I still love how the voice actor for Garfield in the show also voiced Bill Murray's character in the Real Ghostbusters, and then Bill Murray voiced Garfield in the live action movies to come full circle.

@RacgoonGamer967

Жыл бұрын

That's true

@scottydu81

Жыл бұрын

If I’m not mistaken, Bill Murray got Lorenze Music fired for making Peter Venkman sound too much like Garfield

@ericjanssen394

Жыл бұрын

@@scottydu81 Lorenzo Music ALWAYS sounded like that, even as Rhoda's Carlton the Doorman in the 70's. (And why we get that annoying voice on the Gain Detergent ads trying to sound like the late, great Music, but ending up sounding like a snide condescending @$$hole...)

@SamtheBravesFan

Жыл бұрын

If only they hadn't gotten scared of commercials and replaced him with Dave Coullier. *shudder*

@kylemorello4787

Жыл бұрын

It honestly makes sense, as Murray is known for his cynical humor.

*"Eat and be lazy kids, and someday you'll have your own show too."* So many comedians are living proof of this.

@ddjsoyenby

Жыл бұрын

so true.

@koneheadcokehead4981

Жыл бұрын

It's honestly kind of sad on how right this is

@aquillawhingate3248

Жыл бұрын

We call that being a KZread Influencer these days lol

@chasehedges6775

Жыл бұрын

💯💯💯👍

@jasonparker3925

Жыл бұрын

Nikocado Avocado

"He works hard to be lazy." That is very insightful and now that you mention it, that reminds me of this joke where Garfield says he believes in letting fate guide him and then spins a wheel that only has 2 options. Eat or sleep. Looking back it's actually really funny he went through the trouble of building that just to decide whether to take a nap or have a snack.

@melissacooper8724

Жыл бұрын

I remember that Jon ended up putting him outside anyway despite the wheel!

This show is a perfect example of what I like to call The Hanna-Barbera Rule: You don't necessarily need a big budget or great animation if the writing and voice acting are good enough on their own. The ensemble cast of this show did brilliant work and Mark Evanier knew how to write the dialogue that would get the best performance from them. It's a masterclass in doing more with less and I think everyone working in animation now could learn something from it.

@bartsimpson83

Жыл бұрын

@beatsbyal Hanna Barbera LOOKS like shit by modern standards but at the time nobody minded. And most of their old shows still hold up and are entertaining BECAUSE the writing and the voice acting were good. At least in my opinion.

@Miglohara

Жыл бұрын

Voice acting i'll give you, but Hanna-Barbera cartoons had good writing? When and where lmao

@galfinsp7216

Жыл бұрын

Think a more modern example of the idea could be seen in RVB

@kootunesscrewy

Жыл бұрын

When Taft came, Hanna-Barbera started to weaken. But after the Turner merger, they got better.

@avosmash2121

Жыл бұрын

@@Miglohara I guess it depends on taste? I thought a lot of Yogi and Top Cat at least exceptionally witty. Animation was lousy but it was snappy and funny.

Fun fact: In the first show of the 1992-3 season, Garfield says at the end of the opening theme, "And don't bother checking what's on NBC. They're not running cartoons anymore." In 1992, NBC really stopped broadcasting Saturday morning cartoons.

@garfieldclarkjr2483

Жыл бұрын

oh yeah , they made a lot of references jokes to the other networks too , especially a US ACRES episode where Roy made a reference to the NBC Fall Schedule

@koneheadcokehead4981

Жыл бұрын

Of course they did

@garfieldclarkjr2483

Жыл бұрын

@@koneheadcokehead4981 and who could remember that episode with the buddy bears and Garfield made up a fake term when the bears were being way too educational - Gazornimplat lmao

@ericjanssen394

Жыл бұрын

In one episode of NBC's ALF toon, running opposite CBS's Garfield in '88 or so, ALF grabs a remote to stop a runaway machine, and all of a sudden the TV statics and switches to a fat cat passed out unconscious in front of an open raided refrigerator. The screen changes back: "Oops...Wrong remote!"

@garfieldclarkjr2483

Жыл бұрын

@@ericjanssen394 Wow that happened?? So ALF Tales was breaking the fourth wall when it was aware Garfield was on …. Are there episodes of ALF Tales around ?

Nothing will ever beat the OG Garfield with Lorenzo musics voice. I’m 35 and I still have the whole series on DVD.

@okjeffy6581

Жыл бұрын

Lorenzo is in heaven.

@HeilRay

Жыл бұрын

Envious

@KristenDETW

Жыл бұрын

35 too, I feel you.

@lynntaylor9681

Жыл бұрын

That's great. I have a couple of the seasons on dvd.

@spencerpetunia8268

Жыл бұрын

Oooh someone gifted me the whole series on DVD this past Christmas. By far one of the BEST presents I've ever received! :D

I grew up with Garfield and Friends. My sister passed on that love to her kids. My youngest nephew especially love Garfield and Friends! I'm proud they are being raised right.

@smartass643

5 ай бұрын

Did you watch the Garfield show?

@Kelga80

5 ай бұрын

@@smartass643 I didn't, but I believe my nephew did.

Over the years, I have introduced my different nieces and my nephew to Garfield and Friends after finding out they were fans of the 3D stuff. Every time, they wanted more Garfield and Friends instead of the 3D versions they had been watching. Ranging in ages from 4 to 10 when I introduced them, they all preferred the show as being funnier and better written.

@PunakiviAddikti

Жыл бұрын

I guess that's proof that kids like stuff that to us seems cheap, but given a better alternative they prefer the alternative.

@annigram

Жыл бұрын

You’re a hero.

@smartass643

5 ай бұрын

You mean the Garfield show?

I def have nostalgia for Garfield and friends. Even the “Friends” part I enjoyed. I remember laughing at the ducks flotation device mimicking the duck wearing it 😂

@Nytemare2all

Жыл бұрын

That was one of my favorite details in that segment

@maddtoonerthegreencup1436

Жыл бұрын

Oh! You mean Wade! Yeah his little Duck tube buddy is so funnily Cute! XD

@brandonprater4613

Жыл бұрын

Same. 🙂👍

@davrosdaleks1

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I liked them, too.

@leeeroyjenkins555

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the mini-wade thing. One of the most misterious misteries of the show. It never talks, it never is adressed, it is just... there.

To quote the late great Norm Macdonald and something i'm sure Garfield might be thinking about is “It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.”

The “Kung Fu Creatures on the Rampage 2” short was pretty good satire on how movie marketing got turned up to insane levels in the late 80s to where you couldn’t avoid it if you tried. The show came out around the same time Batman took over popular culture.

Garfield and Friends will remain one of my favorite cartoons ever. Thank god for my sister who introduced me to the show with dvds..

In Latin America, the series was dubbed in Chile and Garfield was voiced by Sandro Larenas. His voice became so iconic that even when the next series were dubbed in different countries, Larenas always returned to do the voice.

@motor4X4kombat

Жыл бұрын

as someone that grew up with the show in argentina i agree.

@Albertoscutarius

Жыл бұрын

As someone who grew up in Spain watching "Las flipantes aventuras del gato tragaldabas y sus colegas", I also agree.

Garfield is just one of those cartoons that always made me hungry…

@charliecomer6001

Жыл бұрын

It used to be.

@charliecomer6001

Жыл бұрын

The 3d show is on Netflix

@gianinabadami5341

Жыл бұрын

Lasanga!

@koneheadcokehead4981

Жыл бұрын

Facts

@wchan39

Жыл бұрын

I will say this, Garfield is how I first discovered Lasagne.

The show despite being dated is timeless, I love the show and my children can not get enough of it. Clean funny humour. The Orson Farms segment might be the more moral segment, but Roy still gives the best jokes. My personal favourite is when aliens want to steal humour for weaponizing, and Orson says quick we need to make them laugh, so Roy says quick show them my paycheck!

I always loved how the voice actor for Garfield also voiced Dr. Peter Venkmen in Ghostbusters, only for Bill Murry to voice Garfield later in the live action films. Kind of an actor circle of roles.

@melissacooper8724

Жыл бұрын

He also voiced Tummy on Gummi Bears. And one of the Crash Dummies.

Working hard to be lazy was literally something that Jon said about Garfield at the end of one of the comic strips.

The initial order for Garfield and Friends was for two seasons and a pretty high license fee. Networks rarely commit for two seasons but The Cat was a highly-desired property and the two main guys behind the show - Lee Mendelson and Jim Davis - had the clout to get what they wanted and, equally important, the willingness to say no if they didn't get what they wanted. So they got a deal for 26 half-hours. Thirteen would air the first year and thirteen would air the second. As soon as it hit the air though, it was apparent that it was a huge hit and CBS asked, almost immediately, if the show could become an hour for the following year (season 2). -Mark Evanier

13:15 No joke, when I first saw this show as a kid I thought the cast of U.S. Acres were created specifically for the TV series just so we could have a break between Garfield episodes. I had no idea this had its own comic until years later.

Awww I liked the US Acres. Angry lady sheep was always doing laundry, even though they didn't wear clothes. lol also Garfield and Friends was the only sat cartoon show that made me laugh so hard at one point I almost couldn't breathe. Great review!

@gianinabadami5341

Жыл бұрын

Run for your life! Power Pig is on the rampage!

@MikeChimeri

Жыл бұрын

I also liked U.S. Acres. Their cartoons were just as funny as the Garfield ones, and sometimes even funnier.

Man I remember renting this show from blockbuster a lot as a kid XD memories. I also remember I skipped the farm part though, I only wanted the Garfield stuff

@LegendStormcrow

Жыл бұрын

My wife loves the Orson's Farm portions.

@mattblack9161

Жыл бұрын

The farm part was my favorite lol

@xxTC-96xx

Жыл бұрын

@@mattblack9161 I just had the obsession with garfield XD

@elisegrimwald

Жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one who hated the farm parts. They felt too long to me, and weren't funny. I still hate them.

@xxTC-96xx

Жыл бұрын

@@elisegrimwald I didn't hate them exactly but they just seemed really boring compared to the garfield segments XD

I never really cared for the Garield comics, but I loved 'Garfield and Friends.' It was a very underrated show with a ton of meta humor.

@daytimesky

Жыл бұрын

Interestingly, I was pretty much the opposite when I was a kid. Really liked the comics, just thought the cartoon was something to stare at while bored in the morning.

@louisduarte8763

Жыл бұрын

I think that show, and Beetlejuice, introduced kid me to that kind of humor.

@orangeslash1667

Жыл бұрын

@@louisduarte8763 Fun Fact: Flim Roman who did the animation for Garfield and Friends would soon create Avengers Worlds Mightiest Hero's and this was before the MCU was even a thing.

@OldGreyGryphon

Жыл бұрын

@@orangeslash1667 Earth’s Mightiest Heroes is such a great show.

@orangeslash1667

Жыл бұрын

@@OldGreyGryphon while it lasted😕.

Garfield and Friends made my saturday mornings so awesome. Along side the Transformers, Voltron, TMNT, WWF Wrestling, and more Garfield was always in between either of those shows and was always enjoyable. He's iconic to me.

I loved this show when I was a kid and it's weird to me how few people talk about it today. It was clever but I also loved the crazy randomness that would happen once in a while

Seasonal Rot: *Many feel it happened after Season Five.* The plots became more bizarre, almost every episode was oversaturated with fourth wall breaks, all of the side characters who weren’t Nermal or Floyd got retired, and overall people felt that the last seasons six and seven didn’t have the same charm of the first five. Despite having decent ratings and some stand out episodes, the show slowly began to lose its audience. It doesn’t help that the last two openings were badly received and that the show was in danger of suffering budget cuts.

@marclewis5505

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Season 6 and 7 were not great from what I remember.

@jacksonteller3973

Жыл бұрын

@@marclewis5505 I thought they were fine

@ericjanssen394

Жыл бұрын

I remember Season 1 of the original 80's network Saturday morning series was one of the great toons of the 80's (always played opposite NBC's ALF toon on CBS), and that one seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth-- I've looked on YT and streaming for Episode 1 where Garfield goes to Samoa to escape the Terror of Mondays, but all that seems to exist in reruns are the cheapo-unfunny later half-hour syndie-toon seasons of the series.

@joeypieper6384

Жыл бұрын

You Got that from TV tropes didn't you?

@jacksonteller3973

Жыл бұрын

@@joeypieper6384 yeah this guy comments like this on pretty much every new NC video.

I was a huge fan of Garfield and Friends and that goes double for the, "and friends". I could totally relate to Orson as I was also a bit of a book need. However I can totally see why U.S. Acres wasn't everyone's cup of tea. I did like to draw fan art of both Garfield and Peanuts and even had Snoopy meet Garfield.

@bluecollie55_movies25

Жыл бұрын

I would like to see Garfield and Snoopy together. :-D. :-D. :-D

@spencerpetunia8268

Жыл бұрын

There's a US Acres Discord. :)

Man, this show was a big staple of my childhood. It was always on right before the bus came to take me to school. So I always hurried to get ready in the morning so I could watch it before leaving. The animation error episode is hands down my favorite!

My only connection to the Garfield & Friends show was the “Dreams & Schemes” DVD set I got for Christmas and watched on repeat with my cousin. I literally watched nothing else but the episodes on that DVD and I don’t regret it. My favorite of the DVD was “Rip Van Kitty” followed by “Flat Tired”.

He's the animated precursor to Ron Swanson, who'd work all day if it meant someone else got no work done. In fact, Ron Swanson is probably the best live-action representation of Garfield, gaining a fanbase that is equally as fascinated as they are amused by his actions and attitude of brutal honesty, confidence in his power to be lazy and the deeper connection to others that makes us see his human potential.

@MusicMan32K

Жыл бұрын

Now we need a version of Garfield voiced by Nick Offerman

@zberm5091

Жыл бұрын

@@MusicMan32K holy shit! Why didn’t I Think of that

Now i really want to see Garfield as a talk-show host

@lO_-_Ol

Жыл бұрын

With Bill Murray as the voice! Like a modern space ghost coast to coast

@thewolfofwallstreet627

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it'll be as exciting as the alf talk show that went over sooo well...oh wait....

@Brightest_day727

9 ай бұрын

Id watch

@greensonickid3304

6 ай бұрын

It's like the Eric Andre Show but Garfieldified

Garfield and Friends is one of the best Saturday morning cartoons of its time for me. Even if they were on a budget, you can tell the writers tried their best to deliver laughs and the occasional emotional moments that you wouldn't expect from a series starring a fat, cynical, lazy cat. I don't think we'll ever get a Garfield show quite as good as this one. Oh, and for the record, I didn't enjoy the Orson's Farm/U.S. Acres segments very much either. It didn't gel well with the Garfield segments because it was mostly edutainment material.

The re-runs of this show were on every morning at THE perfect time for me growing up. I could wake up, make myself breakfast, sit down and watch this show, then get ready for school after. I literally did that every day from like 3rd grade to 5th grade, and must have seen every episode a small handfull of times. Once 6th grade hit, I was way more interested in sleeping instead haha. Good times.

Garfield's one of those characters that will always be relatable in one form or another. This show is a perfect example of how to do a show based entirely on a 4-panel comic strip.

@okjeffy6581

Жыл бұрын

Well usually the strips have 3 panels.

Real talk: This show always deserved more credit.

@erainmartinez8175

Жыл бұрын

Who the hell is that? 9:20

@Namefag23

Жыл бұрын

I don't fucking now

@erainmartinez8175

Жыл бұрын

@@Namefag23 that didn't answer my question

@Namefag23

Жыл бұрын

@@erainmartinez8175 probably nostalgia critic beign insane

@erainmartinez8175

Жыл бұрын

@@Namefag23 yep

I recorded every one of these for the first 3 seasons as a kid. I too was obsessed. I had Garfield candles, bed sheets... a bunch of crap. His attitude was what I loved

We recently moved into our new house last month and we haven't been able to hook up the internet in the kids' playroom so their TV in there only plays DVDs. My 8 year old son went digging through my old collection and pulled out Garfield and Friends. And promptly proceeded to watch the entire series in a single weekend. He absolutely loves it. :P

@Trainboy452

Жыл бұрын

You're raising your kids right.

Bout time this show was recognized. Best Garfield media we've ever damn gotten!

@koneheadcokehead4981

Жыл бұрын

Yeah this show is really underrated especially for as much time as the writers and everybody did to make the final product looked so good and make something really different that you didn't see most kids shows doing at the same time this was being made.

@devinpaul9026

Жыл бұрын

@@koneheadcokehead4981 Under rated? Brother, this show was GENIUS!

Why the series got canceled: Garfield and Friends had outlasted most animated series by the time it reached its seventh season in 1994. Although the series was still doing well in the ratings at the time, the show had become expensive to make and the Saturday morning cartoon format was in decline by this point. Additionally, while the series itself was doing well; CBS as a whole was a distant third behind NBC and ABC for much of the series run, and was in the middle of its cost-cutting by Laurence Tisch that resulted in CBS losing broadcasting rights to the National Football League for four years starting in 1994 and subsequently losing many longtime affiliates to Fox, which had outbid CBS for its NFL package. As a result, CBS proposed cutting the budget for the series for another season as part of Tisch's imposed budget cuts. Since syndication of the series (73 episodes) was doing well, producers ended the series in 1994 with its seventh season.

@louisduarte8763

Жыл бұрын

May I guess the rise of FOX Kids, then Kids WB! on Saturday mornings contributed to it?

@averymerrick

Жыл бұрын

@@louisduarte8763 Yes. "After we finished Show #121, CBS said they wanted to order another season but they wanted to renegotiate the deal. Because of the annual bumps in the license fee, the show had gotten very expensive. At the same time, the viewing audiences for all of Saturday morning TV had declined. When we went on the air in '88, the main place kids could watch cartoons was on CBS, NBC and ABC on Saturday mornings. By the time we went off in 1995, you had your Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon and the WB Network and Fox and a few others airing cartoons every day: in some cases morning, noon and night." -Mark Evanier

@theoguncleslappy9150

Жыл бұрын

Well dang

@StillTheVoid

Жыл бұрын

Didn't the seventh season ended in Dec. 10, 1994? I know where you got this information from Wikipedia but its one of those examples where your old English teacher always tell you to: "not trust Wikipedia for sources of accurate info". Whoever wrote the 'Production' section of Garfield & Friends added the narrative of CBS' decline in network ratings being the cause of budget cuts which there's no such source that could confirm this information. The only work cited worth reading why it didnt carry on for another 1 or 2 seasons is Mark Evanier's himself he made in his own website back in 2014. Consider the Misinformation Age being a hoax... *DEBUNKED!* Watch out what you read, kids.😎

@slyfox2022

Жыл бұрын

@ the void and BOOM goes the dynamite! KZreadrs really need to stop citing wikipedia

I actually grew up with the Garfield show. I absolutely loved it. And I still do. My favorite were off the charts. And they made me really happy.

@mikesc3757

Жыл бұрын

Me too

@lucidstudious750

Жыл бұрын

I grew up 8n 2002. Got best of the both worlds in Garfield and friends, and The Garfield Show. Me and my lil bro had a lot of fun ngl

This is the first show I remember watching that *really* leaned into the fourth wall breaks, long before that type of humor became over-done, and I always really loved that about it. Whenever Garfield would wink at the audience, so to speak, it always made me feel like I was in on the joke, and ironically it made the show often known for its cynicism feel weirdly personal to me.

“I HATE Mondays.” - Garfield. Yeah, especially Wednesdays. The BEST Iconic Line From A Cartoon Strip Ever!

Everyone in US Acres always complained about Orson’s daydreams come to life, and yet no one ever realizes that Orson clearly has the power to alter reality to his whim.

@thejester4594

Жыл бұрын

bow before your god POWER PIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@gluttonousmaximus9048

Жыл бұрын

So, Orson Welles in real life

When I think of Garfield, this show is what I think of. I love Lorenzo Music's voice. I hear it whenever I see Garfield

I still love this show. A lot of my sarcasm and subversive sense of humour comes from this show. I watched this religiously back when I was on kindergarten and firts grade, and I never had a problem with the farm characters, never had strong feelings about them.

I'll never forget the Garfield specials that came on each year in the 80s! Its hilarious it took nearly 8- 10 of them to figure" Hey! Let's give him his own show!" That was TV Magic for me and many other kids! His sarcasm and hilarious jokes made him timeless! No one was safe! TMNT got heavily parodied! Hell, Garfield, TMNT and Skeleton Warriors were part of my later Saturday morning block! I'm glad I own the boxsets and showed my nieces/nephews how great the show was! They were shocked when I told them this show was also on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network!

@kevinr.3542

Жыл бұрын

I've recently gone back and watched the lesser known Garfield specials and they're awesome. Especially Garfield On The Town, where he goes back and sees his mom, grandpa, and old stomping grounds. There are some awesome songs and its funny as hell.

6:27 Fun Fact: The person is named Al Swindler and he the closest Garfield has to a Main Villain as he made four appearances in the whole run.

This show felt far more like a Garfield show than The Garfield Show. Not to mention his voice was so much better.

@EpikBirb

Жыл бұрын

New Garfield sounds too pudgy and excited.

I remember watching this wacky series, plus loved the comic strips, especially Sundays. But the ideas, wacky wit, snarkyness, it just worked. Inspiring other shows to deliver fascinating and creative ideas

Fun Fact: Garfield & Friends was the show that broke 4th walls and comedy gold before Anamanics came out.

@tiablue9106

Жыл бұрын

A lot of cartoons broke the 4th wall before like even the oldest Looney Tunes, Rocky & Bullwinkle, etc

@tylerensminger

Жыл бұрын

@@tiablue9106 I still remember watching the Looney Tunes short You ought to be in pictures and being amazed by the quality of that short especially given how old it was

@RacgoonGamer967

Жыл бұрын

@@tiablue9106 Yeah. But Garfield & Friends re-introduce that concept of 4th Wall Breaking which lead to many other cartoon shows to did it after hence like Anamanics, Simpsons, Family Guy, and many others

@StillTheVoid

Жыл бұрын

@@RacgoonGamer967 Sorry man. You lost the bet. Looney Tunes and other animation studios been breaking walls since your great grandparents were wearing diapers.

@DigiRangerScott

Жыл бұрын

@@RacgoonGamer967 You’re giving too much credit

10:24 Agreed, "in the land of twilight, under the moon" is an absolute bop!

One of my favorite and memorable episodes of Garfield and friends was when Jon went to get a video rental membership and spent the entire time registering with the employee and pulling out everything he needed to get that membership to rent movies and whenever he finally did the store was all out and it was awesome. That episode had stated with me even to this day. “Photo of you in a zebra costume in the 3rd grade.” “Photo of me in a zebra costume in the 3rd grade.”

@randalgraves6979

Жыл бұрын

I still remember the US Acres one where they waited for Sheldon to be “born” and it turns out the shell came off and he was just a shell. 🤤

@EphPhaThaINC

Жыл бұрын

@@randalgraves6979 oh yeah, I remember that episode. Yeah they really…egg’d that one on didn’t they?

One episode of this I distinctly remember is Garfield making a wish at a wishing well that Mondays didn't exist any more, only to find out that most of, if not everything he looked forward to every week ironically happened on a Monday and then he had to basically fight with the wishing well to get it to bring back Mondays.

@joshuariddensdale2126

Жыл бұрын

One episode that I remember because it's so relatable is where Garfield breaks John's record player and he goes to every electronics store in town only to find that everything is CDs now. My dad is like that. He holds onto outdated technology and when it comes time to replace it, everything has changed. Like trying to find TVs that still use component ports because everything switched to HDMI years ago.

My favorite joke from this show was in this episode where Jon, Garfield and Odie were staying in some spooky hotel thing. The hobgoblin receptionist says “walk this way” then walks offscreen in a goofy fashion. Then Jon and Odie cross the screen one at a time, walking normally. When Garfield walks by he tells the audience “don’t worry, we’re not doing that joke”

@glenbard07

Жыл бұрын

Can you explain that please? I've tried for years to understand it and still can't.

@tiablue9106

Жыл бұрын

@@glenbard07 the joke Garfield was referring to was when someone says "walk this way" just meaning like "follow me", but the person they're directing instead copies the way they're walking. Bc "walk this way" could be also be interpreted as "walk like this". it's a pretty old joke

@glenbard07

Жыл бұрын

@@tiablue9106 Thank you!

@GlassesnMouthplates

Жыл бұрын

The fourth wall jokes were always gold. My personal favourite is an episode where the trio board a shady-looking airline and when the plane they ride malfunctions and is about to crash, Garfield looks and points at the camera and says, "Hey kids, check your local TV program if this is the final episode of Garfield & Friends."

I'm just realizing Garfield is essentially just Winnie the Pooh but lazier.

@leeeroyjenkins555

Жыл бұрын

Bullshit. Garfield is edgy.

@nathank2289

Жыл бұрын

Well in his own words "Sloth is the mother of invention" So I guess you could say being lazier is why Garfield is so much smarter than Pooh.

@avosmash2121

Жыл бұрын

Garfield is meaner and far more reluctant to help people for unselfish gains than Pooh. I would say Pooh is also a lot more easily tricked than he is.

One of the lines that still sticks with me to this day is from the US Acres segment when Roy and Wade were reading the two chicks a bedtime story. And Roy and Wade kept trying to up one another : “But the mole men were too smart for the marines.” “Where did all those pirates come from?” “The same place all those ninjas came from.” It always made me laugh.

I’ve actually heard that, in addition to Jim Davis stepping back from the writing, the Garfield comics were never as invested in humor as they were in relatability. I don’t know if that’s true, since I always got a laugh from them. The recent ones haven’t been as funny though.

@Phoenix2312

Жыл бұрын

You are actually quite right and that is an actual quote from Jim Davis himself... It was always his intent to have Garfield be relatable rather than go out of his way to think of Funny... Hence one of teh most popular strips is simply Garfield saying he feels "Down" and ending with him reciting the intro to a Famous Jim Diamond Song!!! At the Time - Breaking up is hard to do was proving very popular despite its age... And was very relatable to a massive audience!

I think we all wish we had a really chill down to earth cat like Garfield

@cartoonsketcher0819

Жыл бұрын

Only problem is that the chill cat would eat all your food lol.

@davidstone281

Жыл бұрын

I do and her name is Ellie. She just chills and watches TV with me lol

@cartoonsketcher0819

Жыл бұрын

@@davidstone281 aw, that's cute. My cats are a mix of feral and domestic so they're either napping in the middle of the room or trying to claw everything in sight. I still love them tho. ❤️

@nathank2289

Жыл бұрын

Pretty much any cat person with a fat cat can see Garfield in their pet. My Pot-Pie (named after South Park) is currently siting on my computer desk staring at me with Garfield's "I love you but feed me right now" face.

@nuclearcatbaby1131

Жыл бұрын

I have a pigment impaired Garfield.

I remember liking the Garfield episodes and getting annoyed by the others However the Garfield specials are the best

7:57 Twitter. That’s it, that’s the punchline.

@candydream16

Жыл бұрын

my first thought that came to mind when I saw them was twitter

I adore this show, & all of the specials. Garfield & Friends was my favorite cartoon next to Bobby's World. The show had such heart & offered 2 completely separate shows in one (w/Orson pig, Wade duck, Roy the Rooster & the other farm animals.

Hey listen i'm still trying to forget that time Garfield was the 5th Turtle in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

This show was a major part of my childhood. I miss cartoons like this back in the day. I'm happy that there are ways to watch this show in the modern day. I always go back and watch some episodes for nostalgia.

US-Acres was my favorite growing up. I still watch it when it comes on. Gives me a big ol Nostalgia to show off to the neighbors.

@spencerpetunia8268

Жыл бұрын

Oooh there's a US Acres discord. :)

I remember having to stay WAY UP UNTIL 2-3 IN THE MORNING just to watch this show on Toon Disney! But it was worth it! ⏰

@yotsubafanfan

Жыл бұрын

I did the same thing! It was well worth it!

For me, I think what I love the most about Garfield is his carefree yet determined personality. Something like this related alot towards me because, as a kid growing up in the late 2000s to early 2010s, I was carefree yet determined too.

I’m glad it took someone like the Nostalgia Critic this long to really try and dive into what makes Garfield as a character so timeless. Many more up and coming cartoon creators should take the extra effort to be passionate in their creation.

@brandonjones5879

Жыл бұрын

Super Eyepatch Wolf had a huge video on Garfield and his impact on the internet

@avosmash2121

Жыл бұрын

@@brandonjones5879 I loved the review he did. But as a long term fan I did feel he focused a bit much on Garfield's mean evil traits. Garfield is mean spirited to Jon but he was never totally evil/cruel outright. I enjoy the funny dark internet meme horror craze but I feel like he is beloved because of his childlike nature.

One of the shows I looked forward to on Saturday Mornings. It was nice to see this review on my feed and relive a bit of my own nostalgia.

I bought all the DVD boxed sets when I was about 7 or 8 years old and still got them. They're timeless cartoons for me.

Finally, a nostalgia series, it has been so long since one

I'd love to see a Orange Battle off between Garfield, Chester Cheetah, Orange Chicken, the Human Torch, Ernie, Scar, Darwin Watterson, Ojo, Kenny, The Lorax, Lion-O, the Thing, Swiper the Fox, Crash Bandicoot, Snarf, Tony the Tiger, Mermaid Man, Tigger and the Orange M&M then again the world couldn't contain that much Orangeness without having to balance it out.

@louisduarte8763

Жыл бұрын

You forgot Heathcliff, the other orange troublemaking cat from a comic strip. And Holy Shit, I have no idea how I remembered that.

I figured this out myself, though Rick and Morty pointed it out on one of their Interdimensional TV episodes, that Lorenzo Music voiced both Garfield in this show and Peter Venkman in The Real Ghostbusters while Bill Murry played Venkman in the Ghostbuster movies and later played Garfield in the movies. I still liked the show and have fond memories of it. RIP Lorenzo Music.

Love watching this series, I honestly didn't mind the U.S. acres segments but I didn't care for the musical numbers in every segment(until the 3rd season if I recall correctly)

@melissacooper8724

Жыл бұрын

I do recall in the later seasons that US Acres stopped doing musical numbers in their episodes.

I'm pretty sure Garfield has a killer David Letterman impersonation

I talked to the storyboard artists for this show Gary Conrad and Floyd Norman, who told me working on this show was like a party everyday.

@leeeroyjenkins555

Жыл бұрын

That explains the season 3 intro.

@KasumiKenshirou

Жыл бұрын

I've heard of Floyd Norman. He used to work for Walt Disney.

@zacharystrobel7646

Жыл бұрын

@@KasumiKenshirou, yes. The same artist. Met him in 2018. Very smart, talented and nice guy.

That Buddy Bear predicted the future @ 8:22

Video Airlines, which featured the Kung Fu Creatures on the Rampage 2 movie, is one of the best episodes of the series. Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield, even lends his voice as the announcer of Adequate Theater.

I think Garfield yelled to CBS to just have his name in title or he would eat their eyeballs in front of their children

I'd like to give a big shout out to Lorenzo Music as Garfield and Thom Huge as John Arbuckle, Gort( one of Orsons evil brothers) Binky the Clown and Roy Rooster! Some amazing talent in this show! Especially with Frank Welker!

My siblings and I still reference the sketch “There’s no such thing as Wyoming”. Such a funny bit that I think was a little ahead of its time in terms of humor. Also, I remember the episode of US Acres where Sheldon was finally going to hatch out of his egg and the whole episode was just building up him hatching and when he finally did-it was just another egg shell underneath. That was actually a pretty good troll.

My mon & I actually have those Garfield mugs and in addition to those Garfield that had suction cups that you could stick on windows, we even had a Garfield ice scraper for the car. I also have this bronze Garfield key chain. All those things just feel just as nostalgic to me as the show.

I had to blink really hard and a few double takes seeing a Demon Slayer character in the ad read. It just serprised me. I grew up after this show but when I pitcher Garfield this is the version I see in my head. I've also grown up with the live action on and later on the 3D but this is the Garfield I remember best.

This cartoon to me has always been comforting. Between the voice acting of Garfield to the plots being foor centered to this show possibly being my earliest memory

Garfield and friends are such a great cartoon it’s difficult to pull off a comic strip an animated form but they did it with this in addition to peanuts

Fun fact: the original artist now takes requests from his art students. There are now official arts of Garfield with the Death Note, meeting the Simpson, and a ton others

13:07 "I want the giant robots back"

So this is why my weird uncle keeps watching me from a distance while eating Grapes slowly

Garfield is one of the greatest cartoon characters of all time, great review Critic, take care

I LOVED this character and show. It was so weeeeeeiiiiird with its humor and delivery. Makes me want to rewatch it right now. :sigh: So good. I also thought that the farm animals were on Jon's parent's farm, I'm not sure where I got that from but I seem to remember it being explained in one episode or another.

Happy to say I’ve met Jim Davis (has lived around here basically his whole life), and you can drive past the Paws Inc. building as well. Very cool.

@randalgraves6979

Жыл бұрын

I met him at a Con, and “Garfield”. Got a pic with em.

Man, I remember loving this show when we'd check it out at the library as a kid... only memory I have of it now was a barnyard bit where someone got sick, everyone joined in to help them get better, and then everyone but that one guy got sick.

4:03 You could say Garfield's been "de-flanderized" from what he used to be

I always got a kick out of whenever John was holding Garfield- while about to do something dangerous, like skiing for example- and Garfield would yell: *“Put down the kitty!! Put down the kitty before you (__ insert dangerous activity here__)!!”* Maybe because no human can hear him is what made it so funny to me. The fact that this stuck with me says something.

@tiablue9106

Жыл бұрын

also when Garfield would say "people who (insert annoying thing here) oughta be drug out into the street and shot."

Fun fact when you eat Lasagna Garfield comes to life that or if you let some sugar wait too long so it becomes stale and starts turning Orange and then put some chemical x into it and mix until it looks fairly similar to what you want it to be you also create Garfield

Garfield and Friends is my all time favorite Saturday morning cartoon show! The characters, the humor, I love it all! Kinda like Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs I loved the variety of characters it had. I feel like I'm in the minority here, but I liked the US Acres cartoons too.

@matheusalves9421

Жыл бұрын

Same! The show felt like an Animaniacs kind of show to me too because of "more than one segment" aspect. And yes, i love US Acres too! They had a tone of funny moments and episodes. I never felt it was THAT "educational" to be honest.

@spencerpetunia8268

Жыл бұрын

There's a US Acres Discord! :D

When I think Garfield, I think Lorenzo Music's best memorable quote: "It wasn't that funny." But I enjoyed it alongside Real Ghostbusters.

I love this show. The “and friends” part was like taking my medicine so I could have my treat which was Garfield.

So this is why the IRS hates Garfield

I was born around the time the show ended, but got hooked on the show as a youngster by renting the series from Blockbuster, Then Hollywood Video. It’s become a comfort show of mine this show is just weirdly charming . Made me a big fan of lasagna and orange cats lol. I was pretty sure I had a Garfield themed birthday party.

I remember when I was six or seven, and my brother and I were mentioning something about Ben-Hur to my mother, who was shocked that we knew what that was. Our response when she asked how we knew about it was, "It was on Garfield yesterday."

Thank you for the video. The 3D iteration was decent. Not something I'd go out of my way to watch, but it was always a blessing to see it was running when there was nothing else I wanted to see.