History WesternAnimation / GarfieldAndFriends

While the show was very successful for all of its seven season run, it was cancelled after the last episode was compeleted due to CBS choosing to scale back its Saturday morning block (the only indication of the series finale was in one of the Garfield quips at the start of the show [[note]]'''Garfield''': After 7 seasons, we've pretty much said anything you can say at this spot.[[/note]]). After the show ended production, it also ran in reruns in the United States on Cartoon Network (with the U.S. Acres segments cut out and more Garfield segments added) and later Toon Disney before disappearing from television entirely. The show was released to DVD in its entirety in the mid 2000s, though the sets have now gone out of print. More recently another media company named Creator/NineStoryMediaGroup licensed both ''Garfield and Friends'' and the specials and began re-releasing them in 2018 using an "HD" remaster... for a budget DVD release (and international broadcasts) which cropped the image to fit modern 16:9 televisions, along with the opening having to be completely redone in Flash due to the footage having been lost. Boomerang (which holds exclusive US rights to this show as of 2021) streamed 60 of these remastered episodes, while Tubi has remastered episodes beginning with season four (the Garfield Specials are included as "season 8"). Most recently, Creator/PlutoTV -- owned by Creator/ViacomCBS, which acquired the ''Garfield'' and ''U.S. Acres'' [=IPs=] some time ago -- has launched a 24/7 channel devoted to the show, albeit using the HD prints (and half of the seasons cut due to the first three seasons still being at Boomerang)

** Lampshaded in the song from "Nothing To Be Afraid Of".
--> "I'm afraid of everything! Wait, stop the music! I can't even sing!"

!!!The entirer series contains examples of:

** "The Feline Felon" starts with Garfield watching a crime show where the announcer states they're pursuing a particularly vile criminal. Garfield remarks that the criminal in question is the guy who [[{{Bowdlerize}} edits movies for television]].

!!This series contains examples of:

!!The ''Garfield'' segments contain examples of:

!!The ''U.S. Acres'' segments contain examples of:

** "Thoroughly Mixed Up Mouse" isn't the first time Arnold Stang [[WesternAnimation/HermanAndKatnip played a brown mouse trying to outwit a reddish cat.]]

The show was previously available on multiple streaming services in its original SD version, though not all of them stream every episode. Currently the Creator/{{Boomerang}} app are the only services with every episode.

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* ContrivedCoincidence: PlayedForLaughs in "Fortune Kooky." Roy makes up fake fortune cookie predictions to scam Wade out of a picnic lunch, then reads a cookie of his own: "You will lose all your feathers during a total eclipse on Arbor Day while while listening to the Marine Corps Band play 'Home on the Range' and watching a badminton match between two guys named Ichabod." He laughs this off...and then an eclipse begins, he realizes it's Arbor Day, Booker enters with a cassette player blasting "Home on the Range" by the Marine Corps Band, and Sheldon invites him to watch his friends Ichabod and Ichabod play badminton. And this all happens in ''thirty seconds.'' Needless to say, Roy ends up without any feathers.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: In "The Legal Eagle", had Orson or Roy [[spoiler:bothered to check in the old "Farm Laws" book, to see if the laws were still valid (which they no longer were), everybody wouldn't have ended up in jail, waiting for someone to help them out of the cage. Especially, Orson should've checked since he knew that book was really old]]. They acknowledged that fact at the end.

* UnconventionalFoodOrder: Zig-zagged in a "U.S. Acres" segment. Orsen opens up a restaurant and claims he can fill any order, or it's free. Roy tries to put this to the test, requesting one outlandish concoction after another, only for Orsen to dish it up. Roy finally requests an elephant sandwich with mustard. As luck would have it, an elephant does show up on the farm, but Orsen can't bring himself to turn him into a sandwich. He tells Roy his order is free, and Roy guesses he didn't have an elephant to serve. The elephant then trumpets from his trunk, and Orsen smugly says that he has elephant...he just ran out of mustard.

* UnconventionalFoodOrder: Zig-zagged in a "U.S. Acres" segment. Orsen opens up a restaurant and claims he can fill any order, or it's free. Roy tries to put this to the test, requesting one outlandish concoction after another, only for Orsen to dish it up. Roy finally requests an elephant sandwich with mustard. As luck would have it, an elephant does show up on the farm, but Orsen can't bring himself to turn him into a sandwich. He tells Roy his order is free, and Roy guesses he didn't have an elephant to serve. The elephant then trumpets from his trunk, and Orsen smugly says that he has elphant...he just ran out of mustard.

** In "The Multiple Choice Cartoon", John punishes Garfield for catapulting Odie into the woods by forcing him to go retrieve Odie or else (as the audience chooses) either "A: No food for a day, B: No food for a week, or C: No food until the next time Haley's Comet cruises the galaxy". The audience chooses (like all the other answers) "C". Garfield doesn't remember his punishment too well, since while looking for Odie he wanted to give up and go back eating cheeseburgers with Pigeon Suit thinking Jon ''will'' feed him regardless.

** "Green Thumbs Down" has Jon planting a garden in an attempt to save money on groceries. [[spoiler:In the end, Jon's garden is flooded and ravaged by animals, and he has wasted all his money for nothing.]]

** "Well Fed Feline" ends with Nermal getting locked in jail.

** "Puss in Hi-Tops" ends with [[spoiler:Garfield [[ItMakesSenseInContext getting chased by a mad ogre]]]].

** "The Feline Felon" starts with Garfield watching a crime show where the announcer states they're pursuing a particularly vile criminal. Garfield remarks that the criminal in question is the guy who edits movies for television.

* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Wade" had Wade turn into a duck version of The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk and back again when he heard a bell after Roy tosses out a way for Wade to induce hypnotize himself, then Booker gives the suggestion "I will turn into a monster whenever I hear a bell." Needless to say, Wade does go into self-hypnosis with said suggestion. [[spoiler:When Orson's brothers ring that bell with Wade normal, his Hulk-Duck form comes out and mops the farm with them.]]

Each episode is in ThreeShorts [=ABA=] format. The A series is ''Garfield'', derived from the massively famous comic strip of the same name. The B series (referred to in the title sequence as "[[ProtagonistAndFriends and Friends]]") is ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' (renamed "Orson's Farm" on pre-2019 DVD releases and in international versions), based on Davis's other, less famous comic strip. Before the second and third shorts would be a "Quickie", a short cartoon derived directly from the comic strips. The first and second seasons had many songs (OnceAnEpisode during ''U.S. Acres''), but this practice was retired later.

While the show was very successful for all of its seven season run, it was cancelled after the last episode was compeleted due to CBS choosing to scale back its Saturday morning block. (the only indication of the series finale was in one of the Garfield quips at the start of the show [[note]]'''Garfield''': After 7 seasons, we've pretty much said anything you can say at this spot.[[/note]]). After the show ended production, it also ran in reruns in the United States on Cartoon Network (with the U.S. Acres segments cut out and more Garfield segments added) and later Toon Disney before disappearing from television entirely. The show was released to DVD in its entirety in the mid 2000s, though the sets have now gone out of print. More recently another media company named Creator/NineStoryMediaGroup licensed both ''Garfield and Friends'' and the specials and began re-releasing them in 2018 using an "HD" remaster... for a budget DVD release (and international broadcasts) which cropped the image to fit modern 16:9 televisions, along with the opening having to be completely redone in Flash due to the footage having been lost. Boomerang (which holds exclusive US rights to this show as of 2021) streamed 60 of these remastered episodes, while Tubi has remastered episodes beginning with season four (the Garfield Specials are included as "season 8"). Most recently, Creator/PlutoTV -- owned by Creator/ViacomCBS, which acquired the ''Garfield'' and ''U.S. Acres'' [=IPs=] some time ago -- has launched a 24/7 channel devoted to the show, albeit using the HD prints (and half of the seasons cut due to the first three seasons still being at Boomerang)

*** The Quickie based on [[http://strips.garfield.com/bwiimages1200/1990/ga901206.gif this strip]] continues with this:

*** The Quickie for [[http://strips.garfield.com/bwiimages1200/1991/ga910923.gif this strip]] has Garfield deciding, "Two". Jon then pours two spoonfuls of sugar into the cereal in Garfield's mouth and leaves.
*** The Quickie for [[http://strips.garfield.com/iimages1200/1983/ga830731.gif this strip]] keeps Jon's underwear out of frame when Jon leaves the house. Garfield [[HammerSpace pulls out a pocket watch]] and counts three seconds before Jon walks back into the house, this time with the underwear on-camera.

** At the end of "Kiddie Korner", we find out [[spoiler:that the name of "The Network" is called "[=SUUS=] The Network". If you say it out loud, it sounds like "Sue Us, The Network!", likely a TakeThat at CBS cancelling ''Garfield and Friends''.]]

* LampshadeHanging: Entire episodes of both cartoons consisted purely of this, such as Garfield's lecture "How to be Funny" (which covered the RunningGag, timing jokes, and funny costumes) and "Secrets of the Animated Cartoon" on U.S. Acres, which discussed CartoonPhysics.
* LethalChef: Jon, on more than one occasion. Once he replaced whipped cream with mayonnaise on the grounds that they were the same color. In another episode, Jon created yogurt that turns out to be a huge disaster that covers up the entire house. [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]] however, as Jon is often shown to cook delicious meals.

* MeaningfulName: Sleazy used car salesman Al G. Swindler.

** "The Garfield Rap" is a rap song about various {{Running Gags}}, such as kicking Odie off the table and his love of lasagna.

** The episode "Pros and Cons" takes it UpToEleven when Garfield turns on the TV and watches the episode he's currently in so he can see what happened in a scene he wasn't present for.

** In one episode, Roy pulls a prank on Orson, then starts fearing that he's plotting a revenge trick. His fears come true when a farm inspector called the "Rooster Ranger"--who looks exactly like Orson, only wearing a trench coat and mustache--shows up. Roy says it's a "pathetic disguise" and shoves the Rooster Ranger into a mudhole. The trope is then [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when Orson walks up and asks what's going on. Roy panics and runs off...and then the [[DoubleSubverted double subversion]] kicks in when the Ranger removes "his" outfit and reveals that it's actually ''Lanolin'' in a LatexPerfection disguise of Orson wearing a bad disguise!

* TheRashomon: Notably the "Twice Told Tale" episode about Jon and Garfield blaming each other for the mass yogurt incident with exaggerated details on the 'blamer'.

-->'''Garfield''': Do you see this, Odie? This is the Klopman Diamond, a rare and valuable gem! [[LampshadeHanging And also a pointless running gag on a kids' TV show.]]

** In the US Acres episode "Kiddie Korner", [[spoiler:Roy finally writes a "wholesome nursery rhyme" by doing this. It results in Aloysius Pig being chased by the gang because the song ends with lyrics about pie throwing.]]

---> '''Jon:''' Boy, you learn a dance, and then zango! 14 years later they change it!\\

** One episode, "Brainwave Broadcast" has Garfield reveal to the audience that there's a special microphone the show uses that verbalizes thoughts (and then he uses it for hijinks), similar to a comic strip that showed how he learned to project his thoughts. [[spoiler:This leads to him helping a policeman in a bank robbing by putting some donuts together to form the words "Bank Being Robbed"]]. There are no humans in ''U.S. Acres'' [[spoiler:except in one episode, "Grape Expectations, Part 1".]]

** Aloysius Pig, Orson's cousin, revealed two of his in "The Discount Of Monte Cristo": donuts ("Add to the cost of cels and pencils, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers all those donuts]], and-") and pizza ("Couldn't you just send out for a PIZZA?). A [[http://aloysiuspig.tumblr.com/image/39436246947 hidden frame]] just before Aloysius says the latter phrase has him staring happily at crepes, so he possibly could like crepes, too.

** Wade, at least OnceAnEpisode, whenever he's reacting to something he's afraid of.

* AdultsAreUseless: Normally played straight, Jon's is naturally quite stupid and some of the adults Garfield and Jon met are just as if not more stupid. However this is sometimes Subverted, Jon can be surprisingly clever on occasion and there are some other adults who are quite competent, Liz being the most notable.

** Mr. Fluster is arguably the dumbest and most incompetent person on the whole show, he installs a high-tech (though ultimately useless) security system on Jon's house and acts as a security guard demanding Jon give him a password to come in... Even though he clearly has met Jon and should not have to force him to answer a password. Also not only did he not tell Jon the password, but he himself doesn't know it and has the gall to ask Jon what the password is. [[HilarityEnsues Needless to say, It's very funny to watch]].

-->'''Garfield''': I can wish for riches! I can wish for eternal life! I can wish for rice pudding without raisins in it!

*** A similar style, used to parody ''WesternAnimation/XMen'', can be seen in "Clash of the Titans".

* AscendedExtra: Binky the Clown had a very important role in the show, despite the fact the he had appeared personally in a total of ''three strips'' at the time, all from [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1986/09/page01 an arc]] that involved Garfield joining the circus. (And even today, he's only been in four. The [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/2006/01/29/ one new one]] was just a minor title panel cameo)

* BedtimeBrainwashing: The episode "Jukebox Jon" had Jon trying to hypnotize himself in his sleep into not biting his nails with help of a special device in order to appeal himself to a comic book executive who despises said habit. However, it backfires when Garfield accidentally breaks the record that was playing on the device, so he substitutes it with some Spanish records and old 50's records instead. HilarityEnsues.

--> '''Jon:''' I can't believe you tried to give Nermal away!\\

--> '''Jon:''' You can't give Nermal away!\\

* DeadpanSnarker: Garfield takes this UpToEleven. Just about everything that happens results in him making a sarcastic aside to the audience.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: In a few plots.

** "Puss in Hi-Tops" ends with [[spoiler:Garfield [[ItMakesSenseInContext getting chased by a mad ogre]].]]
* DreamSequence: Multiple times, with "Nighty Nightmare" and "Fair Exchange" being whole-episode examples. This gets {{lampshaded|Trope}} by Garfield.

-->'''Garfield:''' Yeah I know you all picked "C." But if you want a counted vote, [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem get your own show]].

** There's also the "Friends Are There" opening which Consists of Garfield and [[ComicStrip/USAcres Orson and his friends]] fighing each other to screentime in the intro while singing the show's {{Leitmotif}}.

* MegaNeko: Two episodes have Garfield eating until he gets to monstruous proportions:

** "The Garfield Opera" (he eventually stands on the Earth and [[PlanetEater eats planets]] -- [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1987&addr=870517 this strip]] is a possible inspiration).

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The museum curator in "The Legend of Long Jon" episode physically resembles Creator/BenjaminFranklin.

* NoSenseOfDirection: In "A Vacation From His Senses" somehow, it took Jon a whole day for him to find the way out of a ''tunnel''. He even ended up at the South Pole when he was looking at the map to Texas.

* PreferJailToTheProtagonist: In the episode "Tooth Or Dare", a [[PantheraAwesome saber-toothed tiger]] ([[ArtisticLicensePaleontology depicted as a present-day tiger with saber teeth instead of the correct depiction called a Smilodon]]) kicks Garfield out of the house, disguising him as a saber-toothed tiger while the real tiger is free to roam about through the house whenever he likes. At the end, the tiger is finally driven out of the house and begs for the museum guards to take him back to the museum. The museum guards do so [[spoiler:and it is revealed that Garfield had invited Nermal over to pester the tiger about how cute he was, which was what made the tiger want to leave the house.]]

* RoadRunnerVsCoyote: One segment involved Garfield {{deconstructi|on}}ng WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry-style cartoons from a cat's POV, wondering why dirty, disease-ridden vermin would be presented as heroes and questioning why the resident AngryGuardDog would be so immediately and violently hostile towards the cat. At the cartoon's end, Garfield himself is forced into a WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry-esque segment due to ExecutiveMeddling.

** Nermal getting sent to Abu Dhabi, as explained [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM9-iKa2TE8 here (skip to 2:15)]].

-->'''Garfield:''' [[LampshadeHanging Take note: if something isn't funny, you just keep doing it, and eventually it becomes a running gag.]]

** One post-title sequence quote has Garfield remark that there will be a quick look in the writers' joke vault, then adding "That's right, we're examing both jokes".

* SparedbytheAdaptation: In Nighty-Nightmare, Jon successfully feeds the ever-growing gigantic Garfield with a lot of ingenuity and work. In the comic strips that likely inspired this ep, Jon is casually tossed down Garfield's mouth when he runs out of food.

* StatusQuoGameShow: "The Binky Show": Garfield tries to win something nice for Jon on ''Name That Fish!'', but the prizes are terrible, the games are riged to humiliate the contestant, and [[spoiler:in the end it's AllJustADream]].

--->'''Garfield:''' I should've asked, "Are there any ''intelligent'' questions?"

** The science fiction movie Garfield, Jon and Odie watch at the beginning of "Close Encounters Of The Garfield Kind". It's a cheesy B-Movie with [[SpecialEffectsFailure cardboard stage props]], [[HamAndCheese over-the-top acting]] and a [[ClicheStorm cookie-cutter plot about an alien takeover.]]

** One title sequence quote has Garfield guarantee that his show does not have [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers giant robots]] or [[Franchise/TheSmurfs small annoying blue people]].

** "Invasion of the Big Robots" is a rather scathing middle finger directed at MerchandiseDriven action cartoons of the 1980's as well as cartoons with groupthink morality like the Buddy Bears were. The plot has Garfield wake up in another cartoon and being annoyed by all the trappings of it, with the character Star Wolf an unflattering portrayal of the protagonists of those kinds of cartoons by having him automatically assume Garfield is the enemy just because he's different. Eventually, Garfield escapes the caroon, only to end up in another one inhabited by cutesy animals who announce that they'll teach Garfield to be nice. Garfield then hurriedly tries to make his way back to the robot cartoon on the grounds that he finds it preferable to the saccharine cartoon he's in now.

** In "How to Be Funny!", this is one of the {{Running Gags}} Garfield mentions. He says that only an idiot would be happy on a Monday, only for Odie to show up with a sign reading "HOORAY FOR MONDAY."

-->'''Jon''': They said it couldn't be done! They laughed at me! They won't be laughing long!

* ThrowTheDogABone: Jon never gets a single girlfriend But during the end of the episode “Dream Date”, he did get a date with the former secretary of the TV studio, Judy, who was trying to tell Jon that the show was rigged as a setup and to humiliated him for higher ratings. Garfield lets Jon date her, and lampshades it to Odie:
-->'''Garfield''': New rule of the show, Pup: Every 9 weeks we do a happy ending. Come on, let's go steal their pizza.

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Bo]] in "Mystery Guest": [[spoiler: he first appears as a character who can easily grow vegetables already in salad bar form, an opposite of Wade who in the episode has a subplot about not being able to grow vegetables, however when Orson's brothers steal the tractor that Roy has as the prize for guessing the Mystery Guest (Garfield) Bo stops the tractor by literally growing a stop sign.]]

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: In "The Legal Eagle", had Orson or Roy [[spoiler:bothered to check in the old "Farm Laws" book, to see if the laws were still valid (which they no longer were), everybody wouldn't have ended up in jail, waiting for someone to help them out of the cage. Especially, Orson should've checked since he knew that book was really old.]] They acknowledged that fact at the end.

** In "Mystery Guest", the guest on Roy's gameshow wearing a PaperThinDisguise is revealed to be [[spoiler: Garfield.]]

* DisneyDeath: Somewhat implied. In "No Laughing Matter", [[spoiler: the aliens from Clarion get killed by laughing at Roy slipping on a banana.]] In the Quickie before "Much Ado About Lanolin" (a later episode), Orson, Booker, and Sheldon watch a show [[spoiler:about the Clarion aliens, who are revealed to (still) exist at the end of the Quickie by coming out of the TV.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Notable examples would be in "Read Alert", where Roy and Wade kept getting into danger (a dinosaur, running away from a train chasing them, a spaceship blasting beams at them) thanks to Orson's imagination when reading books of examples mentioned above, [[spoiler: Roy managed to earn both his and Wade's happy ending by giving Orson a 'safer' coloring book.]] A hilarious one would be "Temp Trouble" where Aloysius Pig kept giving Roy and Wade demerits [[VitriolicBestBuds so the two birds had to work together]] to get Aloysius out of their feathers. [[spoiler: They got him out of here by telling his mom.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: Not if you ask Roy. In "Over the Rainbow", [[spoiler:Roy searches for a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and ended up in a game show similar to ''Series/LetsMakeADeal''. He ends up with a smelly sock.]]

'''Buddy Bears:''' ''(after two safes drop)'' We did not drop a 16-ton safe on you. We dropped ''two'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_4ZRtqfuR8#t=6m20s 16-ton safes on you]]!

* FluffyTamer: In "Show Stoppers", [[spoiler:Wade (of all people) has a fearsome bull who he calls Fido. We don't know what Fido is until he chases Orson's brothers away.]]

* GossipEvolution: "Return of Power Pig" has a reading of HumptyDumpty evolving into a rumor of a monster on the farm.

* GrammarNazi: {{Lampshaded}} in "The Bunny Rabbits is Coming", when Roy is running away from the weasel:

** "The Legal Eagle", the final regular song [[note]] This means the OnceAnEpisode songs that occured in every episode in the first three seasons. Some episodes after this one had characters singing short songs, and at least one episode, which is where the example listed below comes from, was comprised of several short musical numbers.[[/note]] in a U.S. Acres segment, has Roy sing about his cop responsibilites.

* InvoluntaryShapeshifter: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Wade" had Wade turn into a duck version of The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk and back again when he heard a bell after Roy tosses out a way for Wade to induce hypnotize himself, then Booker gives the suggestion "I will turn into a monster whenever I hear a bell." Needless to say, Wade does go into self-hypnosis with said suggestion. [[spoiler:When Orson's brothers ring that bell with Wade normal, his Hulk-Duck form comes out and mops the farm with them.]]

* ItsAWonderfulPlot: "It's a Wonderful Wade" does this for Wade Duck. At first, it looks like a standard parody, as he learns that if he hadn't existed, everyone else's life would be ''exactly'' the same. But in the end, this becomes even more subverted: he comes back in time to prevent a robbery, using knowledge that he only gained ''because'' he had been a disembodied observer at the time! At the beginning of the episode, unlike many uses of this trope, Wade acknowledges the TropeNamer as "That movie they show every year at Christmas."

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: In one episode, Aloysius Pig lists things animators need to do cartoons like ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': cells, pencils and... '''donuts'''?

** When Roy calls his agent about getting into another show, he mentions they're working on "a funny version of ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy''."

--> '''Orson''': Deja vu is when you get the feeling you're experiencing events that you've experienced before. Sometimes over and over.
--> '''Roy''': Sounds like having cable TV.

* TheReveal: In “Rooster Revenge” it turns out [[spoiler: the Rooster checker wasn’t Orson in an outfit.]] DoubleSubverted when it turns out [[spoiler: it was Lanolin in disguise.]]

* TheTwelveSpoofsOfChristmas: The episode "Happy Garfield Day" has Garfield celebrating his birthday by leading a sing-along of "The Twelve Courses of Dinner". Of course, for the twelve course, he says "I'd like seconds, please".

* TheUnseen: Some episodes make reference to all the animals are working for a human farmer, but he's never seen or heard from.
* TruthInTelevision: Cats usually don't like raisins. Good for them, because raisins and grapes in general are toxic for cats.[[https://www.cancateat.com/can-cats-eat-raisins/]]
** Doubles as FridgeHorror when in a few episodes Garfield eats raisins.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In part 1 of ''Grape Expectations'', Roy goes to the supermarket in order to buy one grape to replace the missing one in the stash, and there are actually humans there. '''Nobody''' batted an eyelash about the fact that there was ''a talking rooster'' in the store.

* VocalEvolution: In the earlier episodes, Wade can't sing well, the best example being What Harm Can It Do. This improved over the episodes (he sings the chorus of "I Should Fly", but speaks the rest, except for the ending). When he finally sang perfectly in "Kiddie Korner", [[spoiler:he was interrupted by Aloysius Pig, causing him to groan.]]

* YouAreGrounded: In "Holiday Happening", [[spoiler: Orson runs behind the barn after he hears a loud splatter. Orson asks what Roy and Wade were doing and what they have to say for themselves. After the boys explain, Orson thinks that what they did was so out of hand that he punishes them, which meant no TV, stories around the campfire or pistachio nuts for a month. To get revenge on this, Roy and Wade make up their own holiday, "Paint A Pig Purple Day", to anger Orson.]]

''Garfield and Friends'' (1988-1994) was a Creator/{{CBS}} SaturdayMorningCartoon based on the comic strips of Jim Davis, namely ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' and ''ComicStrip/USAcres'', picking up from the success of the WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials.

** One title sequence quote has Garfield guarantee that his show does not have [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers giant robots]] or [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs small annoying blue people]].

* WeirdCurrency: "Crime and Nourishment" has Garfield come across an underground village of beings who eat money and use Italian food as currency.