History Trivia / GarfieldAndFriends

** After Creator/{{Boomerang}} re-acquired the rights to the show in 2019, they placed it at 12:00PM on weekdays, when the target audience would've been at school. After getting removed in late November, it returned a few weeks after at ''4:00AM on weekdays'', when most people would be asleep. Surprisingly, the show managed to last another year and a half on the schedule, before Viacom's purchase of the ''Garfield'' franchise caused the channel's broadcast rights to expire in August 2021, which was when its timeslots on the schedule were replaced by ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''. The show's dedicated channel on Pluto TV launched immediately afterwards. That being said, it remains on the app for the time being.

** Why did [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Penelope]] replace Arlene on the show? Well, according to Evanier (as noted on the show's official page on Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}), Davis was very specific about how he wanted Arlene to act, and felt that, if the show couldn't do her character justice, then they may as well not use her at all. Hence, Penelope was created as a replacement.

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Boomerang removed reruns of the 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/Covid19Pandemic]] 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.

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Boomerang removed reruns of the 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 Venus Centre dub for Spacetoon only dubbed the Garfield segments, removing the ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' segments all together. The opening was also edited to only feature clips from the Garfield segments (with only 3 parts of the original opening kept in). Garfield segments were censored too. Look at [[https://youtu.be/h7aA2eiNDcg this video,]] for example.

** The "rap" theme song used only in American airings of Season 7, though, as stated before, that opening is not well-liked and not worth seeking out unless you're a completist.

* OneBookAuthor: Thom Huge has no other voice acting roles outside of this show and other animated versions of ''Garfield''. This is because he was simply [[DescendedCreator an employee of PAWS, Inc.]] who happened to have the voice they were looking for.

* OneBookAuthor: Thom Huge has no other roles outside of animated versions of ''Garfield'' (wherein he voiced Jon, Binky, Roy Rooster, Gort, Bobby Buddy Bear, and a few incidental characters).

** The Venus Centre dub for Spacetoon only dubbed the Garfield segments, removing the ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' segments all together. The opening was also edited to only feature clips from the Garfield segments (with only 3 parts of the original opening kept in).

* CreatorCameo: Jim Davis voiced a number of minor characters throughout the show's run, including the offscreen director in a few episodes, as well as a policeman in "Mistakes Will Happen".

** Creator/PlutoTV has added a 24-hour ''Garfield and Friends'' channel as of September 2021 -- Pluto's owner, Creator/ViacomCBS, acquired the entire franchise a couple years ago.

* CreatorCameo: Jim Davis voiced the offscreen director in a few episodes, as well as a policeman in "Mistakes Will Happen".

!!ImageSource for:
* The BreakingTheFourthWall/WesternAnimation subpage for Breaking the Fourth Wall ("The Bunny Rabbits Is Coming!")
* ProtagonistAndFriends (Cover of the Volume 1 DVD from Fox)
* StockFemurBone

!!QuoteSource for:
* CluckingFunny ("How To Be Funny")
* CouchGag ("Arbuckle the Invincible; The Monster Who Couldn't Scare Anybody; The Ocean Blue")
* DejaVu ("Déjà Vu")
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs ("The Name Game")
* EverythingTryingToKillYou ("The Bunny Rabbits Is Coming!")
* TVNeverLies ("It Must Be True!")

!!VideoSource for:
* DejaVu ("Orson's Diner")
* ScriptSwap ("Kiddie Korner")
* WhatAreRecords ("The Record Breaker")

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** After Creator/{{Boomerang}} re-acquired the rights to the show in 2019, they placed it at 12:00PM on weekdays, when the target audience would've been at school. After getting removed in late November, it returned a few weeks after at ''4:00AM on weekdays'', when most people would be asleep. Surprisingly, the show managed to last another year and a half on the schedule, before getting removed near the end of August 2021 and getting replaced with ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''. That being said, it remains on the app for the time-being.

** Instead of scanning the original film for an HD master, the intro was instead re-animated in [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]]. Not surprisingly, fans of the show quickly noticed that the animations of the characters looked [[LimitedAnimation cheap and stiff]], [[DullSurprise missing reactions of the animated characters]] and [[SpecialEffectFailure some special effects completely ruined]]. A comparison with the two intros can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umBb5wFgtCE here]]. This can be justified as apparently [[RealLifeWritesThePlot the original film masters couldn't be located for the opening, and the original effects were edited on videotape and the
master tape is too low resolution to upscale to HD, meaning a true restoration is straight up impossible]].

** Instead of scanning the original film for an HD master, the intro was instead re-animated in [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]]. Not surprisingly, fans of the show quickly noticed that the animations of the characters looked [[LimitedAnimation cheap and stiff]], [[DullSurprise missing reactions of the animated characters]] and [[SpecialEffectFailure some special effects completely ruined]]. A comparison with the two intros can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umBb5wFgtCE here]]. This can be justified as apparently [[RealLifeWritesThePlot the original film masters couldn't be located for the opening, and the original effects were edited on videotape and the VHS master is too low resolution to upscale to HD, meaning a true restoration is straight up impossible]].
** The entirety of episode 7, as well as the episode "Beddy Buy" and the quickie before "Temp Trouble", narrowly avoid this by being presented with a border around the cartoon (dubbed "Retrovision" by the restoration team) because, like with the original opening, the original film masters for these particular segments couldn't be found and the VHS master couldn't be properly upscaled, so they used this method to present the picture quality as best as they could.

** On Creator/ToonDisney, the show aired as early as 2:00 AM Eastern Time.

** Mark Evanier only became showrunner by chance -- he'd been under contract at CBS for a proposed Creator/MichaelJackson animated show that he ultimately left (said show never made it to air), and Judy Price, VP of children's programming at CBS, offered to have him work on this show instead (partially as a method of him working off his contract); Evanier accepted and the rest is history.

* NonSingingVoice: Despite each of the Buddy Bears having their own voice actor, Thom Huge did all three bears' singing voices.
* OneBookAuthor: Thom Huge has no other roles outside of this show.
* TheOtherDarrin: Lorenzo Music voiced one of the Buddy Bears in their "Garfield" appearances; their "U.S. Acres" appearances used Howard Morris instead.

** 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:
-->'''Garfield:''' Slurp, you really need a costume if you're gonna work with me.\\
''(Odie runs off, then comes back wearing a chicken suit)''\\
'''Garfield:''' You ''still'' haven't grasped the principle behind this.
** It also had a subplot involving Jon trying to pitch comics to a visiting expert that wasn't in the original strips.

* TalkingToHimself:
** Thom Huge played Binky the Clown, Jon Arbuckle, Bobby of the Buddy Bears, Gort, and Roy Rooster.
** Creator/FrankWelker voiced Booker, Sheldon and Bo.
** Juile Payne voiced both Liz and Lanolin.
** Kevin Meaney played Aloysius and [[spoiler: Mrs. Pig]].

** From season 4 onwards, some elements of the show that Jim Davis and Mark Evanier thought took up too much time in the show were removed, which also allowed more advertisements 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 the ''U.S. Acres'' Quickies, 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).

** Why did [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Penelope]] replace Arlene on the show? Well, according to Evanier (as noted on the show's official page on Website/{{Wikipedia}}), Davis was very specific about how he wanted Arlene to act, and felt that, if the show couldn't do her character justice, then they may as well not use her at all. Hence, Penelope was created as a replacement.

** Why did [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Penelope]] replace Arlene on the show? Well, according to Evanier (as noted on the show's official page on Creator/{{Wikipedia}}), Davis was very specific about how he wanted Arlene to act, and felt that, if the show couldn't do her character justice, then they may as well not use her at all. Hence, Penelope was created as a replacement.

* ActorAllusion: In "Curse of the Klopman", Garfield answers the door with "Hello, this is Garfield, your doorman", a reference to Creator/LorenzoMusic's previous claim to somewhat fame as ''Series/{{Rhoda}}'''s unseen drunken doorman, Carlton.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Being that this show was mostly on the air during the 90's, there are many moments that make the show dated:
** 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.
** In "The Record Breaker", Jon is looking to replace his record player, and any time he explains what a record is, people assume he means "compact discs". (Funnily enough, [=CDs=] are now the dying format and vinyl is experiencing a surge in popularity.)
** A lot of the stuff that Garfield watches and/or gripes about on TV, like the abundance of Trash TV daytime talk shows (all but dead in the US), game shows (which have gone through several ups and downs in popularity) and "Late Night Creature Feature" showings of old B-Movies (which disappeared around the same time with the rise of Creator/{{FOX}}, Creator/TheWB, and Creator/{{UPN}}, who snapped up a lot of the independent stations who used to air movies like that).
** There was also an segment that had Jon be a participant on a spoof of ''Series/AmericanGladiators'', which was extremely popular at the time.
** "Roy Gets Sacked" has a scene in which Roy spoofs various 90's movies and shows to impress his agent Bernie.
** The plot of "Hare Force" has Orson teach Booker and Sheldon how to use a computer by using the story of ''Literature/TheTortoiseAndTheHare''. [[TechnologyMarchesOn Nowadays, many kids their age are skilled at using computers]].
** In "The Incredibly Stupid Swamp Monster", Roy mention to his agent that Hanna Barbera is making "a funny version of ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy''", a TakeThat at ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'' (which premiered the same year as the aformentioned segment) and a TakeThat at ''Ren and Stimpy''.
** In "The Discount Of Monte Cristo", Aloysius talked about how animation cels are used to animate cartoons. Most modern cartoons are animated on computer programs, and the last show to use cels, ''Manga/SazaeSan'', stopped doing so in 2013. They even lampshade this in a previous episode, "The Automated Animated Adventure", since digital animation was slowly becoming the norm at the time.
** At the end of the intro in one episode, Garfield says, “Don’t check NBC, kids. They’re not airing cartoons anymore" (which, at the time, was true: because of ''Saved By the Bell'' being popular with pre-teens and teenagers and NBC's cartoons not doing well in the ratings, with ''Yo Yogi!'' being the death knell, NBC decided to do away with Saturday morning cartoons in favor of live-action teen shows, news broadcasts, and sports). This was omitted in home video releases.
** In "Mini-Mall Matters", Garfield states that every mini-mall must have a video rental store. Maybe in 1989, when this episode premiered...

** 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.

* ProtagonistAndFriends (Cover of the Volume 1 DVD by FOX)

* DigitalDestruction: In October 2018, an HD remaster of the show was added to the Boomerang streaming service, and fans weren't happy with the final results.

** The show got worse treatment when it returned to Creator/{{Boomerang}} in 2019. Originally at an already bad time slot at 12PM on weekdays with no repeats, it was pulled to a time slot at ''4AM'', a time where ''no one'' is going to even be awake. Granted, ''Garfield and Friends'' is a pretty old show and has already aired on Boomerang years ago, but considering it airs on the same channel as ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' (which has ran on Boomerang since the channel launched), and ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' (which is now on the channel following Cartoon Network deciding to air modern-day cartoons rather than the classics), all of which have been reran into the ground by the network (especially the latter two, though ''The Smurfs'' got this in the network's early days), it's still pretty disappointing. At least the episodes are on the app...

* AuthorExistenceFailure:
** Pat Buttram, voice of Cactus Jake, died of kidney failure while Season 7 was being produced. He would have no further appearances in the show, with "The Legend of Cactus Jupiter" being his final appearance.
** In 2001 Lorenzo Music died of bone and lung cancer and Frank Welker replaced him as the voice of Garfield for "The Garfield Show", it's unknown if he will reprise his role in the Nick show.
** With David Lander succumbing to complications from multiple sclerosis in 2020, it is unknown if Doc Boy will be [[PutOnABus written out]] or recast, should he appear in this upcoming series.
** It is unknown if ''{{ComicStrip/USAcres}}'' will be part of the show, due to the death of Howard Morris (the voice of Wade) and Thom Huge (the voice of Roy) pretty much disappearing of the face of the planet. It doesn’t help that Jim Davis seems to consider the strip to be an OldShame and it never reached the amount of popularity as Garfield.

** 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.