Mama Meany is a major antagonist in the French-American animated series The Garfield Show, based on the Garfield comic strips. He is a con-artist who owns Mama Meany's Pizza Palace, as well as Vito's archenemy.
He was voiced by Gregg Berger, who also voiced other characters on the show such as Odie, Squeak and Harry. Berger is popularly known for voicing Grimlock on the mainstream Transformers series and Ripto from the Spyro franchise.
Personality[]
| “ | I don’t care what anyone thinks of me as long as I'm rich. If I ever need respect, I can just buy it. | „ |
| ~ Mama Meany stating he prefers having money over having the respect of others. |
Meany is a very sleazy and greedy businessman who likes to scam people into going into his restaurants using his tempting sales and coupons. He apparently lacks real human integrity and does not care that his food tastes terrible, just as long as the public is dumb enough to fall for his tricks. This public confession is what caused Garfield to defeat him and get his establishments closed down in his final appearance.
Biography[]
"Perfect Pizza"[]
One day, Garfield gets a bad tasting of a pizza from Mama Meany's Pizza Palace (Jon ordered it instead of Vito's pizza, which he usually orders). Garfield forces Jon to take him to Vito's, where they learn from Vito that Mama Meany's Pizza Palace has stolen his customers by tricking them in eating their awful machine-made pizzas, with coupons and competitions (with big cash prizes), putting Vito out of business.
Vito gets a call from the famous food reviewer Eddie Gourmand, who makes a deal with Vito: If Vito can get a large pepperoni pizza to Eddie's home in half an hour, and have him like it, Eddie will introduce Vito's pizza to millions. Vito agrees and has Garfield and Jon deliver the pizza (his truck was broken). Mama Meany and his assistant chase after them with their truck. Soon, they confront Jon, while Garfield steals their pizzas and disabled the trucks hand break causing it to roll and crash. The chase is continued, and ends with Mama Meany and his assistant crashing into a billboard for their restaurant (because of the pizzas Garfield threw at the wind shield).
After crashing off a cliff, Jon and Garfield make it to Eddie's home, with Jon accidently giving him one of Mama Meany's pizzas by mistake before Garfield fixes it. Eddie gives Vito a good review and Mama Meany a bad one. Vito becomes very successful, and in return, he will let Jon and Garfield and Odie have all the free pizza they want. At the end of the episode, Mama and his assistant are last seen outside their restaurant, bandaged up from the billboard falling on them. Mama then decides to retool his pizza machine to make tires instead, since they taste about the same as his pizzas.
"Depths of a Salesman"[]
Mama Meany later launches a scam shopping channel where he tricks people into buying useless products. When Garfield, Odie, and John fall for the scam as well, Garfield goes to get a refund. He and his guards refuse to give Garfield a refund after they catch him. However, Garfield tricks Mama into revealing his scam on live television using a tape recorder disguised as a digital audio appliance, he reluctantly refunds the money he made and gives Garfield lots of bubble wrap on his request. A quote from Jon implies that he had to refund everybody else he scammed to avoid being sent to prison, and the shopping channel was pulled from the air.
"The Lasagna Tree"[]
In his final appearance, "The Lasagna Tree", Mama Meany returns to the restaurant business, where he plans on making all other Italian restaurants go out of business due to his popularity, which is mostly caused by his television commercials. After discovering about a tree that supposedly grows the best lasagna in the world, he orders his minions to follow Vito as he looks for the tree, who was looking for the tree due to the main farmer being his cousin Nunzio.
After discovering the tree is a fake, he captures Odie and Garfield, only releasing them when Vito's mother gives him the recipe she uses to make her lasagna. As Mama gloats about his plan, insulting his customers in the process, he does not realize Garfield is using Eddie Gourmand's special camera to film him live on television until it is too late.
Mama is last seen sitting outside one of his now closed restaurants. Meanwhile, his goons have become garbage men after firing them, whilst Vito has regained his popularity. He tries to get a man to come in to his restaurant but only gets disgusted and leave. Mama decided to throw away the food and close the restaurant, which his manager agreed and made his decision as a good time when the garbage truck arrived. The garbage men are revealed to be Mama's former employees whom he fired. Louie mocked Mama that his food is garbage, the ravioli is trash and minestrone which is junk.
Trivia[]
- Mama serves as a dark reflection of what Vito would have become had he not abandoned his deceitful nature and cared only about being wealthy.
Gallery[]
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