Wade and Orson plan to go on a picnic. He walks past Roy, who is determined to steal the food. Meanwhile, Bo turns the vacuum cleaner on reverse mode, thus causing Orson to be covered in dust, so he tells Wade that he has to shower before the picnic. Wade eats a fortune cookie, whose fortune says that he will receive bad luck if he remains outdoors. He then seeks refuge in Orson’s shower; later he hides in a shed.

Roy overhears Wade’s fear and then creates unique fortunes for the cookies. Meanwhile, Orson convinces Wade that cookies cannot guarantee bad luck, and Wade walks off and encounters Roy dressed as a swami. He tells Wade a fortune about being caught in a rainstorm with an ape that wants to tap-dance in his potato salad, and Wade doesn’t believe it until Roy uses a hose to simulate rain and then dresses up as an ape. After Wade runs off, he leaves Roy the picnic basket.

Orson suspects that Roy is behind all this, so he gets the gang to help him act out all the events in Roy’s next fortune, at the end of which is him losing his feathers. The latter happens when he bumps into where Bo is vacuuming, which causes the vacuum to face toward Roy and thus take all his feathers (Bo eventually brings the feathers back in a barrel). Wade then approaches Orson and reports that Roy ate the entire picnic save for one fortune cookie; Orson reads the fortune, which tells him that he will spend the day gluing feathers on his friend. Roy then hands him a container of glue.

[edit] Notes

This episode takes place on Arbor Day.
Lanolin does not appear in this episode.
The title card features a fortune cookie fortune with Wade’s picture and the message, “Don’t quack your cookie!” on it.
Bo is vacuuming the grass in this episode.
Roy’s entire fortune is, You will lose all your feathers during a total eclipse on Arbor Day while listening to the Marine Corps Band playing “Home On the Range” and watching a badminton match between two guys named Ichabod.
Roy has a Garfield calendar.
Roy does not lose all of his feathers; he still has some left on his eyelids and his tail. Also, when he loses his feathers, he appears to have no fingers.

[edit] Goofs

After Orson and Wade fall into the mud waller, Orson is completely covered in mud, while Wade only has dirty feet.
Roy looks at a calendar and discovers that it is Arbor Day. The calendar is open to the month of May, with a picture of Garfield above it and boasting Happy 10th Birthday Garf. Arbor Day is in April (or March, in China), and when this episode aired, Garfield was 11, not 10 (also, his birthday is June 19).
Before losing his feathers, Roy consults his fortune, but he threw it down a moment before that.

[edit] Quotes

Wade: Watch out, Orson! A black cat is coming!
Orson: A black cat crossing your path does not guarantee bad luck!
Wade: It does when it’s a puma. [Runs away] Help! Help; we have a serious puma surplus! We have one puma.

Wade: That’s good advice! And kind of a catchy song, too.

Roy (reading his fortune cookie) You will lose all your feathers during a total eclipse on Arbor Day while listening to the Marine Corps band play "Home on the Range" and watching a badminton match between two guys named Ichabod.