The third episode of the seventh season of Garfield and Friends.
Post-Opening Sequence Line: "I was going to do something spontaneous here, but I've been too busy to plan it."
Change of Mind
In an episode of Nermal's Tales of Scary Stuff, Nermal finds a shooting star and wishes that Garfield was like him, only to find out they have switched personalities.
Temp Trouble
When Orson goes on vacation, he leaves Aloysius, his bossy cousin, in charge. Annoyed with his pushy nature and giving out demerits, Roy and Wade look for a way to get rid of Aloysius.
The Perfect Match
Jon meets Jean Arbinkle, his female equivalent whom he deems to be his ideal match. Nevertheless, they may not be meant for each other.
"Change of Mind" provides examples of:
- Big Eater: Nermal becomes this as a result of wishing for Garfield to be like him; he ends up taking on Garfield's appearance and personality, which includes eating an entire lunch meant for eight people.
- Here We Go Again!: When Jon finds out that Nermal has tried to mail Garfield to Abu Dhabi, he wishes for Nermal to understand to know what it's like to be him. When Nermal is back to normal, Jon takes on Garfield's personality.
- Hostile Show Takeover: This episode plays out like an episode of Garfield's Tales of Scary Stuff, except Nermal is the central focus and does the narration. At the end of the episode,things return to normal for Nermal, but now Jon is doing the narration and is the focus. Both times, Garfield finds out and threatens to sue Nermal and Jon for copyright infringement.
- In Another Man's Shoes: As a result of Nermal's wish, Nermal becomes a fat, lazy cat, while Garfield becomes a cute kitten. At the end of the episode, Jon wishes on a shooting star, allowing him to take on Garfield's personality.
- Iris Out: This episode ends with one on Garfield when he threatens to sue Nermal and Jon for infringing on his Garfield's Tales of Scary Stuff idea. He also threatens to sue the producer for giving him a lousy part in the episode, as well as Odie and the Buddy Bears for no discernable reason.
- Merchandise-Driven: Lampshaded; when Nermal panics after realizing he's become like Garfield, he says he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life suction-cupped to a car window, a reference to the real-life Garfield car window toys.
- Wish Upon a Shooting Star: Nermal does this when he wishes for Garfield to be like him. He does this again near the end of the episode to turn everything back to normal. Unfortunately, Jon wishes on the same shooting star when he finds out that Nermal tried to mail Garfield to Abu Dhabi, resulting in him taking on Garfield's personality.
"Temp Trouble" provides examples of:
- Alliterative Title: Temp Trouble.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: When Roy tries to set off his Jackenstein-in-the-box on Wade, he asks Wade how often in the past he's proven himself untrustworthy, Wade asks him "I don't know, what show number is this?"
- Character Catchphrase: Aloysius says "That's not right!" whenever someone does something he doesn't like.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: When Aloysius keeps giving demerits to Roy and Wade, the two birds work together to get Aloysius out of their feathers, eventually succeeding when they tell his mom.
- Extreme Omni-Goat: When a goat licks glue off of a tin can, Aloysius gives the goat 10 demerits for doing so, then 20 for bleating at him.
- Fur Is Clothing: After the Jackenstein-in-the-box scares Roy's feathers off and Aloysius gives Roy 20 demerits for being indecent, Roy runs back to his coop and puts on a spare suit of feathers with a visible zipper.
- Hoist by His Own Petard:
- Roy's practical joke in this episode is a Jackenstein-in-the-box, which his plans to use to scare Wade. When he sets it off on Wade, the Jack-in-the-box gives Wade a tasty mint (as Roy said to Wade). When Roy wonders how his practical joke could have gone wrong, he tests it out on himself, causing the Jackenstein to scare his own feathers off.
- Roy plots to have Aloysius quit by having Wade dump 80 pounds of creamed corn on him. Wade misses his cue and accidentally dumps the creamed corn on Roy instead. Roy then says to himself "I knew that'd happen, I knew that would happen, I knew that would happen!"
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: After Wade gets a total of 55 demerits, Roy takes him to an old chair and tells him "We're not taking this lying down!" just before telling Wade to lie down on a chair so he can paint him with blue spots to make it look like he has Duck Pox.
- Instantly Defeathered Bird: Roy intends to use his Jackenstein-in-the-box on Wade to scare his feathers off, but a harmless clown pops out of the box to offer Wade a tasty mint. A bewildered Roy then sets the Jackenstein-in-the-box off on himself when he wonders what went wrong, causing the Jackenstein to scare his feathers off. Wade and Aloysius catch Roy featherless, and the latter gives Roy 20 demerits.
- Jerkass: Aloysius gives people demerits for petty reasons.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After Roy calls Aloysius' mother, Roy and Wade loiter under a eucalyptus tree, not caring about the demerits that Aloysius is giving him. When Roy asks Wade if he's afraid of Aloysius, Wade tells him he isn't, and he's afraid of "practicabally" everything.
- Playing Sick: Roy paints blue spots on Wade to make it look like Wade has Duck Pox so Aloysius Pig will go away. Aloysius is not fooled for one second and gives each of them 25 more demerits.
- Present Company Excluded: After Wade gets a total of 80 demerits from Aloysius, he tells Roy that he has enough demerits to choke a horse, then says "You should excuse the expression" to a horse he inadvertently offends.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Roy and Wade team up to get rid of Aloysius for giving them demerits.
- You Are Fat: When Roy plots to dump 80 pounds of creamed corn on Aloysius to get him to quit, he calls Aloysius "porkbelly". In retaliation, Aloysius gives him 10 demerits.
"The Perfect Match" provides examples of:
- Collector of the Strange: Jean is revealed to collect strings on tea bags, which she forms into a big ball. Jon then reveals to Jane that he does the same thing.
- Distaff Counterpart: Jean is a female version of Jon.
- Domestic Appliance Disaster: Garfield overloads the dishwasher with detergent in an attempt to break Jon and Jane up. Jane admits to doing this all the time to Jon, but this plan still works because Jon and Jane agree that their relationship is too dangerous.
- Stock "Yuck!": After Jon pays Selma's bill after a disastrous date, he gives Garfield the leftovers. To Garfield's dismay, it's salad. He then asks Jon why he can't go out with women who like porterhouse steaks.
- Wingding Eyes: This episode's title card depicts a pair of hearts in place of Jon's eyes.
