Garfield and Friends/Trivia

"Garfield: Slurp, you really need a costume if you're gonna work with me.
 * Cross-Dressing Voices: Desirée Goyette as Nermal may be one of the most obvious examples in animation history to be found on this website.
 * Edited for Syndication: And how; most of the Quickies were edited out of The Program Exchange's prints, as was the original theme song, replaced with the "We're Ready To Party" theme song used in seasons 3-6. The last three seasons weren't seen in reruns after the show ended its run either, as CBS declined to sell them the rights.
 * The show was broadcast in Finland in a format that dropped the U.S. Acres segments but kept the opening titles. It was bizarre having characters in the titles that never appeared in the show.
 * Executive Meddling: During the seventh and final season of the show, the series' traditional "We're Ready to Party" intro was replaced with a rap-like intro that everyone ranging from fans of the show to the creators hated--the rap intro was only used on the original CBS airings. It was not aired with the series internationally and as a result does not appear on the series' DVD boxsets (which use the international version of the series). The rap intro had to have been a decision by CBS.
 * Fake Russian: Averted in "Swine Trek." In Orson's Star Trek-based dream where he's The Kirk of his barn-shaped starship, Booker, as Chekov's counterpart, is dressed like the stereotypical Russian Cossack, complete with beard. Frank Welker, Booker's VA, speaks in a believable Russian accent, with a commenter on the clip using Google Translate to put in the comments the Cyrillic Russian for Booker's line at 3:58. Booker speaks Russian again at 4:43, and Roy at both times must ask for translations. Leading to Lanolin as "Uhura" snarking "Flunked Russian at the Space Academy, didn't ya?"
 * Hey, It's That Voice!:
 * In "Supermarket Mania", Paul Winchell voices the kind-hearted Gramps and the greedy Mr. Baggit; as a result, the former sounds like Tigger, and the latter sounds like Gargamel.
 * Recurring character Cactus Jack was voiced by Mr. Haney himself, Pat Buttram.
 * June Foray was a series regular, although she only ever played One Shot Characters.
 * Lorenzo Music, who voiced Garfield himself, would probably be best recognized by older viewers as the unseen Carlton the Doorman on Rhoda.
 * And younger (well, slightly younger) viewers as Peter Venkman and Tummi Gummi.
 * James Earl Jones played a ghost in a later episode. In that same episode, another ghost sounds exactly like Eugene Melsner
 * And Orson would later go on to be covered in bees as The Pain.
 * What, no mention of Ursula as Jon's grandma?
 * Rod Roddy, whose voice was heard announcing The Price Is Right and Press Your Luck, voiced a game show announcer in one episode.
 * Wade Duck was Beetle Bailey. Seriously.
 * Let's not forget that the Genie from "Airborne Odie" was voiced by the same guy who played Benjy Benjamin, Tennessee Steinmetz, and Scuttle.
 * Man of a Thousand Voices Frank Welker primarily voiced Bo, Booker, Sheldon and Orson's brother Mort.
 * Tress MacNeille showed up several times in the later seasons, typically as a Girl of the Week
 * Victoria Jackson played Garfield's on-again-off-again love interest, Penelope Pussycat.
 * Recycled Script: The Quickies are mostly adaptations of the Sunday strips (at least one was based on a daily strip, and at least two have a direct Call Back to the preceding cartoon), but the main cartoons themselves derive from the strips, especially in the earlier episodes. For example, the episode "Caped Avenger" is an episode where Jon takes Pooky to wash him and pitches ideas for a new comic strip, but is otherwise based on two weeks of strips where Garfield, as the Caped Avenger, adopts Odie as Slurp, his sidekick (specifically, August 26-31, 1985 and September 2-7, 1985). To the cartoon's credit, it did add an additional costume gag that wasn't in the strips:

(Odie runs off, then comes back wearing a chicken suit)

Garfield: You still haven't grasped the principle behind this."


 * Season 7's "Clash of the Titans" repeated the plot from Season 2's "Attack of the Big Robots"