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American blithe television series with characters from the Garfield and U.S. Acres comic strips

Garfield and Friends
The cast of Garfield and Friends. Clockwise from bottom left: Sheldon, Wade, Orson, Odie, Garfield, Roy and Booker.
Genre	Comedy
Created past	Jim Davis
Based on	Garfield and U.Due south. Acres by Jim Davis
Written by	Mark Evanier[one] Sharman DiVono[2]
Directed by	Jeff Hall Tom Ray Dave Encephalon Vincent Davis Ron Myrick Others
Starring	Lorenzo Music as the vocalisation of Garfield
Voices of	Gregg Berger Thom Huge Desirée Goyette Howard Morris Frank Welker Julie Payne Pat Buttram
Opening theme	run across Theme Song
Ending theme	"Friends Are There" (Instrumental) (S1–two) "We're Set to Party" (Instrumental) (S3–seven)
Composers	Ed Bogas Desirée Goyette
Country of origin	Us
Original linguistic communication	English
No. of seasons	vii
No. of episodes	121 (whole) 363 (segments) (Garfield: 242 U.S. Acres: 121) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Jim Davis Lee Mendelson Phil Roman
Producers	George Singer (i–21) (S1–2) Mitch Schauer (22–38) (S2) Bob Curtis (22–55) (S2–three) Bob Nesler (40–72) (S3–4) Vincent Davis (lxx–121) (S4–7) Phil Roman (114–117) (S7)
Production locations	Woodland Hills, California Chicago Muncie, Indiana
Running time	vii minutes (separate) 22–48 minutes (whole)
Production companies	Moving-picture show Roman Productions United Media Productions (S1–6) Paws, Inc. Lee Mendelson Productions (S2–vii)
Release
Original network	CBS
Movie format	NTSC
Sound format	Mono (1988–1990) CBS Stereo Audio (1990–1994)
Original release	September 17, 1988 (1988-09-17) – December 10, 1994 (1994-12-x)
Chronology
Followed past	The Garfield Testify

Garfield and Friends is an American animated television set serial based on the comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis and run on CBS Saturday mornings from September 17, 1988, to December ten, 1994, with reruns airing until October vii, 1995.^{[3] [four]} Seven seasons of the series were produced.

In addition to the segments featuring Garfield, the series too included segments featuring the characters from U.South. Acres, a comic strip Davis was drawing concurrently with Garfield when Garfield and Friends premiered on television.^[5] Like the comic strip these were based on, the animated segments were re-titled Orson's Farm for viewers outside of the Us (taking the name of their main character, Orson Hog). Although Davis stopped producing new strips of U.S. Acres/Orson'due south Farm seven months after Garfield and Friends debuted, the characters continued to appear on television throughout the show's run.

A total of 121 episodes were made, each consisting of two Garfield segments and one U.Southward. Acres segment, totaling 242 Garfield segments and 121 U.S. Acres segments. All episodes have been released in the U.Southward. on v DVD sets by 20th Century Fox Habitation Amusement. The first flavour aired in a half-hour format. Starting with the second season, it switched to an hour-length format, showing two episodes each week. During the last flavor, while the series was nevertheless an 60 minutes long, the second half-60 minutes of the testify featured either an episode from the previous flavour or i of the Garfield TV specials. On May 25, 2016, ix Story Media Group acquired the worldwide distribution rights to Garfield and Friends and its specials.^[half-dozen]

Characters [edit]

Garfield [edit]

Regular characters [edit]

• Garfield (voiced by Lorenzo Music): A fat, lazy, sarcastic orange tabby, who wants zip more out of life than to eat, sleep and sentinel television. He has a penchant for consuming lasagna, enjoys tormenting Odie and trying to mail service Nermal, his rival tabby, to Abu Dhabi. Deep down, Garfield nevertheless loves Jon and Odie. Garfield appears in a handful of U.S. Acres segments ("Mystery Guest", "Fast Food", "Dishonest to the Hereafter", "Fantasize Dr." and "The Thing In the Box"), usually in the grade of various pieces of Garfield-themed trade the "U.S. Acres" characters appear to own. Garfield does not speak aloud, but his thoughts are heard by everyone. In the episode "Brainwave Broadcast", this is revealed to exist via the use of a special microphone, which amplifies the thoughts of animals, apart from Odie.
• Jon Arbuckle (voiced by Thom Huge): Garfield and Odie's owner, a available cartoonist who has poor luck with women and a somewhat nerdy demeanor. He is ofttimes annoyed by some of Garfield's antics, and also has an unrequited love for Dr. Liz. Whenever Garfield gets in problem, Jon will punish him by taking abroad his lasagna, not letting him scout television, or taking him to the vet. He also tries to convince Garfield to do the right thing whenever the cat gets into trouble. Jon occasionally forces Garfield to lose weight and grab mice, which is always unsuccessful due to Garfield non wanting to eat mice and his friendship with ane such mouse named Floyd.
• Odie (voiced by Gregg Berger): A yellow Beagle who is Garfield's best friend. He used to belong to Jon'south former roommate Lyman (a grapheme from the earliest comic strips who is absent-minded from the show). A running gag has Garfield kicking him off of a kitchen table. Though he does not seem very intelligent, Odie is actually much more than cunning and smart than he lets on. Odie is the only creature grapheme who does not communicate with whatsoever class of dialogue, solely communicating with body linguistic communication and his enthusiastic barking and other dog sound effects, although Garfield is able to understand what he says.
• Nermal (voiced past Desirée Goyette): A cute grey Tabby kitten whom Garfield considers to be annoying. Nermal is the cocky-proclaimed "Globe'south Cutest Kitty Cat". Nermal seems kind and playful, although he oft tends to antagonize Garfield by bragging about how much cuter he is. Garfield often attempts (usually unsuccessfully) to mail him to Abu Dhabi every bit a result. Though officially considered a male person, Nermal'southward feminine preoccupation with being cute, and the fact that a woman provides a childlike voice which is as well very soft for Nermal, thus allowing the character to exist mistaken for a female true cat to the point that, in the outset two seasons, the American-Spanish version features Nermal equally a female kitten named "Thelma".
• Binky the Clown (voiced by Thom Huge): A loud, obnoxious and generally abrasive clown who appeared a few times in the strip before becoming a regular on the show. Within the series, Binky has his own TV show that Garfield and Odie try to avert watching. In seasons 2 and three, Binky starred in his ain segment, "Screaming with Binky", that lasted the length of a Quickie and ran at the midway betoken of an hr episode (nigh of these segments were removed in syndication equally a result). In this segment, a character is doing a chore that requires much accurateness and precision, only for Binky to distract them, causing them to fail (resulting typically in said graphic symbol chasing later Binky). His catchphrase is, "Hey, kids!" with the vowels prolonged; to Garfield, he yells "Hey, cat!" with a prolonged E. Binky was a recurring character for the first three seasons, then appeared sporadically afterward. He "returns" in the season seven episode "The Feline Philosopher", which became his last episode in the show.
• Herman Mail service (voiced by Gregg Berger): A mailman who loves delivering the postal service, despite beingness the victim of Garfield'south booby traps. Equally with Binky, he rarely appears after flavor 3.
• Dr. Liz Wilson (voiced by Julie Payne): Garfield and Odie's sarcastic veterinary and Jon's main honey interest. She occasionally dates him, simply these outings always become disasters often due to Garfield's actions. She only appears in the show's start two seasons, except for 1 appearance in the season iv episode "Frankenstein Feline".
• Floyd (voiced by Gregg Berger): Garfield's mouse friend who takes identify of his mouse friend Squeak from the comic. He originally appears every bit an antagonist in the season i episode "Good Mousekeeping", when he and his swain mice stay at Jon'south business firm afterward discovering that Garfield does non consume mice; they are somewhen driven out of the house. He becomes friends with Garfield in his second appearance, the season one episode "Identity Crisis". He appears in every season of the show only in ane or few episodes each. He has a friend named Tyrone in the flavor 3 episode "Rodent Rampage" and a wife named April in the season half-dozen episode "The Floyd Story".

Minor characters [edit]

• Pooky: Garfield'south teddy deport and sleeping companion of whom Jon is jealous. Found in a drawer, he is Garfield'southward but toy. Garfield adopts his alter ego "The Caped Avenger" after temporarily losing Pooky.
• Cactus Jake (voiced by Pat Buttram): The foreman of the Polecat Flats dude ranch; he behaves in the manner of an former-fashioned cowboy and frequently refuses to have anything to exercise with modern technology. He also has a massive extended family. His appearances include "Polecat Flats", "Cactus Jake Rides Over again", "Cactus Makes Perfect", "How the West Was Lost", "Urban Arbuckle", "The Cactus Saga" and "The Legend of Cactus Jupiter".
• Al G. Swindler (voiced by Carl Ballantine): A auto salesman with a large olfactory organ. As his proper name suggests, he is a businessman and con artist who constantly swindles the perennially gullible Jon, but to be eventually outwitted by Garfield. In the episode Lemon Assistance his name was given equally Al J. Swindler. He besides always incorrectly pronounces Jon's last name; for instance, "Mr. Arborday" or "Mr. Arbarnacle". His other episodes were "Skyway Robbery", "Wonderful Earth" and "Dwelling house Sweet Swindler".
• The Buddy Bears (voiced by Gregg Berger (Billy), Thom Huge (Bobby), Lorenzo Music and Howie Morris (Bertie)): Their names are Billy, Bobby and Bertie (In "The Garfield Opera", they introduced themselves by their formal names William, Robert and Bertram). They are iii talking bears who promote conformist propaganda in the form of song and dance ("Oh, we're the Buddy Bears we ever become forth... if y'all ever disagree, it ways that yous are wrong"; etc.). Their television show once replaced Binky's, and Roy Rooster of U.S. Acres has twice been stuck as the autumn guy of their routines. The Buddy Bears are a satire of The Get Forth Gang, The Care Bears, The Smurfs and other 1980s cartoons focused on "caring", emotions, pleasant human interactions, harmony and a full general lack of plot or conflict (showrunner Marking Evanier had worked on several of these serial and used the Buddy Bears every bit an outlet for his frustration with the moral messages). Garfield tends to get the last laugh with them, at one point bringing an argument between the 3 bears over pizza toppings. In one episode, there is a 4th female person Buddy Bear, their sis Betty.^[vii]
• Penelope (voiced by Victoria Jackson): Known as Lola in "Beach Blanket Bonzo" (voiced by Julie Bennett) and Gwendolyn in "The Idol of Id" (voiced past June Foray) (both are identical). Penelope is Garfield's girlfriend, taking the place of his love interest Arlene from the comics. Evanier explained that the reason Arlene only appeared once in the serial was that Davis had a very specific idea of how the Arlene grapheme should exist and told the writers that if they could non be faithful to it, they should not utilize her.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Brick: Brick (or Bonzo in "Beach Blanket Bonzo") is the ex-boyfriend of about of Garfield's love interests. They usually dump him considering of Garfield. He unremarkably is sensitive most his girlfriends, so he usually pounds Garfield, but still does non win their hearts. He was first seen in Beach Blanket Bonzo as Lola's boyfriend (he appeared in a different colour). He later appeared in "The Idol of Id", trying to convince Gwendolyn to dump Garfield and become back to him. In "The Perils of Penelope", he appeared equally Bonzo for the first fourth dimension, as dating Penelope and afterwards he hunt Garfield to a truck he was last seen in the back of a truck to Mexico. He made cameos in The Garfield Rap playing the guitar in one scene, and "Cutie and the Fauna" who was and so unnamed.
• The Singing Ants (voiced by Ed Bogas): Ants who sing while stealing food, appeared start equally the stars of the musical episode "The Picnic Panic", where they steal all of Garfield's picnic dejeuner. They offset appeared in "A Vacation from His Senses", where they are seemingly delusions of Jon, who thinks that he has gone crazy. Their last appearance is in "Some other Ant Episode", where they have some other starring role, this time taking over Garfield's house.
• Ludlow (voiced past Don Messick): A crow who appeared in two episodes. His father e'er beats up Garfield when he thinks he has eaten his son. The episodes in which he appeared are "Sweet Tweet Treat" and "Catch As Cats Tin't".
• Irving Burnside (voiced by Gregg Berger): A next-door neighbour to Jon whose property Garfield invades (generally stealing his charcoal-broil). Whenever this happens, he threatens to shell up Jon. He appeared on half-dozen episodes, which are "Frankenstein Feline", "Bad Neighbor Policy", "Next Door Nuisance", "How to Drive Humans Crazy", "A Thing of Conscience" and "Off-white Substitution".
• Rudy (voiced by Gregg Berger): A canis familiaris who tends to beat upwardly Garfield whenever he hosts a television receiver program and says something bad about dogs. His proper noun was first revealed in "Dogmother 2", where he is shown to be territorial. He also appeared in "Reigning Cats and Dogs", "Annoying Things", and "It Must Be Truthful". Rudy likewise once victimized Nermal for insults most dogs.
• Mice: The Mice appeared in two episodes. The episodes were "Good Mousekeeping" and "The Pie-Eyed Piper". The mice practise not include Floyd.
• Madman Murray (voiced past Gregg Berger): A second-paw junk salesman (proclaimed to exist insane). Similar to Mr. Swindler, he tries to get Jon to buy some cheap junk. He appeared in "Guaranteed Trouble," "Rolling Romance," and "Madman Meets His Match." He makes a cameo in "Jumping Jon".
• J.D. (a.g.a. Jim Davis, voiced by himself): The cartoons' director, who had 6 "appearances": "Mystic Manor" (as himself wearing a Garfield adjust drawing a comic strip), "Flat Tired", "The Garfield Conditioning", "Star Struck", "Make full In Feline" and the U.S. Acres (Orson's Farm) episode "What'southward It All Nearly Wade?"
• Dr. Garbanzo Bean (voiced by Frank Welker): A mad scientist from "Robodie" and "Robodie II".
• The Feline Philosopher (voiced past Eddie Lawrence): A feline philosopher that talked Garfield into stealing pie. This graphic symbol was a parody of Lawrence's "Old Philosopher" routine. His appearances are "The Feline Philosopher" and "The Farmyard Feline Philosopher"; he made a cameo appearance in "The Man Who Hated Cats".
• Icabod (voiced by Greg Burson): A cricket that was Garfield's conscience. He appeared in "A Matter of Conscience" and "Half Baked Alaska".

U.S. Acres (a.chiliad.a. Orson'south Farm) [edit]

Regular characters [edit]

• Orson (voiced by Gregg Berger): A hog who is the main character of the series. His favorite pastime is reading books and imagining himself into many scenarios, à la Walter Mitty. Orson besides has two missions prepare before him: get Roy to practise the right thing and become Wade to be dauntless. A running gag is that Orson is a neat freak and constantly showers and keeps clean, one time making Wade comment, "Cleanest pig in the world." He is a good friend of the other denizens of the subcontract and a father figure to Booker and Sheldon. Orson's afraid of his brothers. Orson has a superhero identity well named Power Pig, and a Roman-themed alter-ego named Hogcules, as well as a James Bond-effigy character named Double Oh Orson.
• Roy (voiced by Thom Huge): A loud and sometimes cocky-centered rooster who prides himself on his practical jokes. He is constantly into a scheme which mostly Orson or another graphic symbol has to bail him out of. Despite his tendencies of selfishness, he is a good rooster when he wants to be and is more oftentimes than not the saving grace of his friends when it comes to antagonists such as Orson's brothers or the chicken predators. Despite some of his and Wade'southward differences and the fact that they contend sometimes, they became closer friends afterwards on in the seasons. In the episode "Once Upon a Time Warp", information technology was implied that Roy and Wade have known each other for over fourteen years. His most common practical jokes include dropping food on Orson or taking advantage of Wade's excessive fright. Occasionally the others will turn to Roy whenever a dirty play is needed, most often in Season seven as a response to Aloysius, in which in Kiddie Korner is referred to as "the muddy tricks section".
• Wade (voiced by Howard Morris): A cowardly and melodramatic duck who wears a rubber flotation tube, and has a bunch of phobias no matter how trivial. As a gag, the head on his flotation tube (which is identical to and smaller than Wade's head) copies nearly every movement and appearance change Wade'south existent head does. When he gets scared (which is almost all the time), he will blabber with no i agreement what he is proverb. Though seemingly afraid of everything, Wade's greatest fear is the Weasel. Like most ducks, Wade has the ability to fly with his wings, merely seldom does so due to his phobia of heights. Despite some of his and Roy'due south differences and that they argue sometimes, they became closer friends afterward in the seasons.
• Bo (voiced by Frank Welker): An affable sheep with a positive, laid-back attitude, whose mannerisms and vernacular are similar to a California beach bum. Though not particularly bright, he is nearly impossible to get mad and acts equally a guide for Orson when dealing with his three older brothers.
• Lanolin (voiced by Julie Payne): A loud-mouthed sheep who spends nigh of her fourth dimension arguing with her twin blood brother Bo. The arguments are often triggered past her beingness bellicose seemingly for its own sake. Out of all the chief characters in this segment, she seems to be the nicest to Orson.
• Booker (voiced by Frank Welker): A pocket-size, cute, simply very assertive chick who is constantly in pursuit of unnamed worms. His name was inspired past Orson's beloved of books.
• Sheldon (voiced by Frank Welker): Booker's twin brother, who, despite having hatched, yet lives in his egg with his anxiety popped out of the shell and so he tin walk. He seems to have "all kinds of things" in his shell, including a pinball machine and a stove. In the episode "Shell Shocked Sheldon", Sheldon really hatches, with some other shell later on appearing. Booker and Sheldon's parents are unseen in the bear witness, as Orson noted that their female parent abased them.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Modest characters [edit]

• Mort (voiced by Frank Welker), Gort (voiced by Thom Huge) and Wart (voiced past Howie Morris): Orson's cruel older triplet brothers (unnamed until "Hogcules") who are jealous of Orson and normally appear either to bully Orson or trying to steal the fruit and vegetable crops from the farm. They seldom refer to Orson by his name, calling him "the runt". Despite being credible triplets, they are dissimilar in size: Mort is the shortest and the ringleader (although Gort is sometimes the leader instead of Mort) who grunts in his dialogue, Gort is the smartest and has yellow eyes (although Mort sometimes has yellow eyes instead of Gort), and Wart is the tallest with buck teeth. Gort is seen alone in "Forget-Me-Not Newton" and "The Onetime Human being of the Mountain", and Wart appeared on his own briefly in "Orson's Diner". None of them were seen in the 6th flavour, although they were mentioned in "How Now Stolen Cow?"
• Frederick "Fred" Duck (voiced by Frank Welker): Wade'south highly annoying cousin who wears a parachute when flying because he is secretly afraid of heights. His first advent was in "Shy Wing Guy". He later appeared in "The Impractical Joker", "Mystery Guest", "Orson in Wonderland", "Orson at the Bat" and "The Ugly Duckling".
• Worms (voiced by Howard Morris): Booker often chases them unsuccessfully. They were unnamed on the show, although there was a worm named "Filbert" in the comic strip.
• The Weasel (voiced by Gregg Berger): Unnamed, the weasel is constantly seen sneaking effectually trying to kidnap the chickens in a bag. Usually Roy (or on rare occasions Wade or Sheldon) is the i to thwart him. He start appeared in "Flop Goes the Weasel" and concluding appeared in "Deja Vu".
• The Play a trick on (voiced past Howard Morris): An unnamed fox who has more than of a goofy personality than the weasel. He tries to kidnap Sheldon, despite proverb he "doesn't expect ripe". He appeared in "Shell Shocked Sheldon" and "Little Ruby Riding Egg"; he after made a cameo appearance in "Hare Force".
• The Wolf (voiced past Gregg Berger): An unnamed wolf from the 5th season who, similar the weasel, tried to steal chickens. He appeared in "The Wolf Who Cried Boy", "Sooner or Afterward", "Gross Encounters" and "A Mildly Mental Botch".
• Chloe: Roy's niece from the sixth flavour and a bookish chick. Roy likes her more than he volition admit. She appeared in "Uncle Roy to the Rescue" and made her final appearance in the two-part episode "Snowfall Wade and the 77 Dwarfs".
• Edward R. Furrow (voiced by Frank Welker): The farm'south local psychiatrist annoy who is named after Edward R. Murrow. His appearances include "A Mildly Mental Botch", "Daydream Doctor" (Where he was colored yellow) and a cameo in "Newsworthy Wade".
• Aloysius (voiced past Kevin Meaney): A pig who appears in the segment'southward seventh season; he was originally intended to be a main character.^[eight] He works as a studio accountant and as a television executive. He gives issues to Orson and his friends concerning their show (such equally the "unwholesomeness" of nursery rhymes in "Kiddie Korner" and upkeep of the animators of the cartoon in "The Disbelieve of Monte Cristo"). He has a dart board, which he uses to plan each season of Television set. Orson and his gang discover a way to pay him dorsum near the cease of each episode. His catchphrase is "That's not correct!"
• Plato (voiced by Frank Welker): A sophisticated rooster who came to the farm to do Roy'south job. Roy became jealous of him, although when Plato proved too cowardly to relieve the chickens from the weasel, he was thrown out of the farm. Plato outset appeared in "The Bunny Rabbits Is Coming!" and once more in "Cock-a-Doodle Duel". He later had a cameo appearance in "The Ugly Duckling".

Boosted voices [edit]

Boosted voices were likewise provided by Gary Owens and Neil Ross.

Several celebrity guest stars performed phonation acting on Garfield & Friends for both Garfield & U.Due south. Acres portions, including Imogene Coca, Stan Freberg, George Foreman, Chick Hearn, James Earl Jones, Marvin Kaplan, Robin Leach, John Moschitta Jr., Jack Riley, Rod Roddy, Will Ryan, Pat Buttram, Dick Beals, Paul Winchell, Don Knotts, Michael Bell, Arnold Stang, Marker Hamill, Larry Storch and Harvey Korman.

Episodes [edit]

Production [edit]

When the evidence was originally circulate on CBS, the episodes unremarkably had three Quickies (30- to 45-second gags which were based on original Garfield and U.S. Acres strips, rather than original made-for-Television receiver stories), with ordinarily two "Garfield Quickies" (the starting time one being played before the intro theme) and 1 "U.S. Acres Quickie," the latter of which was never shown in syndication (except occasionally, mainly whenever a Quickie had something to do with the regular full episode it followed; e.g. the 'U.S. Acres Quickie' that follows the episode "Moo Cow Mutt"). Midway through the 2nd season, "Screaming with Binky" quickie-style segments were added. These "Screaming with Binky" segments were typically used at the halfway signal of hour-long blocks of Garfield and Friends (as Garfield ended each one with "We'll be right dorsum.") to let the viewers know that unlike well-nigh Saturday morning time cartoons at the time, it was not over in the usual half-hr. The DVD sets and Boomerang reruns restore the original rotation. Afterwards the third season, at that place was only one "Garfield Quickie" shown per episode.

During the commencement season, almost U.South. Acres segments were fabricated to teach a social lesson, a concept the show later lampooned.

Garfield and Friends had outlasted most blithe series by the time information technology reached its seventh season in 1994. Although the series was still doing well in the ratings at the fourth dimension, the show had become expensive to make and the Saturday morning cartoon format was in decline by this betoken. Additionally, while the series itself was doing well, CBS every bit a whole was a distant third behind NBC and ABC for much of the series' run, and was in the center of its price-cut by Laurence Tisch that resulted in CBS losing dissemination rights to the National Football League for iv years starting in 1994 and later losing many longtime affiliates to Fox, which had outbid CBS for its NFL packet. As a result, CBS proposed cutting the budget for the serial for another flavour every bit part of Tisch's imposed budget cuts. Since syndication of the series was doing well, producers ended the series in 1994 with its 7th flavour.^[9]

Episode segments [edit]

Each episode featured nigh of the post-obit segments:

• Garfield Quickie: This was a segment of the show that featured Garfield Sunday strips from the mid-to-belatedly 1980s. Very rarely would a weekday strip exist shown.
• Theme song: Run into below.
• Offset Garfield cartoon: This is a general Garfield episode taking on a more domestic nature generally involving Jon and Odie.
• U.Southward. Acres/Orson'southward Farm Quickie: This Quickie usually aired before the main story and featured strips from the newspaper run for that series. These ran from seasons i to three.
• U.Southward. Acres drawing: This episode featured the U.S. Acres/Orson'southward Subcontract characters in various situations. From seasons 1 to three, there was a vocal segment that was built on the episode'south theme.
• Screaming with Binky: Segment that was the length of a Quickie and ran at the midway signal of an hour episode. These segments featured narration by Garfield where the audition would usually find themselves in someplace where placidity is a must or a person is in a fragile situation, such as a golfer making a crucial putt. This would be followed by Binky the Clown actualization and yelling, for example, "Heeeeeeeeeeeey, fisherman!", nigh often causing a error of some sort; typically, Garfield would tell the audience "We'll be right back." while Binky is chased past the irate person(s) or else suffers consequences for his actions. All but ane of these segments were removed in syndication. On the DVD releases, Screaming with Binky usually follows the U.S. Acres episode, while four segments were excluded.
• Second Garfield Quickie: Just similar the first quickie, except it would exist on before or after the second Garfield episode.
• Second Garfield cartoon: Another cartoon starring Garfield. Though stories may have a domestic nature, the viewers might see a parody instruction segment that featured a Garfield lecture of some sort or learning situation.
• End credits

A "Quickie" is a short joke that is used betwixt segments. In that location is at least one Garfield or U.S. Acres Quickie per episode. Near of the Quickies are based on a Sunday comic strip, and some on a daily comic strip. In that location were likewise Quickie-style segments, Screaming with Binky, featuring Binky the Clown in seasons 2 and 3. According to one U.Southward. Acres Quickie, they last 45 seconds^[x] and most of these were cut out in syndication.

In syndication, the format was every bit follows:

• Theme song
• Commencement Garfield cartoon
• U.S. Acres cartoon
• Second Garfield drawing
• Garfield Quickie
• End credits

Reception [edit]

The quality of Garfield and Friends as compared with other 1980s animated idiot box series is considered by animation historian Jerry Beck to "foreshadow the higher quality [animation] blast coming in the next decade".^[11] Hal Erickson says that "Garfield and Friends apace became the hub effectually which the residual of CBS' morning lineup was built," and it "seemed to get better with each passing season."^[12]

Theme song [edit]

Each episode opens with Gary Owens introducing the show past saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, Garfield and Friends!" The offset 5 seasons features Garfield tap dancing beyond a debate and turning on a record role player. Starting with flavor six, it opens with a total concert hall.

The first theme song is a song-and-dance style number most friendship ("Friends are there to help you lot become started / To give you a push on your fashion"). The intro for the show's get-go ii seasons sees Garfield battling Orson, Roy, Wade, Booker and Sheldon (who all appear on screen together) for screen time. A series of cursory clips would play showing Garfield and the U.S. Acres characters resorting to increasingly over-the-summit means to accomplish this, which included Orson shattering Garfield's body with a mallet and Garfield using a jack to move the U.South. Acres crew out of frame. These deportment also attempt to mimic the flow of the respective song lyric lines in some agreeable form.

The second, more upward-tempo theme song ("We're Gear up to Party") first appears in the third season (episode 9) and is used until the cease of season six. This time, Garfield sings the vocal along with the residue of the cast and the intro at present consists of clips from previous episodes. This intro is likewise used for the syndicated rerun package, merely all incidental music from the first two seasons' worth of episodes is left intact. Information technology was not until the DVD releases that the intros from those seasons are seen in their entirety again.

In the 7th (and last) season, an upbeat rap-based theme vocal is used, sung by J.R. Johnston, and has a bass line like to that of the Seinfeld theme.^[xiii] This theme is not included on the DVDs (on the DVD set and in international versions, the rap theme is replaced with "We're Ready to Party"), nor does information technology brand its mode onto the rerun bundle.

The close of each version of the theme brought out the show's title screen, where Booker would write "and friends" in pencil beneath Garfield's proper name. Garfield would then announced atop the title and offer a (sometimes topical) joke to open the show (due east.g., "Welcome to my world... Did you bring food?", "No giant robots, or annoying niggling blue people!", "Hey Heathcliff, eat your center out", "I tin can't believe we go away with this every week.", "Smart kids lookout man this show. Other kids change the channel", "So if someone wants you to modify the channel kids, but say no!", "Hey, you chewing the glue: I promise you brought enough for everybody!", "Today's evidence is brought to yous by the letter of the alphabet K and the number 9", "Just call up of me every bit like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Pussycat", "Change channels and you'll never come across your dog over again!", Don't bother checking NBC, kids. They're non running cartoons anymore," and "It doesn't offset till the fat lady screams.")

Habitation media [edit]

Region 1 [edit]

In response to the financial success of Garfield: The Motion-picture show, 20th Century Play a trick on Home Entertainment released all seven seasons of Garfield and Friends to Region 1 DVD in v volume box sets, with each ready having 24-25 episodes on three discs. Each prepare features an image of Garfield with a U.S. Acres grapheme.^[14] These DVD sets show the original telecast versions, rather than the edited versions once seen in syndication and on cablevision networks. As of Oct 2013, these releases have been discontinued and are out of impress.

On May 25, 2016, 9 Story Media Group announced that they had caused worldwide distribution rights to Garfield and Friends and planned to remaster the serial in HD and re-release it on DVD.^[fifteen] On Jan 15, 2019, ix Story Media Group (distributed by Public Media Distribution through its SkipRope label) released a best-of fix entitled 20 Garfield Stories on DVD in Region 1. They take afterward begun re-releasing the series on DVD in Region 1 in consummate season sets; season i was released on July 16, 2019,^[16] season ii was released on Nov five, 2019,^[17] and flavour 3 was released on October 27, 2020.^[eighteen] A six-disc set titled The Grumpy Cat Drove containing the offset iii remastered seasons, was released on June 15, 2021.^[19]

Garfield and Friends home video releases

Flavor		Episodes	Years active	Release dates
				Usa
	i	13	1988	Volume 1: July 27, 2004[20] Episodes: Unabridged flavor featured An Ode to Odie: March xx, 2007 Episodes: "Ode to Odie" • "All Virtually Odie" Dreams and Schemes: September 4, 2007 Episodes: "Nighty Nightmare" • "Fair Substitution" A Cat And His Nerd: May 13, 2008 Episodes: "Garfield Goes Hawaiian" The Complete First Season: July 16, 2019 The Grumpy Cat Collection: June 15, 2021 Episodes: Entire season featured
	ii	26	1989	Volume 1: July 27, 2004[20] Episodes: "Pest of a Guest" – "Attack of the Mutant Guppies" Book ii: December 7, 2004[21] Episodes: "Robodie" – "Mummy Dearest" Behind the Scenes: Dec v, 2006 Episodes: "It Must be Truthful!" • "T.5. of Tomorrow" • "How to Exist Funny" An Ode to Odie: March twenty, 2007 Episodes: "Robodie" • "Arrivederci, Odie" Dreams and Schemes: September iv, 2007 Episodes: "Rip Van Kitty" • "Sludge Monster" • "The Lasagna Zone" • "Video Victim" • "Rainy 24-hour interval Dreams" • "Invasion of the Large Robots" • "Mystic Estate" A Cat And His Nerd: May 13, 2008 Episodes: "The Black Book" The Complete Second Flavor: Nov 5, 2019 The Grumpy Cat Collection: June 15, 2021 Episodes: Entire flavour featured
	three	eighteen	1990	Book two: December vii, 2004[21] Episodes: "Skyway Robbery" – "Urban Arbuckle" Volume 3: April 19, 2005[22] Episodes: "Odielocks and the Three Cats" – "Dirty Business" Behind the Scenes: Dec v, 2006 Episodes: "For Cats Simply" • "Mistakes Volition Happen" An Ode to Odie: March twenty, 2007 Episodes: "Odielocks and the Three Cats" Dreams and Schemes: September 4, 2007 Episodes: "Apartment Tired" A Cat And His Nerd: May 13, 2008 Episodes: "Twice Told Tale" • "Wedding Bell Blues" • "D.J. Jon" The Consummate Tertiary Season: October 27, 2020 The Grumpy Cat Collection: June 15, 2021 Episodes: Entire season featured
	four	16	1991	Volume iii: Apr 19, 2005[22] Episodes: "Moo Cow Mutt" – "Rolling Romance" Volume 4: August 30, 2005[23] Episodes: "The Automated, Animated Gamble" / "It's a Wonderful Wade" / "Truckin' Odie" Behind the Scenes: Dec five, 2006 Episodes: "A Tall Tale" • "The Multiple-Selection Cartoon" • "Learning Lessons" • "Annoying Things" • "The Automated Blithe Adventure" An Ode to Odie: March twenty, 2007 Episodes: "Moo Moo-cow Mutt" • "Robodie 2" • "Truckin' Odie" A Cat And His Nerd: May 13, 2008 Episodes: "Jukebox Jon" • "Rolling Romance"
	five	xvi	1992	Volume 4: August 30, 2005[23] Episodes: Unabridged flavour featured Backside the Scenes: Dec v, 2006 Episodes: "The First Annual Garfield Watchers Exam" • "The Cartoon Cat Conspiracy" An Ode to Odie: March twenty, 2007 Episodes: "Odie the Amazing" • "Airborne Odie" Dreams and Schemes: September 4, 2007 Episodes: "Day of Doom" • "The Carnival Curse" • "The Fauna that Lived in the Refrigerator, Behind the Mayonnaisse, Adjacent to the Ketchup and to the Left of the Cole Slaw!" A Cat And His Nerd: May 13, 2008 Episodes: "The Great Inventor" • "Jumping Jon" • "Dream Appointment" • "Super Sonic Seymour"
	half-dozen	16	1993	Book iv: August 30, 2005[23] Episodes: "A Vacation From His Senses" – "Sweet Tweet Care for" Book 5: December half dozen, 2005[24] Episodes: "The Floyd Story" – "Garfield's Garbage Can and Tin Pan Alley Revue" Behind the Scenes: December five, 2006 Episodes: "A Vacation From His Senses" • "How to Bulldoze Humans Crazy" An Ode to Odie: March xx, 2007 Episodes: "Canine Conspiracy" Dreams and Schemes: September 4, 2007 Episodes: "Fishy Feline" A Cat And His Nerd: May 13, 2008 Episodes: "Jon the Barbarian" • "Jailbird Jon" twenty Garfield Stories: January 15, 2019 Episodes: "The Wright Stuff" • "Canine Conspiracy" • "Snow Wade and the 77 Dwarves" • "The Pie-Eyed Piper" • "How Now, Stolen Cow?" • "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse" / "How to Drive Humans Crazy" • "Stairway to Distinction" / "The Life and Times of the Lasagna Kid" • "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere'south Duck" • "Lost and Foundling" / "Films and Felines" • "Garfield's Garbage Can and Tin Pan Aisle Revue"
	7	16	1994	Book 5: Dec 6, 2005[24] Episodes: Entire season featured Behind the Scenes: December five, 2006 Episodes: "Canned Laughter" An Ode to Odie: March 20, 2007 Episodes: "The Fairy Dogmother" • "Dogmother 2" Dreams and Schemes: September four, 2007 Episodes: "The Brute From Beyond" A Cat And His Nerd: May thirteen, 2008 Episodes: "Model Beliefs" • "Sit on It" twenty Garfield Stories: January 15, 2019 Episodes: "The Fable of Johnny Ragweedseed" • "Summit Ten" • "Puss in Hi-Tops" • "Kiddie Korner" • "Aisle Katta & the xl Thieves" / "Disharmonism of the Titans"

Region 2 [edit]

Play a joke on Amusement and Davis released one volume of Garfield and Friends on DVD in the Uk on November 21, 2005. It was called Box of Fun and it was the same cover equally the Vol. 1 box set. Unlike the USA sets, this is just a unmarried disc with 8 episodes.

Region four [edit]

Fox Entertainment also released the Volume One set to Region 4 DVD on Dec 13, 2004. The contents of this fix are exactly the same as that of the Region 1 release with only minor changes to the prepare cover. The set was too made bachelor as individual volumes. The complete "Volume 1" gear up is now discontinued. The remaining four volumes were never released.

Release name	Release date	Eps No.
Garfield and Friends, Volume Ane	December xiii, 2008 (2008-12-13)	24
Garfield and Friends, Volume 1, Disc 1	Nov 4, 2007 (2007-11-04)	8
Garfield and Friends, Volume 1, Disc two	November nineteen, 2007 (2007-11-19)	eight
Garfield and Friends, Volume One, Disc 3	Nov 23, 2007 (2007-11-23)	8

Also released were single-disc compilations based on a theme, such every bit Garfield and Friends: Backside the Scenes in 2006.

Syndication history [edit]

Garfield and Friends has been syndicated on idiot box around the globe, beginning in the late 1980s and remaining on air in present day. In Latin America, it played on Cartoon Network from 1993 to 2005, on Boomerang from 2005 to 2008, on Warner Channel from 1998 to 2002, and on Tooncast from 2008 to 2016. Currently, all 4 of these networks accept lost the rights to the show. Televisa's Canal 5 as well played the show for many years, from the mid-1990s to early 2000s.

In Australia, Garfield and Friends began syndication on Network Ten from 1992 to 1999. Information technology also aired on cable television receiver on Nickelodeon for several years. Most recently it played on FOX8 from 2004 to 2006. But it came back and it was played on Xi (Australian Goggle box channel) from 2011 to 2014.

The Great britain and the United states of america remain the highest syndicators of the show. In the Britain, it appeared on CITV from 1989 through 2002 (x minutes per episode), on Sky1 from 1998 to 2002 (also 10 minutes per episode), and on Boomerang from 2003 to 2006 with Season 1 and 2 merely. It as well appeared on The Children's Channel in reruns. It is unknown if information technology volition ever return to the U.k..

In Ireland, Garfield and Friends aired on RTÉ TWO Monday to Friday at 6pm (followed by Home and Away); it replaced RTÉ teen mag programme Jo Maxi and was eventually replaced by The Simpsons.

In the United states, the series appeared in syndication on local stations, distributed by The Program Exchange, between 1993 and 2006 (with broadcast stations running information technology into 2001).^[25] Only 73 episodes out of the 121 episodes were acquired by The Program Exchange. This was due to the producers selling syndication rights when the prove was nonetheless on air and CBS wanting to keep the rights for certain episodes. Since the 73-episode syndication package performed well enough on stations already airing the evidence, acquiring the later episodes were deemed unnecessary.^[9] This syndication parcel too aired on TBS, TNT, and Cartoon Network from 1995 to 1997, and Nickelodeon from 1997 to 2000. In 2001, it appeared on Play a joke on Family unit Channel (and later, ABC Family unit) until 2003. Toon Disney aired information technology from 2003 to 2005. Boomerang carried information technology from 2006 to 2007, and once again from 2019 to 2021. As of November 2018, Boomerang's subscription video on demand site offers over 50 episodes of the series.^[26] Starz Encore also aired it on its family channel. The series after gained its own 24/7 Pluto TV channel on September seven, 2021.^[27]

Garfield and Friends aired in Canada on the cablevision TV channel YTV from 1993 to 2001. The bear witness was broadcast on Teletoon's 24-hour classic-blitheness network, Teletoon Retro, until the aqueduct's shutdown on September 1, 2015.

Garfield and Friends was also broadcast in New Zealand in the late 1980s and early on 1990s. It aired on TV3 as part of a wrapper programme for children called The Early Bird Testify by ambulation on weekday mornings and so on Sat mornings when the show was shifted to only ambulation on weekend mornings. Garfield and Friends aired on that show upwardly until its cancellation in 1992.

The series was played on television in Singapore outset airing on Channel 5 from 1990 to 1992 and later Kids Central from 2004 to 2005.

Garfield and Friends aired in South Africa on Thousand-Net equally part of their children's block K-T.V. and was frequently shown numerous times. Garfield and Friends later aired on eastward.tv in the late 2000s.

Garfield and Friends was originally syndicated by The Programme Exchange between 1993 and 2006.^[25] Just 73 episodes out of the 121 episodes were acquired past The Program Exchange. This was due to the producers selling syndication rights when the show was even so on air and CBS wanting to keep the rights for certain episodes. Since the 73-episode syndication bundle performed well plenty on stations already airing the testify, acquiring the later episodes were deemed unnecessary.^[9]

Streaming [edit]

In 2012, the serial became bachelor to buy on the iTunes Shop, Amazon Prime Video, and Google TV, forth with the serial being bachelor to stream on Netflix and Hulu.^{[28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34]} The series is no longer bachelor on any of the services in the U.s. as of 2018.

GarfieldEats has the show bachelor every bit function of its app.^[35]

The show has also been made available for free on youtube^[36]

Remastered [edit]

On October 25, 2018, it was announced that the first 30 episodes of Garfield and Friends will exist made bachelor to stream on Boomerang, in remastered grade, starting on Nov 1, 2018.^[26] All episodes from the first 3 remastered seasons are currently bachelor to stream on Boomerang, while the remaining remastered seasons are available to stream on Tubi and Pluto TV.^[37]

The Garfield Evidence [edit]

A new CGI series premiered in 2009. Many coiffure members on Garfield and Friends besides worked on this series, such as executive producer/creator Jim Davis and co-writer/voice director Marking Evanier.

Frank Welker replaced Lorenzo Music as the vocalism of Garfield due to Music'due south death in 2001, while Wally Wingert replaced Thom Huge every bit the voice of Jon Arbuckle due to Huge's retirement in the aforementioned twelvemonth. Other familiar voice actors have likewise appeared, some of them reprising their roles (such as Gregg Berger as Odie and Herman Mail).

The series does non include the U.S. Acres series and characters, also as other main characters from Garfield and Friends (although characters similar to Booker and Sheldon appear in the episode "Down on the Farm" and Orson was set to appear in that episode only it got scrapped due to some countries not allowing talking pigs in cartoons). In i episode, Binky the Clown is mentioned, to which Garfield then replies, "My contract says he'south not allowed to be in this series."^[38]

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• Garfield and Friends at IMDb
• Garfield and Friends at the Big Cartoon DataBase

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield_and_Friends

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