The fifth episode of the seventh season of Garfield and Friends.
Post-opening sequence line: "The funniest show on TV that doesn't have a 1-800 number to buy cheap junk!"
Puss in Hi-Tops
Garfield tells his rendition of Puss in Boots. In this version, Garfield, as the titular cat, uses trickery to win his new owner (Jon) fame and fortune. The king eventually wants Jon to be with his beautiful daughter, if he can vanquish a shapeshifting ogre.
Egg Over Easy, Part One
Orson and Bo tell the story of how Wade, inspired by Sheldon, decided to shell himself up in a paper-mache egg because of all that is scary about the world.
The Beast From Beyond
The final episode of Garfield's Tales of Scary Stuff. When Sidney the Dinosaur awakens in the present day, he plots to take over the world by painting himself pink and hosting his own children's television show. Everyone who watches Sidney's show becomes a babbling idiot who parrots everything Sidney says. Garfield is the only one left unaffected and must devise a way to save the world.
"Puss in Hi-Tops" provides examples of:
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Garfield dips into this territory by wearing a pair of hi-top sneakers throughout this episode.
- Bittersweet Ending: This episode ends with Jon earning the hand of the princess in marriage. However, things go downhill from there. Garfield charges Jon a lot of money for his services, Jon is not impressed with the condition of the King's castle, and the ogre is revealed to have survived getting squished and chases Garfield away as retribution.
- Exit, Pursued by a Bear: This episode ends with Garfield being chased by the ogre.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: This exchange at the end:Jon: I'm not sure this is such a happy ending. The king gave us his castle, but the place is a mess! The moat's full of mud and the roof leaks, and look, there's even a cockroach!
Garfield: Well, every house has a little imperfection and, uh... (Beat) A cockroach?!
(The cockroach is revealed to be the ogre, who survived getting squished.)
Ogre: Step on me, will you? - Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen: Garfield invokes this trope by telling Jon to take off his clothes and go swimming in the lake. Jon does so, and as he does this, Garfield throws Jon's clothes away, then stops the King, telling him that thieves stole Jon's clothes so the King will give him some new royal clothes to wear.
- Shockingly Expensive Bill: Garfield slaps Jon with one at the end of the episode for his services in helping him earn the princess' hand in marriage. Garfield ends up paying the price (no pun intended) when it is revealed that the ogre survived and is back for revenge.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the original Puss in Boots story, Puss tricked the ogre into turning himself into a mouse, then ate him. In this episode, Garfield tricks the ogre into turning himself into a cockroach, then squishes him. However, at the end of the episode, the ogre is revealed to have survived getting squished and chases Garfield away as retribution.
- Tricking the Shapeshifter: Garfield manages to trick the ogre resident of a nearby castle into turning into a roach, which he then squishes with his high-tops. Unfortunately, at the end of the cartoon, it's revealed the ogre survived, forcing Garfield to put his high-tops to use in running for his life.
- The Unfavorite: Jon is this compared to his two older brothers, Rodney and Percival. When their father, the old miller, passed away, Jon is left with only the miller's cat, while Rodney received the deed to the miller's house, 25,000 Zordniks, and a bejeweled watch, and Percival received ten heads of cattle, 25,000 Zordniks, and the Klopman diamond.
- Voluntary Shapeshifter: The ogre has the ability to shapeshift into anything he chooses.
- Whole-Plot Reference: to Puss in Boots, with Garfield in the role of the titular cat.
"Egg Over Easy, Part One" provides examples of:
- Absurd Phobia: Wade's fears in this episode include Gumbophobia (the fear of finding something strange in his soup), Walterphobia (the fear of people named Walter), Delanophobia (the fear of nothing to be afraid of), and Offtuneophobia (the fear of having his friends sing happy birthday to him).
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Before Sheldon was supposed to be hatched, someone lined his nest with a newspaper highlighting the world's disasters; wars, the economy, and the NBC fall schedule.
- Bigger on the Inside: Sheldon is revealed to have a sun lamp inside his eggshell, which he uses to burn the Weasel's hands. Some of the other things Sheldon has in his eggshell are his stereo, his areobics tapes, and his video games.
- Birthday Episode: The events of this episode's flashback take place on Wade's birthday.
- Eggshell Clothing: Inspired by Sheldon, Wade decides to make his own eggshell out of paper-mache, thinking he'll be safer in it.
- Multi-Part Episode: This is the first part of a two-part episode where Wade decides to hide himself in a paper-mache eggshell, thinking it'll be safer, and the problems that arise from it.
- Shout-Out: When Wade runs away in fear, Bo says that "Compared to Wade when he's scared, The Flash is a slowpoke!"
- Smelly Skunk: The Weasel chases Sheldon into a hollow log. They both run out when they see a skunk inside it.
- To Be Continued: Just when Orson and Bo are about to tell the viewers about the Weasel hunting Wade in his paper-mache eggshell, time runs out. When Bo asks Orson if they can just get rid of some commercials, Orson tells them they can't, and will just have to wait until the next episode to tell the rest of the story. He then tells the viewers to come back next week for part two.
- Watch Out for That Tree!: After Wade successfully makes his own paper-mache eggshell, he walks into a tree, since he can't see here he's going from inside his eggshell.
- Whole Episode Flashback
- Wicked Weasel: The Weasel appears in this episode, attempting to hunt both Sheldon and Wade due to his egg cravings.
"The Beast From Beyond" provides examples of:
- Anachronistic Animal: In the beginning of the episode showing the age of dinosaurs, there are Jurassic and Cretaceous species together in the same scene.
- Body Paint: Sidney paints himself pink to fool his viewers into thinking he's cute instead of threatening. Garfield swaps his can of pink paint for a can of pink paint remover, foiling Sidney's evil plan and exposing his true colors, both figuratively and literally.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Sidney falls into this territory when he wears his tuxedo.
- Hypnotic Eyes: Sidney hypnotizes his viewers by looking at the camera with these kind of eyes while singing "Good is Better Than Bad".
- Kids' Show Mascot Parody: This episode features Sidney, a theropod dinosaur who, after surviving the extinction of the dinosaurs, plots to enslave mankind by painting himself pink and passing himself off as a friendly Barney-like character called "Sidney The Pink Dinosaur". He uses an insipid song called "Good Is Better Than Bad" to brainwash everyone who watches his program; Garfield turns out to be the only person immune to it (due to a combination of not looking at the screen and flat-out realizing how stupid the song is) and has to save the day.
- Living Dinosaurs: Sidney is revealed to have survived his kind's extinction by getting trapped in a cavern during an earthquake and being laid to rest by volcanic fumes. Millions of years later, during a routine demolition job, a gust of fresh air (or what passes for it) filled the cavern and awoke Sidney from his hibernation.
- Nice Character, Mean Actor: Sidney. On the set, he appears to be a friendly Barney-like host, but he really wants to conquer the world by hypnotizing its population into obeying him.
- Shout-Out: One of the sets Sidney chases Garfield through is a game show called Wheel of Jeopardy!.
- Take Over the World: This is Sidney's motive after being awoken from his hibernation.
- Take That!: This episode is a not-so-subtle one to Barney & Friends. Reportedly, the producers behind Garfield received an angry letter from the proprieters of Barney for it.
- Vegetarian Carnivore: Sidney is presumably a tyrannosaur (or an allosaur, given his three-fingered hands), but he is first shown with fern fronds in his mouth as if he was eating them.
- Villainous Breakdown: Sidney bursts into tears when he finds out that everyone is afraid of him and no longer under his spell since Garfield foiled his plan, asking Garfield if it's so wrong to want to rule mankind. Garfield manages to make things right for Sidney by becoming his manager and getting him jobs in science-fiction movies, making him rich and famous.
