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Garfield Specials

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Garfield Specials	comment	A series of 12 animated TV specials based off the popular comic strip Garfield. All of them (except the first two, which were animated by Mendleson/Melendez Productions, famous for the Peanuts and Cathy specials) were animated by Film Roman, and all of them were broadcast on CBS between the years of 1982 and 1991.The specials use the same voice actors and animation style, at least from Garfield in the Rough onwards, as the animated series Garfield and Friends, though there is no official word on whether the specials and series are set in the same universe.The specials are as follows: Here Comes Garfield (October 25, 1982): After a series of vignettes introducing our fat cool cat, Odie is locked in a dog pound, and Garfield must save him. Garfield on the Town (October 28, 1983): Garfield falls out of the car on a visit to the vet, and ends up being reunited with his mother. Won an Emmy in 1984. Garfield in the Rough (October 26, 1984): Garfield, Jon and Odie go camping. Unfortunately, a killer panther is there... Won an Emmy in 1985. Garfield's Halloween Adventure/Garfield in Disguise (October 30, 1985): Garfield and Odie go trick-or-treating, and while doing so, wind up at a haunted house. Won an Emmy in 1986. Garfield in Paradise (May 27, 1986): Garfield, Jon and Odie go on vacation in the cheapskate's version of Hawaii. Garfield Goes Hollywood (May 8, 1987): Garfield, Jon and Odie attempt to win a talent show contest for people and their pets. A Garfield Christmas (December 21, 1987): Garfield and Odie go with Jon to spend Christmas on the farm where Jon's family lives. Re-edited in 1991. Garfield: His 9 Lives (November 22, 1988): An epic hour-long special where we see past and future reincarnations of Garfield (or Garfield's "Lives") . Based off a graphic novel. Has its own page. Garfield's Babes and Bullets (May 23, 1989): A Deliberately Monochrome special that dramatically parodies Film Noir. Based off one of the vignettes from His 9 Lives that didn't make it to the above special... and when it became by far the most popular vignette of the book version, the animation team decided to give it a dedicated special. Won an Emmy in 1989. Has its own page. Garfield's Thanksgiving (November 22, 1989): While Garfield is put on a diet much to his horror, Jon invites Liz over for Thanksgiving and attempts to cook the food. It doesn't end well. Garfield's Feline Fantasies (May 18, 1990): Garfield has a variety of imagination sequences Affectionately Parodying various films, including one where he portrays a treasure hunter named "Lance Sterling," a cross between James Bond and Indiana Jones. Garfield Gets a Life (May 8, 1991): The final special — Jon attempts to add some excitement into his life, and in the process, meets a woman who he really hits it off with, but this gets Garfield worried.All twelve were issued on four DVDs and three book collections in 2004 and 2005: Garfield as Himself: Collects Here Comes Garfield, Garfield on the Town and Garfield Gets a Life. Garfield's Holiday Celebration: Collects Garfield's Halloween Adventure, Garfield's Thanksgiving and A Garfield Christmas. The book edition was originally released in 1997 as Garfield's Jolly Holiday 3-Pack. Garfield's Travel Adventures: Collects Garfield in the Rough, Garfield in Paradise and Garfield Goes Hollywood. Garfield Fantasies: Collects Garfield's Babes and Bullets, Garfield's Nine Lives and Garfield's Feline Fantasies. Unlike the other collections, it was released on DVD only and did not have a companion book release.
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Garfield Specials / int_10343d98	type	Beach Bury
Garfield Specials / int_10343d98	comment	Beach Bury: In one scene, Garfield buries Odie in the sand, up to his ankles... and upside down (in a scene reminiscent of an August 1980 strip).
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Garfield Specials / int_1086f287	type	Sure, Let's Go with That
Garfield Specials / int_1086f287	comment	Sure, Let's Go with That: When Garfield and Odie come home from the pound, Jon assumes that they were out all night singing on the fence and chasing cars while he was home worrying himself sick about them. They assure him they were do that.
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Garfield Specials / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Garfield Specials / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: A Heterosexual Life-Partners (then again, Odie's seen crossdressed twice in Garfield In Hollywood) version. Garfield recurrently treats Odie shabbily, but Odie himself clearly cares for Garfield deeply as a friend, and Garfield, though he would never care to admit it, is often nice to Odie back; curling up to sleep beside Odie for the latter's comfort when Odie is apparently doomed to be put down in Here Comes Garfield (and then going on to attack the dogcatcher to save him towards the film's end), giving Odie his fair share of the candy in Garfield's Halloween Adventure, and bartering with The Creator to give Odie nine lives back as well at the end of Garfield: His 9 Lives are all prominent examples. Garfield in the Rough deserves its own mention, especially since this applies to both Odie and Jon. Garfield, a chubby house cat usually too out of shape to even hunt mice, leaps onto the back of an escaped panther, biting and clawing it in order to protect Jon and Odie from harm. Garfield doesn't take down the beast (in fact, at best he just made himself the panther's target), but he ultimately bought time for the park rangers to arrive and tranquilize the panther before any real harm was done.
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Garfield Specials / int_112f8ee1	type	Look Behind You
Garfield Specials / int_112f8ee1	comment	Look Behind You: Garfield's brother Raoul distracts Ali Cat during a fight by saying "Ain't that Haley's Comet?"
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Garfield Specials / int_1206d299	type	Can't Kill You, Still Need You
Garfield Specials / int_1206d299	comment	Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Garfield as a pirate threatens to kill Jon, but won't on account of him being the only one who changes his kitty litter.
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Garfield Specials / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Garfield Specials / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: The old man who tells Garfield and Odie the story of the ghost pirates sneaks out and steals their boat, not even offering a chance for them to get on it.
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Garfield Specials / int_133938ca	type	Costume-Test Montage
Garfield Specials / int_133938ca	comment	Costume-Test Montage: Jon goes through a serious of outfits to try to find one to impress Liz when she comes over for Thanksgiving Dinner. Garfield rejects each outfit with a raspberry until Jon dresses "as himself" in a simple suit and tie (but forgets his pants).
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Garfield Specials / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Garfield Specials / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: While the original Garfield comic strip, as well as and Friends, are Gag Series with No Fourth Wall, the specials tend to be much more dramatic. Halloween Adventure in particular.
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Garfield Specials / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Garfield Specials / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: While Jon, Garfield and Odie are out walking in the snow, Jon talks about the "beautiful scenery". Garfield, who's walking with only his tail sticking out of the snow, grumbles about "What scenery?" and continues on to say "In fact I'd go so far as to say things can't much worse than-" before getting cut off by banging his head into a water pump. He then lampshades it by adding "I gotta quit saying that."
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Garfield Specials / int_15f76026	type	Inexplicably Identical Individuals
Garfield Specials / int_15f76026	comment	Inexplicably Identical Individuals: A Great Gildersleeve-style sleazy salesman type shows up as a hotel clerk and then a car rental agent successively, prompting the lines, "You look familiar." "I have a brother in the hotel business."
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Garfield Specials / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
Garfield Specials / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: The special begins with Garfield trying to tell jokes while standing on a fence. After getting hit in the face with a pie, he yells "Your mothers wear army boots".
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Garfield Specials / int_186c2c62	type	Diet Episode
Garfield Specials / int_186c2c62	comment	Diet Episode: Liz orders Jon to put Garfield on a diet during one of their regular vet visits, which he, obviously, is already upset about. He's even more upset because it's the day before Thanksgiving.
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Garfield Specials / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Garfield Specials / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Garfield does this when he decides to rescue Odie from the pound:
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Garfield Specials / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
Garfield Specials / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: One occurs when Garfield realizes just how high up he is on top of a Christmas tree.
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Garfield Specials / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Garfield Specials / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Orson Pig from U.S. Acres appears in the waiting room at the vet.
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Garfield Specials / int_1bd8ae6f	type	Micro Dieting
Garfield Specials / int_1bd8ae6f	comment	Micro Dieting: Liz the vet puts Garfield on a severe diet the day before Thanksgiving that includes getting half a leaf of lettuce to eat for lunch.
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Garfield Specials / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
Garfield Specials / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: The Claws sing a song when they approach the abandoned Italian restaurant Garfield's family lives in while trying to find Garfield with the intent of harming him.
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Garfield Specials / int_1d8733d3	type	Overly Narrow Superlative
Garfield Specials / int_1d8733d3	comment	Overly Narrow Superlative: This:
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Garfield Specials / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Garfield Specials / int_1dfbbf31	comment	A Heterosexual Life-Partners (then again, Odie's seen crossdressed twice in Garfield In Hollywood) version. Garfield recurrently treats Odie shabbily, but Odie himself clearly cares for Garfield deeply as a friend, and Garfield, though he would never care to admit it, is often nice to Odie back; curling up to sleep beside Odie for the latter's comfort when Odie is apparently doomed to be put down in Here Comes Garfield (and then going on to attack the dogcatcher to save him towards the film's end), giving Odie his fair share of the candy in Garfield's Halloween Adventure, and bartering with The Creator to give Odie nine lives back as well at the end of Garfield: His 9 Lives are all prominent examples.
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Garfield Specials / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Garfield Specials / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: In-Universe. When Garfield says he hates Binky, Binky responds with a shocked expression.
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Garfield Specials / int_1fc325dd	type	Do Not Adjust Your Set
Garfield Specials / int_1fc325dd	comment	Do Not Adjust Your Set: The special opens with one of these, saying it isn't necessary — the color has just really gone out of Garfield's life.
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Garfield Specials / int_21af4dc3	type	Heroic Dog
Garfield Specials / int_21af4dc3	comment	Heroic Dog: As Garfield and Odie jump into the lake to escape the evil ghosts chasing them, Garfield quickly sinks under and is swept away by the current (he can't swim). A frantic, whimpering Odie immediately dives underwater to find him and pulls him to safety. As they reach the shore, Garfield tells him with complete sincerity "I owe you one, old buddy". It's especially touching considering that Garfield is always ridiculing and tormenting Odie — he only even brought him along for trick-or-treating in order to get more candy for himself — yet Odie didn't hesitate to save him.
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Garfield Specials / int_21f5491	type	Appease the Volcano God
Garfield Specials / int_21f5491	comment	Appease the Volcano God: The volcano. However, it rejects the usual virgin sacrifice common to this trope when it throws out Princess Owooda when she attempts a Heroic Sacrifice. What the volcano really wants is a vintage 1950s car that contains the spirit of the Cruiser, who appeased it the first time.
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Garfield Specials / int_22eed18a	type	Parents Know Their Children
Garfield Specials / int_22eed18a	comment	Parents Know Their Children: Garfield's mother immediately recognizes him, whereas it takes him a few moments to realize who she is.
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Garfield Specials / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Garfield Specials / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The comic based on the special adds a few extra scenes, such as: Turning Doc Boy's one use of "Don't call me Doc Boy!" into a Running Gag. Doing the same with Garfield's Mad Libs Catchphrase of "Whoever invented (insert phrase here) should be drug out into the street and shot". Adding a bit of Jon wrapping Christmas presents at home before they get in the car (wherein Garfield wraps Odie as a present to try and give him away). Replacing Jon's walk through the snow with the pets with a sequence of him doing chores (to his annoyance) with his dad and brother. A bit of Grandma whacking Jon, Dad and Doc Boy each with a spoon (Jon for taste-testing, Dad for having his feet on the table and Doc Boy just because) as they're getting dinner ready. A scene of Dad threatening violence against Mom over her remark about why they didn't just put the star on the tree before putting the tree up. A bit of Garfield doing a Gift Shake (lifted directly from the comic strip), followed by Jon and Doc Boy heading to bed (including a case of the "Don't call me Doc Boy" Running Gag), Grandma saying she'll be up a little longer and then Jon and Doc Boy in bed and Mom coming in to say goodnight. Expanding on the scene of Odie making Garfield's present (instead having him try and fail to put the post of it into the base, and then get distracted by a sound made by Garfield throwing a corncob and going to investigate, allowing Garfield to drill a hole into the base and then assemble the gift himself). Jon and Doc Boy walking into the room yawning on Christmas morning because someone turned their alarm clock off (and their dad implying he was responsible).
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Garfield Specials / int_235f151f	type	Is There a Doctor in the House?
Garfield Specials / int_235f151f	comment	Is There a Doctor in the House?: At the "Pet Search" talent show, there is an old woman who is trying to make her pet bird, which is most likely dead, perform tricks to the audience. After realizing what's going on, the old woman asks this question.
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Garfield Specials / int_23b059ec	type	Bedsheet Ghost
Garfield Specials / int_23b059ec	comment	Bedsheet Ghost: During the "Scaredy Cat" song, Garfield and Odie prepare to laugh at two different ghosts of this type (whom they think are just kids in costumes), only to find the first is actually a Bigfoot-like creature and the second is apparently a real ghost.
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Garfield Specials / int_23ee494f	type	You Won't Like How I Taste
Garfield Specials / int_23ee494f	comment	You Won't Like How I Taste: When he encounters Billy Rabbit, Garfield assumes that he's run into a predator and pleads not to be eaten. One of the things Garfield claims to avoid being eaten is that he is high in cholesterol.
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Garfield Specials / int_2479b6c0	type	Your Television Hates You
Garfield Specials / int_2479b6c0	comment	Your Television Hates You: At the end, Garfield is too wired to sleep and opts to watch TV. He sees the old man from the island hosting an all-night pirate movie festival. Turning off the TV, Garfield suddenly decides he's very tired and turns in.
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Garfield Specials / int_24ddbe2b	type	Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times
Garfield Specials / int_24ddbe2b	comment	Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times: Garfield's talking scale mockingly mistakes him for Orson Welles, and claims to have seen Citizen Kane eight times.
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Garfield Specials / int_264b8f4c	type	Balloon Belly
Garfield Specials / int_264b8f4c	comment	Balloon Belly: Garfield and Odie both have massive stomachs after Thanksgiving dinner.
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Garfield Specials / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Garfield Specials / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Garfield and Friends tended to avoid holiday episodes (the specials speak for themselves), but in the season 2 segment "Heatwave Holiday", Garfield started a "Christmas in July" trend on a very hot day when he was trying to "think cold". Much later, The Garfield Show's second episode's opening segment was also Halloween themed, though in each case, this was the only segment with an overt holiday theme.
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Garfield Specials / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
Garfield Specials / int_2a44899	comment	Additionally, the third act of Here Comes is a lot more melancholy than many other Garfield works, and focuses around the idea that Odie is going to be put down by the City Pound for want of an identified owner (as Jon has no idea how much trouble they're in) and features Garfield reflecting on how they met and comforting Odie while he's cold. The scene feels a bit ridiculous today — obviously Odie isn't getting put under — but in 1982 Odie's Plot Armor wasn't guaranteed and so the sequence worked better. On the Town deals with the bittersweet reunion of Garfield with his family and learning that he doesn't fit in, but it's comparatively much lower stakes than the idea of one of the main cast dying.
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Garfield Specials / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Garfield Specials / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: After his Nightmare Sequence, Garfield wakes up, sitting bolt upright in horror and clutching his tail after it got bitten in said nightmare.
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Garfield Specials / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Garfield Specials / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	In Garfield in the Rough, he attacks a killer panther to try and protect them. He's also a really good dancer.
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Garfield Specials / int_31c7b343	type	"Jaws" Attack Parody
Garfield Specials / int_31c7b343	comment	"Jaws" Attack Parody: Garfield tries to get at Jon's goldfish, only for the Jaws theme to start playing and for a shark to emerge from the fishbowl and scare Garfield.
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Garfield Specials / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Garfield Specials / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The comic adaptation leaves out a sequence with another contestant at the "Pet Search" national finals, "Miles the Jazz Canary". He places fourth, while the Lemon Sisters are fifth (in the comic, they place fourth and no fifth-place contestant is named).
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Garfield Specials / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Garfield Specials / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Hubert, after getting annoyed by Garfield and Odie, calls the pound on them, leaving out the key detail they are his neighbour's pets. He essentially sentenced Jon's animals to be euthenised out of petty spite.
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Garfield Specials / int_35ae6a23	type	Lethal Chef
Garfield Specials / int_35ae6a23	comment	Lethal Chef: Jon clearly didn't do any research into how to cook a turkey before the big day, as he failed to notice that his recipe called for baking a thawed turkey for five hours until three hours before dinnertime, which is when he took the turkey out of the freezer.
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Garfield Specials / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
Garfield Specials / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: Garfield's initial plan to get inside the Old, Dark House is for him to kick down the door and have Odie scout the place out. Garfield injures his foot doing this.
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Garfield Specials / int_37d94ed9	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_37d94ed9
Garfield Specials / int_3a88a563	type	Vocal Dissonance
Garfield Specials / int_3a88a563	comment	Vocal Dissonance: Being voiced by Thom Huge, Jon has a surprisingly good singing voice. It makes his supposed dorkiness particularly during his Wizard of Love act hard to believe even with the ridiculous Elvis clothes. Then again, his tepid reception was likely because the contest was for his pets (Jon tells his pets that they were great, to which Garfield retorts that Jon was awful), and he does manage to woo over women in the specials.
Garfield Specials / int_3a88a563	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_3a88a563	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_3a88a563
Garfield Specials / int_3b2014fb	type	Mad Libs Catchphrase
Garfield Specials / int_3b2014fb	comment	Doing the same with Garfield's Mad Libs Catchphrase of "Whoever invented (insert phrase here) should be drug out into the street and shot".
Garfield Specials / int_3b2014fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_3b2014fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_3b2014fb
Garfield Specials / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
Garfield Specials / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution: Brought up after Odie and Monkey's (seeming) Heroic Sacrifice:
Garfield Specials / int_3c7022ce	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_3c7022ce	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_3c7022ce
Garfield Specials / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Garfield Specials / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Garfield is more concerned that he lost his candy and it's past his bedtime than that pirate ghosts are coming to get them. (He also laments losing the boat, but that was a valid worry giving that it was their only mean of escape.)
Garfield Specials / int_3d2c6d30	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_3d2c6d30	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_3d2c6d30
Garfield Specials / int_3da9eaea	type	Raiders of the Lost Parody
Garfield Specials / int_3da9eaea	comment	Raiders of the Lost Parody: The special had a scene almost exactly like the famous tile puzzle scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Garfield Specials / int_3da9eaea	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_3da9eaea	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_3da9eaea
Garfield Specials / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Garfield Specials / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The special ends with Jon forced to break up with Mona because she's allergic to cats, but the two agree to stay friends and Garfield is pleased that Jon still sticks by him.
Garfield Specials / int_40cc0c7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_40cc0c7e	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_40cc0c7e
Garfield Specials / int_419c05af	type	The Cabin Boy
Garfield Specials / int_419c05af	comment	The Cabin Boy: The only living member of the pirates who buried treasure a century ago is the former cabin boy, now a hundred-and-ten year old man who lives in a creepy manor.
Garfield Specials / int_419c05af	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_419c05af	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_419c05af
Garfield Specials / int_41a6f48	type	Horror Comedy
Garfield Specials / int_41a6f48	comment	Horror Comedy: The special plays its horror elements surprisingly straight, but it's still ultimately Garfield, which means that it has plenty of snark and slapstick to go around.
Garfield Specials / int_41a6f48	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_41a6f48	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_41a6f48
Garfield Specials / int_43e50d1c	type	Two Halves Make a Plot
Garfield Specials / int_43e50d1c	comment	Two Halves Make a Plot: At the start of the main fantasy, Fat Guy and Lance Sterling/Garfield each have a half of The Holy Ankh, which contains a map to The Banana of Bombay, and meet in order to join the halves together. As soon as the Ankh is whole again, Lance takes it and runs.
Garfield Specials / int_43e50d1c	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_43e50d1c	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_43e50d1c
Garfield Specials / int_442a6995	type	Stupid Sacrifice
Garfield Specials / int_442a6995	comment	Stupid Sacrifice: At the climax, Odie and Monkey have apparently driven the car to their death in the heart of a raging volcano. The High Rama Lama points out they could have simply stopped the car, gotten out, and pushed the car in. Subverted on two counts: first, Odie and Monkey actually survive, having apparently bailed out of the car shortly after it started to fall in, second, Monkey mentions "we gotta work on those brakes", suggesting that they had tried to stop the car but couldn't.
Garfield Specials / int_442a6995	featureApplicability	-0.3
Garfield Specials / int_442a6995	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_442a6995
Garfield Specials / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
Garfield Specials / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: When they heard the news about the escaped panther in Lake Woebegone on the radio, Garfield immediately went to packing up and going home. Jon forced him to stay incorrectly asserting they're miles away from Lake Woebegone (when they are in it), and even when Garfield was warned by the forest critters that the panther is in the area and he goes to alert Jon once more, Jon just ignores him.
Garfield Specials / int_44989f6f	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_44989f6f	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_44989f6f
Garfield Specials / int_45eed9a5	type	Not This One, That One
Garfield Specials / int_45eed9a5	comment	Not This One, That One: Inverted. Stranded in a tribal village, the chief calls for his daughter and her cat to meet his guests [Jon and Garfield]. The first girl and cat they see are rather homely, but then the real daughter and cat emerge, both of them significantly more attractive.
Garfield Specials / int_45eed9a5	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_45eed9a5	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_45eed9a5
Garfield Specials / int_46e53efd	type	Screams Like a Little Girl
Garfield Specials / int_46e53efd	comment	Screams Like a Little Girl: Garfield and Odie both scream in a very high pitch during the song "Scaredy Cat", whenever they come across trick-or-treaters who are not what they appear to be. This also doubles as Hypocritical Humor, because just before making the discovery, Garfield continuously sings that he may be a lot of things, "but the one thing I'm not is a scaredy cat." They do it again in the haunted house when, after warming themselves by the fire, they look behind themselves, see the old man and realize they aren't alone.
Garfield Specials / int_46e53efd	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_46e53efd	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_46e53efd
Garfield Specials / int_47393201	type	Pet Contest Episode
Garfield Specials / int_47393201	comment	Pet Contest Episode: Garfield and Odie enter a local TV talent show called Pet Search, where the winners can go on to the national finals in Hollywood. Garfield and Odie win handily due to the low bar set by the other contestants, but in Hollywood, the competition is extremely stiff, and their tango act is placed second after a cat who sings opera.
Garfield Specials / int_47393201	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_47393201	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_47393201
Garfield Specials / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Garfield Specials / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Garfield himself. Though normally selfish and lazy, and initially running to the top of a tree in fear to get away from the panther, he doesn't even hesitate to dive from the tree onto the panther's back and claw away at it when it threatens the lives of both Jon and Odie; while he doesn't defeat the panther, he does manage to buy enough time for the park rangers to tranquilize the panther without anyone getting hurt.
Garfield Specials / int_4781adbb	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_4781adbb	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_4781adbb
Garfield Specials / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Garfield Specials / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: To get around the airline rule against pets in seats, Jon makes Garfield wear clothes but otherwise look like himself.
Garfield Specials / int_48b9731f	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_48b9731f	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_48b9731f
Garfield Specials / int_48cffdb7	type	I Want My Mommy!
Garfield Specials / int_48cffdb7	comment	I Want My Mommy!: Garfield shouts this, when, after Odie puts out the oars in their rowboat (as in, drops them off the boat and into the water), they start drifting downriver.
Garfield Specials / int_48cffdb7	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_48cffdb7	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_48cffdb7
Garfield Specials / int_4aa24ad9	type	I Have a Family
Garfield Specials / int_4aa24ad9	comment	I Have a Family: Garfield thinks he's being approached by a predator when he encounters Billy Rabbit and makes several pleas to not be eaten. One of his claims is lying about having a wife and nine kids.
Garfield Specials / int_4aa24ad9	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_4aa24ad9	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_4aa24ad9
Garfield Specials / int_4ae72307	type	Be Yourself
Garfield Specials / int_4ae72307	comment	Be Yourself: While the trope name isn't explicitly stated, it can be inferred that Jon's learned this — towards the end of their date, he points out to Mona that they've had a wonderful time just talking together without having to rely on anything from the class they met in.
Garfield Specials / int_4ae72307	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_4ae72307	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_4ae72307
Garfield Specials / int_4b989393	type	Cutting Corners
Garfield Specials / int_4b989393	comment	Cutting Corners: Jon's attempts at an affordable vacation backfire miserably. Booking third class leads to a barely functional flight with broken down seats and abusive staff ("When you travel, you pay for respect!") and their destination is a low-grade motel that at least has a pool...with no water in it, and close access to beach...by a helicopter.
Garfield Specials / int_4b989393	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_4b989393	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_4b989393
Garfield Specials / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Garfield Specials / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The two earliest Garfield specials, Here Comes Garfield and Garfield on the Town are a time capsule of the nascent years of the franchise. Garfield is drawn in his early-80's style for both specials â€“ he rarely walks upright and doesn't have big feet when he does. The production of Here Comes Garfield is actually the reason why Garfield's design would change in the comics and later specials — Jim Davis wanted to open with Garfield dancing but the animators struggled because Garfield had been designed with small, cat-like feet. The next special, Garfield on the Town, still used the four-footed art style but notably Garfield is able to stand on two humanoid feet now when necessary. The first two specials were animated by Mendelson/Melendez, who created the Peanuts specials, but directed by Phil Roman. Due to the demands of the studio also working on the Peanuts specials in the same window, it was decided that Phil Roman would form his own studio, Film Roman, to take on the work for future Garfield specials and later the Garfield and Friends TV show. While a lot of the same people worked on the rest of the animated series, there are noticeable changes in the presentation and style of the later specials that make them more in keeping with the look and feel of Garfield and Friends, not the least of which was Garfield's character design shifting to the extremely recognizable look he has to this day. Here Comes Garfield is the only cartoon where Jon isn't voiced by Thom Huge, instead being provided by longtime television actor Sandy Kenyon. The soundtrack is also significantly different — later specials and Garfield & Friends would use combination of synth-classical and synthpop. Here Comes has a swing jazz soundtrack with several songs performed by Lou Rawls. While later specials would always include a Lou Rawls song to open the proceedings, Here Comes Garfield featured multiple songs performed by Rawls. Notably, all of the specials and Garfield and Friends featured the same music team of DesirÃ©e Goyette (who performed the film vocals and many of the female voices in the franchise) and Ed Bogas (who was only missing for the last special). A number of the other specials, and G&F, featured unique storylines that didn't overlap with the comic itself, which went on to become its own beast. Here Comes is largely sourced from a number of strips during the early 80s era of Garfield, stitched together to make one story. Additionally, the third act of Here Comes is a lot more melancholy than many other Garfield works, and focuses around the idea that Odie is going to be put down by the City Pound for want of an identified owner (as Jon has no idea how much trouble they're in) and features Garfield reflecting on how they met and comforting Odie while he's cold. The scene feels a bit ridiculous today — obviously Odie isn't getting put under — but in 1982 Odie's Plot Armor wasn't guaranteed and so the sequence worked better. On the Town deals with the bittersweet reunion of Garfield with his family and learning that he doesn't fit in, but it's comparatively much lower stakes than the idea of one of the main cast dying. Garfield himself is not nearly as much of a pun-master as he'd become in later shows, instead being much more of a Straight Man to the goofiness happening around him; there's also more of an emphasis placed, especially by the soundtrack, on him being a "cool cat". For some even earlier installment weirdness, technically Garfield was first animated for a mostly live action special called The Fantastic Funnies in 1980 produced by Mendelson/Melendez, which highlighted several contemporary strips and would briefly display examples of their humor in animated form. In addition to Garfield having a rounder design and Jon having a rounder head and different colored clothing, Garfield is voiced by Scott Beach who gives a very different performance to the rotund feline than Lorenzo Music would bring. Ironically, this was the first time Thom Huge would voice Jon Arbuckle.
Garfield Specials / int_4f4372e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_4f4372e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_4f4372e9
Garfield Specials / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
Garfield Specials / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: The appropriately named "Fat Guy" is the main antagonist of Garfield's "Lance Sterling" fantasy. Rameet is pretty big too, but unlike with his boss, most of his bulk appears to be muscle.
Garfield Specials / int_51300dbf	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_51300dbf	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_51300dbf
Garfield Specials / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Garfield Specials / int_53f5119f	comment	Rameet is pretty big too, but unlike with his boss, most of his bulk appears to be muscle.
Garfield Specials / int_53f5119f	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_53f5119f	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_53f5119f
Garfield Specials / int_552b5288	type	PilotEpisode
Garfield Specials / int_552b5288	comment	Pilot Episode: Effectively. It was the first outing of Garfield as an animated enterprise with an eye toward doing more if the public was receptive, and as a result, there's a lot of the weirdness one would expect out of a pilot, as detailed in Early-Installment Weirdness in the previous folder.
Garfield Specials / int_552b5288	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_552b5288	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_552b5288
Garfield Specials / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Garfield Specials / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: After most of an episode cowering in fear of the escaped panther, Garfield goes into near-Papa Wolf mode to distract it when it menaces Jon and Odie.
Garfield Specials / int_562abd51	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_562abd51	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_562abd51
Garfield Specials / int_572249f0	type	Straight Edge Evil
Garfield Specials / int_572249f0	comment	Straight Edge Evil: Parodied when the untrustworthy Fat Guy boasts that his "associate", Rameet, in addition to being trained in various martial arts (and apparently machete eating), doesn't smoke, drink, eat or sleep. Slobberjob/Odie, in response, has his skills prefaced with how he doesn't think. ("Most impressive.")
Garfield Specials / int_572249f0	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_572249f0	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_572249f0
Garfield Specials / int_58cb5c33	type	Escaped Animal Rampage
Garfield Specials / int_58cb5c33	comment	Escaped Animal Rampage: An escaped panther stalks the woods where Jon, Garfield and Odie are camping.
Garfield Specials / int_58cb5c33	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_58cb5c33	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_58cb5c33
Garfield Specials / int_59b9f4df	type	You Are Fat
Garfield Specials / int_59b9f4df	comment	You Are Fat: RX-2, the talking bathroom scale from the comics strips, makes its animated debut. When Garfield asks the scale what his name is, the scale annoyingly "mistakes" Garfield for Orson Welles, and claims to be a huge fan and has seen Citizen Kane numerous times. This is definitely a crack at Welles' weight. When Garfield has had enough of the scale, he destroys it, and the scale just says, "Rose... bud..."
Garfield Specials / int_59b9f4df	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_59b9f4df	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_59b9f4df
Garfield Specials / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
Garfield Specials / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: Somewhat averted; the park rangers are able to shoot the panther with a tranquilizer dart (just as it's about to pounce on Garfield), but while the sedative does its thing pretty quickly, there is a tense moment when the panther is still able to crawl towards Garfield and come close to clawing him.
Garfield Specials / int_5bdf025f	featureApplicability	-1.0
Garfield Specials / int_5bdf025f	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_5bdf025f
Garfield Specials / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
Garfield Specials / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: The special features Garfield having a nightmare that spurs him to try and break up Jon and Mona — as he pictures what life would be like if Jon and Mona got married and had kids, he also pictures their infant son pursuing Garfield with a nasty look on his face before finally catching and biting his tail.
Garfield Specials / int_5c0fc07b	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_5c0fc07b	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_5c0fc07b
Garfield Specials / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
Garfield Specials / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: If the old man was telling the truth about being there when the pirates hid their treasure, he'd be 110 years old.
Garfield Specials / int_5c5ac0e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_5c5ac0e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_5c5ac0e2
Garfield Specials / int_5cdb777e	type	You Look Familiar
Garfield Specials / int_5cdb777e	comment	You Look Familiar: In-universe: when Jon and his pets go to rent a car, the car dealer, who looks like Frank Nelson, looks a lot like the motel manager, also looking a lot like Nelson, prompting Jon to say this very phrase to him.
Garfield Specials / int_5cdb777e	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_5cdb777e	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_5cdb777e
Garfield Specials / int_5eecd64c	type	Oh, No... Not Again!
Garfield Specials / int_5eecd64c	comment	Oh, No... Not Again!: Jon and Doc's father is not keen on the family tradition of reading "Binky: the Clown Who Saved Christmas" every year, particularly since his sons are now adults.
Garfield Specials / int_5eecd64c	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_5eecd64c	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_5eecd64c
Garfield Specials / int_6289c429	type	Oven Logic
Garfield Specials / int_6289c429	comment	Oven Logic: Jon turns up the oven to 500Â°F when the directions call for 325Â°F to cook the turkey faster. However, the turkey is somehow still frozen solid after three hours.
Garfield Specials / int_6289c429	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_6289c429	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_6289c429
Garfield Specials / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Garfield Specials / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Owooda attempts this, but the volcano won't let her, sending her tumbling back down the mountain. Monkey and Odie appear to pull one when they drive the car over the volcano's edge to appease it, but they manage to climb out.
Garfield Specials / int_6439de78	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_6439de78	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_6439de78
Garfield Specials / int_6531fa39	type	Professional Voice Dissonance
Garfield Specials / int_6531fa39	comment	Professional Voice Dissonance: When Jon decides to go to the Lorenzo School for the Personality Impaired to try to get a life, he's surprised to hear how calm Lorenzo is compared to the hyperactive portrayal in the commercial. Turns out it was a lip sync.
Garfield Specials / int_6531fa39	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_6531fa39	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_6531fa39
Garfield Specials / int_6566a884	type	My God, You Are Serious!
Garfield Specials / int_6566a884	comment	My God, You Are Serious!: While Grandma Arbuckle is making Thanksgiving dinner in the kitchen, Jon is distracting Liz until dinner is ready by telling her about the entire history of Thanksgiving. Liz thinks he's kidding until he starts going into detail about the holiday, causing her to realize that he isn't.
Garfield Specials / int_6566a884	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_6566a884	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_6566a884
Garfield Specials / int_65c4d6e	type	Trouble Follows You Home
Garfield Specials / int_65c4d6e	comment	Trouble Follows You Home: In the comic book adaptation only, Garfield and Odie have just escaped the haunted island and the ghosts pursuing them. As soon as they open their front door, the ghosts jump out at them and chase them up a tree. Garfield doesn't know what they want, but Odie realizes that they've come for a ring that Garfield swiped from their treasure chest back at the island. Garfield drops the ring into the palm of one of the ghosts, and they swirl out of existence.
Garfield Specials / int_65c4d6e	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_65c4d6e	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_65c4d6e
Garfield Specials / int_66925086	type	Monochrome to Color
Garfield Specials / int_66925086	comment	Monochrome to Color: The special uses this in its intro, as the title character bemoans how boring life at home is (with a Do Not Adjust Your Set warning). It switches to color when Jon suggests that they go on vacation.
Garfield Specials / int_66925086	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_66925086	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_66925086
Garfield Specials / int_6774150c	type	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦
Garfield Specials / int_6774150c	comment	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦: A non-romantic example. Garfield is put on a diet the day before Thanksgiving, and thus he's not looking forward to what is usually his favorite holiday. When Jon isn't looking, he puts a bunch of garlic on the vegetables that Jon just threw into a pot without cutting, saying something like "If I can't enjoy Thanksgiving dinner, nobody will!" in a rather evil-sounding tone. He eventually regrets it after Liz lifts his diet, the reason why he did it since he had to suffer going on a diet during Thanksgiving.
Garfield Specials / int_6774150c	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_6774150c	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_6774150c
Garfield Specials / int_6a79a4a4	type	MacGuffin Delivery Service
Garfield Specials / int_6a79a4a4	comment	MacGuffin Delivery Service: After Lance Sterling/Garfield prevents them from accessing the map on the Holy Ankh, Fat Guy and Rameet follow our heroes around the world in order to steal the Banana of Bombay from them.
Garfield Specials / int_6a79a4a4	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_6a79a4a4	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_6a79a4a4
Garfield Specials / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Garfield Specials / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Garfield's grandfather bluntly telling him to go home is undoubtedly harsh, but it's not hard to see where he's coming from. The family's restaurant took serious damage in a fight against the Claws to protect Garfield — a fight Garfield didn't participate in. Besides, as Garfield's mother points out, he's just not cut out for their lifestyle and wouldn't enjoy it.
Garfield Specials / int_6b05b601	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_6b05b601	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_6b05b601
Garfield Specials / int_6bccf2ba	type	Supreme Chef
Garfield Specials / int_6bccf2ba	comment	Supreme Chef: After Jon fails to get Thanksgiving dinner ready, at Garfield's suggestion, he calls his grandmother to save the day, and boy, does Grandma deliver!
Garfield Specials / int_6bccf2ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_6bccf2ba	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_6bccf2ba
Garfield Specials / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Garfield Specials / int_6bda9a30	comment	The appropriately named "Fat Guy" is the main antagonist of Garfield's "Lance Sterling" fantasy.
Garfield Specials / int_6bda9a30	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_6bda9a30	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_6bda9a30
Garfield Specials / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
Garfield Specials / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: Liz decides that maybe Garfield can be taken off his diet and just get more exercise instead (and just in time for Thanksgiving dinner). After dinner Jon notices how bloated and lethargic Odie appears, and wonders if he should be put on a diet.
Garfield Specials / int_6edc54d5	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_6edc54d5	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_6edc54d5
Garfield Specials / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Garfield Specials / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Odie and Monkey in the end, when they drive Jon's rental car into the volcano, leading to everyone thinking they're dead and mourning them... until they climb out a minute later, much to everyone's delight.
Garfield Specials / int_6ef6417b	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_6ef6417b	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_6ef6417b
Garfield Specials / int_72455542	type	Adaptational Intelligence
Garfield Specials / int_72455542	comment	Adaptational Intelligence: Odie, normally known for his lack of brains, spends the special gathering miscellaneous stuff from around the farm and then single-handedly crafts a present for Garfield (a backscratcher) out of those items. Subverted in the comic adaptation, where Garfield is the one who makes a hole in the base and then assembles the whole thing for Odie while the latter is investigating a noise Garfield had made to distract him.
Garfield Specials / int_72455542	featureApplicability	-0.3
Garfield Specials / int_72455542	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_72455542
Garfield Specials / int_725a80b2	type	Mistaken for an Imposter
Garfield Specials / int_725a80b2	comment	Mistaken for an Imposter: Done while Garfield and Odie are out trick-or-treating, and Garfield removes the mask or sheet from another trick-or-treater in order to assure Odie that they're just kids in costume. The first time, he's right — it's just a kid in disguise. The second time... it's a scary monster disguised as Bedsheet Ghost. The third time... a monster wearing a mask that looks just like its face. The fourth time... a Bedsheet Ghost with, well, nothing under the "bedsheet".
Garfield Specials / int_725a80b2	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_725a80b2	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_725a80b2
Garfield Specials / int_72aeb594	type	Plug the Volcano
Garfield Specials / int_72aeb594	comment	Plug the Volcano: When the Paradise World volcano starts erupting. The village chief's daughter decides to sacrifice herself (and her unwilling cat) to prevent the island from being destroyed, and Jon asks the chief if it's to Appease the Volcano God.
Garfield Specials / int_72aeb594	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_72aeb594	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_72aeb594
Garfield Specials / int_7431b974	type	Vile Villain, Saccharine Show
Garfield Specials / int_7431b974	comment	Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The panther lacks the same anthropomorphic, innocent wit of the other animals. It then nearly slashes Jon after breaking his car window and decimating his shirt before trying to hunt down Garfield, making this a rare instance of a villain that creates dramatic violence in Garfield-related media.
Garfield Specials / int_7431b974	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_7431b974	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_7431b974
Garfield Specials / int_74b6e6d0	type	Dressed to Plunder
Garfield Specials / int_74b6e6d0	comment	Dressed to Plunder: The special has Garfield and Odie going out Trick-or-Treating dressed as pirates, Garfield wearing a pirate hat and sporting a peg leg, while Odie has a bandana, single earring, and striped shirt, and being who he is, starts off with a peg on every leg. The ghostly pirates they run into later show more of the usual fashion sense, just more dead and decayed.
Garfield Specials / int_74b6e6d0	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_74b6e6d0	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_74b6e6d0
Garfield Specials / int_74e2ef76	type	Orphaned Punchline
Garfield Specials / int_74e2ef76	comment	Orphaned Punchline: In the scene where the Arbuckles finish decorating their Christmas tree and have to put the star on, Dad asks why they can't just put the star on the tree first and then put the tree up, to which Mom replies by saying that "it just wouldn't be Christmas" if they did that. In the special itself, no response is given to that line, but in the Comic-Book Adaptation, Dad replies ""One more remark like that, and you'll see stars, woman."
Garfield Specials / int_74e2ef76	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_74e2ef76	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_74e2ef76
Garfield Specials / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Garfield Specials / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Most of Garfield's family appeared only in one week of strips and Garfield On The Town without ever being mentioned again (except for his mom, who showed up in one other strip).
Garfield Specials / int_77b03c0a	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_77b03c0a	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_77b03c0a
Garfield Specials / int_78f72406	type	Endearingly Dorky
Garfield Specials / int_78f72406	comment	Endearingly Dorky: Is actually a plot point for Jon. His failures with women in the first half is due to him trying waaaay too hard to impress them. He's actually quite endearing when he is simply honest and open, which lands him a relationship (albeit a short-lived one) with Mona.
Garfield Specials / int_78f72406	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_78f72406	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_78f72406
Garfield Specials / int_7c42a8ac	type	Captain Colorbeard
Garfield Specials / int_7c42a8ac	comment	Captain Colorbeard: Garfield is dressed as "Orangebeard the pirate captain".
Garfield Specials / int_7c42a8ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_7c42a8ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_7c42a8ac
Garfield Specials / int_7e2811dd	type	Widely-Spaced Jail Bars
Garfield Specials / int_7e2811dd	comment	Widely-Spaced Jail Bars: Garfield and Odie are taken to the pound. Odie is thrown into the back of an animal control truck where the bars are more than wide enough for him to slip through. Later, when Garfield and Odie are in the pound, all the cage bars are wide enough for even Garfield to walk out, but nobody seems to notice.
Garfield Specials / int_7e2811dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_7e2811dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_7e2811dd
Garfield Specials / int_7e5f2db2	type	Talk Like a Pirate
Garfield Specials / int_7e5f2db2	comment	Talk Like a Pirate: Garfield gladly indulges in this as Captain Orangebeard. Even first mate, Odie the Stupid, tries the growling version ("R-arr!").
Garfield Specials / int_7e5f2db2	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_7e5f2db2	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_7e5f2db2
Garfield Specials / int_7e866076	type	Realistic Species, Cartoony Species
Garfield Specials / int_7e866076	comment	Realistic Species, Cartoony Species: Played straight with the panther (the realistic to everyone else's cartoony), making it look downright terrifying.
Garfield Specials / int_7e866076	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_7e866076	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_7e866076
Garfield Specials / int_7ea2a915	type	Animation Bump
Garfield Specials / int_7ea2a915	comment	Animation Bump: Garfield's dancing at the start is a notably more complex and smooth animation sequence than the rest of the special. A Behind the Scenes segment in 1982 promoting the show shows the amount of work put into the dancing sequence as the animators wanted Garfield to move more like a slow, fat person than a cat. This included filming DesirÃ©e Goyette and modeling the animation to match her choreography [1].
Garfield Specials / int_7ea2a915	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_7ea2a915	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_7ea2a915
Garfield Specials / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Garfield Specials / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: Garfield Goes Hollywood, Garfield's Thanksgiving, and Garfield Gets a Life, all of which are more laid back compared to the rest of the specials. There's no moments that are explicitly Played for Drama or see the characters in genuine danger, and similar to the comic strip and Garfield and Friends, are more gag-focused.
Garfield Specials / int_80a247a9	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_80a247a9	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_80a247a9
Garfield Specials / int_82ff8b68	type	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care
Garfield Specials / int_82ff8b68	comment	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care: Liz puts Garfield on a diet that includes lettuce. Cats are obligate carnivores, so lettuce wouldn't be healthy for him.
Garfield Specials / int_82ff8b68	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_82ff8b68	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_82ff8b68
Garfield Specials / int_83b464fb	type	Straight Man
Garfield Specials / int_83b464fb	comment	Garfield himself is not nearly as much of a pun-master as he'd become in later shows, instead being much more of a Straight Man to the goofiness happening around him; there's also more of an emphasis placed, especially by the soundtrack, on him being a "cool cat".
Garfield Specials / int_83b464fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_83b464fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_83b464fb
Garfield Specials / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
Garfield Specials / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: When Garfield and Odie approach the haunted house, thunder and lightning ensue.
Garfield Specials / int_84764598	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_84764598	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_84764598
Garfield Specials / int_86daf505	type	Parental Bonus
Garfield Specials / int_86daf505	comment	Parental Bonus: There's a scene near the end where Garfield presents Jon's Grandma with a bundle of letters written by her (now deceased) husband when they were courting. Grandma reads the first letter aloud:
Garfield Specials / int_86daf505	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_86daf505	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_86daf505
Garfield Specials / int_8a53606f	type	Dogs Love Fire Hydrants
Garfield Specials / int_8a53606f	comment	Dogs Love Fire Hydrants: When Garfield, Odie and the other dogs and cats flee the pound, one of the dogs at one point stops to sniff a fire hydrant.
Garfield Specials / int_8a53606f	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_8a53606f	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_8a53606f
Garfield Specials / int_8aae7db4	type	Disco Sucks
Garfield Specials / int_8aae7db4	comment	Disco Sucks: Jon attends a club and disco dances. A guy yells at him, "Hey, jerk! Disco is dead!"
Garfield Specials / int_8aae7db4	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_8aae7db4	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_8aae7db4
Garfield Specials / int_8abec76d	type	Even the Dog Is Ashamed
Garfield Specials / int_8abec76d	comment	Even the Dog Is Ashamed: There's a quick shot of Garfield covering his eyes in embarrassment after Jon (who waited until the last moment to even begin preparing for his Thanksgiving dinner date with Liz), instead of rubbing butter on the turkey skin, rubbed it on his own skin.
Garfield Specials / int_8abec76d	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_8abec76d	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_8abec76d
Garfield Specials / int_8af2a61f	type	Camping Episode
Garfield Specials / int_8af2a61f	comment	Camping Episode: Garfield, Jon, and Odie go on a camping trip, only to be attacked by a panther that had escaped from a zoo.
Garfield Specials / int_8af2a61f	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_8af2a61f	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_8af2a61f
Garfield Specials / int_8bc4a55d	type	Went to the Great X in the Sky
Garfield Specials / int_8bc4a55d	comment	Went to the Great X in the Sky: After breaking Jon's guitar, Garfield says it "went to the big tuning fork in the sky".
Garfield Specials / int_8bc4a55d	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_8bc4a55d	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_8bc4a55d
Garfield Specials / int_8c30ad0	type	The Television Talks Back
Garfield Specials / int_8c30ad0	comment	The Television Talks Back: Garfield, Jon and Odie are watching Pet Search, where this trope happens twice: one when they learn about the U$1000 prize ("One thousand dollars?" "That's right, one thousand dollars!") and again when they learn about the trip to Hollywood ("I can't believe it!" "Well, believe it.").
Garfield Specials / int_8c30ad0	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_8c30ad0	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_8c30ad0
Garfield Specials / int_8dc6e9ea	type	BananaSlip
Garfield Specials / int_8dc6e9ea	comment	Banana Slip: The main fantasy revolves around searching for The Banana of Bombay, the first banana to be used in this gag.
Garfield Specials / int_8dc6e9ea	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_8dc6e9ea	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_8dc6e9ea
Garfield Specials / int_8f746311	type	Cargo Cult
Garfield Specials / int_8f746311	comment	Cargo Cult: Jon, Garfield and Odie come across a native tribe that worships a '57 Chevy and its driver, "The Cruiser", who drove into a nearby volcano as a sacrifice. When they learned English, it was from beach movies.
Garfield Specials / int_8f746311	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_8f746311	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_8f746311
Garfield Specials / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
Garfield Specials / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: Flagrant:
Garfield Specials / int_9053903	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_9053903	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_9053903
Garfield Specials / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Garfield Specials / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Ali Cat can present himself as civil and reasonable when he wants to, but it's clearly just him trying to get what he wants the easy way. When he's refused, he's quick to turn violent.
Garfield Specials / int_95b7c400	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_95b7c400	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_95b7c400
Garfield Specials / int_9624326b	type	Sudden Anatomy
Garfield Specials / int_9624326b	comment	Sudden Anatomy: When the announcer says that a dog can play five instruments at once he grows an extra finger to emphasize this, which disappears seconds later.
Garfield Specials / int_9624326b	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_9624326b	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_9624326b
Garfield Specials / int_9677a39d	type	Pirate Episode
Garfield Specials / int_9677a39d	comment	Pirate Episode: Combined with Halloween Special — on Halloween night, Garfield dresses like a pirate to trick-or-treat and gets Odie to come along with him for the sole purpose of getting twice as much candy. The two come to a haunted house inhabited by an old man who was the cabin boy of a band of pirates in his youth, and tells them that the ghosts of the pirates are expected to arrive for their treasure at any minute, then flees from them in Garfield's rowboat, leaving Garfield and Odie to face the ghosts alone. With help from Odie, Garfield safely makes it back home, and rewards Odie for saving him by giving him his rightful share of the candy.
Garfield Specials / int_9677a39d	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_9677a39d	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_9677a39d
Garfield Specials / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
Garfield Specials / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Garfield spends most of "Can't Wait Till Christmas" grousing and snarking, but he eventually gets caught up in the song and sincerely joins in. Upon realizing this, though, he resumes looking sour.
Garfield Specials / int_96b89043	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_96b89043	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_96b89043
Garfield Specials / int_97af4479	type	Ill-Timed Sneeze
Garfield Specials / int_97af4479	comment	Ill-Timed Sneeze: Odie sneezes at the wrong time while he and Garfield are hiding in a cabinet from some pirate ghosts. The sneeze is not only loud enough to attract the ghosts' attention, but it's powerful enough to blow the cabinet doors right open. With sheepish grins, Garfield and Odie close the doors again, and Garfield says, "Maybe they didn't see us..." Cue the Scare Chord as the pirate ghosts come through the cabinet!
Garfield Specials / int_97af4479	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_97af4479	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_97af4479
Garfield Specials / int_99d03787	type	News Monopoly
Garfield Specials / int_99d03787	comment	News Monopoly: Variant — a bored Garfield tries to watch TV, but finds the exact same car commercial on every channel.
Garfield Specials / int_99d03787	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_99d03787	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_99d03787
Garfield Specials / int_9b3a3b01	type	Weight Loss Salad
Garfield Specials / int_9b3a3b01	comment	Weight Loss Salad: Jon puts Garfield on a diet the day before Thanksgiving. Garfield is served a single lettuce leaf. This exchange occurs:
Garfield Specials / int_9b3a3b01	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_9b3a3b01	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_9b3a3b01
Garfield Specials / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Garfield Specials / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Garfield between On the Town and In the Rough. A gang of cats he accidentally pissed off attacks his family? He hides. A panther attacks Jon and Odie? It's go time.
Garfield Specials / int_9bcd82c0	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_9bcd82c0	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_9bcd82c0
Garfield Specials / int_9c464123	type	Saving Christmas
Garfield Specials / int_9c464123	comment	Saving Christmas: One Arbuckle family tradition is Dad reading Binky: The Clown Who Saved Christmas.
Garfield Specials / int_9c464123	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_9c464123	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_9c464123
Garfield Specials / int_a2e887be	type	Secondary Character Title
Garfield Specials / int_a2e887be	comment	Secondary Character Title: The final special may be called Garfield Gets a Life, but the focus is surprisingly more around Jon. Even Odie gets Demoted to Extra in this one.
Garfield Specials / int_a2e887be	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_a2e887be	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_a2e887be
Garfield Specials / int_a2f9b040	type	The Show Goes Hollywood
Garfield Specials / int_a2f9b040	comment	The Show Goes Hollywood: Naturally, as Garfield, Odie, and Jon put together an act for the talent show Pet Search that gets them to the national finals in Hollywood.
Garfield Specials / int_a2f9b040	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_a2f9b040	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_a2f9b040
Garfield Specials / int_a3c0c1df	type	Dance Party Ending
Garfield Specials / int_a3c0c1df	comment	Dance Party Ending: The last minute or so of the special involves the whole family dancing to "A Good Old-Fashioned Christmas".
Garfield Specials / int_a3c0c1df	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_a3c0c1df	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_a3c0c1df
Garfield Specials / int_a3cf9ef6	type	…And That Little Girl Was Me
Garfield Specials / int_a3cf9ef6	comment	â€¦And That Little Girl Was Me: After telling the story of the pirates and seeing that Garfield doesn't believe him, the old man tells him to "Belie-e-e-eve it, my friends.", then adds that "The pirates had a ten-year-old cabin boy. I was that boy."
Garfield Specials / int_a3cf9ef6	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_a3cf9ef6	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_a3cf9ef6
Garfield Specials / int_a43640bf	type	Why Are We Whispering?
Garfield Specials / int_a43640bf	comment	Why Are We Whispering?: Garfield does this, a monologue variation. "...Why can't they come here where my warm bed is? And why... am I whispering?"
Garfield Specials / int_a43640bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_a43640bf	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_a43640bf
Garfield Specials / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Garfield Specials / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: In the comic adaptation, the Lemon Sisters (a set of singing chickens in the "Pet Search" national finals) have bright yellow feathers, fitting their name. In the cartoon, they have white feathers instead.
Garfield Specials / int_a4414a05	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_a4414a05	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_a4414a05
Garfield Specials / int_a49914aa	type	Bowdlerization
Garfield Specials / int_a49914aa	comment	Bowdlerization: A strip of Garfield throttling Jon, like many others, was animated into a throwaway gag. However, due to the request of CBS, the throttling was changed to Garfield grabbing Jon's cheeks and shaking them violently. Jon's line "I'm so happy to own a cat, I could just throw up", is also shortened to just "I'm so happy to own a cat".
Garfield Specials / int_a49914aa	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_a49914aa	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_a49914aa
Garfield Specials / int_a4ad4fe5	type	I Know Karate
Garfield Specials / int_a4ad4fe5	comment	I Know Karate: In Garfield's fantasy, he and the villain each do this when they threaten each other:
Garfield Specials / int_a4ad4fe5	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_a4ad4fe5	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_a4ad4fe5
Garfield Specials / int_a4ffefce	type	Dream Intro
Garfield Specials / int_a4ffefce	comment	Dream Intro: The special starts with Garfield waking up on Christmas morning to Jon in an elf costume, leading him to the tree with a trail of lasagnas, and presenting him with a gift-giving machine that can read his mind and generate whatever he's thinking of, followed by the opening credits. After that, Garfield wakes up for real and finds Jon telling him it's the day before Christmas and they're going to the family farm for the holiday.
Garfield Specials / int_a4ffefce	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_a4ffefce	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_a4ffefce
Garfield Specials / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
Garfield Specials / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: In Garfield's nightmare sequence of Jon and Mona's married life, when they aren't watching, their infant son gets a nasty look on his face before outright chasing down Garfield and purposely biting his tail, causing him to wake up.
Garfield Specials / int_a6123b72	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_a6123b72	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_a6123b72
Garfield Specials / int_a68421bb	type	Animated Adaptation
Garfield Specials / int_a68421bb	comment	Animated Adaptation: Apart from these being based off the strip itself, many of the specials, especially the early ones, featured gags and lines adapted from original Garfield comic strips. His 9 Lives is an adaptation of (some of) the original graphic novel, and Babes & Bullets is an adaptation of the originally-prose story from His 9 Lives
Garfield Specials / int_a68421bb	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_a68421bb	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_a68421bb
Garfield Specials / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Garfield Specials / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The Banana of Bombay, the first one to ever be used for the "banana gag," is what Garfield and Fat Guy are both pursuing in the "Lance Sterling" fantasy, with Garfield wanting to return it to the museum that it was stolen from, and Fat Guy seeking to profit off of it.
Garfield Specials / int_a6c69bd	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_a6c69bd	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_a6c69bd
Garfield Specials / int_aa822c89	type	Disappointed by the Motive
Garfield Specials / int_aa822c89	comment	Disappointed by the Motive: How Lance Sterling/Garfield feels about Nadia's motivation for stealing The Banana of Bombay; using it to open a fruit stand.
Garfield Specials / int_aa822c89	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_aa822c89	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_aa822c89
Garfield Specials / int_ad982e04	type	Super-Persistent Predator
Garfield Specials / int_ad982e04	comment	Super-Persistent Predator: The panther, which attacks Jon, Garfield and Odie at their campsite and smashes the driver-side window of Jon's car with its head (taking two tries to break it), then turns to go after Garfield after he drops on its back and claws and bites the panther.
Garfield Specials / int_ad982e04	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_ad982e04	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_ad982e04
Garfield Specials / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Garfield Specials / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: Garfield's family succeeds in driving away the Claws but at the cost of their home (an abandoned Italian restaurant) being vandalized and broken into and some of the family members having been injured in the battle. None of the cats but Garfield is happy with the results of the battle.
Garfield Specials / int_ad9fbc1e	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_ad9fbc1e	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_ad9fbc1e
Garfield Specials / int_ae1c0901	type	The Blind Leading the Blind
Garfield Specials / int_ae1c0901	comment	The Blind Leading the Blind: Monkey, the dumbest of the Ding-Dongs, and Odie fix up Jon's rental car.
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Garfield Specials / int_ae1c0901	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_ae1c0901
Garfield Specials / int_b02f21f	type	Digital Destruction
Garfield Specials / int_b02f21f	comment	Digital Destruction: The 9 Story DVD releases all suffer from severe deinterlacing artifacts that make the video jittery and pixellated. They are also strangely re-edited to put the opening credits before the scenes that lead into them and cover the edits with awkward fades to black, making mush of the opening scenes.
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Garfield Specials / int_b02f21f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Garfield Specials / int_b0b11c76	type	You Just Had to Say It
Garfield Specials / int_b0b11c76	comment	You Just Had to Say It: When Garfield, Jon, and Odie are walking through deep snow:
Garfield Specials / int_b0b11c76	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_b0b11c76	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_b0b11c76
Garfield Specials / int_b1191cb2	type	I Ate WHAT?!
Garfield Specials / int_b1191cb2	comment	I Ate WHAT?!: When Garfield finds a bowl of what he thinks is something like lasagna, it eats it, prompting Jon to ask since when he liked pumpkin innards.
Garfield Specials / int_b1191cb2	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_b1191cb2	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_b1191cb2
Garfield Specials / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Garfield Specials / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: In this continuity, Lyman is Adapted Out, and Jon is instead shown to have brought Odie home himself when Garfield was a kitten. This would be maintained in His 9 Lives.
Garfield Specials / int_b2280b66	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_b2280b66
Garfield Specials / int_b5496c0c	type	Inflating Body Gag
Garfield Specials / int_b5496c0c	comment	Inflating Body Gag: Jon continues flirting with Liz while she's taking Garfield's blood pressure, and this distraction results in her accidentally inflating Garfield with air—first just his hand, then his entire body.
Garfield Specials / int_b5496c0c	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_b5496c0c	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_b5496c0c
Garfield Specials / int_b580e394	type	This Is My Human
Garfield Specials / int_b580e394	comment	This Is My Human: When a panther threatens Jon and Odie, Garfield goes on the attack and draws claws and teeth on it. It doesn't do much but it does give time for the rangers to sedate the panther. Odie and Jon are grateful and Group Hug Garfield.
Garfield Specials / int_b580e394	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_b580e394	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_b580e394
Garfield Specials / int_b7d8c936	type	Sequential Symptom Syndrome
Garfield Specials / int_b7d8c936	comment	Sequential Symptom Syndrome: Invoked by Garfield, when he fakes the symptoms of vitamin deficiency as Liz lists them off to get her to take him off his diet.
Garfield Specials / int_b7d8c936	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_b7d8c936	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_b7d8c936
Garfield Specials / int_b8e2b4b7	type	Bravado Song
Garfield Specials / int_b8e2b4b7	comment	Bravado Song: Garfield sings a song called "Scaredy Cat", which is about how he may be a lazy slob, but he's not a coward. Various times throughout the song, he comes across trick-or-treaters who turn out to be real monsters and he and Odie run in circles before dashing away as an offscreen backup singer chimes in, "The one thing he's not is a scaredy cat!"
Garfield Specials / int_b8e2b4b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_b8e2b4b7	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_b8e2b4b7
Garfield Specials / int_b95c0fe9	type	Villainous Gold Tooth
Garfield Specials / int_b95c0fe9	comment	Villainous Gold Tooth: The leader of the Claws, Ali Cat, has a gold tooth. His gang intends to hunt down and harm Garfield.
Garfield Specials / int_b95c0fe9	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_b95c0fe9	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_b95c0fe9
Garfield Specials / int_b979b371	type	Gift Shake
Garfield Specials / int_b979b371	comment	Gift Shake: In a scene only in the comic version, Garfield reenacts a scene from the December 23, 1981 strip:
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Garfield Specials / int_b979b371	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_b979b371
Garfield Specials / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
Garfield Specials / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: The special isn't sure what to call itself, even in the USA. The cartoon debuted as Garfield's Halloween Adventure, but the novelization was called Garfield In Disguise, suggesting that that was the original title. Depending on the re-release, one or the other (or both) will change. Some prints of the book note on the first page that the title was altered.
Garfield Specials / int_b9c673a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_b9c673a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_b9c673a6
Garfield Specials / int_ba11178f	type	Moose and Maple Syrup
Garfield Specials / int_ba11178f	comment	Moose and Maple Syrup: According to Lorenzo, the teacher, speaking Canadian is easy: You talk like you normally would, but sometimes, you add an "Eh?".
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Garfield Specials / int_ba11178f	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_ba11178f
Garfield Specials / int_bbb150a8	type	Celebrity Is Overrated
Garfield Specials / int_bbb150a8	comment	Celebrity Is Overrated: Parodied by Garfield himself. As Jon trots out the usual justifications for this trope, such as forgetting who they are and about the little people, Garfield welcomes all that in his usual snarky manner. It's still played straight with Jon though, as really, he's afraid that his pets will forget about him.
Garfield Specials / int_bbb150a8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_bbb150a8
Garfield Specials / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
Garfield Specials / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: In the climax, the ghost of the Cruiser and his car emerge from the volcano and drive into the sky towards Heaven.
Garfield Specials / int_bd2812b5	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_bd2812b5	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_bd2812b5
Garfield Specials / int_bddaae25	type	Lost Tribe
Garfield Specials / int_bddaae25	comment	The chief of the Lost Tribe of the jungle is the High Rama Lama, and the tribe itself is called the Ding-Dongs; put together, that's "Rama-Lama-Ding-Dong," a song from the 1950s.
Garfield Specials / int_bddaae25	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_bddaae25
Garfield Specials / int_c205e4d5	type	Empty Swimming Pool Dive
Garfield Specials / int_c205e4d5	comment	Empty Swimming Pool Dive: Occurs, albeit unintentionally — Jon's laying on the diving board over the empty pool, and said board breaks underneath him.
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Garfield Specials / int_c205e4d5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Garfield Specials / int_c4784d89	type	Network Sign Off
Garfield Specials / int_c4784d89	comment	Network Sign Off: Inverted when the TV started rebroadcasting with The Binky the Clown Show, waking up Garfield.
Garfield Specials / int_c4784d89	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_c4784d89	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_c4784d89
Garfield Specials / int_c5193552	type	Mocking Music
Garfield Specials / int_c5193552	comment	Mocking Music: A broadcast about a vicious black panther that's escaped from the zoo is followed with:
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Garfield Specials / int_c5193552	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_c5193552
Garfield Specials / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
Garfield Specials / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: All the specials (except Garfield: His 9 Lives, which already was one, and Garfield's Feline Fantasies, which was adapted into a storybook) were adapted into small graphic novels. The art in them tended to look hurried, even though in many cases the stories became more fleshed out.
Garfield Specials / int_c54d550d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garfield Specials / int_c55c31e2	type	Non-Standard Character Design
Garfield Specials / int_c55c31e2	comment	Non-Standard Character Design: The panther was designed with more realistic features as opposed to the more cartoonish look of most animals in the franchise.
Garfield Specials / int_c55c31e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_c55c31e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_c55c31e2
Garfield Specials / int_c57a6051	type	If I Do Not Return
Garfield Specials / int_c57a6051	comment	If I Do Not Return: When Garfield's taking the star to the top of the tree, he tells Jon "If I'm not back in an hour, send a banana cream pie after me."
Garfield Specials / int_c57a6051	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_c57a6051	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_c57a6051
Garfield Specials / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
Garfield Specials / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: The island princess (and her cat) is sent to jump into an erupting volcano. Her rather cynical father comments that it doesn't so much appease the spirit of the volcano as it "plugs up the hole." Turns out the volcano is more interested in the convertible Jon rented.
Garfield Specials / int_c66cb5a9	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_c66cb5a9	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_c66cb5a9
Garfield Specials / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Garfield Specials / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The Show Within a Show Garfield watches features a Mountie that looks and sounds almost exactly like Dudley Do-Right.
Garfield Specials / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garfield Specials / int_c9cde4cb	type	Shark Fin of Doom
Garfield Specials / int_c9cde4cb	comment	Shark Fin of Doom: Subverted — Garfield panics when he sees what looks like a shark fin while he's floating on the water, but it just turns out to be Odie with his ears arranged to look like a shark's fin.
Garfield Specials / int_c9cde4cb	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_c9cde4cb
Garfield Specials / int_ca326e1e	type	Chekhov's Volcano
Garfield Specials / int_ca326e1e	comment	Chekhov's Volcano: The volcano, which rumbles menacingly during the group's drive and then threatens to erupt in the climax.
Garfield Specials / int_ca326e1e	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_ca326e1e	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_ca326e1e
Garfield Specials / int_cca03e64	type	Pounds Are Animal Prisons
Garfield Specials / int_cca03e64	comment	Pounds Are Animal Prisons: There's a depressing scene of Garfield and Odie trapped and alone in such a pound.
Garfield Specials / int_cca03e64	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_cca03e64	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_cca03e64
Garfield Specials / int_cca8c07b	type	"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name
Garfield Specials / int_cca8c07b	comment	"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: Garfield tries to do this, but finds it doesn't work very well:
Garfield Specials / int_cca8c07b	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_cca8c07b	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_cca8c07b
Garfield Specials / int_cce5bf0f	type	Fire-Breathing Diner
Garfield Specials / int_cce5bf0f	comment	Fire-Breathing Diner: Garfield has a little taste of Mom's sausage gravy, unaware that Grandma secretly put chili powder in it. Fire inevitably flares up from his mouth, but Garfield thinks the gravy is perfect anyway.
Garfield Specials / int_cce5bf0f	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_cce5bf0f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Garfield Specials / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
Garfield Specials / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: The first scenes of the special are deliberately done in black and white to represent the color having gone out of Garfield's life.
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Garfield Specials / int_d112f7ec	type	"Oh, Crap!" Smile
Garfield Specials / int_d112f7ec	comment	"Oh, Crap!" Smile: Garfield and Odie each give one after the latter blows their cover with an Ill-Timed Sneeze.
Garfield Specials / int_d112f7ec	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_d112f7ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_d112f7ec
Garfield Specials / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Garfield Specials / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Jon's Grandma, who appears in both the Christmas and Thanksgiving specials. In the Thanksgiving special, she immediately arrived at Jon's house to assemble a full meal for him and his date, including her cutting through a frozen turkey and turning it into croquettes.
Garfield Specials / int_d2b59903	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_d2b59903	featureConfidence	1.0
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Garfield Specials / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Garfield Specials / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Appropriately for a segment partly inspired by Indiana Jones, this is how the villains of the main fantasy save Rameet get defeated, albeit in a less fatal and more comical manner than the movies. Fat Guy and Nadia sought The Banana of Bombay, the very first banana to be used in the classic gag for financial gain. In the end, Lance Sterling/Garfield and Slobberjob/Odie use the peel to send Fat Guy, Nadia, and a group of monkeys plummeting into the Amazon River with that exact gag.
Garfield Specials / int_d397657d	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_d397657d	featureConfidence	1.0
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Garfield Specials / int_d4e9de59	type	Dreadful Musician
Garfield Specials / int_d4e9de59	comment	Dreadful Musician: Doc's attempt at playing "Oh Christmas Tree" on the piano in the 1991 version of the special. The rest of the family visibly cringes, and Grandma knocks him out of the way to spare them after less than a minute.
Garfield Specials / int_d4e9de59	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_d4e9de59	featureConfidence	1.0
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Garfield Specials / int_d5410e21	type	Breath-Holding Brat
Garfield Specials / int_d5410e21	comment	Breath-Holding Brat: Jon holds his breath until Liz says she'll go out with him. She eventually agrees after Jon faints from holding his breath in.
Garfield Specials / int_d5410e21	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_d5410e21	featureConfidence	1.0
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Garfield Specials / int_d6707631	type	Waxing Lyrical
Garfield Specials / int_d6707631	comment	Waxing Lyrical: As Garfield rummages through a chest to find costume pieces, among the things he tosses out are "strings, sealing wax and other funny stuff."
Garfield Specials / int_d6707631	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_d6707631
Garfield Specials / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Garfield Specials / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": We never hear the villain of the "Lance Sterling" fantasy get called anything other than "Fat Guy."
Garfield Specials / int_d7b34c31	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_d7b34c31	featureConfidence	1.0
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Garfield Specials / int_dc8f391	type	Halloween Special
Garfield Specials / int_dc8f391	comment	Halloween Special: In which Garfield and Odie go out trick-or-treating and end up facing pirate ghosts.
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Garfield Specials / int_df33a778	type	For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself
Garfield Specials / int_df33a778	comment	For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: Garfield is showing Odie that the other trick-or-treaters are just kids by pulling a monster mask off one kid. But the next three turn out to be real monsters, with the third person Garfield unmasks (a long-nosed person with sharp teeth) revealing their mask is identical to their real face, and the fourth person, a Bedsheet Ghost, turns out to be an actual, invisible ghost underneath. Subverted with the second person unmasked — it's a hairy monster, but they're also in a Bedsheet Ghost outfit.
Garfield Specials / int_df33a778	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Garfield Specials / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
Garfield Specials / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: When the volcano begins erupting, Garfield looks and the camera and smiles while saying "Nice touch."
Garfield Specials / int_df41acb	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_df41acb	featureConfidence	1.0
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Garfield Specials / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
Garfield Specials / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: There's a few hints that part of Jon's nerdy nature is because of this. Most blatant in the Christmas Special; he and his brother Doc Boy love a children's book about Binky the Clown saving Christmas so much that they make their father read it to them each year, despite being grown men, and at one point they try to wake their dad up directly after midnight so they can celebrate Christmas Morning as soon as possible.
Garfield Specials / int_e150c4c7	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garfield Specials / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Garfield Specials / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: The turkey recipe says "Rub skin with butter". Jon then says "I don't know what good that will do, but okay," and rubs his own skin with it.
Garfield Specials / int_e2a41c3b	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_e2a41c3b	featureConfidence	1.0
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Garfield Specials / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
Garfield Specials / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: When watching the specials in order, you can see how Garfield has evolved over the years. The first two specials have Garfield drawn in his early 80's style. He still is for the first few scenes of Garfield in the Rough, then the eyes slowly get larger during the rest of the special. And by Garfield Goes Hollywood, he has the look he has in Garfield and Friends.
Garfield Specials / int_e43c66bd	featureApplicability	1.0
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Garfield Specials / int_e5e1e0c0	type	Plane Awful Flight
Garfield Specials / int_e5e1e0c0	comment	Plane Awful Flight: The special opens with Jon, Garfield (and Odie stashed in a suitcase) taking a plane to a tropical island. While the airline is established as friendly and classy, it all deteriorates the moment Jon is revealed to have only paid for third class, being met with not-so-chipper-anymore stewardesses ("Your seat is in the rear with the rest of the slime!") broken down seats, non-functioning safety belts, and turbulence that sends them bouncing into the ceiling. Garfield's thoughts on the matter:
Garfield Specials / int_e5e1e0c0	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_e5e1e0c0	featureConfidence	1.0
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Garfield Specials / int_e62bc4bb	type	Take Me to Your Leader
Garfield Specials / int_e62bc4bb	comment	Take Me to Your Leader: Parodied, as Garfield plays with the food on the table (in a direct adaptation of the December 28, 1980 strip):
Garfield Specials / int_e62bc4bb	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_e62bc4bb	featureConfidence	1.0
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Garfield Specials / int_e63270bc	type	Mr. Imagination
Garfield Specials / int_e63270bc	comment	Mr. Imagination: The special focuses on Garfield's Walter Mitty-esque flights of fancy.
Garfield Specials / int_e63270bc	featureApplicability	1.0
Garfield Specials / int_e63270bc	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield Specials	hasFeature	Garfield Specials / int_e63270bc
Garfield Specials / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
Garfield Specials / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: Garfield's Ignored Epiphany prompts one from Odie.
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Garfield Specials / int_e8e3807	featureConfidence	1.0
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Garfield Specials / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Garfield Specials / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: As the boat gets caught in the current, Garfield tells Odie to "put out the oars." Odie immediately throws the oars overboard.
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Garfield Specials / int_ea0f7d89	comment	When Garfield tries, but fails, to explain to Jon in pantomime that Odie was taken to the pound, he says, "What we have here is a failure to communicate."
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Garfield Specials / int_ebec0a20	type	You Get What You Pay For
Garfield Specials / int_ebec0a20	comment	You Get What You Pay For: Jon wanted a more affordable tropical vacation, so he chose a poor man's Hawaii, called Paradise World, but the hotel is shoddy, the pool doesn't have water, and there's only one car available at the car rental. Averted as Jon, Garfield and Odie still manage to have fun time. The vintage convertible is beautiful and runs perfectly, and their meeting with the tribe provided an adventure that likely would have been worth much more than if Jon had decided to pay for a proper Hawaiian vacation.
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Garfield Specials / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Binky the Clown makes his first on-screen appearance, before his physical debut in the strip (he was first mentioned in March 1985, a little over seven months before the special aired, but wasn't seen until September of '86) or Garfield and Friends.
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Garfield Specials / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: At the end, Garfield is ordered by his grandfather to leave and go back to his own home with Jon and Odie. Before he goes, Garfield's mother does conciliate him that his life with Jon is much easier and more comfortable than their lives in the abandoned Italian restaurant.
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Garfield Specials / int_f22d3416	comment	Anti-Sneeze Finger: Odie does this to himself while hiding from the pirate ghosts in a cupboard with Garfield, to try to stop himself from blowing their cover with an Ill-Timed Sneeze. Unfortunately, it doesn't work.
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Garfield Specials / int_f32e02af	type	Homemade Sweater from Hell
Garfield Specials / int_f32e02af	comment	Homemade Sweater from Hell: Jon gets a Christmas sweater that flows far past the tips of his fingers. Downplayed though, in that he isn't shown having any problem with it.
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Garfield Specials / int_f432c6bf	type	Glad I Thought of It
Garfield Specials / int_f432c6bf	comment	Glad I Thought of It: Thanksgiving dinner is seemingly ruined, so Garfield tries to get Jon to call his grandmother since she's the only one who could potentially salvage things for everyone. Unfortunately, none of the hints he's giving Jon are getting through to him. So finally, Garfield shoves a picture of Grandma Arbuckle in his face.
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Garfield Specials / int_f4b6d62a	type	It Belongs in a Museum
Garfield Specials / int_f4b6d62a	comment	It Belongs in a Museum: The Banana of Bombay was stolen from the "Museum of Humor" several years before the fantasy takes place, so Lance Sterling/Garfield seeks to return it in order to prevent "the end of humor as we know it."
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Garfield Specials / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The special has Princess Owooda resembling Liz and her cat resembling Arlene.
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Garfield Specials / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Garfield Specials / int_f9f2c33	comment	Turning Doc Boy's one use of "Don't call me Doc Boy!" into a Running Gag.
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Garfield Specials / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Garfield Specials / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Jon while prepping a Thanksgiving turkey reads the instruction "Rub skin with butter" as applying butter to his own skin rather than the turkey's.
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Garfield Specials / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Garfield Specials / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Nadia, while initially posing as a government agent sent to protect Lance Sterling/Garfield and Slobberjob/Odie from Fat Guy and Rameet, is really from a very poor country called "Moldavia", and seeks to steal The Banana of Bombay in order to promote tourismâ€¦ by opening up a fruit stand. Lance Sterling is unamused by that last part.
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Garfield Specials / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Garfield Specials / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: When Jon, Garfield and Odie enter Pet Search, they see a roller-skating bear as one of the acts. Later, there is a man named Herbie who spent 18 years training his pigeons to tap-dance, but when he presents them, they immediately fly away...and, to add insult to injury, the roller-skating bear skates into the scene and knocks into him. Later, when Jon happily says that there's only one more act after theirs, Garfield comments that with their luck, it would be a dog that plays five instruments at once. Take a guess what the last act of the show was. (Although, he got disqualified because he was actually a human in a dog suit.)
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