5609: Garf, Interrupted
Garf, Interrupted |
Made by: Garlene1987 |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
This strip essentially transplants the strip's setting to the San Francisco Bay Area, and its premise involves Garfield watching Garfield and Friends get cut off by a CBS News special report; KPIX-TV, the CBS station in the Bay Area to which Garfield calls in this strip, was not yet a network owned-and-operated station at the time the Garfield and Friends episode aired, and wouldn't be for another year afterward. Time zones further east would've seen either local or sports programming cut off at the point of the special report; Garfield and Friends at the time programmed at 11:00 AM in the Easter and Pacific time zones (10:00 AM Central and Mountain), with CBS's Saturday morning block having ended at the top of the hour in the Mountain time zone and one hour prior to that in the Central and Eastern time zones.
The author's notes imply the episode in question was not shown on American television again until the DVD release; while it is true that the episode never appeared in the Garfield and Friends syndication packages, it cannot be said with certainty that this episode in particular either was or was not ever rerun, as although Garfield and Friends ended new episodes in December 1994, it continued on the CBS schedule in reruns until October 1995.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
Based on a true incident captured on VHS where, on the West Coast anyway, the original broadcast of the Garfield & Friends segment "The Guy of Her Dreams" was interrupted by a CBS News Special Report on the start of Operation Vigilant Warrior, confusing and infuriating every child watching, made worse by the fact that said episode was not syndicated so they would have to wait for the DVDs to come out 11 years later to see the full cartoon. Garfield, of course, would take it personally, having willingly endured Penelope's singing just to watch himself.
Original strips: 1980-04-06, 1985-06-30.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
{AU Bay Area Garfield is contently sitting in the chair watching a brand new episode of his own show on October 8th, 1994)
Penelope {on TV, singing}: With a boyfriend who’s truly courageous / And able to pass any test / And if-
{Garfield's eyes then go wide as the cartoon is cut off}
Announcer {on TV}: This is a CBS News Special Report
{Garfield sits up in rage}
Garfield: How dare they break into my favorite TV show for a special report!
{Garfield hops down from the chair, angrily waving a finger in the air}
Garfield: I'm calling the station to give them a piece of my mind!
{Garfield dials on a rather large rotary telephone}
Garfield: Boy, am I hot!
{Garfield holds the receiver up to his face with both front paws as he is a cat and that is a rather large phone}
Receptionist {on phone}: K-P-I-X, hello?
Garfield: MEOW!
Receptionist: Is this some sort of joke, hello?
{Garfield hangs up off-panel and slumps down on the seriously large phone I mean really look at how big he is in the chair and then look at him compared to the phone... where was I? Oh yeah, Garfield slumps down on the phone, humiliated}
Garfield: Boy, do I feel dumb