Lion Queen (The Garfield Show)

"Lion Queen" is the first five-part special of The Garfield Show, and the premiere of the fourth season.

The Lion Queen - Zoo Melody (Part 1)
Liz, Jon, Odie and Garfield go to a rich man's private zoo where he imprisons rare and endangered animals. After Garfield feeds all the animals and Liz and Jon find out he is planning on capturing a manzian white lion, they go to Africa to stop him.

The Lion Queen - Welcome to Africa (Part 2)
After a short reunion with Jon, Angie sets off to find her friend. Dirk Dinkum and his assistant sabotage their plane, leaving them stuck.

The Lion Queen - Life Outside (Part 3)
After Garfield and Odie are chased away from the plane, they find a group of monkeys with a baboon, who take care of them by feeding them modern foods. Jon is worried about his pets.

The Lion Queen - King of Cats (Part 4)
Liz overhears Dirk Dinkum firing his assistant and saying that he is going where the lion was. The monkeys and baboon introduce Garfield and Odie to the queen lion and her cubs. Dinkum then captures her, prompting the others to rescue her.

The Lion Queen - Open the Cages (Part 5)
Garfield and the others make a plan to free the lion and all the other animals. The plan works when Dirk Dinkum's old assistant brings the male lion.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) This is the very first episode where Garfield settled up in Africa. Not just settling up the adventures of the series in the country but we also about to learn the cultures and the natures that living on Africa as well.
 * 2) The whole 1-hour filled with adventures of Garfield, Odie, Jon, Liz, Angie, and Armstrong went on a journey on Africa and saving the manzian white lion, Queen Taina from being captured by Dirk Dinkum by the order of Spencer Spendington.
 * 3) The Three Baboons are a very likeable characters as they welcomed Garfield and Odie on jungle after they lost in nowhere, playing an instrument with ukulele, serves Garfield and Odie with lasagna and pancake sausages, helps the gang from hunter and Dirk Dinkum from capturing the endangered manzian white lion, and foil the guards so Garfield, Odie, Jon, Liz, Angie, and Armstrong having their access from security into Spencer's Mansion.
 * 4) There's some heartwarming moments like when Garfield feeding the animals from Spencer's private zoo sandwich, Armstrong tricking Dirk Dinkum by giving him fake maps so he can use the money for the foundation of the animals, Jon and Liz worrying about Garfield and Odie after he told them to guard the destroyed plane, Angie waving to African's children, King Royale and Queen Tania finally reunite, and the finale where the police sends the endangered animals back into their habitats and replace Spencer's private zoo into a public zoo after they arrested Dirk Dinkum, Buckley, and Spencer.
 * 5) The animation is really good despite of being a CGI cartoon.
 * 6) The voice actors did the job very well especially on English Dub.
 * 7) Some funny jokes like when Garfield dress as a lion in order to foil Dirk Dinkum so he can buy Queen Tania a time to escape, Liz jealousy towards Angie as it's become a running gag, Garfield usual food jokes especially where he's out of nowhere in Africa, Buckley believing his uncle while Dirk believing the fake map that Armstrong gives as they went on so many traps like quicksand and ravine, and part of the animals from Spencer's zoo loose free and starting to attack Spencer, his rich friends, Dirk Dinkum, and Buckley.
 * 8) Armstrong also a likeable character here as he giving a fake map to Dirk Dinkum so instead finding the manzian white lion as it's revealed that it bring him out of nowhere. He also helping the gang to set free Queen Tania from Spencer Spendington private zoo collection.
 * 9) Garfield and Angie are smart enough to foil Spencer especially when Angie hiding while yelling and told Spencer's rich friends of how poor Spencer treats Queen Tania as she shows to be unhappy while Garfield releasing the whole cages of Spencer's private zoo and the animals are starting to attack Spencer, Dirk Dinkum, Buckley, and all of Spencer's rich friends.
 * 10) This episode also greatly giving a tribute to episode "Long Lost Lyman" from season 3 as the penguin mentioned and the plane's "Cheap Flashback Scene Channel" as they giving the homage of the past episode where Garfield, Odie, and Jon met Odie's long lost pet owner after his absence since 1983.
 * 11) Some of the songs are really pleasant to hear like "Zoo Melody", "Welcome to Africa", "Baboons", "Ultimate Cat", "Cat Dance", "Out In The Wild", and "Out In The Wild Final".
 * 12) Good Ending: After Garfield giving an info to the police chief about the law that said  "Porting Manzian White Lions is illegal and that people involved in doing it will go to jail for many years". And because of that Spencer, Dirk Dinkum, and Buckley are getting arrested by the end of the episodes with Spencer's private zoo become a zoo that's open for public.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Spencer Spendington and Dirk Dinkum are very unlikable villains. As both of them very cruel and abusive towards animal as their using money as a main object for gaining them, their dreadful voices, almost everything on them unlikeable which is hard for people to like them.
 * 2) The part of Dirk Dinkum and Buckley arguments after Dirk fired Buckley is just pointless and unneeded.
 * 3) Some characters like Spencer's rich friend and the kids who come to the public zoo is largely a reused characters like Anchorwoman, Tyler Edge, Mayor Grafton, and Nathan.
 * 4) Plot Hole: Spencer Spendington appears in shark's mouth while Dirk Dinkum and Buckley are in the zoo cage despite the fact that they're already got arrested by police as they reappears in the final song "Out In The Wild Final".