In Garfield: The Movie, the titular cat sings this song when he is locked in a cage.

During the course of appearing in several of the Ma and Pa Kettle movies during the 1950s as Susie Kettle, one of the titular couple's numerous children, Jackson also appeared in The Breaking Point with John Garfield, the actor's penultimate role before his sudden death two years later.

The song was used to promote the 2004 film Garfield: The Movie which stars Bill Murray in the titular role.

Published since June 19, 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield ( named after Davis's grandfather ); his owner, Jon Arbuckle ; and Arbuckle's dog, Odie.

Originally created with the intentions to " come up with a good, marketable character ", Garfield has spawned merchandise earning $ 750 million to $ 1 billion annually.

Garfield was originally created by Davis with the intention to come up with a " good, marketable character ".

While some critics lauded the casting of Bill Murray as the voice of the title character, Garfield: The Movie met with mostly negative reviews: Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times called it " soulless excuse for entertainment ", while Desson Thomson of The Washington Post said of the film " There's nothing to recommend about this film except its sheer innocuousness ".

A television cartoon show, Garfield and Friends aired for seven seasons from 1988 to 1994 ; this adaption also starred Music as the voice of Garfield, one of the very last times Lorenzo Music would voice the character was in Garfield's Phone Messages from the Official Garfield site before his death.

Frequently, the characters break the fourth wall, mostly to explain something to the readers, talk about a subject that often sets up the strip's punchline ( like Jon claiming that pets are good for exercise right before he finds Garfield in the kitchen and chases him out ), or give a mere glare when a character is belittled or not impressed.

Garfield often engages in one-to two-week-long ( 6 to 12 days, excluding Sundays ) interactions with a minor character, event, or thing, such as Nermal, Arlene, the mailman, alarm clocks, a talking scale, the TV, Pooky, spiders, mice, balls of yarn, dieting, shedding, pie throwing, fishing, vacations, etc.

In the Garfield comics and shows, the title character hates Mondays, and is frequently harmed during them.

" The play opened in February 1935 and Garfield was singled out by critic Brooks Atkinson for having a " splendid sense of character development.

The internet has allowed for art to be remixed quite easily, as evidenced by sites like memgenerator. net ( provides pictorial template upon which any words may be written by various anonymous users ), and Dan Walsh's Garfieldminusgarfield. net ( removes the main character from various original strips by Garfield creator Jim Davis ).

Belyayev is also used as a character in Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens 2005 novel, Freefall, in which he is the first person to land on the moon, hours before Apollo 11.

Producers needed someone to voice the main character in the strip: Garfield, a lazy, oafish and demanding cat.

Meanwhile, Frank Welker also provided the voice of Ray Stantz on The Real Ghostbusters, and Music lost his role as Peter Venkman and was replaced by Dave Coulier when Murray complained to the studio that his character sounded too much like Garfield.

Hatton Garden features in the 1967 children's novel Smith by Leon Garfield, where the main character tries to elude two pursuers through the crumbling streets of 18th century Holborn.

* Doc Boy, a character from the Garfield series

* Lyman, an early Garfield comic character

In the Garfield show he uses the voice for a talking scale that comes to life and makes fat jokes at Garfield ( another character he voice ).

For many of the Film Roman Garfield specials, Rawls would often compose songs for them, which he would then sing usually doing a duet with Desiree Goyette, as well as the singing voice of the title character himself.

In 1982 he auditioned for the well known comic book character Garfield but lost to Lorenzo Music.

Odie is the only animal character who doesn't communicate with any form of dialogue, solely communicating with body language and his enthusiastic barking and other dog sound effects, although Garfield is able to understand what he says.

When Al was 11, the Capone family moved to 38 Garfield Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 1994 and 1995 and is also one of only three cricketers to receive the prestigious BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne.

He attended as operating surgeon when President Garfield was fatally wounded by the bullet of an assassin in 1881.

One was an independent distributed by MGM, the industry leader: Force of Evil ( 1948 ), directed by Abraham Polonsky and starring John Garfield, both of whom would be blacklisted in the 1950s.

* Jim Davis, famed cartoonist of the comic strip Garfield, was raised in Fairmount.

Garfield: The Movie was the strip's first feature film.

In 2007, the CGI movie Garfield Gets Real was released, followed by Garfield's Fun Fest in 2008, and Garfield's Pet Force in 2009.

Also, Garfield Lasagna World Tour was also made for PS2.

A full-length stage musical, titled " Garfield Live ", was planned to kick off its US tour in September 2010, but got moved to January 18, 2011, where it premiered in Muncie, IN.

Also, there was a storyline involving Garfield catching Odie eating his food and “ kicking Odie into next week .” Soon, Garfield realizes that “ Lunch isn ’ t the same without Odie.

On June 19, 2007, Garfield was given the greatest birthday present: “ I ’ M OFF MY DIET !” Occasionally the strip celebrates Halloween as well with scary-themed jokes, such as mask gags.

Another story involved Jon going away on a business trip around Christmas time, leaving Garfield a week's worth of food ( it was more like 11 second's worth of food ) which he devoured instantly, so Garfield leaves his house and gets locked out.

Part of this storyline was taken from the 1983 Emmy-winning special Garfield on the Town.

Garfield: Big Fat Hairy Deal is a 1987 video game for the Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and the Amiga based on the comic strip.

Sega also made video games based on Garfield for the Genesis ( Garfield Caught in the Act ) and Windows 3. 1 computers, as well as other companies made games, such as A Tale of Two Kitties for the DS, published by Game Factory, Garfield's Nightmare for DS, Garfield's Funfest for DS, and Garfield Labyrinth for Game Boy.

On April 19, 1917, the borough became the City of Garfield, based on the results of a referendum held two days earlier.

The USAT President Polk, a cargo liner impressed into service as an Army transport, embarked 55 P-40s, an equal number of pilots and ground crews gathered from four groups based in California ( including 27 pilots off the President Garfield ), and sailed without escort on 18 December, reaching Brisbane on 13 January 1942.

Her many films include Boom Town ( 1940 ) with Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, Comrade X with Gable, White Cargo ( 1942 ), and Tortilla Flat ( 1942 ) with Tracy and John Garfield, based on the novel by John Steinbeck.

Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield.

It was written by Bryan Forbes and Brian Garfield, based on Garfield's novel of the same name.

Among her final roles was voicing characters in Garfield and Friends, based on the Jim Davis cartoon series ( 1994 ).

This trend can be seen in numerous TV series such as A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, The Flintstone Kids, Baby Felix, Tiny Toon Adventures, Tom and Jerry Kids and Jungle Cubs ( based on characters from Walt Disney's animated film " The Jungle Book ") as well as merchandise items such as Baby Snoopy, Baby ( Betty ) Boop, Disney Babies, Baby Hello Kitty, Care Bear Cubs, and Baby Garfield.

Garfield and Friends is an American animated television series based on the comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis.

When the show was originally broadcast on CBS, the episodes usually had three Quickies ( 30-to 45-second gags which were based on original Garfield and U. S. Acres strips, rather than original made-for-TV stories ), usually two " Garfield Quickies " ( the first one being played before the intro theme ) and one " U. S. Acres Quickie ," the latter of which was never shown in syndication ( except occasionally, mainly whenever a Quickie had something to do with the regular full episode it followed ; e. g. the ‘ U. S. Acres Quickie ’ that follows the episode “ Moo Cow Mutt ” ).

In the live-action films based on the Garfield franchise, he is played by a dachshund though an actual beagle was seen at the talent show scene as one of the dogs barking at Garfield.

Hale and Hardy, the accented, musclebound dachshunds in Garfield Gets Real, are likely based on Hans and Franz.

Jim Davis has based some jokes starring Garfield upon this technique ; for example, in one strip, Garfield is unable to sleep because his Z-bubble is pointing in the wrong direction.

Modern scientometrics is mostly based on the work of Derek J. de Solla Price and Eugene Garfield.

In 1985, CBS ' head of children's programming Judy Price had commissioned a animated television series based on the Garfield prime time special series, later ultimately titled Garfield and Friends, which took three years for Roman to decide developing and producing the program before it eventually aired on the network's Saturday morning time slot, premiering on September 17, 1988.