Audience

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The audience is a collective entity that appears in the Garfield comic strip and Garfield and Friends.

Physical appearance

The audience is not directly seen in Garfield media, for it is assumed the watchers are the audience. Their presence is only indicated by Garfield or other characters from the franchise are addressing them verbally or by sight.

In the comic strips, it is apparently the group of spectators that watch Garfield's fence performances.

Personality

The comic strip audience is showed often throwing things at Garfield during his performance. Its counterpart from the motion pictures is not seen acting at all.

Trivia

Comic strips

• Most of the time they get in free; on some occasions payment is required.
• They have, at different times, been shown as both dogs and cats.
• Odie sometimes performs in front of them.
• They have been featured in 160 individual strips.

Garfield and Friends

• The main hint that the viewers are the audience is given when Garfield talks to the audience and addresses them "Ladies and gentlemen".
• Another hint is provided by the musical episodes, such as "The Life and Times of the Lasagna Kid" and "The Guy of Her Dreams", in which Garfield's dates are staring at the audience while singing. Similar scenes are seen in "The Idol of Id" and "The Perils of Penelope", wherein Gwendolyn and Penelope Pussycat also talk to the audience about Garfield.
• Certain episodes have scenes with characters are making remarks about the situation to the audience, such as Garfield talking about "fast food" in "Good Mousekeeping", or the Squad Leader stating the need to make more white flags in "Jon The Barbarian".
• The episode "Mistakes Will Happen" is the best-known episode, wherein the audience is revealed to be the cartoon's viewers.

Gallery

Comic strips

The audience comprised of chihuahuas

The audience comprised of cats

Garfield and Friends

The Chinese Dragon making a remark to the audience in "China Cat"

Garfield addressing the audience in "Mistakes Will Happen"

Gwendolyn addressing the audience in "The Idol of Id"

Penelope talking to the audience about Garfield in "The Perils of Penelope"

Mona performing for the audience in "The Life and Times of the Lasagna Kid"

Penelope performing for the audience in "The Guy of Her Dreams"

Garfield's remark to the audience in "Jon the Barbarian"

The Squad Leader making a remark to the audience in "Jon the Barbarian"