History Trivia / GarfieldAndFriends

* The WesternAnimation subpage for [[BreakingTheFourthWall/WesternAnimation Breaking the Fourth Wall]] ("The Bunny Rabbits Is Coming!")

* The WesternAnimation subpage for WesternAnimation.BreakingTheFourthWall ("The Bunny Rabbits Is Coming!")

* The WesternAnimation subpage for WesternAnimation/BreakingTheFourthWall ("The Bunny Rabbits Is Coming!")

* TooSoon: Boomerang removed reruns of the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episodes "Peace and Quiet; Wanted: Wade; Garfield Goes Hawaiian" and "Attention-Getting Garfield; Swine Trek; It Must Be True!" from their channel during the [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic coronavirus pandemic]] because the plot of the third segment in the former episode involves Garfield catching the Hawaiian Cat Flu, despite the symptoms of the illness not resembling what one would consider to be the flu, and the second segment in the latter episode has its' plot spurred from Orson being sick in bed. Both are still on the Boomerang app, however.

** The plot of "Hare Force" has Orson teach Booker and Sheldon how to use a computer by using the story of ''Literature/TheTortiseAndTheHare''. Now, many kids their age are skilled at using computers.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The episode "Video Airlines" screams this nowadays in the era of optical discs, video-on-demand services and the fact that many video stores have closed down.

* TooSoon: Boomerang removed reruns of the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episodes "Peace and Quiet; Wanted: Wade; Garfield Goes Hawaiian" and "Attention-Getting Garfield; Swine Trek; It Must Be True!" from their channel during the [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic coronvirus pandemic]] because the plot of the third segment in the former episode involves Garfield catching the Hawaiian Cat Flu, despite the symptoms of the illness not resembling what one would consider to be the flu, and the second segment in the latter episode has its' plot spurred from Orson being sick in bed. Both are still on the Boomerang app, however.

* TooSoon: Boomerang removed reruns of the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episodes "Peace and Quiet; Wanted: Wade; Garfield Goes Hawaiian" and "Attention-Getting Garfield; Swine Trek; It Must Be True!" from their channel during the [[UsefulNotes/Coronavirus2019DiseasePandemic coronvirus pandemic]] because the plot of the third segment in the former episode involves Garfield catching the Hawaiian Cat Flu, despite the symptoms of the illness not resembling what one would consider to be the flu, and the second segment in the latter episode has its' plot spurred from Orson being sick in bed. Both are still on the Boomerang app, however.

* ColbertBump: When Kevin Meaney died in 2016, several websites mentioned his role in ''Garfield and Friends'', leading several people who were fans of the show as kids to discover Aloysius Pig for the first time. [[note]] His episodes weren't shown in syndication, so the only people who would remember them were either 1. those who saw the original CBS airings and 2. those who purchased the boxset [=DVDs=] in the 2000s.[[/note]] Even Skiprope Entertainment, the DVD-distributing division of Creator/PBSKids, noticed his sudden popularity and put "Kiddie Korner" on their first DVD release of ''Garfield and Friends''.

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

** According to an article about Kevin Meaney's death posted by showrunner Mark Evanier, [[https://www.newsfromme.com/2016/10/21/kevin-meaney-r-p/ Aloysius was supposed to be a main character in Season 7]]. However, demand from other companies to get Meaney to play roles in their shows lead to him only appearing in three episodes.

** 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 has him talking instead of singing, it could have been a lot worse.
** 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 the hospital episode of "Screaming with Binky". They also only dubbed the first four seasons.
** In Malaysia, the ComicStrip/USAcres segments had all scenes with Orson Pig edited to appease Muslim audiences (as pigs -- whether used as food or not -- are considered offensive to the Muslim religion and Malaysia has a sizeable population with people of that religion).
** When Boomerang began syndicating the show, they reanimated and re-edited the "Friends Are There" and "We're Ready To Party" opening sequences.

** From season 4 onwards, some elements of the show that Jim Davis and Mark Evainer thought took up too much time in the show were removed, which also allowed more advertisments to run. These included the OnceAnEpisode songs in the ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' segments and having three quickies in an average episode, which lead to two types of quickies, ''Screaming with Binky'' and ''U.S. Acres Quickie'', being phased out. By the time the final season aired, the show stopped using them entirely (though international prints and The Program Exchange's syndicated prints still used at least one).
** During the seventh and final season of the show, the series' traditional [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92tL-xwMAdY "We're Ready to Party"]] intro was replaced with [[https://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 used in international airings and as a result does not appear on the series' DVD boxsets (which use the international version of the series). According to a post Mark Evainer made on Usenet in response to a fan who asked about the intro, this was done to differentiate the intros of the syndicated ''Garfield and Friends'' [[note]] which had began airing a year prior. [[/note]] from the Saturday morning run of the show.
*** CBS also wanted to cut the budgets of Garfield and all its other animated shows, the creators refused to give in and decided to end the show rather then letting it suffer from the cutbacks.

** Prior to 2018, any episode with a "U.S. Acres" title card excluding "Much Ado About Orson" was this, since the FOX and [=SoPeachi=] releases used the "Orson's Farm" variant. The Boomerang restoration has restored these original title cards and all of the quickie screens save for [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kNcAEqVWpS8/W9uBzjOCW2I/AAAAAAAAA60/abqgF75VFhEKzPqVIaMx-JUx7l7Kfc76gCLcBGAs/s1600/garf11.PNG the quickie before "The Worm Turns"]] and [[https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eFe_vLLMBvg/W-NUa7UeVAI/AAAAAAAAA8c/S7sOY_VUhY02JrhXyCIBirxPfggkj4PwQCLcBGAs/s1600/THERACE.JPG the quickie before "Hogcules"]].
** Three Screaming With Binky segments are missing from the [=DVDs=] and from international broadcasts (possibly for time): one about baseball, one about ballerinas, one about a pizza parlor and one taking place in the mountains. No info can be found on the mountain one, but a Website/PlatypusComix page on the series has a summary of the "Pizza" and "Ballerina" segments, and a fan uploaded "Baseball" online.

** According to the same Usenet thread that told the history behind the rap theme, the later episodes that did not appear in syndication were supposed to be added to the package in 2000, but this never came about as stations did not think it was necessary to add more episodes as it was already sucessful the way it was.

** From season 4 onwards, some elements of the show that Jim Davis and Mark Evainer thought took up too much time in the show were removed. These included the OnceAnEpisode songs in the ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' segments and having three quickies in an average episode, which lead to two types of quickies, ''Screaming with Binky'' and ''U.S. Acres Quickie'', being phased out. By the time the final season aired, the show stopped using them entirely (though international prints and The Program Exchange's syndicated prints still used at least one).

** When Boomerang began syndicating the show, they reanimated the "Friends Are There" opening sequence from the first three seasons.

** Three Screaming With Binky segments are missing from the [=DVDs=] and from international broadcasts (possibly for time): one about baseball, one about ballerinas and another about a pizza parlor. No info can be found on the former, but the Website/PlatypusComix page on the series has a summary on the latter. However, a fan of the show uploaded these lost segments to Youtube.

* ExecutiveMeddling: During the seventh and final season of the show, the series' traditional [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92tL-xwMAdY "We're Ready to Party"]] intro was replaced with [[https://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 used in international airings and as a result does not appear on the series' DVD boxsets (which use the international version of the series).
** CBS also wanted to cut the budgets of Garfield and all its other animated shows, the creators refused to give in and decided to end the show rather then letting it suffer from the cutbacks.

* When Boomerang began syndicating the show, they reanimated the "Friends Are There" opening sequence from the first three seasons.

** Desirée Goyette as Nermal (who, if you can believe it, is a male cat) may be one of the most obvious examples in animation history period.

** Tooncast and [[Creator/{{Teletoon}} Teletoon Retro]] adore the show as well. Tooncast has had it since 2008, while Teletoon Retro airs it three times a day.
*** Teletoon Retro also aired the show's first marathon on September 1, 2012.

* TheCastShowoff: Due to Lorenzo Music, Thom Huge, Gregg Berger, Desirée Goyette, and Julie Payne all being good singers, the show got many musical episodes over the years.

* CrossDressingVoices: Desirée Goyette as Nermal (who, if you can believe it, is a male cat) may be one of the most obvious examples in animation history period.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Prior to 2018, any episode with a "U.S. Acres" title card excluding "Much Ado About Orson" was this, since the FOX and [=SoPeachi=] releases used the "Orson's Farm" variant. The Boomerang restoration has restored these original title cards and all of the quickie screens save for [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kNcAEqVWpS8/W9uBzjOCW2I/AAAAAAAAA60/abqgF75VFhEKzPqVIaMx-JUx7l7Kfc76gCLcBGAs/s1600/garf11.PNG the quickie before "The Worm Turns"]] and [[https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eFe_vLLMBvg/W-NUa7UeVAI/AAAAAAAAA8c/S7sOY_VUhY02JrhXyCIBirxPfggkj4PwQCLcBGAs/s1600/THERACE.JPG the quickie before "Hogcules"]].

* RecycledScript: The Quickies are mostly adaptations of the Sunday strips (at least one was based on a daily strip, and at least two have a direct CallBack to the preceding cartoon), but the main cartoons themselves derive from the strips, especially in the earlier episodes. For example, the episode "Caped Avenger" is an episode where Jon takes Pooky to wash him and pitches ideas for a new comic strip, but is otherwise based on two weeks of strips where Garfield, as the Caped Avenger, adopts Odie as Slurp, his sidekick (specifically, August 26-31, 1985 and September 2-7, 1985). To the cartoon's credit, it did add an additional costume gag that wasn't in the strips:

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