The BEST episodes of Garfield and Friends season 3

Every episode of Garfield and Friends season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Garfield and Friends season 3!

Curious cat Garfield, his friend Odie the dog, and their owner Jon constantly get into trouble as they live out wild adventures together.

Last Updated: 11/6/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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8.67
3 votes

#1 - Read Alert

Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 10/13/1990

Orson reads a variety of books, but his overactive imagination brings every story to life, including ""Moby Dick,"" dinosaurs, and the North Pole.

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8.29
7 votes

#2 - Close Encounters of the Garfield Kind

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/15/1990

A cute alien lands in Jon's backyard, but Garfield discovers that he is not as friendly as he appears.

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8.00
4 votes

#3 - Much Ado About Lanolin

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/6/1990

The gang tries to act Shakespeare's play, "The Taming of the Shrew", with Lanolin as the shrew.

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8.00
2 votes

#4 - The Garfield Workout

Season 3 - Episode 42 - Aired 10/27/1990

Garfield presents his own ideas on working out, dieting, and how to tell if you're overweight.

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8.00
5 votes

#5 - Cock-a-Doodle Duel

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/15/1990

A rooster named Plato comes to the farm and is popular with the ladies, so Roy moves away.

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7.80
5 votes

#6 - Wedding Bell Blues

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/22/1990

Jon agrees to be usher of the wedding of his cousin Marion and her husband [whose last name is Jon], but Garfield thinks that Jon is marrying Marion and fears that they might have children.

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7.75
4 votes

#7 - Reigning Cats and Dogs

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 10/6/1990

Garfield hosts a show about why cats are better than dogs.

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7.67
3 votes

#8 - Dessert in the Desert

Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 10/6/1990

The desert sun gives way to seeing several mirages by Jon, Garfield and Odie.

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7.67
3 votes

#9 - Ben Hog

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 10/6/1990

While everyone else is off at the State Fair parade, Orson is guarding the harvest -- and his brothers distract him with a copy of Ben-Hur.

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7.50
4 votes

#10 - Break a Leg

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/22/1990

Jon drags Garfield and Odie to a ski lodge solely to meet women, but after talking too much he ends up having to ski down the slopes.

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7.50
4 votes

#11 - Barn of Fear II

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/22/1990

Orson decides to have a harvest party because of the big harvest, and Lanolin suggests that everyone go into the old barn to find old costumes of the ancient farmers -- but Wade still thinks the ancient farmers' ghosts haunt the old barn.

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7.50
2 votes

#12 - Dirty Business

Season 3 - Episode 54 - Aired 11/24/1990

Jon takes Garfield and Odie to visit his cousin Berferd. They soon find out that things tend to disappear in Berferd's store.

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7.50
2 votes

#13 - Election Daze

Season 3 - Episode 53 - Aired 11/24/1990

The weasel secretly convinces Roy to suggest an election for who runs the farm: Roy or Orson.

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7.40
5 votes

#14 - Secrets of the Animated Cartoon

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/29/1990

Orson explains cartoons.

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7.25
4 votes

#15 - Orson Goes on Vacation

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/22/1990

Orson goes on vacation and puts Wade in charge of the farm. Of course, Wade is too afraid to do it.

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7.25
4 votes

#16 - How the West Was Lost

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/29/1990

Cactus Jake loses his job at the ranch.

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7.24
37 votes

#17 - The Bunny Rabbits is Coming!

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1990

Orson recieves a letter in his morning post telling him that the bunny rabbits is coming, when Wade sees this he snaps into a panic.

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7.19
36 votes

#18 - Twice Told Tale

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/22/1990

Jon & Garfield tells their sides of the story when a massive amount of yogurt explodes in their home. But both their explanations are exaggerated and even Odie denies that what they said happened has happened.

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7.19
36 votes

#19 - Return of the Buddy Bears

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/6/1990

Garfield wrecks the house and Jon tells him to clean it up or no food. He does not seem to have an easy solution until the Buddy Bears show up.

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7.19
37 votes

#20 - Binky Gets Cancelled...Again!

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 9/29/1990

Garfield tells the story of how Binky the Clown was cancelled and replaced by the supposedly more educational Buddy Bears.

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7.18
38 votes

#21 - Astrocat

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/15/1990

Garfield tells the story of his great-uncle Buchanan, the first creature in outer space.

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7.17
6 votes

#22 - Flat Tired

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/29/1990

Odie becomes the star of the cartoon because Garfield is too tired to be in it.

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star
7.16
43 votes

#23 - Skyway Robbery

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1990

Jon intends to take Garfield and Odie to Miami, but he cannot afford the airfare. Instead, he resorts to giving all his money to Al G. Swindler, who attempts to fly them there on a broken-down airplane.

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7.15
33 votes

#24 - Odielocks and the 3 Cats

Season 3 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/13/1990

While waiting for his microwave lasagna to cool, Garfield decides to tell Odie his version of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" by changing it to "Odielocks and the Three Cats".

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7.06
32 votes

#25 - Hound of the Arbuckles

Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 10/13/1990

Garfield is anxious to see ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"", but the TV is broken. Jon can't find Odie anywhere and tells Garfield to read Sherlock Holmes so his imagination can create the pictures. Garfield dozes off and finds himself playing Watson in a dream sequence entitled ""The Hound of the Arbuckles"".