The ninth episode of the seventh season of Garfield and Friends.
Post-Opening Sequence Line: "Today, a Saturday Morning investigative report; Where Did All Those Smurfs Go?"
Sit on It
When Garfield watches the Cat Channel, he gets the idea to sit on things humans want to read, so he takes over Jon's Spainsh book.
Kiddie Korner
When Orson attempts to tell the story of Doctor Zhivago, his cousin Aloysius interrupts and demands that he and his friends sing nursery rhymes. Unfortunately, every nursery rhyme they try has something Aloysius finds unsuitable for children.
Brainwave Broadcast
Garfield demonstrates the telepathovisionator to the viewers, which allows them to hear his thoughts.
"Sit on It" provides examples of:
- Big Eater: Garfield. Jon manages to get him off his Spanish book by making him a corned beef sandwich, some hamburgers, and lasagna. Garfield eats them all and manages to get back to Jon's Spanish book before Jon can.
- Bittersweet Ending: Jon manages to get Garfield off of his Spanish book, but destroys his house in the process. As he tries to check his insurance policy to see if it covers his house, he finds Garfield sitting on it.
- Food as Bribe: To get Garfield off of his Spanish book, one thing Jon tries is making a corned beef sandwich with extra mustard, as well as some hamburgers, and of course, lasagna.
- Here We Go Again!: This episode ends with Garfield sitting on Jon's insurance policy after Jon destroys his house trying to get Garfield off his Spanish book.
- Niche Network: In this episode, Garfield reprograms Jon's TV so that it will only show the Cat Channel, a network where every show appearls exclusively to cats.
"Kiddie Korner" provides examples of:
- Alliterative Title: Kiddie Korner.
- Biting-the-Hand Humor: At the end of this episode, the name of "The Network" is revealed to be "SUUS, The Network". If you say it out loud, it sounds like "Sue Us, The Network!", a Take That! at CBS cancelling Garfield and Friends.
- The Cameo: Odie appears in this episode as Old Mother Hubbard's dog, which makes Aloysius extremely happy, until the nursery rhyme reveals that Old Mother Hubbard had inadvertently starved him to death.
- Decision Darts: Aloysius is seen throwing darts at a dartboard to decide how to program the fall schedule for (da dum!) the network. The six options he has on it are "Renew Old Show", "Buy New Show", "Cancel Saturday", "Power Anything", "Cancel Everything", and "More Bears". The last option has two darts in it, while the second-to-last one gets a dart tossed into it. Before Aloysius can toss another dart, Roy interrupts him to have him sing a special nursery rhyme he wrote about him in response to him finding something offensive in every nursery rhyme that Orson and his friends try.
- Halfway Plot Switch: This episode begins with Orson narrating the story of Doctor Zhivago, with Wade in the titular role. The story is cut short when Aloysius demands that the characters sing nursery rhymes.
- "I Am" Song: "There Once Was A Pig Named Aloysius" is a song Roy wrote for Aloysius to sing about his personality, but with the twist that it was being used to reveal his fate of being hit with pies by his enemies.
- My Card: Aloysius has a card that says "ALOYSIUS PIG DA DUM! THE NETWORK" that he displays a few times.
- Nursery Rhymes: This episode has Aloysius asking the cast to do some of these. This turns out to be easier said than done, as every nursery rhyme they try has offensive things in them. Towards the end, they get back at Aloysius by making up a rhyme about him.
- Pie in the Face: Roy writes a nursery rhyme about Aloysius which ends with the titular pig being hit by lemon meringue pies."There once was a pig named Aloysius,
He wanted poems that were not vicious.
People got sick of his shrill harangue,
And so he was covered with lemon meringue! - Sequel Hook: Orson's last rhyme in this episode is "We'll bring to you when we're back next time, something more wholesome than a nursery rhyme." However, this episode marked the final appearance of Aloysius, as the show ended after its seventh season.
- Script Swap: Roy finally writes a "wholesome nursery rhyme" by doing this. It results in Aloysius being chased by the gang because the song ends with lyrics about pie throwing.
- Staircase Tumble: When Lanolin sings Goosey Goosey Gander, she gets to the part where she throws an old man (played by Orson) down the stairs for not saying his prayers. Aloysius is outraged, saying that it's a bad example to set for children, but Lanolin tells him that she's only doing what the book tells her to.
- Spiders Are Scary: When Roy attempts to sing Little Miss Muffet with Lanolin in the role of the titular character and Orson in the role of the spider, Aloysius stops him before he can sing the part where the spider frightens Miss Muffet away, as if the spider scared her away, it would likely do the same to the children watching.
- What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: An In-Universe example; Aloysius demands that Orson and his friends perform family-friendly nursery rhymes. Unfortunately, since the gang plays them straight, they inadvertently reveal all of the violence, starvation, and death that the rhymes contain, and Aloysius won't stop griping about it.Roy: Boy, this is the most violent episode we've ever done!
"Brainwave Broadcast" provides examples of:
- Alliterative Name: The bank robber in this episode is Stickup Stanley.
- Alliterative Title: Brainwave Broadcast.
- Donut Mess with a Cop: This episode uses this as a plot device. Garfield has to alert a cop of a bank robbery, so he forms the words "Bank being robbed" out of donuts.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Garfield hears about a bank robbery but ignores it because he doesn't keep any money in that bank. The viewers convince him to go and alert the police about the robbery.
- Punny Name: At the beginning of this episode, Garfield reads a letter from Ms. Sue Donym.
- Talking Animal: This episode has Garfield reveal to the audience that there's a special microphone the show uses that verbalizes thoughts (and then he uses it for hijinks), similar to a comic strip that showed how he learned to project his thoughts. This leads to him helping a policeman in stopping a bank robbery by putting some donuts together to form the words "Bank being robbed".
