it wandered into wouldn't try Tony's pizza. He instead waited on Tony to buy him Chinese food.
- Hypocritical Humor: Garfield complains the village people have terrible Italian accents, when him voicing the Cat himself is also the exact same accent.
- Lethal Chef: Tony again. The Cat says that his pizza actually does smell okay, but the taste is way below a D minus.
- Rags to Riches: Tony goes from a struggling pizza restaurateur to a frisbee company entrepreneur and goes on to become one of the wealthiest men in the world.
- Torches and Pitchforks: When the angry villagers try to burn down Tony's store and likely kill Tony.
- Truth in Television: As the Cat demonstrated, pizza often tends to smell better than it tastes.
- Watching Troy Burn: Tony when his restaurant burns down from failing to turn off the oven in time.
"Jack II: The Rest of the Story" provides examples of:
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Jack is arrested for theft, attempted murder of a giant, and chopping beanstalks out of season.
- Beanstalk Parody: This episode begins with Orson reading the story of Jack and the Beanstalk to Booker, Sheldon, Wade, and Roy. The four decide to write their own sequel to the story after questioning the ending of Jack having an unconscious giant in his front yard. In their story, Jack is arrested, and the Giant takes back the Goose and uses its gold to turn his castle into a mini-mall.
- Hero of Another Story: Roy, Wade, Booker and Sheldon felt more sorry for the Giant than they did for Jack. They rewrote the story (or continued it with a sequel) to make it out that the Giant survived the fall and successfully sued Jack for stealing his golden goose and nearly killing him.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Roy aims to punish Jack as much as possible in "Jack 2: The Rest of the Story"
- Villain Protagonist: Roy considers Jack of "Jack and the Beanstalk" to be this.
"The Garfield Opera" provides examples of:
- Diet Episode: In this episode, Jon puts Garfield on a diet so he can lose weight. Garfield then tricks an animal activist person into thinking he is starving so Jon can feed him.
- Musical Episode: To the tune of Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours".
- Only Known by Their Nickname: When the Buddy Bears are introduced, they introduce themselves by their real names to sound more sophisticated; William (Billy), Robert (Bobby), and Bertram (Bertie).
- Public Domain Soundtrack: The tune for the opera in this episode is taken from Ballet of The Hours from La Gioconda by Amilcare Poncheielli. The Buddy Bears bring up the fact that the tune is so old that they don't have to pay royalties for it.
- Weight Taller: The more Garfield eats, the bigger he gets. He becomes so big that he becomes bigger than the Earth itself.
