Garfield and Friends Season 4 Quickies

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

The fourth season brought a couple of big changes to the Quickie landscape that would last to the end of the series. The first is Orson's Farm Quickies were canned starting this season due to the U.S. Acres strip being discontinued. The second is there was only one Quickie per episode, meaning that there are fewer Quickies compared to the first three seasons.

Season 4 has a total of 16 Garfield quickies, tied with Seasons 5-7 for the least of any season. 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, like added/altered/subtracted dialogue or an added/removed scene.

Trivia[]

Characters[]

Garfield[]

Garfield appeared in all 16 Quickies, the only character to do so. Often he is the main character, but not always. Very often, he schemes bad things for Odie, Jon and even birds. Sometimes his plans work, like when Jon got tied to a plane headed for Italy, other times it didn't work, like covering a rubber hole for Odie to fall into, and other times it backfires, like getting tickled out of a tree during an attempt to capture some birds.

Jon[]

Jon appeared in 12 Quickies, the second most behind Garfield. Sometimes, he is a victim of Garfield's pranks, other times he is wondering what Garfield is up to. However, he tries not to ask.

93. Shaving Cream
94. Garfield's Impression
95. Too Much Time in Bed
97. Alarm Clock
98. Sleeping Positions
99. Special Joke for Jon
101. False Start
102. Food Competition
103. Get Down!
104. Prankster
106. Fall from a Tree
108. Seeking Bone

Odie[]

Odie appeared in 7 Quickies, a little less than half of the Season 4 Quickies. He has gotten some good revenge on Garfield, like when he surprised the cat so bad he faceplanted into his dish. Other times, Garfield plays jokes on him, like coating him in shaving cream. Odie became the main character in one Quickie when he searched the house for him bone.

93. Shaving Cream
96. Searing Episode in the Life
98. Sleeping Positions
100. Hole
104. Prankster
105. Locked Outside
108. Seeking Bone

The Big Three[]

93. Shaving Cream
98. Sleeping Positions
104. Prankster
108. Seeking Bone

Other Animals/Characters[]

97. Alarm Clock (Side characters: Alarm clocks)
103. Get Down! (Side character: Jon's date)
106. Fall from a Tree (Side characters: Baby birds and Tickling bird)
107. Bird Calls (Side characters: Birds)

Repurposed Comics[]

Most Quickies are based off of Sunday strips. The earliest strip used was from May 1985 and the latest was from April 1990. Oddly, no strips from 1986 or '87 were used. The year used the most was 1989, with five strips reused as Quickies from that year, just barely edging out the two years tied for second most representation, 1988 and '90, which had four apiece. Of the four years to be used, 1985 was used the least, with only three strips being reused Quickies.

1985[]

102. Food Competition (May 12)
100. Hole (June 16)
98. Sleeping Positions (June 23)

1988[]

97. Alarm Clock (August 28)
93. Shaving Cream (September 30)
96. Searing Episode in the Life (October 16)
99. Special Joke for Jon (December 9)

1989[]

94. Garfield's Impression (January 22)
95. Too Much Time in Bed (January 29)
105. Locked Outside (April 26)
107. Bird Calls (October 22)
104. Prankster (December 10)

1990[]

101. False Start (February 18)
106. Fall from a Tree (March 11)
108. Seeking Bone (March 25)
103. Get Down! (April 8)

Garfield Quickies[]

Shaving Cream[]

Quickie Name: Shaving Cream
Quickie Number: 93
Original Strip: 9/30/1988
Description: Garfield runs up to Jon, who is sitting and reading a newspaper, warning him that Odie is foaming at the mouth. Odie walks up, covered from head to toe in white foam, save for his tongue and nose. Garfield flees, claiming that Odie is a mad dog, while the pup just innocently pants. The cat returns a moment later to tell Jon that he's out of shaving cream, implying that he used it on Odie. Jon states that he just lives there, and he doesn't question it.
Additions:
- Jon has a line, "I just live here, I don't ask questions."
Tweaks:
- Odie isn't covered in a pile of shaving cream, instead he's coated in it.
- Odie's ears are also covered, unlike the strip.

Garfield's Impression[]

Quickie Name: Garfield's Impression
Quickie Number: 94
Original Strip: 1/22/1989
Description: Garfield climbs onto the table while Jon is reading a newspaper. He sticks his tongue out at Jon, and makes several mocking faces while Jon is distracted, but then appears loving when Jon puts down the newspaper. Seeing Garfield's "loving adoration," he gives Garfield his steak and tells the viewers that, "[he's] a sucker for the loving adoration of a pet." all while Garfield mocks him some more in secret.
Additions:
- Garfield makes a couple more faces along with the ones he makes in the strip.
- The plate has a few additional foods along with the steak.

Too Much Time in Bed[]

Quickie Name: Too Much Time in Bed
Quickie Number: 95
Original Strip: 1/29/1989
Description: Garfield wakes up during what he calls a "hurts-to-move" morning. He tells how heavy his eyelids feel, and Jon is soon trying to get him out of bed. Predictably, the cat refuses, so Jon tries again. Garfield claims to "have no vital signs," to which Jon picks the bed up and shakes it upside-down to try to get Garfield out of it. Jon thinks his cat spends too much time in bed, and when Garfield drops out, Jon's theory is proven correct when his cat's lower half in the same rectangular-prism shape as his bed. Garfield still denies that he spends too much time in bed, claiming that "That's just one man's opinion."
Tweaks:
- Garfield's "Garfield's gone! The hogs ate him!" is altered to "No chance."
- Jon also says, "Garfield, rise and shine!" instead of "Rise and shine, fella!" A slight change.
- Garfield's bed is also a different color, red instead of blue.

Searing Episode in the Life[]

Quickie Name: Searing Episode in the Life
Quickie Number: 96
Original Strip: 10/16/1988
Description: Garfield narrates as Odie peeks around the corner and sneaks up to him. Garfield senses the danger as Odie rounds the corner and barks at him. Garfield--still casually narrating--bares a claw at Odie, which causes him to flee in terror. He concludes with, "Another searing episode in the life and death struggle of house pets." before walking away.
Tweaks:
- Odie doesn't bark as much, only thrice instead of six times.
- Garfield's line when Odie barks at him is changed to, "The dog threatens to do bodily harm to the cat."
- Garfield says his final line before walking away instead of while walking away.
Subtractions:
- Garfield's "perfunctory claw" line is removed.

Alarm Clock[]

Quickie Name: Alarm Clock
Quickie Number: 97
Original Strip: 8/28/1988
Description: Garfield is sleeping in bed when a sentient alarm clock rounds the corner, runs up to him and rings loudly. The cat leaps into the air and lands, breaking his bed. The clock runs away, and Garfield gives chase, only to come face-to-face with a bigger, much louder alarm clock. Garfield stops and grins nervously when the big clock rings so loudly the cat is flung backwards. He clings to Jon, who is still in bed, for protection. Jon thinks that there is a reason for this, and Garfield warns him about the danger of the clocks.
Additions:
- When being woken up, Garfield leaps into the air and breaks his bed upon landing back in it.
Tweaks:
- The clocks and Garfield's bed are different colors and show different times compared to the strip.
- Jon is in bed instead of out of bed.
- Garfield's last line is tweaked, "Be careful! They travel in pairs, you know!"
Subtractions:
- Garfield's first line in the strip is cut.

Sleeping Positions[]

Quickie Name: Sleeping Positions
Quickie Number: 98
Original Strip: 6/23/1985
Description: Garfield explains to the audience about different sleeping positions. He shows Jon in what he calls the "classic position", which is curled up into a ball sucking one's thumb. He shows Odie sleeping on the arm of a chair, which he calls the "armchair doily position". He then goes ahead and attempts, "the world's most bizarre sleeping position." After warning the viewers to, "not try it at home," he falls asleep, standing on one leg, lifting his other leg up in the air, and pointing one of his toes backwards. He bends his top half backwards, resting one paw on his stomach and letting the other one dangle. Jon and Odie take notice, and they cheer and applaud him.
Additions:
- Garfield warns to not try his sleep position at home, something he doesn't do in the strip.
- Jon and Odie also applaud and cheer Garfield at the end.
Tweaks:
- Garfield does not start in bed like he does in the strip.
- Jon's pajamas are a different color.
Subtractions:
- The "Classic Fetal Position" in the strip loses the word "Fetal" in the Quickie.
- A few of Garfield's lines are cut:
  - "Welcome to the 'Wonderful World of Sleep'"
  - "When you sleep as much as I do..."
  - "Sleeping, we do it more than anything else in life..."

Special Joke for Jon[]

Quickie Name: Special Joke for Jon
Quickie Number: 99
Original Strip: 12/9/1988
Description: Jon is sound asleep in his chair. While he snoozes, Garfield pranks him by tying his shoelaces together. He takes it another step further by hooking Jon's knotted shoelaces onto a plane bound for Italy. The plane takes off, Jon is pulled along with it, and Garfield waves him good-bye, telling him, "Bring back pizza!" as he goes.
Additions:
- Garfield adds that he has, "An extra special bonus joke" for Jon before putting the hook on his laces.
Tweaks:
- Garfield's explanation of the rope is altered, "The other end of the rope is attached on an airliner on its way to Italy."
- Garfield waves instead of putting his paw to his mouth, as if shouting or yelling.
Subtractions:
- Jon's scream at the end is removed.

Hole[]

Quickie Name: Hole
Quickie Number: 100
Original Strip: 6/16/1985
Description: Garfield is walking though a park or forest when he stumbles upon a hole. He sees this as a golden opportunity to play a trick on Odie. He covers the hole with twigs and pulls a bone out from behind his back. He dangles it over the hole, and Odie takes the bait, but when he steps on the weak twigs and branches, he doesn't fall into the hole. Garfield becomes suspicious of the hole and sweeps the twigs away to investigate. He grabs the hole's edge and pulls it up, revealing that it was rubber. Odie runs up behind him and grins.
Tweaks:
- Garfield's line for Odie is changed to, "Here, boy! Wanna bone?"
- Odie grins at the end instead of just smiling.
- Garfield's reaction to finding out the hole was fake is more disappointed than frustrated.

False Start[]

Quickie Name: False Start
Quickie Number: 101
Original Strip: 2/18/1990
Description: Garfield is sleeping in his bed when he awakens for the day. He yawns and stretches, stands up, and lifts his foot out of bed, ready to start the day, only to suddenly shake his body, as if he was being shocked, and then falls flat on his face in his bed. Jon walks up and explains to the viewers that Garfield had a "false start" and then leaves, letting his cat snooze.
Additions:
- Garfield yawns, something he doesn't do in the strip.
Tweaks:
- Jon walks by and explains what happened as opposed to just standing nearby.
- His pajamas are a different color.

Food Competition![]

Quickie Name: Food Competition!
Quickie Number: 102
Original Strip: 5/12/1985
Description: Garfield and Jon are seated on opposite ends of the table, shoveling large quantities of food into their mouths. They get closer and closer to each other, eating more and more food, until they both reach a ham at the same time. After a brief tug of war, Jon pushes Garfield away with his foot and quickly devours the ham as Garfield climbs back onto the table. Garfield tells the viewers how proud he is of Jon, since he "taught him everything he knows about gluttony." as Jon gnaws the bone.
Additions:
- Jon says, "I win!" after wrestling the ham away from Garfield.
Tweaks:
- Garfield climbs back onto the table. In the comic, he never fell off of it

Get Down![]

Quickie Name: Get Down!
Quickie Number: 103
Original Strip: 4/8/1990
Description: Jon is sitting in the chair with Garfield in his lap. As he strokes his cat, he notices the time and realizes he has a date to get ready for. He tells Garfield to get down, but the cat refuses, as he is warm and cozy. Jon's date arrives and rings the doorbell, making Jon worry and try to force Garfield off. His cat is adamant, and refuses to get down, clawing Jon in the process. Jon relents and answers the door, with Garfield still clinging to him, and compliments his surprised date.
Additions:
- Garfield has an added line after Jon said that he could pet him all evening, "Ahh, do so."
Tweaks:
- Jon's date has a different colored dress.
- Jon's line when Garfield is clawing him is trimmed to "Ow! No no! No claws! Ooh! Stop that!"

Prankster[]

Quickie Name: Prankster
Quickie Number: 104
Original Strip: 12/10/1989
Description: While Garfield eats his food, Odie sneaks up behind him and barks loudly. Startled, Garfield faceplants into his dish, which results in a chase. The pets hide behind Jon's chair as he reads, and Garfield smacks Odie so hard the puppy's nose gets knocked off. Jon looks down at Odie's nose, and the beagle walking over to recollect it. He screws it back onto his face, glares angrily at Garfield behind the chair, rolls up his fur, and storms back behind the chair to retaliate. As the pets fight, Jon claims to have seen nothing and goes back to his book.
Additions:
- Jon has an extra line, "I don't know anything about it." while his pets battle behind him.
Tweaks:
- Jon's initial line is changed: "I didn't see it."
- Garfield's bowl is a different color.

Locked Outside[]

Quickie Name: Locked Outside
Quickie Number: 105
Original Strip: 4/26/1989
Description: Garfield is reading a Power Pig comic book during a cold and snowy day when Odie appears in the window. He whimpers and Garfield puts the book down to hear what the commotion is. Odie rubs himself, shivers, and freezes, confirming Garfield's assessment of the situation of being cold and miserable. He pleads with Garfield to let him back in, and the cat, not wanting to watch him suffer, closes the drapes and goes back to his comic, smiling evilly as he does.
Additions:
- Garfield has a few extra lines:
  - "He's shivering. He's probably very cold and very miserable." while describing Odie outside.
  - "That's better." after closing the curtains.
- Garfield reads a comic, something he's not doing in the strip.
- Odie whimpers, shivers, and pleads.
Tweaks:
- Garfield says "Snow" instead of cold, and other lines are altered. "I can't bear to see him suffer like that."

Fall from a Tree[]

Quickie Name: Fall from a Tree
Quickie Number: 106
Original Strip: 3/11/1990
Description: A couple of baby birds chirp in a tree. Seeing an easy meal, Garfield climbs the trunk and leaps onto the branch, but as soon as he does, he loses his balance and stumbles off of it. Luckily for him, he manages to grab a lower tree limb next to a knothole. He swings for a moment and then notices another bird poke its head out of the knothole. The bird looks at Garfield, looks down at his potential drop, and then tickles the Tubby Tabby's tummy. Garfield giggles, kicks his feet and wiggles his toes, telling the bird to stop. It doesn't, and Garfield gets tickled until he lets go, landing with a crash. He returns inside, and Jon asks him if he enjoyed himself. Garfield replies that he thought he'd die laughing.
Additions:
- While Garfield gets tickled, he tells the bird, "Hey! No!" as he laughs.
Tweaks:
- Garfield does not nearly look as injured as he does in the strip.
- All the birds are yellow instead of red.

Bird Calls[]

Quickie Name: Bird Calls
Quickie Number: 107
Original Strip: 10/22/1989
Description: Garfield hides in a bush with a net in his paw and spots a couple of birds fly above him. He checks his book of bird calls and tries calling them with tweets and greebels, hoping to get a quick bite. However, he realizes it's not working. He reviews his book again, wondering where he went wrong, only to not notice a line of birds behind him of all shapes and sizes.
Additions:
- Garfield has an extra line: "I will consult my book on bird calls."
- He also makes a sort of spitting sound, something not included in the strip.
Tweaks:
- The birds Garfield does attract are different colors compared to the strip. However, they are generally the same shape.

Seeking Bone[]

Quickie Name: Seeking Bone
Quickie Number: 104
Original Strip: 3/25/1990
Description: Odie sniffs the floor, searching for something. He looks for it in the closet, but soon reemerges still on the trail. He follows it under the table, past Garfield's bed, with Garfield still in it, inside a mouse hole (He gets his nose caught for a second) and finally under the chair, with Jon relaxing and reading a newspaper. Odie tips the chair over, knocking Jon on his back, having found what he's looking for: his bone. He winks at the viewers.
Additions:
- Odie looking in the closet is unique to the Quickie.
- Odie winks at the end.
Tweaks:
- Instead of grinning after finding his bone, Odie holds it and winks.
- He also looks under the table (which has a vase instead of a fruit bowl) first and then passes Garfield, instead of the other way around.