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Overview

Video Airlines is the third segment from the thirty eighth episode of the second season of Garfield and Friends.

Synopsis[]

Garfield, Jon, and Odie try to watch a movie, only to constantly find one that they have no desire to watch.

Plot[]

Garfield and Odie are hiding in a houseplant, with Garfield warning Odie to be careful of an enemy. Suddenly, the “enemy” arrives, which is a stream of popcorn that Jon unleashes, which floods the kitchen. Jon and Garfield each grab a bowl full of popcorn (with Garfield using an army helmet) and head into the living room for a movie.

Jon turns on the TV to the Mediocre Movie Matinee presentation, which is Kung Fu Creatures on the Rampage 2. Uninterested, Jon switches to Adequate Theater, which is airing the same movie. Another channel brings up Binky the Clown, who suddenly shows the movie as “a special Binky surprise”. Garfield then suggests the Spanish language channel, which is airing a Spanish dub of Kung Fu Creatures on the Rampage 2.

Changing gears, Jon decides to go to a video rental store to get a movie to watch. There, Jon goes through a lengthy process for store membership, while Garfield sings a song to Odie about the wonders of watching videotapes. By the time Jon obtains his rental card, almost all the videos in the store have been taken. Odie spots one remaining, which Jon grabs out of desperation.

Back at home, Jon inserts the videotape into the VCR, sits down with Garfield and Odie, and turns on the TV. As luck would have it, the video turns out to be Kung Fu Creatures on the Rampage 2. Jon turns off the TV, having no intention of watching the movie. He then declares that they’ll “have to do something drastic”- watch a movie at a multi-cinema theater. There, they get tickets for Theater #29, which is a long walk away.

When they finally reach their destination, Jon makes sure the movie is not Kung Fu Creatures on the Rampage 2. The trio take their seats, wondering what the movie is, which soon turns out to be a sequel- Kung Fu Creatures on the Rampage 3. They prepare to leave, only to find the other theatergoers to consist of creatures similar to the ones from the films. Under pressure from the creatures, they decide to stay.

Characters[]

Main characters[]

Major characters[]

  • Actor (voiced by Neil Ross)
  • "Sylvia"/Creature

Minor characters[]

  • "Mediocre Movie Matinee" announcer (voiced by Gregg Berger)
  • "Adequate Theater" announcer (voiced by Jim Davis)
  • Binky the Clown
  • "El Cine Spectacular" announcer (voiced by Gregg Berger)
  • "Video Everything" clerk (voiced by Neil Ross)
  • Usher #1 (voiced by Neil Ross)
  • Usher #2 (voiced by Neil Ross)
  • Creature (voiced by Gregg Berger)

Trivia[]

  • The Klopman Diamond is featured as one of the items requested for a membership card.
  • Kung Fu Creatures on the Rampage is revisited in "Day Of Doom"; the fifth installment of the film series is repeatedly shown at a movie theater after Garfield wishes for Mondays to disappear (with Mondays being the day movies were replaced at the theater).
  • In the episode's Spanish dub, the "El Cine Spectacular" channel is in English.
  • The episode features a blonde cat with a similar design to the characters Gwendolyn and Lola. Similar characters would later be seen in "The Garfield Rap" and "Sit on It".
  • This episode was moved out of rotation in 1991 during Operation Desert Storm at the request of the CBS Standards and Practices department due to the opening scene of the episode, where Garfield and Odie pretend they are in a war movie. [1][Citation needed]

Cultural references[]

  • The video rental store is a spoof of the now-defunct Blockbuster Video rental stores; as of 2019, only one store in Bend, Oregon is in operation.
  • While hiding behind the plant in the beginning of the episode, Garfield is wearing an American M1 steel helmet adorned with leaves and a sandwich as a camouflage.
  • The song sequence features the Nile, Mount Everest, the Arctic Circle, Trafalgar Square, and King Solomon's mines.

Goofs[]

  • When Garfield blinks in the video store, his eyes are discolored yellow.
  • The Klopman Diamond that Jon gives to the clerk is red instead of white.

Songs[]

References[]

Garfield and Friends
Episodes

"Pest of a Guest / The Impractical Joker / Fat & Furry" • "Rip Van Kitty / Grabbity / The Big Catnap" • "The Great Getaway / Scrambled Eggs / Hansel and Garfield" • "The Sludge Monster / Fortune Kooky / Heatwave Holiday" • "One Good Fern Deserves Another / Goody-Go-Round / The Black Book" • "The Legend of the Lake / Double Oh Orson / Health Feud" • "Binky Gets Cancelled! / Show Stoppers / Cutie and the Beast" • "The Lasagna Zone / Sleepytime Pig / Yojumbo" • "Pros and Cons / Rooster Revenge / Lights! Camera! Garfield!" • "Polecat Flats / Hogcules / Brain Boy" • "Maine Course / No Laughing Matter / Attack of the Mutant Guppies" • "Robodie / First Aid Wade / Video Victim" • "The Curse of Klopman / Mud Sweet Mud / Rainy Day Dreams" • "Basket Brawl / Origin of Power Pig / Cactus Jake Rides Again" • "Binky Goes Bad! / Barn of Fear / Mini-Mall Matters" • "Attention-Getting Garfield / Swine Trek / It Must Be True!" • "Arrivaderci, Odie! / Gort Goes Good / Feeling Feline" • "The Bear Facts / Nothing To Be Afraid Of / The Big Talker" • "Cactus Makes Perfect / Hogcules II / Crime and Nourishment" • "T.V. of Tomorrow / Little Red Riding Egg / Well Fed Feline" • "Invasion of the Big Robots / Shelf Esteem / Housebreak Hotel" • "First Class Feline / Hamelot / How to Be Funny!" • "Mystic Manor / Flop Goes the Weasel / The Legend of Long Jon" • "China Cat / Cock-a-Doodle Dandy / Beach Blanket Bonzo" • "Lemon Aid / Hog Noon / Video Airlines" • "The Mail Animal / Peanut-Brained Rooster / Mummy Dearest"

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