Characters

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This is a list of characters in the comic strip and cartoon show Garfield.

Contents 1 Primary characters 1.1 Garfield 1.2 Jon Arbuckle 1.3 Odie 1.4 Arlene 1.5 Pooky 1.6 Nermal 1.7 Mom 1.8 Dad 1.9 Doc Boy 1.10 Grandma 1.11 Irma 1.12 Dr. Liz Wilson 1.13 Herman Post 2 Secondary characters 3 U.S. Acres Characters 3.1 Main characters 3.2 Secondary characters 4 Television series only 5 Garfield gets Real 6 Garfield's Fun Fest

[edit] Primary characters

[edit] Garfield

Fat orange cat with distinctive black stripes and an attitude. He hates Mondays (not applicable if it's also his birthday), loves to eat and sleep (both to amazing amounts), watch TV, and play jokes on Jon and Odie. He enjoys tormenting the mailman. His favorite food is lasagna, and he loves to snack on canaries ("you can't eat just one canary!"); however, he hates raisins and spinach].Also has sickness problems like: sleep attacks. He refuses to eat mice ("Show me a good mouser, and I'll show you a cat with bad breath"), and has befriended several. He does, however, hate spiders. He is on number 8 of his 9 lives. He first appeared on June 19, 1978.

[edit] Jon Arbuckle

Garfield and Odie's owner, a total nerd and clumsy individual who is extremely pathetic in the world of dating and coolness. He is constantly striking out when trying to get dates with women, perhaps due to his ridiculous pick-up lines (said to a woman in the grocery store: "you must be today's special, because you're making me hungry") or loud and flashy outfits. His biggest crush is Dr. Liz Wilson, Garfield and Odie's vet, who has gone out with him a few times but the dates were usually unsuccessful. Jon is the primary fodder and conversation partner to Garfield and is often the butt of his jokes. He was (possibly still is, due to it never being contradicted) a cartoonist, but this reference has not been seen since the early days of the comic strip. Whatever his occupation, Jon still manages to make enough money to keep Garfield in lasagna -- no easy feat. Often, Jon, as well as Garfield, gets bored, and comes up with "fun" ways to cure boredom (such as buying new socks, or clipping his toenails). His full name has been revealed as Jonathan Q. Arbuckle in a Christmas strip. He first appeared on June 19, 1978. His birthday has been revealed to be July 28 (which is the same as that of Jim Davis). On December 23, 1980, Jon tells Garfield that he is 30 years old (he makes a joke about only being 29 because he was sick a year). This would make Jon's birthdate July 28], 1950, and his current age 58 years old. In the live-action films (such as Garfield: The Movie and Garfield's A Tale of Two Kitties), he became Dr. Liz Wilson's "boyfriend/partner".

[edit] Odie

Loveable but dopey yellow-furred, brown-eared dog constantly panting with his very large tongue, and the only character without a "voice" (though he was once shown to be thinking "I'm hungry", and in Garfield in the Rough, he "says" "I'm afraid!" over and over, faster and faster, in the "Run, Run!" scene (though this is not confirmed). More recently, he was seen actually speaking in one of Garfield's dream sequences). One strip shows him enjoying classical music on the TV with a novel, War and Peace, in his lap after Jon and Garfield leave the house. Often kicked off the table by Garfield or the victim of some practical joke. Odie's original owner was Lyman, a friend and roommate to Jon Arbuckle. He first appeared on August 8, 1978. However, Lyman disappeared in 1983 and Odie became a pet to Jon. Odie is, to Garfield, a complete slobbering idiot (though it's not the actual case since Odie did manage to take revenge on Garfield occasionally, and Garfield usually cannot notice it). He is rarely seen without his giant tongue and drooling. Recently, Odie seems to be walking on two feet more often.

[edit] Arlene

(appears in comic strip and films only)

Garfield's on-and-off girlfriend. A thin pink cat who seems to be the one living thing in the world who can successfully crack jokes at Garfield on a regular basis. She has distinctively big lips and a very thin neck. Earlier in the series she also had a gap between her teeth; she also appeared more often than now. She first appeared on December 17, 1980. Although she never appeared on the animated series (with the exception of a cameo appearance in the fourth season), she appeared in the film version as well.

[edit] Pooky

Garfield's huggable teddy bear. First appearance was October 23, 1978. The strip shows Garfield searching through Jon Arbuckle's bottom drawer, finding Pooky, and adopting him as his own. His first appearance in the TV Series was Ode To Odie, but he was yellow that time. His biggest role in the TV Series was The Caped Avenger, where he was missing. It is also shown that Pooky may be a real-live animal because in one strip, he cried when Garfield refused to play with him because he had amnesia. In the December 3, 1981 strip of Garfield, he had his biggest appearance, where he is almost as tall as Garfield, and Nermal was sleeping on him. Pooky has been in the two-first live-action Garfield films in a cameo appearance. But it is certain that Pooky is lost in the Animal Kennel, or Garfield returned to get him after his throne ended in United Kingdom. However, Pooky was much more smaller in the movies than he was in the comic strip and TV Series.

[edit] Nermal

Cute gray kitten who flaunts his cuteness (the cutest kitten in the world, he says), which annoys Garfield immensely, he also has a very sarcastic attitude, usually resulting in Garfield trying to ship Nermal to Abu Dhabi. Often comes in unannounced, much to Garfield's chagrin, particularly by waking him up by shouting hello so loud that he jumps out of his bed. When he first appeared, he was owned by Jon's parents, but that connection was quickly dropped from the strip. When we see him, it is usually because Jon has to babysit him. He is not seen on Jon's parents' farm. Because of his eyelashes and seemingly effeminate personality, fans have often mistaken him as a girl; viewers of the television series will know that Nermal's voice sounded like a woman (he was in fact voiced by Desiree Goyette]). He first appeared on September 3, 1979. However, in Garfield: The Movie, Nermal appears as an adult Siamese rather than as a cute kitten.

[edit] Mom

Appears in comic strip and TV Special only

Jon's annoying mom who is always cooking and/or knitting Garfield the most uncomfy sweaters 

[edit] Dad

Appears in comic strip and TV Special only

Jon's father who tends the family farm.

[edit] Doc Boy

Appears in comic strip and TV Special only

Jon's only brother who tends to the pigs on the farm, and who is as much a loser as Jon. Resents being called Doc Boy (which is obviously a nickname, for Jon used to call him Iguana Gums). He is apparently younger than Jon.

[edit] Grandma

Appears in comic strip and 2 TV Specials only

She is a Harley-riding, leather-wearing old lady. She loves Jon and Garfield, and occasionally makes appearances throughout the series. The most is revealed about her in Garfield's Christmas special, where it is revealed that her husband has passed away and she talks about her life with him.

(See Jon's Family)

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--62.12.68.105 13:22, 16 May 2009 (UTC)<math>[[Media:[[File:== [[[[''''''''Bold text'''===[[Lyman]]=== ''Appears in comic strip only'' Friend of Jon's who lived with him for a while and was the original owner of Odie. He first appeared on August 7, 1978. However, He disappeared from the comic in 1983 and his disappearance was never fully elaborated upon. His last appearance in the strip was a cameo on Garfield's 10th Birthday June 19, 1988 where he appears in the title panel seated between Jon's Dad and Liz, he also appears in a flashback panel within the strip. Recently, Davis was forced to directly address the issue of 'What happened to Lyman?'. According to Davis, Lyman's original purpose was to be someone who Jon could actually talk to and express other ideas—a role more and more taken over by Garfield himself. Hence he was removed without explanation. The closest thing Davis has ever given to explain his absence is "Don't look in Jon's basement". In the Web game [http://www.garfield.com/fungames/scavengerhunt/scavengerhunt.html "Scary Scavenger Hunt"] he's shown chained onto the wall in the basement of a haunted mansion as well as screaming in a bathtub upstairs (in a scene clearly referencing the "shower scene" in the film ''Psycho''; even the screeching violins from the infamous scene are played here). In [http://www.garfield.com/fungames/scavengerhunt2/scavengerhunt2.html "Scary Scavenger Hunt 2"], his head is found inside the kitchen oven. This "in the basement" joke was revealed by Mr. Davis to not be entirely true. In an interview he mentioned that the real reason the Lyman disappeared was that he joined the Peace Corps and was never heard from again.''''']]]] ==]]]]</math>

[edit] Irma

Appears in comic strip only Waitress and owner of "Irma's Diner", a diner occasionally patronized by Jon and Garfield. The food, service, and mental stability of both Irma and her restaurant are all questionable. For instance, her idea of a "chicken surprise" is her coming up to the table wearing a rubber chicken mask and saying "SURPRISE!" She also referred to "your choice of potatoes" as "cooked" and "raw." However, this may be attributed to her operating the diner 24 hours a day with no help (though in other comics, she is shown to speak to other diner employees). Although her main and most memorable appearances took place earlier in the strip, in 1999 she appeared (updated to match the most recent style of the strip), once again doing wacky things at the diner.

[edit] Dr. Liz Wilson

Garfield's veterinarian and long-time crush of Jon Arbuckle. She occasionally dates him, but these outings always become disasters (often thanks to Garfield tagging along for the ride). She first appeared on June 26, 1979. In a series of live-action films (such as Garfield: The Movie and Garfield's A Tale of Two Kitties), she became Jon Arbuckle's "girlfriend/partner". In the films, she liked Jon more better than in the comic strip and TV Series. In the 2nd Live-Action film, she agreed to marry Jon when he asked her very quickly since he saved the day by being the real hero who punches the villain in the face.

[edit] Herman Post

Jon Arbuckle's mailman. Garfield constantly torments him, and he perpetually tries to find a way to deliver the mail safely, but almost never succeeding.

[edit] Secondary characters

• Hubert and Reba are Jon's stereotypical "grumpy old neighbors".
• Mrs. Feeny is another neighbor, who has never appeared in the strip. Garfield routinely torments her, her little dog, and Mr. Feeny (who have never appeared as well) and as such Mrs. Feeny is always complaining to Jon about Garfield over the phone.
• Ellen is a local girl whom Jon often tries to go out with. She has appeared in the strip once, when she got amnesia, and many strips focus on Jon phoning Ellen asking for a date. She usually asks him to do something very stupid first, before refusing.

• Sonja, Garfield's mother, Garfield's most influential family member. His mother is a stray, and he hardly sees her. But when they do meet, such as in the television special Garfield on the Town and the loose adaptation that ran in the strip in December 1984, she showers him with the love that she can rarely give. She also apeared in the television special "Garfield His 9 Lives.

• Jon's house is also inhabited by mice (usually unnamed, though one of their first appearances shows one of them giving Garfield a business card for "Herman Vermin"), enjoying a quite full social life—to much annoyance of Jon. Garfield, however, cannot be bothered to chase them, and according to him they tend to either bribe or blackmail him to stay so. One particular mouse in the comic strip started appearing in 1984, and was named Squeak by Garfield, but he looked no different from the other mice. (The way you know Garfield is talking to Squeak in particular is when there are no other mice around to confuse him with.) Squeak made a cameo appearance in 1997, a few days before Garfield's 19th birthday. In the cartoon show, there was a significant mouse with a similar role named Floyd, who could be told apart by the fact that he was drawn with oval eyes like the other regulars. A running gag with Floyd was his annoyance with the fact that he didn't appear often.
• Garfield's otherwise boring life is occasionally enriched by spiders, who sometimes walk around the house or dangle from the ceiling—and whom he squishes with rolled-up newspapers. This, of course, leads to several attempts by the spiders to get back at Garfield—unsuccessful in most cases. Garfield does occasionally obtain help from the spiders, such as to get rid of an annoying fly. A spider by the name of Guido has been introduced.
• When dieting, Garfield often has hallucinations. One common hallucination features walking food which encourages Garfield to eat it.
• Three trusty household appliances in the comic are the talking bathroom scale, the alarm clock and the TV. The three objects have quite different personalities: The scale, sometimes known as RX-2, usually allows itself to be quite cynical and crude about Garfield's overweight state. But sometimes when it does so, it gets smashed or thrown into a trash can. A cover on one of the Garfield paperbacks show Garfield putting a foot on the scale and it heaving with agony. The clock usually retracts from ringing loud and waking Garfield, since he tends to smash it into pieces and was once flushed down a toilet because it woke Garfield. The TV also speaks to Garfield by itself on occasion, usually trying to persuade Garfield into continuing to watch it or turning it off. Once, when Garfield fell asleep in front of the TV, the TV yelled at him to turn it off. On an episode of Garfield TV show there was a Twilight Zone-like episode with Garfield trapped in the TV set.
• Clive is Garfield's invisible friend. He is another way through which Garfield plays pranks on and irritates Jon and Odie.

• Binky the Clown is a television personality noted for his extremely loud and piercing greetings, most notably "HEEEEEEEY, KIDS!" First seen in Garfield's Halloween Adventure, the character made his appearance in the strip's longest-running continuing storyline. On Garfield and Friends, Binky became more of a regular, and would modify his greeting to suit who it was he was greeting, such as "HEEEEEEEY, CAT!" He also had his own segment on the show during the second and third seasons, called Screaming With Binky, in which he showed up in the midst of a certain activity and then perform his trademark greeting, ruining said activity. Most of these segments were cut in syndication, but have been restored for the DVD releases.
• Stretch is Garfield's rubber chicken, who was given to Garfield on his 6th birthday. It only appeared for a week after, yet makes cameo appearences from time to time, mainly used as a weapon against Jon.
• Garfield loves to eat sparrows, and has many attempts to catch them (most of the time failing), most notably his "barbeque bird bath" and his various bird disguises.
• A tree is always trying to encourage Garfield to climb him, always ending in Garfield falling for its "same old lies". In the beginning, he sits on a tree branch, but more recently finds himself gripping the branch by his front paws and dangling. Once while stuck up a tree, he meets a cat named Ed who was raised by squirrels and had never walked on the ground before.
• A recurring plot in the strip is Garfield eating Jon's various pet fish, which causes Jon to get mad. In an attempt to prevent Garfield from eating his second pet fish one week, he lets Garfield name it. Ironically, Second Helping (the fish Garfield named) lasted to the end of the strip, an event very rare in a Garfield comic. Another time, he named a fish Sushi.
• A little chick that looks up to Garfield and calls him "Daddy" (it was originally "Mommy" until Garfield explained to the little guy what gender was). He is a nuisance to Garfield who, oddly enough, is reluctant to eat the little guy (for some strange reason, the thought just never crossed his mind). The chick doesn't like lasagna. In the end, Garfield sent the chick away and the chick sadly said, "Goodbye, Daddy," then left. We could then see a tear falling from Garfield' eye, showing that he was upset about the chick leaving.
• A big, vicious dog often enjoys barking at Garfield. His rear end is rarely seen. He is almost always seen next to a "Beware of Dog" sign, hence the name he's been given by several fans (another one is Chain Dog).
• Mondays are another nemesis of Garfield's. Often, they are shown off-panel but causing things to happen in-panel (such as throwing a pie at Garfield). When they are shown, they are drawn as ugly monsters. The most prominent theme was "The Monday That Wouldn't Die", in which every day in the month after a certain Monday was also Monday.
• The Spluts are slapstick-comedy flying pies which strike Garfield upon random occasions, making the sound "splut!" when they hit. Typically the Spluts are used for shock humor or as a running gag ('Garfield: (checks the calendar) "Yep... it's 'Splut week.'")
• The people who throw heavy objects at Garfield when he sings on the fence.
• There's occasionally a dog who usually pops up at the final panel of a strip and harming Garfield in the process, always exclaiming, "____ DOOOGGGG!" with the blank word being his way of entrance. He is dressed in a pilot's cap, a cape, and a shirt that reads the initnals of his name, which varies between his appearances. Examples include, "Trapdoor Dog", "Slingshot Dog", and "Bungee Dog".
• Santa Claus is portrayed as a real, rather than fictional, character in the Garfield strip. This is a rarity as most newspaper comics do not show Santa as someone who actually exists. Belief in Santa is unquestioned, both Garfield and Jon believe in him and Garfield has witnessed him flying in his sleigh, coming down the chimney, and distributing presents. Somehow despite all of the trouble that Garfield gets into he remains on Santa's nice list. On Garfield's first Christmas Eve (December 24, 1978), he received 20 pounds of lasagna, a request which Santa notes nobody else in the world asked for.
• Herbie was Jon's pet frog, but was later inevitably eaten by Garfield,
• Snoopy the dog from the Peanuts comic strip who makes a cameo appearance as a mirror reflection of Garfield on a Monday comic strip.
• In one strip, Odie had a girlfriend (October 3, 2002). She doesn't seem to have appeared in any other strips. Garfield hoped they didn't multiply. This was probably true.

[edit] U.S. Acres Characters

[edit] Main characters

The primary traits of the cartoon's main characters were established during the run of the comic strip, even down to such visual gags as the head on Wade's inner tube having the same facial expression as Wade.

• Orson Pig (Gregg Berger): A kindhearted but often naive bibliophile whose work ethic makes him the functional leader. His good humor being tested is one of the common gags in the cartoons. He tends to avoid conflicts. He sometimes becomes a costumed superhero named Power Pig, which more often than not causes his friends or adversaries to fall down laughing at him. His imagination, especially when reading, is a double-edged sword: it can lead to him being the target or conduit for Roy's tricks, or he might unwittingly solve a real-life problem while imagining himself to be a book's character. It is known to cause mass hallucinations (indeed, one can often deduce that Orson is reading by the change of scenery) or even warp reality. (Oddly enough, this does not happen when he reads bedtime stories to Booker and Sheldon.) In the first two years of the strip's run, Orson had eyelashes like Nermal. First appeared: "Wanted Wade".
• Roy Rooster (Thom Huge): A loud, greedy rooster who endlessly enjoys practical jokes. Except for a few instances, he is tolerated because his job (waking up everyone and 'tending' to chickens) is important, although he does his best to avoid labor whenever possible. He has a special delight in tormenting the easy target of Wade. First appeared: "Wanted Wade".
• Wade Duck (Howard Morris): Wade is the "cowardly craven duck" of the farm. His good nature is sometimes shadowed by his overwhelming hypochondria and phobia of everything from chocolate doughnuts to finding out that it's Tuesday, and especially flying and rain. Wade is so scared of drowning that he constantly wears a kiddie pool inner tube (which, as a recurring joke, has a head like his on the front that always imitates his facial expression and what direction he's looking to match his own). He can be easily driven into an incoherent raving of fear. Unlike the other characters, Wade's eyebrows float above his head. He also has a tendency of pronouncing silent letters in many words (i.e. 'ansWer', 'LincoLn'). First appeared: "Wanted Wade".
• Bo Sheep (Frank Welker): Lanolin's brother. In the comics, he was depicted as being unintelligent, but in the TV series, his personality was closer to that of a stereotypical "surfer dude"[3] with a pleasant, "surfer" drone in his voice. In the television show he is not particularly bright sometimes, but always cool, collected, and dependable. First appeared: "Wanted Wade". Last appeared: "Farmyard Feline Pholosether"
• Lanolin Sheep (Julie Payne): Usually shown as a hard worker but with a personality the polar opposite of her brother: loud and disagreeable (although she actually agrees with everything he says and is often in denial). Also, a lot of times when the rest of the crew was oblivious to Roy's antics, Lanolin was able to figure it out. Was often seen doing laundry despite the fact none of the animals wore clothes. First appeared: "Unidentified Flying Orson". (Her name is that of the grease produced by wool-bearing animals, particularly sheep.)
• Booker (Frank Welker): A chick named by Orson for the pig's love of books. (Booker's comment to Orson about his name: "I'm just glad you don't love kumquats!" (May 23, 1986) Booker and Sheldon were still eggs when Orson found them abandoned and decided to hatch them. Booker is extremely adventurous and (over) confident despite his size. He often chases worms, but can never seem to catch them. In the comic, he often called Orson "Mom", but in the cartoon, when it's discovered how Booker and his brother were hatched, he calls him "Daddy". First appeared: "Wanted Wade" in a cameo.
• Sheldon (Frank Welker): Booker's brother, who refused to hatch completely and appears as a walking egg with chicken feet sticking out of him. A recurring gag is to portray his shell as the perfect living space within (which is known to have a microwave oven, pinball machine, stove, table tennis table and an air conditioner), without ever showing it. In one episode, the shell finally hatched, only to reveal another shell underneath. First appeared: "Shell Shocked Sheldon".

[edit] Secondary characters

NOTE: Most of the following characters only ever appeared in the animated cartoon version of U.S. Acres, or appeared differently in the original comic strip. Orson's brothers, for example, only appeared in the first few weeks of the comic strip, and only received names in the later cartoon adaptation.

• The main characters continually mention the farmer, although he is never seen. For example: "The farmer's not gonna be happy when he sees this mess." His only appearance in the strip was when his daughter, also an unseen character, introduced him to Orson.
• Booker continually chases worms (unnamed), without success.
• The farm's resident chickens (generally unnamed, though Frieda, Louise, Charlotte, Mabel, Valerie, Olivia, Vanna, and Natalie) are often romanced by Roy, as he is usually rescuing them from the Weasel. In one episode, they went on strike because they were sick of working for chicken feed, which is Shell Shocked Sheldon. They remind the Weasel of lunch and dinner.
• Orson's Mom was seen in the first week of the strip, telling Orson that he was special because he was a runt. She also makes an off-screen cameo in a flashback in the cartoon episode "Hog Noon".
• Max the Skateboarding Bird (Tara Jayne) was an overweight bird with a skateboard. He first appeared as an unseen character hiding behind a wall, whom Wade spoke with on October 13, 1986. The last panel of that strip was a call for reader submissions: "Kids: Who's Wade afraid of? You name it and tell me what it is." His physical appearance was revealed on March 3, 1987, using the winning contest entry. Max never appeared again after the week of strips featuring him, although a similar-looking turkey character makes a brief cameo in the cartoon episode "Badtime Story".
• Cody is a dog who only appears in the strip. He likes to attack the other farmyard animals and tries to maul them.
• Blue is a cat who only appears in the strip. She keeps Cody out of trouble.
• Brutus is the farm's local bull. Always angry, he usually charges around if he gets loose. He first appeared in Wade: You're Afraid.
• Mort, Gort, & Wart (Frank Welker, Thom Huge, and Howard Morris, respectively) are Orson's three ugly, mean older brothers, and the only things Orson fears. Originally featured as nameless bullies in the first three weeks of the strip, they usually show up in the cartoon to abuse Orson or steal the gang's crops. Their appearances were almost universally accompanied by a stylized, electric guitar version of "In the Hall of the Mountain King." Their names were revealed in the show's second season: Gort is the ringleader and has yellow eyes, Wart is the tallest with buck teeth, and Mort is the shortest who grunts in his dialogue. First appeared: Keeping Cool. Last appeared: the Monster who couldn't scare anyone.
• Fred Duck (Frank Welker in First Season and Maria Darling In Secend Season), is Wade's geeky cousin, who isn't afraid of flying. (However, he has been known to pack a parachute in case he has a problem while flying.) First appeared: Shy Fly Guy. Last appeared: The Ugly Duckling.
• Weasel (Gregg Berger), often tries to kidnap the chickens so that he can eat them, but is usually stopped by Roy. The only other regularly recurring antagonist (even though he never appeared in the strip), he occasionally attempts to catch and eat Sheldon as well. Apparently, he's not the only weasel around, as one episode also had two completely different weasels, named Waylon and Spence, going after the chickens. The chickens have also been hunted by a Fox early on, and later a Wolf, neither of whom appeared as frequently. First appeared: Shell Shocked Sheldon.
• Plato (Frank Welker), is a brown rooster who applied to be the farm's resident rooster once, and he could easily charm the chickens, much to Roy's chagrin. However, he is also afraid of weasels. After his experience there, he went on to raise a herd of giant bunnies. Cartoons: The Bunny Wabbits is Coming and Cockadoodle Duel.
• Bernie (Gregg Berger), is Roy's agent, who is also an anthropomorphic pig. Sometimes, Roy, upset over how things are going with him, complains to Bernie, demanding him to put him on a different show. Cartoons: Big Bad Buddy Bird and Roy gets Sacked.
• The Incredibly Stupid Swamp Monster (Frank Welker), called Swampy for short, is a robot who ran into the swamp after he was created by Dr. Karloffis Boar (a pun on Boris Karloff) and later became friends with Orson and the gang. The stuff from the swamp stayed on him for him to appear as a swamp monster. As his name suggests, he is incredibly stupid, and according to Wade, he has good billing because his name is in the title of both of the episodes he appears in.
• Chloe, Roy's niece, came to visit her uncle and his co-stars in the sixth season. After her uncle rescued her from the weasel, she took part with the gang in a fantasy based on Snow White. First appeared: Uncle Roy to the Rescue. Last appeared: Snow Wade and the 77 Dwarfs, part 2.
• Aloysius Pig (Kevin Meaney), Orson's pushy cousin, took charge in a few episodes of the seventh season. He bean-counted every scene, looking for anything that might be the least bit objectionable or cutting out anything that would be slightly considered over the show's budget, to the annoyance of the rest of the cast. His catchphrase is "That's not right!!"
• Edward R. Furrow, a badger psychiatrist. He is a parody on Edward R. Murrow.

[edit] Television series only

• Cactus Jake is the foreman of the Polecat Flats ranch, and a friend of Jon. He was seen only in the TV series and had a habit of saying Garfield's name wrong. Whenever Garfield wore a cowboy outfit, Jake always believed that he really was a cowboy named "Shorty" (Jon would always recognize "Shorty" as Garfield, however.)

• Al G. Swindler is, as his name suggests, a swindler, often conning Jon whenever he can, not to mention mispronouncing his last name. He only appeared in the TV series, and at the end of the episodes he was in, he would usually say, "It's getting tougher and tougher to make an honest buck these days." In the end of the episode Home Sweet Swindler, he is dressed up as a ghost-exterminator, a parody of Ghostbusters. (see picture right)

• The Buddy Bears are a trio of annoying singing bear cubs who encourage viewers to "always agree with the group" (similar to The Get-Along Gang). Their names are Bobby, Billy, and Bertie. The only disagreement they've ever had was over pizza toppings, which supposedly no one can agree on. Their show once replaced Binky's, and Roy Rooster from U.S. Acres has twice been stuck as their fall guy. Garfield has remarked that he "hates Buddy Bear episodes". In the episode "The Garfield Opera", the bears' full names are revealed to be Robert, William, and Bertram, respectively. Infrequently, they are accompanied by their sister, Betty Buddy Bear.

In the episode Learning Lessons, so far, their first biggest appearance is that they keep explaining infamous fun facts about Garfield's every move, and they fail when they can't come up with the definition of the bluffed-word made up by Garfield, Gazordinplat.

Roy Rooster had two episodes focusing on him as the fourth Buddy Bear.

• Man-Eating Plant is a plant that only appears in the Season 2 episode One Good Fern Deserves Another. He is a parody of the plant monster and

alien Audrey-II from the film and musical Little Shop of Horrors. Jon bought him accidentally when the plant's garden home keeper thought that the plant was a Leprelectus Totta, and the plant attacked Garfield, Odie, and Jon. The plant also parodies the cover of the DVD of Little Shop of Horrors by holding up Garfield, Odie, and Jon with a open mouth in one scene. Garfield tried to eat the plant using Thousand-Island Dressing. Jon also thought when Garfield was being attacked by the plant, he thought Garfield was playing and trying to eat the plant, and when the plant attacked Jon, Garfield told a very mistaken Jon, "You said about me letting go of the fern?!". Soon, the plant store keeper used a shock wire to make the plant go back to being.... an inanimate plant. Soon, the store keeper said that the plant will go straight through glass.

• Madman Murray is a caricature of the type of estatic salesmen seen advertising used cars on television. Somewhat like Swindler, Madman is continually conning Jon out of his money. However, Madman's appearances on the show do not typically end with Garfield outsmarting him as often.

• Penelope served as another love interest for Garfield, appearing only in the show's last three seasons, quickly becoming a regular even with only three episodes being labeled by their titles as "Penelope episodes". She lives in an Italian restaurant, which is no doubt the main reason that Garfield goes out with her. The fact that Garfield enjoys eating more annoys Penelope, but she willingly goes out with him anyway, because as she says, "It doesn't matter what we do so long as we do it together."

• Ludlow is a young sparrow who appeared during the last two seasons, and who sounded somewhat like Augie Doggy. Being young and impressionable, he believes that Garfield is his friend, and as a result, Garfield cannot bring himself to eat him. Ludlow's dad distrusts cats, and therefore is agressive to Garfield.

• The Singing Ants are a group of black ants who showed up to ruin Jon's picnic in the season five episode "The Picnic Panic". They are referred to as the Singing Ants because they make their appearance announcing what they do, which is to steal food from picnics, by way of song. The ants proved to be so popular with viewers that two seasons later, the ants reappeared in the aptly-titled "Another Ant Episodes". This time, though, they were red ants, and they had come to steal all the food in Jon's house. The Ants are perhaps the only antagonistic characters whom Garfield cannot succeed in outsmarting.

• Mr. Burnside is Jon's next-door neighbor, who is constantly annoyed by Garfield stealing his food. He soon develops a strong phobia of Garfield

and sees everything in view as Garfield, like policemen, regular people, building citizens, and his wife, a homage to the movie 101 Dalmations. He had one episode focusing on him in Season 6, which is where he developed the phobia. He first appeared and is mentioned by name in How To Drive A Human Crazy as the angry mob's leader chasing Jon Arbuckle accusing him for putting up the giant bad instrumental noise caused by Garfield.

[edit] Garfield gets Real

Shecky is a fan of Garfield and his comic trip and knows all about the characters, even though he doesn't believe they're really from The Cartoon World. Later in the movie, he introduces Garfield and Odie,Waldo, and Shelia. He was tied by Hale and Hardy with Garfield and Odie, but they were all rescued. He also made an appearance in Garfield's Fun Fest, doing his performance.

Hale and Hardy are the main antagonists in the movie. they were one of comic strip competitors at the Daily Indiana Chronicle Newspapers to replace Garfield's comic Strip. However, before they could be chose, Garfield and Odie was given a chance to return to the newspapers (including the Comic World) before 24 hours were up. Later at night time, Hale and Hardy tied Garfield, Odie, and Shecky by the legs. But soon, they were all saved, and the next day, Hale and Hardy were fighting each other because of Garfield and Odie returning into the Cartoon World to make their Comic Strips back into the Newspapers.

[edit] Garfield's Fun Fest

• Ramone is the main antagonist in the film Garfield's Fun Fest. He is a Mexican cat with a cheesy accent attached

to Arlene's beauty. In the end, it s revealed that Ramone is a cyborg, but than, after revealed he is a cyborg, he is actually Nermal in a robot disguise, and Nermal had cheated in the Fun Fest to claim the trophy and award for himself to end Garfield's championship reign over the Fun Fest Awards. Ramone was the MC of the Fun Fest, and this can explain why Garfield was absent. While battling Garfield at the Fun Fest, Garfield pulled off his arm, but then Ramone was still able to dance with Arlene, but she had now realized she was kissed and romanced by a robot. Garfield pulled off one of his legs, but then, Ramone still only had body that was functioned. Garifeld finally tore off the mask of Ramone, and Nermal's face was revealed!