The Garfield Show
The Garfield Show | |
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File:Garfield headerimage.jpg Screenshot from TV show. | |
Starring | Frank Welker Gregg Berger Wally Wingert Jason Marsden Laura Summer Audrey Wasilewski Julie K. Payne |
Country of origin | ![]() |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 52 |
Production | |
Running time | 25 Minutes |
Original release | |
Network | France 3 Cartoon Network, in The US |
Release | 22nd December 2008 - present |
Release | TheGarfieldShow.com |
Release | TheGarfieldShow.com |
Release | TheGarfieldShow.com |
Release | TheGarfieldShow.com |
Release | TheGarfieldShow.com |
Release | TheGarfieldShow.com |
Release | TheGarfieldShow.com |
The Garfield Show is a CGI animated television series that premiered on France 3 on December 22, 2008 and premiered in the US on November 2, 2009 on Cartoon Network and online at TheGarfieldShow.com, the official website. English-language episodes started airing on Boomerang UK on May 5, 2009. Based on the American comic strip Garfield, the series is executive produced by creator Jim Davis, co-written and voice directed by Mark Evanier, who also wrote most of the episodes for the Garfield and Friends, and produced by the studios Dargaurd Media, Ellipsanime Productions, Ellipse Films, Dreamwall, Mediatoon, and Citel Video.[1] The show is directed by Philippe Vidal.
Plot
The Garfield Show picks up, mainly, on Garfield's usual antics and frolics, usually in function of his laziness and gluttony. It focuses on his quirky misadventures, while always highlighting the fat cat's love for lasagna. Garfield lives with his owner, Jon Arbuckle, and his owner's dog, Odie, in a detached 3-story house (as opposed to the one-story house in Garfield and Friends). The premise of the show, which is comedic slapstick, lies mainly in the events of each single episode. Usually Garfield has to solve problems that he himself causes, but always tries to skive off, and actually solves them in the end.
Episodes
Season 1 (Volume 1)
1a: "Pasta Wars"
It's Garfield's birthday and Jon forgets about his cat's birthday. He later remembers it and makes 8 lasagnas but he's one lasagna short. Meanwhile, an unusual type of alien which looks like lasagna and can speak English of an Italian accent arrives on Earth.
1b: "A Game Of Cat And Mouse"
Squeak and his mouse family move in with Garfield and he must get them to leave before Jon calls Rat-Tator Pest.
2a: "Perfect Pizza"
Garfield gets a pizza from Mama Meany's Pizza Palace, Vito's rival, which tastes horrible. Can Garfield save Vito's before they go out of business?
2b: "Mother Garfield"
A bluebird gets trapped from Garfield's neighbour's garage after catching a worm to eat. She leaves her 3 babies abandoned. Garfield takes care of them but the babies hatch from the eggs and call him accidentally their mother. The first appearance of Garfield's rival Harry.
3a: "Pup In The Pound"
Odie gets taken to the dog pound because he's not wearing his licensed collar. Garfield disguises as a dog to get Odie back.
3b: "Odie In Love"
Odie falls in love with a shower brush, but Garfield doesn't like it so he throws the brush to the recycling bin without Odie knowing it.
4a: "Not So Sweet Sound Of Music"
Jon finds his accordion but Garfield doesn't like him playing it nor the very sound of it. Garfield tries to get rid of it.
4b: "Turkey Trouble"
Jon accidentally orders a live turkey instead of a dinner turkey for dinner with Liz. Garfield disguises as a turkey to get rid of the turkey.
5a: "Cat Nap"
Garfield locks all the doors to protect from Silent Jack. Jon forgets his keys after his tooth surgery.
5b: "Agent X"
A cat finds Nermal and his name is "Agent X". But he turns out to be Fluffykins.
6a: "Orange And Black"
Garfield disguises as a creature named "Catzilla".
6b: "Freaky Monday"
Odie and Garfield gets bodies swapped by a Saturn alien without knowing about it.
7a: "King Nermal"
Nermal lives with Garfield for 10 days because his owner is out of city. He fakes a leg injury. Garfield and Odie plan to get rid of him.
7b: "Desperately Seeking Pooky"
Garfield's teddy bear goes missing.
8a: "Curse Of The Were-Dog"
Odie becomes a were-dog in the middle of the night and eats lasagna. But Jon thinks that Garfield ate it.
8b: "Meet The Parents"
Liz introduces Jon to her parents. Liz's father is a grumpy man. Liz's mother has a canary named Petey. Garfield tries to eat and get rid of him.
9a: "Down On The Farm"
Garfield goes to Jon's brother Doc Boy's home. But with no TV & no pizza, Garfield shows the farm animals how to live life HIS way.
9b: "The Pet Show"
Garfield gets rejected from The Pet Show because he's too fat to enter so that Odie takes his place against Nermal.
10a: "Pet Matchers"
Jon & Garfield fights against watching the TV so that they go to a TV show called Pet Matchers.
10b: "Lucky Charm"
Garfield gets rich after being lucky by a leprechaun.
11a: "Bone Diggers"
Odie digs some bones but they aren't ordinary bones. They're Brachiosaurus bones.
11b: "The Robot"
Jon tests an cleaning robot.
12a: "High Scale"
Jon puts Garfield on a diet and exercise, when the scales tell him he's overweight.
12b: "Jon's Night Out"
Jon has a difficulty sleeping, so a hypnotist puts a spell to make him fall asleep from the noise of a horn, but is accidentally Odie's bark.
13a: "Curse of the Cat People"
Garfield and Odie get taken to another land through a magic mirror where Meferkitti (voiced by Susan Silo) and her Egyptian colony of cats live, planning their revenge on humans.
13b: "Glenda and Odessa"
Garfield and Odie are framed for stealing barbecued ribs when they run away from Jon's twin girl cousins.
Season 1 (Volume 2)
14a: "It's a Cat's World"
Garfield gets sucked into a parallel universe where cats act like humans and humans act like cats.
14b: "Extreme House Breaking"
Garfield is enrolled on the Dr. Wipall pet obedience course after Jon sneakily tapes him misbehaving, but Garfield eventually discovers the doctor as a sham artist that fraudulently uses his course to launder money for himself.
15a: "Time Twist"
Garfield travels around the universe in a space ship.
15b: "Fame Fatale"
Garfield switches lives with a celebrity, Sir Leo, who is also Liz's cat. Sir Leo looks just like Garfield but speaks with an English accent.
16a: "Underwater World"
Garfield and Odie discover talking fish in the sea.
16b: "Fish To Fry"
When Jon agrees to look after Liz's fish, Garfield can't resist eating them.
17a: "Little Yellow Riding Hood"
Odie sneaks home a baby wolf.
17b: "Time Master"
Garfield finds a pocket watch which can pause time.
18a: "Family Picture"
John tries to take the "perfect family picture" for Liz's birthday present.
18b: "Virtualodeon"
Garfield discovers a new 3-D format TV channel and ends up in the TV. Jon enlists the help of a scientist to help him get his cat out.
19a: "Mail Man Blues"
Garfield torments the relief mailman while Herman's on vacation.
19b: "Heir Apparent"
Jon, Garfield and Odie spend the night in Jon's Cousin Ickabuds haunted estate, along with Doc Boy, to see who inherits his fortune. However, after Garfield and Odie make a mess of things, neither Jon nor Doc Boy get the estate and are left with nothing.
20a: "From The Oven"
When Jon accidentally makes Odie's birthday cake with ingredients from a horror movie, it becomes a Frankenstein-like monster cake.
20b: "Neighbor Nathan"
Odie runs away after Garfield is mean to him. He is taken in by new neighbour and scientific maniac, Nathan.
21a: "History Of Dog"
Garfield tells us about the history of dogs.
21b: "Up a Tree"
Odie becomes friends with the garden's squirrels after he helps one after an accident.
22a: "It's a Cheese World"
Garfield tries to take Squeak and his friends to Eddy GoMear's Cheese World, but Harry is in charge of keeping mice out.
22b: "Nice to Nermal"
Nermal steals Pooky after Garfield is mean to him and Garfield must be nice to him to get Pooky back.
23a: "Out on a Limb"
Garfield, Odie, Nermal and Jon get stuck in a tree.
23b: "Super Me"
Garfield becomes a superhero and foils a bank robbery.
24a: "Mastermind"
Garfield reads people's minds and saves the world from pizza-crazed aliens.
24b: "The Amazing Flying Dog"
Odie dreams that he's a super-dog who can fly.
25a: "The Last Word"
Nermal bets Garfield he can last an hour without eating.
25b: "Iceman"
Garfield helps Oga, the ice cream lady, find a prehistoric mate.
26: "T3000"
Garfield helps the dog catchers defeat the robotic dog catcher.
27: "Caroling Capers"
After hearing children go door to door singing carols on TV, Garfield tries to go around singing carols for food.
Cast
- Frank Welker - Garfield, Various
- Gregg Berger - Odie, Squeak, Harry, Various
- Wally Wingert - Jon Arbuckle
- Audrey Wasilewski - Arlene
- Jason Marsden - Nermal, Luigi, Various
- Laura Summer - Drusilla & Minerva the twins, Various
- Julie Payne - Dr. Liz Wilson
Guest cast
- Melissa Disney -
- June Foray -
- Stan Freberg -
- David Lander - Doc Boy Arbuckle
- Tress MacNeille -
- Laraine Newman -
- Jack Riley -
- Susan Silo -
Trivia
Frank Welker,Julie Payne,David Lander and Gregg Berger are the only cast members from the original Garfield & Friends-era to appear on this show.
References
- ^ "The Garfield Show – Studios". The Garfield Show Diary.
External links
- TheGarfieldShow.com - Watch full episodes of The Garfield Show
- The Garfield Show at Internet Movie Database