Changes: Pooky

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Overview

Pooky is Garfield's teddy bear and best friend. Pooky debuted on October 23, 1978, when Garfield discovered him in a drawer. His most recent appearance was May 14, 2020.

Physical Appearance

Pooky is a brown teddy bear with two button eyes, a large black nose, pink paw pads and pink ear material. In earlier comics, he appeared completely brown aside from his eyes and nose.

Personality

Garfield sometimes communicates with Pooky as if he were a living animal; he can also be over-protective of Pooky. When Pooky lost an eye, Garfield requested a new eye for Pooky as his Christmas present. Garfield is not shy to show his love for Pooky, often grabbing him in hugs, making Jon Arbuckle jealous. Pooky is generally portrayed as sentient but immobile. In one instance, Pooky is seen rollerblading past Jon, who assumes Garfield is playing a prank. However, we then see Garfield at the other end of the room, implying that Pooky is skating under his own power. Over the years, Pooky has had several close calls; losing a leg, an arm, and an eye, but Garfield has always been by his side.

In a 1987 sequence when Garfield had amnesia, Pooky cried out a tear when Garfield did not want to play with him, along with Jon and Odie, who also cried. He does have an absent mind himself but has no brain, or common sense, because he is a teddy bear. He enjoys what Garfield does because Pooky is his only friend who does not criticize his sloppy-like attitude. He is the sidekick of the Caped Avenger, also wearing a cape. He had a brief cameo in Garfield: The Movie and Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties. Pooky was bigger in the first film. In the second film, he is a tiny Ty-Beany Baby doll with a shaking-rattle inside him. In The Garfield Show, Nermal stole Pooky from Garfield as blackmail to get him to be nice to him. In one strip, Garfield was watching television with Pooky. After he finished watching a program, Garfield left leaving Pooky on the couch. The program changed to a nature documentary about bears while Jon walked by. Pooky has been around for 41 years and has not fallen apart.

Sentient Happenings

Pooky has been depicted as being sentient multiple times for instance:

Dreaming that Garfield was sleeping on his lap.
Shedding a tear when Garfield did not remember him.
Seeming to jump through a hoop.
Seeming to skate across the table.
Throwing a tomato at Garfield's face when Garfield told him a Teddy Bear joke.

Appearances

TV Specials

Garfield and Friends

Season 1

"Ode to Odie"
"Caped Avenger"

Season 4

"Trial & Error"

The Garfield Show

Season 1

Trivia

Pooky appears in Jon, where he was named "Huggy". His first appearance is June 16, 1977, when Garfield discovers him and gives him his name. This strip would recycled for the bear's appearance in the syndicated version, with the art redrawn and the name "Pooky" being used.
Garfield gave him the name Pooky in the first strip he appeared in, confirming that Jon did not give him his name.
One mouse tried to give Pooky as a birthday present to his son in one strip on February 18, 1989. Garfield was angry about it and after the strip ended, it is clear that Garfield took away Pooky from him. The mouse was probably lying about him having a kid's birthday and was just simply stealing Pooky.
In a December 1986 sequence, Pooky was squeezed by Garfield so hard that the cotton inside him became a blobby squiggle that enlarged his head. Jon fixed it by making Pooky have his body enlarged with extra cotton, making Pooky much larger and overweight as well. Garfield pulled Jon's shirt up over his head for not fixing Pooky correctly. Pooky, however, was back to correct size in subsequent appearances.
When Pooky first appeared, he had a mouth (a smile). His mouth is not visible.
Garfield called Pooky, "dumb, stupid, and silly-looking" in the first strip, but he has never said anything mean to Pooky since.
Nermal is able to sleep on Pooky's lap. Garfield wishes that he could do that.
Pooky has either appeared or has been mentioned 198 times in the comic strip as of 19th June 2016, one of the most frequent appearances for a character apart from Jon, Garfield, Odie, the mice, the spiders and Liz.
In a 1992 strip, Garfield went to wash Pooky, who was huge after his wash, despite the fact that this had not happened after other washes.
Once in 1983 when Garfield tried to give up Pooky, he suffered from extreme withdrawal and took him back in a week.

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-}}'''Pooky''' is [[Garfield (character)|Garfield's]] teddy bear and best friend. Pooky debuted on October 23, 1978, when Garfield discovered him in a drawer. His most recent appearance was April 19, 2019.
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+'''Pooky''' is [[Garfield (character)|Garfield's]] teddy bear and best friend. Pooky debuted on October 23, 1978, when Garfield discovered him in a drawer. His most recent appearance was May 14, 2020.
 ==Physical Appearance==
-Pooky is a brown teddy bear with two button eyes, a large black nose, pink paw pads and pink ear material.
+Pooky is a brown teddy bear with two button eyes, a large black nose, pink paw pads and pink ear material. In earlier comics, he appeared completely brown aside from his eyes and nose.
 ==Personality==
-Garfield sometimes communicates with Pooky as if he were a living animal; he can also be over-protective of Pooky. When Pooky lost an eye, Garfield requested a new eye for Pooky as his Christmas present. Garfield isn't shy to show his love for Pooky, often grabbing him in hugs, making [[Jon Arbuckle]] jealous. Pooky is generally portrayed as sentient but immobile. In one instance, Pooky is seen rollerblading past Jon, who assumes Garfield is playing a prank. However, we then see Garfield at the other end of the room, implying that Pooky is skating under his own power. Over the years, Pooky has had several close calls; losing a leg, an arm, and an eye, but Garfield has always been by his side.
+Garfield sometimes communicates with Pooky as if he were a living animal; he can also be over-protective of Pooky. When Pooky lost an eye, Garfield requested a new eye for Pooky as his Christmas present. Garfield is not shy to show his love for Pooky, often grabbing him in hugs, making [[Jon Arbuckle]] jealous. Pooky is generally portrayed as sentient but immobile. In one instance, Pooky is seen rollerblading past Jon, who assumes Garfield is playing a prank. However, we then see Garfield at the other end of the room, implying that Pooky is skating under his own power. Over the years, Pooky has had several close calls; losing a leg, an arm, and an eye, but Garfield has always been by his side.
-In a 1987 sequence when Garfield had amnesia, Pooky cried out a tear when Garfield didn't want to play with him, along with Jon and [[Odie]], who also cried. He does have an absent mind himself but has no brain, or common sense, because he is a teddy bear. He enjoys what Garfield does because Pooky is his only friend who doesn't criticize his sloppy-like attitude. He is the sidekick of the Caped Avenger, also wearing a cape. He had a brief cameo in ''[[Garfield: The Movie]]'' and ''[[Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties]]''.
+In a 1987 sequence when Garfield had amnesia, Pooky cried out a tear when Garfield did not want to play with him, along with Jon and [[Odie]], who also cried. He does have an absent mind himself but has no brain, or common sense, because he is a teddy bear. He enjoys what Garfield does because Pooky is his only friend who does not criticize his sloppy-like attitude. He is the sidekick of the Caped Avenger, also wearing a cape. He had a brief cameo in ''[[Garfield: The Movie]]'' and ''[[Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties]]''.
-Pooky was bigger in the first film. In the second film, he is a tiny Ty-Beany Baby doll with a shaking-rattle inside him. In ''[[The Garfield Show]]'', [[Nermal]] stole Pooky from Garfield as blackmail to get him to be nice to him. In one strip, Garfield was watching television with Pooky. After he finished watching a program, Garfield left leaving Pooky on the couch. The program changed to a nature documentary about bears while Jon walked by. Pooky's been around for 39 years and hasn't fallen apart.
+Pooky was bigger in the first film. In the second film, he is a tiny Ty-Beany Baby doll with a shaking-rattle inside him. In ''[[The Garfield Show]]'', [[Nermal]] stole Pooky from Garfield as blackmail to get him to be nice to him. In one strip, Garfield was watching television with Pooky. After he finished watching a program, Garfield left leaving Pooky on the couch. The program changed to a nature documentary about bears while Jon walked by. Pooky has been around for 41 years and has not fallen apart.
 ==Role==
 ===[[Garfield's Halloween Adventure]]===
+At the end of the special, Garfield grabs Pooky to sleep with
-'''More to Come.'''
 ===[[Garfield's Feline Fantasies]]===
 '''More to Come.'''
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 ===[[Caped Avenger]]===
 '''More to Come.'''
-===[[Trial and Error]]===
+===[[Trial & Error]]===
+Pooky was a witness at Odie's trial
-'''More to Come.'''
 ===[[Freaky Monday]]===
 '''More to Come.'''
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 Pooky has been depicted as being sentient multiple times for instance:
 *Dreaming that Garfield was sleeping on his lap.
-*Shedding a tear when Garfield didn't remember him.
+*Shedding a tear when Garfield did not remember him.
 *Seeming to jump through a hoop.
 *Seeming to skate across the table.
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 ==Appearances==
 ===[[TV specials|TV Specials]]===
-*[[Garfield's Halloween Adventure]]
+*''[[Garfield's Halloween Adventure]]''
-*[[Garfield's Feline Fantasies]]
+*''[[Garfield's Feline Fantasies]]''
-===[[Garfield and Friends]]===
+===''[[Garfield and Friends]]''===
 ====Season 1====
-*[[Ode to Odie]]
+*"[[Ode to Odie]]"
-*[[Caped Avenger]]
+*"[[Caped Avenger]]"
 ====Season 4====
-*[[Trial and Error]]
+*"[[Trial & Error]]"
-===[[The Garfield Show]]===
+===''[[The Garfield Show]]''===
 ====Season 1====
-*[[Freaky Monday]]
+*"[[Freaky Monday]]"
-*[[Odie in Love]]
+*"[[Odie in Love]]"
-*[[Desperately Seeking Pooky]]
+*"[[Desperately Seeking Pooky]]"
-*[[Nice to Nermal]]
+*"[[Nice to Nermal]]"
 ====Season 3====
-*[[Teddy Dearest]]
+*"[[Teddy Dearest]]"
 ====Season 4====
-*[[Whatever Happened to Aunt Ivy?]]
+*"[[Whatever Happened to Aunt Ivy?]]"
 ===[[Garfield video games|Video Games]]===
-*[[Garfield: The Search for Pooky]]
+*''[[Garfield: The Search for Pooky]]''
 ==Trivia==
+*Pooky appears in ''[[Jon (comic strip)|Jon]]'', where he was named "Huggy". His first appearance is [[Jon, 1977 comic strips|June 16, 1977]], when Garfield discovers him and gives him his name. This strip would recycled for the bear's appearance in the syndicated version, with the art redrawn and the name "Pooky" being used.
 *Garfield gave him the name Pooky in the first strip he appeared in, confirming that Jon did not give him his name.
 *One mouse tried to give Pooky as a birthday present to his son in one strip on February 18, 1989. Garfield was angry about it and after the strip ended, it is clear that Garfield took away Pooky from him. The mouse was probably lying about him having a kid's birthday and was just simply stealing Pooky.
 *In a December 1986 sequence, Pooky was squeezed by Garfield so hard that the cotton inside him became a blobby squiggle that enlarged his head. Jon fixed it by making Pooky have his body enlarged with extra cotton, making Pooky much larger and overweight as well. Garfield pulled Jon's shirt up over his head for not fixing Pooky correctly. Pooky, however, was back to correct size in subsequent appearances.
-*When Pooky first appeared, he had a mouth (a smile), but now his mouth is not visible.
+*When Pooky first appeared, he had a mouth (a smile). His mouth is not visible.
 *Garfield called Pooky, "dumb, stupid, and silly-looking" in the first strip, but he has never said anything mean to Pooky since.
 *Nermal is able to sleep on Pooky's lap. Garfield wishes that he could do that.
-*Pooky has either appeared or has been mentioned 198 times in the comic strip as of 19th June 2016, one of the most frequent appearances for a character apart from Jon, Garfield, Odie, [[The Mice]], [[The Spiders]] and Liz.
+*Pooky has either appeared or has been mentioned 198 times in the comic strip as of 19th June 2016, one of the most frequent appearances for a character apart from Jon, Garfield, Odie, the [[Mice|mice]], [[The Spiders|the spiders]] and Liz.
 *In a 1992 strip, Garfield went to wash Pooky, who was huge after his wash, despite the fact that this had not happened after other washes.
 *Once in 1983 when Garfield tried to give up Pooky, he suffered from extreme withdrawal and took him back in a week.
-==Gallery==
-<gallery>
-Pooky.gif
-Garfield_And_Pooky.jpg|Garfield and Pooky
-Pooky.jpg
-px-Garfieldand_friends.png|Garfield, Odie, Nermal, Arlene and Pooky.
-Image-Pooky.jpg
--10-23.jpg|October 23, 1978
--10-24.jpg|October 24, 1978
--10-25.jpg|October 25, 1978
--10-26.jpg|October 26, 1978
--10-27.jpg|October 27, 1978
--01-06.jpg|January 6, 1979
-February 19, 1979.gif|February 19, 1979
-February 20, 1979.gif|February 20, 1979
-February 21, 1979.gif|February 21, 1979
-February 22, 1979.gif|February 22, 1979
-February 23, 1979.gif|February 23, 1979
-February 24, 1979.gif|February 24, 1979
-June 14, 1979.gif|June 14, 1979
-October 16, 1979.gif|October 16, 1979
-Image-1471224223.jpg|February 6, 1987
-April 19, 2019.gif|April 19, 2019
-</gallery>
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