This aged infinitely better than I expected it to

Yeah, Roy was their Foghorn Leghorn. I agree the Orsons are nowhere near the Garfields but if they lessened the quality on these so they could focus their best on the titular cat then it was worth it, because a lot of the Garfields were gems.

Garfield came out at a time when cartoons began to become more self-aware. Stuff like Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Tiny Toon Adventures, Ninja Turtles, and Garfield were snarkier, smarter, and funnier than the Hanna-Barbera wanna-be drivel of the early 80s.

Even then I wouldn't watch the likes of Mighty Mouse today, and for how beloved it was, personally Tiny Toons didn't strike the landing a lot of the time (I tried rewatching some and it was more miss than hit frankly). Garfield & Friends though I hadn't watched since the first run and past the first season a lot is great comedy.

Some episodes of Mighty Mouse still make me laugh out loud today. Tiny Toons was rough in the beginning but it really got good once they kicked Kennedy out.

I loved the show as a kid. If I do decide to re-watch, when do the episodes get good? Is it when they change the theme song? I always liked the first theme song better, but understand that an up-tempo intro gets you more in the mood for a comedy show

Exact same boat as you. The first intro is my favorite but the Party one is by far a safer bet for funny episodes

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>Cartoons in the 90s used less pop culture

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Bo was an outright moron in the comics, which was probably why the cartoon redid his personality into a laid-back slacker.

The Orsons farm or US acres get bat shit crazy in the later seasons. It's very tame in the earlier ones.

>Hates flowers
>Taught the barnyard about Procrastination
>Squeezed toothpaste from the top of the tube
One of the greatest forces for chaos in Saturday Mornings' History.

I don't get why the later episodes of the show are excluded from syndication. Like the episodes featuring not-Arleen.

garfield wasn't shit yet though
they had good aspects, they were just a little schmaltzy from time to time.
Wade was wonderful every moment he was onscreen

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that's why they used that theme for the entirety of syndication, cutting out the other three themes.
the problem is we also lost 3/4ths of the snarky end-of-the-intro bits (which is weird because how much work would it be to simply splice those in? his lips don't move). many of those were really clever and meta.

I watched the show in syndication and never even knew there was a theme song before "Ready to Party", but every episode kept the unique Garfield quip at the end despite the theme song replacement in the earliest episodes.

I'm pretty sure we got the same ones over and over in syndication though
check out a list of them, and you'll have never heard most of em. I'd link one but I can't find it. It's hard to figure out what I should be searching for.

I recall none of them being repeated.

maybe I'm wrong.

HEYYYYYY Yea Forums!

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All here (I think):
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Garfield_and_Friends

Some are repeated, but it doesn't look like it was because of syndication since most of the repeated quips are an episode or two right after the first use.

I did notice snippets of the original theme song were retained as incidental music . It's one of those things like how the "little muppet monsters" theme was retained as the ending theme in muppet babies, even after that show was canceled

>snarky end-of-the-intro bits
youtube.com/watch?v=hLqRer4VUwM

excellent.

>Chris Savino seasons

No.

Wait, how many themes did this show have? I only ever heard two--the "Friends are there (for yoooouuu)" one, which as far as I knew was the first theme, and then the salsa-sounding one ("Garfield and friends! (Ai! ai!)"), which as far as I knew went for the rest of the show's run.

Yeah, and both of the themes I remember where often part of the background music.

you're fucking lucky you didn't hear the others. There were two more, pretty sure, or at least one more.. a terrible, TERRIBLE rap one.

Best character

Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday,
whoop-de-doo, whoop-de-doo
mayyourdaybepleasant, openupyourpresent
just for you, JUST FOR YOU

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Why can't we have more shows about self aware cartoon characters realizing they're in the wrong genre of cartoon and trying to find they way back home but in order to do so they have to find resolutions to the cartoons and anime they're trapped in. Sorta like this Garfield segment meets Duck Amuck/Rabbit Rampage meets Quantum Leap.

Oh we're the ants who ruin your dinner
We're always here... to mess up every day
When we're around, every camper gets thinner
Cause if we get the chance, we'll take your food away.

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There were three. Seasons 5 and 6 used Ready to Party with new footage.

Season 7 did the same, but for the US audiences, CBS instead used a shitty hip-hop theme that they themselves produced and not the cartoon's staff, which is why the DVD releases don't use it.

Shitting on the Buddy Bears is what made Garfield the voice of my generation.

HEEEEEEEEEYYY KIIIIIIIIDDS!

Thank Mark Evanier

Don't mock the Buddy Bears, or they'll smash you with a 27-ton weight.

wow, I do NOT remember this.

I would, but I don't think he accepts cheese dip anymore.

Yeah, I was here for the big Groo storytime.

I remember Roy of all people disrupting their show and giving a speech directly to the kids at home (in the show and in real life) about thinking for yourself and not just going with the crowd, probably because he was pissed about having two 27-ton safes dropped on him.

i can has Klopman Diamond?

There were three themes:

Friends Are There:
youtube.com/watch?v=kQllBwL8gZc

We're Ready To Party:
youtube.com/watch?v=gIPRFitgIc4

The hip-hop one:
youtube.com/watch?v=8myPFO8yd4E

Video Airlines still has my favorite running gag ever.
You! You're not Sylvia, you're one of the Kung-Fu Creatures on the Rampage...2!

Mark Evanier had a rant on his blog about how some shows in the 80s, particularly the Dungeons & Dragons show he worked on, had a directive from above to instruct kids that The One Who Goes Against the Group is Wrong, Period. The Buddy Bears were a direct response to that.

The show is a testament to how enjoyable something can be if you let talented folks do what they do best. Evanier constantly affirms he had the most freedom of any project in G&F and the results speak for themselves, ESPECIALLY considering what the norm used to be for animated TV

CHARACTERS FROM LAST SEASON'S SHOW?!

I remember this show
I liked it quite a lot as a kid

She was my shameful fap.

course you can't really blame them, at the time cartoons were being attacked the way advertising is now, like it's somehow INHERENTLY HARMFUL to entertain or excite kids. anything too stimulating was anathema, the more violence and serious shit you had the more the censors were ready to just suspend your rights and make you disappear
I mean the public schools literally had teachers instructing kids to write their congressmen to ban tv shows

I loved the episode where Garfield overslept and woke up in the wrong cartoon.

Neil Ross (aka the guy who voiced cartoon RAMBO *and* the Metal gear Solid 3 villain) just went full action hero cartoon voice mode and it was great.

They did a sequel episode with an X-Men spoof. Even got Mark Hamill for it.

No shit? I need to dig that one up...

yeah seriously what the fuck which one was that? why don't I remember?
my standout memories include
>Mistakes Will Happen
>Night of the Mutant Guppies
>that time aliens abducted G-field and just fed him until he was a kaiju. "MORE FOOD" I might be confusing that plot a bit because I remember Jon singing an "eat, Garfield, eat" song earlier
>the unhatched kid preparing to hatch
>The bunny rabbits is coming
>Bo teaching us there's no point in worrying about problems because you either can't solve them or you can

It was in the very last season. "Clash of the Titans", it was called.

Also, how can you forget about The Creature that Lived in the Refrigerator, Behind the Mayonnaise, Next to the Ketchup and to the Left of the Coleslaw?

>The Bunny rabbits is coming.

That was my favorite Wade freak out when he just up and grabs the TV screen and yells at the audience.

Shouldn't that be "The Bunny Rabbits ARE Coming"?

Here. One of the best Orson segments ever.

youtube.com/watch?v=H_4ZRtqfuR8

god i loved the wordplay
I bet that stuff had to be an inspiration for Earthworm Jim

>His floater has the same face as him
>It always mimics whatever expression Wade was doing.

Always loved that little detail

and this is from a studio that had trouble keeping things colored properly. But for that, they did their best.

>the hip hop one
I’ve never seen that one before. That actually was fucking horrible, thanks for sharing. I was expecting just a cheesy rap, but the actual rapping was just monotone and poorly executed. The only good part is when it inexplicably starts with the Seinfeld theme.
Mistakes Will Happen remains my favorite 4th wall break episode of a cartoon.

Do you remember the mistakes from that episode?

Uhh duh. in that one scene, Garfield wasn't eating
And in that other scene, he wasn't sleeping

That Christmas in July episode was actually better than most of real christmas episodes.

I remember that the picnic had no mustard, and that Jon's car was out of gas.

Bruh, cartoons like The Simpsons, Rocko's Modern Life, and TMNT were all heavy on pop culture references.

>Watched the Chilean dub when was a kid
>Later learned that Jim Davis himself considered Sandro Larenas' voice as Garfield's canon voice.
>Chuckled when the Chilean dub add-libbed some gags and jokes to make the characters talk about Sabados gigantes and Don Francisco, or Orson's farm being in the region of San Vicente de Tagua Tagua.

Good shit.

I think user means CURRENT pop culture
They weren't right on the pulse of the present day. They'd reference shit from the past 60 years of pop culture

i think it's interesting that all the international versions took the 'U.S.' out of U.S. Acres. You'd think they'd take the opportunity to do something cute with that, put in whatever their stereotypes of Americans are, make it this funny thing. Not that there was anything super necessarily american in the visuals

>Garfield's constant pranks to the old mailman get him fired from his job and the episode ends with the poor, miserable old man sobbing because he lost everything.
>U.S Acres episode start
>Garfield breaks in, sends Orson and company away, apologizes for the previous episode ending with such a downbeat way so he decides to continue it and convince the mailman's boss to rehire him.
>Other episode is about Garfield and Nermal being chased by giant, evil radiactive sewer mutant fish, at the end Garfiled says "fuck this shit" and decides to turn the tables around and try to eat the giant fishes, who run away terrified.
>U.S Acres episode starts, with Orson and company drawing water from a well
>Suddenly the mutant fishes from the previous episode pop out from the well and everyone run away for their lives
>The fishes just shrugh it off and walk away to try their luck in a different show

Good shit.

Gotta love his anecdote with the cops:
youtube.com/watch?v=pj8O27K4mWc

I think the problem was that "U.S Acres" do not translates very well at a different language, so they had to come out with an original name instead. In Spain, they went with "La granja de Orson" (Orson's farm) and Chile's dub went with "En la granja" (In the farm, as in "Meanwhile, in the farm...")

wouldn't that be more like 'at/on' ? but yeah. do farms or homesteads in other countries not have a "(proper name) Acres" naming system? Like what did they call Green Acres over there?

>They'd reference shit from the past 60 years of pop culture

this right here, you wanna know why the simpsons went bad they ran out of good shit to mimic after 9 seasons, the 90's - present is a cultural wasteland there's a handful of important and influential movies/books/tv shows that made a major impact on the cultural psyche that came out during the 90's - present that didn't rely on basically ripping off prior better works.

pretty much. Though a bigger problem is that the cultural pressure is to act like everything prior to the immediate present is absolutely unforgivably offensive.

that's just general faggotry which can be easily ignored

>do farms or homesteads in other countries not have a "(proper name) Acres" naming system?
Not usually, no. They have a name that goes as "Fundo (farm) what's-it's-name" but that's all.

It used to be. Then those people got more power. I do agree it's easy enough to ignore, and if we actually DID that, they'd lose that power.
oh I see what you mean. Fundo USA wouldn't really work as a title.

Yeah. We rarely use the word "Granja" here to refer to a farm, but the Chilean dubbers were fully aware that every time a locally dubbed cartoon tried to use local words and local slang, it was ill-received so they went with the neutral "Granja" instead of "Fundo".
Garfield's old movies used a few slang words here and there, though.

slang has a way of not aging well. and I guess if you're going to be doing separate dubs for different latin countries, you care about everything being just right

>90's was a cultural wasteland
I know comics were in a dark ages back then, but come on user.
>TMNT movie
>Total Recall
>Arachnophobia
>Darkman
>Goodfellas
>Home Alone
>Dances With Wolves
>Edward Scissorhands
That's just movies for 1990 alone. Cartoons?
>Ducktales movie
>Rescuers 2
>Bobby's World
>Captain Planet
>Talespin
>Tiny Toon Adventures
>Jetsons movie

2000 onwards was the cultural wasteland. That's when shared cultural experiences became less focused around seeing a movie or TV show, and more about seeing something on the internet or being online when it happened.

read more carefully
user was saying 90s-present
which I assume he means everywhere from when the 90s ENDED to the present

>Worry about cartoons brainwashing kids
>Force kids to write to congress to ban TV shows they probably didn't even watch

The irony is palpable.

Like I said before why can't more cartoons be like those Garfield segments?
Imagine a toon character waking to find themselves not only in the wrong show but the wrong genre

I mean those people have always been hypocrites
it's the same women who get angry at porn, blaming it for causing men to hurt women, and then watch Lifetime misery-porn movies about men hurting women

Sad part about these Helen Lovejoys is that they help speed up basic tv cartoons' demise

Good thing that doesnt happen anymore because now its videogames what gets all the blame

I mean, there aren't any popular action shows anymore, nothing so big that it gets kids running around punching and kicking the air, so parents aren't flipping their shit about that anymore

>The bunny rabbits is coming

Shouldn’t it be “The bunny rabbits ARE coming”?

Do adults enjoy creative sterility?

there was a not-terribly-funny show toward the end of the original Kids' WB called "Channel Umpty-3" where the the zany characters grided against the "Frumps" who wanted to put everything in a box and make it sterile and bland
fucking unsubtle, but ACCURATE. and I do understand what it's like when you're so tired from work that you want the world to just stop. Stop making noise, stop moving... maybe if we had a little more understanding for these adults, they wouldn't be doing their best to essentially IRON childhood flat.

>Mistakes Will Happen
absolutely fucking based

Hip Hop one was when I felt like things badly declined for the show; it was also when they cut the Garfield and Friends show to half-an-hour and rerun the old specials to fill time.

There was a lot of cost-cutting going on which was probably why Evanier and the rest introduced that one pig who kept cost cutting stuff in the US Acres/Orson's Farm cartoons.

Oh man, I had forgotten that Garfield and Friends was a full hour. Ninja Turtles was a full hour, too. Talk about a golden age for Saturday morning cartoons. It burned brightest before the end.

cartoons at the time, especially on that channel, were often so fucking shoddy. TMNT couldn't keep the characters colored right. It was so gratifying seeing them acknowledging this shit. Like you know the animators were doing their best but the budget just wasnt there

The X-Men parody one was in the last season which might be why you don't remember it.

As a kid I would fast forward through the farm segments. I thought they were boring and I hated the songs

I never liked Orson and his preachy bullshit.

Don't discount the fact that modern creators are either less well read, or feel the need to dumb down their reference pool to appeal to certain demographics.

he was pretty milquetoast, but he was a solid guy and it was amusing seeing how the others bounced off of him. For some reason as a kid I thought he was the same voice as Jon, but pretty sure Jon's voice was Binky and Roy.
I initially kinda liked seeing him stand up to the bullying brothers but it quickly got really disturbing, like this trio of guys five times his size just.. EXIST. and can show up any time to beat the curl out of his tail.
I liked that he liked to read and imagine shit, but it just didn't suit the setting or the tone of the show. This show is supposed to BE the imaginative fun interesting thing. and Power Pig was just lame.

I do believe I said a handful

Now I don't think that's true at all. In fact it's almost the opposite
See back in the day, before the internet, if you read a fucking BOOK, you could show that off. You were special. You'd put a fucking Atlas Shrugged reference into a cartoon, and people would be like WHOA this guy's smart! the few who got it.
now it's like yeah yeah you can just look up a quote from some book you never read, and throw it in. I've done it myself, several times, in my webcomic.
It's no substitute for real knowledge, mind you, but if you want to just look smart about a subject, you can look up enough cliff's notes in about a second (people used to have to actually BUY cliff's notes or for-dummies shit) to put it into your show.
But because people are technically reading constantly, there's a lot more insertion of what they've read.. but everything people read now is in the absolute present. It's all something on the lips of the news, and that's really sad.
Plus, because there's so many shows, even if it's a lot cooler now to be into media than it used to be, it's fucking harder to hit as many people as possible with reference recognition. If you make an Andy Griffith reference in a 90s show, every parent watching knows that, because there was -nothing else fucking on- in that time slot. Maybe one other show.

THE RABBITS IS COMING!

The best Power Pig episode was the daydream one, it even had a parody of the opening to the George Reeves Superman TV show.

Shouldn't that be "the bunny rabbits is coming" ?

did the barnyard animals live on jon's parents farm?

...Oh shit. I think user has cracked the code.

they're definitely both based on Jim Davis's parents' farm, so..

Which episode was the one with the secret history of cats and dogs?

That game was pure ludo.

i forget, but I loved the one with the mysterious amazing facts like Wyoming not being a real place

>The bunny rabbits is coming

>Running gag is a simple grammatical error
>It somehow fucking lands the joke everytime

Do you think the writer turned in his script thinking "there's no way this will work"?

And from non-English bros how well did that episode translate?

I wanna say tvtropes' garfield and friends article actually goes into that very question

There's another episode where he meets some guys drawn in a different style who are totally not the X-Men.

Blame Spielberg and WB cartoons for the transition from one to the other.

Mexanon here. The Don Francisco references always made me losw my shit.

I have a friend that's friends with a bunch of the Paws cartoonists and when he asked that question, one told him that they never thought about having Orson's Farm taking place on the farm of Jon's parent's and that they regret not thinking of it, despite the fact that the characters have had cameos on the farm in the comic strip. My friend also told me a few interesting tidbits that he was told, too:

>The comic strip was made to be kid-friendly from the get-go to contrast the edgy humor that was rising in newspaper comic strips.
>The characters and their designs were a collaborative effort by the Paws Inc. Staff, so each cartoonist made a different character or two. Jim Davis himself created Sheldon.
>Brett Koth was the one that came in and gave them their more cartoony designs later in their run, which somehow got him to be credited as co-creator of the strip when they turned it into a webcomic. They credit the redesigns as giving them a "Looney Tunes" approach.
>Despite being really popular when they launched and appearing in over 500 newspapers (and for a comic strip in that era that's a remarkable feat), Jim Davis felt the series wasn't that successful and decided to end it. He then decided to let the characters be a part of Garfield and Friends to give them a second chance at entertaining.

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Reminder that we could have had Lorenzo Music for most of Ghostbusters.
Thanks, Bill Murray!

I'm glad Simpsons loosely called them out on this.

>Procrastination

YOU CAN'T SAY THAT ON A KID'S SHOW

Be glad Dave Coulier decided not to replace Lorenzo as Garfield after he died

youtube.com/watch?v=2dTPCwEKM8Q

>I'm glad Simpsons loosely called them out on this.

What'd they say?

Just watch Episode 5 of Season 11.

>"En la granja" (In the farm, as in "Meanwhile, in the farm...")
Literally Back at the Barnyard.

comb.io/nnSsTs
Like I said, loosely. They were mocking that kind of shit in general.

Yeah, it sounded more like they were referencing the hour-long cartoons of the 60's and 70's.

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>sex trafficking actual live people is the same thing as actors acting being hurt

the brain on cum

It still fits. That might not have made the cut if it wasn't for U.S. Acres.

Bitch lasagna

Instead, you got Frank Welker, who's okay but too generic a choice.

That's unfair to Frank, is there anyone who could have truly reached Lorenzo's heights?

...

TUMBLING DOWN
TUMBLING DOWN

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>The Rashomon episode where Jon and Garfield argue over who flooded the house with yogurt

A classic.

HA

When I was young I actually liked the farm part more. It was funnier to me. I dunno how I feel now.

>Later learned that Jim Davis himself considered Sandro Larenas' voice as Garfield's canon voice.
Lorenzo Music wasn't amused by this, I suppose?

>Power Pig was just lame
Wasn't that the entire point of the character? To prove that Orson really didn't need an heroic alter ego to do the right thing?

so Paws Inc was just like 'we have garfield, let's have another jim davis comic, and to help, we'll all design the characters'
fucking bizarre. I wonder how Davis felt about intentionally dulling the edge. he always seemed like someone who preferred more sarcasm
and I didn't know he had that much sway on G+F that he could just be like 'yeah add this other comic'
also didn't know the late 80s was that bad for comic strips, that it was difficult to get wide circulation at the time. I thought it was almost their peak.
to be fair, coulier is much more appropriate as bill murray's character

that's what I felt too. when like, Harvey would make a new cartoon of an old IP, or someone like that

the equivalence I was making is that 'a movie about people having sex where they're happy is equal to or better than a movie about people having sex where one of them is sad'
it's just that muslim puritan catholic pc guilt where pleasure is bad but it's okay to look at the same thing as long as you're sad or scared or angry at it. only happiness is harmful.

yeah it's just everyone had imaginary heroic alter egos and fucking QUAILMAN was cooler than Power Pig. You've got this big imagination, you can't think of something better?

It WASN’T canon they didn’t live on the Arbuckle farm? I would have sworn they did in some magazine story where Garfield meets them on a visit to it besides the comic strip cameos. Maybe they simply rolled with it after the fact when the cartoon ended.

Also, Koth redesigning them explains that credit and their new look then. Thank you for the info user.

THERE'S A MOUSE IN THE HOUSE

>and I didn't know he had that much sway on G+F that he could just be like 'yeah add this other comic'

Davis definitely had a lot of sway on Garfield and Friends, it's one of the reasons Arlene wasn't on the show because he had a very specific way Arlene should be and since they couldn't figure out a way to make it work, Penelope was created.

In fact the reason Evanier even worked on Garfield and Friends in the first place was that he saw how Jim Davis did a lot of quality control on Garfield stuff and respected that (for context, remember that Evanier grew up seeing Hanna-Barbera merchandise that was completely off-model to the characters on the show).

>It WASN’T canon they didn’t live on the Arbuckle farm?

They didn't; if you read the early US Acres comic strips, Orson got adopted by a little girl and mentioned that her dad has a farm, and as far as we know, Jon doesn't have a younger sister.

Now, someone could go back in and retcon that but I don't know how well that would go.

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It was in a Christmas-themed storybook. Garfield wanders into U.S. Acres which is right next door to the Arbuckle farm and helps Orson win a snowball fight against his brothers.

Both are champs in their respective languages. Sandro's cat noises whenever Garfield got too scared or hurt are an amazing addition too.

>I don't know how well that would go.
Would anyone honestly care?

It was Danger Mouse in 1981 that started that trend, wasn't it?

>I wonder how Davis felt about intentionally dulling the edge. he always seemed like someone who preferred more sarcasm

It was told that he did that for his grandkids.

I like Penelope
curious what wasn't working about arlene. is this a visual thing or, is it about her sort of... never quite getting too close, fucking kinda cat-writing that shows he's been watching cats his whole life

Oh that's a nice compromise.
Honestly I would say her dad is Doc Boy and she considers it 'his' farm, but honestly, Doc Boy will never get laid.

I dont think that was so much "snarky and self-aware" as it was "english"
>yfw your fucking grandkids are pussies so you have to write some watered-down crap for them instead of being the cool grandpa that lets you do stuff your parents don't

...

As someone with this show as his main reference for Garfield, Arlene's design is just grotesque.

agreed, but no more or less than any other female character. and there's no way that was davis's problem with her being on the show.

Too much tampering in the ozone layer.

It's not the appearance (Arlene even has a cameo in one of the Garfield and Friends episodes), but I forget what it was.

Again, thank you for the corrections and info. US Acres being next to the Arbuckle Farm is a good compromise as the other user noted.

>tfw you remember Nermal was adopted by Jon's family and could be annoying US Acres when he's not annoying Garfield on visits

>I dont think that was so much "snarky and self-aware" as it was "english"
It had an entire episode where the narrator forgot his glasses or something and they had to save the day while random shit kept happening due to the narrator misreading words in the script. That's very much Garfield and Freinds' style of humor.

Some countries like Finland got rid of all U.S. Acres parts. It made watching them in the intros really confusing.

totally I just meant that's an england thing, and they are great
finally got rid of the li'l bastard huh
>everyone here is cute and has eyelashes like me yay!

>The hip-hop one:

Never seen this intro before, I don’t think we ever got it in Puerto Rico. Hell, we got S3 when the show had already ended in the states. Around late 1996

>Chile's dub went with "En la granja" (In the farm, as in "Meanwhile, in the farm...")

You just made me remember my childhood that I didn’t understand how US Acres translated to “En la Granja”

>Today's show is brought to you in color- unless the artists ran out of crayons
Damn there are a few gems in here.

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It did have the alternate name of Orson's Farm outside the US, but some local broadcasters had episodes with the U.S. Acres logo while Cartoon Network had the Orson's Farm logo. I think they did call it La Granja de Orson on occasion.

man, if it was actually Orson's farm you'd think he'd get more respect
and could keep his fucking brothers away
If you think about it too long, there's something particularly weird and disturbing about a farm that apparently doesn't produce any products, even the fucking eggs can talk. They just sort of all... live here... with no indication of reason why they would, what's supporting them, where they came from, where their families are..

It was supposedly just a normal farm at first, the farmer even got referenced but never appeared. It just that over time, with all the songs, references and 4th wall breaks it ultimately became a setting with funny animals as the characters.

It was only used in the U.S., and all DVD releases exclude this intro.

imagine being the fuck that wrote that
For that matter it's fucking weird thinking about how the fucker that wrote the 80s TMNT theme song created two and a half men and big bang theory
like basically if he'd just died in 1990 the world would have been a better place

>big bang theory
The characters seemed like such assholes I doubted it would even last a season. what the fuck?

SPLUT!

GORSH! (for our Samoan anons)

Remember kids
If you heard it on television,
IT MUST BE TRUE!

He sure was.

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>Later learned that Jim Davis himself considered Sandro Larenas' voice as Garfield's canon voice.
That's fucking cool, I too cant think of a more perfect voice for Garfield than his

Lorenzo COPE.

Welker is the king of "I've been on this show for ages, so now I'm replacing the main guy because I've been listening to him work since when he was alive"

Aww, was this the last strip?

>Arlene wasn't on the show
...HEY YEAH. How did I never realize this?
>he had a very specific way Arlene should be and since they couldn't figure out a way to make it work
The hell was she "supposed to be" that couldn't work on the show?

For weekdays. Sunday strips ran for a couple weeks longer.

Aw. That's hilariousad.

platypuscomix.net/otherpeople2/cutsthecorn2.html neat, apparently they had kinda hinting-at-ending strips for a week

>Jim Davis did a lot of quality control on Garfield stuff
you know it makes sense. if you're going to be a merch whore and sell your drawings, you wanna make sure they at least ARE your drawings
so nobody at any point is just like "hey we can print ANY ol' orange cat on a notebook and people will buy it" so at least he had professional pride.

That's why I wonder what's gonna happen now that he sold to Viacom.

jesus really?
get ready for a garfield that has never had lasagna before despite living next to 100 italian restaurants, and is scared of mice.

Aww, that last strip. I wonder what Jim'll do when it's finally time to end Garfield.

>platypuscomix.net/otherpeople2/cutsthecorn2.html
>"Oh, my circulation is a little poor"

The numbers were going down. He knew ;__;

You really think he'll outlive it?

Fun fact to add to this: the final season of Garfield and Friends was legit lost media in the US for a while.

When Garfield and Friends ended, the show lingered in syndication for about a year or two before it went bye-bye. But the owners never modified the syndication package to add the final season to it for the US.

As such, the last season of Garfield and Friends were legit lost episodes if you didn't catch them when they first aired on CBS. They didn't see the light of day in the US again, until the final two DVD sets came out (V4 collected the first couple of final season episodes while V5 collects the rest of the season). And they were edited to include the syndication opening, rendering the rap intro lost media.

The syndication package only went up to Season 4, I think. Maybe 5.

The rap opening was only for the U.S. airings. All other countries used the Season 6 opening for Season 7, and that's the version used on the DVDs.

Oh, I'm sure Garfield will be around forever as a cartoon character, with merchandising and all that. But the comic strip? I can't see that going on forever. Do people even read the funnies any more these days?

I'll glance at them occasionally, we still get the paper on the weekends. I mostly just do the puzzles in them though

No, but they're also posted online where people actually read them.

youtube.com/watch?v=eaajj_Tzzdc
still my favorite Orson's Farm episode ever

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huh
that explains why some of these references aren't familiar to me. I probably never saw those until a few years ago when I binged the whole show

>Being a dumbass child and in the one U.S.Acres episode where the villains ended the cartoon saying "Ehh... Let's go pay a visit to the Muppet Babies" (or something to that effect) I spent the next few weeks waiting for them to actually show up on Muppet Babies.

Same shit happened here in Finland, it didn't start airing in here until 1992.

Friendly reminder that Boomerang redid the intro and credits

youtube.com/watch?v=JSAuzdD0_cw

This is my first time seeing theme 1 & theme 3. The hip hop one is awful.
MY MAIN CAT GARFIELD

The Wyoming joke is the main thing I remember from this show

>Wade's last appearance lacks the head on his inner tube
Really ramps up the wrongness of the moment.

Lorenzo's been dead for years, man.

>that lack of fluidity

Yikes, the things you do for an HD remastering.

hey weirder shit happened. a lot of the same companies owned stuff at the time (Weirdly Muppet Babies was Marvel Studios, and they had the rights to use star wars clips and shit, and now Disney owns all of that), and there was that big hilarious anti drug crossover

Why the fuck would you do this? it's not like the show inside doesnt still look like scratchy garbage. everyone watching Boomerang (which is like nobody in 2018 since like, few providers carry Boomerang anymore?) is aware of that and okay with it.

>the cat and the dog

god they really don't belong

yeah they were added later, I wanna say they were a fan's... idea? or suggestion, or something? Maybe Davis trying to be like "look, I can draw different styles, not everyone has to have vertical egg eyes"

The dog doesn't look too bad (the pupils keep his eyes from looking too different from everyone else's), but the cat really looks like some lost Disney character who wandered into the comic by accident.

They appeared somewhat later into the strip, but I think they were still created at around the same time as Orson & co. There's some early art where they appear alongside the rest of the cast. Those pictures also sometimes feature a calf and a horse that never got a chance to appear in the strip.

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Remove the glorified plugs for Jim Davis' other comic strip, and I'd agree

It’s so tween-y

>that big hilarious anti drug crossover
Didn't Davis get so pissed that they used Garfield without his permission for that?

>Didn't Davis get so pissed that they used Garfield without paying him for it?
Fify

I'd fuck that horse

>hey heathcliff, eat your heart out!

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>"Quick, call the Ghostbusters! ... Oh, right, their show got cancelled."

Subtle diss from Lorenzo on how they sacked him because Bill Murray got pissed?

This show is so good I'm always surprised whenever they announce they're doing a new Garfield show. They'll never make a better Garfield show than this.

>If you like this show, tell your friends! If you don't, my name is Heathcliff.

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SOMOS LAS HORMIGAS QUE ROBAMOS SU COMIDA

ESTAAAAAAMOS AQUI PARA ARRIINAR EL DIA

CUANDO ESTAMOS CERCA EL TURISTA ADELGAZA.

POR QUE SI NO QUEREMOS, NO DEJAAAAAAAAAMOS NI UNA TAZAAAA!!!

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The calf and horse did show up in a Garfield throwaway panel, though the calf had different colors.

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>Lanolin (from Latin lāna ‘wool’, and oleum ‘oil’), also called wool yolk, wool wax, or wool grease, is a wax secreted by the sebaceous glands of wool-bearing animals.

>but the cat really looks like some lost Disney character who wandered into the comic by accident.

Given how that happened to Garfield on the show, maybe that is Blue's origin. She wanders into the wrong comic strip and decides to be Cody's guardian.

According to the site you got that image from:

danalexanderdizmentia.blogspot.com/2010/

Calf was going to be named Chuck, the horse was going to be named Jodie or Jody.

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in retrospect you can tell the Brothers Chaps watched this show

I just remember reading specifically that the cat and dog were later additions based on maybe a fan letter or something. I guess this '85 trademark would tend to disprove that.
Yeah that's a fucking cute horse.

>You! You're not Sylvia, you're one of the Kung-Fu Creatures on the Rampage...3!

it amazed me how The Garfield Show clearly had so much work put into it, in so many areas and aspects, but not the writing... at all. or keeping garfield in character.

i'm surprised they didnt try to make it a name pun, like spell it lanolyn