Why is it so much better than any other Garfield material, including the comics and other animated shows? What's the secret?
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Why is it so much better than any other Garfield material, including the comics and other animated shows?
Great writing, great voices, fun songs, and some brilliant applications of metahumor.
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They based the series off the comics. They also didn't use CGI like later incarnations. It's a fun show from the 90s with great humor & writing.
MEGA?
It was a faithful adaptation
It wasn't faithful so much as the perfect distillment of the comic strip's core values while expanding it with shit like Buddy Bears and Blinky and expanding on stuff like Nermal and his feud with Garfield and the Garfield/John relationship so that Garfield cared about John/Odie. Also, US Acres were pretty good with a well rounded cast including Roy and Wade.
Standard policy at the time was that you had fricked up syndication packages sometimes that omitted episodes/seasons. See the fricked up history of Dark Shadows, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, My Three Sons, Bewitched, and Beverly Hillbillies for instance.
What?
Dark Shadows: the first 208 pre-Barnabas episodes plus the last 170 episodes, never aired in the show's original syndication run and only saw the light of day in reruns when Sci-Fi reran the series (and even then, it wasn't until the third/fourth go round that they got the rights to the Pre-Barnabas epsiodes).
The 30 minute Gunsmoke episodes and the black and white Bewitched and Beverly Hillbillies episodes were embargoed for ages, while Gunsmoke's hour long episodes, Bonanza, and My Three Sons had their syndication packaged chopped up with certain stations getting certain seasons
If it was so great then why were seasons 6 and 7 not included in syndication?
>In the United States, the series appeared in syndication on local stations, distributed by The Program Exchange, between 1993 and 2006 (with broadcast stations running it into 2001). Only 73 of the 121 episodes were acquired by The Program Exchange. This was due to the producers selling syndication rights when the show was still on air and CBS wanting to keep the rights for certain episodes. Since the 73-episode syndication package performed well enough on stations already airing the show, acquiring the later episodes were deemed unnecessary.
>That shitty rap song they used for S7's title
They can keep it.
Thank goodness the DVDs replaced it with the proper intro.
I usually dream that the cartoon still exists.
One of their biggest secret? Nermal! <3 <3 <3
Because U. S. Acres
I find it odd the comic strip still failed when the characters were apart of one of the most popular cartoons of the 80s
Orson was awful, the comic could be better without him
How many newspapers carried the strip?
Big sheep babs
Nah, that was just one episode. You're thinking of the other Lanolin.
It's part of that late-80's wave of cartoons with clever writing- Real Ghostbusters, TMNT(yes I know those were toy cartoons)Mighty Mouse, etc. A lot of those writers went on to the Spielberg cartoons and that leads into the 90's HB stuff
Mark Evanier had nearly total creative freedom when writing the show, since not only did Jim Davis trust him with the characters, but also the network Standards & Practices had very little pushback against his scripts.
lorenzo music was pretty much the hest garfield voice we're gonna get
Forever the ultimate truth, though honestly, the entire cast was perfect.
I cannot unhear Garfield whenever I encounter Lorenzo in another context, like Stan Freberg's United States of America vol. 2
Does anyone remember when Mother Goose & Grimm had a cartoon? Made by the Garfield and Friends staff.
I remember it existing. That's about it.
I don't have any recollection of that. Still not quite as weird as discovering that Cathy had an animated special in the 80s.
I remember a few episodes:
- Grimm is pursued by the Boogie Man, who is the dancing kind of Boogie Man
- a dogcatcher (who sounds like Ahnold) gets in the way of Grimm meeting a celebrity dog
- MG is trying to watch the last episode of her Dallas-like soap but Grimm keeps accidentally spoiling her viewing options
And I also remember the two leads were husband & wife in real life, because I like those instances. But that's it.
are there any modern comic strips you'd want to see adapted for animation?
It's hard to think of strips that are both relatively new and still ongoing. Cul-de-Sac would be my first choice even though it hasn't been in print for over a decade.
Cul-de-Sac actually did get quite a few animated shorts https://youtu.be/zjPnkdJ8mnM
Well that's a pleasant surprise, although "get well soon" hits kinda hard knowing the author died.
If it helps you feel any better, Pearls before Swine also got a bunch of animated shorts. https://youtu.be/onM4gknHxE4
dilbert
>What's the secret?
Miminal involvement from Jim Davis
ngl mark evanier carried that series
it's what made him the head garfield writer for future non-strip work (YMMV on if he held up over time)
Lorenzo was a terrible choice for Garfield and ruined the character
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