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[snoring] [clock ringing]

[upbeat music]

[Garfield] Dinner on the table! Dinner on the table!

Dinner on the table! Dinner on the table!

Dinner on the table! Dinner on the table!

Did I mention "dinner on the table?"

-I'll be right in with the lasagna, guys. -[oven ringing]

Be careful. It's very hot.

I don't care if it's hot, just as long as it's here.

Yuck!

Yuck is putting it mildly.

Instead of this could we like have some food please?

I'm sorry you don't like it.

It's Joe's Frozen Microwave Lasagna.

I didn't have time to make fresh.

Can you live with it?

[both groaning]

All right, all right.

Get in the car. We'll go to Vito's.

Vito, you're the master.

And I'll tell you, this is a lot better than Joe's Frozen Microwave Lasagna.

So is appendicitis.

Oh, thank you.

But the true master was the man who taught me how to cook,

the great Giuseppe Squisito.

He made the best lasagna in the world.

He was your teacher?

He was my teacher, my mentor, my hero!

The greatest Italian chef

who ever molded a meatball.

We were so fortunate, those of us who got to train under him.

You call yourselves chefs?

I should make you all turn in your soiled aprons.

Tell me!

What are the two most important ingredients in anything you cook?

[all] Your heart and your soul.

I can't hear you.

[all louder] Your heart and your soul!

Until you learn that,

you will never be worthy of the honor of being called...

a "chef!"

[Vito] If only I could

hear him call me that.

Well, invite him. I'm sure he...

Oh, no, no! He retired.

Disappeared long before I opened Vito's here.

No one knows where he is, or even if he is still among us.

Quiet, Odie.

Many a night, I dream of him seeing it,

tasting my marinara and saying:

"Vito, you are a chef."

But it will never happen.

Hey! Let me get you some of Vito's

world famous thick crust pizza!

[Jon] Vito's a good guy.

I hope some day he sees that Chef Squisito again.

[Odie approving]

The best lasagna in the world.

[Vito] The best lasagna in the world.

The best lasagna in the world.

The best lasagna in the world.

The best lasagna in the world.

I've got to have it. I've got to have it.

I've got to have the best lasagna in the world.

Squeak, wake up! Wake up, Squeak!

[knocking]

[Squeak] Garfield?

You woke me up right...

[yawning] ...in the middle of a cheese dream.

Squeak, I need your help.

It was about cheddar.

That's my favorite.

Squeak, I need you to alert the mouse network.

I have to find a chef named Giuseppe Squisito.

Can it wait 'til morning?

Sure.

[rooster crowing]

Hurry, it's morning! Find him!

He's the man who makes...

the best lasagna in the world.

[joyful music]

[mice squeaking]

[mice squeaking]

[Jon] Garfield.

Lunch is on the table.

How do you expect me to eat this,

when the best lasagna in the world is out there,

just somewhere waiting to be eaten?

Hey, I have to keep my strength up.

[Squeak] Garfield! Garfield!

My friend Irv here found him.

Tell him, Irv.

You're looking for Chef Giuseppe Squisito?

Desperately.

While I moved.

I now live in a cheese factory.

Lucky guy!

And chef Squisito,

he comes in all the time to buy mozzarella, ricotta and parmesan.

The three basic ingredients of the best lasagna in the world.

Take me to him! Take me to him right now!

Can we walk faster ?

[Irv] He lives in a shack out this way.

[Squeak] Why are we going all the way out here, Garfield?

Because I must have the best lasagna in the world.

[Irv] That's it. He lives there.

[Garfield] Thanks.

OK, you guys can go home.

I'm going to eat the best lasagna in the world!

[Irv laughing]

[knocking]

Kitty cat, what do you want?

You want lasagna?

[mewing]

The best lasagna in the world.

No.

[Irv] So you think Garfield will get lasagna?

[Squeak] Garfield always gets lasagna.

Yeah, I know I look stupid.

But there's nothing I won't do for the best lasagna in the world!

Down here, Tiny!

[babbling]

[baby crying]

A little bambino left on my doorstep!

Are you hungry, little baby?

[babbling]

Yeah, hungry.

Then I get you the most delicious food

any baby would want to eat!

[laughing]

[baby voice] Here it comes.

Dump it!

[babbling]

Baby food made out of turnips and oatmeal!

Yuck!

[coughing]

[baby crying]

Do not cry, little bambino!

Squisito will find you something you will like!

[baby crying louder]

Don't laugh. You used to sound just like this.

[baby crying]

Here, little one! You will like this.

This is not working out.

I need to find some paper.

What am I going to do?

I cannot keep a baby around here.

Even a homely, fuzzy one.

How can I find its mother?

A note?

I did not notice a note there before.

"If you find this baby,

please feed it the best lasagna in the world.

His mother."

No, I do not think lasagna

is a healthy food for little babies.

"Then return him to 150 West Central Avenue."

Come, my little bambino.

I take you back to your mother.

[baby voice] Are you sure you don't want to grab

a quick bite before we do this?

This is 150 West Central Avenue.

Vito's Pizzeria?

You live here, little baby?

Yep.

[doorbell]

Chef Squisito!

Oh, Chef Squisito! It is you!

Do you not remember me?

Vito Cappelletti. I was one of your students.

Vito Cappelletti? One of my worst students.

You were the one who tried putting spaghetti on a barbecue.

Yes but I learned! I learned from you.

And now I have my own restaurant.

Please, taste my tagliatelle! Sample my spumone!

I would not soil my taste buds with your cooking.

But I am a good cook now.

Fore!

You could not possibly be...

[chewing]

Hey, that's not a bad meatball.

You... You like it?

In fact, it is a very good meatball.

Tell me.

How is your cannelloni?

My cannelloni? It is...

It is on the way! Scusi!

Scusi!

I have here a nice cannelloni for you!

And I want you to try my fettuccine alfredo!

Oh, and you must try my chicken marsala and my garlic bread!

Vito, you truly are a chef!

Oh, thank you.

Grazie, Maestro!

Thank you!

And you, pussygatto!

I am in your debt for making this happen.

How can I show my appreciation?

[Jon] Garfield, I don't know how you did it.

You actually got Chef Squisito to come here

and prepare his world famous lasagna for us.

I have not cooked in many years, not since I retired.

I sold my recipe to a company that markets it as...

Ah, it is ready.

Here you are!

Joe's Frozen Microwave Lasagna!

Uh... Chef Squisito, I don't know how to tell you this

but we tried Joe's Frozen Microwave Lasagna and it was...

terrible.

Terrible?

But it is so tasty.

And so easy to make!

You just peel off the plastic film and microwave it.

Plastic film?

If you take the plastic film off before you cook it,

this is the best lasagna in the world!

[upbeat music]

Subtitling: ECLAIR