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Garfield Christmas Special Binky Story Again This Year

Written By Sunday, April 3, 2022 Add Comment Edit
" Christmas. It's not the giving, it's non the getting. It's the loving. There, I said it. Now get outta here. "

— Garfield's endmost line, quoted from the Christmas Twenty-four hours 1981 installment of the comic strip

A Garfield Christmas Special (besides called A Garfield Christmas for brusk) is an animated Christmas special based on the paper comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis, originally broadcast on CBS on December 21, 1987. Davis based the story on his experiences of celebrating Christmas with his family on their farm in Indiana. The special was nominated for the 1988 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Programme; all the same, it lost to A Claymation Christmas Celebration (which, oddly enough, had premiered right later on it).

Contents

  • one Synopsis
  • 2 Songs
  • 3 Broadcast history and availability
  • 4 Edits
    • iv.i Deleted scenes
  • 5 Bandage
  • vi Gallery
  • 7 References
  • 8 Meet also
  • 9 External links

Synopsis

In a brightly decorated firm, Garfield is awakened by Jon, dressed as an elf, who says that it is Christmas morning and Garfield must be treated to a large amount of lasagna before opening his presents. After Garfield finishes eating the lasagna, Jon presents him with a robotic Santa Claus that reads minds and produces whatever Garfield wants. Garfield is pleased with this, until Jon actually wakes Garfield upwards and information technology is revealed that Garfield was simply dreaming. Jon tells Garfield that it is Christmas Eve, and that they are going to the countryside to celebrate Christmas with Jon'due south family unit on their farm. Garfield, not very corking on the thought, asks why they always have to get to the Arbuckle farm and wonders why Jon's family can never just come up to Jon's house instead.

Jon driving to his family'southward subcontract with Odie and a reluctant Garfield.

Equally Jon, Garfield, and Odie bulldoze off to the subcontract, Jon talks (and sings) almost what Christmas was like when he was a male child, all the while Garfield makes sarcastic comments. They then get in at the Arbuckle farmhouse and greet Jon'southward family (in their outset blithe appearance) - the sweet and always cooking Mom, hard-working farmer Dad, mischievous younger brother Doctor Boy, and the tough-as-nails Grandma. Later on Grandma remarks that they demand to get get dinner finished, Garfield observes that he and Grandma are going to get forth just fine.

Jon, Garfield, and Odie become outside for a walk, while Grandma spikes Mom's sausage gravy by adding chili powder. Jon and Garfield return inside for supper, while Odie gets to piece of work on a secret projection and so sneaks back into the house. Garfield goes and takes a sense of taste-examination of the incredibly hot sausage gravy, and declares that it is perfect. At dinner, Doctor Boy is asked to say grace for the family, and Grandma bonks him on the caput with a spoon when he doesn't know what to say. When he goes on also long with maxim grace, Grandma bonks him on the head once more. While Mom asks Jon which of the potatoes and pies he would like, Grandma sneaks some of her food to Garfield and Odie.

Garfield putting the star on the tree.

After dinner, they decorate the tree. They take problem getting the star on the meridian of the tree, so Jon has Garfield do it, since he can climb trees. Garfield successfully makes it up the tree and puts the star on top, just then falls down the tree, knocking down some of the decorations. Next, Mom asks Physician Male child to play a song on the piano. He starts playing and singing "O Christmas Tree" terribly off-key, so Grandma shoves him bated and plays and sings the song herself. Afterward, Mom plays "Christmas in Your Heart", while Garfield goes to sit on Grandma's lap. Grandma tells him about her love, deceased husband, who always enjoyed Christmas even when he tried to pretend otherwise, and concludes past saying that Christmas Eve is the night she misses him the near. Later finishing the vocal, Mom tells Dad that it is time for him to read Binky, the Clown Who Saved Christmas. Dad is not at all neat about this, as he is tired of reading the story every year, only reluctantly reads it anyhow.

Later that dark, Odie sneaks out to the befouled and Garfield becomes suspicious most the dog's action. Garfield follows Odie to the barn and sees him making something out of a piece of woods, some wire, a plunger handle, and a hand rake. While in that location, Garfield stumbles upon some very old messages and finds out that it must be fifty years old. Meanwhile, Jon and Doctor Boy unexpectedly wake Dad up at i:30 a.1000. and inquire him if information technology is time to open presents, but Dad angrily tells them to go dorsum to bed, despite Jon and Doc Boy arguing that it is technically Christmas morning now.

Garfield gives Odie a hug.

The next morning, after the family unit has just finished opening their presents, Garfield gives Grandma the letters he found in the befouled. The messages, information technology turns out, were love notes written to Grandma by her husband from when they first met each other and married. Odie and so reveals that he had been busy making a Christmas souvenir for Garfield - a homemade back-scratcher. In a rare glimpse at Garfield's sensitive side, Garfield gladly cheers Odie for the souvenir he made and says what he has realized about Christmas - "it'southward not the giving, information technology'south non the getting; information technology's the loving."

Songs

  • "Gimme" performed by Lou Rawls
  • "Tin can't Expect Till Christmas" performed by Thom Huge and Lorenzo Music
  • "O Christmas Tree" performed by Pat Carroll
  • "Christmas in Your Middle" performed by ensemble and Desirée Goyette
  • "You Can Never Find an Elf When You Need One" performed by Lou Rawls and Desirée Goyette
  • "A Good Old-Fashioned Christmas" (catastrophe song) performed by ensemble

The instrumental to "Here Comes Garfield", the titular theme song from the first Garfield special, can be heard in the post-championship scene at the outset (afterward Jon awakens Garfield from his dream).

Broadcast history and availability

The special premiered on CBS on December 21, 1987, and was annually circulate on the network (often aslope fellow comic strip-based special A Charlie Brown Christmas) from then until 2000. It was afterwards aired on ABC Family as role of the 25 Days of Christmas in 2008 and 2009.

The special was made available on VHS in 1991. In 2004, following upwards the release of the kickoff alive-action Garfield movie, it was featured on 20th Century Play tricks Home Amusement'south Garfield: Holiday Celebrations DVD, which also included Garfield's Halloween Adventure and A Garfield Thanksgiving. Information technology was later made available again on Anderson Digital's Garfield Vacation Collection DVD, released on November 4, 2014; in addition to the 3 holiday specials, this DVD too included two other Garfield specials that Jim Davis considered his personal favorites - Garfield on the Town and Garfield in Paradise. A Garfield Christmas Special and A Garfield Thanksgiving were near recently included (this time without Garfield'southward Halloween Adventure) on the Happy Holidays, Garfield! DVD, released past PBS Distribution's Skiprope segmentation on September 12, 2017.

Edits

Like A Charlie Brown Christmas earlier it, A Garfield Christmas Special received several re-edits after its earliest airings. In 1991, the following edits were fabricated:

  • Jon driving his car out of his driveway and down his neighborhood was cutting.
  • Grandma giving some of her dinner to Garfield and Odie under the table was trimmed to remove two additional shots of Garfield and Odie receiving their meal.
  • The original broadcast version did not have the scene in which Doc Boy and then Grandma play "O Christmas Tree" on the piano. Instead, the special cut straight to Jon asking "Why don't you play [the piano] for the states, Mom?", immediately following Garfield's comment on the fully busy tree. The cut is fabricated rather obvious, though, due to Garfield continuing in front of the tree and then of a sudden sitting on acme of the piano in the very adjacent shot, indicating that the scene was cut at the last minute.
  • A full six seconds of music were cut from the song "Y'all Can Never Find an Elf When Yous Need One".

The expressions on Dad's face later reading Binky, the Clown Who Saved Christmas in the original version (left) and the reanimated version (right).

  • The scene where Grandma reminisces most her tardily husband was completely re-animated; new shots, all done in a different lighting, were made, including a close-up on a framed photo of Grandma with her husband, which was not seen at all in the original version.[1] As well, when Jon and Doc Boy go to bed after Dad finishes reading Binky, the Clown Who Saved Christmas, the reaction on Dad'southward face is different (a comparison of that can be seen on the right).

The 1991 edit is the version that was aired in all of CBS'southward subsequent broadcasts besides equally on ABC Family, and is also the version that was used for the VHS, the Garfield Holiday Celebrations DVD, and early copies of the Garfield Vacation Collection DVD. However, the original 1987 cut was made available for viewing on Hulu.com during Dec 2014 and 2015,[2] and is also the version that is available on iTunes and Amazon Instant Video, every bit well as on afterward copies of the Garfield Holiday Collection DVD. Information technology was also the version that was made available through Cartoon Network On Demand in 2018.

Deleted scenes

The comprehend to the comic volume adaptation.

Bated from the edits fabricated to the special in 1991, the comic volume adaptation contains a few scenes that were never featured in the actual special. Presumably, these scenes were in the original script (and perhaps fifty-fifty storyboarded), simply were most likely cut for time. These scenes include:

  • During Garfield's dream, as he is eating the line of lasagna pans, Odie is shown playing with a remote-control crane to dig upwards a hole and bury a bone in information technology.
  • Afterward Garfield complains about having to visit Jon's family, at that place is a scene where Jon gets him to assist him wrap presents. He then wraps up Odie equally a nowadays.
  • Dad gets Jon and Doctor Boy to do the chores in the barn, so Jon orders Garfield and Odie to come with him. As they're lifting the hay bales, Jon and Md Boy become into an statement, and then Doc Boy remarks to Dad that they should have gotten Grandma instead of Jon to help with the chores. In the special, this is replaced with Jon, Odie, and Garfield walking outside in the snow.
  • Immediately following Mom saying that "Information technology but wouldn't be Christmas if we put the star on [the tree] first", Dad replies, "One more remark similar that, and yous'll meet stars, woman."
  • Before Jon and Medico Boy go to bed, Garfield looks at one of the presents under the tree and shakes it, proverb "Gee, I hope it'southward for me." He then hears the gift within breaking autonomously, places it down, and says, "Gee, I hope it's for Odie." Right later on this, Jon and Doc Boy caput off to bed, and immediately later on Mom kisses them good night and leaves the room, they accept their eyes open like in the flashback.
  • Originally, the scene where Odie finishes up Garfield's dorsum-scratcher had him beingness unable to terminate it because there's no hole in the base to put the rod in. After it falls apart, he gets aroused and kicks it away earlier crying. Garfield figures out what Odie is doing and distracts him by throwing some corn for him to go after. Garfield then rushes in, uses a paw drill to drill a hole in the board, inserts the rod, and then ties the gardening tool to information technology. Equally he leaves, Odie arrives and is surprised to find the gift made up, so he wraps it in the bag and leaves. In the finished special, in that location is apparently already a hole in the board and Odie is able to make the gift with no problem.

Cast

GarfieldChristmasCastShot.jpg
Voice role player/extra Character
Lorenzo Music Garfield
Thom Huge Jon Arbuckle
Gregg Berger Odie
Pat Harrington Jr. Mr. Arbuckle
Julie Payne Mrs. Arbuckle
David 50. Lander Physician Boy
Pat Carroll Grandma Arbuckle

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ Video of the original version of "Christmas in Your Heart"
  2. ↑ Platypus Comix forums: "A Garfield Christmas Special" ORIGINAL 1987 VERSION ON HULU

See also

  • "Heatwave Vacation"
  • "Caroling Capers"
  • "Habitation for the Holidays"

External links

  • Garfield Wiki: A Garfield Christmas
  • A Garfield Christmas Special at the Cyberspace Movie Database
  • A Garfield Christmas Special at the Big Cartoon DataBase
Christmas Specials Based on Comic Strips
Peanuts A Charlie Brownish Christmas • "The Play" • It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown • Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales • I Want a Canis familiaris for Christmas, Charlie Brownish • "Christmas is on Its Way" • "Christmas is Coming"
Garfield A Garfield Christmas Special • "Heatwave Vacation" • "Caroling Capers" • "Dwelling house for the Holidays"
Popeye Seasin's Greetinks! • Mister and Mistletoe • "Spinach Greetings"
Dennis the Menace "The Christmas Story" • "The Christmas Horse" • "The Fifteen-Foot Christmas Tree" • A Dennis the Menace Christmas
Other comic strips Pals • The Captain'south Christmas • "Hazel's Christmas Shopping" • "A Christmas Tale" • "Krazy's Krismas" • "Information technology's Better To Requite" • "Just 86 Shopping Minutes Till Christmas" • "Christmas with the Addams Family unit" (1965) • A Family Circus Christmas • Ziggy's Gift • The Bestest Present • "Northward Pole True cat" • A Wish For Wings That Work • A Christmas Affections • Little Orphan Annie's A Very Animated Christmas • "Rupert's Christmas Adventure" • "Christmas with the Addams Family" (1998) • "A Babe Blues Christmas Special" • "A Huey Freeman Christmas"

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