Most of us agree that the comic strips are mediocre, but what

LADIES AND GENTLMEN

>>91151129
it was good

>>91151129
It was great

>>91151129
LOTSA SPAGHETTI

>>91151129
Mediocre, but less so.

>>91151129
Garfield and Friends is great! 9 lives is great! Everything else ranges from Mediocre to terribad.

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>>91151129
Garfield came off way too smug. Those round Raviolis he shilled in those commercials were fucking delicious, though.

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>>91151129
Garfield's comic strips used to be great, but it's running for way too fucking long honestly.

I don't even get what the joke is supposed to be in some of the newer strips

it also heavily triggers me that newer strips have the characters using smartphones

>>91152558
They are taking photos of things they are going to eat.

Garfield is going to eat everything in the fridge because he's a fat cat who loves to snack.

>>91152619

I eat Jon, it's what I do.

9 Lives Tier
>Garfield: His 9 Lives

Great Tier
>Here Comes Garfield
>Garfield's Feline Fantasies
>Garfield's Babes and Bullets
>Garfield's Halloween Adventure

Good Tier
>Garfield in the Rough
>A Garfield Christmas
>Garfield on the Town
>Garfield in Paradise

Mediocre Tier
>Garfield's Thanksgiving
>Garfield Gets a Life
>Garfield Goes Hollywood

Documentary Tier
>Happy Birthday, Garfield

>>91151129
There's that new(ish?) 3D animated Garfield show, that always seems to be on in the middle of the night over here, and from what I've seen, it's just trash, I wouldn't want kids to watch it because it's just such a crappy show.

>>91152619
I'M NOW GOING TO TUSKEN RAID THAT FRIDGE

>>91152558

Garfield was never great. You might have enjoyed him as a child but that's because you didn't know any better. Garfield started as a cashgrab as he was one of those gross college comic strips that was popular in the 70's, only more palatable to the public at large. Davis quickly discovered that kids liked the fat cat so he turned it into a family comic.

Garfield has always been shit, and with the exception of 9 lives, anything good with Garfield has been an accident.

>>91154332
>Kids like a comic for kids
WOOOOOW

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WE ARE THE BUDDY BEARS

WE ALWAYS GET ALONG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfIQn4eSaHU

>>91152912
Which was the one where he meets his mother? That one fucked me up as a kid.

>>91151129
>Most of us agree that the comic strips are mediocre
Most of you have shit taste.

>>91151129
I prefer Gazorpazorpfield

>>91151129
the Barnyard cartoons are kind of bland, maybe it was the musical segments

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>>91152558
I'll put it in a form you might understand.

>>91152619
You're eating us out of house and home GARMFIELD

>>91156846
garfield on the town

>>91156923
10/10

>>91151129
Vastly superior in every way.

I really enjoyed it.

> if you saw it on tv, it must be true!

>>91151129
My first distinct memory of a cartoon was this show.

>>91157338
mine too, I think. I didn't even know it was a newspaper strip until later.

>>91151129
Loved it as a kid. I watched it again with my niece a few years back, and I'd say it held up pretty well. The stories were varied, and the music was usually pretty good.

>>91152912
This list is objective correct

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>>91151129
>You will never be able to watch 'the Gazanplatz Hour'.

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>>91151129
>>91151299

did you know this theme song existed?

I didn't know this theme song existed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6vL48DHcKw

>>91156923
IT STILL WORKS

>>91154332
t. aging hipster

It's a shame Lorenzo Music died. His voice was just really perfect for Garfield.

And Odie's bugle leitmotif is always on my mind one way or another.

>>91152558
>camera written in a box disconnected from the content of the panel
That panel isn't necessary

>>91158106
genuinely sounds like the least effort put into lyrics imaginable
It sounds like they were just made up on the spot

>>91158676
That was kind of the time when CBS wanted to cut costs on the show.

It was also the time when Mark Evanier introduced an antagonist on U.S. Acres who started cost cutting things, probably not a coincidence.

>>91152558
I hate it too, they are whoever, not praising the smartphones, they are making fun of those fags who take photos of every fucking thing they eat, like we people gave a fuck about that, no one gives a fuck, that's the joke

>>91158657
It's in newspapers, it's probably neccesary for a lot of its readership

>>91153862
That came out a few years ago and finally phased out completely in the US, no one liked it.

The fucking worst are those PetForce movies (think there are 2).

>>91157338
My 1st memory of this show was when we moved to a new house and this was on when we got cable (Nick) for I think the first time. I also remember this was the day the family channel became fox family for a little bit.

Why are all of garfield's friends barnyard animals?

>>91152558
Post a great Garfield strip

>>91159546
no, you don't understand
the show features garfield, and the us acres characters, who are friends with each other

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>>91151129
Quality animation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov8_UhDPHqM

https://youtu.be/YTR-3WYURuQ

I love Garfield. Check out how he looks now.

>>91159914
That was pretty funny.

>>91159914
there's no way jim davis had anything to do with the writing of this show

>>91158106
Makes me glad I never saw this thing when I used to see this on TV.

>>91160544
*this show

>>91159914
Wew, a cartoon show that holds up to how I remember it, I wonder if the other episodes are as good as this

>>91159914
This was pretty good and I got a few laughs out of it.

>the convict falling down the stairs out of nowhere

US Acres was the better show.

>>91158106
Well it's better than the German Naruto opening, but not by much.

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OH

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>>91152912
That's a fine-ass list, anon.

>>91151897

>>91158079

Vampininios >> any gazornenplat

Gazornenplats are just cheap smaller imitations!

>>91159914
this is why I will never be able to dislike Garfield

>>91157338
Mine too, oddly. Some episode with them camping. Campfire and bear.

>>91151129
I remember liking the characters and their gimmicks.

>>91159914
It's crazy how Garfield moving his mouth really isn't a mistake anymore

>>91156755
Not a single living being for miles around.

>>91159914
Yeah, the entire video is a big fat mistake. Garfield isn't supposed to be funny, fucking hacks.

>>91156807
i cant believe i watched the whole thing.

>>91169800
ON A SUNNY TUESDAY

>>91151129
>2nd of three theme songs is the best
>replace the other theme songs in syndication with the best one
okay i'm with you
>also replace the funny thing garfield says at the end of each one, meaning most of us don't hear two thirds of them
it would have been so easy to just splice that in. what the hell?

>>91152350
holy shit i just remembered those. they were delightful. way better than most modern canned ravioli. only other good one was the 'superiore' shit but you cant find that anymore

>>91152558
there is something very wrong with these people having smartphones
didnt they used to have jokes about jon being behind on technology?

>>91151129
I loved it growing up.

>>91153862
yeah modern garfield animation has been a shitshow BUT "Garfield gets real" was actually pretty funny and clever, despite it fighting its own formula the hardest any animation has since Bonkers ("real life" is still animated, just different textures)
>>91156855
they were a little... saccharine from time to time. mostly orson. roy and wade were a constant joy though, and Bo was my inspiration
lanolin needs to take some fucking pamprin already. there's something funny about a fluffy white animal being perpetually on the rag. she reminded me of patty and selma

>>91158436
it's funny it took us so long to put frank welker in the role, he was always involved in garfield stuff in one role or another.. and he does a damn serviceable impression

THE RABBITS IS COMING

>>91159914
can you imagine working for CBS
you work your ass off to make these keyframes and the shit comes back miscolored or the wrong character is talking and there's no money to redo it

>>91158106
Wow that's horrendous.

>radioactive mutant killer guppies
>the klopman diamond
>SPLUT!
>HEYYYYYY KIDS!
if this show was on now it would be a /co/ meme staple

>>91159914
fuckin classic

>>91158106
What about the theme song where the fun never ends
With Garfield and friends
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
I had never heard that shit 'friends are there' song until i watched the show online like a year ago

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>>91172069
there were three theme songs, the early shows had 'Friends are there' and the rest until season 7 had 'We're ready to party'

>>91171906
I can think of another one that would have ended up there, pic related

>>91171906
splut? what's a splut?

>>91172069
"Friends Are There" was like Season 1 and 2 or something like that. "Fun Never Ends" was the song they ended up using for most of its run. And >>91158106 was like final season.

>>91158676
>>91158780
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield_and_Friends#Cancellation

>The seventh season (1994) was the last one because CBS wanted to cut the budget (and in fact, CBS's Saturday morning cartoon lineup would be mostly replaced by CBS News Saturday Morning two years later, which eventually evolved into the Saturday edition of The Early Show). The production company nixed this proposal, so they mutually agreed to cease production, even though Garfield and Friends had still been doing very well in the ratings.

Also one thing about the rap in the final season is that its clips used stuff from the specials and not just Garfield and Friends (there's stuff from Garfield in Paradise and Garfield's Feline Fantasies). I'm not sure why but I remembered that since Garfield and Friends used to run for an hour, by the final season they split the show to be a half hour of Garfield and Friends and the other half one of the Garfield specials, so that might be why.

>>91172127
ah yes. clear influence on Simon's Cat.
Nermal was the first trap most of us came across.. followed by Zoicite.

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>>91172128
SPLUT!!

>>91172177
it's funny because the show kept using 'friends are there' as a leitmotif and incidental music.. for a long time I was like what is this song? it sounds too well planned out to have no lyrics
in retrospect it followed a similar format to the golden girls theme, and its corresponding intro music that came afterwards, when the show started properly.

There's an episode where Garfield gets bothered by a clown and he legit says to the camera that people like that deserve to be put up against the wall and shot.

>>91172322
wait a second
if they wanted to cut costs, why spend money on a new intro (albeit a cheap shitty one) when the old one does just fine?

>>91152912

I have no disagreements with this list

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>it's a "jon sexually assaults liz" strip

>>91171715
They were just Raviolos with Garfield licensed on the side. I think they still make them, but Campbell's bought Franco-American, so it might taste different now.

>>91172741
this weirdly reminds me of Mission Hill

>>91172773
wait, you mean ravioli-os?

>>91158436

Just imagine if they'd kept the original voice for him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gWfgV4NaS0

>>91159914
First time I have seen this episode. It was fucking amazing.

>>91172937
hahahaha that's not bad.
what the fuck is with that olive jar

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>>91159956
Jim Davis is actually pretty competent as far as humour goes, the Garfield strips actually tended to be fucking funny on occasion when he was writing.

Also, he fought tooth and nail to get US Acres into that show.


>>91151129
I recall Garfield & Friends being pretty okay, but I really haven't seen it since I was a kid. The only thing I remember is that Garfield had this really cynical voice, like he couldn't give a shit about anything and even talking to us was a bother, and he was rather just sleeping off instead. Which suited him perfectly.

>>91173013
yeah the humor of the show was very much along jim davis' lines, in the same way the humor in Daria was very Mike Judge even though he wasn't involved

it's just that.. doing a comic strip every fucking day means it can't always be your A material, and being 80 years old means you can't be actually doing it yourself.. just like how mel blanc didn't really do every looney tunes voice, he just had it in his contract to be the only one credited (in exchange for getting paid less, so they could afford him. it was win-win)

>>91173013
>being 80 years old means you can't be actually doing it yourself

Um, what? I think you got the wrong Jim Davis there. Garfields author was 50 when he did Garfield & Friends, and he is 72 currently.

And he is obviously not doing them anymore, IIRC he gave up writing Garfield in the mid-late 90s and it has been outsourced since, he just has his signature on the strips now. I don't know if the strips even need his OK to be allowed, or if he needs to check all the released material before allowing his signature on them.

>>91172943
The best episodes are when they made fun of cartoons
like the Buddy Bears were a savage roasting of the Get-Along Gang and other squeaky clean mindless cartoons for spineless parents
and then they'd have periodic fake educational segments teaching us such important lessons as:
>lasagna was invented in ancient rome and comes from a latin root meaning 'a mess of different things' (very close to true)
>wyoming doesn't exist, they just had space left over when they drew out the other state territories and gave it the native name for 'don't go there' because after all, you've never seen a wyoming plate, have you? (also kind of true)
>raising are just tiny bowling balls

>>91173142
literally what I was saying

>>91173157
raisins*

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>>91172423
I just meant we'd start going >>>/abudhabi/

>>91151129
>not liking the comic strips
smfh @ (you}

>>91173157
the late 80s to early 90s is when the 'E/I' thing started getting pushed hard. They probably were running into the same shit Animaniacs was of getting asked to shoehorn in educational content to appease the DC Soccer Mom's Club requirements for educational content aimed at children.

>>91173305
>liking the comic strips
Stop wearing nostalgia goggles.

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>>91173369
>not liking the comic strips
fuck off and take your GRAVY helmet with you

>>91173360
but animaniacs at least made it fun and did a good job of it
the thing about e/i is that just like any gubmint regulation you could do the bare minimum effort and squeak by. animaniacs actually put effort both into the education AND the fun
alas, by Histeria they had forgotten to make it an actual show in the process

Babes & Bullets is better than 9 Lives.

There, I said it.

>>91173615
babes & bullets was originally a segment of 9 lives in the book

>>91172943
The Wyoming fact is my favorite

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>>91172809
Yup.

>eating canned foods
what the fuck is wrong with americans?

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>>91151129
That show had its moments.

>>91151129
I still can't get the ants song out of my head.

>>91174498
well i'll be damned. either i wasn't eating that after all, or.. maybe I need to go grab some of these

>>91174906
don't blame us, it was the french who realized armies march on their stomach and it's incredibly hard to keep a big army fed. we just invented the can OPENER.
also pretty sure we invented the superior technology: the sealed plastic/foilplastic pouch, so you don't have to heat the food as much to sterilize it. unfortunately they cost a lot more.

>>91175986
Just because one type of food is convenient for armies in war doesn't mean it's a good solution for normal people in peace time

>>91174906
It has a long shelf life.

>>91176166
>sealed and full of preservatives so it lasts longer
And you're saying that like it's a good thing?

>>91176103
look, women's lib, the halving of pay, the halving of hometime, that shit might have happened here but I'm pretty sure it was scandinavia's fault in some way. now we have no time to cook

>>91176239
>muh processed foods!
i'd love to see you go back in time and tell people to stop rubbing their meat with salt or smoke or saltpeter because oh noes preservatives, and to leave the molasses in their sugar and leave the hulls on their grain.

>>91176280
Not an argument

>>91176239
Having a nice stock of non-perishables is great for potential emergencies.

>>91176388
Sure but treating like it's good quality food is genuinely retarded

>>91176486
There's nothing wrong with the taste.

>>91176547
It's objectively inferior to fresh ravioli

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>>91157276

Very useful on a lot of boards.

>>91175958
I think they changed the shape to ovaloids sometime during the last decade, but given that it was originally made by Franco-American, those Garfield things were definitely Raviolios.

>>91176593
>MSG
>tasting inferior to anything

>>91175958
>I need to go grab some of these
DO IT

https://youtu.be/bDkgd5iiJbU

I like the lasagna cat voice better

Video Airlines is my favorite one-joke episode of anything.

YOU! YOU'RE NOT SYLVIA! YOU'RE ONE OF THE KUNG-FU CREATURES ON THE RAMPAGE...TWO!

>>91177926
Lasagna cat's voice is okay, but their Jon Arbuckle is infinitely superior, that's for sure.

>>91173157
Almost right. It's Delaware that doesn't actually exist.

>>91178739

Wrong. They have a flourishing industry of making big treadmill thingies.