An Italian teenage boy and Slimer are doing chores in a garden to earn some money. The woman who owns the garden tells the boy and Slimer that she wants it "looking like a million dollars", but then some soil gets upturned. She tells them to take special care of her tulips, but then a gopher pops up and wants to eat them. The woman (whose name is Mrs. Pennyworth) leaves, and the guys start their work.
The boy tells Slimer to do the front yard while he does the back, but the boy just lies in a hammock. He falls asleep, then the gopher whips out a diving board and dives into the tulips. It uproots one and prepares to eat it, but Slimer replants the tulip, calls the gopher "bad", and puts it back underground.
He builds a fence around the tulips, but while he's trimming the hedge, the gopher comes back, enters through a little door, and starts uprooting the tulips again. It starts wheeling them off in a trolley, but Slimer hears him and gives chase, eventually snatching the flowers back.
Later, while Slimer is replanting the tulips, the gopher refuels a lawnmower and sprinkles fertiliser on the lawn, making it grow instantly. Slimer goes to mow the lawn, but is lifted into the air because the gopher put too much fuel in. He lands near the boy and spins around, knocking him out of his hammock and into a floatie that's floating in the pool, but he keeps sleeping. Slimer runs out of control on the lawnmower and accidentally shaves the gopher's back.
The lawnmower runs out of gas, so Slimer starts raking, while the gopher fires a cannonball. However, it drops back down and explodes in the gopher's burrow, sending a bunch of things, and the gopher, flying into the air and dropping back down.
The gopher runs away, but Mrs. Pennyworth comes back and her garden is a mess from the explosion. However, Mrs. Pennyworth actually enjoys the mess. The boy wakes up and walks over to Mrs. Pennyworth, and she berates him and drives off with Slimer (who reveals the boy's name to be Rudy) to reward him.
This short provides examples of
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal:
- The gopher puts a bib on.
- Later, it wears a bandanna on its face.
- Ambiguous Gender: It's never stated whether the gopher is male or female.
- Artistic License – Botany: The fertiliser makes the lawn grow instantly.
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: Mrs. Pennyworth, upon seeing her trashed garden, says, "Oh, how could you... create such beauty!?".
- Cactus Cushion: The gopher ends up landing in a cactus upon falling down after the explosion.
- Ectoplasm: Slimer gets green slime on Mrs. Pennyworth's glasses.
- Expospeak Gag: Rudy says that he and Slimer need to sprinkle "H2O" on the plants.
- Fur Is Clothing: Upon being partially-shaven, the gopher looks embarrassed and pulls a sign over the screen that says, "One moment please".
- Hammerspace: The gopher pulls its bib and condiments out of nowhere.
- Heavy Sleeper: Rudy remains asleep even after being spun around in his hammock, flung through the air, and launched into a pool.
- Lazy Bum: Rudy was supposed to do Mrs. Pennyworth's yard work, but he just sleeps in a hammock instead.
- Meaningful Name: The wealthy lady is named Mrs. Pennyworth.
- Medium Awareness: The gopher becomes embarrassed at the audience seeing it partly-shaven and pulls a sign over the screen reading, "One moment please".
- Musical Chores: Slimer sings while raking the lawn.
- Nature Lover: Mrs. Pennyworth has a large garden and has won prizes for her tulips.
- Oh, Crap!: Slimer looks very scared when he notices Mrs. Pennyworth is coming back and her garden is a mess due to the explosion.Slimer: "Uh-oh! Here comes trouble!"
- Pain-Powered Leap: After landing on the cactus, the gopher leaps high into the sky.
- Partially Civilised Animal: The gopher wears a bib, uses tools, and eats condiments... but it also lives underground, burrows, mostly doesn't wear clothes, and eats tulips.
- Pun-Based Title: The title puns on "go for it".
- Rule of Pool: Rudy ends up being flung through the air and into a pool (though he floats as he landed in a rubber ring).
- Slapstick:
- The gopher bumps its head on the tulips' planter box.
- Slimer ends up running out-of-control with the lawnmower.
- The explosion sends everything flying into the air and crashing down.
- Surprisingly Happy Ending: Mrs. Pennyworth comes back to find that her garden is a mess... except she thinks the mess is beautiful.
- Wingding Eyes: The gopher gets cacti in its eyes after landing in the cactus.
- Wormsign: The gopher leaves a trail of upturned dirt behind it.
