The twelfth episode of the third season of Garfield and Friends.
Post-opening sequence line: "In a moment, I'll wave my finger and the music will stop."
The Feline Felon
Jon bakes a pie for a charity bake sale and warns Garfield not to steal the pie, but Garfield does anyway. Garfield manage to hide on top of a tree, but the tree branch suddenly breaks and he falls down unconscious, dreaming that he's in the TV show "Wanted: Bad Guys".
In this dream, the narrator tells the tale of how Garfield turned into a life of crime by stealing pies and later other foods. Garfield then gets even more reckless by stealing a kiss, spotlight, show and a glance. He soon starts stealing pants from every man he sees. Soon the elite police dress up as lasagna to capture him, and manages to catch him in the act. He is sentenced to prison for a long time. Garfield wonders what else could go wrong and learns that they're only serving him raisins.
Garfield screams and wakes up from the nightmare, quickly returning the pie to Jon. Jon is surprised by Garfield's honestly. Jon actually baked two pies, and he gives the second pie to Garfield as a reward. But Jon quickly changes his mind about Garfield's honesty as Garfield throws the pie at him, having found out that it's actually raisin pie.
The Legal Eagle
When Orson finds a book of farm laws, he decides that he should have someone to make sure that these laws are kept. Orson asks Roy to help, but that turns out to be a bad idea when things get way out of hand.
The Cactus Saga
Cactus Jake tells Jon and Garfield the story of how he got to be known as Cactus Jake. The flashback sequence features Cactus Jake's Grandpa Jack and his sidekick (resembling Garfield) The Lasagna Kid.
"The Feline Felon" contains examples of:
- Alliterative Title: The Feline Felon.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:
- A dream sequence with an America's Most Wanted parody shows one of the criminals is wanted for burglary, stealing the Klopman Diamond, and using a small child as a bookmark. Then another is wanted for robbery, extortion, and doing the Pennsylvania Polka in Rhode Island.
- Garfield's own list of crimes is more like "Arson, jaywalking and murder", as it starts with stealing baked goods and moves on to him stealing "a kiss", "third base" (during an actual baseball game), "the spotlight", and even "a fleeting glance" before showing him stealing peoples' pants.
- Big Eater: Garfield. In his nightmare, Jon wonders where he went wrong when Garfield turned to a life of crime, as he gave him enough food to feed Colorado for a year.
- Circling Birdies: After Garfield falls out of a tree after deciding against eating the pie he took, pies spin around his head.
- Goofy Print Underwear: In Garfield's nightmare, when Garfield resorts to stealing people's pants, everyone is seen wearing polka-dot boxers.
- Pie in the Face: Garfield does this to Jon at the end of the episode when he finds out that the pie he gave him was a raisin pie.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: As it turns out, Jon had anticipated that Garfield would steal the pie he made for the charity benefit, so he made a second pie for Garfield to eat.
- Skewed Priorities: In Garfield's nightmare, when Jon denies the allegations that Garfield stole pants, because you can't eat pants.
- Sticky Situation: In Garfield's nightmare, Herman Post the mailman says that last year, Garfield poured a tube of superglue into his mail bag. When the announcer asks Herman if he ever got things unstuck, Herman holds up his hands, which have letters stuck to them, saying "We're working on it."
- Stock "Yuck!":
- In Garfield's nightmare, after Garfield gets arrested for stealing people's pants, he is served raisins as his meal.
- At the end of the episode, Jon gives Garfield a raisin pie, having anticipated that Garfield would have tried to steal the pie he made for the charity benefit.
- Take That!: This episode starts with Garfield watching a crime show where the announcer states they're pursuing a particularly vile criminal. Garfield remarks that the criminal in question is the guy who edits movies for television.
"The Legal Eagle" contains examples of:
- Anchovies Are Abhorrent: Wade is seen running in fear from an anchovy pizza.
- Big "SHUT UP!": After Orson gets rid of his old Farm Laws book, Roy penalizes him for doing so, to which everyone tells him "Roy, shut up!"
- Crazy-Prepared: After Orson builds a jail cell to remind his friends to obey the laws of the farm, he makes Roy his deputy while he hikes in the forest. Roy asks Orson if he wear have a badge, but Orson tells him he doesn't have one. Roy tells him he does, and reveals he's been saving it for just such an occasion.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Had Orson or Roy bothered to check in the old "Farm Laws" book, to see if the laws were still valid (which they no longer were), everybody wouldn't have ended up in jail, waiting for someone to help them out of the cage. Especially, Orson should've checked since he knew that book was really old. They acknowledged that fact at the end.
- Death Glare: After Orson finds out that the book of farm laws is over 100 years old and its laws are no longer valid, he asks "Who started all this, anyway?" His friends then all glare angrily at him.
- Disguised in Drag: Roy attempts to arrest Bo and Lanolin for arguing, but they run away from him and hide in some full-body pajamas hanging on a clothesline. He then decides to lure them out by disguising himself as Little Bo Peep.
- Downer Ending: This episode ends with everyone being stuck in jail, since nobody can get them out. Of course, they all get out of jail somehow to appear in the next episode.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Orson dips into this territory by wearing a black and white striped shirt after Roy arrests him.
- Heart Beats out of Chest: Roy does this when he sings about how he's going to enjoy his job as the Legal Eagle.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: After Roy arrests Orson, Orson reads the book of farm laws and Roy ends up arresting himself for putting ketchup on a peanut butter sandwich, littering the farmyard with a stale lunch, and unlicensed use of a dustpan.
- Mustache Vandalism: Roy does this to his own portrait during his song.
- Number of the Beast: When (Deputy) Roy said to Wade, one of the rules to the "Farm Laws" book, "Impersonating a hubbard squash. That's a six hundred sixty six!"
- Tin-Can Telephone: When Roy arrests Bo, Lanolin, Booker, Sheldon, and even the Worm, Wade uses one of these to call Orson so he can stop Roy.
"The Cactus Saga" contains examples of:
- Accidental Misnaming: Cactus Jake calls Garfield "Garfunkel" and "Gargamel".
- Cactus Cushion: This episode has Cactus Jake reveal that the reason he has "Cactus" in front of his name is because his ancestor Cactus Jack was christened as such by the doctor who removed the prickles he got in his butt from landing on cacti.
- Joke of the Butt: Cactus Jake explains why he has "Cactus" in front of his name, he remarks that the doctor who extracted the cactus prickles from the rear of his ancestor Cactus Jack got "a little behind" in his work.
