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** In the EngineeredPublicConfession example above, he apparently didn't notice Garfiel was holding a microphobe ''right in front of his face''.
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* BrilliantButLazy: Followed to a tee with Garfield.
* DogsAreDumb: Played with more compared to the comics. Odie, while still with his brain dead moments, is toned down compared to [[TooDumbToLive his comics counterpart]], leaning more as a CloudCuckooLander who is sometimes [[GeniusDitz more observant of things]] than even [[OnlySaneMan Garfield]].
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* {{Jerkass}}: Several minor antagonists, such as Jon's aunt Ivy.Ivy and Dr Whipple.
* NiceGuy: Odie and Jon ([[DependingOnTheWriter usually]]).
* ScrewySquirrel: Garfield, while usually more mellow than his comic incarnation, maintains a self proclaimed sadistic contempt for mailmen.
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* ShaggyDogStory: One episode had Jon buy Garfield a new type of microwaveable lasagna which he doesn't like. Then hears a story about a cook who can make "the best lasagna in the world". Garfield goes through the whole episode trying to get said cook to reconcile with his apprentice (the pizza cook) to have it made. When he finally succeeds, the cook reveals he had sold his recipe to be distributed as a microwaveable food...the same one Garfield had dismissed earlier. The reason it tasted bad? ''He forgot to take the plastic wrapping off the food.''
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* ShaggyDogStory: One episode had Jon buy Garfield a new type of microwaveable lasagna which he doesn't like. Then hears a story about a cook who can make "the best lasagna in the world". Garfield goes through the whole episode trying to get said cook to reconcile with his apprentice (the pizza cook) cook, Vito) to have it made. When he finally succeeds, the cook reveals he had sold his recipe to be distributed as a microwaveable food...the same one Garfield had dismissed earlier. The reason it tasted bad? ''He forgot to take the plastic wrapping off the food.''
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* AlternateContinuity: From the DirectToVideo movies which were set in a world inhabited by newspaper comic characters. This series is set in it's own world.
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*DownerEnding: King Nermal, which ends with Garfield and Odie injured,and Nermal getting to stay even longer.
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** Liz is also far less grouchy and sarcastic, more on par with her character in [[{{Film/Garfield}}the movies]].
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* AnthropomophicZigZag: Odie can spend whole episodes walking and acting like a normal dog, and in others be almost as apt as Garfield walking and gesturing like a human.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/JuneForay won an EmmyAward for her role as "Mrs. Cauldron," who ''might'' not be a wicked witch.
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* NoFourthWall: In the 2nd season. In one episode, Garfield knows he needs an idea, so he borrows a copy of the script to see what he is going to do next.
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* NotSoHarmless: The first time we see Nathan, a kid in the same neighborhood as Jon, he appears quite friendly. [[spoiler: Then he turns out to be a [[KidsAreCruel nasty]] MadScientist-in-the-making, trying to turn Odie into a cockroach in the very same episode.]]
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** "The Big Sleep" after Garfield eats something from the fridge, his belly fills the screen and the scenes cuts to him in bed.
** "Penny Henny" after Garfield hears about the twins coming, he walks into the camera carrying suitcases.
** "Pup in the Pound" when Garfield finally tries to look for Odie after being threatened by Jon.
** "The Big Sleep" after Garfield eats something from the fridge, his belly fills the screen and the scenes cuts to him in bed.
** "Penny Henny" after Garfield hears about the twins coming, he walks into the camera carrying suitcases.
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Another animated series based on the comic strips of Jim Davis. Unlike ''GarfieldAndFriends'', however, this series was CGI-animated, and without ''USAcres'', Davis' less-known comic strip which was also featured in ''GarfieldAndFriends''. The series was launched in 2009.
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* HypnoFool: One episode has Jon suffering from insomnia, so he goes to a hypnotist so he can get some rest. While Jon was supposed to hear a bell in order to get some shut-eye, an accident causes the trigger to be Odie's barking instead. This may not seem bad at first, but then Jon starts ''sleepwalking''...
** A later episode had Garfield getting hypnotized by Dr. Whipple, to become a hard-working farm cat whenever he hears a horn.
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* TooDumbToLive: In one episode a mouse refuses to believe that Garfield is nice to mice and doesn't eat them, so he repeatedly tries to get Garfield to eat him just to prove he's right.
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** "Night of the Bunny Slippers", Where Jon invites Aunt Ivy inside
** "Odie in Love", Where Garfield mocks Odie of his crush. "If you break up with the brush I've got some nice nail clippers for you"
** "Stealing Home", With Bruno raiding through Garfield's fridge
** "Land of Hold", With Garfield running away from a bunch of floating phones
** "The Robot", With the cleaning robot about to grab and suck away Garfield
** "The Big Sleep", With the owner of the All You Can Eat restaurant inviting the disguised Jon inside
** Lucky Charm; where a leprechaun realizes someone stole his gold.
** "Night of the Bunny Slippers", Where Jon invites Aunt Ivy inside
** "Odie in Love", Where Garfield mocks Odie of his crush. "If you break up with the brush I've got some nice nail clippers for you"
** "Stealing Home", With Bruno raiding through Garfield's fridge
** "Land of Hold", With Garfield running away from a bunch of floating phones
** "The Robot", With the cleaning robot about to grab and suck away Garfield
** "The Big Sleep", With the owner of the All You Can Eat restaurant inviting the disguised Jon inside
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The titular lazy, orange-furred feline, {{Garfield}}, makes his return to the TV screen, with wacky hijinks galore. His owner, Jon Arbuckle, and the long-tongued yellow dog, Odie, are also main characters.
!!This series provides examples of:
* AttractiveBentGender: One episode has Nermal becoming smitten by Garfield after the latter got dressed up by Jon's BrattyHalfPint nieces. Luckily for Nermal he never finds out the truth.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Night of the Apparatuses
** The T3000.
* BerserkButton: Don't call Nermal mangy.
* BigEater: Garfield (as usual).
* BrattyHalfPint: Two of them: Drusila and Minerva, Jon's twin nieces.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In the 2nd season, Garfield [[NoFourthWall completely tosses out the 4th wall]], completely aware that the show is in its 2nd season and that everyone is part of a TV show.
** It comes to a head when Squeak can effectively predict the future because he's watching the episode (it's a rerun, but no one realizes it). It involves him [[SpaceBalls catching up to himself]] and helping Garfield pretend to be psychic. Unfortunately, he accidentally deletes the episode when Garfield is about to prove his powers to the public.
* ButtMonkey: The Mailman
** Naturally Jon and Garfield as usual, albeit not quite as much as in the comics.
* CampGay: Eddie Gourmand
* CaptainObvious: Jon gets called out as this in the following:
-->'''Jon, seeing Garfield and Odie stuck in a tree''': Garfield! Odie! You're stuck in a tree!
-->'''Garfield''': And the grass is green, [[LampshadeHanging Captain Obvious]].
* CargoShip: In-Universe, in one episode, Odie falls in love with a brush.
* ChristmasSpecial: "Home for the Holidays", written by the strip's creator, Jim Davis
* CityOfAdventure: Cheese Land
* ConMan: Dr. Whipple, a recurring villain who tries to convince people to buy his products. Which normally involve serious animal abuse.
* CutASliceTakeTheRest: In one episode, after Vito gives Odie lasagna, Jon tells Garfield to give Odie his fair share. Guess what Garfield does next?
* DeadpanSnarker: Garfield, as expected.
* DemotedToExtra: Arlene, despite being present in the intro sequence, shows up only in a handful of first-season episodes and is thus far absent in the second season.
* DoNotExplainTheJoke: Garfield is especially guilty of this. Just one example would be the ThemeTuneCameo in "Unfair Weather".
* EasyAmnesia: This happens to Garfield in one episode when a bowling ball drops to his head. [[spoiler: A taste of lasagna gets his memories back.]]
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: The Kiss Me Girl from Virtualodean.
** Played with later with a ''literal'' elephant in the living room that it takes Jon a few moments to actually notice is out of place.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Dr. Whipple's first downfall occurs when Garfield tricks him into admitting that his pet training business is a huge con and how he thinks the public is stupid...while the live television audience and viewers are listening to his every word.
* FakeUltimateHero: Professor Bonkers
* FootFocus
* FourLegsGoodTwoLegsBetter: The cats usually assume an upright stance but the dogs usually don't.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Between Garfield and Odie in one episode.
* [[IncredibleShrinkingMan Incredible Shrinking Cat]]: Nathan, the MadScientist kid from an earlier episode, does this to Garfield in a later episode.
* {{Jerkass}}: Jon's aunt Ivy.
* KarmaHoudini: Played straight by Nermal in one episode ([[ButtMonkey if only one]]). Garfield isn't as lucky in this series, however, partly due to Jon being quick to suspect him -- and he's often right.
** Bernard Scanberry steals Jon's millions, and gets away to Brazil.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall / OpeningShoutOut: In the first half of "Unfair Weather" Jon's ringtone is the show's main theme. Garfield even says it sounds familiar.
* LighterAndSofter: Somewhat less cynical than the comics or even the [[GarfieldAndFriends previous animated installments]]. Garfield is more genuinely sympathetic, Jon is ''slightly'' less of a loser and there are more frequent heartwarming moments.
* MythologyGag: In the 2nd season, Jon asks Garfield if he'd like to watch [[GarfieldAndFriends Binky the Clown]] on TV. Garfield responds by saying that Binky is [[BreakingTheFourthWall contractually obligated to never show up in this series.]]
* NoFourthWall: In the 2nd season.
* NotSoHarmless: The first time we see Nathan, a kid in the same neighborhood as Jon, he appears quite friendly. [[spoiler: Then he turns out to be a [[KidsAreCruel nasty]] MadScientist-in-the-making, trying to turn Odie into a cockroach in the very same episode.]]
* PerpetualFrowner / TheEeyore: A parrot Jon's editor entrusts to Jon in one episode, with more than enough {{Wangst}} for anyone around it. In a separate short, a black cat Garfield encounters is also this, plus he somehow makes everyone he comes across unlucky -- and he knows it.
* PoundsAreAnimalPrisons: A bumbling Animal Control officer is a regular antagonist.
* TheProfessor: Professor Bonkers
* RubeGoldbergDevice: Played straight when Garfield employs one early in an episode to catapult Nermal from a reclining chair into a trash can outside. Subverted toward the end of the same episode when Garfield catapults Nermal from the same chair into a cardboard box outside without using complex contraption.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Several episodes, mostly involving Garfield having to rectify his mistakes earlier (especially if food is at stake).
* ShoutOut: Dr. Whipple gets traumatized by the wacky events in an episode enough to fear dogs briefly, during which he sees a dog and runs away shrieking "Who let the dog out?" while the dog he sees barks.
** To [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Bernie Madeoff]] of all people.
* SphereEyes
* StupidEvil: After reclaiming his elephant (which Garfield had been hiding due to the abuse it suffers), Dr Whipple immediately begins tearing into it, threatening to starve it and otherwise make it's life hell, ''right in front of a group of police'' (who naturally arrest him on the spot).
* TemptingFate: When Odie gets past the first round of a pet pageant (with Garfield's "help"), Garfield expresses confidence that "we can't lose." Then cue the announcer stating that the second round would be a talent contest. Garfield's reaction: "Boy, can we lose."
* TookALevelInJerkass: Unlike earlier incarnations, this Nermal has a far more [[SmallNameBigEgo insufferable ego]] and annoys Garfield intentionally.
* TookALevelInKindness: Garfield in comparison is slightly more benevolent than in the comics, while still a gluttoness snarker, he goes out of his way to help people more and bullies Jon and Odie a lot less. Most of the individuals Garfield does victimize are far more provokative than in the comics (see above).
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The titular lazy, orange-furred feline, {{Garfield}}, makes his return to the TV screen, with wacky hijinks galore. His owner, Jon Arbuckle, and the long-tongued yellow dog, Odie, are also main characters.
!!This series provides examples of:
* AttractiveBentGender: One episode has Nermal becoming smitten by Garfield after the latter got dressed up by Jon's BrattyHalfPint nieces. Luckily for Nermal he never finds out the truth.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Night of the Apparatuses
** The T3000.
* BerserkButton: Don't call Nermal mangy.
* BigEater: Garfield (as usual).
* BrattyHalfPint: Two of them: Drusila and Minerva, Jon's twin nieces.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In the 2nd season, Garfield [[NoFourthWall completely tosses out the 4th wall]], completely aware that the show is in its 2nd season and that everyone is part of a TV show.
** It comes to a head when Squeak can effectively predict the future because he's watching the episode (it's a rerun, but no one realizes it). It involves him [[SpaceBalls catching up to himself]] and helping Garfield pretend to be psychic. Unfortunately, he accidentally deletes the episode when Garfield is about to prove his powers to the public.
* ButtMonkey: The Mailman
** Naturally Jon and Garfield as usual, albeit not quite as much as in the comics.
* CampGay: Eddie Gourmand
* CaptainObvious: Jon gets called out as this in the following:
-->'''Jon, seeing Garfield and Odie stuck in a tree''': Garfield! Odie! You're stuck in a tree!
-->'''Garfield''': And the grass is green, [[LampshadeHanging Captain Obvious]].
* CargoShip: In-Universe, in one episode, Odie falls in love with a brush.
* ChristmasSpecial: "Home for the Holidays", written by the strip's creator, Jim Davis
* CityOfAdventure: Cheese Land
* ConMan: Dr. Whipple, a recurring villain who tries to convince people to buy his products. Which normally involve serious animal abuse.
* CutASliceTakeTheRest: In one episode, after Vito gives Odie lasagna, Jon tells Garfield to give Odie his fair share. Guess what Garfield does next?
* DeadpanSnarker: Garfield, as expected.
* DemotedToExtra: Arlene, despite being present in the intro sequence, shows up only in a handful of first-season episodes and is thus far absent in the second season.
* DoNotExplainTheJoke: Garfield is especially guilty of this. Just one example would be the ThemeTuneCameo in "Unfair Weather".
* EasyAmnesia: This happens to Garfield in one episode when a bowling ball drops to his head. [[spoiler: A taste of lasagna gets his memories back.]]
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: The Kiss Me Girl from Virtualodean.
** Played with later with a ''literal'' elephant in the living room that it takes Jon a few moments to actually notice is out of place.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Dr. Whipple's first downfall occurs when Garfield tricks him into admitting that his pet training business is a huge con and how he thinks the public is stupid...while the live television audience and viewers are listening to his every word.
* FakeUltimateHero: Professor Bonkers
* FootFocus
* FourLegsGoodTwoLegsBetter: The cats usually assume an upright stance but the dogs usually don't.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Between Garfield and Odie in one episode.
* [[IncredibleShrinkingMan Incredible Shrinking Cat]]: Nathan, the MadScientist kid from an earlier episode, does this to Garfield in a later episode.
* {{Jerkass}}: Jon's aunt Ivy.
* KarmaHoudini: Played straight by Nermal in one episode ([[ButtMonkey if only one]]). Garfield isn't as lucky in this series, however, partly due to Jon being quick to suspect him -- and he's often right.
** Bernard Scanberry steals Jon's millions, and gets away to Brazil.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall / OpeningShoutOut: In the first half of "Unfair Weather" Jon's ringtone is the show's main theme. Garfield even says it sounds familiar.
* LighterAndSofter: Somewhat less cynical than the comics or even the [[GarfieldAndFriends previous animated installments]]. Garfield is more genuinely sympathetic, Jon is ''slightly'' less of a loser and there are more frequent heartwarming moments.
* MythologyGag: In the 2nd season, Jon asks Garfield if he'd like to watch [[GarfieldAndFriends Binky the Clown]] on TV. Garfield responds by saying that Binky is [[BreakingTheFourthWall contractually obligated to never show up in this series.]]
* NoFourthWall: In the 2nd season.
* NotSoHarmless: The first time we see Nathan, a kid in the same neighborhood as Jon, he appears quite friendly. [[spoiler: Then he turns out to be a [[KidsAreCruel nasty]] MadScientist-in-the-making, trying to turn Odie into a cockroach in the very same episode.]]
* PerpetualFrowner / TheEeyore: A parrot Jon's editor entrusts to Jon in one episode, with more than enough {{Wangst}} for anyone around it. In a separate short, a black cat Garfield encounters is also this, plus he somehow makes everyone he comes across unlucky -- and he knows it.
* PoundsAreAnimalPrisons: A bumbling Animal Control officer is a regular antagonist.
* TheProfessor: Professor Bonkers
* RubeGoldbergDevice: Played straight when Garfield employs one early in an episode to catapult Nermal from a reclining chair into a trash can outside. Subverted toward the end of the same episode when Garfield catapults Nermal from the same chair into a cardboard box outside without using complex contraption.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Several episodes, mostly involving Garfield having to rectify his mistakes earlier (especially if food is at stake).
* ShoutOut: Dr. Whipple gets traumatized by the wacky events in an episode enough to fear dogs briefly, during which he sees a dog and runs away shrieking "Who let the dog out?" while the dog he sees barks.
** To [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Bernie Madeoff]] of all people.
* SphereEyes
* StupidEvil: After reclaiming his elephant (which Garfield had been hiding due to the abuse it suffers), Dr Whipple immediately begins tearing into it, threatening to starve it and otherwise make it's life hell, ''right in front of a group of police'' (who naturally arrest him on the spot).
* TemptingFate: When Odie gets past the first round of a pet pageant (with Garfield's "help"), Garfield expresses confidence that "we can't lose." Then cue the announcer stating that the second round would be a talent contest. Garfield's reaction: "Boy, can we lose."
* TookALevelInJerkass: Unlike earlier incarnations, this Nermal has a far more [[SmallNameBigEgo insufferable ego]] and annoys Garfield intentionally.
* TookALevelInKindness: Garfield in comparison is slightly more benevolent than in the comics, while still a gluttoness snarker, he goes out of his way to help people more and bullies Jon and Odie a lot less. Most of the individuals Garfield does victimize are far more provokative than in the comics (see above).
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