Characters / U.S. Acres

The characters in Jim Davis's other comic strip, U.S. Acres, and its animated adaptation on Garfield and Friends.

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Tropes shared by all/some of the Main Characters

General

• Badass Crew: They certainly are in the "Garfield's Defense" games. They went and helped Garfield attack the aliens without fear (even Wade!).
• Feather Fingers and Toothy Bird: Roy, Wade, Booker, most likely Sheldon, and minor bird characters as well.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Can you say any of the farm animals are considered 'normal'? You got a pig whose imagination can come to life and take others with him. A loud-mouth rooster that likes to play pranks. A wacky duck that's afraid of nearly everything. A sheep who's a grumpy Cute Bruiser and her brother who's ditzy (a Genius Ditz in the cartoon). A chick who chases after a worm, coyote-road runner style. An intelligent chick who lives in his egg. A puppy who thinks he's a ferocious dog. Even Blue the cat is strange in her own right. Her bio said she's mystic and mysterious.
• Token Evil Teammate: Roy and Lanolin are the only unpleasant people on the farm and can be abusive and mean. They verge a bit more into Jerk with a Heart of Gold territory in the TV show however.
• Two Girls to a Team: Abrasive Lanolin Sheep and kind, intelligent Blue the cat. Though that was once Blue came into the picture... and before she was Chucked. Could've been subverted, had they decided to add in scrapped character Jodie the horse (look up the trivia section).

Orson Pig

Orson Pig

Voiced by: Gregg Berger

• The Alleged Boss: He's usually a "4" but sometimes a "2". Given how much abuse he takes from the other animals, it's easy to think his seniority doesn't go beyond being Team Mom/Team Dad. But a couple of times in the cartoon, he has reached his breaking point and reminded them, he's in charge, and if they go too far, he can kick them out. After once suffering a barrage of insults from Roy, Orson finally snapped and angrily fired him on the spot, only relenting when his replacement proved even worse. Given the nature of their relationship, Roy treated it more like a falling out between friends than a firing, just going off and brooding for a few hours instead of looking for another job/place to live. In one instance, Roy was looking for another job, indicating that he may be the boss off the set as well.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: He tends not to believe in some things (until proven otherwise) despite seeing plenty of weirdness. This is only sometimes. Oddly enough, he has moments of Super Gullible, where he was tricked into believing that cheese danishes were alien eggs.
• Benevolent Boss: He's often a kind boss to the other animals.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Orson is an affable, friendly boss and friend to the animals, but when pushed too far, he will snap and fight back if necessary. See The Alleged Boss above. Even when he doesn't pull rank, he can fight back by using his smarts and giving Roy a taste of his own medicine, like in the "Grabbity" episode where Orson caught Roy pranking Wade into thinking the law of "grabbity" had been repealed. Orson used his imagination powers to freak Roy out into thinking he was floating away. He claimed he was just explaining the importance of gravity, but the trollish grins during the Imagine Spot suggested otherwise. Another time he got Roy back by not getting him back, the others were confused until Roy's mind creating a Self-Inflicted Hell made it obvious.
• Bookworm: He also had Encyclopaedic Knowledge because of the books in the few out of print US Acres storybooks.
• Camp Straight: Downplayed. There's teasing between him and Lanolin, and look below Childhood Friend Romance. Also there's this strip.
• Childhood Friend Romance: In the cartoon "Stark Raven Mad", Orson was in love (and still is to this day) with a pig girl name Lenore, but then at the age of four, Lenore had to move away and couldn't see Orson anymore which left him brokenhearted (even to this day). Although in fairness, it's mainly a reference to the original poem, since she is never mentioned again.
• Deadpan Snarker: Yes, Orson is capable of sarcasm, especially when he's around Wade.
• Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": In several of his fantasies, such as Power Pig and Double-O-Orson.
• Hypocrite and Hypocritical Humor: There are moments when he gets like that. For example in the episode, "The Impractical Joker", when the other animals complain to him about Roy insulting them with a joke book, Orson tells them to just ignore it, they're harmless. But when Roy does it to Orson, he fires him from the farm. The other animals (even Wade) thought firing Roy was too far.
  • Hypocrisy Nod: Though when called out on it, he admits, "I guess that's when it wasn't about me."
• Imagine Spotting: Orson's imagination is so powerful the other characters somehow get transported into his fantasies.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Orson's and cartoon!Bo's passive, understanding and easygoing Feminine Boys to Lanolin's loud, aggressive, and grumpy Masculine Girl.
• Meaningful Name: "Orson" sounds like the word "porcine", meaning "pig-like", befitting a pig. Also named after Orson Welles, a large man known for directing Citizen Kane.
• Mr. Imagination: The stuff he imagines can tend to come to life.
• Nice Guy: When not dealing with the antics of his friends, Orson is pretty decent.
• Not So Above It All: At least 1/3 of the time, he joins in on the zaniness, and sometimes he's the one that sets the zaniness in motion.
• Odd Name Out: Unlike his brothers, he does not have a name that ends in "rt".
• Only Sane by Comparison: Orson (usually) is the more level-headed of the zany animals, yet even he is more "cartoony" than the far more realistic domestic sitcom world of Garfield, Odie, and Jon.
• Only Sane Man: He often takes this role when his friends are unbalanced, since he is The Leader after all. Sometimes when he doesn't take this role, it's Lanolin.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He will help out the animals with their problems and understand them.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to both Roy and Wade's red but the red to Bo's blue in the cartoon. He's the Blue to Bo's Keet-Red in the comics.
• Straight Man: As his Bio says.
• Team Mom (occasionally a Team Dad)
• Trademark Favorite Food: Pig slop, but he admits he'd rather have pizza.
• Vague Age: The opening strips treat him like a young piglet, though he acts more like a senior of the group later on despite his size and appearance not altering much. Furthered in the cartoons where he has a matured voice courtesy of Gregg Berger.
• What the Hell, Hero?: There are times when he does means well and at least regrets his mistakes afterwards and sometimes tries to fix it. Then there are times when he's this trope. One example is in "Goody-go-Round" when Orson found nearly everyone was fighting and insulting each other. Orson asked what was wrong, but instead of letting them answer, he just goes and insults them, even Sheldon (who wasn't even involved in the fight!). Uh, what? He's especially this in the comic version.

Roy Rooster

Roy Rooster

"[Practical jokes aren't] supposed to be nice. They're supposed to be funny!"

Voiced by: Thom Huge

• Adaptational Early Appearance: The U.S. Acres segment on Garfield and Friends had him debut with the rest of the cast, when the comic strip didn't have him appear until the April 14, 1986 strip.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Sort of. Roy's still a loudmouthed Troll in Garfield and Friends, but the stories are longer and morals are more prevalent, so a nicer side of him does show at times, and he's more of a prankster. Especially in the later seasons where he shows moments of being genuinely nice.
• Alliterative Name: If his name Roy Rooster didn't already clue you in.
• Anti-Hero: "Disney" type in the cartoon version. Though it seems to be in the lower scale at times in the comic version.
• Berserk Button: He reacts badly to not being addressed by his name, if this strip is any indication.
• Big Bad: He's the main antagonist of the comic strip (and sometimes the cartoon due to being kinder).
• Boisterous Bruiser: When Cartoon Roy puts his mind to it, he can really pack a punch on the enemies. In "Peanut-Brained Rooster", he manage to beat up all three of Orson's brothers, when he was obsessed with peanuts. And in "Uncle Roy to the rescue", he beats up the weasel, while saving his niece. He usually uses other tactics however, to stop the enemies, such as his pranks.
• Boisterous Weakling: Usually in the comics. Roy will talk down on Lanolin and act all tough, but has no physical action as much as her and will always learn the hard way.
• Bullying the Dragon: Sometimes earns harsh retribution for trolling Lanolin. He's also heckled Orson enough to break his Alleged Boss routine and get threatened with unemployment.
• Butt-Monkey: In the two cartoon episodes where he quits the farm and works with the Buddy Bears (as their designated disagreeing companion).
  • He can also be this outside those two episodes. Justified because, pretty much always, he had it coming.
• The Chew Toy: Because he deserves it.
• Cock-a-Doodle Dawn: Through he usually uses his horn to wake people up.
• Cocky Rooster: He tends to play mean-spirited pranks on the other farm animals, such as waking them up with his loud horn, and often ending up in a fight with Lanolin Sheep, which she always ends up winning.
• Chaste Toons: In season 6, he got a visit from his niece, Chloe.
  • Papa Wolf: In "Uncle Roy to the rescue", he beats up the weasel for kidnapping his niece and trying to eat her.
• Deadpan Snarker: He'll pull off dry remarks, especially when something bad happens to him.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Averted in the strips. Roy hates when Lanolin calls him "Bird" instead of calling him by name. In this strip, in response to Roy asking her to call him by name, she called him "Ray". He was upset.
• Everyone Has Standards: Roy acknowledges the fact that Orson's brothers are rotten jerks. More rotten than he could ever be. He may be a self-centered jerk who insults everyone, but he's not a bully...he would much rather prank the other animals rather than actually harm them.
• Flanderization: In the comics, his appearances of early 1986 had him with much more mellowed down jerkish tendencies and his prankster aspect merely started out with waking up other farm animals with his horn. These aspects were treated light-heartedly harmless and were not as much a core aspect of his personality. By 1988, he pretty much exists as a full on Troll for the farm. It kind of went in reverse in the show where he Took a Level in Kindness.
• Friend to All Children: Despite being an arrogant jerk, he does care about children's safety as shown in the episode, "Big Bad Buddy Bird" where he warns children about the Buddy Bears being terrible role models.
  Roy: Kids, don't listen to any of this. These bears are dangerous. You should have opinions of your own! You should think and decide and not do what everyone else does! (the bears grab him) Use your own mind! Don't do what your friends do just because they're doing it, HAVE A BRAIN OF YOUR OWN! LET GO OF ME! THE GROUP ISN'T ALWAYS RIGHT!
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mostly in the cartoons though, he's a self-centered arrogant prankster, but he is not a bully and will often use these very qualities to help his friends out of trouble and has moments of remorse when he feels he might have gone a bit too far or when it's gotten one of his friends (usually Orson or Wade) genuinely mad at him.
• Jerkass Has a Point: In "How Now, Stolen Cow?", Orson is too engrossed in reading a spy novel to milk Bossy the Cow like Lanolin wanted him to, and doesn't pay attention to Roy when he tries to remind him of it. Roy decides to play a joke on Orson by taking Bossy and setting up a fake mystery for him to solve. Near the end of the episode, when Orson and Bo find out that it was Roy who took Bossy, Roy points out that he wouldn't have taken Bossy if Orson had just milked her like he was supposed to instead of reading his spy novel, something that Bo has to agree with. Since Roy also milked Bossy for Orson, Orson and Bo decide that it wouldn't be fair to have him arrested despite him having stolen Bossy, so they decide to put him on trial instead.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: He often suffers humiliation or injuries, usually at the hands of Lanolin or his pranks backfiring on him, sometimes being temporarily kicked off the farm, though he's usually a deserving victim due to being a jerkish Troll.
• Leitmotif: He has his theme tune when he appears which is Schumann's 'The Merry Peasant'
• My God, What Have I Done?: He once thought his sneeze powder killed Sheldon. He spent the rest of the episode in guilt-ridden shock until Sheldon turned out to be okay and them hugged him with a loving glomp to celebrate.
• Not a Morning Person: He gets up to do his job, waking people up, usually with his horn... then goes back to sleep. And besides a love/hate relationship with Wade, he also has one with his alarm clock. In some episodes of the cartoon, Roy simply has a recorded version of the wake-up call to play so he won't even have to wake up.
• Odd Friendship: With Wade, especially later on in the show.
• The Prankster: He likes to make schemes and pull pranks at people and his friends, though sometimes, his karma catches up to him. It mostly depends on who he pranks.
• Real Men Wear Pink: In "Orson's Diner", he's shown to be knitting a whole sweater.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Orson and Bo's blue.
• Rollerblade Good: In the "Garfield's Defense" games, he uses his skates to attack the alien monsters.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: His Manly Man to... the rest of the adult males' Sensitive Guy, but especially Wade's.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Lanolin, his obnoxious humour clashing with her ugly temperament. More prominent in the comics, though did occur in the cartoons to a lesser degree.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Through, in the cartoon, he does happen to be talented, he really does let that go to his head.
• Team Rocket Wins: Roy was nearly always on the receiving end in his bouts against Lanolin. He did get the last laugh in one Sunday strip however, when the two get into a crow/bleat match and Roy blasts her with a speaker system. Incidentally this ended up one of the first Quickies in Garfield and Friends.
  Lanolin: Not fair!
  Roy: Welcome to the 20th century, fuzz face.
• Tempting Fate: Trolling Lanolin or not watching what he says to/around her tends to backfire on him. Also, trolling Orson can result in this (even when he doesn't step out of Alleged Boss mode, Orson's smart enough to really mess with Roy in return).
• Token Evil Teammate: Out of the main cast, Roy seems to be the only devious, scheming, and mean-spirited character on the farm.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In the comics, unfortunately. Check Flanderization above .
• Took a Level in Kindness: While his Comic version took a turn for the worse and got crueler, Cartoon Roy took a turn for the better and got nicer. Even more than the earlier seasons. He's still a mischievous prankster of course, but in the later seasons, there were several episodes, where he wasn't even trying to make pranks or cause much trouble. In one episode, "Who Done It?" he was saying "Hi!" to one of the dog brothers and being friendly and in "Badtime Story" he (like his friends) just wanted to read a story to Booker and Sheldon. Hmmm...Must have been from hanging out with Wade so much.
• Tsundere: (Non-physically abusive Harsh Type) He's mainly this to Wade. He's shown deredere moments to him even if he wouldn't admit it and Wade seems pretty well aware of it.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: He's not a bully, but he’s still an arrogant, rude, and assholish prankster who constantly likes playing jokes on his friends and usually gets his repercussions that serves him right. Despite that, he can tell when he’s gone too far and doesn’t mean any actual harm and will immediately pull the plug on any prank where someone could get hurt as a result.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: He's pretty much this to the cast. Roy's definitely this with Wade, especially in the cartoon version. He's always making pranks to scare Wade, though he's never usually physically abusive of him (and Wade was starting to catch on to him in the later seasons) and he really does care about Wade in his own "Roy Rooster" way. Other times, they're arguing and there are other times when they actually act like friends. They had many love/hate friendship moments that leads to funny moments. Over the seasons, their relationship evolved to the point where they had the closest friendship with each other, besides with Orson.

Wade Duck

Wade Duck

"I'm sorry, Orson! I'm afraid of everything!"

Voiced by: Howard Morris

• Absurd Phobia: FAR too many to count. Name anything innocuous or harmless and chances are good Wade has worried about it posing a threat at one point. One exception was him not fearing a penguin, giving it a gentle tap on the head (it was an Imagine Spot, but still).
• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: His only article of clothing is an inner tube.
• Accidental Hero: Occasionally, Wade could end up accidentally saving the day. One example is "Flop Goes the Weasel", where he accidentally saved the chickens from the weasel.
• Acrophobic Bird: He's a duck, that's afraid of heights and flying.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: He didn't appear in the comic strip until the August 4, 1986 strip, while Garfield and Friends made him an established member of the main cast from the very start, even giving him a major role in the first U.S. Acres segment "Wanted: Wade".
• Becoming the Mask: Happened to him in "Snow Wade and the 77 Dwarves"...
• Born Unlucky: One of the main reasons in the strip for his paranoia and depression. This was even noted by Orson in an episode where a feather caused a horrifying chain reaction. Orson was so freaked out that he started acting like Wade for the remainder of the episode.
• Butt-Monkey: Bad luck just happens to him for no reason.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: He has shades of this.
• Cowardly Lion: That's what he's known for. A cowardly craven duck, however, he can show to have courage and face his fears, when he puts his mind to it. And at times, when his friends are in trouble, he tends to put his fears aside and help them. In "Rainy Day Robot", he even forgot at first, that he's afraid of rain, when hanging out with Roy.
• Cross-Cast Role: Wade's usually a victim of this in the fairy tale themed episodes. This may be because there's no one else around to fit this role to play The Ingenue, and the only main female character, Lanolin, is more suited for characters like Mulan. Wade's best-known example of this trope is in "Snow Wade and the 77 Dwarves".
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Roy's able to occasionally bring this up in Wade, like when he woke the gang up too many times.
  • In "Garfield's Defense 2", he uses a SIGN POST to attack the alien monsters in some of the level.
• Deadpan Snarker: Not to Orson's or Roy's level, but he is capable of pulling sarcastic remarks, especially if it's something about his fear.
• Disembodied Eyebrows: He has eyebrows that float above his head.
• The Ditz: There are times when he just doesn't think and he easily gets tricked by Roy's pranks and Paper-Thin Disguise.
  Wade: You tricked me!
  Roy: You were stupid enough to let me trick you!
• Establishing Character Moment: Wade made his debut by running in fear and screaming "Arrrgh!"
  Orson: Was that my imagination or did a duck with an inner tube just race in out of the rain?
  Wade: Duck? Inner tube?! Oh-no! Where?!
  Orson: And does he appear a bit nervous?
• Expressive Accessory: The duck head on his inner tube always matches his expression.
• Fluffy Tamer: Believe it or not! In "Show Stoppers", he has a big fearsome looking bull who he calls Fido, who ended up chasing Orson's mean brothers away.
• Gratuitous Spanish: Occasionally speaks in this in the cartoon, with his most common phrase being "Uno momento!".
• Ironic Fear: Wade's biggest fear is water.
  Orson: I thought ducks liked water.
  Wade: Well, just between you and me, ducks aren't very bright.
  Orson: I think I know what you mean.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: Although cartoon Wade's not very smart, he is shown to be good-hearted. The difference between him and and both versions of Bo was that cartoon Bo was a Genius Ditz and Comic strip Bo was a ditz, while both versions of Wade were near Too Dumb to Live level.
• Lovable Coward: Other than his usual cowardice and strangeness, he's a pretty likable guy.
• Meaningful Name: "Wade" as in swimming in shallow water, befitting an aquaphobic duck.
• Nervous Wreck: To go along with the cowardice.
• Nice Guy: He's not usually mean-spirited and is normally friendly with his friends or people he don't consider his enemies (if he's not freaking out first). With Roy on the other hand, it varies.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When he's not scared of something, everyone notices. One exception is when he wasn't afraid of a penguin in an Imagine Spot and gave him an affectionate pat on the head.
• Odd Friendship: With Roy especially later on in the show.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: His sensitive guy to Roy's manly man.
• Too Dumb to Live: Happens a lot to him both the comic and cartoon version. Once, in "Snow Wade and the 77 dwarves", he ate an apple even when he was told it was poison.
• Tsundere: Sweet Type with Roy, mainly in the cartoon version. He's nice and friendly with the rest of his friends. Arguing/competing against Roy is surprisingly the only thing(s) Wade's not usually afraid of!
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Roy, mainly in the cartoon version, to the point where over the seasons they had the closest friendship besides with Orson.
• Wild Take: Well, being a craven cowardly duck, naturally, he will make cartoony reactions and then can run off going, "HEEEELLP!!"

Booker

Booker Chick

Voiced by: Frank Welker

• Adaptational Early Appearance: He and Sheldon are seen with the rest of the U.S. Acres cast from the very start in the Garfield and Friends segments, when the arc of Orson hatching them and taking them in didn't occur in the comic strip until May 1986.
• Badass Adorable: A small cute-looking chick who is shown to be very crafty when he plans something.

• Bratty Half-Pint: Occasionally mouthy or mischievous.

• Happily Adopted: By Orson.
• Kids Are Cruel: Not nearly as much of a Jerkass as Lanolin, but he still has moments where he shows a disturbing sadistic streak, particularly when it involves the worms.
• Meaningful Name: His name is due to Orson's love of books.
  Booker: I'm just glad you don't love kumquats.
• Mouthy Bird: He started out with a regular beak, but Art Evolution eventually made it look more like a nose.

• Team Rocket Wins: Since the relation between Booker and the worms is Road Runner vs. Coyote, with Booker himself playing the role of the coyote, any occasion where he manages to catch a worm is this trope. The November 2, 1987 strip, for example, has the worm become flattened into an accordion-like shape and played like an accordion by Booker.
  Worm: I've never been so humiliated.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Worms, which is why he always hunts them.

Sheldon

Sheldon

Voiced by: Frank Welker

• Adaptational Early Appearance: He and his brother weren't introduced in the comic strip until May 1986, while the Animated Adaptation on Garfield and Friends had the two appear among the main cast from the very start.
• Brainy Baby: In both the strip and the show, it's stated he refused to hatch after reading some newspapers highlighting the world's disasters^note specifically, wars, the economy, and the NBC fall schedule before he was born. As Booker stated, he’s no ordinary egg.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Not as much as Wade, but he definitely has some odd ideas and convictions that show up from time to time.

• Clown-Car Base: Sheldon's shell purportedly contains all modern conveniences, including a microwave, barbecue, pinball machine, ping-pong table, and enough space to hang pictures on the walls.
• Deadpan Snarker: Due to the wackiness with the other characters or certain situations, he can have moments, where he pulls a snarky comment.
• Eggshell Clothing: As you can see, he lives in his egg, with only his legs exposed. When Orson tried to hatch him in "Shell Shocked Sheldon", it was revealed that there was another shell under the original, meaning Sheldon would always be an egg with legs.

• Innocent Prodigy: He's intelligent and he really isn't as mischievous as his brother, Booker.
• Interspecies Romance: Sheldon hinted to like Blue.
• Meaningful Name: Booker suggested the name due to Sheldon staying in his shell. Orson liked it; Sheldon not so much.
• Puppy Love: He hinted to like Chloe in the episode "Snow Wade and the 77 Dwarfs, part 2".

Lanolin Sheep

Lanolin Sheep

Voiced by: Julie Payne

• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Wears a bow.
• Action Girl: Despite being set up as a Damsel in Distress, Lanolin often ends up rescuing Orson in his own fantasies.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: A minor one is that her and Bo's eyelids are peach-ish in the comics and (presumably in Lanolin's case, given she wears blue eyeshadow) white in the cartoon. In the comics and web games her bow is pink while in the cartoon her bow is blue and matches her blue eyeshadow. Lanolin's bow is also blue on the back of the first compilation book.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: She and her brother had an Early-Bird Cameo in the July 20, 1986 strip before they made their official debuts in the January 15 and January 19 strips of 1987 and were properly introduced to Orson in the January 21 strip of that same year. The U.S. Acres cartoon that was a segment on Garfield and Friends had them appear as part of the cast at the very beginning, with the twin sheep having cameos in the first U.S. Acres episode "Wanted: Wade" and having their first speaking roles in the second U.S. Acres episode "Unidentified Flying Orson".
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Lanolin is still grumpy and standoffish in Garfield and Friends, though Character Development lead to more redeeming moments.
• Adaptational Wimp: To a degree, she's still a force to reckoned with in the cartoons, but not nearly as violent and fearsome as in the comics. This is especially prevailent in her rivalry with Roy, purely by virtue that there is a "rivalry" to speak of, anytime Roy was dumb enough to pick on her in the comics ended in swift brutality for him, while in the cartoons Lanolin is usually limited to snark and pranks, making it more a two-way Escalating War.
• Badass Adorable: While she may be a grump, she's still a cute sheep who can mop the floor with anybody.
• Berserk Button: Being harassed by Roy will set her off immediately.
• Big Sister Instinct: Whenever Bo is in trouble, she’ll come to the rescue.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Averted. Lanolin makes no secret of the fact that she's abrasive, despite literally being in sheep's clothing.
• Butt-Monkey: Even she is not safe from slapstick as she gets pranked by Roy and once rolled her wool up her arm that it hurt.
• Cute Bruiser: She's an adorable sheep, yet can easily win a fight, as shown in the comics.
• Damsel in Distress: In Orson's fantasies for him to rescue, but in reality, Lanolin would most likely end up rescuing Orson, instead.
• Deadpan Snarker: She can be pretty witty, especially at her brother Bo.
• Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: Typically has these in both the comic and the cartoon to show off her bad attitude. Bonus in that in the cartoon it shows off her bright blue eyeshadow, which matches her bow.
• Ears as Hair and Girlish Pigtails: Her ear things resemble pigtails.
• Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: She's the Grumpy to Bo's Gleeful. She's angry, abusive and mean, in contrast to most of the other characters.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She may be pessimistic and grumpy, but there are times when she's nice to her brother and Orson.
• Jerkass Has a Point: In "It's a Wonderful Wade", when she tells Orson that she's worried about their crop of vegetables getting stolen, Orson assures her that he put Wade in charge of guarding the silo. Lanolin tells him that's exactly why she's worried. While she may be one of the series' rudest characters, she knows that Wade is an extreme coward who would likely hide from any thieves he would encounter instead of stopping them. Sure enough, the crop gets stolen by Gort, Wart, and Mort as a result of Wade's cowardice (fortunately, Wade manages to redeem himself by helping Orson recover the vegetables).
• Karma Houdini: Compared to Roy, Lanolin could regularly aggress the other animals without worry of consequences. This trope was downplayed in the cartoons due to a blend of Adaptational Nice Guy and the show's more Aesop-friendly format.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The loud, aggressive, and grumpy Masculine Girl to her brother's and Orson's passive, understanding and easygoing Feminine Boys.
• Meaningful Name: Lanolin is a type of wax secreted by sheep.
• Mirroring Factions: Any rare time she and Roy are on the same page it usually concerns their curt pessimism towards the others.
• Only Sane Man: When Orson's not himself and gets sucked into foolishness, she takes over his role.
• Out of Focus: She appears the least often of the main characters, mainly in seasons six and seven.
• A Pig Named Pork Chop: She is named after an oil extracted from wool and used for soaps and cosmetics.
• Perpetual Frowner: In stark contrast with her twin brother. Though you wouldn't know from the picture.
• Pet the Dog: Besides her brother Bo, there are times when she gives this to Orson, mainly in the cartoon.
• Polar Opposite Twins and Sibling Yin-Yang: As shown in the other tropes, she's the more grumpy, brash sibling.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: She is the athletic, angry, and (mostly in the comics) aggressive Red to Bo's artistic, calm, and passive Blue.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Roy, his obnoxious humour clashing with her ugly temperament. More prominent in the comics, though did occur in the cartoons to a lesser degree.
• The Smurfette Principle: Most of the time. In Garfield and Friends, she's the only female who regularly appeared in either short (Nermal is male, Liz only showed up occasionally, and Penelope was only in the last three seasons). The writers were going to add in Chloe, but they forgot. The strip had Blue, but she disappeared by the time the cartoon began.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's more Ice than 'sugar', but she does bring hints of 'sugar' moments towards Bo and (mainly in the cartoon) Orson.
• Supreme Chef: In the cartoon, she's very good at making cakes and pies.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: The pigtails, the bow, and eyelashes. Blue eye-shadow in the cartoon.
• Token Evil Teammate: Next to Roy, she isn't as nice and easy-going as the other characters and is grumpy, abusive, and mean.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Lanolin is the aggressive, loud and athletic tomboy to Blue's polite and graceful girly girl.
• Vague Age: She's seemingly an adult, but a few strips have her refer to herself as a "girl lamb", and in at least one episode of the animated series she is referred to as "Lanolin Lamb" instead of being referred to as "Lanolin Sheep".

Bo Sheep

Bo Sheep

Voiced by: Frank Welker

• Accent Adaptation: In the Latin American Spanish dub, he speaks with a thick Chilean accent, as the dub of the series was done in Chile. Also, he elongates the vowels a bit, in order for his voice to sound like a sheep.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Two minor ones. His and Lanolin's eyelids are peach-ish in the comics, but (presumably in Lanolin's case, since she wears blue eyeshadow) white in the cartoon. Also, while in most of the comics Bo's ears are peach-ish on the outside and white on the inside, in most of the cartoon his ears are peach-ish on the outside but instead pink on the inside.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: He and his sister didn't appear in the comic until an Early-Bird Cameo in the July 20, 1986 strip and made their official debuts in the January 15, 1987 and January 19, 1987 strips before being properly introduced to Orson in the January 21, 1987 strip. Garfield and Friends has them as established members of the cast at the very beginning, having them cameo in the first U.S. Acres episode "Wanted: Wade" before giving their first speaking roles in the next episode "Unidentified Flying Orson".
• Adaptation Personality Change: In the strip, he was The Ditz whose stupidity and hyper enthusiasm were his defining traits. In the cartoon, he was a mellow Genius Ditz who talked in a surfer accent.
  • Adaptational Intelligence: He was also made much smarter compared to the comic strip.
• Beware the Nice Ones: As shown in the episode "Keeping Cool". He acted carefree when Orson's brothers' tried to pick on him. But DON'T threaten or mess with his friends! He got rid of Orson's brothers by having them be dragged from a bus.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Both versions of Bo tend to live in their own world.
• Cuddle Bug: Here and especially here.
• The Ditz: In the strip. Although in the cartoon he wasn't as dumb as in the strip, he did have his random moments such as in the episode "Fast Food" where he was cooking for his hungry, waiting friends, one strand of spaghetti/one pea at a time, much to their dismay, or "The Bo Show" where he tries to enact everyone's role in the episode single handed.
• Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: Often has these in the cartoon to show off his mellowness and later on his relative dimness.
• Genius Ditz: His cartoon counterpart. He still has some dopey habits (especially from gags adapted from the comics), but seems much more erudite and laid back than he is in the comics.
• G-Rated Stoner: To an extent in the cartoon: he talks like a Surfer Dude with some hippie/'60s slang thrown in for good measure, is very artistic, loves rock music, and is incredibly chill and mellow.
• Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: He's the Gleeful to Lanolin's Grumpy. He's friendly and easy-going, rarely ever losing his cool.
• Keet: In the strip, he's more lively and perky than in the cartoon.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: He's the good, but not too bright sibling in the strip after all. Subverted in the cartoon while although, he is still good-hearted, he's more of a Genius Ditz.
• Literal-Minded: Bo once went ice fishing and caught a block of ice.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Orson and cartoon Bo are the passive, understanding and easygoing Feminine Boys to Lanolin's loud, aggressive, and grumpy Masculine Girl.
• Mellow Fellow: In the cartoon, he's rather slow to anger. He doesn't even react to Orson's brothers unraveling his wool to the point he's nude below the waist in "Keeping Cool".
• Nice Guy: In stark contrast with his twin sister, he's very personable and friendly.
• Perpetual Smiler: In stark contrast with his twin sister, it is rare to not see him smiling.
• Polar Opposite Twins and Sibling Yin-Yang: He's the more perky (calmer in the cartoon) and nicer one of the siblings.
• Punny Name: If Bo sheep didn't already clue you in, it's a pun for Bo Peep.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's the blue to the rest of the adult males' red in the cartoon, but he's the Red to Orson's Blue in the comic. His calm, passive, and artistic self also functions as the Blue to Lanolin's aggressive, angry, and athletic Red.
• Retcanon: Downplayed, but a bit of Bo's Surfer Dude slang seeped into the comics on odd occasions later on.
• Surfer Dude: In the cartoon, he speaks slang and like he's from the beach.
• Sweet Sheep: He's a friendly fellow, unlike his sister.
• Too Dumb to Live: In the strip, but both versions of Wade would give him a run for his money.
• Vague Age: He appears to be an adult, but his age is uncertain by proxy of being Lanolin's twin, as a few strips have her refer to herself as a "girl lamb", and in at least one episode of the animated series she is referred to as "Lanolin Lamb" instead of being referred to as "Lanolin Sheep".
• Verbal Tic: He ends many of his sentences with "man" in the cartoon.

Blue and Cody

Blue and Cody

• Adapted Out: Neither of them appeared in Garfield and Friends, though they were indirectly referenced a few times.
• Amazing Techni Color Wild Life: Blue is one of the few (if only) main characters with an unrealistic color on her.
• Beware of Vicious Dog: That's what Cody likes to imagine himself as, but he's really basically lovable.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Blue is friendly and polite, but if Cody goes too far with chasing the animals, she won't hesitate to threaten him, and he better listen.
• Cats Are Mean: Averted. Blue is easily one of the friendliest and most considerate characters in the cast.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Both of them disappeared in mid-1988, months before Garfield and Friends premiered. They never appeared in the cartoon, likely due to the confusion that might have arisen from them being in the same series as Garfield and Odie, who don't speak; Cody did appear in a few of the U.S. Acres storybooks.
• Closer to Earth: Blue is smarter and more sensible than Cody.
• Covers Always Lie: Although Blue appeared at the back of the U.S. Acres storybooks, she never appeared in any of them except for the Christmas book, though she didn't appear at the back cover there.
• Cute Kitten: Blue, in case it wasn't obvious.
• Dogs Are Dumb: Cody; he's friendly (albeit a bit boisterous), but not very bright.
• Female Feline, Male Mutt: Blue, of course, is the girl kitty, and Cody the boy puppy.

• She's a Man in Japan: In the Norwegian translation of the strip, Blue is named "Tom" and is referred to as male.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Blue is the polite and graceful girly girl to Lanolin's loud, aggressive, and athletic tomboy.
• True Blue Femininity: It's said in Blue's bio that she's graceful.

The Worms

The Worms

One of the worms, named Filbert.

• Artistic License – Biology: Real-life worms are hermaphrodites but some have specified genders. They still need to become couples in order to perpetuate the species.
  • Also, real worms don't have teeth.

• Comically Missing the Point: It was raining and Estelle told Filbert he should do something about the hole in the roof. When he told her it was the front door, she told him he should then do something about the hole at the front door. Then he flat-out told her the front door was a hole and she said she wasn't in the mood for games.
• Demoted to Extra: In the cartoon.
• Happily Married: In the comic version, they always show some of the worms having families.
• Jerkass: The worms sometimes pick on Sheldon too, even when he hasn't even done anything to them.
• Road Runner vs. Coyote: They're the Roadrunners to Booker's Coyote.

Mort, Gort, and Wart

Mort, Gort, and Wart

Wart

Mort

Gort

Voiced by: Frank Welker (Mort), Thom Huge (Gort), Howard Morris (Wart)

• AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle: All three of them tend to mispronounce the word "vegetables" as "veg-GEE-TAH-bules".
• Adaptational Late Appearance: Their comic strip counterparts were present in the earlier strips before being phased out in the arc of Orson having to set out on his own, while their animated counterparts didn't appear on Garfield and Friends until "Keeping Cool", the ninth U.S. Acres episode.
• Ascended Extra: In the strip, they appeared only for the first three weeks, without names. On Garfield and Friends, they were frequently recurring villains.
• Big Brother Bully: They always picked on Orson even when he was a piglet and whenever they come by to visit.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: Gort is the big, Wart is the thin, and Mort is the short, but all three are much bigger than Orson by comparison.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Despite being prominent antagonists on the show, they disappeared from the strip very early on.
• Divergent Character Evolution: They were nearly identical in the original comic strip, but the cartoon made them more diverse by making Mort the shortest, Wart the tallest with buck teeth and giving Gort yellow eyes as well as rounded teeth.
• The Dreaded: In their first few appearances on the cartoon, just saying "Your brothers are here" or some such was enough to send Orson into a panic. He adopted a more relaxed attitude towards them over time, though.
• Evil Counterpart: Like Bo in the cartoon, Wart seems to be the more laid back one of the trio, but he's still just as malicious as his other two brothers.
• Evil Uncle: Booker and Sheldon aren't spared by their wrongdoings, and since they are Orson's older brothers and Booker and Sheldon are Orson's adoptive sons, that means Booker and Sheldon are technically Mort, Gort and Wart's nephews.
• Fat Bastard: They're fat and they awful bothers and thieves, to Orson and his friends.
• Fat Idiot: For example, in the episode, "Mystery Guest", they were too stupid to realize the mystery guest was Garfield despite the Paper-Thin Disguise.
• Jerkass: They're mean and nasty and whenever they're not (just) picking on Orson and sometimes his friends, they steal their crops and sometimes tie the farm animals up or lock them somewhere, so they won't get in their way.
• Leitmotif: Their appearances in the cartoon were often accompanied by In the Hall of the Mountain King.
• Named by the Adaptation: They weren't given names in the comic strip version.
• Sinister Swine: A cruel group of pigs who attempt to steal the farm's crops.
• Terrible Trio: Gort seems to be the leader.
• Verbal Tic: Mort snorts during his spoken dialogue.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Gort is depicted with yellow eyes in the cartoon.

The Weasel

The Weasel

"What are [Orson and Roy] yammering about? Not that I care, as long as I get some nice, juicy chickens to fricassee."

Voiced by: Gregg Berger

A weasel who is constantly trying to steal the chickens. He has also tried to eat Sheldon on occasion.

• AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle: He tends to place more emphasis on the second syllable of the word "chickens".
• Big Eater: Implied to be this, given the quantity of chickens he (tries to) steal every time he appears.
• The Bus Came Back: After getting replaced by the Wolf in season five, the Weasel returns in season six, having learned of his absence and replacement.
• Canon Foreigner: He was never in the strip.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Complete with actual business cards.
• The Dreaded: The one that Wade fears the most. While Wade usually just runs away in panic, he stands in a shock stuttering the weasel's name for a long time, never seen with the Wolf, the Fox, or Orson's brothers.
• Leitmotif: His appearances are often accompanied by "Pop Goes the Weasel".
• No Name Given: He was never given a name. They just call him the weasel. However, a line in "Deja Vu" implies that "The Weasel" is his actual name.
  Wade: "It's...it's..."
  Weasel: "Watch. Five bucks says he can't get my whole name out."
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: During season five, he was briefly replaced by a wolf.
• Rigged Contest: He rigged the election in "Election Daze" between Roy and Orson so that every hen who voted for Orson would fall into a trap and right into the Weasel's bag.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Chickens.
• Wicked Weasel: Well, he is a weasel and he always tends to steal the chickens.

Aloysius Pig

Aloysius Pig

"We don't tolerate that kind of thing at (DA DUM!) The Network!"

Voiced by: Kevin Meaney

Aloysius is a recurring character in the show's final season, who according to Mark Evanier is Orson's cousin. In his first appearance, he was hired as a substitute for Orson while he was away on vacation, but he later appeared in two other episodes as a studio accountant and the network executive of SUUS. He often nitpicks things that he does not find to his liking, from nursery rhymes having bad behavior he worries that kids will copy to people questioning his choices. He is often seen with a notepad and pencil he uses to write down information on.

• Actor Allusion: Being Kevin Meaney as a pig, Aloysius shares a few similarities with him:
  • He said two of his catchphrases, "That's not right!" and "I don't care!" in the show.
  • A running gag in his routines is that he would mock his parents. In Temp Trouble, his mom appears to take him home for misbehaving, and she's voiced by Kevin Meaney with his voice electronically pitched up.
  • He also sang in his routines, and at the end of Kiddie Korner, Roy asks him to sing a song, claiming that his "magnificent singing voice is the only one that can do it justice". Aloysius responds to this by smiling and saying he does have the music in him.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: His short size makes him this to every other character he talks to on the show except for Booker and Sheldon. "Kiddie Korner" shows us that he's roughly the same size as Odie.
• Canon Foreigner: He never appeared in the strip.
• Catchphrase: "That's not right!"
• Cutting Corners: In "The Discount of Monte Cristo", Orson tries to tell the story of The Count of Monte Cristo to Roy and Wade, but Aloysius is hired to keep him from going over the show's budget. Among the cuts Aloysius makes are firing the orchestra for Orson's musical number, firing the actors playing the bit characters (and having Roy and Wade take their places), using the same backgrounds for Edmond Dantes' jail cell and that of the prisoner next door, and having the backgrounds be uncolored. Eventually, Orson reaches his breaking point and Roy helps him get back at Aloysius by having him tell the story of Robinson Crusoe with Aloysius in the title role. Aloysius ends up stranded on a desert island, and Orson, Roy, and Wade refuse to pay for any possible chance of him getting off it.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: He wears a green vest but no pants.
• Ink-Suit Actor: He was voiced by Kevin Meaney and shares Meaney's Catchphrase, "That's not right!"
• Jerkass: He's quick to give other characters demerits for petty reasons.
• The Nicknamer: For some reason, he never says any character's names and seems to only call the characters by their species (like calling Roy "Rooster" or Wade "the duck").
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: Many times to mock Executive Meddling or Screwed by the Network.
• Once per Episode: Episodes where he appears tend to have a few things that always happen, mostly in the post-Temp Trouble ones:
  • Aloysius pulling something out of the back of his jacket.
  • A strange, fart-like sound effect being played at some point.
  • Aloysius referencing a TV show to describe a situation he's facing (Flipper in "The Discount of Monte Cristo" and Masterpiece Theater in "Kiddie Korner".)
  • Aloysius saying "Good, good!" whenever he likes something.
  • Aloysius' hat coming off (usually when he's surprised or is jumping in anger, but in "Kiddie Korner", he took it off when he was mad at Orson).
  • Roy calling him a nickname that teases him, usually plot-related ("pork belly" and "Mr. Demerit" in "Temp Trouble", "Mr. Cost Cutter" in "The Discount of Monte Cristo", and "Network Boy" in "Kiddie Korner"), though he does eventually call him "Mr. Aloysius" in the latter episode. (one of the only two to appear in all three episodes).
  • The characters coming up with a plan to get rid of him (the other running gag that appears in all 3 episodes):
    • "Temp Trouble": Roy called his mom to come get him and tell him to clean his room.
    • "The Discount Of Monte Cristo": Orson reads Robinson Crusoe with Aloysius as the titular role. Aloysius seems pleased, but reveals he's familiar with the story and asks for Friday and the rowboat to come rescue him, with Orson, Roy and Wade saying those items were "too expensive".
    • "Kiddie Korner": Aloysius is asked to sing a nursery rhyme about himself, and the last line, "lemon meringue", causes him to realize that he will be hit with pies.
  • Before the characters go with the plan in the later episodes, Aloysius will be seen in some sort of office.
• Political Overcorrectness: He does this to nursery rhymes in "Kiddie Korner", complaining about even the most minor details being offensive (like thinking "tuffet" is a naughty word). His characterization seems to be The Horseshoe Effect personified (but very downplayed, as there's minimal reference to anything political).

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