History WesternAnimation / GarfieldSpecials

** There was one in ''On the Town'' to ''WestSideStory''.

A series of 12 animated TV specials based off the popular comic strip ''{{ComicStrip/Garfield}}''. All of them (except the first two, which were animated by Mendleson/Melendez Productions, famous for the ''{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}}'' and ''{{ComicStrip/Cathy}}'' specials) were animated by FilmRoman, and all of them were broadcast on {{CBS}} between the years of 1982 and 1991.

* ''Garfield Goes Hollywood'': Garfield, Jon and Odie attempt to win a talent show contest for people and their pets.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: A strip of Garfield throttling Jon, like many others, was animated into a throwaway gag in ''Here Comes Garfield''. However, due to the request of {{CBS}}, the throttling was changed to Garfield grabbing Jon's cheeks and shaking them violently.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: ''Babes and Bullets'' heavily implies that Garfield got laid. Twice. BY HUMAN WOMEN. It starts when in typical noir style, the sexy female client invites Sam Spayed to "[[DoubleEntendre have a little milk with her]]", and he reacts much as if she'd invited him in for coffee. At the end, his secretary picks up a pair of glasses and a bottle of milk, sashaying into Sam's office while throwing a few {{Fanservice}} poses, inducing an "oh wow" reaction from Sam. Also in ''Babes and Bullets'', Garfield's alter-ego was named Sam '''Spayed'''.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Many of the specials featured a character (usually the villain) drawn in a more realistic style compared to the other characters. Examples include the dogcatcher from ''Here Comes Garfield'' and the panther from ''Garfield in the Rough''.

** [[GoneWithTheWind "Rhett! Rhett! Whatever shall I do? Wherever shall I go?"]]
** [[CoolHandLuke "What we have here is a failure to communicate."]]

** Garfield also imagines himself as DonHo at one point, while the character named "The Cruiser" seems to be a cross between James Dean and [[Series/HappyDays The Fonz]].

** The aforementioned ''Film/CitizenKane'' reference in ''Garfield's Thanksgiving''.
** Finally, ''Feline Fantasies'' references all sorts of things, such as ''{{Casablanca}}'', ''{{Vertigo}}'', ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', ''{{Film/Jaws}}'', ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' , and even ''{{Film/Airplane}}''.

* FiveFiveFive: ''Babes And Bullets'' uses the "[=KLondike 5=]" variation: Tiny's phone number is [=KLondike5=]-1234 (555-1234)

* FiveFiveFive: ''Babes And Bullets'' uses the "[=KLondike5=]" variation: Tiny's phone number is KLondike5-1234 (555-1234)

* FiveFiveFive: ''Babes And Bullets'' uses the "KLondike 5" variation: Tiny's phone number is KLondike5-1234 (555-1234)

* {{555}}: ''Babes And Bullets'' uses the "KLondike 5" variation: Tiny's phone number is KLondike5-1234 (555-1234)

* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: In "Babes and Bullets", Sam Spayed says that Luteniant Washington's blue boy shot a client in the back for jaywalking.

* ''Garfield's Feline Fantasies'': Garfield has a imagination sequence [[AffectionateParody Affectionately Parodying]] ''TheMalteseFalcon''.

* WentToTheGreatXInTheSky: In ''Garfield Goes Hollywood'', after breaking Jon's guitar, Garfield says it "went to the big tuning store in the sky".

* TheOtherDarrin: Sandy Becker voiced Jon in ''Here Comes Garfield''. Thom Huge took over in the other specials (plus the [[GarfieldAndFriends TV series]]).

* MissingEpisode: ''Garfield's Judgement Day'' was a movie, then a special, that Jim Davis was forced to abandon due to being unable to find an animation studio willing to animate the film (possibly due to it being darker than the usual specials). The story was released as an (currently out-of-print) story book.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1979/05/06/ This strip]], like many others, was animated into a throwaway gag in ''Here Comes Garfield''. However, due to the request of {{CBS}}, Garfield grabbing Jon's neck and shaking it violently was changed to Garfield grabbing Jon's cheeks and shaking them violently.

* WentToTheBigXInTheSky: In ''Garfield Goes Hollywood'', after breaking Jon's guitar, Garfield says it "went to the big tuning store in the sky".

** A trumpet version of the same song also plays in ''Garfield in Paradise'' after Odie's DisneyDeath, causing Garfield to start [[WaxingLyrical to start saying the lyrics]].

** A trumpet version of the same song also plays in ''Garfield in Paradise'' after Odie's DisneyDeath.

** Finally, ''Feline Fantasies'' references all sorts of things, such as ''{{Casablanca}}'', ''{{Vertigo}}'', ''{{Goldfinger}}'', ''{{Film/Jaws}}'', ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' , and even ''{{Film/Airplane}}''.

** Finally, ''Feline Fantasies'' references all sorts of things, such as ''{{Casablanca}}'', ''{{Vertigo}}'', ''{{Goldfinger}}'', ''{{Film/Jaws}}'', ''RaidersOfTheLostArk'' , and even ''{{Film/Airplane}}''.

* EarlyBirdCameo/MarthDebutedinSmashBros: Binky the Clown makes his first appearance in "Garfield's Halloween Adventure", before his debut in the strip or GarfieldandFriends.