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* AnAesop: When Orson awakens from his dream, he learns that in order to be a good baseball player, you have to keep your eye on the ball and give it your maximum effort. Sure enough, instead of being too overconfident for his own good like Casey, Orson does keep his eye on the ball and put in his maximum effort, resulting in his team winning the game.
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** After Orson loses the gamem Wade mentions that people have turned off the ball game to watch their [=VCRs=].
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** After Orson loses the gamem Wade mentions that people have turned off the ball game to watch their VCRs.[=VCRs=].
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!!Tropes in ''The Multiple Choice Cartoon''
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Jon takes Garfield and Odie to see Swami Pastrami, who claims he can read minds. Jon buys a jewel from him but is unable to read minds with it. Garfield discovers that Swami Pastrami is a phony who knows his audience through the contents of their wallets that he stole, and exposes Swami Pastrami for the fraud that he is.
'''Orson at the Bat'''
Orson gets knocked out during a baseball game he and his friends have and has a dream where he is Casey of ''Casey at the Bat'' fame.
'''The Multiple Choice
Garfield allows the audience to decide what happens in this episode through three different choices, with the choice that gets the most applause being the deciding factor.
!! "Mind Over Matter" provides examples of:
* AccidentalMisnaming: Swami Pastrami accidentally misnames Jon's brother Doc Boy "Dick Boy". Upon hearing this, Jon exclaims "That's right; I do have a brother named [[GotMeDoingIt Dick... I mean Doc Boy]]!"
* AlliterativeName: When Garfield returns to the theater to get Jon's money back from Swami Pastrami, he finds him scamming a man named '''F'''red '''F'''inster.
* BigEater: Garfield. He eats nine burgers from a burger stand and leaves Jon to pay the bill of $33.00. Later, when Garfield gets Jon's $200.00 back from Swami Pastrami, he decides to spend it on pizzas.
* HypnoFool: Garfield exposes Swami Pastrami for the fraud that he is by changing the stations on his radio system, including a one for horse race and one for an opera.
* MaliciousMisnaming: Garfield calls Swami Pastrami "Swami Salami" when he decides to expose him for the fraud that he is.
* RhymingNames: The Swami who cons Jon is named Swami Pastrami.
!! "Orson at the Bat" provides examples of:
* AllJustADream: Much of this episode's events are a dream of Orson's.
* AnAesop: When Orson awakens from his dream, he learns that in order to be a good baseball player, you have to keep your eye on the ball and give it your maximum effort. Sure enough, instead of being too overconfident for his own good like Casey, Orson does keep his eye on the ball and put in his maximum effort, resulting in his team winning the game.
* BaseballEpisode: In this episode, Orson and his friends partake in a baseball game. Orson gets knocked out and has a dream where he is Casey of ''Casey at the Bat'' fame.
* BigEater: Orson. He eats several pizzas and a submarine sandwich before the first pitch, and some Chow Mein before the second pitch.
* BratsWithSlingshots: During the third pitch, Gort launches the baseball with a slingshot.
* TheCameo: Garfield appears on a TV screen when Roy turns off the ball game to watch his VCR.
* CameraAbuse: When Orson hits the ball during the third pitch, the ball flies into the camera, breaking its lens, which is used as a transition to the next scene
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Orson's fantasy ends with Orson having struck out and lost the game. Sheldon points out that it wouldn't have happened if he had just hit the ball the first two times he had the chance to.
* LowCountGag: Sheldon is the only character in the audience.
* RhymesOnADime: Much like the source material, most of the dialogue is done in rhyme.
* SelfDeprecation:
** Upon seeing Orson's team losing to Gort, Wart, and Mort, Sheldon says "If I were home, I would have changed the channel long ago."
** After Orson loses the gamem Wade mentions that people have turned off the ball game to watch their VCRs.
* ThinkOfTheCensors: When Sheldon shouts "Kill the Umpire!", Wade reminds Sheldon that you can't kill a person on a TV cartoon show.
* WholePlotReference: To ''Literature/CaseyAtTheBat'', with Orson in the role of Casey.
!!"The Multiple Choice Cartoon" provides examples of:
* FakeInteractivity: Parodied; Garfield gets the viewers to decide where the episode takes place, who's in it, and what the plot is. As a RunningGag, the choice the audience votes for is always '''C.'''
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* PlotHole: Garfield at one time asked the viewer to choose the option of him going back to eat cheeseburgers with Jon after he gave up looking for Odie, even though the viewer settled on Garfield being DeniedFoodAsPunishment should he fail to retrieve Odie. If he went back, Jon would refuse to feed him.
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* PlotHole: Garfield at one time asked the viewer viewers to choose the option of him going back to eat cheeseburgers with Jon after he gave up looking for Odie, even though the viewer viewers settled on Garfield being DeniedFoodAsPunishment should he fail to retrieve Odie. If he went back, Jon would refuse to feed him.him.
* RuleOfThree: Each of the questions Garfield asks the audience has three answers to what outcome could occur; '''A.''' '''B.''' and '''C.'''.[[note]]One such example is what Garfield could do with Odie when the latter wants to play with him. The choices are '''A.''' Throw the stick so Odie can fetch it, '''B.''' Interrupt Garfield's nap to frolic with the pooch. and '''C.''' Slingshot Odie into the next area code.[[/note]] '''C.''' is always the one that gets chosen.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Despite the fact that the audience voted for '''C.''' Garfield and Odie to fight the Finnark in the last question, Garfield instead chooses '''A.''' That he and Odie should flag down a taxi cab to escape from the Finnark.
* TimePassageBeard: When Garfield gives the audience the choice of how long Jon will punish him without food unless he brings Odie back, the picture for '''C.''' No Food Until the Next Time Halley's Comet Cruises the Galaxy depicts Garfield with a long gray beard.
* RuleOfThree: Each of the questions Garfield asks the audience has three answers to what outcome could occur; '''A.''' '''B.''' and '''C.'''.[[note]]One such example is what Garfield could do with Odie when the latter wants to play with him. The choices are '''A.''' Throw the stick so Odie can fetch it, '''B.''' Interrupt Garfield's nap to frolic with the pooch. and '''C.''' Slingshot Odie into the next area code.[[/note]] '''C.''' is always the one that gets chosen.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Despite the fact that the audience voted for '''C.''' Garfield and Odie to fight the Finnark in the last question, Garfield instead chooses '''A.''' That he and Odie should flag down a taxi cab to escape from the Finnark.
* TimePassageBeard: When Garfield gives the audience the choice of how long Jon will punish him without food unless he brings Odie back, the picture for '''C.''' No Food Until the Next Time Halley's Comet Cruises the Galaxy depicts Garfield with a long gray beard.
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The ninth episode of the fourth season of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''.
'''[[CouchGag Post-Opening Sequence Line]]''': "I'm sick of those singers! Can we get some, like, Elvis impersonators for next week?"
'''[[CouchGag Post-Opening Sequence Line]]''': "I'm sick of those singers! Can we get some, like, Elvis impersonators for next week?"
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* KickTheDog: PlayedWith. The audience wholeheartedly vote for Garfield to slingshot Odie into a lake just cause [[ItAmusedMe it's entertaining]], but they vote for Odie to be found and brought back.
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* {{Kaiju}}: The Finark. It's slightly bigger than an adult human, but looks especially gigantic when chasing Garfield and Odie.
* KickTheDog: PlayedWith. The audience wholeheartedly vote for Garfield to slingshot Odie into a lake just cause [[ItAmusedMe it's entertaining]], but they vote for Odie to be found and brought back. That is, until they vote for Odie to go into a cave and meet a bird-like monster.
* KickTheDog: PlayedWith. The audience wholeheartedly vote for Garfield to slingshot Odie into a lake just cause [[ItAmusedMe it's entertaining]], but they vote for Odie to be found and brought back. That is, until they vote for Odie to go into a cave and meet a bird-like monster.
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* KickTheDog: PlayedWith. The audience wholeheartedly vote for Garfield to slingshot Odie into a lake just cause [[ItAmusedMe it's entertaining]], but they vote for Odie to be found and brought back.
* {{Jerkass}}: The audience. They take a sociopathic liking for cruel, terrible things happening to the protagonists so long as it amuses them.
* {{Jerkass}}: The audience. They take a sociopathic liking for cruel, terrible things happening to the protagonists so long as it amuses them.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: "You people could've voted for Cactus Jake, but Noooooo. You had to pick the Finnark!"
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* DeusExMachina: Choice B for the last decision was if Garfield and Odie be rescued by a muscular forest ranger from the Finark.
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* HumiliationConga: By order of the audience votes, Jon has to wear a stupid-looking pigeon suit for the whole episode even while flame broiling burgers on a barbecue (isn't that hazardous?) and scolding Garfield for slingshotting Odie.
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* HumiliationConga: HumiliationConga:
** By order of the audience votes, Jon has to wear a stupid-looking pigeon suit for the whole episode even while flame broiling burgers on a barbecue (isn't that hazardous?) and scolding Garfield for slingshotting Odie.
** Garfield himself complains it's humiliating that he's being blackmailed by a guy in a pigeon suit to go bring back Odie.
** By order of the audience votes, Jon has to wear a stupid-looking pigeon suit for the whole episode even while flame broiling burgers on a barbecue (isn't that hazardous?) and scolding Garfield for slingshotting Odie.
** Garfield himself complains it's humiliating that he's being blackmailed by a guy in a pigeon suit to go bring back Odie.
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* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: You the viewer even get to choose just how long of a period Garfield has to forgo food as punishment for slingshotting Odie. The choices are no food for a day, a week or until the next time Halley's Commet cruises the galaxy (around the 2060s).
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* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: You the viewer even get to choose just how long of a period Garfield has to forgo food as punishment for slingshotting Odie. The choices are no food for a day, a week or until the next time Halley's Commet Comet cruises the galaxy (around the 2060s).
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* NoEnding: On account of 1) there's no time left to properly conclude the cartoon, 2) Garfield being too much of a coward to fight the Finnark and 3) he's lazy, he'd rather prefer hailing a taxi.
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* NoEnding: On account of 1) there's no time left to properly conclude the cartoon, 2) Garfield being too much of a coward to fight the Finnark (to be fair, he doesn't actually stand a chance) and 3) he's lazy, he'd rather prefer hailing a taxi.
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* HumiliationConga: By order of the audience votes, Jon has to wear a stupid-looking pigeon suit for the whole episode even while scolding Garfield for slingshotting Odie.
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* HumiliationConga: By order of the audience votes, Jon has to wear a stupid-looking pigeon suit for the whole episode even while flame broiling burgers on a barbecue (isn't that hazardous?) and scolding Garfield for slingshotting Odie.
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* HumiliationConga: By order of the audience votes, Jon has to wear a stupid-looking pigeon suit for the whole episode even while scolding Garfield for slingshotting Odie.
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* AudienceParticipation: Garfield was ordered by the network to let the audience choose the episode's elements. To his misfortune, the audience only wants the most exciting or most ironic element, which turns the episode into a nightmarish doomsday for him and Odie.
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* AudienceParticipation: Garfield was ordered by the network to let the audience choose the episode's elements. To his misfortune, the audience only wants the most exciting or most ironic element, which turns the episode into a nightmarish doomsday for him and Odie.Odie as because of the audience's choices, Garfield and Odie have to run from the Finnark, a giant bird-like monster that's trying to eat them.
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* AudienceParticipation: Garfield was ordered by the network to let the audience choose the episode's elements. To his misfortune, the audience only wants the most exciting or most ironic element, which turns the episode into a nightmarish doomsday for him and Odie.
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!!Tropes in ''The Multiple Choice Cartoon''
Garfield allows the audience to choose special elements of the cartoon for them to watch.
* BigBad: The Finnark.
* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: You the viewer even get to choose just how long of a period Garfield has to forgo food as punishment for slingshotting Odie. The choices are no food for a day, a week or until the next time Halley's Commet cruises the galaxy (around the 2060s).
* EmergencyTaxi: How the episode ends, rather than Garfield and Odie pulling a BigDamnHeroes and fight that Finnark like the audience wanted.
* NoEnding: On account of 1) there's no time left to properly conclude the cartoon, 2) Garfield being too much of a coward to fight the Finnark and 3) he's lazy, he'd rather prefer hailing a taxi.
* PlotHole: Garfield at one time asked the viewer to choose the option of him going back to eat cheeseburgers with Jon after he gave up looking for Odie, even though the viewer settled on Garfield being DeniedFoodAsPunishment should he fail to retrieve Odie. If he went back, Jon would refuse to feed him.
Garfield allows the audience to choose special elements of the cartoon for them to watch.
* BigBad: The Finnark.
* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: You the viewer even get to choose just how long of a period Garfield has to forgo food as punishment for slingshotting Odie. The choices are no food for a day, a week or until the next time Halley's Commet cruises the galaxy (around the 2060s).
* EmergencyTaxi: How the episode ends, rather than Garfield and Odie pulling a BigDamnHeroes and fight that Finnark like the audience wanted.
* NoEnding: On account of 1) there's no time left to properly conclude the cartoon, 2) Garfield being too much of a coward to fight the Finnark and 3) he's lazy, he'd rather prefer hailing a taxi.
* PlotHole: Garfield at one time asked the viewer to choose the option of him going back to eat cheeseburgers with Jon after he gave up looking for Odie, even though the viewer settled on Garfield being DeniedFoodAsPunishment should he fail to retrieve Odie. If he went back, Jon would refuse to feed him.
