The fifteenth episode of the fifth season of Garfield and Friends.
Post-Opening Sequence Line: "Today's show is brought to you in color, unless the artists ran out of crayons."
Ghost of a Chance
A ghost must prove his worth and scare Garfield. Then his boss finds out why Garfield is so hard to scare.
Roy Gets Sacked
Thinking Orson is going to fire him, Roy leaves the farm and goes to his agent, who books him onto The Buddy Bears, much to Roy's dismay after the episode: "Big Bad Buddy Bird".
Revenge of the Living Lunch
In another "Garfield's Tales of Scary Stuff" episode, a meteorite crash landed on a farm 37 years ago. The farmer wrongly assumes it that it's a fruitcake, unaware that it has the power to bring inanimate objects to life. So the farmer gives the 'fruitcake' to someone he doesn't like as a Christmas present. But this is repeated for 37 years until Jon is given it by Auntie Edna. He places the meteorite inside the refrigerator, and it proceeds to bring all the food inside to life. That night, Garfield, Odie and Jon are attacked by the mob of living food, and eventually cornered.
Just then, Garfield has an idea, and asks for his last meal: a sandwich...with EVERYTHING on it. The entire food mob runs away upon hearing this. They check the refrigerator and see the meteorite glowing. They learn its power thanks to a scientist, and Garfield decides to use the meteor's power to make the government more lively.
"Ghost of a Chance" contains examples of:
- Big Eater: Garfield, as usual. He takes a large quantity of food from the refrigerator, deciding that he should save something for breakfast, that something being the olive on top of his sandwich.
- Cassandra Truth: When Jon reports Diablo to the police, the policeman doesn't believe Jon, as he doesn't believe in ghosts. When Jon complains to Garfield about this, Garfield tells him that he wouldn't believe a grown man who wears pajamas with horses and ducks on them.
- Faux Horrific: Garfield manages to drive Diablo out of Jon's house by showing him The Buddy Bears and The Binky the Clown Show.
- Take That!: To get rid of Diablo, Garfield considers calling the Ghostbusters, then decides against it because their show was cancelled.note
"Roy Gets Sacked" contains examples of:
- Affirmative Action Girl: The Buddy Bears now have a girl named Bettie amongst their ranks.
- Animated Actors: Roy. When he overhears his friends planning to fire him, he looks for a new show to cast in, ultimately ending up on The Buddy Bears
- Exact Words: When Roy's agent books him on The Buddy Bears, Roy refuses to be on it, telling the titular characters that they'll drop 16-ton safes on him. The Buddy Bears promise not to drop any 16-ton safes on him, but instead drop other heavy objects on him, including a 27-ton safe.
- Hope Spot:
- When Roy overhears his friends complaining about him, he overhears Wade saying that they should always be forgiving and always have a good sense of humor. Roy is relieved to hear this from Wade, but then Wade says that he will be laughing a lot once Roy gets fired.
- A short time afterwards, Orson tells Wade, Bo, and Lanolin that none of them are going to fire Roy. Roy is relieved to hear this from Orson, but then Orson says that he is going to fire him.
- Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: When Roy overhears his friends talking about firing him, he thinks that they really are going to fire him.
- Piano Drop: The Buddy Bears drop a piano on Roy when he refuses to drink his milk. Roy is just relieved that it wasn't a 16-ton safe.
- Pie in the Face: Roy does this to Orson when he goes back to the farm.
- Rule of Three: Roy has heavy objects dropped on him three times for doing things he shouldn't. The first time, he refuses to drink his milk and gets a piano dropped on him. The second time, he doesn't wash behind his ears (mostly because he has no ears to wash behind) and gets a 1988 convertible dropped on him. The third time, he squeezes his toothpaste from the top of the tube instead of the bottom and gets a 27-ton safe dropped on him.
- Sequel Episode: To "Big Bad Buddy Bird".
- Shout-Out: While looking for a new show to cast in, Roy's suggestions include Teenage Mutant Ninja Rooster, The Little Mer-Rooster, and G.I. Roy.
"Revenge of the Living Lunch" contains examples of:
- Big Eater: Garfield manages to combat the living food by making a sandwich with everything on it.
- Even the Rats Won't Touch It: Fruitcakes are one of the three foods that Garfield refuses to eat, the other two being raisins and snails.
- Everyone Hates Fruit Cakes: A meteor lands on Earth, gets mistaken for a fruitcake, and is passed along for decades because no one will even try to eat a fruitcake. Jon receives it from his Aunt Edna (prompting Garfield to wonder what Jon ever did to make her mad at him) and after stashing it in the fridge, wanders off to contemplate the age-old question fruitcake recipients always ask themselves: "Who do I dislike enough to give a fruitcake to?" Garfield mentions fruitcakes are one of the few foods he refuses to eat, and also that although (in his opinion) Jon is dumb, even he isn't dumb enough to try eating one.
- The Runt at the End: When the living food retreats from Garfield, a jar of molasses trails at the end, being so slow.
