History HilariousInHindsight / GarfieldAndFriends

* Probably the most famous of these is a line in the opening that was swiftly (ab)used in YouTubePoop (After which, Wade then says "I'm scared!", as if he knew):
---> [[VideoGame/HotelMario "I hope you made lots of spaghetti!"]][[labelnote:*]]parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ_-RH3iBL4 this YouTube Poop]].[[/labelnote]]

* Probably the most famous of these is a line in the opening that was swiftly (ab)used in WebAnimation/YouTubePoop (After which, Wade then says "I'm scared!", as if he knew):

* Reruns of the show aired on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the late '90s. In 2019, Nick's parent company Creator/{{Viacom}} acquired the rights to ''Garfield'' and ''U.S. Acres'' and have announced a new ''Garfield'' series for Nick is on the way.

* In "Binky Gets Cancelled Again!", Bobby Buddy Bear wants anchovies and pineapple on his pizza, which his brothers [[StockYuck react in disgust at]] as the three argue over pizza toppings. In the 2010s, [[PineappleRuinsPizza pineapples have displaced anchovies as the most disgusting pizza topping]] (though mostly because pineapples are more commonly used as pizza toppings than anchovies).

* In "Binky Gets Cancelled Again!", Bobby Buddy Bear wants anchovies and pineapple on his pizza, which his brothers [[StockYuck react in disgust at]] as the three argue over pizza toppings. In the 2010s, [[PineappleRuinsPizza pineapples have displaced anchovies as the most disgusting pizza topping]] (though mostly because pineapples are more common than anchovies).

* In "Binky Gets Cancelled Again!", Bobby Buddy Bear wants anchovies and pineapple on his pizza, which his brothers [[StockYuck react in disgust at]] as the three argue over pizza toppings. In the 2010s, [[PineappleRuinsPizza pineapples have displaced anchovies as the most disgusting pizza topping]].

* In "Binky Gets Cancelled Again!", Bobby Buddy Bear wants anchovies and pineapple on his pizza, which his brothers [[StockYuck react in disgust at]] as the three argue over pizza toppings. In the 2010s, pineapples have displaced anchovies as the most disgusting pizza topping.

* In "Binky Gets Cancelled Again!", Bobby Buddy Bear wants anchovies and pineapple on his pizza, which his brothers [[StockYuck react in disgust at]] as the three argue over pizza toppings. In the 2010s, pineapples have displaced anchovies as the most disgusting pizza topping.

* In "Binky Gets Cancelled Again!", Bobby Buddy Bear wants anchovies and pineapple on his pizza, which his brothers [[StockYuck react in disgust at]] as the three argue over pizza toppings. In the 2010s, pineapples have displaced anchovies as the most disgusting pizza topping

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-smipwQlZiQ This Cartoon Network Latin America ad]] for the show, depicting Garfield destroying his house after eating everything inside [[spoiler:(including Odie and Jon)]] brings to mind the memes portraying Garfield as an endlessly hungry EldritchAbomination that would come into vogue starting in the mid-2010s.

* In "Mini-Mall Matters", Garfield says that every mini-mall involves a video rental store. This business would soon die out in favor of [=DVDs=] and online streaming, making the episode humorously dated.

** Double funny since the line [[TakeThat was clearly meant as a jab]] at ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers.'', and Garfield's voice actor is now none other than [[Creator/FrankWelker Frank Welker]], [[BigBad Megatron]] himself!

** Double funny since the line [[TakeThat was meant as a jab]] at ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers.'', and Garfield's voice actor is now none other than [[Creator/FrankWelker]], Megatron himself!

* Another meta example: In the episode 'Nighty-Nightmare' (among others), Jon orders food for himself, only to find Garfield inside the box, having already eaten it all. Years later, Lorenzo Music would be the first voice of Peter Venkman on WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters, and often suffer this same indignity at the appetite of Slimer.

* In "Mini-Mall Matters", Garfield says that every mini-mall involves a video rental store. This business would soon die out in favor of DVDs and online streaming, making the episode humorously dated.

* In "Moo Cow Mutt", Garfield pranks Odie into thinking he's a cow. In August 2nd 2020, [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2020/08/02 a sunday strip]] shows Garfield as a cowboy writing his name with a lasso. Odie is seen nearby with bull horns.

* "The Tortoise and the Hare" features Orson teaching Booker and Sheldon how to use a computer, which was new at the time of the show’s airing. [[TechnologyMarchesOn Nowadays, most kids are computer experts]]

* "The Tortoise and the Hare" features Orson teaching Booker and Sheldon how to use a computer, which was new at the time of the show’s airing. {{TechnologyMarchesOn Nowadays, most kids are computer experts}}.

* In "The Automated Animated Adventure", when Garfield is inside the cartoon computer, at one point he is morphed into the likeness of [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]]. The following year after this episode was made, Creator/FilmRoman (the production company behind ''Garfield and Friends'') took over domestic production of ''The Simpsons'' (from Creator/KlaskyCsupo) up until 2016, when production moved to FOX Television Animation.

* Many episodes make jabs at Saturday morning cartoons becoming a dying medium because of ExecutiveMeddling. Since the late 2010s, Saturday morning cartoons have been slowly coming back to television.

* Meta example: In "Garfield Goes Hawaiian", Creator/FrankWelker voices a parrot who does an impersonation of Garfield. Many years later, Welker would become Garfield's voice actor.

* "National Tapioca Pudding Day" has Roy make up a holiday in order to play a prank. Since the cartoon's airing, it has become common practice for "holidays" to be observed for random things, from food to activities. In 2020, National Tapioca Pudding Day is June 28th.

* One ''U.S. Acres'' segment [[WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore that spoofed]] ''Franchise/StarTrek'' was called "Swine Trek". The name of the segment was the same as the name of the spaceship in "Pigs In Space", ''Series/TheMuppetShow'''s take on ''Star Trek'' that had premiered 13 years earlier.

* Although both games came out around the same time, "Garfield's Defense" and [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disney World]]'s interactive card game, [[TabletopGame/SorcerersOfTheMagicKingdom Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom]] have some amusing similarities. In "Snow Wade and the 77 Dwarves", Snow Wade's dress, [[HairDecoration red bow]] and black hair was similar to the Disney version. In "Garfield's Defense" the ComicStrip/USAcres characters help Garfield fight the enemies. Wade's weapon to fight off the enemies is a broom. In "Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom", Snow White has a spell card to attack the enemies, "Snow White’s Housecleaning". What weapon is she holding/using? A broom.

* The ending of Wanted: Wade involves [[spoiler: Booker and Sheldon playing a prank related to the main problem in the episode, which was Wade fearing he would be put in jail.]] 5 years later, the Animaniacs segment "De-Zanitized" has this exact same ending where [[spoiler: the Warner siblings were playing the prank, and the problem was that Dr. Scratchnsniff wanted to see a de-zychatrist in order to stop his problems with the Warners.]]

* One ''U.S. Acres'' segment [[WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore that spoofed]] ''Franchise/StarTrek'' was called "Swine Trek". The name of the segment was the same as the name of the spaceship in "Pigs In Space", ''Series/TheMuppetShow'''s take on ''Star Trek'' that had premiered 13 years earlier,