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Summary: You,you're not Sylvia,you're one of the Kung-Fu Creatures...
Review: ...on a the rampage 2!!!I LOVE Garfield & Friends. I still sing the theme song sometimes when I get bored. Wade Duck is one of the funniest characters on TV, ever! Animated or otherwise. This DVD will be at the top of my collection.
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Summary: I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Fiannly! I have always wanted a Garfield and frinds DVD. I used to watch it a long time ago. But I have't found it for years. I amdefinitly buying it soon. I also can't wait to see U.S Acres. I love the walking egg. Also look out for Garfield As Hismelf. It will have three Garfild three Garfield primetime shows. Look for it June 29. GET THIS DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Garfield Rocks!!!
Review: Finally my favorite Cartoon Series (as a kid and now) is gonna be released on DVD, in 5 sets. Volume 1 will contain 24 of the 'Garfield & Friends' shows. More Volumes to come soon (for all 121 Garfield & Friends shows total), as well as all the Prime Time specials!!! Look to christmas time for Vol 2 and another 'Specials' DVD This is definately a 5-Star Rating!!!
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Summary: Where Fun Never Ends!
Review: FINALLY! One of the four best cartoons ever (besides The Simpsons, Batman The Animated Series, Spiderman 90's) is finally on DVD! Garfield and Friends has sophisticated humor as well as slapstick, so it's fun for the whole family. I also just read that the 2nd volume should be out by Christmas, which is awesome. This is not just another big fat hairy deal! This is as great as a week without Mondays and lasagna every night! Woohoo!
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Summary: GARFIELD ROCKS!
Review: Finnaly, after ALL of these YEARS!!
THE REAL GARFIELD!
Garfield and friends has been zig-zaging on and off the air, going from TV station to TV station ever sense CBS those may years ago. Its currently on Toon Disney late night Monday-Friday!(Don't beleve me? Look at the TV guide!) Each episode went like this:
Garfield
Us. acares
Garfield
Garfield quickie Be forewarned, there IS singing in Garfield and Friends. Most of it is in Us. acares.
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Summary: It's about time!
Review: Garfield and Friends on DVD...I'm so excited! :D I've been wishing that they would release Garfield and Friends for the longest time. I got really excited when I was in China during winter break and saw a set of Garfield and Friends VCDs. However, they were in Mandarin. Even if I understood Mandarin, it wouldn't have done Garfield justice. Can you imagine?? Garfield speaking Chinese???
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Summary: Funny!
Review: Garfield and Friends smashed the Saturday morning Nielsens in 1988, and has withstood the test of time, like the strip, for 16 years (26 for the strip). Now we get to laugh our heads off at the fat cat's first season of gags, packed into three discs. Here is the episode guide:
Disc 1:
Episode 1: Peace and Quiet/Wanted: Wade/Garfield Goes Hawaiian
Episode 2: Box 'O Fun/Unidentified Flying Orson/School Daze
Episode 3: Nighty Nightmare/Banana Nose/Ode to Odie
Episode 4: Fraidy Cat/Shell Shocked Sheldon/Nothing to Sneeze At
Episode 5: Garfield's Moving Experience/Wade: You're Afraid/Good Mousekeeping
Episode 6: Identity Crisis/The Bad Sport/Up A Tree
Episode 7: Weighty Problem/The Worm Turns/Good Cat, Bad Cat
Episode 8: Cabin Fever/Return of Power Pig/Fair Exchange
Disc 2:
Episode 9: The Binky Show/Keeping Cool/Don't Move!
Episode 10: Magic Mutt/Short Story/Monday Misery
Episode 11: Best of Breed/National Tapioca Pudding Day/All About Odie
Episode 12: Caped Avenger/Shy Fly Guy/Green Thumbs Down
Episode 13: Forget Me Not/I Like Having You Around!/Sales Resistance
Episode 14: Pest of A Guest/The Impractical Joker/Fat and Furry
Episode 15: Rip Van Kitty/Grabbity/The Big Catnap
Disc 3:
Episode 17: The Sludge Monster/Fortune Kooky/Heatwave Holiday
Episode 18: One Good Fern Deserves Another/Goody-Go-Round/The Black Book
Episode 19: The Legend of The Lake/Double Oh Orson/Health Feud
Episode 20: Binky Gets Cancelled!/Show Stoppers/Cutie and The Beast
Episode 21: The Lasagna Zone/Sleepytime Pig/Yojumbo
Episode 22: Pros and Cons/Rooster Revenge/Lights! Camera! Garfield!
Episode 23: Polecat Flats/Hogules/Brain Boy
Episode 24: Maine Course/No Laughing Matter/Attack of The Mutant Guppies
And that's all he ate! The only two things that prevent this set from getting a five-star rating are:
1. Second-rate acting here and there.
2. Bad extras. All you get is a trailer for Garfield: The Movie.
Overall, it's a nicely done giftset that anyone with a "taste" ;) for Garfield should click on Add to Cart.
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Summary: Just as much fun now as it was years ago...
Review: Garfield and Friends was always one of the funniest cartoons on TV when I was a young kid. In fact, aside from your Looney Tunes, your Animaniacs and your Fairly Oddparents, I think it's one of the funniest cartoons ever.
There are a number of "Quickies" in this show that are short jokes, most of which are animated versions of actual comic strips, and at the show's midpoint, there is a cartoon originally called "Orson's Farm" and later called "U. S. Acres," featuring a number of unique and amusing characters. Orson; the pig voice of reason and the cultured one, Wade the eternal scaredy-cat duck, Roy the trick-playing rooster, Sheldon, the walking egg whose legs are the only part of him that are hatched, but who somehow has all manner of appliances in his shell, and so on and so forth. These characters each have their own unique behavior patterns, but are funniest when some running-gag is introduced to their lives or when making fun of public service announcements (which is what I choose to interpret large parts of this cartoon as.) However, virtually every time Orson and Friends come on, they wind up in a musical number, many of which are really quite trite. However, I'm going to dismiss even many of these for a reason I will later outline.
The real meat of the show is Garfield himself, and he, Odie and Jon (and occasionally a guest-character or several) occupy two thirds of the show's longer segments. Garfield and his supporting cast are quick with a joke and good at coming up with funny coincidences and/or well thought out cartoon gags a few times every minute, which may not seem like much where sheer volume is concerned, but when Garfield does it, it feels classy.
Many of Garfield's supporting characters get by largely on the strength of either a light-hearted parody (Cactus Jake,) a modified running-gag (Binky) or else an innocence that leads to them being funny in Garfield context or developing a funny joke without realizing it (Nermal.)
However, the most funny thing about Garfield and Friends is easily its tongue-in-cheek parodies of just about everything that occurred before and during the 80s. Garfield was the master of the tongue-in-cheek parody. His show showcased rather frequently concepts that were already very popular in animated cartoon shows (such as the public service announcement, the talent show, the cowboy episodes and so forth,) but these concepts, while only mildly interesting in something like The Flintstones or Scooby-Doo, are truly hilarious in Garfield because Garfield knows how trite these concepts are, smugly professes that, then uses them anyway and in some cases, even apologizes to the audience. One that really stands out in my mind is when a half-staggering man tells Garfield, Jon and Odie to "walk this way" (another popular cartoon cliche of the time,) and he responds by looking right at the screen and saying "Don't worry, folks. We're not gonna do that stupid joke." I laugh every time I think about that. Making fun of cliches is something I've always found wonderfully amusing. I loved it in MST3K, I loved it in the Simpsons, and I love it in Garfield.
The quiet cynicism with which Garfield pulls off this lost art of making fun of the cliches appearing in one's own animated series sets a beautiful mood for humor, and when you think about it, sort of reminds you of a real cat's attitude. This is Garfield's greatest strength and the reason I have excused so much of the Triteness of U. S. Acres.
"Garfield and Friends; Volume 1" contains slightly more than one season of this wonderful show and introduces many of the characters that made the series so funny. Garfield, Binky, Odie, Jon, Nermal, Cactus Jake, Liz and more all appear herein, perfectly faithful to the spirit of the comic strip, and in my opinion, way better than the movie.
I do have one gripe, however. During the first two seasons of this show, the theme song was rather annoying (amusing, but annoying if heard more than once in the same afternoon.) Still, it's worth it to get to see these great episodes again. I hope you like them as much as I did.
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Summary: US Acres
Review: Garfield is fine and funny but U.S. Acres is awesome! That's the part worth buying the DVD for. The walking egg...does it get any better than that?
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Summary: Cant wait for Garfield!!
Review: I remember watching these shows as a kid and they were wonderful! I'm absolutely thrilled to see garfield and friends FINALLY released on dvd. Of course with the live action movie out in theaters it is a convenient time to release all the garfield cartoons on dvd. Yay!!!!
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