Here Comes Garfield

Here Comes Garfield is the first halfhour animated television special featuring the comic strip cat Garfield. It featured Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield. The special was first broadcast October 25, 1982 on CBS. It has been released on both VHS and DVD home video.

During the night, Garfield has a series of flashbacks of all the good times that he and Odie had playing together and how sad his life would be without him. The next day, the dogcatcher takes Odie down the hall to be euthanized. Meanwhile, a girl arrives at the pound for a pet and chooses Garfield. Garfield sees his chance to escape and when the cell opens, Garfield runs out the door instead of towards the girl. The girl just watches in shock as the rest of the dogs escape the way Garfield did. Garfield leads the dogs on a stampede towards the dogcatcher carrying Odie. Garfield and the dogs eventually rescue Odie and break down the pound door, with the knockedout dogcatcher on it. As the dogs run home, Garfield and Odie knock down the front door while Jon is attempting to fix it after Garfield knocked it down from the beginning. In the end, Jon bets that Garfield and Odie did something wrong in the night while he was worried about them, and Garfield and Odie agree. Soon after, Odie acts stupid and Garfield gets annoyed. But Jon gives Odie steak for acting like hes dumb. Garfield attempts to do the same thing but gets bacon and eggs instead. Garfield smashes his food on Jons face. Then the credits roll.There was a soundtrack for Here Comes Garfield released on LP and cassette on Epic Records. It featured songs from and inspired by the television special. Some of these tracks were rereleased or rerecorded on the Am I Cool or What? CD. ........

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