The fourth episode of the third season of Garfield and Friends.
Post-Opening Sequence Line: "You notice how every week I say something different here?"
Twice Told Tale
Jon, Garfield and Odie escape from the house, which is filling with yogurt. People come to see what's going on while Jon and Garfield blame on each other. Jon then tells Herman, his postman, who happens to pass by the story behind it, while Garfield tells his version of events to the viewers. Both of them give the exact story, but paint themselves as a 'kind person', while trying to make the other look bad. Here's what happened, based on both accounts:
Jon decides to treat himself and Garfield to some yogurt only to discover how expensive it is. Jon then gets an idea to make his own homemade yogurt. Jon adds some extra ingredients but gets distracted by the doorbell. Garfield then adds some ingredients of his own. They then see the yogurt began to expand uncontrollably, which leads to the beginning of the episode.
After the stories, they are surprised that no-one believes them - even Herman mentions that the story is a bit suspicious. They ask Odie to back them up, but Odie disagrees with both of them. Embarrassed, Jon admits he may have exaggerated a bit, while Garfield agrees with him (but doesn't mention that he did the same thing). Jon doesn't know how to clean up the mess, but Garfield comes up with a brilliant idea: they turn the house into a yogurt shop and get people to eat all the yogurt.
Orson Goes On Vacation
When Orson goes on vacation, he leaves Wade in charge. But Wade doesn't want to be in charge, worrying he can't do it, resulting in many mistakes. Meanwhile, when Orson's three mean brothers, Mort, Gort & Wart steal crops, they are stopped when Booker accidentally hits a water pipe with a pick axe.
Wedding Bell Blues
When Jon's cousin Marian visits and tells him about her upcoming wedding, Garfield and Odie overhear. Garfield gets confused and think that Marian is marrying Jon, so he does everything to stop the wedding.
"Twice Told Tale" provides examples of:
- Alliterative Title: Twice Told Tale.
- Bad Liar: Both Garfield and Jon when blaming each other for the yogurt flood. Jon even outright states he was planning on cutting down Garfield's food budget money to save enough and donate to the poor in his story. Jon also says, "Garfield, look what you've done!" in a calm, angelic voice when the episode opened with him shouting it out angrily.
- Blame Game: The main plot of this episode combined with the Rashomon effect.
- Does Not Like Spam: Garfield, despite his nature as an Extreme Omnivore and while fond of ice cream, doesn't seem to like yogurt (though he said it's because it's not soft or frozen). Also, Garfield at the time wanted "real food" which he might be referring to as foods he would usually eat for a main course such as pizza, lasagna, burgers, etc..
- Easy Come, Easy Go: Jon makes a lot of money off of his yogurt after Garfield gives him the idea to sell it, but then Garfield takes the money to spend it on real food.
- How We Got Here: The episode begins when the house was filling up with yogurt, and then Jon and Garfield make their own biased accounts of how that happened.
- It's All About Me: Both Garfield and Jon for putting bias against each other in their own stories.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Garfield asks the viewers if they believe his side of the story. The camera then shakes left and right as if to say "No."
- Lethal Chef: Subverted. Jon and Garfield created a huge amount of yogurt until it covers up the entire house. However, the yogurt itself tastes great, according to the people who came to eat it at the end.
- Never My Fault: Both Garfield and Jon refuse to take the "credit" for yogurt flooding the house, but then Jon admits he gave out a blatantly biased account.Jon: (embarassedly) Maybe I exaggerated a little.Garfield: I agree. Maybe you did too.
- "Rashomon"-Style: The episode itself, where both Jon and Garfield exaggerate and accuse each other for getting their home filled with yogurt. Odie explains that neither of their accounts is credible.
- The Unreveal: We never know whether Garfield tampered with the yogurt or Jon having never made yogurt before simply misread directions and it was already doomed to happen like that. Or if both happened.
"Orson Goes On Vacation" provides examples of:
- Accidental Hero: Booker, Bo, and Lanolin all foil Gort, Wart, and Mort's plan to steal vegetables and the Weasel's plan to steal chickens without initially being aware of either plan. First, Booker punctures a hole in the water pipes that Bo and Lanolin set up, causing a leak that creates a geyser that launches the pigs into the air. When Bo shuts the water off, the pigs land on the Weasel, stopping him in his tracks and allowing the sheep twins to send all four villains away in their tractor.
- Binomium ridiculus: When Wade struggles to say the Weasel's name, the Weasel holds up a sign that says RATUS FINKUS WEASELUS.
- The Cameo: Garfield can be seen on the cover of Orson's book after it falls out of his bag.
- Comically Missing the Point: This exchange:Wade: Orson, you cannot put Wade Duck in charge! I am Wade Duck!
Orson: You're wrong.
Wade: I'm not wrong, I am so Wade Duck! I checked my driver's license. Here, see? - Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: This line from Wade after Orson assures him that he left Wade Duck in charge of the farm:Wade: Nothing will go wrong because Wade Duck is in charge! It is a good thing we have Wade Duck to...
(Beat, Wade takes out his wallet and looks at his duck license, saying WADE DUCK, THE FARM, U.S. ACRES, OCCUPATION: KNUCKLEHEAD)
Wade: I'm Wade Duck! Help! Wrong person in charge! Oh, Orson, wait, come back! - Here We Go Again!: This episode ends with Orson congratulating Wade on a job well done and deciding to put him in charge again, this time for a whole week.
- "Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: As Wade sings "I'm in Charge", he says that Responsible is his middle name.
- Mobile Shrubbery: A variant; Orson's brothers use crates to disguise themselves as they steal vegetables.
- No Fourth Wall: This episode begins with Wade freaking out upon reading the episode's title.
- Water-Geyser Volley: Orson's brothers get launched into the air on a geyser after Booker punctures a hole in Bo and Lanolin's water pipes.
- Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: Wade. The balance of things restored itself and he didn't have to do anything.
"Wedding Bell Blues" provides examples of:
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: This line from Garfield when he finds out the truth:Jon: What are you doing? You're ruining Marian's wedding to Harold!
Garfield: Marian can't marry Harold! What about me? What about... (Beat) Gosh, guess the joke's on me, huh? - Goo Goo Getup: Garfield crashes the wedding while dressed in a bonnet, diaper, and booties, saying if Marian marries Jon, she'll have to take care of him.
- Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: What kicks off the plot.
- Relative Error: Jon's cousin, Marian, in town for her upcoming wedding, comes over to visit her cousin, whom she hasn't seen in years. Marion explains to Jon that her soon-to-be husband's name is "Harold John," and when she points out the coincidence, she'll be "Marian John" (say it out loud). Garfield and Odie are standing outside the window of Jon's house when they hear Marian say this, but (not realizing that she and Jon are cousins) misinterpret their exchange as Marian being Jon's fiancée. Garfield soon gets worried that Jon won't pay as much attention to him after he gets married, as well as worrying that Jon's potential future children will play harmful games with him. In the end, he discovers what the viewer knew from the beginning; Marian is Jon's cousin and that she's marrying a man whose last name happens to be "John." His attempt to disrupt the wedding is fortunately taken in good humor (Harold in fact thinks the whole thing is hilarious) and the wedding continues.
- Seesaw Catapult: In Garfield's nightmare, Jon Jr. decides to play teeter-totter with Garfield. He does so by placing Garfield on one end of a seesaw, then dropping a boulder on the other end. Garfield gets launched into the air, then when he comes back down, he launches the boulder into the air, which falls on and flattens him.
- Wedding Episode: This episode is about the wedding of Jon's cousin Marian. Garfield gets worried when he overhears the news, mistakenly believing Jon is marrying Marian and proceeding to try to the stop the marriage.
