Garfield, the titular character, was based on the cats Davis was around growing up ; he took his name and personality from Davis's grandfather James A. Garfield Davis, who was, in Davis's words, " a large cantankerous man ".

Most trips end up embarrassing because Garfield will pig out, or Jon will do something stupid, including wearing an ugly shirt, which happened one night when he took Liz on a date.

When Chester Arthur took office in 1881, he ordered renovations to the White House to take place as soon as the recently widowed Lucretia Garfield moved out.

Although his desire was to continue his Army service, Garfield reluctantly took his seat in Congress upon resigning his military commission in December 1863.

Garfield took morning classes and began volunteering time at the Lab after hours, auditing rehearsals, building and painting scenery, and doing crew work.

In the latter film, Garfield took a featured, but supporting, part because he believed deeply in the film's exposé of antisemitism in America.

On the third Saturday in June 1894, a public school children ’ s celebration of Flag Day took place in Chicago at Douglas, Garfield, Humboldt, Lincoln, and Washington Parks.

It took Keene 15 years to realize that Kaiser had forced Garfield to ask Keene to become his replacement.

Due to the chaos on the board, Keene at first took control with the vague title of Executive Associate, but it soon became clear to everyone that he was actually in charge and Garfield was to become a lobbyist and " ambassador " for the HMO concept.

Vitale took his first job as a coach at an elementary school in Garfield, New Jersey in 1959.

" When Jon took Odie for a run down a street, Odie ( Garfield ) said tiringly " I had enough sport for a lifetime!

An investigation into the Star Routes corruption took place under President James A. Garfield in 1881.

A resurgence of graft took place in 1878 in the Hayes Administration, continuing into the Garfield Administration.

He was born Garfield Blackman in Barrackpore, Trinidad and Tobago, and rose to fame as Lord Shorty with his 1963 hit " Clock and Dagger " and took on the name Ras Shorty. He started out writing songs and performing in the calypso genre.

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.

" Davis took the advice to heart and killed off the character Gnorm by means of having him stepped on by a foot, and Davis then turned to Garfield.

They set off for home with Garfield bragging over how he took on the panther.

After one audition, Music was cast as the voice of Garfield ( in Davis's words, " I looked at the room full of ( voice ) actors, and then in the corner I saw Lorenzo, quietly licking himself ").

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 ” ).

Miriam grants Garfield full immunity in exchange for his testifying against Dietrich.

* At the end, there is no mention of any latter diets, and while Odie and Garfield sit comfortably with their full bellies as Jon sees Liz out the door, the three agree unanimously that they have one person to thank: Grandma.

In 1912 he created a complete master plan for Garfield Park, one of only a few parks for which he completed a full plan.

* The Romanov Succession by Brian Garfield: taking advantage of the 1941 Nazi attack on the Soviet Union, Russian exiles attempt to assassinate Soviet premier Joseph Stalin and restore the monarchy.

It may be that Odie is actually smarter than he appears, and merely uses the idiotic front as a means to gain an advantage over Garfield.

This advantage showed particularly in the hotly contested presidential election of 1880 which saw James A. Garfield elected.

With a reduced agenda on the Military Affairs Committee, Garfield was placed on the House Ways and Means Committee, a long-awaited opportunity to focus exclusively on financial and economic issues.

A strong-willed and often verbally combative individual, Garfield did not hesitate to venture out on his own when the opportunity arose.

While he was leaving him and Melendez for his already-established studio, Roman was offered the opportunity to produce the next Garfield prime time special, Garfield in the Rough ( 1984 ), for CBS by Mendelson, which he accepted and went on to produce and direct it all by himself, winning an Emmy in the process.

Other times Garfield tries to put the blame on Odie for some of the mishaps he has done.

Like Chase, Garfield became a staunch proponent of " honest money " or " specie payment " backed by a gold standard, and was therefore a strong opponent of the " greenback "; he regretted very much, but understood, the necessity for suspension of specie payment during the emergency presented by the Civil War.

The greenback so despised by Garfield

Garfield also pursued his anti-inflationist campaign against the greenback through his work on the bill for a national bank system.

Garfield ’ s Jim Davis, for example, switched with Blondie ’ s Stan Drake, while Scott Adams ( Dilbert ) traded strips with Bil Keane ( The Family Circus ).

Garfield and Mutts were known during the mid-to-late 80s and 1990s respectively for their throwaways on their Sunday strips, however both strips now run " generic " title panels.

Adams later said that fans should stick to posting Garfield strips, as no one gets fired for that.

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.

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.

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

Garfield is an orange, fuzzy, tabby cat born in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant ( later revealed in the television special Garfield: His 9 Lives to be Mama Leoni's Italian Restaurant ) and immediately ate all the pasta and lasagna in sight, thus developing his love and obsession for lasagna and pizza.