The first episode of the second season of Garfield and Friends.
Post-opening Sequence Line: "I suppose you're all wondering why I asked you here today."
Pest of a Guest
Jon takes in a stray cat on a cold winter night. However, Garfield suspects that the cat may not be who he seems.
The Impractical Joker
Orson fires Roy after the rooster makes one intolerable joke too many. Fred Duck, Wade's obnoxious cousin is hired to be the new rooster, only for Orson to discover that he may be worse.
Fat and Furry
Garfield buys a lottery ticket and becomes rich after his ticket matches the number on the lottery drawing.
"Pest of a Guest" provides examples of:
- Big Eater: Just like Garfield, the other cat eats all the food from Jon's refrigerator.
- Bland-Name Product: When the other cat sleeps in Garfield's bed, Jon makes Garfield sleep in an Aries shoe box.
- Blowing a Raspberry: The other cat does this to Garfield when Jon lets him have Garfield's bowl of soup.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: To scare away the other cat, Garfield forges a recipe for Casserole à la Arbuckle, whose ingredients are 1 cup milk, 2 tbsp. flour, carrots, potatoes, 1 kitty cat, add salt to taste.
- Devil in Plain Sight: This episode revolves around a stray cat who just wants to con and mooch off Jon, but only Garfield realizes he's not as helpless as he seems.
- The Dog Bites Back: After Garfield drives the other cat away with his recipe for Casserole à la Arbuckle, At the end of the episode, Jon discovers the recipe and teases Garfield with it. Garfield starts to worry over whether or not Jon really is teasing him.
- Exact Words: The episode begins with Garfield getting more wood for the fire at Jon's request. Jon thanks Garfield for it until he finds one shaped like a table leg. Upon realizing that Garfield chopped up his table for firewood, Jon scolds Garfield for it. Garfield tells him "Hey, you said wood. You didn't say from where."
- Everyone Has Standards: After the other cat eats from Garfield's bowl of soup, Garfield calls him a scheming, conniving, evil phony who deserves to be punished. When he overhears that Jon will be making his special Casserole à la Arbuckle for the other cat, he says "Ooh, but not that punished!"
- Fattening the Victim: Garfield exploits this trope and makes a freeloading cat who's been faking being sick think this is what his going to happen to him. He makes a recipe card that has one kitty cat as the main ingredient to Jon's casserole. Later Jon (who doesn't know what Garfield did) casually mentions to the cat "we've got to fatten you up" and that the casserole is Odie's favorite dish. Odie licks him and that cat thinks Odie is tasting him, causing him to flee from the house.
- Incessant Music Madness: Garfield attempts to drive the other cat out by playing The Marine Corps. Band Plays Songs to Make Your Neighbors Move to Another Zip Code on Jon's stereo system. All this does is annoy Jon.
- Nobody's That Dumb: When Jon comes to the door after hearing the doorbell ring, Garfield asks "Who would be stupid enough to be out on a night like this?" Odie then walks up to Garfield, who says "No, not even him."
- Rhyming Title: Pest of a Guest.
- Taking Advantage of Generosity: The other cat pretends to be homeless and starving so Jon will take care of him.
"The Impractical Joker" provides examples of:
- Batman Gambit: The other farm animals get the idea to have Orson hire Fred as the new rooster, knowing that Fred is even more obnoxious than Roy. Sure enough, Fred annoys Orson so much that Orson fires Fred and re-hires Roy.
- Height Angst: The jokes Roy makes towards Booker are about the latter's height, saying that he could pace around his room under the bed, and Snow White can give him hand-me-downs.
- We Want Our Jerk Back!: After Orson fires Roy, the rest of the farm realizes that they need him and try to get him to change his mind.
- You Are Fat: Roy continually makes jokes about Orson's waistline, which results in Orson firing him. Fred does the same, which results in Orson firing him and re-hiring Roy.
"Fat and Furry" provides examples of:
- Accidental Misnaming: The host of Lifestyles of the Fat and Furry accidentally calls Jon Arbuckle "Jon Carbuncle".
- Alliterative Title: Fat and Furry.
- Big Eater: Garfield. This episode begins with him buying several carts' worth of groceries, saying that he decided to do the shopping for a change, since Jon occasionally leaves something in the store. When Garfield buys a lottery ticket, he enters his lucky number as 77777779, as it's the average number of calories he consumes per day, when he's eating light.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Jon sees the size of his grocery bill, he asks Garfield "How could you spend this total?" Garfield tells him "I had a coupon for 8 cents off on dishwashing detergent."
- Cuckoo Clock Gag: The cuckoo bird from Jon's cuckoo clock broke off, but Garfield managed to find a designated pitch cuckoo, in the form of Odie. When the clock strikes 6:00, Odie pops out of the clock and barks six times.
- Never Win the Lottery: Garfield and Jon win millions in the lottery, but the win is disqualified when the authorities discover that it was Garfield who bought the ticket — not because he's a cat, but because he's under eighteen.note
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: The lost of Lifestyles of the Fat and Furry is a caricature of the late Robin Leach, the host of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.
- Shockingly Expensive Bill: Jon is outraged when he receives his grocery bill, given how much food Garfield bought.
- Show Within a Show: Lifestyles of the Fat and Furry, a show about the world's richest pets and how they live their lives.
