>>149275951 (OP)most cartoons were terrible back then because they were restricted by Christian soccermoms who didn't watch them anyway
>>149275951 (OP)Theme song was such a banger that you could get ten minutes into an episode before the joy wore off.
Jim Davis was the one who insisted on these segments, this was the comic strip he was truly excited about, he was sad when it got cancelled because it wasn't as popular as Garfield.
>>149275951 (OP)give them some credit. They were aware that the series was ending and took potshots at the E/I
>>149275951 (OP)>Did anyone actually like this US Acres crap?No, and the weird thing is I remember having more of a cohesive plot than the actual Garfield episodes a lot of the time. But they canโt compete with Garfield himself, I mean still remember songs from dumb plots like the episode where Jon adopts a pet lobster. Couldnโt remember a single song from their segment if you asked me to.
>>149275951 (OP)It had the most fourth wall breaks in the show by season 7. The writers knew whar they were doing.
I remember having no idea who these characters were because I had never seen them in any comic strip
>>149275951 (OP)No. Now the question is which character ruined any salvageability the this part of the show had and why was is Orson?
>>149275951 (OP)I remember liking Lanolin
>>149275951 (OP)Garfield is a strange IP. Besides the merch, it is the most boring thing imaginable.
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Happy birthday, happy birthday, Whoop-de-doo, whoop-de-doo! May your day be pleasant, open up your present, Just for you, just for you!
Happy birthday, happy birthday, Whoop-de-doo, whoop-de-doo! May your day be pleasant, open up your present, Just for you, just for you!
Happy birthday, happy birthday, Whoop-de-doo, whoop-de-doo! May your day be pleasant, open up your present, Just for you, just for you!
Happy birthday, happy birthday, Whoop-de-doo, whoop-de-doo! May your day be pleasant, open up your present, Just for you, just for you!
>>149275951 (OP)Give it time. Once it grows out of being the moral-of-the-week segment, it produces some of the show's high points.
>>149275951 (OP)At first no, but Roy and Bo grew on me over time. Orson's brothers were usually pretty funny too.
>>149275951 (OP)It was fine, the little gay songs weren't as bad at times https://youtu.be/4wn9xuyLRkU?si=K65ydes80YRvF5Wl
>>149276209In it's early days, the comic strip is pretty funny, if a bit shallow. The cartoon and the specials are good too. It wasn't until it became a complete merchandising juggernaut that it became really boring.
>>149276018Roy's ode to peanuts, "grabbity", and his insults of Orson
>>149275951 (OP)Orson sucked, you watched it for Wade and Roy.
>>149276811For the longest time in the comics I thought Orson was a woman because the chicks called him mom. Orson literally had eye lashes. So I figured the comic version was taking a slight at how effeminized and infantilized comic characters can be for kids. In an insulting manner.
Jim Davis would probably have more insight if he made any comments on that matter.
>>149276082Well they're the "& Friends" part of the title
>>149276278Has Binky appeared anywhere else outside of & Friends?
>>149275951 (OP)Yes, because US Acres filters out midwits like yourself, OP
>>149276968>So I figured the comic version was taking a slight at how effeminized and infantilized comic characters can be for kids. In an insulting manner.orson had eyelashes because in the Garfield universe, cute/young characters have eyelashes (i.e. nermal, baby Garfield, etc.) and Orson was originally a young pig before they looney tunesโd the cast into ambiguous adults.
Also, the reason why US Acres exist is because Jim wanted to make a kid friendly strip after his son came to him reading the newspaper comics asking what a transvestite was. Thatโs why the โ& Friendsโ part was morals and lessons because early on they wanted US Acres to be educational. But after the strip ended they realized no one liked the morals and lessons so they made them more looney tunes slapstick. Thatโs why in the early days of the comics they looked like childrenโs book characters and not comic strip characters.
>>149277014Before & Friends he definitely did. Go back and watch the Garfield Halloween special. And some comic strips also referenced him. After a while & Friends stopped using him for some reason and I don't know if they've used him since
>>149277014Binky originally debuted in the comics. There was a story arc where Garfield ran away from home and winded up joining the circus and Binky was in charge. He also had a recurring TV show and McDonalds-like restaurant
>>149277081I think the Pet Force books were his most prominent post-& Friends appearances.
>>149277081>>149277094I figured. Because I was wondering if Jim Davis did something else with Binky later on. Like he could do Binky with a parody of the 2019 Joker movie, albeit more family-friendly
Do you ever wonder if Binky the Clown goes to war against Krusty the Clown
>>149275951 (OP)Good thing they drop the song numbers from later episodes in the run.
>>149277014I think Binky dropped out of use midway through G&F because the joke about him being super-loud and super-annoying got spent. I mean, the original episodes (not the syndicated cuts) had segments that was nothing but Binky screaming at people and making a mess of things.
>>149277081I recall that the CGI Garfield cartoon has Binky's face on a jar of peanut butter and Garfield reassures the audience that Binky will never actually appear on the show as part of his contract.
>>149277194>I think Binky dropped out of use midway through G&F because the joke about him being super-loud and super-annoying got spent.Mark Evanier said as much. It was them getting tired of Binky, combined with CBS wanting an extra minute of commercials
https://www.newsfromme.com/2023/09/11/ask-me-binky-the-clown/
>>149275951 (OP)I wanna fuck that female sheep
>>149277073Thank you for the deep lore.
>>149277126Binky would win because Binky takes clowning seriously. Even out does Garfield in the first episodes. Binky`s power level is to great.
>>149277120>a parody of the 2019 Joker movie"You're laughing, Binky! It's Garfield's birthday, but he's not celebrating it, and you're laughing!"
>>149275951 (OP)I was usually just waiting for Garfield to come back on, but as the Designated Dickhead Roy was pretty funny. My boy even got to deliver the anti-groupthink moral in the episode where he joined the Buddy Bears.
>>149277194>segments that was nothing but Binky screaming at people and making a mess of things.Garfield even introduced them like they were punishments: "Because you didn't eat your vegetables, now it's time for 'Screaming with Binky!'"
HHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYY, CAT!
>>149275951 (OP)I will say though - I liked how the duck face on the floaty would move the same way as the duck's. If not matching the dialogue, at least changing its expression.
Unless I'm just inserting some bullshit memory because it's been like 30 years since I've watched this.
>>149277479No, that was real, and it confused the hell out of me as a kid. Actually, it still confuses the hell out of me now. Why DID it do that?
>>149275951 (OP)I didn't mind it as a kid. I liked that it could afford to get into wackier, more cartoony plots than Garfield sometimes.
>>149275985Maybe that was part of the reason why.
>>149276718When most people think "Garfield is boring", they probably remember the 90's era Garfield when Jim Davis stepped down as head writer, and the comic became very formulaic. Prior to the 90's, Davis would have Garfield go on various adventures, meet his mother, join the circus, have a nightmare that everyone else stopped existing, etc. Things also changed, characters entered and left the comic. Once he stepped down, the ghostwriter stuck to doing the same stuff over and over again to avoid getting too far away from what he knew of Garfield.
From that point onwards until around the 2000's or so, the only places Garfield ever went were the park, the beach, the woods while camping, to Jon's parent's house, Irma's Cafe or that french restaurant, and the Vet's office. No new characters introduced, and no existing characters left. Garfield became "ugh mondays, I love lasagna, time to kick Odie" cat. Around the 2000's the ghostwriter changed, and the new guy started having Jon make progress with Liz, but the 90's era 'boring Garfield' image sticks around.
>>14927769990s Garfield still got around here and there (like his vacation with Jon to Guano-Guano). It was the 2000s where the comic hit total stagnation and the majority of strips were literally just Jon whining about his failure at finding dates.
>>149277479I was going to post in the thread about this, but I was like nah that's a silly thought. The duck on the floaty was my favorite part, I didn't think there were others like me.
>>149277699>but the 90's era 'boring Garfield' image sticks around.Interesting you say the 90s because that's when Garfield was at his most surrealist. I do think you're right about the 2000s though. Jon and Liz finally dating or Garfield meeting his 1978 self for the 25th anniversary was the last "major" story arc the strip has had.
>>149277781>Interesting you say the 90s because that's when Garfield was at his most surrealist.I disagree, that's the 80's with Garfield's 9 Lives.
>>149277699I remember they brought back the Caped Avenger stuff in a 2010 comic or so, but they didn't call it Caped Avenger. That's how I knew it was a soulless ghostwriter doing it by that point.
>>149277883They did call him the caped avenger in a 2021 comic.
>>149275963I was singing the theme song at work the other day and an angry black woman told me to shut the fuck up
>>149278184>and your toes are shaped like IndianaI always did like when they referenced that Garfield canonically takes place in Muncie, Indiana
>>149275951 (OP)Stop getting your opinions from YouTube clickbaiters
>>149275959>back thenAt least at the time they were trying to teach kids to read instead of teaching them to have sex with other boys like modern cartoons do.
>>149275951 (OP)As someone that grew up with the show, I never ever looked forward to the US Acres segment with fatty Orson and his dumb friends.
>>149275963The "Friends are There..." one or the "ready to party / lots of spaghetti" one?
>>149278607Ah shut up
https://youtu.be/ESIkiSY59vo?feature=shared
>>149275951 (OP)It gave me childhood trauma i still carry with me
Overall horrible
>>149278258I always like that because Muncie's a fuckin dump, I had a bunch of friends that went to Ball State in college (not me though, I was an IU chad) and thought the town sucked whenever I visited. I know it goes against the ethos of the strip but they should really make hyperspecific Muncie references...have Garfield eat at Pizza King or something.
Does the comic ever address Jon's career as a cartoonist outside of the first strip? I know the cartoon would have plots around it sometimes.
>>149277699>>149277766>>149277781>>149277870Early 90s Garfield comics were still decent
I think it's around maybe mid or late 90s when the comic started becoming formulaic, so it'd be like Late 90s till whenever in the 00s when Jon and Liz became a couple
my favorite Garfield segments were the ones where he finds himself in the wrong cartoon. Why can't more animated shows have plots like this?
>>149280336The episode that opens with Garfield saying theyโve gotten lots of letters about mistakes in the show and asks the viewers to identify any mistakes they see then proceeds to show a short that has a ridiculous and obvious mistake in every scene. Itโs hilarious, I die every time Garfield starts talking in a womanโs voice. A modern classic.
>>149278258"I'd like an alligator-cheese sandwich made with cheese from an alligator named Cynthia, I want it with lettuce grown in Northern Bolivia and picked on Memorial Day, I want it served on rye bread with exactly 71 caraway seeds per slice, and I WANT A PICKLE... IN THE SHAPE OF MUNCIE, INDIANA! Hee hee!"
"Very good. One #8!"
"ONE NUMBER EIGHT!"
I haven't seen this show since syndication as a little kid. Maybe I should rewatch it.
>>149280559What are you talking about? There were only three mistakes.
>Jon's socks are mismatched>There's no mustard on the picnic spread>Jon's car is out of gas
>>149280719Whole thing is on Tubi (GOAT streaming service)
>>149275951 (OP)>Did anyone actually like this US Acres crap?It was occasionally amusing
>>149281878Thoughts on the old Boom comic?
>>149275951 (OP)>Garfield cartoon>Secondary segment with an ensemble cast of original characters>it's the most boring and forgettable part of the show>Heathcliff cartoon>Secondary segment with an ensemble cast of original characters>it's the most entertaining and memorable part of the showThe orange cat dichotomy continues to baffle science.
>>149282865It was good because Mark Evanier wrote majority of the stories but the art turned to dogshit once Gary Barker stopped working on it.
>>149275951 (OP)does US Acres take place on Jon's family's farm?
>>149283379No. It's actually next door to them.
>>149275951 (OP)Wade and Roy were alright
>>149283404I guess that makes sense seeing as I don't recall ever seeing a human in those segments
>>149276688You say this only because you wana fuck the turtle with a big chest
>>149283379>>149283404>>149283427They never made it clear. There's a story from a Garfield kids book where they make it clear US Acres is the farm next door to Jon's family farm.
But later on there was stuff showing the Jon's family farm again showing the US Acres characters living there
>>149275951 (OP)Yes. And coincidentally, we all want to fuck Lanolin. It's weird, we know.
>>149279204He's right and you're mad.
>>149284833Bought the farm next door when the neighbors became too old to maintain it and went to live with their kids?
>>149283015I had crush on Cleo when I was younger. I crushed to her to many times
>>149275951 (OP)No one really liked it. But the Garfield parts were always pretty good.
>>149276018A couple seasons in they ran out of ideas and every single plot was Orson's brothers are stealing vegetables and they have to stop them.
>>149284977Everybody who saw her did.
>>149283015Characters designed by John K btw
>>149284231Now now, it also made me wanna bang the sheep, but that has nothing to do with me enjoying the coziness of little gay songs.
>>149285218Nah, they saw her as a role model. Tough, confident, and pretty.
>>149285218Actually? I don't really think girls watched this cartoon. They had enough girl-specific stuff out at the time that they could find something else...like Jem, which was weird because we ALL watched it.
>>149285414>>149285218Heathcliff is mostly appealing to boys. It literally can be seen as a heteronormative show if you get the meaning. It still has lowkey adult elements that will fly over your head until you were old enough to understand certain gags. It is one of those shows that has something for the parents to enjoy while it was on in the background.
>>149285143He worked on the show but as an assistant, not the lead character designer. That would be Bruno Bianchi, also of Inspector Gadget. Guy really loved his transforming cars.
>>149283015THE GANG WILL REIGN SUPREME
>>149285332Why did she have big knockers for a Star Trek parody?
>>149275951 (OP)God, I want to fuck Nermal from Garfield & Friends series! <3 <3 <3
>>149285807Because she was Uhura. Duh.
>>149275951 (OP)>Did anyone actually like this US Acres crap?Jim Davis liked it more than Garfield.
>>149277073>Thatโs why in the early days of the comics they looked like childrenโs book characters and not comic strip characters.Oh, so that's why the art style changed. I never understood why that happened, I always just chalked it up to how Garfields style changed from 80s to 90s.
>>149285807All the women in Star Trek had big knockers (60s TV rules)
>>149284833I'm still sticking with the farms being neighbors. Close enough for each other to make cameos.
>>149286565When I was a kid I did think Nermal was a girl because of the voice and the eyelashes, blew my mind when I found out it was a kittenboy.
>>149286565We have furfags here too, in addition to furheteros.
>>149285797AND NO-ONE CAN DENY-YAI-YAI-YAI
THEY'LL MAKE UP HISTORY
AND ALWAYS HAVE AN ALIBI-YAI
>>149278607I would totally fuck her up the ass
"If they say it on TV, it must be true" really stuck with me.
>>149286565Latam dub called him Telma for a bit, and refered to him as a she adding to thw confusion.
>>149276209>>149276718Yeah garfield hit it's stride in the early-mid 80's humor wise (garfield's design was the best around that time too)
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>>149287873She has funny Jim Davis legs underneath the wool, truly a shame nothing a good old off model redraw can't fix
>>149275951 (OP)I ended up liking the oddly specific cast even if I would trade it for more Garfield. It blew my mind later to learn there was a US Acres comic strip that bombed and didn't make it to my area.
>Nermal
>"Cutest kitty in the world"
>(male)
Y-You're pulling my leg here right, /co/?
>>149288058no. Nermal has always been male
also, I would totally fuck him up the ass
>>149288058Embrace the femboy cat anon, it is the only way.
>>149287997Yeah I always liked the top right Garfield the best. I also kind of like his unmarketable original fat disgusting slob design.
>>149275951 (OP)I liked his segments, they got a lot better during the later seasons and don't deserve the hate they get
>>149275959And now most cartoons are terrible because they are restricted by dyke feminists who don't watch them anyway
>>149275959meh, that wasn't the issue. It was that people were hostile to childrens' programming meant to only sell toys.
>>149287997Top middle to the right are my favorites akin to the CBS Specials that aired on TV at the time. My parents recorded every one that aired, and most of season 1 that aired Saturday morning. I liked Garfield, because it was comfy lazy adventures for shut-in kids like myself.
>>149277094So Simpsons copied Garfield
>>149286565Don't bother responding. This is just a spam/ritualposter.
>>149290887They're both referencing Bozo the Clown, a popular television clown who was most prominent during the 50s and 60s.
>>149289443Women, ruining good things since before we were born.
And "Prankster Gangster" is a tune that lives in the back of my head once in a while.
>>149287997The art was peak in the late 80s and early 90s, especially when it came to extras. It carried over into the specials, too; I rewatched Feline Fantasies a while back and was amazed by how much personality the passengers in the airplane sequence had despite having less than 30 seconds of screentime combined.
>>149283015Also wasn't Heathcliff's first show.
>>149290932Oh crap. Garfield is actually talking
>>149283379>>149283404>>149283427>>149284833I distinctly remember reading an interview with Jim Davis years ago where the interviewer asked him if U.S. Acres was supposed to be set on Jon's parents' farm, and Jim's response was "Oh... That would've been a really good idea..." It still gives me a good chuckle. For what it's worth, I always assumed it was their farm.
>>149291037Technically, he's always been capable of it...
>>149290992What doesn't get enough praise is the sketches that are made before the final comic art
>>149291301garfield normally talks in a thought bubble, as everyone else uses a speech bubble... please tell me you know the difference.. right?
>>149290887LIke
>>149290985 said it's basically Bozo the Clown, though in Simpsons case they were also taking inspiration from a Bozo-like performer on the west coast. These kinds of shows were a thing during the 50s to maybe the 80s
>>1492916421) Yes, anon, I know the difference. 2) Read Garfield's Judgment Day. I was making a reference.
>>149291037>>149291642The newest iterations of TV Garfield actually moves his mouth to communicate Jon and the audience.
>>149275951 (OP)>>149275985Maybe these segments shouldn't have been fucking anus froth in comparison to Orange Man (Cat)
>>149291906He actually doesn't talk to Jon in the newer cartoons. They did that because younger audiences didn't understand that Garfield canonically can't talk which is why he never moves his lips in the comics or the earlier specials. It just made a big fuckup of a mess which is why you'll hear Garfield say shit like "Read my lips as if I can talk" or "Just because he can't hear me he doesn't listen" in the 3D cartoons.
I remember coming across a couple episodes of the 3D Garfield cartoon and I must say, Frank Welker does a shockingly good Lorenzo Music.
It never really occurred to me before how Garfield must be an animator's dream character since he has all that dialogue but you never have to animate his mouth moving.
>>149276248I recently rewatched this movie on a whim.
Shit fuckin sucks ass
>>149275951 (OP)it was because Orson sucked and he was like the defacto MC...like anyone gave a shit about him.
you can't have that big a pussy in a cartoon that already has Jon Arbuckle.
>>149292724reminds me of Stand Alone Complex where characters would all talk via their network. "For security reasons"
>>149275951 (OP)If you can't handle me at my US Acres, you don't deserve me at my Garfield.
>>149278607>>149276133>>149287873Get over here, I need you lunkhead! And for god's sake be discrete.
>>149290992Eh, I liked the earlier 80's garf look, he started standing up long legged in the 90's while not being very sterile like he was in the 00's
I will say early 90's was still very colorful and cartoony all around, it's just garfield's design himself was going south
also think that's when his coffee like got added, always thought that was a bad fit
>>149276795>grabbityOh shit, I remember that.
Wasn't there a bit where Roy keeps calling the villain of Star Wars "Dark Vader" and Orson keeps trying to tell him it's "Darth Vader?" Or am I misremembering/remembering something else?
>>149275985What's even wilder is that in its peak US Acres was in over 500 newspapers. Sucks how short-lived it was because I'm sure with a few extra years under its belt it would've been more kindly regarded because they started doing more slapstick gags towards the tail end of its run, but by then I'm sure the damage to their reputation was already done.
>>149279204You can tell they had fun with these cameos.
>>149279834I feel like the only reason they finally hook up was because of the movies. Did they get married in the comics, too? Haven't been reading them in a long while.
Haven't read Luann comics either, now that I think about it.
>>149296061>I feel like the only reason they finally hook up was because of the movies.It was actually because there was a 25th anniversary Garfield cruise and Jim Davis asked the fans on the ship what they wanted to see happen in the strip and they all wanted to see Jon date Liz.
I want to see a big sad Kramer vs. Kramer style drama where Lyman shows up and angrily demands Jon give him his dog back.
>>149276811The sheeps had their moments but Roy was always fun
>>149296223After so many years and strips of him sitting next to his telephone and moaning about never getting laid, everybody's general request was "give Jon a life". Coinciding with the movies where Jon and Liz were officially dating was a fortunate moment of synergy.
>>149296382>I want to see a big sad Kramer vs. Kramer style drama where Lyman shows up and angrily demands Jon give him his dog back.They actually did that in The Garfield Show. But he eventually gave Odie back because he loved being with Jon and Garfield.
>>149276278I send that to a friend of mine every birthday.
>>149276432Shouldn't it be "The bunny rabbits ARE coming?"
>>149296437I thought it was a good call. Jon had been such a loser for such a long time that it wasn't really funny anymore, it was just sad. The fact that he finally managed to score a big win felt cathartic. Also, the status quo change meant that they had to come up with new material for their jokes.
>>149275951 (OP)Say what you will about Heathcliff, but they did a WAY better job handling their secondary show
>Garfield fans pretty much universally hate US Acres/Orsonโs Farm and skip it, itโs the thing of mockery >Heathcliff fans generally enjoy Cadillac Cats to the point itโs just as well remember as Heathcliff itself
>>149296913Oh, fuck, we're not doing THIS again!
>>149277479I also enjoyed the duck floaty faces anon. Letโs be a silent brotherhood
Thereโs also a Sailor Moon monster of the week who has snowmen on her boobs that do the same thing
>>149279827>>149279834>>149290932What the fuck, they actually remembered the first strip where Jon said he was a cartoonist for the past 10 years??
>>149297379I would totally fuck cleo up the ass while riff raff sits in the corner and jerks off
>>149299331I was JUST about to say the same
>>149275951 (OP)>Did anyone actually like this US Acres crap?Yes. I liked the fact that each episode had a song. It was fun.
>>149292067Well yeah, it's fucking Frank Welker. I'm suprised he hasn't shown up on Jim Cummings' podcast (probably too expensive).
>>149300359so Jim pays people to be on his podcasts? do you have any proof of this...?
>>149299331Dog bless you "fuck up the ass" anon.
>>149275951 (OP)No, this was always the filler you just waited through until you got back to Garfield.
>>149287997When his eyes stopped being round and became ovoid it fell off.
>>149297379This is just glorification in hindsight. The Catillac cats simply had more memorable character design, as well as gooner bait (Cleo), but both it and Healthcliff were pretty unremarkable in terms of entertainment.
Meanwhile, Garfield and Friends was a stellar package, but US Acres gets maligned for being the weaker element. But I'd take an episode of US Acres over any segment of Heathcliff or Catillac Cats, any day.
>>149279204What's with the tiny duck head in wades inner tube
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