The next day, Garfield wakes up in Jon's house and realized that his entire experience may have been a dream, but when he sees his mother departing from Jon's front yard, Garfield knows that she is still looking out for him.

In a brightly decorated house, Garfield is awakened by Jon dressed as an elf, who says it is Christmas and Garfield must be treated to a large amount of lasagna before opening his gift, which consists of a robotic Santa Claus which reads minds and produces whatever Garfield wants, pleasing him until Jon actually wakes Garfield up and realizes he was dreaming.

Garfield ( voiced by Lorenzo Music ) wakes Jon early and demands to be fed.

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 ").

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.

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, 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 ".

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

Though Garfield can be very cynical, he does have a soft side for his teddy bear, Pooky, food and sleep, but one Christmas he says " they say I have to get up early, be nice to people, skip breakfast, not play with mice ... I wish it would never end.

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.

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.

He always slips up behind me, barks loudly and makes me fall into my food ,” ( Garfield subsequently falls into his food by himself ).

After a series of events, including Odie being adopted by a small girl, both pets meeting up at a circus that they briefly joined, and both going to a pet shop, Garfield and Odie make it back home.

He grew up in Auburn, Washington and graduated from Garfield Senior High School in Seattle.

After preaching briefly at Franklin Circle Christian Church ( 1857 – 58 ), Garfield gave up on that vocation and applied for a job as principal of a high school in Poestenkill, New York.

Nevertheless Garfield, in an unusual move, drew up a report of the council's deliberations, and thus convinced Rosecrans to proceed with an advance against Bragg.

However, he is too self-involved and therefore unaware that Carol herself has become caught up in an escapist addiction of her own: student activism, her own attempt to pay tribute to her friendship with Bobby Garfield and a call to action to stop the war.

Elliot Garfield ( Richard Dreyfuss ), a neurotic but sweet aspiring actor from Chicago, shows up shortly thereafter in the middle of the night, expecting to live there, as he now rents the apartment.

* Quinntown-Along W. Market Street, south and west of Garfield Square up to 16th Street.

* Russelville-Along W. Market Street, north and west of Garfield Square up to 16th Street.

CBS was simply never able to come up with any new hits once the shows that anchored its late 1980s / early 1990s Saturday morning lineup — Muppet Babies, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Garfield and Friends, etc .— ran their respective courses.

Adkison set up a new corporation, Garfield Games, to develop Richard Garfield's collectible card game concept, originally called Manaclash, into Magic: The Gathering.

Long involved in liberal politics, Garfield was caught up in the Communist scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Born Michael DeVinko in Garfield, New Jersey, on September 24, 1934 he ended up working as a discothèque manager.

His personal requests to Garfield and to cabinet members ( as one of many job seekers who lined up every day ) were continually rejected ; on May 14, 1881, he was finally told personally never to return by Secretary of State James G. Blaine ( Guiteau is actually believed to have encountered Blaine on more than one occasion ).

Their 1980 hits, " The Glow of Love " ( by Romani, Malavasi and Garfield ) and " Searching " ( by Malavasi ), both featuring Vandross as lead singer, opened up the world for Vandross.

In television the song has cropped up in episodes and programs that include The Berenstain Bears and the Talent Show ; The Berenstain Bears and the Female Fullback ; Rawhide ; Garfield and Friends ; The Care Bears ; Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman ; Saved by the Bell ; All That ; Kenan & Kel ; Drake and Josh, SpongeBob SquarePants, That's So Raven ; Rugrats ; Cat in the Hat ; Peter Gunn ; Little House on the Prairie ; Our Gang ; The Twilight Zone ; Wind at My Back ; Leonardo and Shining Time Station.

In that year, the Chipmunks also teamed up for the only time with other famous cartoon stars ( such as Bugs Bunny, Garfield, etc.

Later, Garfield also credited Ordway with coming up with the general idea of prepayment for industrial healthcare.

Though stories may have a domestic nature, the viewers might see a parody teaching segment that featured a Garfield lecture of some sort or learning situation.

" In another strip, Odie is running around the family room, and Garfield grabs on to his tongue to see how long it is.

In two strips, Garfield went to see what was at the end of Odie's tongue, and it turned out to be a second Odie ( which Garfield dismissed as an effect of a bad can of tuna from the previous night ).

: For other uses, see Garfield ( disambiguation ).

In one Garfield strip we see Garfield staring at a goldfish in a bowl intently, until Jon tells Garfield that ' fish don't have eyelids '.

Garfield and Odie notice a light in the window and see that it is coming from a fire in the fireplace.

" There was a segment devoted to it in the episode " The Curse of Klopman " ( see List of episodes of Garfield and Friends ).

Visitors to Garfield today will see a neighborhood on the rise, a formerly blighted community that is now becoming a vibrant community, with a focus on the arts, while not forgetting its roots ().

: For the park and conservatory in Chicago, Illinois, see Garfield Park ( Chicago park )

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.

The strip's focus is mostly on the interactions among Garfield, Jon, and Odie, but recurring minor characters appear as well.

Davis later realized that Garfield and Jon could " communicate nonverbally ".

Consider that Jon, according to Garfield canon, cannot hear his cat's thoughts.

Still another approach to editing the strips involves removing Garfield and other main characters from the originals completely, leaving Jon talking to himself.

Gags in the strips commonly deal with Garfield's obesity ( in one strip, Jon jokes, " I wouldn't say Garfield is fat, but the last time he got on a Ferris wheel, the two guys on top starved to death "), and his hatred of any form of exertion or work.

He enjoys destroying things, mauling the mailman, tormenting Odie, kicking Odie off the table ; he also makes snide comments, usually about Jon's inability to get a date ( in one strip, when Jon bemoans the fact that no one will go out with him on New Year's, Garfield replies, " Don't feel bad Jon.

However, it is mentioned in more than one strip that Jon cannot understand Garfield.

Jon loves ( or occasionally hates ) Garfield and all cats.

Many gags focus on this ; his inability to get a date is usually attributed to his lack of social skills, his poor taste in clothes ( Garfield remarked in one strip after seeing his closet that " two hundred moths committed suicide "; in another, the " geek police " ordered Jon to " throw out his tie "), and his eccentric interests which range from stamp collecting to measuring the growth of his toenails to watching movies with " polka ninjas ".

In one strip when Garfield and Jon are out of the house, Odie is seen reading War and Peace and watching a television program, An Evening With Mozart.

In a 2008 strip that appeared at June 8 and also in Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties, it is implied that Jon and Liz will eventually marry.

Jon has a grandmother who, in a strip, kicked Odie ; Garfield subsequently hugged her.

Jon's parents once visited Jon, Garfield, and Odie in the city.

When Jon does take Liz on a date, Garfield always tags along, and he once ate all the bread, along with all the rest of the food in the place.

Ever since Jon and Liz began to go out more frequently, Jon has started hiring pet sitters to look after Garfield and Odie, though they don't always work out.

The longest one of these lasted for over a month ( in 1986 August 25 to September 28 ); it began with Jon telling Garfield to go get the newspaper.

Jon notices Garfield has been gone too long, so he sends Odie out to find him.

Jon starts to get lonely, so he offers a reward for the return of Garfield and Odie.

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.