History WesternAnimation / TheGarfieldShow

* NoFourthWall: Wouldn't be ''Garfield'' without the absence of a fourth wall. By the second season, it becomes rare for the characters to not bring up that this show is a cartoon.

* BellyDancer: In the episode "Barking Mad", Scheherazade is seen dancing on TV.

* NoFourthWall: By the second season, it becomes rare for the characters to not bring up that this show is a cartoon.

Another animated series based on the comic strips of Creator/JimDavis. Unlike ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', however, this series was CGI-animated, and without ''WesternAnimation/USAcres'', Davis' less-known comic strip which was also featured in ''Garfield and Friends''. The series was launched in 2009. It had numerous 11-minute episodes and half-hour specials during its run, but Cartoon Network eventually stopped airing the show.

* TransformationDiscretionShot: In the episode "Prehistoric Pup", when Odie gets stuck in the gum, he gets exposed to to a meteorite that turns him into giant green prehistoric dog. But when he transforms, it is offscreen.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: For a mouse, Briff; Squeak's cousin, is very strong, being able to take on three cats at once.

* ChaseScene: Being a cartoon, this cartoon has more chase scenes than anyone can count (which is really saying something).

* PandaingToTheAudience: Garfield, Odie, and Nermal befriend a pair of pandas (with [[MisplacedAccent Australian accents]]) in the 4-part episode "Little Trouble in Big China". They not only help out in transportation but also rescue them from 2 antagonistic Siamese cats (but not by [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda doing kung fu]] because that would be ridiculous for pandas).

** Also Bernard Scamberry from "Virtual mailman".

* FilLawyerJoke: "The Great Trade-Off" has a MadScientist named Dr. Puzzle demonstrate an invention of his to other evil geniuses that can swap personalities. One of the villains expresses interest in using it to swap the personalities of his lawyer and a snake. Dr. Puzzle responds by asking how he could tell the difference.

'''Mama Meany:''' ''[pn the recording]'' Everything we sell on this station is a piece of junk. The idiots out there never catch on!\\

'''Garfield:''' I'll go, but there's something else I want.
** The "Lasagna Tree" special ends with Garfield exposing Mama Meany again as a con man, this time duping his customers with cheaply-manufactured and horrible-tasting substitutes for real food when the cat uses Eddie Gourmand's robotic cameraman to record and broadcast to the world Mama Meany gloating about how lucrative his restaurants are while calling his customers [[RuleOfThree idiots]] for continuing to fall for his scam. This causes Mama Meany to lose his business

* EvilLawyerJoke: "The Great Trade-Off" has a MadScientist named Dr. Puzzle demonstrate an invention of his to other evil geniuses that can swap personalities. One of the villains expresses interest in using it to swap the personalities of his lawyer and a snake. Dr. Puzzle responds by asking how he could tell the difference.

** Done again in "Depths of a Salseman". In the episode, Garfield, Odie, and Jon get ripped off by the "All Buying Stuff" shopping channel, resulting in Garfield angrily going to the TV station to get a refund. When the owner of the channel, Mama Meany, refuses to give him the refund, Garfield uses a functional model of an overly hyped-up tape recorder, called the Awesome Audio Appliance, to record a conversation between Mama Meany and his salesman that ''everything'' they sell, including Garfield, Odie, and Jon's purchases earlier in the episode (as well as all of Jon's earlier purchases from the channel), are just cleverly hyped-up pieces of junk. As such, when the salesman attempts to prove the product works, it plays back the conversation neither he or Mama Meany knew had been recorded, thus resulting in Mama Meany forced to give out refunds to everyone who bought stuff from the channel, causing it to go off the air.

-->'''Mama Meany:''' [[TemptingFate They never catch on that the stuff I sell is garbage!]]\\

'''Salesman:''' ''[on the recording]'' But basically, it’s another piece of junk.

'''Mama Meany:''' ''[On the recording]'' Everything we sell on this station is a piece of junk. The idiots out there never catch on!\\

'''Mama Meany:''' I’ll get you a refund, cat! Just get out of here!
** The "Lasagna Tree" special ends with Garfield exposing Mama Meany again as a con man, this time duping his customers with cheaply-manufactured and horrible-tasting substitutes for real food when the cat uses Eddie Gourmand's robotic cameraman to record and broadcast to the world Mama Meany gloating about how lucrative his restaurants are while calling his customers [[RuleOfThree idiots]] for continuing to fall for his scam.

** Done again in "Depths of a Salseman" when Garfield uses a functional model of a hyped-up tape recorder to record a conversation between the owner of the "All Buying Channel" and his salesman that ''everything'' they sell is just junk that's cleverly hyped. As such when the salesman of the recorder attempts to prove the product works, it plays back the conversation neither knew had been recorded.

'''Actor:''' This Awesome Audio Appliance plays the most beautiful music! Listen!\\
''[presses play]''\\
'''Mama Meany:''' ''[on the recording]'' But basically, it’s another piece of junk. Everything we sell on this station is a piece of junk. The idiots out there never catch on!\\
''[[[FacePalm Mama Meany facepalms]]]''\\

** The "Lasagna Tree" special ends with Garfield exposing Mama Meany as a con man duping his customers with cheaply-manufactured and horrible-tasting substitutes for real food when the cat uses Eddie Gourmand's robotic cameraman to record and broadcast to the world Mama Meany gloating about how lucrative his restaurants are while calling his customers [[RuleOfThree idiots]] for continuing to fall for his scam.