The third episode of the second season of Garfield and Friends.
Post-opening sequence line: "And just remember what you paid to get in."
The Great Getaway
Jon Travels to New York City, with Garfield secretly tagging along, where he meets Rosalyn, a woman who seems interested in him. However, Garfield soon discovers that Rosalyn is a pickpocket.
Scrambled Eggs
Orson tells the story of how Sheldon was once confused for a baby turtle.
Hansel and Garfield
When Jon threatens never to feed Garfield again unless he can be nice to Nermal, Garfield decides to tell Nermal the story of Hansel and Gretel.
"The Great Getaway" provides examples of:
- Alliterative Title: The Great Getaway.
- Big Applesauce: This episode takes place in New York City.
- Big Eater: Garfield. He fills Jon's suitcase with many cans of lasagna and an electric can opener, and when Jon rewards him with dinner for having Rosalyn arrested, he eats so much pasta that Jon concludes it would have been cheaper just to let Rosalyn steal his wallet.
- Cutting Corners: Garfield admits that he was able to deduce which bag would be Jon's to sneak into by knowing Jon would choose the cheapest plane seat.Jon: (finds Garfield sneaked into his suitcase in the New York hotel) GARFIELD?!! How did you get in here?!!
Garfield: Knowing you it was probably economy coach. - Gold Digger: Rosalyn immediately turns out to be one - feigning interest in Jon as soon as she meets him. But at the end Jon claims he still thinks Garfield is greedier at draining his wallet.
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Garfield tells off Rosalyn he's this financially to Jon.Garfield: (pointing at Rosalyn) You leave my friend Jon alone! If anyone's going to clean him out of everything he owns it's gonna be me.
- Nobody Here but Us Statues: At the gift shop of the Statue of Liberty, Garfield poses as a souvenir of the statue so he can spy on Jon and Rosalyn.
- Shockingly Expensive Bill: When Jon rewards Garfield with dinner for having Rosalyn arrested, Garfield eats so much pasta that Jon concludes that it would have been cheaper just to let Rosalyn steal his wallet. Garfield retaliates by saying that he's an expensive date.
- Stand-In Portrait: At the Art Museum, Garfield stands in a painting of Blueboy so he can spy on Jon and Rosalyn. He jumps out of the painting and into Jon's arms.
"Scrambled Eggs" provides examples of:
- Cranial Eruption: When Booker falls into the pond thanks to the Worm, a fish he lands on has a lump on his head.
- Bigger on the Inside: Sheldon is revealed to have a barbecue grill inside his eggshell.
- Eggshell Clothing: Like Sheldon, the Baby Turtle started out as an egg with legs. In contrast to Sheldon's desire to stay in his shell (not wanting to see the world's disasters), the Baby Turtle doesn't want to hatch because he doesn't want to be a turtle. When the Baby Turtle sneezes his shell off thanks to Roy's industrial strength sneezing powder, he is revealed to be wearing a diaper underneath.
- Gesundheit: Roy says this to Wade when the latter sneezes himself into the barn, and Orson says this to Wade when the latter continues sneezing at the very end of the episode.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: When Booker sets a trap for the worm, he wonders what worms eat so he can use it as bait. The worm gives him a book on what worms eat to distract him so he can set off the trap.
- Impact Silhouette: Wade leaves a hole shaped like his body in the wall of the barn after he sneezes himself through it.
- Low Count Gag: When Sheldon asks Booker how many worms he's caught, Booker pulls out a calculator, does an equation, and concludes with "None." Sheldon then says "Well, I have a feeling today won't spoil your perfect record."
- Medium Awareness: When Roy finds Sheldon alive, he promises never to play another practical joke on anyone again for as long as he lives, at least until next week's episode.
- Mistaken Identity: When Sheldon comes across the Baby Turtle, Booker mistakes the Baby Turtle for Sheldon, while the Mother Turtle mistakes Sheldon for the Baby Turtle. Roy also mistakes the Baby Turtle for Sheldon, which leads him to believe he made Sheldon sneeze himself to death after pranking him.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When Roy finds what he believes to be Sheldon's eggshell, he believes that he accidentally caused Sheldon to sneeze himself to death, feeling emotional guilt afterwards.
- Non-Mammal Mammaries: The Mother Turtle has notable cleavage on her shell. Breast plates, so to speak.
- Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You: As Roy grieves over how he accidentally caused Sheldon to sneeze himself to death, he briefly says hi to Sheldon before he continues grieving, then realizes that Sheldon is still alive.
- Present Company Excluded: When Roy believes that he accidentally caused Sheldon to sneeze himself to death, he says that he's not fit to eat with pigs for it, apologizing to Orson afterwards.
- Rousing Lullaby: When the Mother Turtle, having mistaken Sheldon for the Baby Turtle, tries to get him to fall asleep, she sings him a rock and roll lullaby.
- Rump Roast: To escape from the Mother Turtle, who sits on him to try to hatch him, Sheldon turns on his barbecue and cooks burgers. This causes his shell to become hot enough to burn the Mother Turtle's butt.
- Russian Reversal: Discussed; when he sets a trap for the worm, Booker wonders what worms eat so he can use it as bait. Since worms can be used to catch fish, he wonders if fish can be used to catch worms.
- Sneeze of Doom: Roy's practical joke in this episode is industrial strength sneezing powder, which causes whoever gets dusted with it to have unusually strong sneezes. He first does this to Wade, causing the latter to sneeze himself into a wall, then he does this to the Baby Turtle, having mistaken him for Sheldon. This causes the Baby Turtle to sneeze his shell off, leading Roy to believe that he accidentally made Sheldon sneeze himself to death.
"Hansel and Garfield" provides examples of:
- Comically Missing the Point: When Jon scolds Garfield for trying to give Nermal away to a lady, Garfield tells him "I know, I've tried." Then, when Jon scolds him for trying to pay the lady $20.00 to take Nermal, Garfield says that he should have thrown in Odie for $50.00. Jon is not amused and tells him he should have let the lady have him instead.
- Denied Food as Punishment: Jon threatens never to feed Garfield again unless he can be nice to Nermal.
- Extreme Omnivore: At the end of the episode, Garfield pulls out a piece of Jon's wall and eats it.
- Fractured Fairy Tale: In an attempt to be nice to Nermal so Jon will continue to feed him, Garfield attempts to tell Nermal the story of Hansel and Gretel, with him in the roles of the title characters.
- Gingerbread House: Since Garfield tells Nermal the story of Hansel and Gretel, the two title characters come across one. When Nermal asks Garfield if the house was really made out of gingerbread, Garfield tells him that it wasn't really, it was actually made of sugar, enriched flour, phero sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, sodium pyrophosphate, and various artificial colors, but since they were hungry enough, it didn't really matter.
- Low Count Gag: Just before Hansel and Gretel reach the Witch's house, Hansel complains that he can't go on since he hasn't eaten in so long. Nermal asks Jon how long it had been, and Garfield tells him "About nine minutes."
- Not in Front of the Kid: When Garfield tells Nermal that Hansel and Gretel were about to shove the Witch into the oven, this upsets Nermal, and Jon berates him for it. Garfield then tells Nermal that Hansel and Gretel made a call to the City Building Commission to have the Witch's house condemned.
- Rooting for the Empire: An In-Universe example: When Nermal feels bad for the witch losing (even though her house was merely condemned and she wasn't shoved into the oven), at his request, Garfield gives the Witch a happy ending where she franchises a chain of daycare centers. Nermal's horrified reaction to the original version of the story doesn't really stem from him being evil by any stretch of the means, but rather his innocent persona preventing him from really seeing the Witch as evil.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Instead of telling Nermal that Hansel and Gretel shoved the Witch into the oven, he tells him that the Witch had her house condemned, but franchised a chain of daycare centers.
- Tempting Fate: When Garfield's new alarm clock that has a special early detection system for Mondays explodes, Garfield asks himself, "What could be worse than Monday?" cue Nermal showing up.
- Trail of Bread Crumbs: Garfield retells Hansel and Gretel as having used cream cheese bagels instead of bread crumbs to make a trail that can help them find their way back home in cast they get lost, on their path to look for food. Nermal then asks why did they even look for food when they already had bagels, to which Garfield tells him they passed by a deli.
- Wicked Witch: As Garfield tells the story of Hansel and Gretel, he naturally has the Witch who tries to cook and eat the title characters.
