Garfield and Friends Season 3 Quickies

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This is a page that goes in depth on the Quickies from the third season of Garfield and Friends.

The third season has a total of 26 Garfield Quickies and 12 U.S. Acres Quickies, the second most of any season behind only Season 2. Most of them are based off of Sunday strips from the Garfield comic strip. While they stay true to the original comics and tell the same story, there are often a few minor changes, such as added/altered/subtracted dialogue or an added/removed scene.

Trivia[]

Characters[]

Garfield[]

Garfield appeared in every one of the 26 Quickies, the only character to do so. He is typically the main character. Some of his best moments are making mice balloons and being the life of the party, but his low moments include getting sprayed by water from a fire hydrant and having a refrigerator fall on top of him.

Jon[]

Jon has appeared in 16 Quickies this season, the second most behind only Garfield. Numerous unfortunate things happen to him this season, be it from his pets beating him up for sleeping to Garfield putting a clown face on him.

67. Saliva
68. Raisin Cookies
70. Comfortable Sleep
71. Boring
74. On to the Stage
75. Linoleum Curl
79. The Chair Level
80. Survival
81. Life of the Party
84. Different About Me
86. House Flies
87. Who Are You?
88. Wimp
89. Show for Jon!
90. Fire Hydrant
91. Where's Odie?

Odie[]

Odie appeared in 12 Quickies, the least of the big three, but still almost half. He had more appearances in this season than in season 2, (He had 11 in season 2) despite season 2 having nine more Quickies. Odie has had some good moments at Garfield's expense, like slurping Garfield when the latter peeked under a manhole, and other times his friendly nature is shown, when he jumped off the table when Garfield tried kicking him.

67. Saliva
72. Odie Trouble
73. Jelly Beans
76. Special About Odie
80. Survival
82. Polite to Odie
83. Kicking
85. Licking
88. Wimp
89. Show for Jon!
90. Fire Hydrant
91. Where's Odie?

The Big Three[]

Garfield, Odie, and Jon have been present together for six separate Quickies.

67. Saliva
80. Survival
88. Wimp
89. Show for Jon!
90. Fire Hydrant
91. Where's Odie?

Other Animals/Characters[]

Other characters outside of Garfield, Jon, and Odie have been side characters in six different Quickies.

78. Swiss Cheese (Side character: Mouse)
80. Survival (Side character: Bear)
81. Life of the Party (Side characters: Random Partygoers)
86. House Flies (Side character: Fly)
87. Who Are You? (Side character: Monster)
92. Loretta (Side characters: Loretta Mouse and her little brother)

Repurposed Comics[]

Most Quickies are based off of Sunday strips. The earliest strip used was from July 1987 and the latest strip came from December 1989. Compared to the two seasons prior, these Quickies are a lot more concentrated into a much shorter span (only three years) 1987 was featured the least, with only three Quickies from strips from that year. By far, 1989 strips were used the most, with 19 strips being reused into Quickies, more than twice the 1987 and '88 years combined.

1987[]

91. Where's Odie? (July 26)
92. Loretta (November 22)
85. Licking (December 13)

1988[]

89. Show for Jon! (April 3)
87. Who Are You? (November 20)
90. Fire Hydrant (November 27)
88. Wimp (December 4)

1989[]

68. Raisin Cookies (April 16)
67. Saliva (April 23)
78. Swiss Cheese (April 30)
69. Timer (May 7)
73. Jelly Beans (May 21)
74. On to the Stage (July 9)
72. Odie Trouble (July 30)
70. Comfortable Sleep (August 6)
80. Survival (August 20)
75. Linoleum Curl (September 14)
76. Special About Odie (September 24)
83. Kicking (November 5)
86. House Flies (November 12)
77. Great Nap (November 18)
79. The Chair Level (November 19)
71. Boring (September 17)
84. Different About Me (December 5)
82. Polite to Odie (December 28)
81. Life of the Party (December 31)

Garfield Quickies[]

Saliva[]

Quickie Name: Saliva
Quickie Number: 67
Original Strip: 4/23/1989
Description: Garfield is relaxing in bed and Odie is slobbering next to him. He shoos Odie away, and the pup complies, leaving a puddle of dog slobber on the floor. Garfield nods off, but Jon sees the puddle on the floor and assumes Garfield wet himself. He angrily grabs Garfield and carries him off, while the cat pleads his innocence. Jon puts Garfield in a diaper and leaves him outside, with Odie panting next to him. Garfield, furious at the pooch, closes a blind that reads, "Stay tuned", so that the audience can't see what's happening. A few crashes and whimpering later, Odie's mouth has a diaper on it. Garfield walks away, satisfied at his revenge.
Additions:
- Jon adds, "Bad!" after seeing the puddle Odie made next to Garfield's bed.
- Garfield dusts his paws off and walks away after diapering Odie.
Tweaks:
- Garfield closes a blind, similar to how the strip doesn't show how Garfield put a diaper on Odie's mouth.
Subtractions:
- Garfield's "But Jon!" line is cut, but the rest is his dialogue is kept.

Raisin Cookies[]

Quickie Name: Raisin Cookies
Quickie Number: 68
Original Strip: 4/16/1989
Description: Garfield spots the cookie jar on top of the refrigerator and tiptoes up to it. He carries a grappling hook and rope on his arm as he goes. Upon reaching the fridge, he tosses the hook on top and it gets caught on the back of it. After giving it a few tugs for good measure, he sees it's secure and starts scaling the fridge like a mountain climber. But as he reaches the freezer, the refrigerator tips over and smashes him. Not to be deterred, he crawls out from under it, walks to the cookie jar, opens it, and takes a bite of his well-earned treat, only to find out they were raisin cookies. He swallows, and then throws his cookie at Jon, who spits his coffee out upon getting hit with it.
Tweaks:
- The cookie jar and the fridge itself are different colors.
- The jar is not smashed, unlike the strip.

Timer[]

Quickie Name: Timer
Quickie Number: 69
Original Strip: 5/7/1989
Description: Garfield steps into bed and winds his alarm clock, humming as he goes. He winds it, progressively getting faster and faster as he goes, and before long, he over-winds it and it breaks. For Garfield, however, this is exactly what he wanted. "Perfect." he says before going to sleep.
Additions:
- Garfield hums as he winds the clock.
- In the strip, he whistles for a moment, his whistling is not as constant as the humming he does in the Quickie.

Comfortable Sleep[]

Quickie Name: Comfortable Sleep
Quickie Number: 70
Original Strip: 8/6/1989
Description: Garfield is lying on his stomach in bed, but cannot get comfortable. He sits up and then flops backwards, but still cannot get comfortable, and he fears that he'll "never get to sleep". He flips back onto his stomach and thinks about how to get sleep. He figures he needs to raise his right arm and leg and get his tail out of the way. Some time later, Jon walks into the living room, and sees his cat sound asleep. Garfield's resting on a baseball mitt, which is propped on a baseball bat. His head is lying backwards onto the table, and his tail is tied to a salt shaker on the table. His right leg is rested on the arm of the chair, and a broom handle is stuck between his toes so that he can keep his right arm on the broom. Jon simply says that he doesn't want to know and lets Garfield snooze.
Tweaks:
- Garfield's poses while is bed are changed.
- Instead of standing on his toes on a stool, he sits on a mitt on a bat.
- The chair is a different color.

Boring[]

Quickie Name: Boring
Quickie Number: 71
Original Strip: 9/17/1989
Description: Jon is flopped on his chair, bored and without purpose in life. He is suddenly surprised when he hears blowing nearby. He looks around and hears it again. He finds the source: Garfield lying on his back in bed blowing a feather into the air. Jon asks if he can try it, and Garfield claims that it's his exercise and that Jon should find his own.
Additions:
- Garfield blows the feather a couple of more times and adds, "This is my exercise." to his dialogue.
Tweaks:
- Jon is lying in his chair, something absent in the strip.
- The feather is a different color.
- Garfield is smiling, something he doesn't do in the strip.

Odie Trouble[]

Quickie Name: Odie Trouble
Quickie Number: 72
Original Strip: 7/30/1989
Description: Garfield is sitting on a tree limb next to a window. He tells the audience, "Watch me give Odie trouble." and then calls for the pooch. He zips into the window and Garfield begs him to help him down from the tree. Once Odie leaves the window, Garfield mocks him and his gullibility, but he returns with a bowling ball in his paws. Garfield wonders what good that will do, and as a response, Odie tosses it to him. The branch starts to crack under the added weight and soon breaks. Odie grins and laughs at the viewers, the sinister look in his eyes saying that he did that on purpose, and Garfield professes his hatred of dogs.
Additions:
- Garfield gets an extra line: "Watch me give Odie trouble."
- Odie nods after hearing Garfield's predicament.
- Garfield is shown on his head on the ground, something not seen in the strip.
Tweaks:
- The Quickie makes it seem like Garfield is messing with Odie, while the strip implies that Garfield really is stuck.
- Garfield's second line is altered.
  - He says, "I'm stuck in this tree and I can't get down! It's up to you to save me!"
  - This is different compared to Garfield wanting Odie to go get help and not be the rescuer.
- Garfield says "He fell for it." instead of "What a guy,"
- He says his bowling ball line while Odie is holding it and not him.

Jellybeans[]

Quickie Name: Jellybeans
Quickie Number: 73
Original Strip: 5/21/1989
Description: Garfield wakes up and sees a line of jelly beans in front of him. He begins eating them one by one, and follows the trail out the door. Odie peeks out from behind the open door. Garfield doesn't notice, as he's scooping jelly beans into his mouth. Odie runs out the back door and Garfield soon comes to the end of the jelly bean line at a manhole cover. Garfield pauses for a moment, curious, but opens the manhole and looks inside. To his surprise, Odie leaps out and gives Garfield a big slurp. Garfield runs off afterward, and Odie enjoys a good laugh at his successful prank.
Additions:
- The comic ends with Garfield getting slurped, while the Quickie shows Garfield running off and Odie laughing at his friend's expense.
Tweaks:
- Odie, instead of peeking out the window, bolts through the back door.
Subtractions:
- A silhouette of Odie in the cityscape is not shown in the Quickie.

On to the Stage[]

Quickie Name: On to the Stage
Quickie Number: 74
Original Strip: 7/9/1989
Description: Garfield appears on screen dancing on his toes, pretending he's a ballerina. He dances away and then reappears spinning and flipping like a gymnast. He cartwheels away and then hops on one foot, acting like he's playing hopscotch during "the final round of the World International Hopscotch Competition." It is then revealed that he was dancing on Jon's bed, with Jon still in it, effectively waking him up. Jon asks him, "Why can't you just nuzzle like other cats?" Garfield thinks that Jon deserves better.
Additions:
- Garfield does the splits while doing ballet, something not shown in the strip.
Tweaks:
- Garfield, instead of dancing on his wiggly toes while being a ballerina, dances on both feet and doesn't wiggle his toes.
- The blanket is also a different color.
Subtractions:
- The scene where Garfield pretends to be a jackhammer is cut.

Linoleum Curl[]

Quickie Name: Linoleum Curl
Quickie Number: 75
Original Strip: 9/14/1989
Description: Jon excitedly tells Garfield that it's hot and humid, perfect conditions for something, though it's unclear what at first. Jon grabs a chair and pulls it up into the kitchen. Garfield enters and stands next to him and explains to the viewers that they need silence, as they are watching the linoleum curl.
Additions:
- Jon has an extra line: "I've been waiting all year for this!"
Tweaks:
- The chair is a different color.
- They watch it in the kitchen instead of some random corner of the house.
Subtractions:
- Jon's "Let's go!" line is removed.

Special About Odie[]

Quickie Name: Special About Odie
Quickie Number: 76
Original Strip: 9/24/1989
Description: Garfield calls Odie over and describes something special about him while holding a hoop out, leading over the edge of the table. Odie races through the hoop, and immediately falls to the ground. Garfield tells the audience that that wasn't the special thing. Odie climbs up onto the table, a bit dazed, but just as determined. He runs through the hoop again, and falls on the ground again. Garfield explains, "Now that was special."
Tweaks:
- Garfield's third line is changed to "That wasn't what was special."
- The hoop Odie runs through is a different color.

Great Nap[]

Quickie Name: Great Nap
Quickie Number: 77
Original Strip: 11/18/1989
Description: Garfield wakes up and gets out of bed after what he describes as "One of the best naps [he's] ever had." He goes outside and looks around, but to his surprise, he is in a futuristic world, with floating cars, spaceships, and oddly-shaped buildings, except his own, which is completely normal. He suspects his nap was "a tad too long".
Additions:
- Garfield has an added line, "That was one of the best naps I've ever had."
Tweaks:
- Instead of looking out the window, he goes outside and realizes that he overslept.
- He is also a lot more surprised in the Quickie compared to the comic strip.

Swiss Cheese[]

Quickie Name: Swiss Cheese
Quickie Number: 78
Original Strip: 4/30/1989
Description: Garfield holds up a triangular prism of Swiss cheese and sticks it into a mouse hole, showing the viewers what the holes in it are for. Upon hearing a mouse chowing down on the cheese, Garfield takes some billows and blows it into one of the holes facing him. A few pumps later, he tosses the cheese and billows aside, reaches into the hole, and pulls out an inflated mouse. He grins at it and explains that the holes in Swiss cheese are for "making mouse balloons."
Additions:
- While Garfield does not have any lines in the strip, he have a couple lines in the Quickie.
  - He tells the viewers, "Swiss cheese. Know what these holes are good for? I'll show ya." before inserting the cheese into the hole.
  - After inflating the mouse, Garfield adds, "Swiss cheese is good for making mouse balloons."

The Chair Level[]

Quickie Name: The Chair Level
Quickie Number: 79
Original Strip: 11/19/1989
Description: Garfield is sitting on a his chair, tossing a sandwich into his mouth, when one of the chair legs breaks. He notices the chair isn't level, but he is sure that it will be an easy fix. He goes outside, and passes Jon, who is at the table. Inside, everything starts to tilt, like the coffee cup, fruit bowl, and a picture. Jon yells for Garfield, but the cat is busy using a jack on the entire house. Upon raising one side, he yells, "Is the chair level yet?"
Additions:
- Jon says, "Garfield!" an extra time.
- Garfield gets the punchline, "Is the chair level yet?"
- The cat is eating a sandwich, something he is not doing in the strip.
- A few extra things slide off the table when Garfield tilts the house.
Tweaks:
- The house is a different color, and the opposite chair leg breaks compared to the strip.
- Alternatively, Garfield tilts the house to the right instead of the left, like the strip.

Survival[]

Quickie Name: Survival
Quickie Number: 80
Original Strip: 8/20/1989
Description: Garfield, Jon, and Odie are on a camping trip. Jon tells Garfield, "Survival is my life," and he demonstrates how to set up camp. He takes his bag of food, kicks the sleeping bag to unroll it, and then dumps the food onto the ground. He then rubs a couple of sticks together to make a fire and takes what looks like a cloth and stick to put up the tent. Later, Jon wonders what he forgot. Garfield looks at the burning sleeping bag, upside-down tent with Odie inside, and bear raiding their food, and the cat reminds Jon to "notify their next of kin."
Tweaks:
- Several things are different colors:
  - The sleeping bag in blue.
  - The tent is pink.
Subtractions:
- Jon's "Watch and learn" line from the very first panel is cut.

Life of the Party[]

Quickie Name: Life of the Party
Quickie Number: 81
Original Strip: 12/31/1989
Description: Jon and Garfield walk up to a house where a party is happening. Jon tells his cat that he'll be the life of the party and that Garfield should "sit in the corner and do whatever it is cats do." Garfield agrees, but when Jon announces his arrival, no one responds. Garfield bursts in right after him, wearing his own party outfit: a checkered shirt, a polka-dot bow tie, and a lampshade on his head. He boogies over to the table and starts dancing in the dip, loving the feel of it squishing between his toes. The partygoers flock to him and laugh at his antics, and one of them tells Jon how much they love Garfield. Jon angrily offers Garfield to the partygoer in response.
Additions:
- Garfield adds that it's onion dip instead of just generic chip dip.
Tweaks:
- One of Garfield's lines is changed: "Hey, turn down those chain saws!" is swapped to "So much better to dance in than guacamole," while describing the squishy feel between his toes.
- One of Jon's lines is also changed, from "Here comes Mr. Party Animal!" to "The life of the party is here!"
- The party patrons also have different styles.
Subtractions:
- Several scenes and lines from the comic are removed.
  - The car scene is dropped, although the dialogue is kept.
  - Garfield's rubber chicken and water balloon scenes and accompanying lines are cut.
  - Garfield does not ask if anyone is there for a human sacrifice.

Polite to Odie[]

Quickie Name: Polite to Odie
Quickie Number: 82
Original Strip: 12/28/1989
Description: Garfield decides to change his ways and be more polite to Odie. He walks over to him on the table, he crashes onto the floor and boots him off, and then says, "Excuse me." He asks the viewers if that was a lot more polite.
Additions:
- Garfield has an extra line at the end, "There. Now wasn't that more polite?"
Tweaks:
- Garfield's first line is completely reworked: "I need to change my ways. From now on, I'm gonna be a lot more polite to Odie."
- He smiles when saying "Excuse me" instead of grinning.

Kicking: Garfield whiffs hard while trying to kick Odie off the table.

Kicking (Not to be confused with Licking)[]

Quickie Name: Kicking
Quickie Number: 83
Original Strip: 11/5/1989
Description: Garfield presents to the audience kicking Odie off the table. He steps up, but misses so hard he flips and lands on his face, causing him to see stars. Odie notices his friend behind him and feels sorry for him. He taps Garfield on the head, getting his attention, and voluntarily jumps off the table himself, landing with a thud. He gets back up, bruised from the fall, and he and Garfield shake paws. "Thanks, buddy." Garfield says.
Tweaks:
- The stars Garfield sees are a different color than in the strip.

Different About Me[]

Quickie Name: Different About Me
Quickie Number: 84
Original Strip: 12/5/1989
Description: Garfield is sleeping when he is woken up by Jon, who is asking his cat if he notices anything different about him. Garfield guesses it was the clown face he put on Jon while the latter was sleeping, but Jon replies he has new shirt on. The fat cat suspects he isn't very observant.
Additions:
- Garfield is shown sleeping, something he's not doing in the strip.
- While he is thinking, Garfield has an extra line: "This is just a wild stab in the dark, but..." he then says his second line in the strip.
Tweaks:
- Jon leaves instead of staying for Garfield's final line, and the ears are a different color.
Subtractions:
- Garfield's slight smirk at the end of the strip is cut.

Licking: Garfield grimaces as Odie gives him a big slurp from a mousehole.

Licking (Not to be confused with Kicking)[]

Quickie Name: Licking
Quickie Number: 85
Original Strip: 12/13/1987
Description: Odie tiptoes to an unsuspecting Garfield and gives him a big lick. The cat is angered by this, which prompts Odie to run. Garfield pauses for a moment and then takes off after the pup. They run through the house until Odie skids to a stop in front of a wall with a mousehole. Garfield thinks he has him, but slams face first into the wall. He falls down and shakes his head, wondering where Odie went, and then peeks into the mousehole. When he does, Odie's tongue gives him another giant lick, much to his frustration.
Additions:
- After the initial lick, Garfield yells Odie's name angrily.
Tweaks:
- Garfield is initially shown sitting instead of standing.
Subtractions:
- After Odie hid in the mousehole, one of Garfield's "Odie?" lines is cut.

House Flies[]

Quickie Name: House Flies
Quickie Number: 86
Original Strip: 11/12/1989
Description: Garfield is snoozing in the sun and Jon is on a chair next to him reading a book. When a fly lands in front of Garfield, he is at first cool, but then his imagination carries him away. He sees the fly as "a Zordogian sun sponge set to rob Earth of all its sunbeams!" He shakes his head and realizes that by closing the curtains, he will essentially kill the "sun sponge." He does so and stands over it, laughing maniacally and watching it shrivel up into a green gelatinous mess. Jon sees this whole thing and states, "I hate being left out."
Tweaks:
- The curtains are a different color, and stands up later than he does in the strip.
- Garfield also crouches down after closing the drapes, instead of standing and pointing.
Subtractions:
- Garfield's final line is missing the "steaming" part.

Who Are You?[]

Quickie Name: Who Are You?
Quickie Number: 87
Original Strip: 11/20/1988
Description: Jon is sleeping when a pair of eyes appears, panting heavily. Jon wants to know if it's a monster, but the figure gives him a large slurp, making him think that it's Odie. Jon lets him sleep with him, and then another pair of eyes appears in the night. He gets scared again and turns his lamp on, only to find out that it's only Garfield. Jon wishes that he would stop, and thinks he's trying to scare him and "Odie", only for it to be revealed that he really was a monster, much to Garfield's surprise.
Additions:
- Jon tells "Odie" to get comfy, something he doesn't say in the strip.
- He also says, "I wish you wouldn't do that." when Garfield sits on his bed.
Tweaks:
- Jon's other lines are tweaked.
  - He says, "Who are you?" instead of just "Who?!",
  - "It's only you, Odie." instead of "Odie! It's you!"
  - "Oh, it's you, Garfield." instead of just "Garfield!"
- The monster has a different color scheme.

Wimp[]

Quickie Name: Wimp
Quickie Number: 88
Original Strip: 12/4/1988
Description: Jon tells his pets to have some fun in the snow. As soon as they go outside, Jon slams the door behind them, causing a pile of snow to drop on top of Garfield and Odie, causing exact shapes of them to form out of snow. Odie emerges from the snow and runs away, leaving a perfect shape of himself out of snow. Garfield shakes the snow off of him and asks Odie if he's OK, only for the snow to collapse, startling Garfield and causing him to faint. Jon calls him a wimp.
Tweaks:
- Garfield sticks his legs up into the air when he faints, instead of just falling backwards into the snow.
Subtractions:
- The first panel is dropped. Otherwise, much of the Quickie remains true to the strip.

Show for Jon[]

Quickie Name: Show for Jon
Quickie Number: 89
Original Strip: 4/3/1988
Description: Garfield and Odie decide to put on a show for Jon while he sits in a chair. Together, they dance, throw pies in each other's faces, and Garfield holds Odie up on one paw. After they're done, they take a bow, only to realize that Jon was sleeping. Irritated, the pets climb up Jon's leg and beat him up, They leave satisfied, and Jon wonders what he did to deserve that.
Additions:
- The pets bow at the very end, and then climb up Jon's leg. Neither of which is shown in the strip.
- Odie says, "Yeah!" a couple of times when Garfield tells him that they'll put on a show.
Tweaks:
- The pie fillings are a different color.
- Jon thinks his final line instead of saying it.

Fire Hydrant[]

Quickie Name: Fire Hydrant
Quickie Number: 90
Original Strip: 11/27/1988
Description: Garfield runs to the door, opens it, and throws a bone for Odie to fetch. It clinks next to a fire hydrant, and Odie goes Mach 10, zooming over to it. He rips the hydrant out and brings it back to Garfield in his mouth. Garfield reprimands him for bringing the hydrant back instead of a bone, but tries turning lemons into lemonade by unscrewing one of the sides and using it as a planter. To his surprise, a blast of water bursts from the unscrewed edge, propelling Garfield into the wall and hitting him in the face. Jon enters and sees the commotion and does not want to know.
Additions:
- Odie drops the hydrant onto the ground and Garfield rights it. Neither of these are shown in the strip.
- After Jon comes in, he immediately leaves.
Tweaks:
- Garfield's first line is, "Fetch the bone, boy!" instead of "Fetch, boy!"
- His next line is flipped. "That's not a bone, that's a fire hydrant!"

Where's Odie?: Garfield watches as Odie rolls over and over and over.

Where's Odie? (Not to be confused with the Garfield Show episode with the same name)[]

Quickie Name: Where's Odie?
Quickie Number: 91
Original Strip: 7/26/1987
Description: Garfield has Odie do some tricks. The pup does a backflip, begs, and rolls over. When Jon calls Garfield inside for dinner, the fat cat goes inside to eat while Odie rolls over and over and away. After Garfield finishes with his meal, he goes back outside, only to wonder what happened to Odie. He had been rolling, and had rolled and rolled right out of the city.
Tweaks:
- Some of Garfield's lines are tweaked:
  - "Now roll over!" instead of "Roll over, Odie."
  - He sighs instead of burping after finishing his meal.
- His last line is said while he's on screen instead of vaguely in the distance.

Loretta[]

Quickie Name: Loretta
Quickie Number: 92
Original Strip: 11/22/1987
Description: Garfield is in a bad mood. He kicks a mouse out of the way. The mouse retaliates by threatening to tell his sister, Loretta, and insisting that "she'll pound [Garfield] flat!" Garfield accepts the challenge, thinking that a good fight is what he'll need, and the mouse calls for Loretta, who has a tail bigger than the entirety of Garfield. The fat cat sees this and realizes what a mistake he just made.
Tweaks:
- The mouse's first line is tweaked: "Hey, you can't do that to me! I'll call my sister, Loretta!"
- The mouse also talks, something he doesn't do in the strip.
- Garfield's final reaction isn't frustration, like the strip, but fear.
Subtractions:
- Garfield waving his fist in the air is removed.