- No,
- No, mom.
Nothing's going on around here.
Everything is normal.
- Ta-da.
- We need more fruit.
- Real normal.
- Ladies and gentlemen,
Garfield and friends.
- Friends are there
- To help you get started,
To give you a push on your way
- Friends are there
- To turn you around,
Get your feet on the ground
For a brand new day
- They'll pick you up
When you're down
- Help you swallow your pride
When something inside says
To break on through
To the other side.
- Friends are someone
You can open up to
- When you feel like
You're ready to flip
- When you've got the world
On your shoulders
- Friends are there
To give you a tip
- Friends are there
When you need them,
They're even there
When you don't
- For a walk in the park or
A shot in the dark,
Friends are there
- I don't care
- But friends will care
For you
- Hey, you chewing the gum,
I hope you brought
Enough for everybody.
[ Slurps ]
- Hi, I'm just relaxing
After a hard day's nap.
I gotta tell you about
What happened to binky.
Remember binky?
Sure you do.
Binky, that clown who's on t.v.
Who's always saying hey kids!
Right, that binky.
Well, let me tell you
What happened.
Queue the flashback!
Three weeks ago binky
Was the most popular kid's
Show host on t.v.
- If you think of
Calling it quits,
Get some seltzer
And give them a spritz!
You can be the life of
The g*ng, drench your friend
In lemon meringue.
[ Cackles ]
- Binky was a big t.v. Star
Until one day.
- All right, miss sondheim,
Send in the clown.
- Hey, boss.
- Binky, you've been
With the station
A long time and well,
Your ratings are down
And we've decided
To cancel you.
I'm afraid you're through.
- I'm fired?
[ Sobs ]
- They told him to take his
Rubber nose and his size
[ Wails ]
- Binky was upset because,
Well, he knew there weren't
A lot of jobs around
For clowns.
He even thought of
Getting into politics but,
Of course, there are too many
Clowns in washington already.
Binky's fans were stunned,
Both of us.
- The binky the clown show
Will never be seen again
So that we may bring you
An intellectual t.v. Program,
Bowling for meatloaf.
- Gee, no more binky?
What'll I do without
A clown in my life?
[ Crash ]
- Oh, that's right.
I have jon.
- I tripped on that
Loose floorboard.
This whole house is
Falling apart.
I'm going to hire a handyman.
I'm getting rid of everything
Around here that doesn't work.
- I am not leaving.
- I hired a handyman
Through an agency.
Let him in when he gets here.
I told them to have him fix
Everything that needs fixing.
- Let's see, while jon's out
Should I do tons
Of grueling yard work
Or should I nap
And eat a lot?
Guess what?
- Hey, cat, aren't you
Thrilled to see me?
- No.
- I'm the handyman
Who's gonna fix up your house!
- Note the worried
Look on the cat's face.
[ Banging ]
[ Crash ]
- I tried to sleep and
When I can't sleep you know
How loud he must be.
I was just dozing off.
- Hey, cat!
I'm finished!
- Finished was right.
The whole house had been
Decorated in clown provincial.
He fixed jon's potted plants.
[ Laughs ]
- He'd even committed
The ultimate crime,
Tampering with
The refrigerator.
[ Laughs ]
- No, don't touch
The dishwasher!
I rewired it
And it's acting strange!
- Like everything else here
Is normal, right?
Jon arrived home about then.
He'd forgotten his keys
So he rang the bell.
[ Circus music ]
- Jon took it rather well,
I thought.
- You-you-you-you clown you!
When I get my hands on you!
- Binky! Yo, binky.
I found you at last.
Binky, bowling for meatloaf
Is a b*mb.
It's too sophisticated
For our audience.
You're rehired!
- I got my show back!
[ Smooch ]
- The t.v. Station agreed
To pay for a real handyman
To put our house back
The way it was.
- Excuse me, I have to go
Start the dishwasher.
- It looked like we had
A happy ending possibly
Until we realized...
[ expl*si*n ]
- Start the dishwasher!
- And that's what happened
This morning.
[ Slurps ]
- How's it going, binky?
- Just a few thousand
Tons more of suds!
[ Slurps ]
- Hey, every house can use
A bath once in a while, right?
- Oh, give me a home...
[ Crash ]
- Where the buffalo roam...
Where the deer
And the antelope play.
Row, row, row your boat...
[ Sighs ]
- But seriously,
Ladies and germs,
It's great here on
The farm expect one day
I was milking a cow
When a tornado came by.
The cow flew away and
Left me holding the bag!
[ Cymbal crash ]
- It was an udder disaster!
[ Cymbal crash ]
- And now I'd like to do
A little dance for you.
- Oh, don't.
My earthquake insurance
Isn't paid up.
[ Giggles ]
- I am not fat.
I have the body of
A superb athlete!
- Well, give it back!
You're getting it
All stretched out of shape!
[ Giggles ]
Oh, this is good.
- Roy, aren't you supposed
To be selling tickets
At the door?
- What? And miss my chance
To heckle you, pig nose?
I'm on a roll.
- Well, in that case,
I won't dance.
[ Applause ]
[ Growls ]
- Our next act is
The song styling's
Of those barnyard bookends,
Booker and sheldon.
- I'm booker
- I'm sheldon
- And here's our hat and cane
- We love to sing and dance
For you we love to entertain
- That's sheldon my brother
He lives inside an egg
He doesn't have
A hand to shake
But he can shake a leg
- That's booker my partner
He's the joking sort
You won't have to wait
To laugh, like him
The jokes are short
[ Giggles ]
- Hey, sheldon, what do you get
When you cross
A lasagna loving cat
With a bunch of
Zany farm animals?
- You get picked up
For another season.
[ Cymbal crash ]
- Hey, booker?
What has six eyes, green skin,
A trunk and dances a ballet?
One of these.
[ Cymbal crash ]
- But you can't back out now.
- Oh, contrary, I am not
Setting one webbed foot on
That stage and neither is fido.
- You can't have stage fright.
- Oh, I can't? Ah!
There is a stage and of it
I am frightened.
Ergo, stage fright.
Fido and I will not appear.
- But wade,
That's the coward's way out.
- Wrong again, orson.
This is the coward's way out.
Bye!
- Well, there goes
The animal act.
How could things get any worse?
- I'm booker
- I'm sheldon
- We love to joke and clown
- But it's obvious to us
It's time to catch
The first bus out of town
[ Applause ]
- Here's an empty seat.
- Gee, this here theater's
Much too crowded.
I wish we had more room.
- That's a might roomier.
- Come on, wade,
The show must go on!
- No, it mustn't,
Not with fido and me.
People might mock us!
[ Whimpers ]
- Orson! They're out front.
- There is no one out
Front to be scared of.
- It's your brothers.
- My brothers?
- This is different!
This is family!
I can't go out there
With them here!
- We want jokes!
We want jokes!
We want jokes!
We want jokes!
- Don't send me out there.
- You have to!
- We want jokes!
We want jokes!
We want jokes!
- And now on with the show.
- It better be funny!
- Yeah, make us laugh!
- I want lots of guffaws
And howls and some buffo yuks.
- Well, there were
These two horses
Or were they ducks?
No, I remember they were horses
And they were looking
At the klopman diamond.
And then this sailor
From portugal comes up
And--or was he
A vacuum cleaner salesman
From fargo?
- Oh, what's happening?
- Orson's trapped in
A joke with no way out!
- Why don't you go out
And do your animal act?
- Fido and I are not
Performing and that is it.
- Where did the three mountain
Climbers play the bagpipes?
- That's a rotten joke.
- Besides, we heard it!
- Only it was
Two drill sergeants
And a canoe instead.
[ Cymbal crash ]
- How's it going?
- Well, either he is bombing
Or he's doing a great impression
Of a salad bar.
- Well, I'm going some
Place with a better view.
Maybe switzerland.
- You are a chicken, chicken.
Ha! Look who's talking!
I, the most craven of
The craven, here I stand
As my close, personal friend,
Orson, is in jeopardy.
Could I find the courage
To come to his aid?
Of course not.
Yes, I can.
- You know what this act needs?
[ Snorts ]
- Thousand island dressing?
- Nope, I will not allow
This one second more.
You are bullies!
You are nasty swines, you are!
I will tell you weren't fit
To eat with pigs except,
Of course, that you are pigs
But if you mess
With my pal orson,
You will answer to me!
[ Laughs ]
- Oh, that's the funniest thing
I ever heard!
- Wade, you are a true hero
And to think you were afraid
To do your act with fido.
- Ironic, is it not?
[ Laughing continues ]
- Wait a minute.
He said not nice things
About us.
- Yeah, that's right.
He did say that.
[ Screams ]
[ Laughing ]
- Quick, in here with fido.
- Who's that?
- That's fido.
[ Moos ]
[ Screaming ]
- Wade, you're a hero!
- You got rid of them!
- Yeah, in spite of who
And what you are.
- Yes, because from now on
At least until next week's show
I am a brave,
Mallard type person.
[ Cymbal crash ]
- Yike!
- Oh, well, that's showbiz!
[ Ticking ]
[ Snoring ]
[ Alarm rings ]
[ Yawns ]
- Well, time for my exercise.
One.
[ Pants ]
Maybe next year
I'll do another one.
- Hey, garfield!
- Nermal, what a thrill.
Yipes!
Visit us again soon, like,
Day after never.
- Oh, you're just jealous,
Garfield, because I'm so cute
And you're so not.
- You're not so cute.
- I am so cute.
Watch this!
[ Tires screech ]
- Oh, jim, look at
That adorable kitten!
- Carolyn, that is
The cutest kitten
I've ever seen.
- Well, it's time
For my cutie nap.
- You mean beauty nap.
- Nope, cutie nap.
[ Yawns ]
- Odie, I'm thinking
Of something to do to nermal
But it's way too rotten.
[ Pants ]
- I'll go nap
In my bed instead.
Guess I'm gonna do it, huh?
[ Whimpers ]
- Oh, nermal?
Time to wake up.
[ Yawns ]
- Gee, nermal, why don't you
Step outside again
And let even more people
See your unparalleled cuteness?
- Maybe I will.
You're just a sucker
For punishment, garfield.
[ Hums ]
[ Tires screech ]
- Look, jim, have you ever seen
Such an un-cute kitten
In all your life?
- Oh, they don't come
Less-cute than that one!
Eww!
- I peaked, my cute is gone.
I was in the springtime
Of my life.
How did winter come so quickly?
Let me look in the mirror
And see how un-cute I now am.
- You have a whisker
Out of place, non-cute one.
Let me fix it.
You need all the help
You can get.
- Gee, I think I'm cute
But who am I to go
Against popular opinion?
I'm not fit to be around people.
I shall find some place where
Folks tolerate un-cute kittens.
Bye.
[ Snickers ]
[ Growls ]
- He deserved it!
[ Hums ]
[ Growls ]
[ Snores ]
[ Growls ]
- I used to be so cute
But those days are gone.
- Hey, look at the cute kitten.
- Oh, that's nice of you to say
But I know I'm not cute.
- Well, suit yourself.
Well, you look hungry.
- Yes, when do
The humans feed us?
- Oh, well, you have been
A housecat all your life,
Haven't you?
Here's how we get fed.
- Oh, a hungry cat.
Just a minute.
Here you go, hungry cat.
Eat up.
- Very impressive.
[ Munches ]
- Yeah, so now
You're out here with us, cat.
Have some.
- That's very generous of you.
- Hey, this stuff is awful!
Now I feel like some
After dinner games.
- Oh, I love games.
How about checkers or gin rummy
Or mahjong or something?
- My favorite game
Is pound the kitten!
- Pound the kitten?
I never heard
Of pound the kitten.
How do you play
Pound the kitten?
- Well, first you find
A kitten then you pound it.
- Oh, oh.
- Leave us be anywhere else
But here, kitten.
- I owe it to odie
To do my best to find nermal,
To conduct an exhaustive search.
Oh, nermal?
Well, no sign of him.
Guess I can give up and go home.
Hey, he went through
A boulevard stop
And did one of those creatures
Resemble nermal?
Yeah, I was afraid so.
I guess that means
I have to save him.
[ Pants ]
- He wouldn't really pound
The kitten, would he?
- You don't wanna know
The answer to that.
We're trapped!
- Hey, no way outta there.
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Now, round one of
Pound the kitten.
Huh?
- I'm sorry, this is a
No-pounding kittens area.
Folks are trying to eat.
- You're not eating.
- No, but I'm about to.
There's a gourmet feast
Over on that side
Of the fence, hams and yams
And jams and even foods
That don't rhyme.
Pound the kitten but don't
Spoil my meal, okay?
Bye.
- Oh, no you don't.
Any feast around here
I'm gonna feast on.
I ain't had a good feast
In years.
Hey, I don't see no feast here.
- Oh, my.
What does this sign say?
It says city dog pound.
[ Laughs ]
What a silly mistake
On my part.
[ Barking ]
- Hey, boys, down.
Help!
Let me outta here!
Help!
You'll hear from my lawyer!
Help!
- Write if you get work!
- Garfield, you saved me and
So did my new friend here.
- Thanks, I think.
- Look, you want to thank me,
Help me get a good meal.
I'm famished!
- Good meal?
That's a cinch!
- What is it now?
Oh, it's a kitten.
The cutest kitten in the world.
Here's roast beef for you,
Cute kitten
And a ham and mashed potatoes
And chow mein
And couple of pizzas
And bean soup.
- Garfield, I got my cute back.
I'm adorable again!
- Yeah.
Hey, don't tell anyone
I did something nice, okay?
I've got an image to maintain.
[ Music ]
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02x07 - Binky Gets Cancelled!/U.S. Acres: Show Stoppers/Cutie and the Beast
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Show features animated story lines adapted from the comic strip Garfield and Davis's other comic strip U.S. Acres.
Show features animated story lines adapted from the comic strip Garfield and Davis's other comic strip U.S. Acres.