History Trivia / Garfield

** In the very first animation, a nameless short film from 1980 that was just animated versions of [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1978/06/21/ these]][[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1979/07/02/ three]] [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1978/08/02/ strips]], Garfield was voiced by Scott Beach. Starting with ''Here Comes Garfield'', Lorenzo Music was his voice actor for all the animated adaptations. After he died, Garfield has been voiced by several other voice actors, most notably BillMurray in TheMovie (which is either a CastingGag or a coincidence, considering who played Peter Venkman in both ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'' and [[TheRealGhostbusters its cartoon show]]). FrankWelker is his most recent replacement..

* MissingEpisode: For some reason, [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1990/05/02/ May 2]], [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1990/05/03/ May 3]], [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1990/05/04/ May 4]] and [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1990/05/05/ May 5]], 1990 never made it into ''Garfield Takes Up Space'', and the next book (''Garfield Says a Mouthful'') starts with the May 6. This is true of the "Fat Cat 3-Pack" reprints of those books, but they finally return in the colorized "square" reprint of ''Takes Up Space'' (they're also available on garfield.com).

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The sequel was the highest-grossing animated film ever in China, beating out ''Disney/TheLionKing''. Seriously.

* Take [[http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7833/91/1600/ga060820.gif August 20, 2006]], replace the box of packaging pellets with a pile of leaves, and you've got [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2010/ga101114.gif November 14, 2010]].

* RecycledScript: Some gags have been repeated in the strip's 30+ year history.

** [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1985/ga850816.gif August 16, 1985]] (a daily strip) was recycled into [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1998/ga980719.gif July 19, 1998]] (a Sunday strip), with a secondary punchline added. It was also used as a ''ComicStrip/{{US Acres}}'' strip [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople2/hamsitup23.JPG here]].

*** The RemixComic makers of SquareRootOfMinusGarfield [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=498 didn't let that one go unnoticed]].

* OldShame: BillMurray said in ''{{Zombieland}}'' that he regrets being in the first movie.

** In the very first animation, a nameless short film from 1980 that was just animated versions of [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1978/06/21/ these]][[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1979/07/02/ three]] [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1978/08/02/ strips]], Garfield was voiced by Scott Beach. Starting with ''Here Comes Garfield'', Lorenzo Music was his voice actor for all the animated adaptations. After he died, Garfield has been voiced by several other voice actors, most notably BillMurray in TheMovie (which is either a CastingGag or a coincidence, considering who played Peter Venkman in both ''{{Ghostbusters}}'' and [[TheRealGhostbusters its cartoon show]]). FrankWelker is his most recent replacement..

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The sequel was the highest-grossing animated film ever in China, beating out ''TheLionKing.'' Seriously.

** [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2011/ga110906.gif September 6, 2011]] was initially recycled into [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/comics/1120_1.png April 18, 2012,]] however that strip was soon replaced by [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2012/ga120418.gif this.]]

* [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2011/ga110906.gif September 6, 2011]] was initially recycled into [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/comics/1120_1.png April 18, 2012,]] however that strip was soon replaced by [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2012/ga120418.gif this.]]

** [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2012/ga120418.gif April 18, 2012]] is the exact same as [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2011/ga110906.gif September 6, 2011.]]

** A AnimatedAdaptation example: The ''GarfieldAndFriends'' episode ''The Legend Of The Lake'' has a throwaway gag where Garfield says "This is a statue honoring Buttons, who set the world record for horse swallowing when he swallowed one horse. Tied for second place is everybody else in the entire world." Decades later, in the ''TheGarfieldShow'' episode ''Up A Tree'', a KentBrockmanNews reporter makes the exact same joke, but with "hippopotamus biting" instead of "horse swallowing".

** In the very first animation, a nameless short film from 1980 that was just animated versions of [http://garfield.nfshost.com/1978/06/21/ these]][ [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1979/07/02/ three]] [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1978/08/02/ strips]], Garfield was voiced by Scott Beach. Starting with ''Here Comes Garfield'', Lorenzo Music was his voice actor for all the animated adaptations. After he died, Garfield has been voiced by several other voice actors, most notably BillMurray in TheMovie (which is either a CastingGag or a coincidence, considering who played Peter Venkman in both ''{{Ghostbusters}}'' and [[TheRealGhostbusters its cartoon show]]). FrankWelker is his most recent replacement..

** In an early cat food ad, Garfield was voiced by Scott Beach. Starting with ''Here Comes Garfield'', Lorenzo Music was his voice actor for all the animated adaptations. After he died, Garfield has been voiced by several other voice actors, most notably BillMurray in TheMovie (which is either a CastingGag or a coincidence, considering who played Peter Venkman in both ''{{Ghostbusters}}'' and [[TheRealGhostbusters its cartoon show]]). FrankWelker is his most recent replacement..

** In an early cat food ad, Garfield was voiced by Scott Beach. Starting with ''Here Comes Garfield'', Lorenzo Music was his voice actor for all the animated adaptations. After he died, Garfield has been voiced by several other voice actors, most notably BillMurray in TheMovie (which is either a CastingGag or a coincidence, considering who played Peter Venkman in both ''{{Ghostbusters}}'' and [[TheRealGhostbusters its cartoon show]]). FrankWelker is his most recent replacement.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: There was a short run of ''Believe it, or don't'' gags... until PAWS Inc. got a cease-and-desist letter from the Robert Ripley estate.

* NeverLiveItDown: They only did the "we're '''bachelors''', baby" punchline 8 times in all, but the way fans react to it, you'd think it were every other punchline in the past 5 years.
* OldShame: BillMurray said in ''{{Zombieland}}'' that he regrets being in the first movie.

* OldShame: BillMurray said in ''{{Zombieland}}'' that he regrets being in the first movie.