History Trivia / GarfieldAndFriends

CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Canadian Zap2It listings for the show omit the word "The" from the title of the U.S. Acres segment "The Impractical Joker", and mispell the episode name of "Fortune Kooky" as "Fortune Cookie". [[note]]The correct title, Fortune Kooky, is supposed to be a silly misspelling of "fortune cookie". [[/note]]

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: The Canadian Zap2It listings omits the word "The" from the title of the U.S. Acres segment "The Impractical Joker", and writes the title of "Fortune Kooky" as "Fortune Cookie". [[note]]The correct title, Fortune Kooky, is supposed to be a silly misspelling of "fortune cookie".[[/note]].
** In-universe example in Wanted: Wade. Wade rips the tag off Orson's couch, and for the rest of the episode, everyone says Wade ripped it off a pillow. Even Wade does this mistake at one point.

** In the spanish version, Booker and Sheldon, also one of Orson's brothers in the earlier episodes for some reason.

** In "Supermarket Mania", Paul Winchell voices the kind-hearted Gramps and the greedy Mr. Baggit; as a result, the former sounds like [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Tigger]], and the latter sounds like [[TheSmurfs Gargamel]].

** Lorenzo Music, who voiced Garfield himself, would probably be best recognized by older viewers as the unseen Carlton the Doorman on ''Rhoda'' and ''slightly'' younger viewers as [[TheRealGhostbusters Peter Venkman]] (at least until Dave Coulier took over) and [[AdventuresOfTheGummiBears Tummi Gummi]].

** Speaking of comedians, Eddie Lawrence played The Feline Philosopher, Imogene Coca played The Fairy Dogmother, and Kevin Meaney played Aloysius Pig.

* [[OneBookAuthor One Series Actor]]: Thom Huge (who voiced both Jon Arbuckle and Roy the Rooster) never did anything outside Garfield. Justified, as he was an employee of Paws, Inc. (Jim Davis's company) who apparently was meant to simply be a stand-in voice, but did such a great job they didn't want to replace him.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: As mentioned above, CBS wanted to cut the show's budget despite the fact that the show was still pulling in strong ratings, the creators wouldn't stand for it and decided to end the show rather then letting it suffer from the cutbacks.

* TalkingToHimself: Thom Huge played Binky the Clown, Jon Arbuckle and Roy Rooster.

* WebAnimation/YouTubePoop: Garfield segments have been popular source material ever since the very early YTP [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLQSacDS9JU Garfield's Mistake Spotting Challenge]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p43_FwL3dAQ U.]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSsOW86em6A S.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIDuPF4vui8 Acres]] ones have been growing in popularity. Popular Garfield YTPs include ''WebVideo/TheSpoogeMonster'' and {{Waxonator}}'s ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eBWqTaSnUc Variations On A Theme Of Poopanini]]".

** In "Supermarket Mania", Paul Winchell voices the kind-hearted Gramps and the greedy Mr. Baggit; as a result, the former sounds like [[WinnieThePooh Tigger]], and the latter sounds like [[TheSmurfs Gargamel]].

** Victoria Jackson (a ditzy, blond comedian known for doing headstands and body contortions while reciting poetry. She was in the movie ''{{UHF}}'' and was a cast member on ''SaturdayNightLive'' during its second GoldenAge [[note]]the one with Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Kevin Nealon, and Jan Hooks as cast members, along with three cast members from the 11th season who survived the cast and crew overhaul: Jon Lovitz, Nora Dunn, and Dennis Miller[[/note]]) played Garfield's on-again-off-again love interest, Penelope Pussycat.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: It was like this on CBS since its first day.

** In the past, Nickelodeon adored the show more than TinyToonAdventures when it was on Nick in the Afternoon by airing it back to back for an hour.

** After CBS stopped showing the show on Saturday mornings, people never got to see (or rewatch) the last three seasons until they finally came out on DVD.

** Victoria Jackson (a ditzy, blond comedian known for doing headstands and body contortions while reciting poetry. She was in the movie ''{{UHF}}'' and was a cast member on ''SaturdayNightLive'' during its second GoldenAge [[note]]the one with Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Kevin Nealon, and Jan Hooks as cast members, along with three cast members from the 11th season who survived the cast and crew overhaul: Jon Lovitz, Nora Dunn, and Dennis Miller[[/note]] played Garfield's on-again-off-again love interest, Penelope Pussycat.
** An example with two characters from this show: Roy Rooster sounds like Binky the Clown because they were voiced by the same voice actor!

** Also inverted when it and the rest of CBS' animated lineup were abruptly canceled in one fell swoop (see ScrewedByTheNetwork below).

** Amazon calls "The Discount of Monte Cristo" "The Discount of Monty Cristo" and Kiddie Korner "Kiddie Korner". It's well worth noting that the latter mistake is made '''a lot''' on pages about Garfield and Friends.

* EditedForSyndication: And ''how''; most of the Quickies (including all the USAcres quickies[[note]] except for the fake one in Moo Cow Mutt[[/note]] and all "Screaming with Binky" segments except for one [[note]] The one that was kept in syndication was the one where Wade fills in for Binky.[[/note]] were edited out of The Program Exchange's prints, as was the original theme song, replaced with the "We're Ready To Party" theme song used in seasons 3-6. The last three seasons weren't seen in reruns after the show ended its run either, as Creator/{{CBS}} declined to sell them the rights.
** After CBS stopped showing the show on Saturday mornings, people never got to see (or rewatch) the last three seasons until they finally came out on DVD. Which is a shame because not only were the last three seasons the funniest, but they also show [[VitriolicBestBuds Roy and Wade]] [[OddFriendship becoming closer friends]] in comparison to the earlier seasons. Something that people only familiar with the syndicated episodes didn't get to see...

** Also, it appears the Japanese version dropped the segments featuring US Acres on both of their dubs of the show! And how do we know this? On a Japanese blog, there aren't Japanese names for any US Acres episodes, and the US Acres bug quickie is replaced by...Screaming with Binky. They also only dubbed the first four seasons.
** In Malaysia, the USAcres segments had all scenes with Orson Pig cut out of them because pigs are offensive to Muslims, which make up most of the religion there. [[note]]Charlotte's Web was nearly banned because the protagonist, Wilbur, was a pig, a Rugrats episode had all of the pig scenes cut, and a McDonalds Doraemon promotion banned the Doraemon as a pig toy from their Chinese Zodiac Doraemon promotion and replaced it with a toy of Doraemon holding a heart, to name three examples of this.[[/note]]
* ExecutiveMeddling: During the seventh and final season of the show, the series' traditional [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92tL-xwMAdY "We're Ready to Party"]] intro was replaced with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6vL48DHcKw a rap-like intro]] that everyone ranging from fans of the show to the creators hated--the rap intro was only used on the original CBS airings. It was not aired with the series internationally and as a result does not appear on the series' DVD boxsets (which use the international version of the series). The rap intro had to have been a decision by CBS.

** [[KevinMeaney Aloysius Pig]] is a parody of this in his episodes after "Temp Trouble". The first was when he complained about the budget of the show during a fantasy sequence in Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo, and the second was when he wanted the cast to do nursery rhymes, but none of them were wholesome.

** JuneForay was a series regular, although she only ever played {{One Shot Character}}s.
** Lorenzo Music, who voiced Garfield himself, would probably be best recognized by older viewers as the unseen Carlton the Doorman on ''Rhoda''.
*** And younger (well, ''slightly'' younger) viewers as [[TheRealGhostbusters Peter Venkman]] and [[AdventuresOfTheGummiBears Tummi Gummi]].
** JamesEarlJones played a ghost in a later episode. In that same episode, another ghost sounds '''exactly''' like [[AdventuresInOdyssey Eugene Melsner]]

** Wade Duck was BeetleBailey. Seriously.

** TressMacNeille showed up several times in the later seasons, typically as a GirlOfTheWeek.
** [[Film/{{UHF}} Victoria Jackson]] played Garfield's on-again-off-again love interest, Penelope Pussycat.

*** Speaking of that, there were two instances where Thom Huge's characters sounded exactly like Binky. Jon sounded like him in the "This could go on for days!" quickie when he said "More tabasco!", and for Roy, even though he sounds a lot like Binky, the best example is one of his lines in "The Wolf Who Cried Boy", which was "You're not supposed to find this funny, I'M supposed to find it funny!"
** Comedian [[UncleBuck Ke]][[SpaceGhostCoastToCoast vin]] [[{{Hairspray}} Mea]][[RockosModernlife ne]][[{{Duckman}} y ]]did Aloysius Pig, Orson's cousin who works for ([[{{Sting}} Da Dum!]]) The Network.
** In the Japanese version, Binky The Clown is [[SmilePrettyCure Akaoni]]. This was even given a shout-out in episode 8 of said series, where Akaoni sneezes Majorina's rings away like Binky did with diamond dust in the Klopman Diamond Screaming with Binky.
** In the Spanish version, Orson is [[SonicX Knuckles]], Booker is [[SonicX Bokkun]], and Lanolin is [[SailorMoon Sailor Mercury]]. (Amusingly, both Sailor Mercury and Lanolin have a blue theme color.)
** In the Polish version, Bo is [[{{Naruto}} Rock Lee]].
** In the Italian version, Garfield is [[CaptianTsubasa Tatsuo Mikami]], Jon is [[MagicalShoppingArcadeAbenobashi Toru]], Orson is [[MaisonIkkoku Mikita]], Wade is [[RebuildOfEvangelion a French commitee member]], and Roy's voice actor wrote the script for the Italian dub of Minky Momo.
* NeverTrustATrailer: Most commercials and promos for the show do not mention U.S. Acres.
* [[OneBookAuthor One Series Actor]]: Thom Huge (who voiced both Jon and Roy) never did anything outside Garfield. Justified, as he was an employee of Paws, Inc. (Jim Davis's company) who apparently was meant to simply be a stand-in voice, but did such a great job they didn't want to replace him.

** It also had a sub-plot involving Jon trying to pitch comics to a visitng expert that wasn't in the original strips.

** The USAcres episode "The Discount of Monte Cristo" predicted this.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: On the DVD's of the show, none of the pictures for the Aloysius episodes actually show him. Sadly, this role is what got Kevin Meaney onto more cartoons, and 20th Century Fox [[TheyJustDidntCare didn't care]]. Instead, the picture for "Temp Trouble" is Roy without his feathers on, "The Discount of Monte Cristo" has Orson as Edmond in the cell, and "Kiddie Korner" has Lanolin as Little Miss Muffet with the spider as the picture.

** Frank Welker voiced Booker, Shelldon and Bo.
** In the Spanish version, Wade Duck and Aloysius Pig are voiced by the same person.


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** In the Spanish version, Orson is [[SonicX Knuckles]], Booker is [[SonicX Bokkun]], and Lanolin is [[SailorMoon Sailor Mercury]]. (ironically, both Sailor Mercury and Lanolin have a blue theme color.)

** The USAcres episode "The Discount of Monte Cristo" ironically predicted this.

** After CBS stopped showing the show on Saturday mornings, people never got to see(or rewatch) the last three seasons until they finally came out on DVD. Which is a shame because not only were the last three seasons the funniest, but they also show [[VitriolicBestBuds Roy and Wade]] [[OddFriendship becoming closer friends]] in comparison to the earlier seasons. Something that people only familiar with the syndicated episodes didn't get to see...

** Also, it appears the Japanese version dropped the segments featuring US Acres on both of their dubs of the show! And how do we know this? On a Japanese blog, there aren't Japanese names for any US Acres episodes, and the US Acres bug quickie is replaced by...Screaming with Binky. They also only dubbed seasons 1-4.

** Comedian Kevin Meaney did Aloysius Pig, Orson's cousin who works for ([[{{Sting}} Da Dum!]]) The Network.

** The show was broadcast in Finland in a format that dropped the U.S. Acres segments but kept the opening titles. It was bizarre having characters in the titles that never appeared in the show. Considering what happend in their dub of the episode Peace and Quiet (where Binky sings off key) and that Wanted: Wade had a scene where Wade does a "song" which is a rap with him talking instead of singing as if it were GoAnimate, [[ItGotWorse it could have been a lot worse.]]

** [[KevinMeaney Aloysius Pig]] is a parody of this in his episodes after "Temp Trouble". The first was when he complained about the budget of the show during a fantasy sequence in TheCountOfMonteCristo, and the second was when he wanted the cast to do nursery rhymes, but none of them were wholesome.

* Amazon calls "The Discount of Monte Cristo" "The Discount of Monty Cristo" and Kiddie Korner "Kiddie Korner". It's well worth noting that the latter mistake is made '''a lot''' on pages about Garfield and Friends.

** After CBS stopped showing the show on Saturday mornings, people never got to see(or rewatch) the last three seasons until they finally came out on DVD. Which is a shame because not only were the last three seasons the funniest, but they also show [[VitriolicBestBuds Roy and Wade]][[OddFriendship becoming closer friends]] in comparison to the earlier seasons. Something that people only familiar with the syndicated episodes didn't get to see...

* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: On the DVD's of the show, none of the pictures for the Aloysius episodes actually show him. Sadly, this role is what got Kevin Meaney onto more cartoons, and 20th Century Fox [[TheyJustDidntCare]] didn't care. Instead, the picture for "Temp Trouble" is Roy without his feathers on, "The Discount of Monte Cristo" has Orson as Edmond in the cell, and "Kiddie Korner" has Lanolin as Little Miss Muffet with the spider as the picture.

** Mark Evanier himself made this mistake twice. Temp Trouble was about Aloysius joining the gang [[note]] The episode does involve Aloysius, but Mark forgot to mention Aloysius giving out demerits and Roy and Wade trying to get rid of him. Mark made it seem like it's all about Aloysius permanently joining them, when he was only in three episodes.[[/note]] and said that the whole U.S. Acres cast learned Double-Talking in "Double Trouble Talk."[[note]]Only Roy learned to do it in the actual episode itself.[[/note]].

* EditedForSyndication: And ''how''; most of the Quickies were edited out of The Program Exchange's prints, as was the original theme song, replaced with the "We're Ready To Party" theme song used in seasons 3-6. The last three seasons weren't seen in reruns after the show ended its run either, as Creator/{{CBS}} declined to sell them the rights.

** The USAcres episode "The Discount of Monte Cristo" shows you WhatCouldHaveBeen the show with a low budget.

** ManOfAThousandVoices FrankWelker primarily voiced Bo, Booker, Sheldon and Orson's brother Mort.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: In Snow Wade and the 77 Dwarves, in the scene where [[spoiler: Lanolin killed Wade by giving him a poison apple]], the dwarves are present at the house. In the Disney movie, they went mining and told Snow White not to open the door to any strangers.