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Garfield and Friends

The cast of Garfield and Friends. Clockwise from bottom left: Sheldon, Wade, Orson, Odie, Garfield, Roy and Booker. Odie is a Fictional character in the Jim Davis Comic strip Garfield. Garfield is the main Protagonist of the Comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis.
Format Animated series
Created by Jim Davis (original comic strips)
Starring Lorenzo Music
Gregg Berger
Thom Huge
Julie Payne
Desirée Goyette
Victoria Jackson
Howard Morris
Frank Welker
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
Language(s) English
No. An animated cartoon is a short hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn Film for the cinema, Television or computer James Robert " Jim " Davis (born July 28, 1945) is an American Cartoonist who created the popular comic strip Gerald David Music, better known as Lorenzo Music, ( 2 May 1937&ndash 4 August 2001) was an American Actor, Voice Gregg Berger (born December 10, 1950 in St Louis Missouri) is a St Garfield and Friends is an American Animated television series based on Comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis. Julie Payne can refer to Julie Ann Payne (born 1940-07-10) American actress Julie Kathleen Payne (born 1946-09-11) Desirée Goyette (married name Desirée Goyette-Bogas) is a Singer, Composer, Lyricist and Voice-over artist Victoria Jackson (born August 2, 1959, in Miami Florida) is an American comedian actress and singer best known as a cast member of the NBC Howard "Howie" Morris ( September 4, 1919 &ndash May 21, 2005) was an American comic Actor and Franklin W Welker (born March 12 1946 is an American voice actor. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States  of episodes 121 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive
producer(s)		 Jim Davis
Lee Mendelson
Phil Roman
Running time 30 minutes (with commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel CBS (1988-1994), NBC, (1994-2002)
Original run September 17, 1988 December 17, 1994 (as CBS) – December 27, 1994 October 17, 2002 (as NBC)
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Garfield and Friends is an American animated television series based on the popular comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis. This is a complete listing of episodes from the animated television series Garfield and Friends. Philip Roman (born December 21, 1930 in Fresno California) is an Animator. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Events 1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought 1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Events 546 - Gothic War (535–554: The Ostrogoths of King Totila Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Events 537 - The Hagia Sophia is completed 1512 - The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Events 539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An animated cartoon is a short hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn Film for the cinema, Television or computer A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist Garfield is a daily-syndicated Comic strip created by Jim Davis. James Robert " Jim " Davis (born July 28, 1945) is an American Cartoonist who created the popular comic strip This show was originally produced by Film Roman, and ran on CBS Saturday mornings from 1988 to 1994. Film Roman is an animation studio founded by Phil Roman, best known for producing the animation for the television shows The Simpsons and CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. A Saturday morning cartoon is the colloquial term for the animated television programming which was typically scheduled on Saturday mornings on the major American The show's seven seasons make it one of the longest running Saturday morning cartoons in history (most only last one or two seasons).

Regular segments featured both Garfield and U.S. Acres, a lesser-known comic strip created by Davis. Garfield is a daily-syndicated Comic strip created by Jim Davis. US Acres (known as Orson's Farm outside the United States) is a Comic strip that ran from 1986 to 1989 created by Jim The latter was retitled Orson's Farm for foreign syndication.

242 Garfield segments and 121 U. S. Acres segments were produced. There were two "Garfield" segments on each show, two "quickie" shorts based on Sunday comic strips, and in between was a U. S. Acres segment. A total of 121 half-hours were produced, and as of December 6, 2005, all of these have been released in the U. Events 1060 - Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. S. on five DVD sets by Fox Home Entertainment. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is the Home video distribution arm of the 20th Century Fox film studio The first season aired in a half-hour format. In the second season, it switched to an hour-length format, showing two episodes each week. However, in the show's last season, the second half-hour of the show featured either an episode from the previous season or one of Garfield's TV specials.

For a complete listing of episodes, see List of Garfield and Friends episodes. This is a complete listing of episodes from the animated television series Garfield and Friends.

Contents

Voice actors and their characters

In addition to the regular voice actor cast above, there have been several celebrity guest stars who did voice acting on Garfield & Friends. Howard "Howie" Morris ( September 4, 1919 &ndash May 21, 2005) was an American comic Actor and Franklin W Welker (born March 12 1946 is an American voice actor. Desirée Goyette (married name Desirée Goyette-Bogas) is a Singer, Composer, Lyricist and Voice-over artist Emmett Maxwell "Pat" Buttram ( June 19, 1915 – January 8, 1994) was an American Actor, famous for playing the Victoria Jackson (born August 2, 1959, in Miami Florida) is an American comedian actress and singer best known as a cast member of the NBC Gary Owens (born May 10, 1936) is an American Disc jockey and Voice actor. They are, in chronological order:

The cast

Garfield

Regular characters

Jon Arbuckle
Jon Arbuckle

Recurring characters

Orson's Farm (a. k. a. U. S. Acres)

Regular characters

Recurring characters

Humor

The chief guiding force behind the show was comedy writer Mark Evanier, also known as a co-creator of Groo the Wanderer, who wrote "virtually all" of the shorts by his admission (with the exception of several shorts that were written by Sharman DiVono during the first four seasons). Mark Stephen Evanier (born March 2 1952) is an American Comic book and Television Writer, particularly known for his Because of this, the show (particularly in later seasons) had a markedly different style of humor than the previous specials or strips. Whereas the specials and strips tended to focus on more character-based humor, Garfield and Friends frequently tended to be much wackier and admittedly more sophisticated, in the vein of later cartoons such as Animaniacs or Pinky and the Brain. Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs, usually referred to as Animaniacs, is an American animated series, distributed by Warner Bros Pinky and the Brain are Cartoon characters who have starred in the American Animated television series Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs

Episodes were filled with puns and non sequiturs, and often lapsed into complete absurdity (such as the US Acres short "Over The Rainbow", in which Roy's quest to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow leads him instead to a Let's Make a Deal-style game show complete with Rod Roddy announcing). A non sequitur (ˌnɒnˈsɛkwɨtɚ is a conversational and literary device often used for comical purposes (as opposed to its use in formal logic) Let's Make a Deal is a Television Game show which originated in the United States and has since been produced in many countries throughout the Robert Ray "Rod" Roddy ( September 28, 1937 &ndash October 27, 2003) was an American radio and television Announcer Running gags were frequent, throughout either single shorts (such as in the Garfield short "The Creature That Lived In The Refrigerator, Behind the Mayonnaise, Next to the Ketchup and to the Left of the Cole Slaw!", in which the name of said creature is spoken repeatedly), or entire seasons (the Klopman Diamond is mentioned in many, many episodes). The Klopman diamond is a fabulous legendary Apocryphal, and huge Diamond, said to have a Curse associated with it U.S. Acres characters would frequently make unexplained cameo appearances in Garfield shorts, and vice-versa. US Acres (known as Orson's Farm outside the United States) is a Comic strip that ran from 1986 to 1989 created by Jim A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the Performing arts, such as For example, the "Giant Radioactive Mutant Guppies" that Garfield and Nermal flushed down the sewer resurfaced in the U. S. Acres quickie that immediately followed, and then one asks the others if they could maybe get on the Muppet Babies, which at that time preceded Garfield and Friends on the CBS Saturday Morning lineup. Jim Henson's Muppet Babies was a popular American animated television series that aired from September 15, 1984 to December 29 There was even some mild satire, particularly in the form of the "Buddy Bears", which spoofed such saccharine cartoons as The Get-Along Gang and The Smurfs. The Get Along Gang were characters created in 1984 by American Greetings ' toy design and licensing division Those Characters from Cleveland (now American Greetings Properties The Smurfs is a American Cartoon series that aired on NBC from 1981 to 1989

Many episodes tended to break the fourth wall. The fourth wall is the imaginary wall at the front of the stage in a Proscenium Theater, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play Garfield would frequently address the audience directly, openly acknowledging that he is, in fact, in a cartoon, or he would read through the script to find out what would happen in the short. Another example is a scene where Garfield is trying to prevent a plane from crashing and asking the audience to check the TV listings to make sure it's not the last episode. The characters would even fight with unnamed network executives over the direction of the show, and in at least one instance, the show was "canceled". Entire shorts would even be built around this conceit, such as "Mistakes Will Happen", a short that featured Garfield disputing a claim that the show was featuring various mistakes—and then proceeding to run a short that was filled with dozens of animation, sound, and writing errors. In one short, "Flat Tired", Garfield refused to do a cartoon, stating to the cameramen "Go away. I'm not in this episode. " Odie takes over the short (complete with a title card with Odie's name/logo) as "A Witch In Time", wherein he is kidnapped by a witch, and rescued (reluctantly) by Garfield.

Some episodes referred to the budget of the show. An example is in one episode, Garfield tells people in the cartoon not to talk to save money on paying voice actors.

Production

When the show was originally broadcast on CBS, the episodes usually had three Quickies (30- to 45-second gags), usually two "Garfield Quickies" (the first one being played before the intro theme) and one "U. S. Acres Quickie," the latter of which was never shown in syndication. In Broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast Radio shows and Television shows to multiple individual stations without going through Midway through the second season, "Screaming with Binky" quickie-style segments were added. These "Screaming with Binky" segments were typically used at the halfway point of hour long blocks of Garfield and Friends (as Garfield ended each one with "We'll be right back. ") to let the viewers know that unlike most Saturday morning cartoons at the time, it was not over in the usual half-hour. However, in the syndicated reruns, only one Quickie is shown per episode, and it's always at the end rather than around the shorts. The DVD sets and Boomerang reruns restore the original rotation. After the third season, only one "Garfield Quickie" is shown per episode. The seventh season (1994-1995) was the last one because CBS wanted to cut the budget (it was still doing well in the ratings). CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. The production company nixed this proposal, so they mutually agreed to cease production.

Theme song

The Garfield and Friends title card, shown at the end of the opening titles
The Garfield and Friends title card, shown at the end of the opening titles

The show has had three different theme songs. The first one was used during the first two seasons, and was also occasionally hummed or sung by the characters within the show. It was a song-and-dance style number about friendship, presumably based on the fact that the show was called Garfield and Friends. Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behavior between two or more beings In the original theme music one of the female singers is Desirée Goyette, the voice of Nermal. During its second season, the audio was changed a small bit. The second theme song first appeared in the third season and was used for almost the rest of the show's run, although some of the clips in the sequence were changed in the sixth season. The idea of this song, which featured upbeat conga music, that watching the show was as much fun as going to a party. This theme song is the only one used in The Program Exchange reruns. The Program Exchange (known as DFS Program Exchange from 1979 to 1986 and DFS-Dorland Program Exchange from 1986 to 1987) is a In the seventh (and final) season, an upbeat contemporary-based theme song was used, sung by J. R. Johnston, and perhaps due to not being included in the international version, it does not appear on the DVD releases. DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is A recurring joke in the theme song is that in each episode, Garfield says a different quote such as "I can't believe we get away with this every week" or "Hey Heathcliff, eat your heart out!" or one that goes something like "You'll like today's show folk! No Binky, no Nermal, no Buddy Bears, just a lot of me!"

Directors

The following people have directed various episodes:

DVD releases

Region 1

Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 of Garfield and Friends
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Fox Entertainment and Jim Davis released all seven seasons of Garfield and Friends to Region 1 DVD in five volume box sets, with each set having 24-25 episodes on three discs. Fox Entertainment Group is an American Entertainment industry company that owns Film studios and terrestrial, cable, and DVD video discs may be encoded with a region code restricting the area of the world in which they can be played Each set features an image of Garfield with an U.S. Acres character. Garfield is a daily-syndicated Comic strip created by Jim Davis. US Acres (known as Orson's Farm outside the United States) is a Comic strip that ran from 1986 to 1989 created by Jim [1] Collections of individual episodes were also released in three themed volumes that had 13-15 episodes and were packaged with mini-beanie plushies of Pooky, Odie, and Garfield. A Beanie Baby is a stuffed animal made by Ty Inc Ty was founded by Ty Warner who promoted the line in specialty stores and gift shops

NOTE: On each of them Jim Davis has his signiture on either the bottom right corner or the bottom left corner.

Release Name Release Date # Eps
Garfield and Friends, Volume One July 27, 2004 24
Garfield and Friends, Volume Two December 7, 2004 24
Garfield and Friends, Volume Three April 19, 2005 24
Garfield and Friends, Volume Four August 30, 2005 24
Garfield and Friends, Volume Five December 6, 2005 25
Garfield and Friends, Behind The Scenes December 5, 2006 15
Garfield and Friends, An Ode to Odie March 20, 2007 13
Garfield and Friends, Dreams & Schemes September 4, 2007 15
Garfield and Friends, A Cat and His Nerd May 13, 2008 15

Region 4

Fox Entertainment also released the Volume One set to Region 4 DVD on December 13, 2004. Events 1214 - Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 43 BC - Marcus Tullius Cicero assassinated 1696 - Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 1012 - Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich London. 1529 - At the Second Diet of Speyer Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1363 - Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1060 - Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1600 - The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common DVD video discs may be encoded with a region code restricting the area of the world in which they can be played Events 1294 - Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months Celestine hoped to return to his previous life "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The contents of this set are exactly the same as that of the Region 1 release with only minor changes to the set cover. The set was also made available as individual volumes. The complete "Volume 1" set is now discontinued, though the individual releases are still available. The remaining four volumes were never released.

Release Name Release Date # Eps
Garfield and Friends, Volume One December 13, 2004 24
Garfield and Friends, Volume One, Disc 1 November 04, 2005 8
Garfield and Friends, Volume One, Disc 2 November 23, 2005 8
Garfield and Friends, Volume One, Disc 3 November 23, 2005 8

Syndication history

Garfield and Friends has been syndicated on television around the world, beginning in the late 1980s and remaining on air in present day. Events 1294 - Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months Celestine hoped to return to his previous life "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 1333 - Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 800 - Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 800 - Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In Latin America, it played on Cartoon Network from 1992 to 2005, on Boomerang from 2005 to present, and on Warner Channel from 1998 to the present. Boomerang is a 24-hour American Cable television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System (a division of Time Warner) Warner Channel (commonly shortened to WBTV, but not to be confused with The WB Television Network) is a Latin American and Southeast Asian Currently, all three of these networks have lost the rights to the show, however.

In Australia, Garfield and Friends began syndication on Network Ten from 1989 to 1999, and played also on Nickelodeon from 1995 to 2002. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Network Ten, or Channel Ten, is one of Australia 's three major commercial television networks. Nickelodeon Australia is the Australian counterpart of the Nickelodeon network in the United States. Most recently it played on FOX8 from 2004 to 2006. FOX8 is an Australian Cable and Satellite channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television's subscription platforms

The show was also syndicated in Chile from 1989 to 2003 on Canal 13 and from 1998 to present on Warner Channel. Chile, officially the Republic of Chile ( Spanish:) is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow Coastal strip wedged between the Corporación de Televisión de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UCTV, generally known by its broadcast frequency Canal 13, is the second oldest Television Warner Channel (commonly shortened to WBTV, but not to be confused with The WB Television Network) is a Latin American and Southeast Asian In Estonia, the show appeared on TV 3 from 2000 to 2002, and in Finland on YLE TV2 between the years 1992-1994 and 1998-1999. Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia ( Eesti or Eesti Vabariik) is a Country in Northern Europe in the Baltic region TV3 is a private television channel in Estonia. Acquired programming on TV3 include The Simpsons, CSI Crime Scene Investigation, CSI Miami YLE TV2 is a Finnish television channel owned and operated by YLE.

The United Kingdom and the United States remain the highest syndicators of the show. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The United States of America —commonly referred to as the In the UK, it appeared on ITV1 from 1989 through 2002, on Sky One from 1998 to 2002, and on Boomerang from 2003 to 2006. This article deals with the ITV1 brand name as it is broadcast at present Boomerang is a television channel broadcast in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and the Arab World, launched on May It also appeared on The Children's Channel for an unknown period of time. The Children's Channel was an early Cable channel which began broadcasting on September 1, 1984 in the United Kingdom.

Garfield and Friends was picked up in the United States in 1988 on CBS, where it remained through 1994. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. It also appeared in syndication from 1993 to 2006, on TBS, TNT, and Cartoon Network from 1995 to 1996, and Nickelodeon from 1997 to 1999. In Broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast Radio shows and Television shows to multiple individual stations without going through TBS is an American Cable television network that shows sports and a variety of programming with a focus on comedy Turner Network Television, usually referred to as TNT, is an American cable TV network created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned Nickelodeon (commonly referred to as Nick) is an American Cable television network owned by Viacom International, founded in 1977 as Pinwheel More recently, it appeared on FOX Family Channel and ABC Family in 2001, and on Toon Disney from 2003 to 2006. ABC Family is an American Cable television network currently owned by Disney-ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company ABC Family is an American Cable television network currently owned by Disney-ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company Toon Disney is a soon to be defunct 24-hour American Cable television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company that mostly airs Children Boomerang carried it from 2006 to 2007. Boomerang is a 24-hour American Cable television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System (a division of Time Warner)

Only 73 episodes out of the 121 episodes were syndicated by The Program Exchange between 1993 and 2007. The Program Exchange (known as DFS Program Exchange from 1979 to 1986 and DFS-Dorland Program Exchange from 1986 to 1987) is a This is due to the producers selling syndication rights when the show was still on air and CBS wanting to keep the rights for certain episodes. The show was removed from the Boomerang lineup on December 3, 2006, but returned in May 2007 only to be removed again. Events 1800 - War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It is unknown if they still own the rights to the show.


References

  1. ^ Garfield DVD Site

Garfield and Friends was on TNBC And CBS Kids

External links

TNBC (Teen NBC was NBC 's Saturday morning block of television shows geared toward teenagers and young adults CBS Kids ( CBS Kidshow from 1998 to 2000) was the Saturday morning children's portion of the CBS.
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