Garfield & Friends

Garfield: Odie you must understand always wants to lend a hand, anytime or anywhere, Odie would be glad to share, but you'd have to do it right, taking things is not polite. Odie wanted it returned, his request was promptly spurned. Odie wound up wet and sogging with a frog upon his noggin. He made sure the frog was thrown back, now he'd go to get his bone back. But before our friend returned, one of them seemed most concerned, she said she was not amused at the way he'd been abused. "Butch" she said, "You're very tough, did you have to be so rough?" Just then Odie reappeared, the bulldog gave a laugh and sneered, picked up Odie, very crass, threw him for a forward pass. Now the other dog agreed, that was not a funny deed, and she told the bulldog he really should let Odie be. Butch said that he wasn't done, "Pounding Odie's too much fun." That was when he looked and found that his ladies weren't around, they decided they would rather flee with someone much more nice to be with. They led Odie to a world where he'd not be kicked or hurled, Butch was left there all alone, with no friends, just Odie's bone.

Garfield: While I was busy dozing, my friend Odie went exploring. Usually he doesn't roam quite this far away from home, but he wandered to an alley were the tough dogs often dally. When they saw this shy intruder, they could scarcely have been ruder. Odie's thoughts are always sunny, what he wondered was so funny. This, one said, is not a dog, maybe this is someone's frog. It's no frog, the other said, it's a rat that ain't been fed. Na, the biggest one exclaimed, I know what this runt is named, not a frog and not a rat, this is just a teensy gnat. And he grabbed poor Odie's bone and he claimed it for his own.