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 Here Comes Garfield was the first half-hour animated televised special based on the Garfield comic strip. It features the voices of Lorenzo Music as Garfield and others who later went on to voice their characters in future Garfield specials and the television series Garfield and Friends. Here Comes Garfield premiered on October 25, 1982 and was nominated for seven Emmy awards. The songs in the special (including the official but seldom used theme song itself) are performed by Lou Rawls and Desirée Goyette, both of whom did songs for future Garfield specials. Desiree Goyette later voiced Nermal in the Garfield and Friends television series. Over 15 million people tuned in to watch Here Comes Garfield. The show later aired in CBS's rotation of the Garfield and Friends series.[citation needed]
[edit] StorylineGarfield and Odie are outside harassing a neighbor's dog when the owner Hubert (also from the strip) calls the pound. When the dog catcher arrives, Garfield flees, but Odie is too stupid to run away and is taken. Garfield decides to go home, but realizes how boring life is without Odie around, so that night, he goes to rescue him. However, Garfield is caught and thrown into the cage. Garfield learns from a cellmate that Odie is going to be put to sleep in the morning. During the night, a depressed Garfield remembers through flashbacks of the all good times he and Odie had playing together and how sad his life would be without him (in these series of flashbacks by Garfield, the song "So Long Old Friend" is played in the background). Morning comes, and Odie is taken down the hall to be euthanized. A girl then arrives at the pound for a pet and chooses Garfield. Garfield realizes a plan to escape with this and when the cage opens, Garfield runs out the door instead of 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 worker with Odie. They rescue Odie and break down the pound door, with the knocked-out dogcatcher on it. As the pets run home, Garfield and Odie knock down the front door down as Jon is trying to fix it after Garfield knocked it down earlier. Jon then bets that they did things in the night while he worried about them, and they agree. Jon later gives Odie a steak and gives Garfield bacon and eggs. Garfield furiously throws them at Jon, who then looks up from his newspaper, his eyes covered with the eggs and his mouth covered with the bacon. Garfield says that he's only human, and Jon continues reading the newspaper without taking the food off. [edit] Soundtrack for Here Comes GarfieldThere was a soundtrack for Here Comes Garfield released on LP and cassette. It featured songs from and inspired by the television special. Some of these tracks were re-released or re-recorded on the Am I Cool or What? CD. [edit] Track list
So Long Old Friend is also referenced in Garfield in the Rough. [edit] Quotes adapted from the stripsNumerous lines from this TV special are actual quotes from Garfield strips published before it aired. Here are samples of them:
[edit] Production creditsHERE COMES GARFIELD
[edit] Differences from other Garfield cartoonsThe animation for this first Garfield special and the second one, Garfield on the Town, came from the famous Peanuts cartoon team of Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson, giving them a look similar to the Peanuts cartoons. All future specials and the popular Garfield and Friends TV series were animated by Film Roman studios. This is the only Garfield cartoon to feature actor Sandy Kenyon as the voice of Jon Arbuckle. Thom Huge took over the role in the second special, and he played Jon for the rest of Garfield's cartoon history.
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