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- Any scenes between Garfield and his mother in Garfield on the Town. They may have one of the healthiest and most loving mother-son relationships you'll ever see.
- Garfield lunging at the vicious panther in Garfield in the Rough to fend it off from Jon and Odie.
- Jon straight up tells Garfield and Odie to run and save themselves, and despite him and Odie making it into the car, they refuse to escape without Garfield.
- In Garfield's Halloween Adventure, Odie saves Garfield from drowning. As they reach safety, an exhausted Garfield tells him with complete sincerity, "I owe you one, old buddy", then later thanks him again by giving him his half of the trick or treat candy—"seeing as how you saved my life about eighteen zillion times tonight." As Odie licks him in gratitude, Garfield mutters, "Yeah, I love you too. Now get out of here."
- Garfield mourns Odie after he rides a car into a volcano to stop it from erupting in Garfield in Paradise. It just shows how much he cared about his best friend.
- A Garfield Christmas:
- A rather emotional scene of Grandma discussing how much she misses her late husband, especially the version that has more atmospheric lighting, with the room only lit by the moonlight coming through the window.
- Garfield sums up the meaning of Christmas in a simple sentence: "Christmas: It's not the giving, it's not the getting, it's the loving." Garfield doesn't need to "learn the true meaning of Christmas" or "awaken some long-forgotten corner of his heart" or any of that, it's made plain that he knows it and agrees with it right from the start and he's just too sarcastic to say it out loud.
- Odie makes Garfield a Christmas present - a slapped together back-scratching post. Garfield genuinely loves it and gives Odie a big hug. The entire family d'awws at it.Garfield: "Odie, sometimes you amaze me. This is the best present a cat could ever get. Now and then, you're something special."
- Garfield's present to Grandma is her 50-year-old collection of her now-dead husband's love letters from when they were first courting, that Garfield found in a box in the barn while trying to figure out what Odie was making.
- "Garfield: His 9 Lives", the animated special:
- The ending sequence, especially when Garfield basically lies to God and tells him that (a) He was on his first life and (b) Odie is a cat too so that Odie would also get 9 lives back as well (paired with "Funny" as Odie tries to act like a cat) Once the two of them have all their lives back, Garfield and Odie dance in a circle, hand in hand before embracing as they are sent back to the universe that is the main canon. Hilariously, God then hints He knew that Odie wasn't a cat, but He did that for them because "We've got to stick together, you know..." as His eyes briefly shine like a cat's.
- The sixth life, "Diana's Piano
", detailing the relationship between Diana and her owner. It culminated in the owner performing a concert just for her pet as an adult, and Diana laying down on the keyboard to quietly pass away during the night.Sarah: It was Diana's testament to her love for my music.
- In Garfield Gets a Life, Jon brings a potential girlfriend, Mona, but it turns out that she is allergic to cats, so he has to make a choice: get rid of Garfield or break up with Mona. Jon chooses the latter and hugs Garfield, proving that even though the cat constantly gets on his nerves, he still loves him so much that he does not want to give up on him just because he's forced to choice between him and something or someone else, though Mona still agrees that they should see each other again as just friends.
