Garfield

The Garfield specials are also unique for their deadpan delivery and oftentimes bleak worldview.

Garfield Television: The Cat Who Saved Primetime Cartoons

Rich Goldstein

November 5, 2014

Perhaps made doubly frightening because not only does the old man frighten Garfield and Odie, but he steals their candy as well.

Garfield Television: The Cat Who Saved Primetime Cartoons

Rich Goldstein

November 5, 2014

Also making appearances in the early Garfield specials are the original Bilbo Baggins, Orson Bean, and a pre-Cheers George Wendt.

Garfield Television: The Cat Who Saved Primetime Cartoons

Rich Goldstein

November 5, 2014

Garfield the cat occupies an understated and often overlooked position critical to the history of televised animation.

Garfield Television: The Cat Who Saved Primetime Cartoons

Rich Goldstein

November 5, 2014

It was the 1985 Halloween special that set an animated Garfield ahead of its contemporary competitors.

Garfield Television: The Cat Who Saved Primetime Cartoons

Rich Goldstein

November 5, 2014

There was a meeting, and Garfield was shot through the lung.

If Garfield recovers from his wound he will be tried by court-martial.

But there was one other who had some inkling of the plot—Garfield, the American.

Well, good-bye, Garfield, I won't be likely to see you again before you go.

Returned to Huntsville this afternoon; General Garfield with me.