The Garfield Show
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| The Garfield Show | |
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| File:Garfield headerimage.jpg Screenshot from TV show. | |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Jim Davis |
| Directed by | Philippe Vidal |
| Voices of | (English) Frank Welker Gregg Berger Wally Wingert Jason Marsden Audrey Wasilewski Julie Payne (French) Gerard Surugue Bruno Choel Philippe Bozzo Marc Spez Veronique Bouffien Gilbert Levy |
| Composers | Laurent Bertaud Jean-Christophe Prudhomme |
| Country of origin |  France United States United Kingdom |
| Original languages | English French |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 53 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Jim Davis Robert Rea |
| Producers | Kim Campbell Marie-Pierre Moulinjeune |
| Running time | 11 minutes |
| Production companies | Dargaud Media Paws, Inc. |
| Original release | |
| Network | France 3 Boomerang Cartoon Network MNCTV |
| Release | December 22, 2008 May 5, 2009 November 2, 2009 TBA – present |
| Release | TheGarfieldShow.com – developer |
| Release | TheGarfieldShow.com – developer |
| Release | TheGarfieldShow.com – developer |
| Release | TheGarfieldShow.com – developer |
| Release | TheGarfieldShow.com – developer |
| Release | TheGarfieldShow.com – developer |
| Release | TheGarfieldShow.com – developer |
The Garfield Show is a CGI animated television series that premiered in 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 and Cartoon Network on November 2, 2009. Based on the American comic strip Garfield, the series is executive produced by Garfield creator Jim Davis; and co-written and voice directed by Mark Evanier, who also wrote most of the episodes for the Garfield and Friends series. Returning from Garfield and Friends are the voice actors Julie Payne, and Gregg Berger. Frank Welker replaces the late Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield), whereas Thom Huge as the voice of Jon Arbuckle is replaced by Wally Wingert. Also returning is David Lander, reprising his role as Doc Boy from earlier Garfield specials. The show is produced by the studios Dargaud Media, Paws Inc., Ellipsanime Productions, Ellipse Films, Dreamwall, Mediatoon, and Citel Video.[1] The show is directed by Philippe Vidal and the music is done by Laurent Bertaud and Jean-Christophe Prudhomme.
In Indonesia, The Garfield Show scheduled aired on MNCTV.
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 2-story house (as opposed to the one-story house in the comics and Garfield and Friends). The 1950s-era television set in the living room still has a rabbit-ears antenna, but it now has a converter box so the family can now watch television in HDTV (in fact, several allusions to 21st-century technology are made in the series). 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 (2008-2010)
1: "Pasta Wars (September 11th 2008)"
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. They plan to invade the Earth, but are quickly scared away by Garfield's ravenous appetite.
2: "A Game Of Cat And Mouse (September 11th 2008)"
Squeak and his family move in with Garfield in the morning as Jon and Odie were gone but Garfield allows Squeak's family to remain in the house on the condition that they be his servants. Jon comes back but Garfield was able to get the mice to leave before Jon called Rat-Tator Pest, who's hefty bill would have insured that Garfield would not eat lasagna for years.
3: "Perfect Pizza (September 18th 2008)"
Garfield gets a Pizza from Mama Meany's Pizza Palace, Vito's rival, which tastes horrible but they are putting Vito out of business through coupons, contests and discounts and even expand the restaurant to take over Vito's. So Garfield must now send pizzas to Eddie Gourdman to announce it to people, and save Vito's restaurant before he is out of business.
4: "Mother Garfield (September 18th 2008)"
A Bluebird gets trapped from Garfield's neighbor'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 and Harry is determined to eat the birds. This episode marks the first appearance of Garfield's rival Harry.
5: "Pup In The Pound (September 25th 2008)"
Odie gets taken to the dog pound because he's not wearing his license tag Collar. Garfield disguises himself as a dog to get Odie back.
6: "Odie In Love (September 25th 2008)"
Odie falls in love with a shower brush, but Garfield gets jealous that Odie is not paying attention to him so he throws the brush to the recycling bin without Odie knowing it.
7: "Not So Sweet Sound Of Music (October 2nd 2008)"
Jon finds his old Accordion but Garfield doesn't like him playing it nor the very sound of it. Garfield tries to get rid of it, but in the end, the Accordion breaks and Jon gets bagpipes.
8: "Turkey Trouble (October 3rd 2008)"
Jon wins a turkey in a competition, which he plans to cook for Liz. However, when it is delivered it is still alive. Garfield disguises himself as a turkey to get rid of the real one.
9: "Catnap (October 17th 2008)"
Garfield and Odie watch a movie about a villain named Silent Jack and mistakenly believe Jon, with recent tooth surgery, to be Silent Jack. In the end Garfield and Odie, along with Squeak, find out they were attacking Jon, but the real Silent Jack robs them.
10: "Agent X (October 24th 2008)"
Nermal finds a cat called "Agent X" who is a Secret Agent (But really a run away cat). Garfield gets jealous of him because Agent X tells everyone about his adventures and they all adore him, so Garfield tries to prove he is a house cat named "Fluffykins" .
11: "Orange And Black (October 31st 2008)"
Garfield disguises himself as "Catzilla" for Halloween but people mistake him for the real Catzilla, a deadly creature who escaped from the zoo!
12: "Freaky Monday (November 6th 2008)"
Garfield and Odie get their bodies swapped by a Saturn alien when it finds out Odie is tormented by Garfield. Odie wanders off to all the people who hate Garfield without knowing they will hurt him so Garfield must protect his Body from the Neighborhood Dogs, Herman Post and the Chef.
13: "King Nermal (November 13th 2008)"
Nermal lives with Garfield for 10 days because his owner is out of town. Nermal fakes a leg injury and Jon feels pity on Nermal and makes Garfield and Odie do what he requests. Garfield and Odie get rid of him so they could enjoy their normal house and lives once again.
14: "Desperately Seeking Pooky (November 20th 2008)"
Garfield searches for his teddy bear Pooky after he is lost. Pooky was really stolen by a dog behind the house named Hercules.
15: "Curse Of The Were-Dog (December 15th 2008)"
Odie becomes a monster-dog in the middle of the night and eats lasagna for a dinner that was for a dinner for Jon and Liz. But Jon thinks that Garfield ate it.
16: "Meet The Parents (January 5th 2009)"
Liz introduces Jon to her parents. Liz's father (voiced by Jason Marsden) is a grumpy man. Liz's mother has a canary named Petey. Garfield tries to eat Petey.
17: "Down On The Farm (January 19th 2009)"
Garfield goes to visit Jon's little brother Doc Boy. But with no TV and no pizza, Garfield shows the farm animals how to live life his way.
18: "The Pet Show (February 23rd 2009)"
Garfield gets rejected from The Pet Show because he's too fat to enter so then Odie takes his place and competes against Nermal for lasagna.
19: "Pet Matchers (March 13th 2009)"
Jon and Garfield fight so much against what to watch on TV that they decide to go on a TV show called Pet Matchers.
20: "Lucky Charm (March 19th 2009)"
Garfield gets rich after a Leprechaun gives him some good luck.
21: "Bone Diggers (April 25th 2009)"
Odie digs up some bones and finds that they are from the very rare Brachiosaurus. Garfield tries to sell them to the local museum, but the museum curator instead wants to compulsory purchase and demolish Jon's house to search for more Brachiosaurus bones.
22: "The Robot (May 14th 2009)"
Jon tests a cleaning robot.
23: "High Scale (May 21st 2009)"
Jon and Liz put Garfield on a diet and forces him to exercise when an electronic talking scale tells him that he's overweight.
24: "Jon's Night Out (May 27th 2009)"
Jon has difficulty sleeping, so a Hypnotist attempts to put Jon under Hypnosis to make him fall asleep from the noise of a horn, but it turns out that the hypnosis trigger is actually from Odie's bark, because he hears Odie bark before he hears the buzzer.
25: "Curse Of The Cat People (September 16th 2009)"
Garfield and Odie get taken to another land through a magic mirror where Neferkitty (voiced by Susan Silo) and her Egyptian colony of cats live, planning their revenge on humans.
26: "Glenda And Odessa (November 9th 2009)"
Garfield and Odie are mistakenly accused of stealing barbecued ribs (really stolen by neighborhood pets) when they run away from Jon's twin girl cousins.
27: "It's A Cat's World (January 1st 2010)"
Garfield gets sucked into a parallel universe where cats act like humans and humans act like cats where he meets the human-like Garfield.
28: "Extreme Housebreaking (January 8th 2010)"
Garfield is enrolled on the Dr. Whipple's Pet obedience course after Jon secretly tapes him misbehaving, but Garfield eventually discovers the doctor as a sham artist that fraudulently uses his course to launder money for himself; the doctor is then ruined when Garfield sneaks a microphone backstage when the Doctor says the public is stupid.
29: "Time Twist (February 22nd 2010)"
When an Alien stops at a Super-Market in earth, Garfield mistakenly enters his Space Ship and travels through different planets but it becomes hard for him to survive. The space ship and the alien are very similar to Doc Brown and the Flying DeLorean Time Machine from Back to the Future.
30: "Fame Fatale (May 1st 2010)"
Garfield switches lives with a celebrity, Sir Leo, who is also Liz's cat claiming that the life of a super star is great. Sir Leo looks just like Garfield but speaks with a British accent. This is similar to Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties.
31: "Underwater World (May 8th 2010)"
Garfield and Odie discover talking fish in the sea.
32: "Fish To Fry (June 11th 2010)"
When Jon reluctantly agrees to look after Liz's fish, Garfield can't resist eating them.
33: "Little Yellow Riding Hood (June 26th 2010)"
When Garfield, Jon, Odie, and Liz go on a picnic, Odie sneaks a Baby Wolf into the house and sends the Mom after Jon and Garfield.
34: "Time Master (June 28th 2010)"
Garfield finds a Pocket watch which can stop time but panics when it breaks and time is frozen.
35: "Family Picture (August 6th 2010)"
Jon tries to take the "perfect family picture" for Liz's birthday present but people always come and disturb everything.
36: "Virtualodeon (August 6th 2010)"
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 out. Meanwhile Garfield goes into commercials, a parade show, educational shows, cooking shows, game shows, and movies including Dr. No and Alien.
37: "Mailman Blues (August 12th 2010)"
Garfield torments Mailman Stu while Herman's on vacation in Hawaii.
38: "Heir Apparent (August 13th 2010)"
Jon and Doc Boy might inherit his cousin's haunted estate but they must stay there longer than the other to take custody.
39: "From The Oven (August 13th 2010)"
Jon is cooking and accidentally makes Odie's birthday cake with ingredients from a horror movie. Jon was watching a cooking show and Garfield switched the channel, leaving Jon to mistake the directions from the horror movie as being from the cooking show. It becomes a Frankenstein-like monster cake.
40: "Neighbor Nathan (August 20th 2010)"
Odie runs away from home, sick of Garfield's cruelty towards him, but the new house he runs off to is the residence of a boy with the personality of a mad scientist named Nathan, who plans to use his new invention to transform Odie into a cockroach. Now it is up to Garfield to save Odie.
41: "History Of Dog (August 21st 2010)"
Garfield tells us about history of dogs, but puts them in a negative light. When Odie and his dog friends save Garfield's favorite Italian restaurant from a kitchen fire, Garfield is forced to admit that even dogs aren't that stupid.
42: "Up A Tree (August 22nd 2010)"
Odie becomes friends with the garden's squirrels after he helps one recover from an accident.
43: "It's A Cheese World (August 22nd 2010)"
Garfield tries to take Squeak and his friends to Eddie Gormand's Cheeseland, but Harry is in charge of keeping mice out.
44: "Nice To Nermal (August 24th 2010)"
Nermal steals Pooky after Garfield is mean to him, and Garfield must be nice to Nermal to get Pooky back.
45: "Out On A Limb (August 24th 2010)"
Garfield, Odie, Nermal and Jon all get stuck in a tree, so they try to get help.
46: "Super Me (August 26th 2010)"
Garfield imitates a superhero so that Nermal will reward him with food, but gets caught up with the real superhero and a bank robbery.
47: "Mastermind (September 1st 2010)"
Garfield gets a device that reads people's minds and saves the world from Pizza-Craving Aliens by reading their brain.
48: "The Amazing Flying Dog (September 1st 2010)"
Odie dreams that he's a super-dog who can fly,
49: "The Last Word (September 2nd 2010)"
Nermal bets Garfield he can't last an hour without eating, so when Garfield takes the challenge he feels horrible to not to eat less than one hour.
50: "Iceman (September 3rd 2010)"
Garfield helps Oga, the ice cream lady, find a prehistoric mate.
51: "Caroling Capers (September 4th 2010)"
After hearing children go door to door singing carols on TV, Garfield tries to go around singing carols for food, but all of his attempts are futile.
52: "T3000 (September 5th 2010)"
After the dog catchers get fired for failing to stop Garfield and Odie from robbing a Deli, Garfield helps the dog catchers defeat the robotic dog catcher.
Season 2 (2010-TBA)
53: "Home For The Holidays (December 13th 2010)"
Garfield is looking forward to the holidays and all its joys. The decorations, presents, and food. But Arlene gives Garfield a reason to stop and remember the true meaning of the season.
54: "Blasteroid (January 4, 2011)"
An Alien shaped like lasagna sends a asteroid made of meatball to earth, but Garfield and Odie go in a spaceship to stop the Blasteroid.
55: "Planet Of Poultry (January 6, 2011)"
Aliens from another planet are planning to turn all the earth creatures into chickens.
56: "History Of Cats (January 11, 2011)"
Garfield Tells a small yet untrue history about his own species!
57: "Which Witch? (January 13, 2011)"
The twins, Drusilla and Minerva, end up like Hansel and Gretal in an evil witch's lair.
58: "Inside Eddie Gourmand (January 18, 2011)"
A look at Eddie Gourmand's relationship with his mother.
59: "The Big Sneeze (January 20, 2011)"
TBA
60: "Depths Of A Salesman (January 25, 2011)"
TBA
Cast
- Frank Welker - Garfield, Eddie Gourmand, Additional Voices
- Gregg Berger - Odie, Squeak, Harry, Additional Voices
- Wally Wingert - Jon Arbuckle
- Audrey Wasilewski - Arlene, Newscaster
- Jason Marsden - Nermal, Vito, Liz's Father, Additional Voices
- Laura Summer - Drusilla & Minerva the Twins, Additional Voices
- Julie Payne - Dr. Liz Wilson, Additional Voices
- Laraine Newman - Aunt Ivy
Guest Cast
- Stan Freberg - Dr. Whipple, Fluffykins, Additional Voices
- David Lander - Doc Boy Arbuckle
- Tress MacNeille - Esmeralda (Owner of the Museum)
- Susan Silo - Neferkitty
Video Game
A party video game titled "The Garfield Show: Threat of the Space Lasagna", was released in July 2010 for the Wii. It includes over 12 minigames and supports the Wii Balance Board and Wii Motion Plus.
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