History WhatAnIdiot / GarfieldAndFriends

'''Instead:''' He insists on buying more seeds and gardening supplies, and after running amok with animals that tried to eat their garden, Jon only manages to obtain one leaf of lettuce and a few radishes from his garden. Jon calculates he spent $200 per lettuce leaf and $300 per single radish. [[WasItReallyWorthIt Was going through all that garden work really worth skipping groceries, Jon?]]

'''You'd Expect:''' For him to realize that he did a huge favor, agree and give Garfield a huge Italian feast.\\

Garfield has explained several times throughout the series that, in order for fun stories and character development to happen, [[LampshadeHanging one or more character(s) must do something stupid]] to get the plot running, such as in "A Jarring Experience" and "A Vacation from His Senses".

* In "The Sludge Monster", Jon's car breaks down in the middle of a storm, leaving him, Garfield, and Odie with no choice but to spend the night in a creepy, decrepit hotel run by a terrifying NightmareFuelStationAttendant – all of which has Garfield and Odie understandably scared and on-edge. Jon then reads the story of the Sludge Monster, a creature said to lurk in that very hotel.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Garfield would be more careful about what he'd use the other two wishes for so he'd not end up with stolen property again.\\

'''You'd Then Expect:''' Jon to suspect that telling the boys a scary story ''right before bed'', when they were already scared and on-edge to begin with, just might, ''might'' have played a key role in the mess they had gotten themselves into, and thus go easy on them and apologize to them for having scared them so bad.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' For Garfield to find another qualified person to play the sound effects, which is a job easy enough for even children (the target demographic of the show) to do.\\

* In "Hound of the Arbuckles", after waking up from a dream, Garfield finds Odie stuck up on the roof which also causes the television to go static due to the wire that Odie got caught in. So Jon decides to rescue him and fix the television.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Jon tells Odie that Odie should thank Garfield since he's the one who helps him out.\\
'''Instead:''' [[{{Jerkass}} Jon takes the credit saying he found him without mentioning Garfield's involvement]]. What a dick.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Jon would forcefully tamper with the wires to make the television go static so that Garfield will be forced to help him.\\

'''Instead:''' Overconfident, he gloat about his 'wicked' selling scheme and even comment that his rival Gramps' general store sells way better food than he does...''while Garfield holds the microphone at him since they are near the cashier counter.''

'''You'd Expect:''' He would decide to cut down the cost of food and living and hopefully gets a part time job knowing Garfield and Odie can't find money for themselves.\\

* In "Sound Judgment", Garfield realizes that he can't make any loud noise to wake up Nermal who happens to be sleeping in Garfield's bed. Garfield goes to investigate his cartoon's sound department, and finds that the sound effects person quit due to getting a pay raise by doing swords on ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987''.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Binky would surrender and plead he didn't do it since he was on the show all the time which could make the police suspect an imposter.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Jon would ask him to drive him there before giving him the money and mostly see through his lie when he finds out that he and Swindler are the same person.\\

Garfield has explained several times throughout the series that, in order for fun stories and character development to happen, [[LampshadeHanging one or more character(s) must do something stupid]] to get the plot running such as in "A Jarring Experience" and "A Vacation from His Senses".

* In "The Pie-Eyed Piper", a improvised tale of the Pied Piper Story, the King is too cowardly and a {{jerkass}} so he decides to use Jon as a scapegoat to shoo away the rats. Once Jon (with the help of Garfield as a Pie-Eyed Piper) manages to do that, he asks if he could give Garfield his reward since Garfield agrees to help him for food as his reward.\\

'''Instead:''' He decides to ''steal'' the recipe at the same night after being ordered by Papa Plastique to find out the recipe. The same day Garfield, Jon and Odie are around. \\
'''The Result:''' This gets himself caught and arrested due to the fact that Garfield and Odie happens to be sleeping near the kitchen and stop him just in time.

'''Instead:''' [[{{Troll}} He]] keeps persistently asking ''[[{{Jerkass}} Jon]]'' for the password and even gives him rules on the 'password' while refuse to believe Jon's the owner of the house.\\

* In "Safe at Home", Mr.Fluster, the salesman who works in a security company, installs high tech security system at Jon's home when his house was robbed (except the TV since the robber can't carry that load). But as he finishes fixing it, he acts as a security guard and ask for a password. Jon tries to reason with him that he has the password.\\

* In "The Pie-Eyed Piper", a improvised tale of the Piped Piper Story, the King is too cowardly and a {{jerkass}} so he decides to use Jon as a scapegoat to shoo away the rats. Once Jon (with the help of Garfield as a Pie-Eyed Piper) manages to do that, he asks if he could give Garfield his reward since Garfield agrees to help him for food as his reward.\\

'''Result:''' Garfield starts emptying the entire market, causing Gramps to consider it cheaper to have gone out of business.

'''Final Result:''' Jon manages to buy his credit cards back, but now he can't even find his car and has no money to take a cab to go back home, asking Garfield for help.

'''Result:''' The two real officers who stopped Garfield and Odie apprehend Weevil thanks to the fine ticket that was still in Jon's car. Had Weevil listen to Jon's plea, he would have gotten away with the money without getting caught.

'''Result:''' This gets himself caught and arrested due to the fact that Garfield and Odie happens to be sleeping near the kitchen and stop him just in time.

'''Result:''' Odie gets conned by an alley cat for a used sock, causing Garfield to con the alley cat in kind so they could get their grocery money back. Only ''then'' does Jon realize he should've left first. [[HereWeGoAgain And then he comes back with a used sock]].

'''Instead:''' Everyone that complains to Larry ended up becoming his 'singing member' which ends up like a choir much to Garfield's annoyance.

'''Result:''' Garfield plays a tune that hypnotizes all the town chefs, which Hamelin is famous for, and follow him out of town causing all of the townsfolk to blame the king for all of this.

'''You'd Expect:''' Garfield would put down the lasagna, go over there and slightly adjust it.\\

'''Result:''' Garfield gets transported into the satellite and travels through TV Land, thanks to the side effects of Italian food on the aforementioned satellite.

'''Result:''' Not knowing it's stolen money, he goes to a bank to deposit it and it turns out to be the same bank the fairy stole it from. He ends up in jail until a guard says the bank decided not to press charges since he "returned" the money.

'''Until:''' Jon has his comeuppance when [[KickTheSonOfABitch Garfield kicks the ladder off]] after his sly remark that he can handle anything. After that Garfield and Odie watch the television with high volume, not caring about Jon (let alone they're using the high volume to block out his wails for help).\\

'''Instead:''' He has no clue where Wade went and keeps calling for him.

'''Still:''' Jon was lucky he brings Garfield and Odie since if he were to be alone, he might ended up crash landing and died in the process.

* In "Speed Trap", Jon is fined by Officer Weevil, a crook who dresses as a police officer, for speeding at a 8MPH small signboard. Jon refuses to pay the fine since it's ridiculous. When they reach the courthouse, Weevil quickly dresses up as the judge and defense attorney and tries to charge him. Even Garfield and Odie notice Weevil's a phony.\\

Garfield has explained several times throughout the series that, in order for exciting and fun stories to happen, [[LampshadeHanging one or more character(s) must do something stupid]] to get the plot running such as in "A Jarring Experience" and "A Vacation from His Senses".

* In "Cinderella Cat", A Fairy [[Film/TheGodfather Godfather]] who looks and talks just like Creator/MarlonBrando offers Garfield three wishes. Garfield uses the first wish for lasagna, which the fairy grants by stealing it from a vendor who reclaims it just as Garfield is about to eat it.\\

'''Instead:''' Overconfident, he gloat about his 'wicked' selling scheme and even comment that his rival Gramps' general store sells way better food than he does...''while Garfield holds the microphone at him since they are near the cashier counter''

'''Instead:''' He puts [[TheDitz Odie]] in charge of the sound effects. [[HilarityEnsues Guess how well that turns out]].

"Garfield and Friends" is an animated comedy for children about [[LazyBum a fat orange cat]] [[StrawLoser who's smarter than his own human owner]] (and most of the other humans on the show as well), so expect these characters to commit terribly stupid acts for the sake of laughter from the audience. Garfield can make stupid decisions too, being not just physically lazy but also mentally lazy.

* The "Cash and Carry" episode. This episode is considered one of the most infamous episodes with the 'What An Idiot" trope labeled in this episode. This episode starts where Jon receives a large sum of credit card bills and was shocked about it.\\

'''Instead:''' "I'm going to cut all the credit card bills, and only spend money using dollar bills, and if it's expensive, I won't buy it." Yeah... he got it half right, but cutting ''ALL'' his credit cards might not be a wise idea, as Jon later learns.\\

'''Instead:''' [[TemptingFate "Don't worry! I can remember it easily at the back of my head!"]]. Too bad that the moment they enter the elevator, after some metaphor wordings from the elderly couple, Jon forgets and says he'll figure it out later.\\

'''Instead:''' [[RunningGag "What's that?" while pointing at the dollar bills]]. Yeah... this causes Jon to go into a rage, since he doesn't want to be interrogated by the mall police asking him to show him the place to buy credit cards.\\
'''Bonus Points:'''Hell, the whole shopping mall is full of idiots. But to be honest, the real idiots go to the shopping mall owner, or the hiring manager who hires those people in the first place. I can understand that the whole episode wants to screw around with Jon's earlier decision towards credit cards, but who would hire people who can't even recognize dollar bills as money? They would get fired immediately in real life.\\

'''[[OverlyLongGag Instead:]]''' He gives ALL his dollar bills to Garfield, asking him to take a cab back home with Odie and wait for him at home while ordering dinner. Oh my gawd... You're giving away money to [[FatCat Garfield]] who eats all the food and even knows your parking lot number and color? Really now,Jon?\\

* In "Speed Trap" Jon is fined by Officer Weevil, a crook who dresses as a police officer, for speeding at a 8MPH small signboard. Jon refuses to pay the fine since it's ridiculous. When they reach the courthouse, Weevil quickly dresses up as the judge and defense attorney and tries to charge him. Even Garfield and Odie notice Weevil's a phony.\\

"Garfield and Friends" is an animated comedy for children about a fat orange cat who's smarter than his own human owner (and most of the other humans on the show as well), so expect these characters to commit terribly stupid acts for the sake of laughter from the audience. Garfield can make stupid decisions too, being not just physically lazy but also mentally lazy.

Garfield has however explained several times throughout the series that, in order for exciting and fun stories to happen, [[LampshadeHanging one or more character(s) must do something stupid]] to get the plot running such as in "A Jarring Experience" and "A Vacation from His Senses".