Garfield is a character that not alot of people will know is actually a comic book character and is one of the few comic book characters to not only break into the main stream but also has generations of fans. With the character having a new movie out this year I thought that it was only about time that I take a look at the very first full episode of the show that really launched him into a mega star and so then join me as I review the review the episodes that saw Garfield try to take on a clown with the segments in question being called simply just "Peace & Quiet" , "Wanted: Wade" and "Garfield Goes Hawaiian" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is in "Peace & Quiet" after staying up all night watching TV Garfield tries to get some sleep but has to deal with clown that keeps on disturbing him whilst in "Wanted: Wade" Wade the duck thinks that the police are after him after he rips of a piece of paper of a sofa and in "Garfield Goes Hawaiian" Jon trys to get Garfield to take some medicine after he gets a case of Hawaiian Cat Flu. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with the plot of "Peace & Quiet" being the better plot of the episodes three segments as that was the most filled plot with the plot of all three segments being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Lorenzo Music as Garfield and Thom Huge as Jon Arbuckle , Roy Rooster , Jail Dog and Binky The Clown. Also starring in this episode is Gregg Berger as Odie , Orson Pig , Man 1 Jail Rat and The Television Host , Howard Morris as Wade Duck , voice acting legend Frank Welker as Booker , Polly , Silly Animal Stunts Host and Sheldon and Julie Payne as Lanolin Sheep , Liz Wilson and The Receptionist.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty nor that bad. With alot of this episodes turning in some pretty decent performances but at the same time the acting in this episode isn't as good as we know that this episodes cast can deliver with the episodes various scripts letting the cast down as there just not that good and while yes Lorenzo Music is pitch perfect as Garfield the rest of the cast just aren't that good as the episodes scripts don't really give them a whole lot to work with and as a result of this is the fact that there performances just can't be that good as the episodes scripts just really won't allow for it.
Doing the animation for this episode is Cuckoo's Nest Studios and the legends and the greats that are currently over at Wang Film Productions Company. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that' actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with the episodes animation at times having a water colored look to it which makes it look like that it was ripped right out of the comic strips but that's also the episodes biggest weakness as it doesn't look like something that you'd want to see on TV as it doesn't look like TV quality animation which is also the point as it's meant to look like the comic strips which is fine for the comic strips but for TV you want something that looks just that little bit better.
For those of you that perhaps don't know about this show this show had three segments air in each episode with there being two quick short segments to air inbetween each segment. In each typical episode of the show we would get two Garfield segments that would usually bookend each episode and one Orson's Farm aka U.S.Acres segment that would usually be the second segment in the episode this was done just because the Orson's Farm comic strip had just launched and was fastly becoming a mild hit and as such the makers of this show thought that teaming up those characters with that of the Garfield characters would help to push the Orson's Farm comic strip into the mainstream and get more eyes on it sadly this did not happen as it's those segments that are the worst segments of this show as they clash with the tone of the Garfield shorts.
While having multiple segments for this show does somewhat as it does allow for alot more really fun stories. This episode and the show as a whole would have been if it was just focused on Garfield and heck they wouldn't even need to change the title of the show as then they could have had Garfields side characters come in and play a bigger role in the show with none of the Garfield side characters making appearance in either Garfield segment in this episode which does somewhat make sense as they to tell multiple stories in one episode they still could have had them appear in the background or make a cameo appearance in the episode with the episode instead giving more of that attention to detail to the Orson's Farm segment where they do have some of their other main characters make a cameo appearance which just doesn't work as nobody who is watching this show is watching t for those characters as they'd be watching it for the Garfield characters.
It's hard to say which of the three segments was the best segment as all three of them are good in there own way. With the Garfield segments being more funny for adults and teenagers and the Orson's Farm segment being more targeted at little kids and doing and saying things that would make them laugh and while all three segments do have there own merits all three also have alot of flaws like the fact that Garfields beef with Binky could have been resolved if Garfield just told him that he got the wrong house and that was it which might seem like a minor issue but when you take into account that that's a key plot point in the segment it then becomes a major issue with the same thing also being true for the Orson's Farm segment as if Wade just stopped to think for a minuet then he would realise that the police wouldn't come to a arrest him and heck even Orson himself tells him as such and he still doesn't listen to him.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty three minuets and fifty two seconds. Which was a really solid running time for this episode to have with each of the episodes three segments lasting around five minuets each with the two quick segments lasting around thirty segments to a minuet each with all three segments having just about enough plot to cover there own allotted amount of time and nothing more then that and while it would have been good if each of the segments had a longer running time the plot has to always come first and if the segment doesn't have alot of plot to cover anything longer then five minuets then stretching each segments plot really wouldn't work as all that would result in doing is stretching each segments plot even thinner then what they already are but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this episode having alot of really funny moments with alot of the episodes most funniest moments coming from the Garfield as the Orson's Farm segment just isn't that funny but there might be some little kids that find those characters and that segment to be the funnest segment in the whole entire episode however what makes the Garfield segments funny is the fact that Garfield himself is just a funny character with dry and sarcastic sense of humor all of which is delivered gratefully by Lorenzo Music with this being helped by the fact that all of the Garfield jokes are just really funny jokes in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this was a rather solid debut episode to what would be a truly iconic show to the character of Garfield and it's not hard to see why this character became as popular as it was as it was a really solid debut episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good ad as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the mages that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Garfield fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episode that I used in this very review being the great the official Garfield fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not all of the images that are really from this episode and are of course really on the official Garfield fandom wiki page are really all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.