Garfield and Friends

Garfield and Friends (Original Title: Garfield and Friends ) is an American animated television series that was produced from 1988 to 1994. It is based on the comic Garfield by Jim Davis.

Content

Each episode consists of two Garfield stories as well as a sequence of Orson 's Farm ( the original first U.S. Acres ), another comic book series by Jim Davis. In addition, so-called Quickies are shown that their number varies: Was there beginning of each three short stories per episode (including two on Garfield and Orson 's Farm ), there is from the third season just a quickie per episode. In addition, Binky has the clown who plays in the comic only a minor role in the series his own quickie called laughter with Binky ( Screaming with Binky ).

Characters

Characters in Garfield

Most of the characters in "Garfield" were previously known by the comic ( more information here). One of the exceptions is Garfield's girlfriend Penelope, which takes the place of Arlene in the series.

Characters in Orson 's Farm

  • Orson is a friendly and intelligent pig. Orson likes to read books and takes on the farm because of his wisdom, the chief role.
  • Roy is an extremely I -related Hahn, who loves to trick the other farm dwellers with his pranks.
  • Wade is a duck. Wade has before pretty much scared of everything there is, and always wearing a swimming ring. Here, the head of the floating ring moves always as it also does Wade's head.
  • Bo is a mostly happy sheep with a positive attitude.
  • Lanolin is Bo's sister. Most of the time she is in a bad mood and quarrels with her ​​brother. Lanolin seems to be secretly in love with Orson.
  • Booker is a little chick. It's always on the hunt for a certain nameless worm. Booker got its name due to Orson's fondness for books.
  • Sheldon is Moneybookers brother. Unlike Booker he has not yet managed to completely hatch out; only his legs are seen. Sheldon seems to have all kinds of things in its shell.
  • Mort, Gort and Wart are Orson's big brothers who keep trying to steal vegetables from the farm. Her role in the series is much greater than in the comic strips in which they occur only nameless in the earlier strips and then never show up again.
  • The Weasel tries to steal the chickens to the farm again and again. However, it is always prevented by Roy, Orson and once also Wade, at that. The weasel is an invented specifically for the TV series character, and does not occur in the newspaper strips.
  • The fox is another antagonist, however, is much smarter than the weasel and smarter than Orson's brothers. He tries to process into an omelette with preference Sheldon. However, his attempts repeatedly fail. As the weasel, the fox also occurs only in the television series.

Synchronization

As guest speakers have included Paul Winchell, Don Knotts and the former boxing champion George Foreman heard.

Awards

1989 won the series the Young Artist Award for Best Animated Series Category.

DVD

In the U.S., all episodes, between July 2004 and December 2005 have appeared in a total of five DVD box sets. In Germany the first 24 episodes in a DVD box and on 3 individual DVDs are available.

German television comedy Jim Davis (Cartoonist) Lorenzo Music Howard Morris Frank Welker Victoria Jackson
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