We hate Mondays. And we also hate these stinky clumps of kitty litter.
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The comic strip
- Demetrios: For many fans, the short but strenuous time in 2006 when Garfield started its over-reliance on the title character ending each strip with "We're bachelors, baby!" Sure it was funny the first couple of times, but after an entire week, well, it's an Overused Running Gag.
- timmyturner98: The "we're bachelors baby" line doesn't even make sense now because Jon is successfully dating Liz now. Speaking of which, there are quite a few fans that say Jon finally getting a girlfriend was the start of Garfield's downhill turn.
- AnarchyBalsac: Garfield had the infamous strips from 1989 where Garfield is shown to be in an empty, long-abandoned house. It was supposed to be a Halloween scare, but it ended up being an Inferred Holocaust of the worst kind. It's resolved with Garfield willing himself back to reality, which, for good reason, has spawned Wild Mass Guessing that Garfield is imagining the events of the strip while he slowly starves to death in an empty house. Word of God states this isn't true, yet no full explanation as to what happened, or if it is even canon has come forth.
- tvtroper98: For me, this
Garfield strip. To explain, Garfield is walking around the room, when he hears a message on Jon's answering machine. It's a hot cheerleader who Jon met at a pizza parlor, saying that she can't stop thinking about him and her phone number. Garfield then destroys the machine. Why? Because of the fact that Jon had pizza without him. Now, Jon is a Butt-Monkey, especially when it comes to dating, but this strip is so cruel to Jon, subverting Throw the Dog a Bone so hard, it could almost be a Tear Jerker moment. At least Jon and Liz are an Official Couple now. - TheSnowSquirrel: I hate a similar strip that involves Garfield eating when the phone rings. He picks it up and it turns out to be Jon's date asking what time he'll pick her up. Garfield simply lets out a huge burp into the receiver. Last panel we see Jon singing to himself "Got a date with an angel," while the Jerkass of a cat walks by smiling saying "Not anymore!"
- kablammin45: For me, it's this Garfield right here, Jon says he's worried that he might not be good enough for Liz. Garfield responds: "Haha, Oh come on Jon, Might?" Yes, Garfield has a tendency to be a pain to Jon, but his answer is just a little too mean, even for Garfield.
- Mic 1988: In one of the early strips it shows Jon and Garfield on a bench in the park when a couple walks by, Garfield whistles at the lady causing the man to threaten Jon who claims he didn't do anything. They go to leave when Garfield again whistles causing Jon to get beaten up despite him claiming he didn't do it while Garfield looks on smiling! Then when they leave and Jon's beaten up another couple walks by and Garfield whistles again! Frankly the fat blob deserves any kind of bad things Jon does to him after that!
- Midna: It's not for Garfield being a jerkass or anything, but the comic for February 26, 2010 has got to be one of the least funny the strip has ever done. Garfield is playing a video game, and it plays music and tells him that he's "saved the princess". And... that's it. That's literally it. That's the entire punchline. This was apparently part of a week-long arc where Jon becomes frustrated with a game he's playing, only to become even more exasperated when he discovers that even his pets (even Odie) can beat it. In that context it is kind of amusing, but I'm still putting it here because, read on its own outside of a print collection that could provide context, it just looks like the punchline is supposed to be "Ha ha, video games exist!"
The animated series/specials
- Pie Queen: I thought The Garfield Show was a pretty decent show (it's no Garfield and Friends but it's still an okay show), but one episode really rubbed me the wrong way: "King Nermal". In this awful episode, Nermal is staying at Garfield's house much to Garfield and Odie's displeasure. He pretty much annoys the living daylights out of the two to the point that Garfield had it and threw him out the pet door. After that, Nermal "breaks his leg" and Jon blames Garfield and Odie for being mean to Nermal. As punishment, they have treat the kitten like royalty by doing whatever the hell Nermal tells them to do. Late on we find out that Nermal was faking his injury this whole time when we see him walking with the cast on. Garfield tries to get Jon to turn around to see that he's faking it, but every time Jon turns around Nermal gives him a cute innocent look on his face, so Jon is not the least bit convinced. To make matters worse, there was a part where Nermal's bandages come off, and Jon the idiot thinks that Nermal healed quickly. What? Garfield finally had it and decided to take matters to his own hands. Unfortunately Garfield and Odie fall down the stairs and injure themselves. Now they have full body casts. After all that mess Nermal gets away with every bad thing he did and poor Garfield and Odie suffer in one of the worst Downer Endings in the whole show. This episode was awful. What were they thinking when they wrote this episode. The sad thing is that Nermal was actually my favorite character in the comic strips and in Garfield and Friends. Why did this show had to make Nermal so much of a dick? Why? He was actually likable in the other cartoon. Turning him to this much of a jerkass was why I didn't enjoy this show as much as older one. Seriously, they should have kept Nermal's personality from the older cartoon.
- heartauthor: I grew up watching the animated Garfield Specials, so they all hold a special place in my heart. However, one scene in Garfield on the Town just rubs me the wrong way no matter how I try to think of it. Basically, after Garfield goes missing on the way to a visit to the vet, Jon decides to call Liz at the pet hospital. In this scene, not once does Jon act how he usually acts around Liz; he doesn't even ask her for a date once. Instead, he simply tells her that Garfield is missing, and expresses concern that he might get "hit by a car or something." Liz's response? To say in an annoyed tone "Well, in that case, you don't want a pet hospital. You want a tow truck!" and slam her phone down, ending the conversation right then and there. So, in other words, Liz (a veterinarian, mind you) just told a concerned pet owner that she didn't give a crap that his pet was missing and potentially injured. Wow. Thank goodness the rest of the special is a Heartwarming Moment; otherwise that one scene might have ruined the whole thing.
- Grotadmorv: Garfield and Friends is pretty hit-or-miss, but one of the worst episodes has to be "Happy Garfield Day." The plot is this episode is that Jon goes crazy over being reminded about Garfield's birthday. Wherever he goes, he sees a reminder that it's coming. So... Jon doesn't want to hear about his own pet's birthday? They couldn't even stretch this plot out for a 7-minute cartoon, because the last three minutes of the episode are some repetitive parody of The 12 Days of Christmas. It's very grating and adds nothing to the already bad episode.
