Garfield and Friends Season 5 Quickies

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

Season 5 has a total of 16 Garfield quickies, tied with Seasons 4, 6, and 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 of the 16 Quickies in this season, the most of any character. This season had a lot of abuse to Jon and Odie, like when he whacked Jon in the face with jogging shoes and when he caused Odie to run into the heat vent.

Jon[]

Jon appeared in 11 Quickies this season, the second most behind Garfield. He is often a victim of Garfield's schemes, from getting his food stolen to getting beaten up by a strong bald man when Garfield took his wig off.

109. Absorb Shock
110. Cellar Door
111. So Close, yet So Far
112. Wig
114. Translation
115. Defective
117. Pierce
121. Countdown
122. Snowball
123. Life with Jon
124. Cookie Contest

Odie[]

Odie appeared in only five Quickies from this season. He was a test subject for one of Garfield's experiments, and was willing to get hit in the face with a snowball just to get some attention.

113. Somnambulism
114. Translation
116. Odie's Impression
119. Attention
120. Which is Smarter?

The Big Three[]

The main trio of Garfield, Jon, and Odie appeared together only once this season, when Jon explained to the cat and dog duo his plans for the day.

114. Translation

Other Animals/Characters[]

Other unnamed side characters/animals have made appearances, but only twice in this season. There is a bald man with a wig who beat up Jon due to Garfield's prank, and birds and mice swapping places.

112. Wig (Side character: Bald man)
118. Timeshare (Side characters: Timesharing Birds and Mice)

Repurposed Comics[]

These Quickies were used from comics from as early as February 1987 and as late as May 1991. Of the years represented, 1991 was used the most, with seven comics from that year to be used as Quickies, and 1988 was used the least, with only two strips from that year to be reused. Strips from 1989 were not used at all.

1987[]

111. So Close, yet So Far (February 22)
110. Cellar Door (May 10)
109. Absorb Shock (September 13)
114. Translation (December 27)

1988[]

112. Wig (January 17)
113. Somnambulism (May 8)

Defective (1990)

1990[]

115. Defective (December 5)
116. Odie's Impression (December 6)
117. Pierce (December 9)

1991[]

119. Attention (January 20)
120. Which is Smarter? (January 25)
121. Countdown (February 3)
122. Snowball (February 10)
123. Life with Jon (February 13)
124. Cookie Contest (April 1)
118. Timeshare (May 12)

Garfield Quickies[]

Absorb Shock[]

Quickie Name: Absorb Shock
Quickie Number: 109
Original Strip: 9/13/1987
Description: Garfield sits on the chair watching some TV and Jon comes in, telling Garfield that he's out of shape. Garfield objects, claiming, "I watch 30 minutes of aerobics each day." Jon then shows Garfield the jogging shoes he bought for the cat. Garfield takes them by the laces and looks at them, and Jon tells him that the shoes are built to absorb shocks. Garfield gets an idea. He smiles at the viewers and whacks Jon in the face with the shoes and then throws them away, claiming that Jon was right, he hardly felt that.
Additions:
- Garfield smiles sinisterly before he smacks Jon.
Tweaks:
- Jon's first line is altered, and is more blunt. "Garfield, you're out of shape."
- Garfield also says "each day" instead of "a day".
- The jogging shoes are a different color.
- Garfield smiles at the very end.
Subtractions:
- The entire final panel of the strip is cut.

Cellar Door[]

Quickie Name: Cellar Door
Quickie Number: 110
Original Strip: 5/10/1987
Description: Garfield walks up to the cellar and notices the door is wide open. He remembers how Jon always tells him to keep it closed, lest someone get hurt. He decides to close it while faint footsteps ascend the stairs. He slams it shut and a loud "Oof!" followed by a few seconds of falling down stairs are heard, capped off by a loud crash. Garfield winces as he listens and opens the door. Upon seeing Jon at the bottom of the stairs, with laundry scattered around him and his head covered by a laundry basket, Garfield apologizes to him.
Tweaks:
- Garfield's second-to-last line is changed: "I'd better close it so nobody gets hurt."
- The laundry is different colors.
- Garfield's apology goes, "Sorry about that, Jonny boy."

So Close, but So Far: Garfield falls asleep before he is able to reach his coffee.

So Close, yet So Far[]

Quickie Name: So Close, yet So Far
Quickie Number: 111
Original Strip: 2/22/1987
Description: Garfield is just starting one of those mornings, "The kind of morning where you've been up for two minutes and it feels like two days." as he puts it. He walks toward his cup of coffee, slumping more and more and slowing down more and more. He tries to will himself to it, dragging himself on the table, but he dozes off just before he can reach it. Jon notes that Garfield is "So close, yet so far."
Additions:
- Garfield says "You can make it." a second time.
Tweaks:
- Garfield's coffee cup is a different color, and Garfield sleeps on his stomach instead of flopping onto his back.

Wig: Jon staggers down the path after Garfield got him in trouble with a large man.

Wig[]

Quickie Name: Wig
Quickie Number: 112
Original Strip: 1/17/1988
Description: Garfield is sitting on a bench between Jon, who is reading a book and another large man wearing a wig. Garfield spots the man's hairpiece, leaps up, and grabs it off his head. He spikes it on the ground and warns Jon about "a rabid muskrat." He leans against his owner as the bald man realizes what Garfield did. The man growls at Jon, who grins sheepishly, quivers, and bites his nails. Later, Garfield and Jon walk down the path, Jon having been beaten up and being forced to fetch the wig on all fours. Jon wants Garfield to shut up.
Additions:
- Jon biting his nails and quivering are original to the Quickie.
Tweaks:
- The man's wig is a different color.
- Jon is not quite beaten up the same way as he is in the strip.
- Jon also is behind Garfield instead of the other way around.

Somnambulism[]

Quickie Name: Somnambulism
Quickie Number: 113
Original Strip: 5/8/1988
Description: Odie sleeps on his back and kicks his legs. Garfield spots him and notes that he must be dreaming about chasing something. As an experiment, Garfield sets Odie right-side up to see if Odie catches what he is chasing. The pup crashes into something and Garfield observes that Odie caught the heat register when the pup returns with it on his face, his tongue, ears, and nose caught in it.
Additions:
- Odie's muttering and snoring are new to the Quickie.
- Garfield gestures to Odie at the end.

Translation[]

Quickie Name: Translation
Quickie Number: 114
Original Strip: 12/27/1987
Description: Jon tells his pets what he is planning to do for the day. Jon says that he is going to do a study before he does his chores, which Garfield translates as putting off work for another day. Jon tells them to do something intellectually stimulating after lunch, which Garfield translates as eating too much and falling asleep in front of the TV, which is exactly what they do, except for Garfield, who holds his extended belly and says, "I admire a man of decision."
Tweaks:
- Jon's first item of business is changed, as well as Garfield's translation.
  - Jon says, "I have a list of chores to do but I think I need to make a careful study before I attempt them."
  - Garfield's reply, "Translation: I'm putting off work for another day."
  - This is similar to the strip, where Jon says he's going to leave the Christmas tree up a bit longer.
Subtractions:
- Garfield's "Here we go again." line is cut.
- Garfield, Odie, and Jon have less food than they do in the strip at the end.

Defective[]

Quickie Name: Defective
Quickie Number: 115
Original Strip: 12/5/1990
Description: Garfield tells the viewers that Jon is sending out for a book titled Help for the Hopelessly Incompetent as he scratches his ear. Behind him, Jon stumbles around, covered with stamps from his shirt, to his face. even his eyes. He pulls some off as Garfield rolls his eyes and watches his helpless owner stumble one way and then the other. The cat tries sleeping, but a loud thud snaps him back awake. Jon tells him that the stamps are defective. Garfield looks at him and says that Jon is getting that book "just in time, too."
Additions:
- The title of the book has the word "hopelessly" added.
- Garfield's final line has the word "too" added.
- Jon stumbles around behind Garfield.
- Most of what the tabby does, from scratching his ear to lifting his head at the end, is exclusive to the Quickie.
Tweaks:
- The stamps are all one color, while the strip has multiple different-colored stamps.

Odie's Impression[]

Quickie Name: Odie's Impression
Quickie Number: 116
Original Strip: 12/6/1990
Description: Garfield walks up to Odie, who greets him with a bark. Garfield asks the pup if he can do any impressions. Odie gives him a thumbs up and inflates his ears to make them round. They then appear black and Odie stands on his hind legs while wearing gloves, doing a Mickey Mouse impression. Garfield then wonders who Odie is and guesses things like John Wayne, Jack Nicholson, and Michael Jackson, among others. As Garfield tries, and fails, Odie gets more and more exasperated. The cat just shrugs.
Additions:
- Odie appears wearing gloves and with four fingers. He typically has three fingers when he stands on his hind legs.
- The strip ends after Garfield guesses John Wayne. Everything after it is unique to the Quickie.
- Odie goes "Ta-da" after he inflates his ears.

Pierce[]

Quickie Name: Pierce
Quickie Number: 117
Original Strip: 12/9/1990
Description: Jon stabs a slice of roast beef and is about to put it into his mouth, when he sees a saw sawing a circle in the table around the roast beef plate. Jon puts the fork down and lifts the plate away from the table, thinking he had outmaneuvered Garfield, but after the cat finishes the whole, nothing happens. Jon leans into the hole, only for Garfield to grab his face and pull him through the table, wedging him halfway in. Garfield then climbs the table and eats the contents of the plate, while Jon yells at him.
Tweaks:
- Jon's dinner is different, a full roast beef.
- Garfield stands on the table instead of Jon's leg.

Timeshare[]

Quickie Name: Timeshare
Quickie Number: 118
Original Strip: 5/12/1991
Description: Garfield is sleeping in his bed when a bird walks through the house toward a mousehole. The cat wakes up and is surprised to see the first bird get met by its friend already in the hole. He is suspicious of this and goes outside to get to the bottom of it, and finds a bunch of mice playing volleyball in the birdbath. Garfield concludes, "This timeshare thing is getting out of hand."
Tweaks:
- The birds are red instead of blue.
- Garfield stands up and says his first line.
- Everything after Garfield gets out of his bed is reversed. Garfield walks toward the viewers' left instead of right.

Attention[]

Quickie Name: Attention
Quickie Number: 119
Original Strip: 1/20/1991
Description: Garfield peeks around a tree holding a snowball in his paw. He steps out from behind it, tightens it, and throws it at an unsuspecting Odie. The snowball, however, gets airmailed and goes clear over him. The cat is frustrated that he missed, but Odie, being a good sport, gives him the snowball back. Garfield pauses for a moment and then hits him squarely in the face with the snowball. Odie doesn't care, as he just pants happily, and Garfield notes how much Odie loves any kind of attention.
Additions:
- After Odie delivered him the snowball, Garfield looks at the viewers, shrugs, and tosses it in his paw.
Tweaks:
- Garfield walks away in the opposite direction than in the strip.

Which is Smarter?[]

Quickie Name: Which is Smarter?
Quickie Number: 120
Original Strip: 1/25/1991
Description: Garfield wants to know which is smarter, a dog or a tree stump. He performs a scientific experiment to find out. He takes two rolled-up socks and tosses them, the first one for the stump, and the second for Odie. He tells each of them to go get the socks after tossing them. The stump, of course, does nothing, while when Odie is tested, he barks excitedly and chases it. Garfield concludes that the stump is smarter, and then leans on it.
Additions:
- Garfield has two socks instead of just one, while adding that he's doing a he's doing a "scientific test".
  - He tells both Odie and the stump, "Go fetch Jon's old stinky sweat sock. Go get it, boy."
  - Odie also barks after Garfield throws the second sock, and Garfield thanks the viewers at the end.
Tweaks:
- Odie and the stump are tested separately rather than at the same time.

Countdown[]

Quickie Name: Countdown
Quickie Number: 121
Original Strip: 2/3/1991
Description: Jon is at the table sipping his morning coffee when Garfield arrives and chugs his own cup. Jon counts down from 10 as Garfield makes several funny faces as the coffee kicks in. After reaching one, Jon adds, "Ignition," and Garfield zooms into the air like a rocket. Jon says that they have liftoff. When Garfield comes back down, he gives Jon a happy greeting and then drinks his coffee.
Additions:
- Garfield's faces he makes are exclusive to the Quickie, as well as his launching into the air.
Tweaks:
- Instead of thinking, Jon actively speaks the countdown from 10, and he says his liftoff line before Garfield tells him good morning.

Snowball[]

Quickie Name: Snowball
Quickie Number: 122
Original Strip: 2/10/1991
Description: Garfield stands on a tall hill overlooking his house. He sculpts a small snowball in his paws and then sends it on a roll down the hill. As it goes, it gets bigger and bigger. He runs down along side it, manages to outrun it, runs up to the door of the house and rings the doorbell. Jon answers it immediately and as he does, the snowball runs him over like a bowling ball to bowling pins. Garfield celebrates his prank.
Tweaks:
- Jon's line is, "Yes?" The house is a different color as well.
Subtractions:
- Garfield says "YES!" only once instead of twice.

Life with Jon[]

Quickie Name: Life with Jon
Quickie Number: 123
Original Strip: 2/13/1991
Description: Garfield lies in bed when he hears a balloon being inflated and tied in the next room. He tells the audience, "Life with Jon is not normal." and this is verified when Jon comes out of his room in his underwear. He tells Garfield his plan to go into the mall and tap dance wearing nothing but underwear and a balloon animal on his head, and holding a pineapple in each hand. He balances one pineapple on his foot, and walks away on his twinkle toes. Garfield complains, "Again?" before going back to bed.
Additions:
- It is not shown how he leaves in the strip, but in the Quickie, he leaves by walking on his toes.
Tweaks:
- Jon is going to the mall instead of his front yard.
- His balloon animal and underwear are different colors.
- Garfield lies in bed instead of just sitting on the floor.

Cookie Contest[]

Quickie Name: Cookie Contest
Quickie Number: 124
Original Strip: 4/1/1991
Description: Garfield walks up to Jon on the table, carrying the cookie jar in his paws. He tells Jon that if he can guess how many cookies are in the jar, he's will all of the cookies inside it. Jon suspects that the cat ate them all already, and when Garfield lifts the lid, he reveals that Jon was correct. Jon looks inside the jar, and Garfield grins at the viewers and at Jon.
Additions:
- Garfield peeking into the jar is only in the Quickie.
- Everything after Garfield says, "We have a winner!" is new, as the strip ended on that line.
Tweaks:
- The cookie jar is a different shape and color.
- Garfield also uses Jon's full name and adds that they are chocolate chip cookies instead of just any cookies.
- Garfield's foot is behind the jar instead of in front.
Subtractions:
- Garfield's fist pumping is cut.