The eighth episode of the sixth season of Garfield and Friends.
Post-Opening Sequence Line: "Penelope's back today, folks. Some women just can't get enough of me!"
The Floyd Story
Tired of seeing the same few episodes that her husband Floyd is in over and over, April urges Floyd to convince Garfield to give him a part on the show more than once a season. Unfortunately for Floyd, Garfield denies him a part in this episode. When Jon's Aunt Prunella comes to visit, Garfield reconsiders and uses Floyd as a means of sending her away.
How Now, Stolen Cow?
Orson becomes too absorbed in a spy novel to milk Bossy the Cow, so Roy decides to play a joke on him by setting up a mystery for him to solve.
The Second Penelope Episode
Garfield's date with Penelope becomes a nightmare when a French cat named Loreli tries to win him over and Animal Control catches Penelope.
"The Floyd Story" provides examples of:
- Animated Actors: Floyd. His desire to get a part in this episode is its focus. Near the end of the episode, he is seen at a restaurant for mice actors, telling his friends that he works on Garfield and Friends. His friends don't believe him until Garfield arrives to give him a part so he can scare Aunt Prunella away.
- Bully Bulldog: This episode begins with April watching a rerun of Garfield and Friends where Floyd rescues Garfield from a mean bulldog.
- Eek, a Mouse!!: When Garfield finds out that Aunt Prunella hates mice, he decides to give Floyd a part in the episode after all, as a means of scaring her away.
- Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: One of the ways that Garfield tries to get rid of Aunt Prunella is by playing the bagpipes when she takes a nap of Jon's couch. Unfortunately for him, she likes bagpipe music because she's half-Scottish.
- Gone Horribly Right: Garfield tries to get rid of Aunt Prunella by eating her chocolate cake. Unfortunately for him, Prunella praises him for eating it so she could stick to her diet, deciding to stay at Jon's house longer than she planned. He later tries to get her to leave by playing the bagpipes when she takes a nap on Jon's couch, but as it turns out, she likes bagpipe music because she's half-Scottish. When Garfield tosses a mud pie at her face, she likes it because she heard that mud does wonders for people's skin.
- Out of Focus: In-Universe; this episode focuses on Floyd trying to get a part on the show at his wife April's insistence, as she's tired of seeing the same few episodes he's in over and over, given that he only seems to appear on the show once a season. Floyd tells April that he's lucky, as Garfield hasn't had Binky the Clown on his show for three years.
- Pie in the Face: Garfield tosses a mud pie at Aunt Prunella as one of his attempts to get her to leave. This backfires because she heard that mud does wonders for people's skin and decides to try it.
- Raiders of the Lost Parody: One of the reruns of Garfield and Friends that Floyd tries to show April is an episode called Rodents of the Lost Ark, where he and Garfield parodied Indiana Jones. April is not pleased, as Floyd showed it to her on their wedding night... twice!
- Rule of Three: Garfield has three unsuccessful attempts to get Aunt Prunella to leave. First, he eats her chocolate cake, which backfires because it helps her stick to her diet. Second, he plays bagpipes when she tries to take a nap on Jon's couch, but she likes bagpipe music because she's half-Scottish. Finally, he throws a mud pie in her face, but she likes it because she heard that mud does wonders for people's skin.
- Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times: This episode begins with April complaining to Floyd that she's seen a rerun of Garfield and Friends where Floyd saves Garfield from a mean bulldog fifty times.
- Self-Deprecation: Aunt Prunella berates Jon for being a cartoonist and asks him when he's going to get a real job.
- Shout-Out: When Garfield denies Floyd a part in the episode, Floyd quits, telling Garfield that someday he (Garfield) will beg him (Floyd) to be on the show, and he (Floyd) won't be there for him (Garfield), since he (Floyd) will be working for Disney. Garfield doubts that, saying Disney's up to here with mice under contract.note
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: Aunt Prunella decides to stay at Jon's house, berate him, and order him about. Garfield's attempts to get her to leave only make her want to stay longer, until Garfield finds out that Prunella is afraid of mice and decides to give Floyd a part in the episode after all to get rid of her.
"How Now, Stolen Cow?" provides examples of:
- Dumbass Has a Point: When Bo finds out from Booker that Roy fished out some shoes, he comes to the conclusion that Roy was the one who took Bossy and put the shoes on himself and her to trick Orson into thinking that there were three cow thieves when there was really only one.
- Jerkass Has a Point: When Orson finds out that it was Roy who took Bossy, Roy points out to him that he wouldn't have taken the cow in the first place if Orson had just milked the cow like he was supposed to instead of reading his spy novel.
- Mystery Episode: When Orson finds out that Bossy has gone missing, he becomes a Joe Friday-like detective to solve the mystery of who took it.
- Pie in the Face: After Orson and Bo find out that it was Roy who took Bossy, they decide to put him on trial, figuring it wouldn't be fair to arrest him since he only took Bossy to teach Orson a lesson in responsibility. Roy's punishment for taking Bossy is having a pie thrown in his face.
- Poke the Poodle: When Orson and Bo interrogate Wade, among the offenses Wade confesses are wearing wax lips out of season, impersonating a spatula, and putting lettuce and tomato on a corned beef sandwich.
"The Second Penelope Episode" provides examples of:
- Continuity Nod: This episode begins with Garfield telling Penelope that he thought they might go to the drive-in. Penelope then asks him "Another Kung Fu Creatures movie?" Sure enough, the movie playing is Kung Fu Creatures on the Rampage 5.
- Drive-In Theater: This episode takes place in one, where Garfield and Penelope see Kung Fu Creatures on the Rampage 5.
- Love Triangle: Garfield has one with Penelope and Loreli, preferring the former over the latter.
- If I Can't Have You…: Penelope's territorial relationship with Garfield, especially whenever Loreli is around.
