5153: Garfield's Loveable Huggables

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Garfield's Loveable Huggables
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Explanation[edit | edit source]

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This pitch was found in a collection of Jim Davis' papers sold at auction. The artist is unknown. Garfield did have several cereal promotions but this particular one did not happen.

Original strip: 1982-06-06.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

{1982 Garfield logo. It's a sunny day and Garfield hops excitedly toward a flower patch. He plays in the flowers, scattering them around, jumping for joy. A bucktoothed rabbit appears}
Garfield: I love you, bunny rabbit
{A doe-eyed deer appears}
Garfield: I love you, too, deer
Garfield: I love you all
{Jon Arbuckle enters the dining room and is stunned to see Garfield eating a hamburger surrounded by wild animals who are also eating. The deer and a chipmunk(?) eat lettuce while the rabbit and a squirrel eat nuts. A mouse eats cheese while another watches. There is also a turtle, snake, duck, and bird present}
Jon Arbuckle: What the ...?
Garfield: I brought some friends home for dinner
{Note: This is the June 6, 1982 strip, unchanged}
{The exact same scene plays out again, except drawn by another, unknown artist as a pitch to Kellogg's cereal company}
Logo: Kellogg's
{Garfield plays in a flower patch, scattering them around, jumping for joy. A bucktoothed rabbit appears}
Garfield: I love you, bunny rabbit
{A bird appears}
Garfield: I love you, too, birdie
Garfield: I love you all
{Jon Arbuckle enters the dining room and is stunned to see Garfield eating cereal, probably Kellogg's Special K, surrounded by wild animals who are also eating. A chipmunk or large mouse, duck, rabbit, bird, mouse, deer and squirrel are present}
Jon Arbuckle: What the ...?
Garfield: I brought some friends home for breakfast!
Text: Collect these INSTANT WIN FIGURES and win a Loveable Huggable from Garfield!
Text: "Instant Win" collectible figures!
{Four small plastic figures of the rabbit, bird, mouse and deer are shown, as well as four plush toys of same, who surround Garfield, showering him with love. Garfield hugs the mouse}
Text: Plush toys!
Garfield: Oh, joy!