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The sixteenth and final episode of the fourth season of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''.
'''[[CouchGag Post-Opening Sequence Line]]''': "I haven't had so much fun since Nermal fell in the mud!"
'''The Automated, Animated Adventure'''
When Jon wants to make a cartoon series about Garfield, he comes to Mr. Sprocket, who decides to digitize Garfield to demonstrate computer animation.
'''It's a Wonderful Wade'''
When Wade lets his cowardice get the better of him once again, he leaves the farm in depression. He gets a visit from his guardian angel, who shows him what the world would be like if he was never born.
'''Truckin' Odie'''
In this musical episode, Garfield sings about the time Odie rode with a rookie truck driver named Billy Bob, who tries to deliver cargo as he outruns a thief named Bruce.
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!! "The Automated, Animated Adventure" provides examples of:
* AlliterativeTitle: The '''A'''utomated '''A'''nimated '''A'''dventure.
* ArtShift: This episode has Garfield turn into different versions of himself, including ones styled after ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat''.
* ExitPursuedByABear: This episode ends with Mr. Sprocket, having been digitized, being chased by a T-Rex from one of his cartooons.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Just before Mr. Sprocket's computer animation program explodes, it digitizes him. At the end of the episode, Mr. Sprocket is shown to be in one of his own cartoons, where he is being chased by a T-Rex.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Garfield is about to be digitized, he says that he doesn't want to be a cartoon star, as they work on Saturday mornings, and he likes to sleep in.
* SpinoffBabies: Lampshaded; When Jon looks into marketing Garfield for TV, the network executive he talks to shows off various ideas he has using AppliedPhlebotinum and a MagicalComputer, among them a baby Garfield, complete with Lorenzo Music making cute cooing sounds. The executive mentions that it was the latest craze.[[note]]''Garfield and Friends'' aired alongside ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'', the show that revolutionized the genre, on Creator/{{CBS}}. This episode first aired a week after ''Muppet Babies'' had aired its SeriesFinale, "Eight Flags Over the Nursery". Both shows would later air in reruns on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the 90's.[[/note]]
* ShoutOut: Some of the ideas that Mr. Sprocket suggest are parodies of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' and ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats''.
* TakeThat:
** When Mr. Sprocket shows Jon his computer animation studio, he calls it modern, efficient, and says it saves a lot of money. When Jon asks him if it makes cartoons better, Mr. Sprocket tells him, "Nah, but you can't have everything!"
** Garfield turns into something resembling WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat. When asking if things could possibly get any worse, [[TemptingFate he turns into]] a [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]] lookalike and says "I was wrong; this is much worse!"
* WraparoundBackground: When Garfield runs through a background of his house, the background keeps repeating. When Jon asks Mr. Sprocket why Garfield is moving like that, he tells him "Eh, cheap animation".
!! "It's a Wonderful Wade" provides examples of:
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: This exchange:
-->'''Booker:''' Are you really having Wade guard the silo, Orson?\\
'''Orson:''' I need everyone else out in the fields! And look at all the chores that have to be done around here! And someone left all that dirt next to the old tractor shed, and there's my evil brothers hiding in the bushes... My evil brothers hiding in the bushes!
* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the things Orson notices is a pile of dirt next to the old tractor shed. This is how Wade figures out that Gort, Wart, and Mort were able to steal the vegetables in Orson's silo without even getting near the outside.
* GrowlingGut: Played with; when Orson and Wade pour water into Gort, Wart, and Mort's underground tunnel to flush the three pigs out and recover their vegetables, Gort asks Mort and Wart if they hear something rumbling. Wart tells him "Must be my tummy!"
* ItsAWonderfulPlot: Played with; this episode looks like a standard parody, as Wade learns that if he didn't exist, everone else's lives would be exactly the same. In the end, it becomes even more subverted; Wade goes back in time to prevent a robbery, using knowledge that he only gained because he had been a disembodied observer at the time. Unlike many uses of this trope, at the beginning of this episode, Wade acknowledges the TropeNamer as "[[Film/ItsAWonderfulLife that movie they show seven million times every Christmas]]".
* InCaseOfXBreakGlass: When Orson spots his brothers hiding in the bushes, he is revealed to have an emergency box that says "IN CASE OF GUEST VILLAINS, BREAK GLASS".
* JerkassHasAPoint: When Lanolin tells Orson that she's worried about their crop getting stolen, Orson assures her that he put Wade in charge of guarding the silo. Lanolin tells him that's exactly why she's worried. Lanolin may be one of the rudest characters on the show, but she knows that Wade is an extreme coward who would likely hide from any thieves he would encounter instead of stopping them.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: At the beginning of the episode, Orson puts Wade in charge of guarding the silo from thieves, like Gort, Wart, and Mort. Wade advises Orson against this, saying that the only thing he's good at is failure. Given that he is an extreme coward, he hides under a bucket instead of keeping watch, resulting in Orson's brothers stealing Orson's crops.
!! "Truckin' Odie" provides examples of:
* AccidentalPassenger: Odie becomes Billy Bob's passenger when he hides from the rain in his truck. Since Billy had already gotten far in his route before discovering Odie, he knows that he would be behind schedule and possibly lose his job if he went back to return him to his owner, so he has no choice to keep Odie with him.
* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: When Odie is stuck in Billy's truck, which is rolling out of control, he drives it onto some train tracks and through a tunnel. He then drives it out of the tunnel with the train chasing him.
* TheCameo: When Trucker Bruce is first introduced, he is seen reading a ''Power Pig'' comic book, with Orson as Power Pig on the front cover.
* CarMeetsHouse: After Billy notifies the law about Bruce's attempted carjacking, resulting in Bruce getting arrested, Odie is still onboard the truck, which rolls out of control due to Bruce having left the truck in Gear. At one point, the truck drives right into the house of an elderly couple, pushing it away.
* DumbassHasAPoint: When it starts to rain, Odie hides in Billy Bob's truck to take shelter so [[CatchYourDeathOfCold he won't get sick]].
-->'''Garfield''': ''Now, as we all know, this dog is dense and is not known for his brain,''\\
''but he'd had at least the common sense to seek shelter from the rain.''
* ForgottenFramingDevice: This episode opens with Garfield on stage, playing a banjo and leading into the song. While this shows up again midway through for Garfield to say that he's "[[OutOfFocus not in this episode]]", it isn't referenced at the episode's ending.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Trucker Bruce is seen smoking a cigar when he is first introduced.
* IrisOut: This episode ends with one on Billy's truck.
* MusicalEpisode: This episode's dialogue is sung by Garfield playing the banjo.
* OutOfFocus: Garfield appears at the very beginning, playing the banjo and narrating the song. He briefly appears to sing a verse about sleeping, and is at the episode's ending, but Odie and Billy Bob's delivery is done entirely without Garfield. Referenced midway through:
-->'''Garfield''': ''If you're wondering what became of me, I was nowhere near the road.''\\
''I can't rescue Odie. I'm not in this episode.''
* RhymesOnADime: This episode's dialogue is all sung in rhyme.
* SleepyHead: While Odie is off on his adventure with Billy Bob, Garfield is sleeping safe and sound in his bed. Garfield even sings a verse about sleeping in his song.
* TalkingWithSigns: Early in this episode, Garfield holds up a sign that says "GO AWAY!" when Odie wants him to play fetch with him.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: It turns out that Billy's cargo was lasagna. When Odie returns home at the end of the episode, Garfield couldn't care less about his adventure... until he sees the logo for Luigi's Lasagna on the side of Billy's truck, at which point he salutes it with TearsOfJoy in his eyes. At the end of the episode, Garfield is seen eating lasagna as he hitches a ride in Billy's truck.
'''[[CouchGag Post-Opening Sequence Line]]''': "I haven't had so much fun since Nermal fell in the mud!"
'''The Automated, Animated Adventure'''
When Jon wants to make a cartoon series about Garfield, he comes to Mr. Sprocket, who decides to digitize Garfield to demonstrate computer animation.
'''It's a Wonderful Wade'''
When Wade lets his cowardice get the better of him once again, he leaves the farm in depression. He gets a visit from his guardian angel, who shows him what the world would be like if he was never born.
'''Truckin' Odie'''
In this musical episode, Garfield sings about the time Odie rode with a rookie truck driver named Billy Bob, who tries to deliver cargo as he outruns a thief named Bruce.
----
!! "The Automated, Animated Adventure" provides examples of:
* AlliterativeTitle: The '''A'''utomated '''A'''nimated '''A'''dventure.
* ArtShift: This episode has Garfield turn into different versions of himself, including ones styled after ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat''.
* ExitPursuedByABear: This episode ends with Mr. Sprocket, having been digitized, being chased by a T-Rex from one of his cartooons.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Just before Mr. Sprocket's computer animation program explodes, it digitizes him. At the end of the episode, Mr. Sprocket is shown to be in one of his own cartoons, where he is being chased by a T-Rex.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Garfield is about to be digitized, he says that he doesn't want to be a cartoon star, as they work on Saturday mornings, and he likes to sleep in.
* SpinoffBabies: Lampshaded; When Jon looks into marketing Garfield for TV, the network executive he talks to shows off various ideas he has using AppliedPhlebotinum and a MagicalComputer, among them a baby Garfield, complete with Lorenzo Music making cute cooing sounds. The executive mentions that it was the latest craze.[[note]]''Garfield and Friends'' aired alongside ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'', the show that revolutionized the genre, on Creator/{{CBS}}. This episode first aired a week after ''Muppet Babies'' had aired its SeriesFinale, "Eight Flags Over the Nursery". Both shows would later air in reruns on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the 90's.[[/note]]
* ShoutOut: Some of the ideas that Mr. Sprocket suggest are parodies of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' and ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats''.
* TakeThat:
** When Mr. Sprocket shows Jon his computer animation studio, he calls it modern, efficient, and says it saves a lot of money. When Jon asks him if it makes cartoons better, Mr. Sprocket tells him, "Nah, but you can't have everything!"
** Garfield turns into something resembling WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat. When asking if things could possibly get any worse, [[TemptingFate he turns into]] a [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]] lookalike and says "I was wrong; this is much worse!"
* WraparoundBackground: When Garfield runs through a background of his house, the background keeps repeating. When Jon asks Mr. Sprocket why Garfield is moving like that, he tells him "Eh, cheap animation".
!! "It's a Wonderful Wade" provides examples of:
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: This exchange:
-->'''Booker:''' Are you really having Wade guard the silo, Orson?\\
'''Orson:''' I need everyone else out in the fields! And look at all the chores that have to be done around here! And someone left all that dirt next to the old tractor shed, and there's my evil brothers hiding in the bushes... My evil brothers hiding in the bushes!
* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the things Orson notices is a pile of dirt next to the old tractor shed. This is how Wade figures out that Gort, Wart, and Mort were able to steal the vegetables in Orson's silo without even getting near the outside.
* GrowlingGut: Played with; when Orson and Wade pour water into Gort, Wart, and Mort's underground tunnel to flush the three pigs out and recover their vegetables, Gort asks Mort and Wart if they hear something rumbling. Wart tells him "Must be my tummy!"
* ItsAWonderfulPlot: Played with; this episode looks like a standard parody, as Wade learns that if he didn't exist, everone else's lives would be exactly the same. In the end, it becomes even more subverted; Wade goes back in time to prevent a robbery, using knowledge that he only gained because he had been a disembodied observer at the time. Unlike many uses of this trope, at the beginning of this episode, Wade acknowledges the TropeNamer as "[[Film/ItsAWonderfulLife that movie they show seven million times every Christmas]]".
* InCaseOfXBreakGlass: When Orson spots his brothers hiding in the bushes, he is revealed to have an emergency box that says "IN CASE OF GUEST VILLAINS, BREAK GLASS".
* JerkassHasAPoint: When Lanolin tells Orson that she's worried about their crop getting stolen, Orson assures her that he put Wade in charge of guarding the silo. Lanolin tells him that's exactly why she's worried. Lanolin may be one of the rudest characters on the show, but she knows that Wade is an extreme coward who would likely hide from any thieves he would encounter instead of stopping them.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: At the beginning of the episode, Orson puts Wade in charge of guarding the silo from thieves, like Gort, Wart, and Mort. Wade advises Orson against this, saying that the only thing he's good at is failure. Given that he is an extreme coward, he hides under a bucket instead of keeping watch, resulting in Orson's brothers stealing Orson's crops.
!! "Truckin' Odie" provides examples of:
* AccidentalPassenger: Odie becomes Billy Bob's passenger when he hides from the rain in his truck. Since Billy had already gotten far in his route before discovering Odie, he knows that he would be behind schedule and possibly lose his job if he went back to return him to his owner, so he has no choice to keep Odie with him.
* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: When Odie is stuck in Billy's truck, which is rolling out of control, he drives it onto some train tracks and through a tunnel. He then drives it out of the tunnel with the train chasing him.
* TheCameo: When Trucker Bruce is first introduced, he is seen reading a ''Power Pig'' comic book, with Orson as Power Pig on the front cover.
* CarMeetsHouse: After Billy notifies the law about Bruce's attempted carjacking, resulting in Bruce getting arrested, Odie is still onboard the truck, which rolls out of control due to Bruce having left the truck in Gear. At one point, the truck drives right into the house of an elderly couple, pushing it away.
* DumbassHasAPoint: When it starts to rain, Odie hides in Billy Bob's truck to take shelter so [[CatchYourDeathOfCold he won't get sick]].
-->'''Garfield''': ''Now, as we all know, this dog is dense and is not known for his brain,''\\
''but he'd had at least the common sense to seek shelter from the rain.''
* ForgottenFramingDevice: This episode opens with Garfield on stage, playing a banjo and leading into the song. While this shows up again midway through for Garfield to say that he's "[[OutOfFocus not in this episode]]", it isn't referenced at the episode's ending.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Trucker Bruce is seen smoking a cigar when he is first introduced.
* IrisOut: This episode ends with one on Billy's truck.
* MusicalEpisode: This episode's dialogue is sung by Garfield playing the banjo.
* OutOfFocus: Garfield appears at the very beginning, playing the banjo and narrating the song. He briefly appears to sing a verse about sleeping, and is at the episode's ending, but Odie and Billy Bob's delivery is done entirely without Garfield. Referenced midway through:
-->'''Garfield''': ''If you're wondering what became of me, I was nowhere near the road.''\\
''I can't rescue Odie. I'm not in this episode.''
* RhymesOnADime: This episode's dialogue is all sung in rhyme.
* SleepyHead: While Odie is off on his adventure with Billy Bob, Garfield is sleeping safe and sound in his bed. Garfield even sings a verse about sleeping in his song.
* TalkingWithSigns: Early in this episode, Garfield holds up a sign that says "GO AWAY!" when Odie wants him to play fetch with him.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: It turns out that Billy's cargo was lasagna. When Odie returns home at the end of the episode, Garfield couldn't care less about his adventure... until he sees the logo for Luigi's Lasagna on the side of Billy's truck, at which point he salutes it with TearsOfJoy in his eyes. At the end of the episode, Garfield is seen eating lasagna as he hitches a ride in Billy's truck.
