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Airdate: October 13th, 1993

Opening Line: "Here's The Show's Name-y"- Dot

Guardin' the Garden

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Slappy is put in charge of guarding the apples in the Garden of Eden - particularly from a serpent who wants to tempt Adam and Eve.

Guardin' the Garden contains examples of:


Plane Pals

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A Jerkass businessman named Ivan Bloski has to sit with the Warner Siblings on an airplane.

Plane Pals contains examples of:

  • Be Careful What You Wish For: Ivan tells the Warners that he'd rather be eaten by cannibals than befriend them. See Chased Off into the Sunset below.
  • Big Honking Traffic Jam: The plane is caught in a big traffic jam of other planes as it’s trying to leave the runway.
  • The Cameo:
    • A miscolored version of El Toro, the bull from Bully for Bugs, appears on the plane.
    • At one point, Pinky and the Brain sneak by - and steal a sheep for some reason.
  • The Cat Came Back: No matter where Ivan sits on the plane, he ends up next to one of the Warners in disguise.
  • Chased Off into the Sunset: The short ends with Ivan running away from what he thinks is cannibals (actually the Warners) off into the distance.
  • Episode on a Plane: Almost the entirety of this segment involves the Warners terrorizing Ivan while he’s trapped in an airplane.
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: The posters in the airport hallway, advertising Berwyn, Illinois note , New Richmond, Wisconsin note , and Gary, Indiana. note  The poster for the last one claims "it's not so bad" while showing Gary's famous smokestacks.
  • Inflating Body Gag: One of the ways the Warner Siblings torture Ivan Bloski is by inflating him full of hot air, making him float to the ceiling of the plane.
  • Jerkass: It's established at the beginning of the short that Ivan is one of these, so you just KNOW the Warners are gonna give him a hard time.
  • Literal-Minded: When Wakko asks him what his tray for, Ivan tells him it's for eating. Wakko then wags his eyebrows at the camera before covering the tray with mustard, putting it between two slices of bread and eating it like a sandwich, to Ivan's disgust.
    Wakko: Delicious!
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Ivan eventually decides to parachute-jump off the plane in order to escape the Warners. He winds up on a tropical island - where he encounters the Warners (who are disguised as cannibals) again.
  • Whoopee Cushion: One of the tamer pranks the Warner Siblings pull on Ivan Bloski is tricking him into sitting on a whoopee cushion.
  • Would Rather Suffer: "I'd rather be stranded on an island and be eaten by cannibals than be your 'special friend'!" In the end, he does end up stranded on an island full of cannibals (although it's just the Warners in disguise).

Closing Tower gag: Yakko: "Look who's staying with us!" (Warners hold up Ivan who has the 'Special Friend' necklace on) Wakko: "Our Special Friend!" (door closes and Ivan is heard screaming from inside)

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