History Trivia / Garfield

** For some reason, May 2-5, 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).

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Garfield is really DeadAllAlong. This legend stems from EpilepticTrees caused by 1989 strips where Garfield has a [[AllJustADream dream]] where he's in an abandoned house.

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Garfield is really DeadAllAlong. This legend stems from EpilepticTrees caused by 1989 strips where Garfield has [[AllJustADream dream]] where he's in an abandoned house.

** Strangely, Huge (rhymes with "loogie") has literally [[OneBookAuthor no other credits.]] [[http://www.povonline.com/cols/COL191.htm According to Mark Evanier]], Thom Huge was one of Jim Davis' associates at Paws, Inc.

** For that matter, Paws Inc. [[DisownedAdaptation doesn't mention the film much either]]. The only extensive mention of it was in a book, “Lights, Camera, Hairballs: Garfield at the Movies” which was mainly made as promotion for the sequel. Besides that, they’ve ignored the movies in the years since. What complicates things more is that now Paws Inc. is owned by Paramount Global (formerly [=ViacomCBS=]), the movie is now in the hands of a different studio entirely (originally produced by 20th Century Fox), which is now under ownership of Disney.

** [[https://twitter.com/GarfieldFanArt/status/1284614195632168965?s=20 The sequel]] would have been a CrossOver with ''ComicStrip/USAcres'', but never came to be, likely due to the failing health of Howard Morris, voice of Wade Duck.

** When [[WMG/PoisonOakEpilepticTrees a particularly dark fan theory]] about the infamous 1989 Halloween strips -- which posited that Garfield was still in a BadFuture where he was left by himself in [[OldDarkHouse a completely abandoned neighborhood]], and that his vision of him reuniting with Jon and Odie at the end was his DyingDream as he slowly starves to death -- Jim Davis laughed the theory off and explained that Garfield's nightmarish vision was indeed AllJustADream.

* WordOfGod: When [[WMG/PoisonOakEpilepticTrees a particularly dark fan theory]] about the infamous 1989 Halloween strips -- which posited that Garfield was still in a BadFuture where he was left by himself in [[OldDarkHouse a completely abandoned neighborhood]], and that his vision of him reuniting with Jon and Odie at the end was his DyingDream as he slowly starves to death -- Jim Davis laughed the theory off and explained that Garfield's nightmarish vision was indeed AllJustADream.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Odie was originally going to be called Spot.
** This is somewhat alluded to in a strip where Garfield ripped off Odie's spot and put it on his belly. When Jon attempts to scold him and Odie chases him for his spot back, Garfield states, "Call me Spot!"
** Jim Davis did an early version of Garfield called ''Jon'' from 1976 to 1978, named after main character Jon Arbuckle; in this work, Garfield was more of a secondary character, and Odie was indeed called "Spot". More information about it exists on [[https://lostmediawiki.com/Jon_(partially_found_prototype_%22Garfield%22_comic_strip;_1976-1978) the Lost Media Wiki]].

** Like Jim, Jon grew up on a farm and later moved to the city. Davis has also said that he's based some of Jon's dating disasters on some of his own dating experiences.

** In the 1991 holiday season, [=McDonald's=] released a set of three plush toys; two of Garfiled, and one of Odie.

* EditedForSyndication: The October 20, 2002 strip [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2799 originally]] quoted Creator/RobertFrost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay", but replaced it with [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2002/10/20 original dialogue]] for the book and online reprints due to the poem still being under copyright at the time (the copyright has since lapsed in the United States and in countries where copyright expires 50 years after the author's death).

** Creator/BreckinMeyer's [[https://twitter.com/breckinmeyer Twitter bio]]: ''Um...sorry about that whole Garfield thing.'' He's also repeatedly taken shots at himself for it on ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''.
** For that matter, Paws Inc. [[DisownedAdaptation doesn't mention the film much either]]. The only extensive mention of it was in a book, “Lights, Camera, Hairballs: Garfield at the Movies” which was mainly made as promotion for the sequel. Besides that, they’ve ignored the movies in the years since. What complicates things more is that now Paws Inc. is owned by Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS), the movie is now in the hands of a different studio entirely (originally produced by 20th Century Fox), which is now under ownership of Disney.

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: Garfield [[DoesNotLikeSpam hating raisins]] is because Jim Davis does so, but given raisins are poisonous to cats, he has a reason to avoid them.

* MoneyDearBoy: Jim Davis made no secret of the fact that he created the strip to make money. He chose a cat as the subject because he felt it was a widely relatable topic. These days, he works more with the ''Garfield'' merchandise while only writing and thumb nailing the comics.

* ImageSource:
** AerosolSprayBackfire
** ArtEvolution
** AteTheSpoon
** BizarreTasteInFood
** BlindShoulderToss
** BulletSeed
** BugBuzz
** CatsAreLazy
** CatsAreMean
** CatsAreSuperior
** ChristmasLightChaos
** CirclingSaw
** CutASliceTakeTheRest
** DelusionsOfDoghood
** DoesNotLikeSpam
** DogsAreDumb
** DrearyHalfLiddedEyes (bottom left)
** [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness/ComicStrips Early Installment Weirdness]]
** EarWorm
** ElderlyFutureFantasy
** ExactWords
** FlushingToiletScreamingShower
** ForceFeeding
** FreeWheel
** FrightInducedBunkmate
** FunnySpoon
** GiftShake
** HatingOnMonday
** HumanSnowman
** [[HypocriticalHumor/ComicStrips Hypocritical Humor]]
** IAmBigBoned
** IllogicalSafe
** IResembleThatRemark
** IsTheAnswerToThisQuestionYes
** IWasHavingSuchANiceDream
** JustKeepDriving
** LazyBum
** LegoBodyParts
** MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness
** MistakenForClown
** MistakenIdentity
** NewYearsKiss
** NoFourthWall
** NotUsedToFreedom
** OverlyLongScream
** OverlyLongTongue
** OverlyNervousFlopSweat
** PaperBagPopping
** ThePictureCameWithTheFrame
** PreppyName
** PrimalChestPound
** PyrrhicVictory
** RecycledScript
** RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear
** RidiculouslyLoudCommercial
** RingRingCrunch
** ScreamingAtSquick
** SodaCanShakeup
** SphereEyes
** StaticElectricity
** StealthPun
** SuddenEyeColour (left half)
** ThisIsMyChair
** TrappedTheWrongTarget
** UnscrewedSaltShaker
** YouAreFat
** YouDidntSeeThat

* QuoteSource:
** BadHairDay
** BananaPeel
** DietEpisode
** DoorSlamOfRage
** FoodAndAnimalAttraction
** GrowlingGut
** HomemadeSweaterFromHell
** JawDrop
** PolkaDork
** RuleOfPerception
** ThisJustIn

** For that matter, Paws Inc. [[DisownedAdaptation doesn't mention the film much either]]. The only extensive mention of it was in a book, “Lights, Camera, Hairballs: Garfield at the Movies” which was mainly made as promotion for the sequel. Besides that, they’ve ignored the movies in the years since. What complicates things more is that now Paws Inc. is owned by ViacomCBS, the movie is now in the hands of a different studio entirely (originally produced by 20th Century Fox), which is now under ownership of Disney.

** Breckin Meyer's [[https://twitter.com/breckinmeyer Twitter bio]]: ''Um...sorry about that whole Garfield thing.'' He's also repeatedly taken shots at himself for it on ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''.
** For that matter, Paws Inc. [[DisownedAdaptation doesn’t mention the film much either]]. The only extensive mention of it was in a book, “Lights, Camera, Hairballs: Garfield at the Movies” which was mainly made as promotion for the sequel. Besides that, they’ve ignored the movies in the years since. What complicates things more is that now Paws Inc. is owned by ViacomCBS, the movie is now in the hands of a different studio entirely (originally produced by 20th Century Fox), which is now under ownership of Disney.

* FanNickname: Dark Deity Garfield, Deep God Garfield Garf-Sothoth, Gorefield, Garfthulhu, [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Calamity Garfield]], [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos etc.]] for the EldritchAbomination version of Garfield that tends to appear online.

* DevelopmentGag: The August 15, 1978 strip had Garfield remarking that Odie should have been named Spot. Odie's original name was Spot, and Jim Davis changed it when he found out that name was taken already.

** Sandy Kenyon voiced Jon Arbuckle in ''Here Comes Garfield'', but all other traditionally animated ''Garfield'' specials, including ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', used Thom Huge as Jon's voice actor. Then Breckin Meyer played him in the [[LiveActionAdaptation live-action movies]] ''Garfield'' and ''Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties''. After that, ''Garfield Gets Real'', ''Garfield's Fun Fest'', ''Garfield's Pet Force'' and ''The Garfield Show'' utilized Creator/WallyWingert's voice for Jon.

** CatsAreLazy