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Garfield and Friends, Volume Two

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More Garfield And Friends!

After viewing Vol 1, I remember just how much I missed these Cartoons on Saturday Morning! I don't know the Cartoon List, but 24 more Shows..well, you can't go wrong there!

Also, Garfield Fans, look on this site for 'Garfield's Travel Adventures', the next installment of specials, now available for pre-order!

Garfield is at the top of my DVD Toon list (and all-time favorite toons) with other collections now including Tom & Jerry and Looney Tunes Gold Collections.

I watched this show every Saturday morning growing up. It's a classic in my opinion. This season has some great episodes on it, such as robo-odie, Kung-Foo creatures on the Rampage 2, Mystic Manor, Fit for a king, Ben Hog, and Dessert in the Desert. A must have!

I updated this post before, but apparently Amazon would rather I not list all 24 episodes in my review. This DVD is definitely worth your money. In my opinion, the episodes in this installment of Garfield & Friends are even better than the first one. It even has the Mini-Mall episode! Hurry up and grab this one. ;)

This volume has "Video Airlines," possibly the best ep of Garfield and Friends ever - most people probably know it as the one with the Kung Fu Creatures on the Rampage, TWO.

"Tu! Tu no eres Sylvia! Tu eres una de las criaturas de Kung Fu en rampaje - DOS!"

I never get tired of that. But you should buy this because G&F is the last of a dead breed - quality Saturday Morning animation that anyone can enjoy, because the writing is well done, even though the animation is definitely on the cheap side.

I did wish that this set had some more extra features than just the Garfield movie trailer (Don't watch that movie, by the way). Writer's commentary by Mark Evanier would have been nice, but I wasn't holding my breath. That's the only real criticism I can levy against this, though. If you love cartoons, or just like to laugh, this is a set to buy.

The early 'eighties were arguably an all-time low for cartoons. Then in 1983, four stars appeared to light the way. Alvin and the Chipmunks marked the recording rodents' return to TV, (absent since The Alvin Show in the 'sixties). Mickey Mouse, last seen in 1953's "The Simple Things," re-entered the spotlight in Mickey's Christmas Carol. The Peanuts Gang got their own weekly slot on "The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show." And Jim Davis' fat cat made his first TV appearance in Here Comes Garfield. These four classic characters were in the vanguard of an animation revolution.

The undebated high point came five years later when Fox syndicated the wonderful weekly series, Garfield and Friends. It was everything other cartoon fare wasn't. Like Peanuts, it was paced to the comic. Long before Animaniacs, there were subtle send-ups of the state of the tube: the Buddy Bears parodying early attempts at "educational" cartoons, prompting Joe Barbara to proclaim he was in favor of cartoons that were "mindlessly funny" instead of "mindlessly preachy." It stands up now as a cartoon with high production values, and the series compares favorably with Film Roman's Garfield specials. Disney would bring the same high standard with its re-entry into weekday cartoons, beginning with Ducktales.

Then there was Lorenzo Music's inimitable voicing of Garfield. Characters frequently broke into song and dance numbers, but always stopping to wink at the audience, "hey, you know it's a cartoon." Running through the endlessly repeating set of a haunted house, Garfield would note that either monsters were afoot or the producers had been buying old Scooby Doo scripts. Orson Pig would read books, not to be educational, but always with pratfalls, slapstick and pure imagination. As other reviewers have noted, the early theme song is annoying. The better-known and far wittier "We're ready to party, we're ready" with "surprises and pies of all sizes" takes over two thirds of the way into the second season. It's almost too great to watch an episode a day instead of once a week, as they originally aired, but as any fan of the lasagna-loving feline knows, too much Garfield is never enough.

"You're not Sylvia! You're one of the KUNG FU CREATURES ON THE RAMPAGE!"

This line to GARFIELD fans and lovers of great television animation is what WHO'S ON FIRST is to lovers of classic slapstick!

In either case, it's here on this set. The MOTHER of Garfield episodes, "Video Airlines AKA Kung Fu Creatures on the Rampage 2". If you're a harcore GARFIELD fan, you know the deal. If not, let me just warn you that you're in for some throat-clearing laughter, holding on to your belly, slapping your knees, and pounding your palms on the floor in hysteria while everyone else doubts your sanity!

There are some other equally precious perks of tom-foolery in this set. Jon buys a horrible used "car" from a shifty salesman and you have to see the results of this! The panty-waisted, Quiche-eating, sissified "Care Bears" created by the simpering do-gooder children's television killjoy watchdog types who nearly destroyed Saturday morning cartoons in the 80s are deservedly lampooned in "The Buddy bears" (Interesting to see what garfield would have done that disgusting Barney the dinosaur). Check out the Orson's Farm (later US Acres) parodies "Hamelot," (where the barnyard crew search for the "Holy Pail)" "Hog Noon," (where Orson the pig faces a childhood bully), and "Ben Hog" (must be seen to be beleived).

Hardcore Garfield fans will also be pleased to note that midway through the episodes, the bizarre and freakish original theme song for GAF "Friends are There" gives way to the classic "We're ready to party we're ready/I hope you bring lots of spaghetti" that is known and loved by fans of this show.

Garfield's class in comedy is also a must-see on this disc. The only thing I'm waiting for now (probabaly on disc 3) are GREAT MOMENTS IN STUPIDITY (where Jon stays on a broken escelator for 19 hours waiting for it to move) and the US ACRES segment in rhyme that parodies Poe's "The Raven."

If you come home from a hard day of work or are under unpleasant stress of any kind, this DVD will be just what the doctor ordered. The only thing you will suffer from after watchign this will be from laughing too hard!

WHOOOHOOO! Season 2!
Garfield returns to DVD for the complete 2nd season!
Ran from 1989 to 1990.
Amoung the classic storylines one of them is when Binky the clown gets accused of robbing a store.
It is worth getting!!!!!!

Im still on CD1 however I had the season 1 discs and well, I LOVED it. Finally got season 2 and im enjoying it again! Classic childhood memories and well.. just glad I can relive them again with this fat cat. =D

All though this still doesnt have the new theme song where they are "Were ready to party" intro. So wonder if thats season 3?

However if your buying this, its well worth it, and its always a nice 20 mins to kill if your eating something and want to do something. But as always a great buy! =)

I used to watch Garfield every week when I was a child. I bought the DVD's becasue I remembered the cartoon so fondly that I wanted to see it again. I was pleasantly surprised to find that Garfield is really funny to me now, even as an adult. There is just enough sarcastic humor to make me laugh in every episode. Garfield is a classic! I only wish children of this generation could see more of the quality that was around in the past instead of the violence or intellectually stunting shows that seem to pervade the television today.

Garfield and Friends is a very funny TV show. I saw some episodes of it when I was a child. Jim Davis did a very good job on Garfield and Friends.