The eighth episode of the first season of Garfield and Friends.
Post-Opening Sequence Line: "So if someone wants you to change the channel, kids, just say no!"
Cabin Fever
When Jon takes Garfield and Odie to a cabin for the weekend, the two pets are trapped in a cabin with no food during a blizzard.
The Return of Power Pig
When talk of a monster spreads around the farm, Orson becomes his superhero alter-ego, Power Pig, and prepares to do battle.
Fair Exchange
After getting punished for gluing Odie to the table, Garfield has a dream where he and Jon switch bodies so they can see who has the easier life.
"Cabin Fever" provides examples of:
- Big Eater: Garfield. When Jon goes to the store to buy food, the cashier tells him that he's buying enough food to feed a small army. Jon then says that won't be enough to feed Garfield, and to let him know when he has enough to feed a large army. When Garfield becomes hungry waiting for Jon to return, he resorts to eating pictures of food from a cookbook he finds.
- Cabin Fever: Both the title and premise of this episode. Garfield and Odie get snowed in the cabin when Jon leaves to get food, and Garfield becomes hungry waiting for Jon to return.
- Even the Rats Won't Touch It: This episode ends with Jon returning to the cabin to make Garfield his special southern fried pig's liver with chocolate sauce. Upon hearing this, Garfield goes back to the cookbook he found earlier and eats pictures of food from it, finding them more appetizing.
- Human Snowman: The title card depicts Garfield as one, holding his arms out to warm them by the fire.
- Not Now, Kiddo: While in the cabin, Odie keeps wimpering and scratching at the door so Garfield can let him out, but Garfield refuses, telling him they're snowed in and he's looking for something to eat. Near the end of the episode, when Garfield finally lets Odie out, he sees an Italian restaurant right next door. Unfortunately, by the time he gets there, the restaurant closes. Garfield then asks Odie "You knew this was here all the time, didn't you?" to which Odie barks in agreement. Garfield then asks Odie why he didn't tell him earlier, even though he did try to tell him.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Garfield finds out from Odie that there is an Italian restaurant right next door to the cabin near the end of the episode. Unfortunately, by the time Garfield gets to the restaurant, it closes.
"The Return of Power Pig" provides examples of:
- Agony of the Feet: When Wade tries to step into the pond to conquer his fear of it so he can swim, a fish bites his foot, putting him in pain.
- Big Ball of Violence: Orson creates one while fighting Lanolin's scarecrow, whom Wade believes to be the monster.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: At the end of the song against rumors, Orson points at the camera and asks the viewers, "Would you like someone spreading rumors about you?"
- Faux Horrific: This episode begins with Sheldon asking Orson to read him a scary story, claiming no scary story is too scary for him. Orson begins to read Humpty Dumpty, and given that Sheldon is an egg with chicken feet sticking out, he finds the story too scary.
- Gossip Evolution: This episode had a reading of Humpty Dumpty evolving into a rumor of a monster on the farm.
- Here We Go Again!: After Orson gets fed up with his friends spreading rumors of the monster, he decides to go for a long walk in the country, leading his friends to believe he's moving to Spain.
- Hurt Foot Hop: Wade does this after a fish bites his foot, causing him to bump into Lanolin.
- Pain to the Ass: Booker sits on top of a hole to trap a worm inside it. The worm then puts on a spiked helmet and pokes Booker in the butt with it.
- Unplanned Crossdressing: When Orson goes to the shed to put on his Power Pig costume, he comes out wearing a pink tutu. He then looks down, blushes in embarrassment, and says "Wardrobe difficulties."
"Fair Exchange" provides examples of:
- Big Eater:
- Garfield. This episode reveals that in addition to his supper, he had his post-supper snack and two post-post-supper snacks. He throws a fit when Jon sends him to bed without his pre-bedtime-post-midnight-snack-meal for gluing Odie's head to the table.
- In Garfield's dream, Jon-in-Garfield's-Body takes on Garfield's eating habits, eating a dozen pancakes and Garfield-in-Jon's-Body's donut. Later, when Garfield-In-Jon's-Body chases after Odie, Jon-in-Garfield's-Body eats everything in the refrigerator.
- Berserk Board Barricade: To keep Garfield-in-Jon's-body out of the house, Jon-in-Garfield's-body grabs a bunch of wooden boards and nails them over the door. Though later on Jon-in-Garfield's-Body easily runs out the same door to plant a For Sale sign on the house deciding he'll just sell their house in exchange for a down payment in lasagna after Jon-in-Garfield's-Body ran out of food and doesn't have money to buy more.
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Broken Aesop: The moral was supposed to be "the other person has it harder than you think", but while Garfield-in-Jon's body was run ragged by Jon-in-Garfield's body, Jon was having fun until the very end when Garfield was going to take him to the vet in the dream. Unless it was to have him put down, Jon-as-Garfield merely showed Garfield as a Karma Houdini and Garfield-as-Jon learned how hard it is doing his job. - Denied Food as Punishment: Jon punishes Garfield for gluing Odie's head to the table by sending him to bed without his pre-bedtime-post-midnight-snack-meal (he already gave him his supper, post-supper, and post-post supper snacks). Though Garfield being Garfield overreacts by throwing a fit then storming off to bed still hungry.
- Dream Episode: Much of this episode's events are a dream of Garfield's. Garfield lampshades it by saying "I think I feel a dream sequence coming on" before falling asleep.
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: In Garfield's nightmare, Garfield's head is put on Jon's body and vice versa, and Garfield realizes just how much trouble he can be.
- Heli-Critter: Jon-in-Garfield's-body winds up Odie's ears so Odie can fly through the air like a helicopter.
- Noodle Implements: In Garfield's dream sequence, Garfield-in-Jon's-Body receives a bunch of angry phone calls from people over what Jon-in-Garfield's-Body did to them. One has Garfield-in-Jon's-Body ask "My cat did what yesterday? Really? The whole cow?", and another has Garfield-in-Jon's-Body ask "He did what to your supermarket? Aisles three through nine, really?"
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Normally, Garfield loves to sleep, it's his second favorite activity. But here, after telling Jon about all the meals he's had and then when he admits to Jon he hadn't had his pre-bedtime-post-midnight-snack-meal, Jon denies him that extra meal. Garfield's unhappy about this, they briefly argue, Garfield goes to bed but quickly falls asleep, setting stage for the dream.
- Sticky Situation: This episode begins with Garfield gluing Odie's head to the table to make it look like Odie can stand on his head.
- Swapped Roles: Zigzagged; Garfield and Jon do trade places as pet and owner but Jon-in-Garfield's-Body behaves far more recklessly and destructive than Garfield usually does. Even Garfield-in-Jon's-Body who knows it's a dream is horrified by what Jon-in-Garfield's-Body does.
