Orson tells the story of "The Ugly Duckling", who is Wade with a paper bag over his head, combined with elements of The Wizard of Oz.

The Ugly Duckling

Lorenzo Music

Gregg Berger

Thom Huge

Howard Morris

Frank Welker

Julie Payne

Desiree Goyette

Learning Lessons

Bouncing Baby Blues

Odie is tricked by Garfield into believing he is a cow. When Jon finds out about the trick, he pretends that Odie really is a cow that looks like a dog.

Moo Cow Mutt

Roy quits the show (with Wade taking his place) and becomes a cast member on The Buddy Bears. He plays Big Bad Buddy Bird, who always disagrees with the gang. After being continually crushed by safes and realizing that bandwagoning is wrong, Roy wants his old job back.

Big Bad Buddy Bird

An angel is assigned to help Odie and Garfield get along.

Angel Puss

When two mice steal Garfield's blueberry pie, Garfield accuses Odie of stealing it. Odie wants to have a trial.

Trial and Error

Orson narrates the origin of Sheldon following numerous mail requests for "the deal with the egg".

An Egg-Citing Tale

When the Food Monster supermarket is built across the street, all of the customers of Gramps' general store are taken. The owner of Food Monster convinces Jon, the best customer at Gramps', to shop at his store.

Supermarket Mania

Cactus Jake tells the story of how one can see into the future by looking into a fire. Garfield sees himself and his friends as space-cowboys in the far future.

The Legend of Cactus Jupiter

It is Roy's birthday, and everybody on the farm gives him a pocket watch. The watch goes missing, among other things around the farm.

Birthday Boy Roy

Jon wants to work for a man who dislikes people who bite their nails. He buys a record to help him break his habit in his sleep, which gets mixed up among Garfield's and Odie's other records.

Jukebox Jon

Two mouse movie critics review a movie about mice attempting to steal food.

Squeak Previews

Wade hypnotizes himself into turning into a monster when he hears a bell and back again when he hears it again.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Wade

Nermal tells his version of Paul Bunyan stories by the director's request. Garfield is unimpressed.

A Tall Tale

Jon dreams about a Frankenstein monster cat with the stomach of a whale that eats so much the town chases him and his creator out of town.

Frankenstein Feline

Orson and the others are tired of the rain. Wade supposedly stops it with a wish. This becomes a problem later on, as the farm runs out of water.

Weatherman Wade

Nermal replaces Garfield when the latter becomes sick.

Fill-in Feline

Garfield gets lost at the South Pole when he accidentally gets sent on a plane while taking a nap.

Polar Pussycat

Roy looks for a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and winds up participating in a Let's Make a Deal-style game show.

Over the Rainbow

Garfield thinks a scientist's experimental remote is the one Jon ordered.

Remote Possibilities

In an episode of "Garfield's Tales of Scary Stuff", Garfield narrates the story of how Jon got a washing machine that eats clothes.

Night of the Living Laundromat

Orson, Wade, Booker, and Roy complain that Bo is a slow cook, so Roy creates a fast food restaurant called Roy's Rapid Restaurant. Orson, Wade, and Booker find it too "fast" for them.

Fast Food

After receiving an expensive credit card bill, Jon cuts up his credit cards and buy everything with cash. It becomes a hassle later on when Jon tries to buy a new wastebasket.

Cash and Carry

Jon is given a speeding ticket by a shady police officer after speeding in an 8 MPH zone. He gets held up when he refuses to pay the ticket.

Speed Trap

Orson convinces Wade to use his imagination and Wade imagines that he is saving the chickens from the weasel — unaware that his imagination is real. Meanwhile, trouble goes on when Roy accidentally kisses a bear.

Flights of Fantasy

When the cable goes out, Garfield is forced to turn to books for entertainment. Eventually, Garfield becomes so engrossed in the story of Robinson Crusoe that he starts acting out the novel, incorporating Odie, Jon, and the guy who comes to fix the cable.

Castaway Cat

Jon takes Garfield and Odie to see Swami Pastrami, and they run into a woman who swipes Jon's wallet and thus feeds Jon's info to the Swami. The Swami later returns Jon his wallet and also gives Jon a medallion that can supposedly read minds.

Mind Over Matter

While playing baseball, Orson gets hit on the head with a ball and daydreams about being the title character in "Casey at the Bat".

Orson at Bat

Garfield gives the audience a unique episode where they can make choices on what happens in the cartoon.

Multiple Choice Cartoon

Garfield gets hooked on video games while Jon has appendicitis.

Galactic Gamesman

When Orson is unable to find his spy novel, he imagines that he is Double Oh Orson instead.

Sly Spy Guy

Jon's uncle Ed is visiting his house for a while, until Garfield, Jon, and Odie get so fed up with him that they find a way to get rid of him.

The Thing That Stayed Forever

Garfield and Odie go to the supermarket and accidentally take a baby home.

The network wants the show to be more educational, so the Buddy Bears are instructed to give educational lessons to anything Garfield mentions.

Dr. Garbanzo Bean once again makes robotic clones of Odie, with a giant robot dog being accidentally made as well. This episode is a sequel to "Robodie".

Robodie II

Convinced that Roy stole all the butter on the farm, Orson imagines that he is Power Pig in an effort to prove it.

For Butter or Worse

Garfield hosts a television show about what annoys him, and is forced to leave out listing dogs due to threats.

Annoying Things

Garfield, Odie, and Jon buy a new TV off of Madman Murray.

Guaranteed Trouble

Roy and Wade fight over who should have the barn for their fan club.

Fan Clubbing

A teenage mouse mistakes that Garfield is responsible for his missing mother, no matter how many times Garfield insists that he is innocent. He then sends in an Arnold Schwarzenegger-like mouse to make Garfield admit where his mother is.

A Jarring Experience

While touring a museum, Garfield and Odie accidentally touch an idol that exchanges their minds.

The Idol of Id

Orson reads Cinderella to Booker and Sheldon, who keep making changes to the story, much to Orson's dismay.

Bedtime Story Blues

Garfield, Odie, and Jon help make Mamma Manicotti famous by proving that one cannot duplicate recipes cooked with love.

Mamma Manicotti

After watching a commercial about a pizza delivering service with a deliver-in-30-minutes-or-else-it-is-free guarantee, Garfield takes advantage of the offer.

The Pizza Patrol

When his dad visits the farm, Wade tries to prove to him that he is no longer a coward.

The Son Also Rises

Jon buys a used car from Madman Murray which comes with a computerized female voice and is attracted to Jon.

Rolling Romance

Animator Mr. Sprocket uses Garfield to demonstrate computer animation to Jon.

The Automated, Animated Cartoon

When Orson's brothers steal the vegetables that Wade was meant to guard, Wade is given trouble by the gang, compelling him to leave. Later, a guardian angel shows Wade what the farm would be like if he was never born.

It's a Wonderful Wade

Garfield sings about Odie riding with a rookie trucker named Billy Bob.

Truckin' Odie

The animated stories of Garfield the cat, Odie the dog, their owner Jon and the trouble they get into. And also Orson the Pig and his adventures on a farm with his fellow farm animals.

The Ugly Duckling

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