The sixth episode of the third season of Garfield and Friends.
Post-opening sequence line: "Today's show is brought to you by the letter K and the number 9."
Binky Gets Cancelled Again!
The WBOR manager tells Binky that his show isn't educational (with the exception of him throwing pies), so it's being replaced with the Buddy Bears, while Binky has to find a newer timeslot. Unfortunately none of the shows work out for him, and eventually he is kicked out of WBOR. Meanwhile, Garfield loses his appetite while watching the Buddy Bears, and quickly looks for Binky. It turns out that he's finding newer jobs, only to get fired.
At the studio, Garfield tries to reason with the bears, but they keep agreeing with each other until he disguises himself as a chef asking for a pizza topping. To their surprise all three argue over the toppings as "No two people can agree on pizza toppings". As the manager shows parents the channel, the bears are still arguing over the toppings, influencing the parents to argue too, causing a riot in his office. Reluctantly, he re-hires Binky while the Buddy Bears work for Garfield while Jon is away.
Orson's Diner
In an attempt to earn money, Orson decides to make his own restaurant. But Roy attempts to get free food when Orson makes a rule that if he orders something they can't make, he will get free food for a month.
Flat Tired
Due to Garfield's tiredness, Odie decides to fill in with his own cartoon called "A Witch in Time", while Garfield lies in bed watching the cartoon. Little does Odie know that he's getting himself into trouble when an evil witch turns him into a gerbil.
"Binky Gets Cancelled Again!" contains examples of:
- Anchovies Are Abhorrent: Garfield is trying to get the Buddy Bears to disagree on something so that Binky can come back on the air, so he tells them he's the chef and making pizza. They discuss what toppings they want, and argue when anchovies are brought up, making Garfield's plan work.
- Apple of Discord: Garfield gets the Buddy Bears to argue with each other just by asking what pizza toppings they wanted. As he puts it, "Nobody ever agrees on pizza toppings."
- Early-Installment Weirdness: As this is the Buddy Bears' first appearance, quite a few things changed when they showed up later. They talk over each other several times, and they sing a second verse of their song. They also have a higher pitched voice.
- Hypocritical Humor: People watching the Buddy Bears argue over pizza toppings berate them for fighting over something trivial. Then they start arguing over the same thing culminating in a chair being tossed through a window.
- Irony: The Buddy Bears boast that they always get along and never get into arguments. Their show gets cancelled when they're caught fighting on the air about pizza toppings.
- Lesser of Two Evils: Garfield considers the Buddy Bears worse than Binky, so he helps Binky get his show back on the air.
- Pineapple Ruins Pizza: Pineapple is Bobby's choice pizza topping, along with anchovies. His brothers are disgusted.
- Put on a Bus: Binky won’t appear again until the final season.
- Sequel Episode: To "Binky Gets Cancelled".
- Serious Business: Pizza toppings.
"Orson's Diner" contains examples of:
- The Cameo: When Orson and Wade are looking around the farm for an elephant's foot, Orson finds his brother Wart walking with a balloon in his hand. Unfortunately, Wart misunderstands Orson's question of having elephants' feet as a mockery of the way he walks, so he beats Orson up.
- Contrived Coincidence: When Roy orders an elephant's foot sandwich in order to try to exploit Orson's guarantee of "if we cannot fulfill your order, no matter how complicated, you get free food for a month", as runaway elephant just happens to be wandering through the farm. Orson ends up deciding to exploit it by showing Roy the elephant but saying he cannot fulfill the order because they lack an ingredient: they ran out of mustard.
- Déjà Vu: This episode has a gag where Orson keeps taking out a book called Deja Vu: The Sensation That You Are Doing Something You Have Done Before and putting it on his bookshelf.
- Overcomplicated Menu Order: Roy tries to exploit Orson's diner's guarantee by making an endless barrage of these, only for all of them to be delivered precisely as Roy ordered. He finally has them when he orders an elephant's foot sandwich with mustard, but Orson still gets the last laugh because a runaway elephant just happened to be wandering by the farm at the time.
- Pyrrhic Victory: Roy actually does get free food for a month, after Orson and Wade fail to find a feasible way to prepare an elephant's foot sandwich with mustard. However, when Roy taunts him about not having an elephant in the kitchen, Orson has one last laugh by presenting the elephant he and Wade found but saying that they were simply out of mustard. Roy gasps and then faints.
- Restaurant-Owning Episode: Orson opens and operates a restaurant.
- We Sell Everything: Orson's diner has the explicit guarantee that "if we cannot deliver your order, you get free food for a month". Roy tries to exploit it by making highly complicated orders with extremely weird ingredients, but he's thwarted at every turn by the diner delivering them. Orson really doesn't have something as exotic as elephant's feet in the pantry, but he still manages to get the last laugh in Roy's swindle when he shows him an elephant he found and claims Roy won because they ran out of mustard.
"Flat Tired" contains examples of:
- Animated Actors: Garfield refuses to do the cartoon because he's too tired. When the director asks him to rescue Odie, he expects to get guest star money.
- Shout-Out: When Odie tries to meet the director's requirements when the director looks for someone to take Garfield's place, the director jokingly says "I know who we can get! Get me Kermit the Frog on the phone!"note
- Wicked Witch: The antagonist of the cartoon.
