Garfield's Holiday Celebrations
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Garfield's Holiday Celebrations is a DVD compilation of the 3 Garfield holiday specials, Garfield's Halloween Adventure
, Garfield's Thanksgiving
, and A Garfield Christmas
. This DVD was released October 16, 2004.
Garfield's Halloween Adventure
Garfield is awakened by the Binky The Clown Show and learns that it is Halloween
. Garfield enlists Odie
's help in Trick-or-treating
, hoping to get twice as much candy
for himself by fooling Odie into saying that "good dogs get one piece of candy". After trying on different costumes in the attic, Garfield and Odie settle on pirate costume
s.
Soon they are out trick-or-treating amongst other children in the neighborhood. After three encounters with what appear to be real ghost
s and goblin
s in costume, the pair find that they have visited every house in the neighborhood. Garfield notices more houses across the river, so he and Odie take a boat to get to the other side (because the river ferry doesn't run at night and that is why children on either side can't cross the river for more candy), but Odie misunderstands Garfield's command to "put out the oars" and throws the oars overboard, leaving the boat adrift as the current takes it down the river.
Soon the boat arrives at an abandoned dock
near a run-down mansion
. Garfield and Odie venture inside the home to warm next to the fireplace
and are startled to find an old man sitting in a nearby chair. The man tells the pair that they have chosen the wrong night to visit - 100 years ago that very night, pirates, pursued by government troops, buried their treasure
in the floor of the mansion and signed a blood oath to return for the treasure at midnight
100 years later, even if it meant rising from the grave. The old man claimed to be the cabin boy
, now 110 years old, who was with the pirates and that he never took the treasure for himself because the pirates would've tracked him down and that "they know we are here, they know where we are". Before Garfield and Odie can leave, the old man steals their boat and leaves the two behind.
The clock chimes midnight and Garfield and Odie watch as a ghostly ship materializes on the river and pirate ghosts emerge from the water. Garfield and Odie hide in an empty cupboard
as the ghosts reclaim their buried treasure from the floorboards of the house. As the cat and dog stay where they are, one of the ghosts blow the dust off of the treasure chest and it goes into Odie's nose. When Odie sneeze
s, it alerts the ghosts to their whereabouts. Making a run for it, Garfield and Odie jump into the river to escape, where Odie has to save Garfield as he cannot swim.
Garfield and Odie wash ashore and find their boat with the candy still inside and untouched. They go home happy and Garfield rewards Odie's rescue by (reluctantly) giving him his rightful share of the ½ of the candy. Garfield then turns on the television
and sees the same old man, (this time wearing the pirate hat Garfield lost while in the river) hosting an all-night pirate movie festival. Garfield abruptly turns off the television and goes to bed.
Garfield's Thanksgiving
Garfield (voiced by Lorenzo Music
) wakes Jon up from bed and makes Jon make him pancakes (as said by Garfield "Pancakes the size of Austrilia"). Then he discoveres that he has to go to the vet on the day before Thanksgiving. He tries to fool Jon (voiced by Thom Huge) by ripping out the calendar day.
Jon and Garfield go to the store to buy food for Thanksgiving. Jon makes a left with Garfield saying "This isn't the way home.". Garfield discovers his plan failed with Jon saying "We're going to the vet, Garfield." Garfield freaks out and the car goes out of control (it even crashes a little bit).
While at the vet, Jon tries to ask Liz to dinner the next day, but she turns him down. Jon decides to hold his breath while she details the diet that Garfield must go on. Both he and Garfield faint. Liz changes her mind about the date (saying "I hate to see a grown man suffer").
At home, Odie uses a whistle to hassle Garfield into his diet (he discovers it was Jon's idea.) Garfield gets his revenge and becomes a sourpuss, destroys his scale and ruins the vegetables.
Liz arrives and realizes the diet is too strict for Garfield. With clues, Garfield gets Jon to call Grandma, who saves the day. Jon gets a kiss on the cheek from Liz and Garfield goes back to tormenting Odie.
A Garfield Christmas
Garfield
wakes up to see Jon
dressed as an elf
, who says it is Christmas
and Garfield must be treated to a large amount of lasanga and get his gift, which consists of a robotic Santa which reads minds and produces whatever Garfield wants, pleasing him.
Garfield wakes up and sees Jon say it is Christmas Eve and that Garfield, Jon, and Odie
are going to the countryside to celebrate Christmas with Jon's family on their farm. Garfield hates the farm.
Jon, Odie, and Garfield get to the farm and meet sweet and always cooking Mom, hard working farmer
Dad, mischievous younger brother Doc Boy, and the tough as nails Grandma
(This special is Jon's family's debut appearance in cartoon). Meanwhile Odie is busy working on something secretive. Grandma and Garfield eventually grow a special bond. That night Garfield finds out about Odie's suspicious activity and follows him into the barn
. While there he stumbles upon some old letters.
The next morning is Christmas and just when it seems like all the presents have been opened, Garfield gives Grandma the letters he found in the barn. These letters were love note written to Grandma by her late husband
from when they first met and courted. Garfield finds out that Odie had been busy making Garfield the ultimate Christmas gift: a homemade back scratcher. This is a rare glimpse at Garfield's other side, as he learns one of the true meanings of Christmas.
Garfield's Halloween Adventure
Garfield's Halloween Adventure is a 1985 American animated television special based on the Garfield comic strip. It features Lorenzo Music, who later voiced the character in the animated series Garfield and Friends, as the voice of Garfield...
, Garfield's Thanksgiving
Garfield's Thanksgiving
Garfield's Thanksgiving is a 1989 animated television special based on the Garfield comic strip. It once again featured Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield. The special was first broadcast November 22, 1989 on CBS. It has been released on both VHS and DVD home video...
, and A Garfield Christmas
A Garfield Christmas
A Garfield Christmas is a 1987 American animated television special based on the Garfield comic strip. It once again featured Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield. The special was first broadcast December 21, 1987 on CBS and was rebroadcast on CBS every year thereafter until 2000. Fox owned the...
. This DVD was released October 16, 2004.
Garfield's Halloween AdventureGarfield's Halloween AdventureGarfield's Halloween Adventure is a 1985 American animated television special based on the Garfield comic strip. It features Lorenzo Music, who later voiced the character in the animated series Garfield and Friends, as the voice of Garfield...
Garfield is awakened by the Binky The Clown Show and learns that it is HalloweenHalloween
Hallowe'en , also known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day...
. Garfield enlists Odie
Odie
Odie is a fictional character in the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield. He has also appeared in Garfield and Friends, The Garfield Show, two live-action feature films, and 3 CGI films....
's help in Trick-or-treating
Trick-or-treating
Trick-or-treating or "Guising", is a customary practice for children on Halloween in many countries. Children in costumes travel from house to house in order to ask for treats such as candy with the question "Trick or treat?"...
, hoping to get twice as much candy
Candy
Candy, specifically sugar candy, is a confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water, to which flavorings and colorants are added...
for himself by fooling Odie into saying that "good dogs get one piece of candy". After trying on different costumes in the attic, Garfield and Odie settle on pirate costume
Costume
The term costume can refer to wardrobe and dress in general, or to the distinctive style of dress of a particular people, class, or period. Costume may also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, poem, or play, appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances...
s.
Soon they are out trick-or-treating amongst other children in the neighborhood. After three encounters with what appear to be real ghost
Ghost
In traditional belief and fiction, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living. Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to...
s and goblin
Goblin
A goblin is a legendary evil or mischievous illiterate creature, a grotesquely evil or evil-like phantom.They are attributed with various abilities, temperaments and appearances depending on the story and country of origin. In some cases, goblins have been classified as constantly annoying little...
s in costume, the pair find that they have visited every house in the neighborhood. Garfield notices more houses across the river, so he and Odie take a boat to get to the other side (because the river ferry doesn't run at night and that is why children on either side can't cross the river for more candy), but Odie misunderstands Garfield's command to "put out the oars" and throws the oars overboard, leaving the boat adrift as the current takes it down the river.
Soon the boat arrives at an abandoned dock
Pier
A pier is a raised structure, including bridge and building supports and walkways, over water, typically supported by widely spread piles or pillars...
near a run-down mansion
Mansion
A mansion is a very large dwelling house. U.S. real estate brokers define a mansion as a dwelling of over . A traditional European mansion was defined as a house which contained a ballroom and tens of bedrooms...
. Garfield and Odie venture inside the home to warm next to the fireplace
Fireplace
A fireplace is an architectural structure to contain a fire for heating and, especially historically, for cooking. A fire is contained in a firebox or firepit; a chimney or other flue allows gas and particulate exhaust to escape...
and are startled to find an old man sitting in a nearby chair. The man tells the pair that they have chosen the wrong night to visit - 100 years ago that very night, pirates, pursued by government troops, buried their treasure
Buried treasure
A buried treasure is an important part of the popular beliefs surrounding pirates and Old West outlaws. According to popular conception, criminals and others often buried their stolen fortunes in remote places, intending to return for them later, often with the use of treasure maps.-Pirate...
in the floor of the mansion and signed a blood oath to return for the treasure at midnight
Midnight
Midnight is the transition time period from one day to the next: the moment when the date changes. In the Roman time system, midnight was halfway between sunset and sunrise, varying according to the seasons....
100 years later, even if it meant rising from the grave. The old man claimed to be the cabin boy
Cabin boy
A Cabin boy or ship's boy is a boy who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship, especially running errands for the captain....
, now 110 years old, who was with the pirates and that he never took the treasure for himself because the pirates would've tracked him down and that "they know we are here, they know where we are". Before Garfield and Odie can leave, the old man steals their boat and leaves the two behind.
The clock chimes midnight and Garfield and Odie watch as a ghostly ship materializes on the river and pirate ghosts emerge from the water. Garfield and Odie hide in an empty cupboard
Cupboard
A cupboard or press is a type of cabinet, often made of wood, used indoors to store household objects such as food, crockery, textiles and liquor, and protect them from dust,vermin and dirt....
as the ghosts reclaim their buried treasure from the floorboards of the house. As the cat and dog stay where they are, one of the ghosts blow the dust off of the treasure chest and it goes into Odie's nose. When Odie sneeze
Sneeze
A sneeze is a semi-autonomous, convulsive expulsion of air from the lungs through the nose and mouth, usually caused by foreign particles irritating the nasal mucosa...
s, it alerts the ghosts to their whereabouts. Making a run for it, Garfield and Odie jump into the river to escape, where Odie has to save Garfield as he cannot swim.
Garfield and Odie wash ashore and find their boat with the candy still inside and untouched. They go home happy and Garfield rewards Odie's rescue by (reluctantly) giving him his rightful share of the ½ of the candy. Garfield then turns on the television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and sees the same old man, (this time wearing the pirate hat Garfield lost while in the river) hosting an all-night pirate movie festival. Garfield abruptly turns off the television and goes to bed.
Garfield's ThanksgivingGarfield's ThanksgivingGarfield's Thanksgiving is a 1989 animated television special based on the Garfield comic strip. It once again featured Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield. The special was first broadcast November 22, 1989 on CBS. It has been released on both VHS and DVD home video...
Garfield (voiced by Lorenzo MusicLorenzo Music
Lorenzo Music was an American actor, voice actor, writer, television producer and musician. His best-known roles include voicing the animated cartoon cat Garfield, and Carlton the doorman on the CBS sitcom Rhoda...
) wakes Jon up from bed and makes Jon make him pancakes (as said by Garfield "Pancakes the size of Austrilia"). Then he discoveres that he has to go to the vet on the day before Thanksgiving. He tries to fool Jon (voiced by Thom Huge) by ripping out the calendar day.
Jon and Garfield go to the store to buy food for Thanksgiving. Jon makes a left with Garfield saying "This isn't the way home.". Garfield discovers his plan failed with Jon saying "We're going to the vet, Garfield." Garfield freaks out and the car goes out of control (it even crashes a little bit).
While at the vet, Jon tries to ask Liz to dinner the next day, but she turns him down. Jon decides to hold his breath while she details the diet that Garfield must go on. Both he and Garfield faint. Liz changes her mind about the date (saying "I hate to see a grown man suffer").
At home, Odie uses a whistle to hassle Garfield into his diet (he discovers it was Jon's idea.) Garfield gets his revenge and becomes a sourpuss, destroys his scale and ruins the vegetables.
Liz arrives and realizes the diet is too strict for Garfield. With clues, Garfield gets Jon to call Grandma, who saves the day. Jon gets a kiss on the cheek from Liz and Garfield goes back to tormenting Odie.
A Garfield ChristmasA Garfield ChristmasA Garfield Christmas is a 1987 American animated television special based on the Garfield comic strip. It once again featured Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield. The special was first broadcast December 21, 1987 on CBS and was rebroadcast on CBS every year thereafter until 2000. Fox owned the...
GarfieldGarfield (character)
Garfield is a fictional character and the title protagonist from the comic strip Garfield created by Jim Davis.-Personality:Garfield is an anthropomorphic ginger cat. He loves eating , and sleeping. He is teased about being overweight. He is also selfish...
wakes up to see Jon
Jon Arbuckle
Jonathan Q. Arbuckle is a character from the Garfield comic strip by Jim Davis. He has also appeared in the animated television series Garfield and Friends, the computer-animated The Garfield Show, and two live-action feature films....
dressed as an elf
Elf
An elf is a being of Germanic mythology. The elves were originally thought of as a race of divine beings endowed with magical powers, which they use both for the benefit and the injury of mankind...
, who says it is Christmas
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
and Garfield must be treated to a large amount of lasanga and get his gift, which consists of a robotic Santa which reads minds and produces whatever Garfield wants, pleasing him.
Garfield wakes up and sees Jon say it is Christmas Eve and that Garfield, Jon, and Odie
Odie
Odie is a fictional character in the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield. He has also appeared in Garfield and Friends, The Garfield Show, two live-action feature films, and 3 CGI films....
are going to the countryside to celebrate Christmas with Jon's family on their farm. Garfield hates the farm.
Jon, Odie, and Garfield get to the farm and meet sweet and always cooking Mom, hard working farmer
Farmer
A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, who raises living organisms for food or raw materials, generally including livestock husbandry and growing crops, such as produce and grain...
Dad, mischievous younger brother Doc Boy, and the tough as nails Grandma
Grandma
Grandma is a female grandparent.Grandma may also refer to:*Grandma , a comic strip from 1948 to 1969*Khonnor or Grandma, an electronic musician-See also:*Grandmama *Granma...
(This special is Jon's family's debut appearance in cartoon). Meanwhile Odie is busy working on something secretive. Grandma and Garfield eventually grow a special bond. That night Garfield finds out about Odie's suspicious activity and follows him into the barn
Barn
A barn is an agricultural building used for storage and as a covered workplace. It may sometimes be used to house livestock or to store farming vehicles and equipment...
. While there he stumbles upon some old letters.
The next morning is Christmas and just when it seems like all the presents have been opened, Garfield gives Grandma the letters he found in the barn. These letters were love note written to Grandma by her late husband
Husband
A husband is a male participant in a marriage. The rights and obligations of the husband regarding his spouse and others, and his status in the community and in law, vary between cultures and has varied over time...
from when they first met and courted. Garfield finds out that Odie had been busy making Garfield the ultimate Christmas gift: a homemade back scratcher. This is a rare glimpse at Garfield's other side, as he learns one of the true meanings of Christmas.
Trivia
- Versions of this DVD outside North AmericaNorth AmericaNorth America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
have Garfield in the RoughGarfield in the RoughGarfield in the Rough is a half-hour animated television special based on the Garfield comic strip. It once again featured Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield. The special was first broadcast October 26, 1984 on CBS...
in place of Garfield's ThanksgivingGarfield's ThanksgivingGarfield's Thanksgiving is a 1989 animated television special based on the Garfield comic strip. It once again featured Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield. The special was first broadcast November 22, 1989 on CBS. It has been released on both VHS and DVD home video...
. - This DVD has the re-animated version of A Garfield ChristmasA Garfield ChristmasA Garfield Christmas is a 1987 American animated television special based on the Garfield comic strip. It once again featured Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield. The special was first broadcast December 21, 1987 on CBS and was rebroadcast on CBS every year thereafter until 2000. Fox owned the...
with an extra scene [the piano situation] and another version of Garfield sitting on Grandma Arbuckle's lap while Grandma tells him about her deceased husband. [The version is copyrighted 1991 because of that]. - This DVD was released a week after Garfield: The Movie was released on DVD.