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.
@@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...)
"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.
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.
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 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
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!"
@@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 ?
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.
@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 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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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 😂
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.
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 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.
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!
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
7:21 "I forget what the final count was, but I'm pretty sure it went into triple digits." The final count was the best part of that episode! According to Garfield, there were exactly three mistakes. 1) "See that scene? I'm not eating. That's mistake number one." 2) "See this picnic? No mustard. Mistake number two." 3) "And in this shot, Jon's car doesn't have any gas in it." (There is no explanation for how the car is driving)
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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 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
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.😎
Hello Doug Walker I'm The Teal Garfield thanks for reviewing my show it really is a timeless classic kinda like you when I really think about it Keep up the good work and have a Lasagna on me
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.
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.
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.
Anime guy: This butterfly is my soul. Shinobu: Tomioka, what are you talking about? Tomioka: Yakamashi, Shinobu! I'm trying to be deep and intriguing for the fans.
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.
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.”
@@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
@@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
@@PhoenixGamerxx9613 Sorry man. You lost the bet. Looney Tunes and other animation studios been breaking walls since your great grandparents were wearing diapers.
@@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. ❤️
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.
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.
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 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
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."
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)
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 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 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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
What a GREAT topic and idea for an NC! Why didn’t I think of this? Lorenzo Music is and always will be voiceover royalty. I also love how the writing is okay with poking fun at itself-that’s at least one marking of a good show.
8:23 funnily enough this was directly mocking a real standards and practices guideline that used to exist for children's shows the rule was "the complainer is always wrong" and it states that in a childrens show the character with a differing opinion or belief from the main group must always be portrayed as the antagonist and in thw wrong this rule was enforced in the 70s and 80s and once you know it's there you'll see it in a ton of shows from that time
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
This Garfield was tender, innocent and sometimes he was kind to Hate, the one in the 2009 series killed the character, they turned Garfield into a sociopath, cruel, almost the same as current Bart Simpson.
Ah Garfield, one of the most iconic cartoon cats in animation history! in fact who doesn't like Garfield?...rhetorical question, i'm sure there are lots of people out there who don't like Garfield. lol
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.
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.
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 sortof wish that the US Acres were in the Garfield Show and Garfield the movie. Maybe we might see them again in The upcoming Garfield Film with Garfield being Played by Mario.
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
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.
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.
That's true
If I’m not mistaken, Bill Murray got Lorenze Music fired for making Peter Venkman sound too much like Garfield
@@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...)
If only they hadn't gotten scared of commercials and replaced him with Dave Coullier. *shudder*
It honestly makes sense, as Murray is known for his cynical humor.
"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.
I remember that Jon ended up putting him outside anyway despite the wheel!
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.
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
Of course they did
@@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
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!"
@@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 ?
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.
@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.
Voice acting i'll give you, but Hanna-Barbera cartoons had good writing? When and where lmao
Think a more modern example of the idea could be seen in RVB
When Taft came, Hanna-Barbera started to weaken.
But after the Turner merger, they got better.
@@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.
*"Eat and be lazy kids, and someday you'll have your own show too."*
So many comedians are living proof of this.
so true.
It's honestly kind of sad on how right this is
We call that being a UA-cam Influencer these days lol
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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.
Did you watch the Garfield show?
@@DamnZtar I didn't, but I believe my nephew did.
Nothing will ever beat the OG Garfield with Lorenzo musics voice. I’m 35 and I still have the whole series on DVD.
Lorenzo is in heaven.
Envious
35 too, I feel you.
That's great. I have a couple of the seasons on dvd.
Oooh someone gifted me the whole series on DVD this past Christmas. By far one of the BEST presents I've ever received! :D
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!
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
My wife loves the Orson's Farm portions.
The farm part was my favorite lol
@@PrettyPinkPersephone I just had the obsession with garfield XD
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.
@@elisegrimwald I didn't hate them exactly but they just seemed really boring compared to the garfield segments XD
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.
I guess that's proof that kids like stuff that to us seems cheap, but given a better alternative they prefer the alternative.
You’re a hero.
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 😂
That was one of my favorite details in that segment
Oh! You mean Wade! Yeah his little Duck tube buddy is so funnily Cute! XD
Same. 🙂👍
Yeah, I liked them, too.
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.
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.
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.
You Try To Go To Sleep
But All Your Dreams Consist Of KUNG FU CREATURES ON THE RAMPAGE 2!!!!
Garfield is just one of those cartoons that always made me hungry…
It used to be.
The 3d show is on Netflix
Lasanga!
Facts
I will say this, Garfield is how I first discovered Lasagne.
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.
Working hard to be lazy was literally something that Jon said about Garfield at the end of one of the comic strips.
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!
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.
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.
I think that show, and Beetlejuice, introduced kid me to that kind of humor.
@@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.
@@orangeslash1667 Earth’s Mightiest Heroes is such a great show.
@@AmericanAurochs while it lasted😕.
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!
Run for your life! Power Pig is on the rampage!
I also liked U.S. Acres. Their cartoons were just as funny as the Garfield ones, and sometimes even funnier.
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.
I would like to see Garfield and Snoopy together. :-D. :-D. :-D
There's a US Acres Discord. :)
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.
Bout time this show was recognized. Best Garfield media we've ever damn gotten!
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.
@@koneheadcokehead4981 Under rated? Brother, this show was GENIUS!
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
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
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.
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.
Agreed. Season 6 and 7 were not great from what I remember.
@@marclewis5505 I thought they were fine
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.
You Got that from TV tropes didn't you?
@@joeypieper6384 yeah this guy comments like this on pretty much every new NC video.
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.
He also voiced Tummy on Gummi Bears. And one of the Crash Dummies.
Real talk: This show always deserved more credit.
Who the hell is that? 9:20
I don't fucking now
@@MammonCity that didn't answer my question
@@erainmartinez8175 probably nostalgia critic beign insane
@@MammonCity yep
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”.
Now i really want to see Garfield as a talk-show host
With Bill Murray as the voice! Like a modern space ghost coast to coast
Yeah it'll be as exciting as the alf talk show that went over sooo well...oh wait....
Id watch
It's like the Eric Andre Show but Garfieldified
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.
Me too
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
I remember liking the Garfield episodes and getting annoyed by the others
However the Garfield specials are the best
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.
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.
as someone that grew up with the show in argentina i agree.
As someone who grew up in Spain watching "Las flipantes aventuras del gato tragaldabas y sus colegas", I also agree.
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 HATE Mondays.” - Garfield. Yeah, especially Wednesdays.
The BEST Iconic Line From A Cartoon Strip Ever!
7:21 "I forget what the final count was, but I'm pretty sure it went into triple digits."
The final count was the best part of that episode! According to Garfield, there were exactly three mistakes.
1) "See that scene? I'm not eating. That's mistake number one."
2) "See this picnic? No mustard. Mistake number two."
3) "And in this shot, Jon's car doesn't have any gas in it." (There is no explanation for how the car is driving)
10:24 Agreed, "in the land of twilight, under the moon" is an absolute bop!
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
You're raising your kids right.
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.
Now we need a version of Garfield voiced by Nick Offerman
@@MusicMan32K holy shit! Why didn’t I Think of that
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.
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.
Well usually the strips have 3 panels.
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
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!
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.
This show felt far more like a Garfield show than The Garfield Show. Not to mention his voice was so much better.
New Garfield sounds too pudgy and excited.
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.
May I guess the rise of FOX Kids, then Kids WB! on Saturday mornings contributed to it?
@@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
Well dang
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.😎
@ the void and BOOM goes the dynamite! UA-camrs really need to stop citing wikipedia
Hello Doug Walker I'm The Teal Garfield thanks for reviewing my show it really is a timeless classic kinda like you when I really think about it
Keep up the good work and have a Lasagna on me
Finally, a nostalgia series, it has been so long since one
4:38 I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW MUCH CHAPLIN'S GROWN. He's not a dumb kitten anymore, he's a full grown dumb man
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.
bow before your god
POWER PIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, Orson Welles in real life
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.
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.
Anime guy: This butterfly is my soul.
Shinobu: Tomioka, what are you talking about?
Tomioka: Yakamashi, Shinobu! I'm trying to be deep and intriguing for the fans.
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.
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.”
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. 🤤
@@randalgraves6979 oh yeah, I remember that episode. Yeah they really…egg’d that one on didn’t they?
Fun Fact: Garfield & Friends was the show that broke 4th walls and comedy gold before Anamanics came out.
A lot of cartoons broke the 4th wall before like even the oldest Looney Tunes, Rocky & Bullwinkle, etc
@@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
@@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
@@PhoenixGamerxx9613 Sorry man. You lost the bet. Looney Tunes and other animation studios been breaking walls since your great grandparents were wearing diapers.
@@PhoenixGamerxx9613 You’re giving too much credit
“GRAVITY IS IMPORTANT” 😂
I think we all wish we had a really chill down to earth cat like Garfield
Only problem is that the chill cat would eat all your food lol.
I do and her name is Ellie. She just chills and watches TV with me lol
@@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. ❤️
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.
I have a pigment impaired Garfield.
8:54 Giyu's Voice Actor reading this off would be incredible
I'm pretty sure Garfield has a killer David Letterman impersonation
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.
Hey listen i'm still trying to forget that time Garfield was the 5th Turtle in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Garfield is one of the greatest cartoon characters of all time, great review Critic, take care
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.
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.
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”
Can you explain that please? I've tried for years to understand it and still can't.
@@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
@@tiablue9106 Thank you!
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."
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)
I do recall in the later seasons that US Acres stopped doing musical numbers in their episodes.
I think Garfield yelled to CBS to just have his name in title or he would eat their eyeballs in front of their children
7:57 Twitter.
That’s it, that’s the punchline.
my first thought that came to mind when I saw them was twitter
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.
Super Eyepatch Wolf had a huge video on Garfield and his impact on the internet
@@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 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.
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.
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!
Doug: Let's use a pretty anime boy for our ad.
Demon Slayer fans: Just jizzed in their pants.
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.
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.
There's a US Acres Discord! :D
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.
What a GREAT topic and idea for an NC! Why didn’t I think of this? Lorenzo Music is and always will be voiceover royalty. I also love how the writing is okay with poking fun at itself-that’s at least one marking of a good show.
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.
Oooh there's a US Acres discord. :)
4:37 CHAPLAIN! BUSTER! My two favorite cats own by a UA-camr and my favorite members of the Channel Awesome crew. I love them.
8:23
funnily enough this was directly mocking a real standards and practices guideline that used to exist for children's shows
the rule was "the complainer is always wrong" and it states that in a childrens show the character with a differing opinion or belief from the main group must always be portrayed as the antagonist and in thw wrong
this rule was enforced in the 70s and 80s and once you know it's there you'll see it in a ton of shows from that time
So this is why my weird uncle keeps watching me from a distance while eating Grapes slowly
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.
I'm just realizing Garfield is essentially just Winnie the Pooh but lazier.
Bullshit. Garfield is edgy.
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.
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.
Garfield: I hate Mondays
Chaplin: Hi "I hate Mondays." I'm Chaplin.
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
This Garfield was tender, innocent and sometimes he was kind to Hate, the one in the 2009 series killed the character, they turned Garfield into a sociopath, cruel, almost the same as current Bart Simpson.
Ah Garfield, one of the most iconic cartoon cats in animation history! in fact who doesn't like Garfield?...rhetorical question, i'm sure there are lots of people out there who don't like Garfield. lol
I genuinaly like Garfield! no wonder why I have tons of comics of him (mostly SRoMG comic) on my PC
I love Garfield, but I don't really like his personality though I briefly remember him always manipulating people into always getting what he wants...
@@theoguncleslappy9150 agreed and indeed.
I love Garfield. He is my pacman of nick smash.
Probably the same people who overrate towards a joke that some one says
That Buddy Bear predicted the future @ 8:22
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.
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.
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.
4:03 You could say Garfield's been "de-flanderized" from what he used to be
So this is why the IRS hates Garfield
I sortof wish that the US Acres were in the Garfield Show and Garfield the movie.
Maybe we might see them again in The upcoming Garfield Film with Garfield being Played by Mario.
Funny how they were planned to but got cut
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
I still remember one of those little messages that Garfield delivered right after the intro theme song:
"I would make a fortune as a ventriloquist".
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.
That explains the season 3 intro.
I've heard of Floyd Norman. He used to work for Walt Disney.
@@KasumiKenshirou, yes. The same artist. Met him in 2018. Very smart, talented and nice guy.
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! ⏰
I did the same thing! It was well worth it!
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.
"Hello. I'm Garfield, your doorman."